wow it’s kinda surreal how 10 weeks have just slipped by like that. it’s always surreal when one period of your life ends and another begins. seems just like yesterday when i rushed to work after exams/holiday, hated my job and the environment, till today.

i’m not sure if i’m really old/lazy/tired or is it because of the environment – i really appreciated holidays and studying (as compared to working) A LOT more after this job.

anw, lemme tell you what i did k. for the seniors that i worked with, about 6 of them, i painted a shape (eg, computer, triangle dude, rectangle diva), attached a key ring and wrote a big card for them. for the seniors that i didn’t work with but am close to, about 4 of them, i aso painted a shape, attached a key ring and wrote a small card for them. for the IT consulting guys that i sat with + one of the IT audit guys, 3 in total, i made them a card and bought cookies. gosh i never knew i was that creative. i never knew i was so hardworking. spent like 2-3 long nights working on it. the hardest was the cards. cos had to cut and paste a lot of stuff, and wait for the glitter to dry. but i was pretty proud of myself for being so artistic for once :blush1

anw, so means i made stuff for 13 ppl. so out of the 13 ppl, 9 of them gave me something. 2 of them gave me a Marks & Spencer body lotion, which smells real good. (i shall go check out the price eventually haha!) 5 of them gave me a treat at Far East Square, together with the other intern. The same 5 people, plus another 2 seniors, then gave me a box of SK-II masks!!

adrian took it out and passed to me, th0ugh claire was exclaiming why didn’t he wrap it up. i was really shocked and surprised, cos i didn’t expect any gift, and such an expensive one at that. esp since initially he only told me that 5 people were sharing. i was really happy and emailed my other intern friends to share. then…a very funny thing happened. one of the IT consulting guys, for some strange reason, added my email address into an email thread, so i managed to read the emails circulating around the 5 of them. i realised, after reading the emails, that SeanSean was the one who suggested to them to get the masks for me!!

sigh. i dunno what to feel aft that. it’s like..they didn’t get for me cos they know me well, cos they willing to spend, cos…i dunno. i dunno whether i should feel upset that they kept me in the dark? though this kinda surprises should be kept in the dark. i dunno whether to feel happy cos SeanSean knows what i want? I dunno whether to feel happy cos my colleagues really care so much? cos apparently WT went to look for Sean to ask what to get for me, and the silly bat told WT that i wanted a bf! den adrian went to look for grace, to ask what i liked, and grace referred him to Sean. so Sean gave adrian a whole list of stuff i wanted based on my bday wish list last year. well Sean said that they told her that they were really cracking their heads over what to get me. so i guess it was really sweet of them. and Claire told me that the masks were the kinda stuff she herself wanted to get when she was studying, except that they were too expensive.

anw they got me a card too, which they bought after lunch on fri. haha i knew abt the card aso, cos it was in the same email. it’s quite funny lah, they reallie suck at being discreet lor. like i was telling claire, mebbe i dun join u all for lunch, so u can go buy my card. but in the end we went for lunch together, so i think they bought after that. then they passed it around, and i could see them passing it, so i was like, “ok i’m gonna siam now, i never see anything, just continue writing.” yup simple card, simple msg, with a very nice sketch of me by WT. and we all had a good laugh about me finding out about the email, and abt how the silly guy put my email address in, and about how i shouldn’t have read the whole thing. yea claire insisted on deleting my emails even tho i’ve already read them all.

work-wise i was pretty slack last week. hm the week before i was damn slack, cos my job hadn’t started yet. come to office before 8.30am, go for breakfast come back at 9.30am, lunch then afternoon tea. or go morning tea and afternoon tea. haha so slack man. and last wk my job was quite manageable, cos my senior was super nice – she kept chasing me home after 5.30pm so i didn’t really have to work late as well. and on my last day, i was bemoaning the fact that i had to go client’s place and cannot do my clearance stuff; by a stroke of luck, or rather bcos of an irritating bureaucratic nut, i didn’t have to go in the end. so i finished my clearance quite fast, and could sit there do nothing, go out for afternoon tea, talk cock with colleagues. yea, actually quite some things happened over the past few weeks, like lookin over formatting stuff for Prince 2, gg for office bbq, not gg for office drinks, irritating clients. oh well too lazy to blog and i’m too long winded no1 wld wanna read it anw.

just looking ahead to the next school term and more shit work. pray that this term will be as fantastic as last term.

man i am so shagged. next wk is gonna be my 1st hell week here man.

