Coding Bliss?

Monday, 8.45am. I arrived late in office with rainwater on my person to prove it.
My mentor is on sick leave; The day looks set to be crazy.
The post you are about to read is a rant, but it's short.
The names are made up but the problems are real.
I'm JW; I'm a slave of the phone.

As the day crept towards mid-afternoon, I realised I am on the way to achieve a pain-free start of the week. Could this be happening? A Monday without being interrupted every 15 minutes?

To take full advantage of this rare opportunity, I chose to catch up with my programming work. I optimised the program's speed by a factor of 11 and smiled inwardly at what Lie Noi would have said. Shaking my head at such sloppiness, I proceeded to tear down the cobwebs and rearranged everything in a systematic order. An afternoon well wasted; Heh!

Joyce has tasked me to improve an existing program; After analysing for 2 interrupted days, I concluded that it could not be done: The Sun cannot glow; The Moon cannot blind. So I have free rein to tear apart the codes to my heart's delight and give her a new one. The final coding, however, will be tough. She wants it to report the stock quantity at any point in time. This is similar to a program I did for my first employment. A program I was most proud of and it took me 3 months to iron out the bugs. Fun, fun, fun.

Ahem. I've in a different role now. Must not fall back into habits of wasting time...


*note1
Wasting time --> Optimising codes when the job request did not ask for it

*note2
JW (I) is/am not a perfectionist, despite his habits of wasting time.