It rained the whole night and the whole morning so work was from home. I rang the planner and we reminded ourselves that we had worked on a project before years ago. I felt that it was good to re-establish the tie and start this new project on some common ground, even though the former experience was not so fruitful.
Later the day, we visited a built project to look at the flooring - the site coordinator was Ah San, I reminded him that we had met 2 decades ago when he called himself 'Sam' while working with a carpet supplier. Again, I felt that the re-establishment of familiar links would pave the way for easier conversations and coordination if we were to work on projects together. He immediately opened up and became quite chatty, speaking in Hokkien.
As we were touring the site, Sonnie rang me to ask if we were interested in a potential project in JB, he was working with Poh Hon, who trained with us in 2003 and now a senior design manager in a development company. She was making connections as well, we spoke later and she was very frank and warm as usual - though it is unlikely that we can take up the job; a bit too far and hard to monitor. PH wisely said it depends on how well we do on Saturday afternoon at the Sime Darby competition.
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