3 impt dates next wk, i.e. gotta leave work on time on 3 days. but i need to rush my job next wk!!

that senior (aka Prince 2) lor!! actually this job is supposed to start next week and span 2 weeks, meaning it will last next week and the wk aft (CNY wk). but CNY short week, and the client sure on leave, so that snr decided to push forward the job. AND I FOUND OUT THAT SENIOR IS ASO ON LEAVE during the CNY wk!! no wonder he so kan cheong lah!! wth.

but aiya he’s quite nice lah. cos he pushed the job fwd, so we had to go down to the client this wk even tho the job will only start next wk. so during the meeting with our client this wk, based on my interaction with him, he’s quite nice lah. but i think he’s a slave driver man haha.

juz now he sent me the projected schedule for our job for tmrw and next wk. den i got stressed haha. some more in his email he still say “hope i not stress yet”. but when i spoke to him on the fone, he was quite nice abt it lah.

anw ya lor, becos i saw his email, so i gotta stay late. juggling 2 jobs this wk – 1 was from last wk, the other job is the one with him lah. Last wk’s job is almost done; we went to the client today for an “exit meeting”, but some issues were raised during the exit meeting, so i had to clear them up. the snr with me for last wk’s job say no hurry, and i was thinkin of doing it tmrw cos i wasn’t in the mood to do it.

ok digress a bit. my exit meeting was in the aftnn aft lunch. so when we came back to the office aft the meeting, i was stoned+shagged+headache+felt like puking. ya i think i hv motion sickness man. i didn’t hv mood to do work, and my colleague asked me out to the coffee bean for drink+cookie. haha so slack rite? can just go out of the office during office hrs man. den aft i came back from coffee bean, we were all just talkin and laughing. so i didn’t hv mood to do work. was already preparing to go home DEN i saw the email from that senior. so means i need to clear last week’s job (i.e. the issues arising from the exit meeting today) today so that i can start on that senior‘s job tmrw. ya lor so gotta stay late.

ok lah but not so bad. at least i got to see one of my seniors whom i hvn’t seen for a million years. he is super nice, and friendly, brotherly, fatherly. ya he’s just very nice lah. he’s been so busy that he hasn’t been in the office so i hvn’t seen him lor. and it’s good dat i saw him tonite aso cos he gave me an update on the job that we did together previously lor.

ok i think i betta explain to that senior tmrw that i very busy next week aso. yea try and put it in the nice way so he wun expect me to work late on those 3 nites. siao liao lah. ok if u wanna call me nxt wk to say hi, feel free to do so and mk me feel happier amidst the mad rushing of my work. if u wanna call me to irritate me, betta dun waste my hp bill ok!

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haha for once i’m in a good mood!!! yea it’s PMS lah mood swings..so today i’m in a gd mood. because. i came home, checked my office email, and realised that that senior(otherwise known as Prince 2)replied me email. in my previous entry i said i would send him the stuff past midnite to show tt i’m really hardworkin and apparently it worked. :cool1 There were 4 forms that I had to do up for him and I started on the first form on Thurs nite. On Fri, i had some time in the morning free before i went to my client’s place. so i finished about 3 of the forms. On Fri nite (yes i have no life!) I finished the last form. BUT i purposely waited until Sat nite, or rather early Sun morn to send to him. wahaha! let’s see now, i rigged up my office lappie and sent it at 1.13AM on Sun morn (which is this morn).

So I got a reply from him. the beginning of the email is kinda irritating. He said he’s busy rushing other client’s work this wkend, so will only be able to review my work early next week. :cuss: see! i told you for sure he won’t be able to review my work so fast, dunno why he so kan cheong abt me handing over the stuff to him. machickeneh. anw, he further added “In the meanwhile, good effort from you to rush it over the weekends.” Haha! so my plan worked!! even tho technically i wasn’t really rushing over the wkend. ssshhhhh. gosh i’m so sneaky!! and bitchy!! hope he doesn’t stumble across this! haha. it’s not that i’m lazy or sneaky, I would really rush the work over the wkends and not complain if I think that it’s important or is due. In June i brought tax files back to review. A couple of wkends ago, I brought my lappie back to work on a form of my previous job cos the job was due. I’m pissy and not enthu abt rushing this particular piece of work for Prince 2 because we haven’t even started the job yet and won’t go in till the following week and I also know that he won’t have the time to review, so I didn’t see the point in rushing the work. But since he lydat suan me in his previous email, no choice!!

