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.