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.