Anw in my email, I also offered to prepare an additional form this coming week to kinda prepare us before we go in the following week. His reply was “Glad to know your intiative to get things started fast. :)” :beam1 haha yes i’m so proud of myself. couldn’t stop smiling when i read his email. I always very pro-active one ok; I don’t slack very much during internship ok. Every time before a new job starts, I will make sure I contact the senior in charge to check the scope of the job and ask what I need to do. Which is pretty essential, not that i’m hardworking but because I don’t know the IT systems very well, I need to make sure I do a bit of reading abt the IT system of that company before I go in. I may not be able to read all and know all there is to know, but at least got vague idea lah.

ZH ask me to rest more so i won’t be so pissy and will be able to do my work properly so that i can get along better with Prince 2. ok let’s hope things go well when i work with him. As i mentioned before, this job is not gonna be easy cos the client is a little difficult. And i realised on Thurs that i’ve been assigned 2 weeks to this job, means it looks as though I would have to work with that seniorfor 2 weeks and take this job thru from beginning to end. I dislike working on jobs from the beginning till the end cos it means that I would need to rush and work late during the 2nd week to be able to finish it and submit it. Haha ok lah i’m lazy k, i prefer to just go in on the 1st week, do as much as i can, den leave the following week and let the senior clear up any other matters. no choice lah. looks like this job have to rush liaoz. bad thing is that my 2nd week on this job is the CNY week, which means there’s only 3 days to left in the week to work on it. This means that we must pia as much as possible during the 1st week, but it’s gonna be hard cos i have 2 very impt dates during the 1st week!!! sigh. ok pls pray for me ok. let it be simple and easy to handle. let me be able to work off-site in the office. let me be able to leave work on time for the 2 impt dates.

pissy (again!) and tired!

so i did not get my heart broken. took sean’s advice and went for bowling with my dept. it wasn’t fantastic, u can feel the distance, but it ain’t that bad either. i found a few nice colleagues, and they are people that i didn’t expect to be nice. oh btw i didn’t know my bowling sux so badly. haha anw, got a lift back in my senior manager’s car! :smirk: BMW very comfy! but i didn’t check which series haha. well it was raining, and i was abit paiseh cos he took the long route but he insisted on sending me back. i was encouraged by another manager in the car to take advantage of the fact that the SM was being so nice and accept the lift all the way back.

anw, tired cos not enough sleep. and hv been travelling! fell asleep in the cab today cos there was a jam and it was a super long distance.

pissy bcos of Prince 2!!! :shake: how can lydat rite?? had a meeting for our job yesterday, and Prince 2 passed me some documentation to do. it is pretty simple, just cut and paste. but i was out of office whole day today, and i will be out tmr aftnn. morning will be spent on lookin at some stuff for the current job, so i figured i won’t have time. at first he said can pass to him end of this week, and i guess it was my mistake cos i thought i should be able to finish cos i didn’t expect to be out on job and i told him end of week can. but last nite i figured i can’t, so i dashed off an email to him this morning to tell him i won’t be in, and asked if i could hand in next mon or tues. well tues is being too much, but i wanted to give myself some leeway in case my current job overruns till next week. and anw, the job with Prince 2 won’t start till wk aft wat…ok so Prince 2 replied tellin me latest mon nite and he “reckons it won’t take so long to cut and paste”. harlow if it’s so easy to do, you go and do yrself lah! gimme do for wat rite? and i know it’s very easy, but if i’m not in the office and am out on job, it obviously mean that i’m occupied what. go out on job doesn’t mean i go play aso k. well i can juggle, or work hard and do it at nite or over the wkend, but harlow, intern only what. ok lah perm staff prolly hv to juggle 2-3 jobs at any one time but i’m only an intern. normally i’m quite hardworking but this job won’t start till wk aft, and it’s not like i don’t hv my own personal stuff to do over the wkend, and i’m only an intern. why so kan cheong? i don’t believe he so free to review so fast lor. :rant: i’m taking offense with his line abt how it won’t take so long to cut and paste. it’s like, if u just tell me mon nite latest, i geddit alrdy, and i aso know it’s not gd or nice to drag or ask for extension. but to add that line is such an insult lah! like wtf man.

