Weekends

Day 12 – 19th June

Friday! Weekends are coming! Well today as usual, I started the day off with scrum meeting and after that I decided to hold another brain storming session for more fiction ideas as we received some feedbacks about our current fiction being too common. Well, my artist started his / her mood swing again and started crying after her ‘married’ fiction idea was suddenly going to change again. Well, being a producer, I was busy the whole day cause of that artist, having a lot of urgent meetings with Philip, Andrew or Jason. Well, basically I think that the artist is quite stubborn to changes or rather hard to accept new changes. So all the staffs could only advise and encourage to a certain extent, so it will be up to that artist to mature. After this time of crying, some of the team members felt quite uncomfortable working with that artist and expressed their concern to me. Well, if this continuing, Gambit has no choice but to do the extreme way in order not to disturb the team in progression. Anyway I had Andrew and Philip telling me not to let this matter get me down as even experienced manager will encounter this. I had experienced that being a counselor is not an easy job. A lot more to learn or experience during this summer! Handling this matter already spent most of my day and I spend the last hour doing first phase of product backlog. After work, Jet treated me, Kenny, Ben and Snake for dinner at a Chinese restaurant! It was a nice dinner, thanks Mr Jet Lim. After dinner, we headed back to Shaw’s Super Market to buy ice cream back to office to eat while waiting for our trial online conference with our juniors back in TP. Well, during the conference, Kenny and I shared some of our experience here and also Ben and Snake also shared about the artists’ experience and some rough job scope. The conference lasted about an hour and started playing rock band in the office. Anyway, I hoped more of my juniors can come to Gambit next year as this attachment is VERY benefit in learning about game development and its process.

Day 13 – 20th June

Saturday, WEEKEND! Woot. I ended up sleeping till 11am as I meeting a few of the group here to go shop for my shoes! I needed a sport shoes to play basketball here. My jie jie, Fu Er; her bf, Chang You; my QA, Jeff; and Kenji accompanied me to find sport shoes. So nice of them! We started off with Urban Renewal at Harvard Ave but we decided to have lunch just opposite the shop. We ate nice beef noodle with FANASTIC jumbo pan fried soft shell crabs! Nice lunch, after that we headed to Urban Renewal, which is a 2nd hand shop with a lot interesting and cheap stuffs. I did not find my shoes there but Kenji bought a leather coat for only 15 bucks. After that we walked over to Everett Street to find the shop, New Balance. But apparently, the map on Google Map is not really accurate and we did not find the shop at first. However we saw AJ-WRIGHT which was another cheap shopping heaven. We spent a lot of time in there and we bought a lot of stuffs. 5 of us spent nearly $400 inside the shop where most items cost only $5-$20 per item. Imagined how many things we bought! So we carried bags and bags of shopping and decided to head back to dorm to put our things before going for dinner. Anyway we went to Shaw’s to get food to cook back at dorm. Kenji and I we bought fresh fish and French Fries to make fish and chip which was SUPER NICE. We watched Frequency while eating. Going shopping again tomorrow. Tada