Friday Graduation Shoot, a Holiday, and One Last Task Before the Weekend

March 20 — Friday

Friday Graduation Shoot, a Holiday, and One Last Task Before the Weekend

    Today was Eid Al-Fitr, a public holiday, which meant no formal reporting to the office. And as it happened, today was also the day of my graduation photoshoot. So the day had a completely different texture from the rest of the week, we had breaks, no code, no GitHub, no Supabase, just me in a alampay, a suit and wearing happy faces standing in front of a camera trying to look like I have it all figured out.

    It was a genuinely nice break. Graduation photos carry a weight that is hard to explain unless you have been working toward a finish line for years and suddenly you are putting on the outfit that represents reaching it. Even in the middle of an OJT, even with a system deadline hanging over my head and hours left to render, today reminded me that there is a bigger milestone waiting on the other side of all of this.

 

    That said, the day did not end without one last act of productivity. In the evening, around 6:30, we got together and started creating the actual database tables in Supabase. After setting up the foundation on Monday, today we finally began building the structure the tables that will hold the data the entire system depends on. It was not glamorous work for a holiday evening, but it was meaningful, and it was ours.

That is the week in summary. A frontend push, a clean merge, a holiday, a graduation shoot, and a database slowly taking shape in the background. Not a bad five days. I am grateful for the lighter load this week and even more grateful for what is being built — both in the system and in me.

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