and my current job today, my senior with me today told me to do my work tmrw lor. i mean, the deadline we’re given for the current job is tmr aftnn k!! manager wants a verbal response at least, so we hv to get most of the work done to be able to give a verbal response, if not the whole working papers. yet she told me to pack up just now and do tomorrow!! she nv say go home and do! she say do tmrw even tho it’s due tmrw!! yet Prince 2 is telling me to hurry on a job that won’t start till wk aft. like wth. even if it’s easy to do, it doesn’t mean i will have the time to stop my current work, come and do the easy things, and go back again. wth. spoil my whole image of him. not gonna call him Prince 2 anymore. he’s gonna be called “that senior” from now on!! bleargh.

haha anw, got new colleague at work. thought he was temp or intern, cos his pass had a “T” on it like mine. then i realised his said “temporary” while mine said “trainee”. haha and it’s cos he hasn’t gotten his perm pass yet. so now i’m seated between 2 guys at work, how fun! haha the new guy reminds me of Rob tho, the way they speak and type and sms.

ok dun talk alrdy. i shall go and try to do that senior‘s work. i shall send it to him at like midnite or past midnite either tonite, tmrw nite or during wkend. show him i no life and really hardworking and rush the work just for him!!! growl.

4 times cos i hv 4 projects till my internship ends in mid-Feb. suckit i thought my last 2 weeks can rot in the office but i’m booked for a job for the last 2 wks. damn.

ok so that bad day is all in the past. i don’t wanna think abt it. too lazy to blog abt it. thanks amanda for that sweet sms also.

work this week was tiring. i won’t call it stressful. it’s never stressful at an intern level, and besides i slack too much anyway haha. check this out. i hv officially broken this record this week. Tues was 9pm. Wed was 8.30pm. noone could guess what Thurs was.

*drumroll* 1.30am! like how cool is that? it’s not like i’m excited abt setting a new record, not that i’m excited about my work, not that i’m excited about staying late. i’ve accepted that it comes with it. besides i was slacking. haha not good. basically cos the work had to be completed and sent to the manager for review first thing in Fri mornin. so my senior had to go through with me on Thurs, seeing that it’s my first full official job of my internship. and i was slacking because i’ve already done what i could, he reviewed and made all the necessary changes. (and believe you me, there were A LOT of changes that’s why we stayed so late). if i was stoned i think my poor senior was worse.

i think i could have done better. prolly prep more, read more. but i’m not exactly beating myself up over it cos i know it’s my first project and with almost no references (last year’s working papers don’t count; my senior was appalled at the work they did last year), i don’t really blame myself. besides i’m a low achiever haha.

needless to say, i was freaking shagged on Fri morn. my very nice senior insisted on sending me home even though he stays in woodlands and has a 9am meeting the next day. gosh. yea so i slept abt 3 and went to work before 8.30am on Fri. i toyed with the idea of going into the office late since i worked so late, (since all the perm staff do that anyway), but i couldn’t bring myself to do it. worst (or is it good?) thing was that i had no work to do on Fri. since i ‘ve already completed that job, my next job won’t start till the next week. so i just stoned in the office and tried my very best not to strike up a conversation with the computing guy next to me cos he was busy with his work. well i tried to do some work by preparing for my next 2 jobs, but well, how interested can one be in reading manuals of an application?

but i kid you not, it’s damn freaky to stay in the office so late, especially when there’s no1 else except your senior and you. some more my senior left me for some time to call his wife and smoke, so i was kinda ALL ALONE IN THE OFFICE. believe you me it was damn freaky. i was like how scared can. was sitting up straight, trying to do my work, perking my ears open to any sounds that would alert me to either my senior’s return, or some ghostly apparition. there were weird noises that i attributed to the lights and aircon. while i was working halfway, the lights shut off. omg i was like how freaked. luckily as i got up and walked like 1cm, the sensor picked up my action and the lights promptly turned on again. ya auto lights, irritating. then about halfway through, i heard weird noises again. sounded like the door opening, and someone or something moving around. i heard papers rustling, a thermos flask being knocked against the table or something. i was majorly freaked lah. as far as i knew, the tax dept was all quiet. the last people in my dept were the IT consulting guys who left at 11.30pm or so; i saw them leave. so i got up to check out. haha i also don’t know how come i so brave can. LUCKILY it was one of the guys from the IT consulting side. man he gave me a shock. funny lah he, don’t know why he work so late when all the people on the same project as me had left. ya so i juz carried on with my work.

