a difficult day at work... even more difficult day in life

20 may 2014

SARA Tower, Level 16

Office of Merchant Banking and Portfolio Management Division

United Commercial bank Ltd &

UCB Capital Managemet Ltd.

yesterday, 19 may 2014, i passed out at 9:45 pm without any clue. i got up early today, came to work at office with one of my colleague at around 9:40 am. the first thing that surprised me, my data-center of UCB Capital Management is out of power! no servers, no routers, no switches have any power and my online UPS is running. i checked the main switch board and found, one circuit breaker tripped. i turned it back on and VOLA!!! now we have power... but that's not the end of story, its just the beginning.

it takes me around 5-7 minutes to log in into DSE Trading server. like everyday, i was doing so. to be assured everything is working fine, i tried to send some echo packets to DSE Server and it replied "REQUEST TIME OUT"... shit.. i thought one connectivity is down... so i tried with the second one... but yet no luck... that one is also down... TWO trading connectivity is down at the same time and DSE Trading is starting in 20 minutes !!! while i was informing UCBL ITD regarding this, electricity failed... and the generator wasn't turning on. my on line UPS provided backup for only 10 minutes, and then everything is out again. i send a team to reinstate the generator. they successfully did so, but both of my connectivity are still down... after 3 hours of endless phone calls and co-ordination, one ISP re-established the connectivity at around 1.. and i resumed the DSE Trading System.

after that, had a good lunch with polaw, beef and vegetables.. good food...

the anxiety and rush took the toll on me... now i m feeling drained....

life.

its never easy.