Craziness

Yesterday when Kai (my boss) visited us in Tianjin, it was all nice and quiet. Beautiful weather. Everyone was out of the office doing things. The office was quiet and smoke free. But the moment he left in the afternoon, everyone came back and filled the room with smoke and loud chinese conversation. My luck!

A couple of crises later, I dashed out of the site at 7pm and went shopping. It is getting quite cold, and my summer/fall wardrobe is not adequate anymore. I didn't find much though. More to be done this weekend.

This morning, there was heavy duty demolition going on right above my head. We were sent back to work from our room immediately. As Shelley, our office manager here, said: 'Your insurance is a lot more expensive'.

After five minutes back in my room, I got called back to a meeting to deal with some mechanical issues. No, meetings don't get scheduled ahead of time. It pops up whenever they see fit. And the outcoming of the meeting is that 'I' will coordinate the design with the engineers and the designers, of course. Why shouldn't the local architect get their act together and put the f--king drawing set together and coordinate!

And I'm also dealing with exterior signage without knowing anything just because I suggested making the Chinese font bigger. Now, I'm coordinating the design and structure, which is SOOOOO out of our scope of work. WTF?!?

Never in my mind that I would work in construction site and telling people what to do. Only if they have seen me as the little fat kid crying because I was too close to the sidewalk gutter, no one would allow me into a construction site, let alone a China construction site where nails on demolished scrapes always face up, not down.