anw, some thoughts about my work so far. finally completed one whole job. OS/400 and Unix. it was damn difficult, scary and intimidating at first, but it’s better now. even though my next 2 jobs would cover Windows and SAP and i won’t be revisiting the OS/400 or Unix, at least i feel a little more confident about learning the new applications. work-wise, it’s getting a bit more fun to learn after i get over the initial fear and apprehension. but i’m not so sure i like the hours and the people in the dept.

i know before i started this, i wanted to do well and get a priority job offer. now i’m not so sure anymore. at the beginning, the work was totally getting me down. now it’s a little of the work and the people as well. i’m even thinking that i should hope not to get an offer so that i don’t have to make the choice so early. i’m leaning towards the personal tax job, cos of a fixed working place, cos of the people and environment. i know the people would be likely to change if i were to join them, but at least i thought it was generally easier to get along with them. in my current place, i don’t like it. it’s been 4 weeks so far, 6 more to go. i’m actually quite looking forward to getting out of here. i’m not unhappy to the extent that i fear going to work or crying every night, that kinda shit you know. but i’m just sian to go to work. the situation may improve, but i doubt. i’m quite unhappy here cos of the general environment and the people. i know it’s partly my fault, but well. anyway, other factors such as there’s also more satisfaction as i clear tax file after tax file each day, as compared to having to have to work 2 weeks on one project that i get so sick of it at the end and don’t even wanna see it ever again. even though there is documentation for tax, the documentation for IT audit is a pain in the butt. irritating like hell. aiya don’t know lah. don’t wanna think about it now, don’t have to think about it now anyway.

You stand in the line just to hit a new low
You’re faking a smile with the coffee to go
You tell me your life’s been way off line
You’re falling to pieces everytime
And I don’t need no carryin’ on

Well you need a blue sky holiday
The point is they laugh at what you say
And I don’t need no carryin’ on
– Bad Day by Daniel Powter

ok yes the title and song says it all. i had a bad day. i started off busy but in a good mood. until something pissed me off and spoilt my whole day. aft tt it was just an escalation of small little stuff that spoilt my whole day.

but nvm. i came home late but i ended it off with phone calls to shiuan, hy and jason. in that order. so now i’m feeling much happier. it’s good to talk to friends aft being alone in the office for the whole day. stupid jason say i nag but he also so long winded. anw him and i have come up with a short-term career plan immediately aft we grad. coolness.

work tmr wun be easy cos i really need to crap up accurate stuff to wrap up the whole job. i don’t want to have to keep askin my snr what to do. hopefully wun have to stay late again tmrw.

ok i refuse to think of all the bad stuff. think happy thoughts! i shall go to bed with a smile, oui? :umm1

heez it’s pretty late but i wanted to post this b4 i go zzzz.

I GOT MY INTERNSHIPS!! :beam1

yup both of them!! :grin1 went for 2 interviews last wk, one at E*, another at D*. and i got both! like how cool is that?! so i’m gonna hv to reject one tho..pretty sad but i realli prefer one over the other. i only applied for both cos i have 2 spaces and it’s betta to have backup mah.

and last tues and this thurs when i got the results, i felt so glad and blessed? realli thank GuanYin tt i managed to get my internship at P** over the summer hols. cos i think havin tt on your resume really does wonders. in fact durin both interviews, i was asked questions abt my internship there. reallie can’t believe how i managed to get in last time even tho my results sux, when this time so many ppl applied but not all got it. bcos if i hadn’t had P** on my resume, i can confirm+guarantee+chop that i wouldn’t have got the call for the interview this time cos my results are so bad! i think it’s quite amazing thinkin back abt it. like aft first yr, without any knowledge, i juz anyhow whack and applied to 3 places. 2 called me for interview, but only 1 accepted me. so of course i accepted them cos they’re good . after 2nd year, i amazingly decided to try and whack for another internship even tho all my frens were waiting till end of the year for MT. i applied 2 but only 1 called me for interview and accepted me. so of course i accepted them cos they’re good. now i applied 2 and both got. i hope this lucky streak continues in future! really feel thankful tt it has worked out for me all these times. sorrie but feelin abit bhb. feel proud of myself tt i had the ‘foresight’ to start on internships early and tt i managed to mk it thru all of them. guess i prolly hv to thank Mei for all this. for teachin me to start earli, and both she and ah ma encouraging me to juz try even tho it seems impossible. i realli hope tt this one will go well aso, and tt they will offer me a job. P** didn’t offer me leh..cos i think too earli and the rest aso din get offers. But i heard K*** offered a school mate of mine leh! so i reallie hope tt this one will work out well and tt i will get a good offer from them.

