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last week we decided to bid for a project.. since the project owner was an international non profit organization, we went for it believing it wouldnt be the monkey-business kinda project tender..

the only problem was the deadline was only a week away(21st july,4pm)..!! plus the consortium details wernt discussed yet. so last saturday, boy n i started writing the basics.. the plan was to finish the whole thing by wednesday so on thursday(deadline) we just needed to review the contents..

monday we went 2our future partners..the progress was very slow(not our fault of course ;p).. on tuesday we planned to discuss $$$ issues (the most fun part of all).. the proposal was almost completed by then(70%)... but again the progress was slow (thou faster than monday) so we only touched the topic of $$$.. politics of course...

wednesday we wer prepared 4a full blown deadlock in $$$ issues, made some backup plans...u kno.. how much ur willing 2lose n such.. (if u've taken negotiation classes u'll know dis).. turns out their offer was not far off from our initial offer... haha it only took 5mnts.. with that outta the way, with the now completed (90%) proposal, we were optimistic everything would go as planned. just as we wer heading home (6pm), i received an sms from d partner stating som things on d proposal dat need fixing..

so dat nite i only slept from 9-11pm, tried 2fix d prop. n headed 2 d meeting place @7am... we then started multitasking (printing and adding missing administrative things).. some things went well, quite a few didnt.. ther was some panic and print mistakes which i think wasted 100 or so printing papers.. the whole proposal and its copies took about 500papers...the whole printing n packaging finally finished @2pm! yikes! only 2hours left to deadline.. so wenang n i went to central jkt to submit d proposal... i think he had some heartattacks from my driving :))

we made it!! after missing the building n having to make another turnaround, we delivered the proposal in T-45mnts! :D my plan was to go home right away and take some needed zzz's, but the temptation of Frozenthrone was too much..

so i went home @8pm and slept rite away with no dinner...
and here i am in the office the next day, finally getting a chance to blog again.. he he..

the past 2weeks may hav been hectic, but it was a really enjoyable kinda hectic... and now all i can do is cross my fingers and hope 4d best... *grin

well... back to the SSDD (SameShitDifferentDay) routines... sigh..

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