"The day" can happen any time , any second...

Today 21 Apr 08, while it was indeed a normal day...as usual i went to work at 9am. Everything was the same, i would say good morning to our project secretart, the cleaner aunty and almost everyone that i met , making a cup of hot milo and start my work by checking emails for vendors' replies and new task from engineers whom im working with. Everything just like a normal Tuesday except to Liverpool fans & Chelsea fans it might be a long long day waiting for champions' league clash at 245am ( singapore time) early in wednesday morning...

Today, my boss was not around . He went to Batam on a business trip , and this is not something strange to me as my boss being a person who have to look after a few packages used to travel on business trips to US, Swizeland etc..So i do not have any strange feeling at all and i continue my work as usual. For the past 2 days i have got quite a lot of thing to do , as those packages that should have been cleared in early date all accumulate and need my urgent and immediate attention in order not to cause any impact to the schedule due to late delivery...i am fully concentrate on my clearing my work.

Somehow at about 1030am , i felt someone sitting at the table just behind me (normal office cubical arrangement, U shape cubical) , my boss seat. I found out that it was my Project Manager ( PM) , he was looking for some documents from my boss's desk. This is the 1st time my PM come and look for documents at my boss's desk, may be it is because my boss is not around ( as i said he went to batam) when my PM needs the documents. You might think that it is something normal...i did think so but until something really happen in the afternoon.
Everything still carryied on as per normal after the lunch hour. Around 4pm, when i was preparing the document to get my package lead engineer signature, a few colleagues was talking to each other at my back, i didnt smell anything wrong as it was just like normal discussion happening around the office. So , i went up to the other building and the time i came down, i met with our project secretary, her eyes was red and full of tears. Guest what, i got to know that my PM had just "resigned " !!! Someone who's responsible to look after the project across the Engineering , Construction and Commissioning departments, with over a few hundreds of engineers, technicians and others supporting officers under him had just "resigned" without any prior notice . A position which might take me more than 10 years to reach, can disappear within a day..what an unpredictable company...What was sacastic was that, we just had our project team building on last thursday night and our ex PM ( now) he gave a speech to everyone on that night at one of the restorant in Raffles city , addressing the progress of our project, thanks everyone for working hard for the project. But now, that seemed to be the last team building dinner with him.

When i returned back to the office, i saw people start talking about the sudden "resignation "of our PM...unbelieveble !!! No change to hand over...all at a sudden. But sincerely, though i was shocked by what had happened i do not have much impression about my PM. To me, the closest distance i ever have with my PM was during an informal talk where he will ask about my current situation and progress of learning in the company etc..I felt that it was a waste for me not having chance to learn from him as for me i wish to learn from everyone in my company, in all sort of expect. But i heard that my PM is a very detailed person, he is very sharp in figures and straight forward person. That was my only memory about my PM. I wish him good luck and thanks for all he did to me and i strongly believe that i will meet him again in this industry.