i knoe i told the whole world dat i love P** and tt i will defn wanna go back there. but thinkin abt it now, i think experience reallie helps. it’s good to go to another company and see the corporate culture there. don’t be mountain :turtle: haha! i do like D* so i reallie hope they offer me aft this and dat i dun screw up. so scared tt i will..cos they kinda like employ me based on my past relevant/gd experience.

and i’m so thankful tt i got my D* even tho they asked quite difficult qns last wk. am so glad tt i applied to both and got both, and tt i got them during the first tier and don’t have to wait till 2nd tier like some of my frens.

i guess, i do feel abit sad for those who didn’t get it this time round and have to wait till 2nd tier. yet sometimes, i feel it’s not really my biz? i’m sorry i’m not a good fren, i’m unethical, i’m morally incorrect. to each his own. why should i care abt you when u’re gonna be competing with me next time for a job? if you don’t get it, it’s your biz. do something abt it to improve yourself. don’t ask me for my cover letter. :finger: don’t be ridiculous. neither will i give you my resume. i’m sorry but i am anal abt this kinda stuff. esp if u’re in direct competition with me. like harlow, don’t be crazy can? den u still sarcastically reply me “thanks lor” when i refused. :poop: i’m really sorry again. i may be your fren, but when it comes to the crunch, dog eat dog. what if i help u now and u win me nxt time? u’re obviously gonna win me cos of your grades alrdy! your grades are like so good laioz! i don’t think you need any help from me lor. i’m doin all this to differentiate myself from the ppl like you who have such good grades. if i were to help u, den wat kinda differentiation would i have then? nobody would want me then. so yes, now you know. who reads this? i’m selfish. i’m not a good fren. :noshake: i mean, normally i will help in other things. listen to you or anythin tt doesn’t require me to help you move ahead in the rat race. aiya wtf lah, i dunno how to say it lah. somebody kill me can, i am so evil.

gosh talkin abt it juz pisses me off and mk me angry+unhappy+upset. okie lah dun think abt it liaoz. will reply both companies either tmr or Sun nite. gotta remind Sean when i do aso. right off to bed now! :sleep1

ooohhh 1 more day!!! yayness!!! :tongue1

let’s see now. Mon was cool – started off well with a free breakfast again! 🙂 then lunch was with hy, haven’t met up for sooo long! NB: I’m so sick of Jap food. 2 days in a row. Tues.. was quiet but busy. my snr told the mgr last wk that i was leaving this wk, so suddenly all the files with him got reviewed darn fast and came back to me. darn scary. one whole pile of them. but nvm, the cute AM hunk opened the door for me – even tho i was a million miles away from the door! haha!! :heart1

Wed was still busy, but i had free lunch!! woo hoo. NB2: i’m so sick of Thai food!! had a meeting with HR on Wed aftnn too. finally met the other interns in the same building. It was a fun session; i’ve never been to one of these before, not even at my previous internship. I appreciated that the HR was so attentive and enthusiastic about meeting us. Spent like 1.5 hrs on the meeting, so didn’t finish one of my files – the same one which i spent 5 hrs on previously. Rushed off to collect my new campus card!! ok lah, pretty much the same as the old, with that ugly alien face of mine. dunno how come they didn’t let us take new photo. irritating. Had a hard time trying to change my PIN, until jason had to do it for me. went out for dinner with YT. NB3: i’m sick of crepes at Raffles City.

