My workweek started with a SPLAT! BOOM! POW!!! Seeing as my Mondays are usually a slow reintroduction to the workweek, I had such a major shock today that I actually had no trouble creating a soundtrack as the events rolled in.

Up from the floor on the count of ten
Oh you get up, you get down and you try it again
First, at the MRT station, some old lady (who looked like a sweet little old lady) literally shoved me aside so she could go inside the car. Take note that I wasn’t actually in her way. I was just standing beside her, and honestly I was going to let her go first. Oddly enough, everybody else sort of paused instead of selfishly shoving their way in, too—as was the culture in the ladies’ car in the MRT—so I was able to regain my balance and squeeze myself in. It was a strange, strange experience to be shoved by an old lady. But, you know, I let it slide. Still, it sort of jolted me awake. Haha! Well, good morning to you, too.

Opening track: Try it Again – The Hives

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Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?
The mood in the office was the usual early Monday morning mood, but with a dash of excitement to taste. Victory is having it’s 25th Anniversary on July 24th, and ticket sales was going to open today. I was sitting at my desk, and I had just started the 30-minute countdown on plurk and twitter when we received the announcement: the online ticket reservation was down.

All together now: WHAT?!

On top of that, the ticket stalls had apparently missed checking their inventory because most of the outlets didn’t have ticket paper at hand. So how were they supposed to print tickets?

Remind me why we got a third-party ticket provider? Oh yes: to make things easier.

Track of the moment: Ironic – Alanis Morisette

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Everybody wants to come to my party, that’s right
Everybody wants to come to my party, uhuh
It was insane, I tell you. Everyone scrambled to fix whatever what was wrong, to talk to our ticket sales provider, to take back our exciting countdown, to formulate our response to the crowd… Phones, both landline and mobile, started ringing. IMs started popping up on my screen. Insane!!!

And if that wasn’t enough, something else happened. Because the site where online registration was supposed to happen wasn’t there, EVERYONE went and turned to our official website for guidance. Our web server couldn’t take it. It crashed.

Oh, for the love of—!

When the malls opened at 10 o’clock, reports from people on site said that people RAN to the stalls. Oh, wow. As someone said later, it beat the rush to the Pussycat Dolls ticket sales hands down.

Track of the moment: My Party – Plastilina Mosh

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Sticks and stones and animal bones
Can’t stop me from having a good day on a bad day
You can NOT imagine what it was like. And all this before 9 o’clock. Good thing we got to work early. And good thing my partner, who was still at home, was also online waiting for tickets, so she helped me contact our web provider and get the server going again in minutes.

The morning was insane (I can’t say it enough) but we realized that it was a good thing. It just shows how incredibly excited the people are for the event. And, if the text messages and mobile plurks and mobile tweets giving on-site reports were any indication, it showed us how much the people were willing to help the community in their own way.

Later comments on the Victory Facebook were awesome, too. There was one who said, on getting the faaaaaaaaaaar seat in General Admission, “that’s okay, we’ll bring binoculars! As long as we’re there!”

I love my church.

Track of the moment: Good Days and Bad Days – Kaiser Chiefs

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I hope I get by today…
I hope that I fall into place
The good thing about my job and my office is this: we all know that everything’s going to fall into place. As chaotic as the day had been — and as chaotic as the tomorrow will probably be — we all know it’s going to work out because our God is bigger than our problems.

This day went by in a second. Needless to say, my day still ended with a smile on my face. It’s all good. Life is good. God is good.

Track of the moment: Fall Into Place – Apartment

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Alright, don’t worry, we’ll all float on
And we’ll all float on alright
Today was certainly an educational day. And a highly exciting day, for everyone involved! Haha! True, there were frustrating moments, but we just gotta move on from there. So now I’m going to head out of the office, earphones on, and my soundtrack playing.

What. A. DAY.

Ending track: Float On – Modest Mouse

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