Our system went down again (as always) today. Rosetta, as we have come to call it, was all the while been scheduled to be transferred to another vendor for maintenance since it was abandoned prematurely by its original developers. As a result, we were told to come back in the office at 5 pm or be ready to be on call anytime of the day if the transfer will be finished earlier than expected.

Instead of going home to our own places, most of us decided to hang out at Alden’s place in Deira and stay there until we are all called back to office. While waiting for the call, we decided to become singers for a while and sang our hearts out. As far as I can remember, this was ony the second time that most of us spent some time and bonded together.

It was worth the while, jokes were cracked, secrets revealed, rifts were put aside (well, almost…), and we all just enjoyed the emergency day off we had and prepared ourselves for a rigorous time at the office which will begin at 5 in the afternoon. 5 became 7 in the evening and then ultimately we were told to come back tomorrow at 6 in the morning to finish work left undone for the day.

Although it was a long wait, still the bonding moment was surprisingly refreshing. Well, I know everyone would agree that any off from work is really a good thing for everybody’s well being considering the stressful nature of our job. Thanks again to one of Rosetta’s down times.

Splitters became divas!