Today started out shitty cos i saw one more file on my table even tho i still have a lot left to clear. den it was made worse when i quarrelled with CS. still think that she was in the wrong. even tho we’re cool now, i’m still slightly irritating/pissed. mebbe aft i slp it off it would be ok? Today’s lunch was free again – a treat from Jason’s snrs. they’re so nice. and they even got me a little book of quotations. so unexpected. how come they’re so nice to me? like i feel like i don’t deserve it. i forgot to say thanks for lunch! tsk tsk. must do it tmrw if AN is around. ooh had nice chats with SH today. :heart1:blush1

omg look at the number of NBs in this entry abt how sick I am of the food. gosh have i been eating so much? or is there nothing else to eat anymore? THink i’ve been eating out too much lah, and whenever i go out, i eat pretty much the same food. i miss hawker food!! haha! i’m actually craving for mutton chop and roti prata.

must go and explore the new campus before school starts. somehow, i’m really terrified that i’ll get lost.

stayed late today to clear my stuff. will be claiming OT for this whole week..except that i realised that i should have claimed OT earlier!! darn wasted!! cos like the max you can claim in the day is prolly like what, 6 hours or so? If I multiply that by 4, it’s 24 hours of OT. cumulatively, have i worked 24 hrs of OT so far? it feels like it was more than 24 hrs!! means i lugi leh!! how lydat?! sux man. i mean ok lah, i do internship not for the money but for the experience. but if i can claim, why not rite?! not like the firm is not making money or is a small firm. and i’ve gone the extra mile as an intern liaoz leh. of course must claim as much as i can!! but i think canot liaoz leh. shitamama. if i had known, i shld have claimed more last week. growls. hai. :rant:

oh wells, nvm. lotsa stuff to clear up tomorrow b4 i leave!! it’s almost over!! :megaman:

gosh im so tired! i guess it’s a weekly thing for me. like start of the wk (Mon) is reallie bad cos u’re juz comin back from the wkend. then it gets betta. den towards the end of the work productivity drops again as u’ve expended all ur energy. haha mebbe im juz a lazy pig lah.

it’s a normal thing to stay late liaoz; even tho i’m an intern, i’m almost a part of the furniture and fittings in my office haha! like yesterday i left earli and jason was like “u’re leavin now?” machiam like so shocked cos i hvnt left earli for quite sm time.

ya talkin abt jason, he bought me breakfast yesterday w/o askin or anythn. juz buy and plonked it down on my table when he came. i offered to pay him back but he refused the money. and he had to spoil all the fuzzy feelin by sayin “actually i bought mine first. then i thought if i bought for myself and nv buy for you, u will nag nag nag again. so i went back to buy.” diaoz. he calls me an irritant and says i nag alot. bleah. the last time i whined to him abt breakfast, he went and bought breakfast for me the very nxt day i think. haha

anw gosh 2 wks left to the end of my internship. realie hard to believe that time has juz flown by. it was juz the end of April when i joined. when every1 else exams all still in progress, i’ve finished mine and started work. sux. reallie nt much of a break at all too. think i will miss the work wahahah! but i reallie feel unsatisfied/incomplete. i reallie wanna finish this program b4 i go, or i feel incomplete. haha normally i wld start smthn and nt finish it. but dunno why this time i feel the drive to wanna complete it. i guess cos i’ve been forced to be with it almost from the start, so there’s the attachment there. when i was handed the program, there was absolutely no info to start with. and it wasn’t moving at all. (IMHO the previous person was kinda lazy but that’s juz my own feelin). anw so yes from nothin, i helped to source and chase until smthin came out. until i can generate the whole comp and the whole package. so i realie wanna
finish the whole program b4 i go. at least send it out to the client. but it doesnt look like i can do dat, cos it’s still in the reviewing process. sigh. i feel very territorial and possessive abt this program haha! i dun wanna hand it over the the new associate to mk amendments! i wanna do everythin and tk it all the way thrU! she can juz do the submission! growls.

yea i feel unfinished aso cos i knoe my immed sup has a lot of o/s cases. and i dun seem to be helping her as much as i think i shld. reallie in half a mind to extend to the 12th or even the wk aft or smthn, juz to finish as much as possible. worst case scenario: end of Aug cos that’s the very last deadline we’ve got. i was reallie thinkin dat mebbe i can go in on my free days or smthn when sch starts juz to clear things up. haha. im mad yea. nt as mad as chinz tho but mad enuf.

oki i reallie need to slp. things to do tmrw: 2 submissions. finish up the horrible stock options case, i.e. do the disgustin cvr ltr. i alrdy knoe i’m gonna hv to spend a super long time on the para abt the stock options. argh. den i hv 2 other new tax comps to start on. shite. actualli it’s 3. oh f***. ok so i muz finish up the stock options case. den do the clearance case. den the other one. leave the last for nxt wk. and another o/s info one for nxt wk. okie nw i gotta go find a piece of paper to write this on. nitez!

