Preparing for my Singapore business trip

Yey! It's just one sleep away till our scheduled flight. Here's what I've prepared so far..

1. Me and my hubby's passport. Thanks to DFA, passports are now easily processed.=)
2. Acquired an NSO Certified Marriage Certificate. I still have my maiden name on my passport. So I got one just to make sure I won't be encountering any problems.
3. Allowance is already ready
4. My camera and battery
5. Clothes (of course!)
6. Face masks and alcohol/alcogel -> protection against swine flu!
7. Printed the confirmation for booking note for the hotel where me and hubby will be staying
8. Printed my Oracle workshop training agenda
9. Printed the excel file from our .Net client who I'll be meeting at their office in Pandan Crescent after my day 1 training at Suntec Tower 4.
10. Installed Oracle 10g, Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Planning, HFM, and the Reporting and Analysis tools in preparation for my workshop.
11. Installed MSSQL 2005, Visual Studio .Net 2005, and got all the latest codes from our Visual Source Safe in preparation for my meeting with our .Net client.
12. Printed maps so me and hubby won't get lost! hahaha
13. Contacted our clients (from my personal business) and mentioned that someone will be attending to their events while we're away.


I still need to..
1. Buy a travel power adapter so I won't have a problem plugging in my gadgets.
2. Buy food supplies for my todders, their nanny, and my mom who will be staying with my girls while we're away. big thanks for this mom!
3. Oh yeah, and pack all our clothes in! =P

As for my thoughts..
1. Hope we get to go visit a lot of places even if we only have 3 free nights to do it.
2. Hope i don't get lost once i ride the cab from Suntec to Pandan Crescent.
3. Hope we get to take lots of nice pictures and dine at the hawker centers to taste their authentic singaporean cuisines..yummy!
4. And, hope we get to buy nice stuff for pasalubong=)

It's me and my hubby's first time to travel alone without the kids since we got married.. we'll surely miss them a lot..It's only four days I know..but that still is a lot to me. Hmm... at least we have the internet to talk and see each other through webcams!


It's now exactly 24 hours left before our flight. Will post about our travel by next week!=)

Totally Overwhelmed and Excited!

I'll be in Singapore for this Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM): Performance Tuning Workshop from June 25-26. I'm supposedly having this workshop with my immediate superior..but since her doctor didn't allow her to leave the country (maybe to refrain her and their soon-to-be baby from getting stressed..) I have no choice but to be on this training/workshop on my own.

Thank God my immediate superior allowed and helped me find way to bring my hubby with me! Honestly, this is going to be our first ever out of the country trip.. our first plane ride.. and our first out of the country date! hahaha=) At least in case i get lost, i wont be lost alone coz i will still be sharing that experience with my sweetie!=P Thank so much Mam(i) Weng=)


Can't wait to tell you my story of what it's like for a newbie plane rider and a tourist!

A Bit at Lost

Our company recently started to dissolve members of the .Net team. And being a .Net Solutions Architect, I honestly don't know how I should be reacting to this sudden movement in the company. I have been using .Net Framework for roughly five years now and this change for me is really alarming.

This change does not have anything to do with bankruptcy guys. The administrative body has just notice the trend in the business intelligence market. And since our BI projects (using Vendavo) are gaining more profit than the .Net projects, they have finally decided to focus on the BI tools.

Since August I have already moved from .Net to Oracle Hyperion. And this is where i'm starting to get lost. Oracle Hyperion is one of the emerging BI tool and app in the IT industry today. I cannot discuss to you the details about Oracle Hyperion in this post as it will surely consume the entire page to do so. But if you're interested to know more about this tool you can checkout my niche blog.

I am tasked to focus on Oracle Hyperion Planning. But problem is that there are different Planning applications available..! So, where should I be focusing on really.. I DON'T KNOW! Aside from the fact that I have to learn Hyperion Planning, I also have to learn all the tools that are used within the Planning application.

Anyway, my laptop has already been upgraded to 160GB of hard disk space and 4GB of memory just for this tool. Now can you imaging how big this BI tool and app is?