First day of work
Monday, September 04, 2006 @ 9:55 pm
Luckily I made it a point to wake up extra early and leave my house on time to get to work.
Thank God for the smooth traffic and almost ZERO waiting time to transfer buses and train! :)
Was real early when I reached my office and hOi hasn't reached yet. Her bf is so nice to specially fetch her from her house!! (why nv come and fetch me har?? :P)
Morning started with the usual welcome pep-talk by the Learning & Education Partner and after that were more of administration stuffs, simple house keeping.
Lunch was at the famous curry fish head near Amoy Hawker Centre with Li Li, hOi, Xian Pei and me. It was good!! The fish was so tender and the weird thing was only I finished up all the brinjals and lady fingers in the curry! Although the lunch was short, but it was a good one because it has been some time since we ate with Li Li. :)
People in the orientation were largely dominated by NTU peepes; cept 2 SMU ppl and 1 from Aussie Uni. But I think overall everyone is quite friendly. me and Hoi already quite gum with the people at our table. We have an Indonesian, a PRC and a Hong Kong + 2 Singaporeans. Not bad eh? Multicultural within 1 table.
But sadly, I'm separated from hOi in terms of grouping again. Assigned to Group A, and we sit on the 13th Floor. Even the type of clients also different amongst Groups A&B and C&D.
We spent almost the entire afternoon doing up our laptops. Disappointingly, the rumoured brand new Lenovo was actually a dust and scratches covered IBM ThinkPad T40. BAH.
Loads of problems setting up the passwords (we need at least 3 before we can see the desktop!) and errors of accessing drives and using the all-so-famous Lotus Notes.
Anyhow, at the end of the day, everyone was busy checking up their assignments. Luckily for me, my first one was a foreign bank, something of which I'm rather keen to be doing it, hopefully can really learn a lot. And it's near office too! So i'll still be in the Raffles Area ;P I have engagements booked until next April before a 2.5months of ultra-low-peak period sets in.
Our annual DnD will also be coming in Oct! (that's so fast, considering we only just joined!); there's Family Day in Nov also! Really looking forward to these events! But hOi is just half as enthu as me (esp the DnD). But i guess it'll be a very good opportunity to interact with everyone and see the who's-who in the company so at least next time when I run into them down the corridor, I won't feel so strange :)
That's all for today. Hopefully the next 2 weeks will be really fruitful! :)
Thank God for the smooth traffic and almost ZERO waiting time to transfer buses and train! :)
Was real early when I reached my office and hOi hasn't reached yet. Her bf is so nice to specially fetch her from her house!! (why nv come and fetch me har?? :P)
Morning started with the usual welcome pep-talk by the Learning & Education Partner and after that were more of administration stuffs, simple house keeping.
Lunch was at the famous curry fish head near Amoy Hawker Centre with Li Li, hOi, Xian Pei and me. It was good!! The fish was so tender and the weird thing was only I finished up all the brinjals and lady fingers in the curry! Although the lunch was short, but it was a good one because it has been some time since we ate with Li Li. :)
People in the orientation were largely dominated by NTU peepes; cept 2 SMU ppl and 1 from Aussie Uni. But I think overall everyone is quite friendly. me and Hoi already quite gum with the people at our table. We have an Indonesian, a PRC and a Hong Kong + 2 Singaporeans. Not bad eh? Multicultural within 1 table.
But sadly, I'm separated from hOi in terms of grouping again. Assigned to Group A, and we sit on the 13th Floor. Even the type of clients also different amongst Groups A&B and C&D.
We spent almost the entire afternoon doing up our laptops. Disappointingly, the rumoured brand new Lenovo was actually a dust and scratches covered IBM ThinkPad T40. BAH.
Loads of problems setting up the passwords (we need at least 3 before we can see the desktop!) and errors of accessing drives and using the all-so-famous Lotus Notes.
Anyhow, at the end of the day, everyone was busy checking up their assignments. Luckily for me, my first one was a foreign bank, something of which I'm rather keen to be doing it, hopefully can really learn a lot. And it's near office too! So i'll still be in the Raffles Area ;P I have engagements booked until next April before a 2.5months of ultra-low-peak period sets in.
Our annual DnD will also be coming in Oct! (that's so fast, considering we only just joined!); there's Family Day in Nov also! Really looking forward to these events! But hOi is just half as enthu as me (esp the DnD). But i guess it'll be a very good opportunity to interact with everyone and see the who's-who in the company so at least next time when I run into them down the corridor, I won't feel so strange :)
That's all for today. Hopefully the next 2 weeks will be really fruitful! :)