i was sooo horribly drained at work today. i spent like almost 5 hrs on the same client, juz doin tax comps! cos i had to generate his YA 04 and YA 05 tax comps. the associate alrdy keyed in for me yesterday, but luckily i double checked again, cos there were some errors. den i myself made mistks too! forgot to use the average exchange rate for the YA 04 return, so generate again. den dunno wat else i 4got to put in, so generate a 2nd time. and the 3rd time, i 4got that it’s a TOT and nt a rollover reimbursemt basis. cos for this program, it’s mostly partial TOT or rollover. but this guy is whole TOT. grrr. den YA 05 4got to put in my sch fees and the TOT as well.

the transmittal ltr gave me a HUGE headache! i was tryin to figure out whether he’s R or NR. by right, YA 04 shld be NR cos of his physical presence. but his notes seem to suggest that he wld be here for 3 YAs, which wld mk his YA 04 a R instead. but if i mk him a R for YA04, den his NOR wld start in YA 04 as well. as opposed to mkin him NR for YA04, and R for YA05 and NOR can start in YA05 so he wld hv an extra yr of NOR. i was thinkin so darn hard. tryin to interpret things and think things thru. i din wanna keep buggin my snr, machiam like nv think/nv use brains/so stupid. so i wanted to mk sure dat i thought it thru b4 i ask her, so dat at least i can explain my thought process to her and she wld knoe that i made the effort to think abt it.

in the end, she told me to give him a choice. so means i had to phrase my tl properly to incl both YA 04 and 05 tax positions as well as the R/NR and NOR stuff. omg. i’ve NEVER spent so long on one client b4. NEVER. i was so drained and tired aft that.

and u knoe wat’s the f–king best thing? I FORGOT TO MENTION IN THE TL THAT I ESTIMATED HIS F/F!!! like ohmybloodygosh. i onli remembered juz now! when i got home! when i was showering!! ya see i even think abt work aft office hrs. so that means i gotta go to work tmrw and edit the tl!!! grrrr waste time again. shitamama. i hope my snr hasnt reviewed the file yet. oh gosh. this is like so standard, hw could i hv forgotten?! curses.

anw, i duno the new associate studied wat, but she’s from the same uni as I. but erm, i guess it’s partly my fault. i nv explain properly to her. even if she studied tax b4, real life scenario is reallie different from textbks. so mebbe i nv go thru slowly with her properly. i guess i was too nervous. so she kinda missed out keying in sm figures, luckily i checked!! and her estimated F/F was also wrong. this is my fault aso, cos i shld hv written it down properly for her instead of throwin the whole thing at her. i rem at the start, my snrs aso wrote down for me. so i shld hv written for her. and luckily i check, cos then i realised dat i mk mistakes too! actualli i think it kinda wastes time? like i give her key, i still gotta chck, and muz chck slowly. got mistks muz amend. but if i key myself, i wld be more familiar with the data, mebbe will mk less mistks? and smhw, i hv onli myself to blame if i mk mistks. ya but can’t blame her lah. so i onli pointed out more impt stuff to her rather den her careless mistk, cos i feel bad. like harlow, i mk so many darn careless mistks too! nt fair for me to bring it up to her when other ppl hv to bring mine up to me!

yea oh well *crosses fingers* hope no more new shitty stuff come in. dunno hw come today my immed sup gave me quite little stuff. i reallie hv this feelin dat she give me little stuff bcos of 2 reasons. firstly, i suck. like i mention above, easier for her to do and chck herself rather den give me do and she chck cos waste more time. secondly, i think she knoes i’m kinda bogged down as well. but i feel bad cos i’m not reallie helping her enuf. ok if tmrw i clear this program, den i can ask her for sm more work again. i dare not go and ask her skali when i ask her i suddenly busy again, so betta nt first. wait until i completely clear the shit off my desk first. tmrw got shitty tax comp. it’s all abit here abit there, cos still got o/s info, but my snr say dun waste time, juz do as much as possible. so when the o/s info come in, at least can juz input the extra info. i got shitty stock options to figure out. i HATE stock options!! i hv to convert the exchange rate, figure out the gains, and input the info into an additional form. and u can’t juz lump all the gains together! u gotta key in individual optioN gaiNs! growls.

i hate 8S. but aft this, i dunno wat i hate more. 8S or Appendix 8B. :psycho1