First Week ended for Office. Weekends COMING

Day 5

Well, basically a lot of us had not enough sleep. Why? CAUSE THE FREAKING SMOKE DETECTOR went off with no apparent reason at 4am. The whole building was evacuated to the opposite dorm for shelter from the rain. Well, I was still in the sleeping mode when I rushed down stairs and forget to take my jacket! Nice one, with shorts and thin shirt, I shivered all the way from building evacuation till back to my blanket. One US dorm mate mentioned this rarely happened here, so we must be ‘lucky’ enough to hit jackpot on day 5’s morning. However, I was rather impressed with the fire engines and police cars that arrived to our dorm in less than 10 minutes after the alarm went off. I believed most of us were scared or panicked when the alarm went off as basically there was pulse of alarms and the emergency lights in our room or doorway keep flashing. Quite an experience for a fresh start of the day. Back to the office, I was rather tired and also caught a cold due to the evacuation earlier on. But became much better towards the end of the day. So today, I started the team off with a daily scrum meeting, basically I asked the whole team 3 simple questions. “What did they had done yesterday”, “What they plan to do today” and lastly “Is there any problems faced”. After the daily scrum meeting, my team continued with improved prototyping, some concept sketches and I set up my scrum board. Cool all ready to start on development! I ended the day by asking the team to think over weekends on some final ideas to present on Monday before we decided to finalize a few for the green light meeting milestone which is next Thursday. After work, a few of us went to athletic center to play indoor basketball. It was fun; we did not really sweat much due to the temperature. We played till the athletic center closed which was 9pm and headed back to our dorm for dinner. Well, I cooked magi mee for dinner as was tired to cook other stuffs. Hmm, for this weekend, tomorrow; we will be going for a gay parade before heading for the movie ‘UP’. Looking forward to tomorrow, sleeping now as tired after sports. Night!