Counting down!

My internship is coming to an end in about 3 working days. Its a bittersweet feeling, thinking that my farewell party is tomorrow and that I will not be seeing the colleagues whom I have made such good friends with and even some of the instructors and grassroot leaders.

However, I am also looking forward to this well deserved break. I think that I should have some goals for my two weeks before school starts so that I will actually make good use of it. One of them would certainly be to BUM. I also intend to do more reading.

In this comng school semester, I am intending to take on some dance classes at Jitterbugs and MAYBE piano lessons?? Poor dad – paying for all these…

EYE ON

Went to ION Orchard on Tuesday night and Thursday night. Have not got bored of it yet so I guess that’s good news! Initially when Vivocity opened I hated it because of the sheer size and how I always get lost there. Now that there was Vivo, I guess it helped me get use to ION which was worse.

The shops there are really quite interesting and its a pity that many of the food stalls were not open so I couldnt really get a decent drink for a decent price. Another I realised was that I did not see Macs or KFC! Or maybe I just haven found it yet.

Today was my off day, and I think it was a well spent one. Got to spend some time with family and got to keep up with what’s going on in the world too.

On another note, I went ot Shokudo @ Heeren with Mich and Carol and yet again, I’m greatly disappointed. Haiz. Shokudo just lets me down everytime I go there. The only decent Japanese Marche-like place is Manpuku at Tampines 1. Its food is decent, although I felt really cheated by the cakes which look so nice on the outside but is all cream on the inside. Empty vessel.

22 July 2009

My internship will end soon. To me, its neither too soon nor too long. Certainly, I’d miss each and every one of my colleagues including some of the Grassroots Leader who, at surprising moments stood up for me, even though I always thought that they prob didnt care much about interns.

I have so many people to thank for a wonderful internship but I’ll leave that for when I really complete the internship. Just in case anything more exciting (or horrible) happens this coming week. This internship so far, has been everything that I prayed for. Thank God for answering my prayers – especially the part on good bosses. What a contrast to my previous job!

I’m also looking forward very much to the time that I will be able to spend with my friends after the internship. I may not be able to meet up with all of them but I feel that I have been missing out so much because of my odd working hours. Do hope that I can meet up with my gal pals again, JC friends, SMUSAIC friends, SOCIAL PSYCH AWESOME group, and also the library gang. I miss everyone so much!

Looking forward to the start of school actually, cos that means another sem of seeing my friends more often, and having more flexible hours – with only myself to answer to and blame should my grades go wrong. Speakng of grades, mine haven been very ideal. I have been trying hard to get better grades but last sem I got ALL B+. Which means that my GPA is kinda bad…. HAIZ. 2 years more to go – hopefully some miracle happens.

Toying with the idea of going overseas. Currently my options are prob 1) Exchange in Europe 2) Summer School at St. Gallen 3) Exchange in China 4) BSM/Internship overseas. Well, they are not in order of preference but in cost, more or less.

OH !!! I pledged to donate my organs … One of the things that you do when you turn 21. And I decided that I will donate any organ EXCEPT MY EYES. I dunno why, not superstition or religious but I guess I’m vain even in death. Can you imagine hollow and sunken eyes? I cant. Sorry… Also, I opted for ‘treatment and transplant’ ONLY instead of research and education or both. I was just following my gut feel. Well, then they sent me a card and encouraged me to carry it with me at all times. It has my requests printed on the back of the card. What I found REALLY HILARIOUS was when I saw the fine print: In the event of death, please contact XXX. HAHA! What IRONY!

Sorry…

Well, this post comes as an apology to my dear friend who sent me a ‘DEAD BLOG ALERT’. Haha.

All right, reason why I have not been updating is because I spend a lot of my time in the office now. And I do not want to update my blog in the office because after all, it is the office computer and information is easily retrievable. So I do not wish for my blog address to be so easily found out by colleagues or bosses as that mean a death in privacy – as little as it is already. HAHA.

Everytime I meet someone, they will most certainly ask: So how’s work. Well I dont blame them cos put in the situation I’d probably ask that question too but I get a bit sick of repeating my answers or trying to come up with something new to say so I dont bore myself. And FYI, work has been good. Except for the timing of course. My work timing is unpredictable to say the least. There are two shifts, 8.30am to 6pm and 12.30pm to 10pm. So that kinda kills off my social life becos the first shift is rare since most people prefer mornings and as the intern I have to do at least 3 night shifts. Moreover, I also have to cover pple’s absence by filling in for them if they’re out for a meeting/pon-ing.

I have been on a house visit before, and have met with so many different kinds of people that I am amazed by my tolerance level to some of them. I am growing and learning definitely, trying to be more trusting, more friendly, and more tolerating. There are some people that can make your day hell and some who surprise you along the way. Thank God for good colleagues who are understanding and REALISTIC. Who actually say in front of their bosses that they are tired of working and want to go home.

CAROLINE is back!!! Been looking forward to her homecoming from Xiamen!! WELCOME BACK !!