Am glad the internship is finally over! not a very beneficial 9 weeks.. but at least i noe more abt mosquitoes and a little of how things are done in a Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council..

the last week of internship was spent writing PTS report (can be considered completed bah.. just have to run through it again to ensure the tone of the report is neutral.. that's a little hard..), helping the finance dept with some admin stuff and watching shows again.. :p

tons of shows were watched within 6 weeks.. let's see.. (for my own reference)

Movies:
- The Monster House
- Bee Movie
- Balls of Fury
- The Spiderwick Chronicles
- The Other Boleyn Girl
- The Pursuit of Happiness
- Horton Hears a Who!
- Fantasic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
- Kung Fu Dunk

Korean Dramas:
- 署童谣
- 豪杰春香
- Surgeon Bong Dal Hee
- Billy Jean, My Love
- Let's Go To The Beach

Others:
- American Next Top Model Season 9
- One Episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

hee.. opps.. the list is quite long.. don't think i would ever be able to complete such a feat ever again..

on the last day, we bought sugar roll from Polar for everyone in the office.. even though we never even talk to more half of them before.. cos cannot only give the ppl at the finance dept (who are the ones who really treated us really good and acknowledge our existence).. wld be quite wierd to give them but not to our supervisor..

those in the office (except one person) just thank us and wish us all the best for our studies.. quite awkward cos they also dunno what to say to us and vice versa..
but our in-charge.. upon seeing the sugar roll ask us whether issit we want to make him fat.. -_-'' and when he see us gg around the office giving out the cake.. he said 'wow so fast.. now giving out wedding cake already ar..' the 3 of us could only roll our eyes lar.. lame.. lucky i'm not seeing him again and pity my fellow intern friend who receive his call yesterday.. *irritating*

anws.. glad to have Pei Yun and Xiu Ming around for the 9 weeks :D to watch dramas together, to laugh abt things together.. now we have tons of jokes that only the 3 of us understand.. haha..
also thxful to the finance dept staff :D at least they acknowledge our presence and talk to us.. hee.. it's also because of them that we got some work to do during the last few weeks of internship *not complaining!*

hope next year internship would be more fruitful and enjoyable :D

~off to enjoy my holiday!~

Opps... we got caught.. and we think it is due to the camera in the room.. :p :p :p

First day at new workplace...

Went to the new workplace early today.. step into the reception area and was greeted by a lady (which i see very often previously at the old office when i so happen to go into the office) and she ask me 'May i help you?' Faints.. -_-''' lucky got this lady that recognises me and told her i'm the NUS intern.. diao.. and i was brought to the conference room (and was freezed to death.. one conference room that is not very big have 4 air-cons that is on full blast at 18oC.. brrr... and the staff there can still say very hot..)

anw.. after a while this guy who we see very often too (as he use to come to the old conference room to have his lunch) came into the conference room to get some stuff and he ask me who am i.. -_-'''''' i just stare at him and say 'interns from NUS?' and he 'ohoh.. sorry dun recognise ur..'

dunno what to say abt these 2 incidents.. but now i know the 3 of us are just invisible... and wasting resources..

Goodbye conference room!

Goodbye to the conference room! Our workplace for the last four weeks.. the place where we played silly games, watch movies and dramas, read books and sleep.. and not forgetting that due to it being a conference room, we can get KICKED out of it when there is meetings.. heheh..



haha.. feel the room so empty after so many weeks of being with boxes that have been placed in the room due to the packing of the office and the stuff in the conference room itself...
*do u spot my dvd player and my fellow interns lappie.. hee.. viewing of korean dramas in progress.. :p*

From mon onwards, we would be reporting to the new office near rivervale cres.. dread it.. cos it means i have to wake up even earlier to be able to reach there by 8 cos need to change to LRT somemore.. (sian have to change train 2 times..) wonder where wld we be 'parked' at the new office.. wld be given our own tables? or be left to do our own things in the conference room? hmm..

but hor i realised todae that no one bothered to tell us where the new office is located.. if not for having asked this lady on our 2nd week of internship abt the new office, we wld be left to figure out ourself where is the new office.. they very power hor..


to end of.. for those who yet to know.. its confirm.. i'll be gg to Seattle for my exchange :D will be travelling first before school start.. so will be leaving s'pore on the 30th aug :)

*but headache.. so many things to settle.. urgent now is my module registration and visa..not forgetting housing.. stress* hee.. now kind of glad it is so slack at work.. then i can do my exchange stuff.. but too bad work there no internet else can get more things done.. :p

commencement of Week 2..

seems like i would be posting the same thing over and over again for the next few weeks to come.. maybe i shld stop after this post.. but then.. 没地方诉诉苦了.. anw..

when to work today at 8a.m. cos wld be reporting to Sengkang Town Council from today onwards.. waited at the conference room for 1 hour before going to find the property manager in charge of our project to see if he has anything for us to do.. but.. he just ask us how we think we shld go abt doing the project.. and ask us to park ourself at the conference room and think abt it.. -_-'' walau.. they dun even have an idea of what they want us to do lar.. feels like doing another one of michael chew's project.. and feels like they are just carrying out the orders of the GM..


so we went to park ourself at the conference room to try and brainstorm for ideas.. we soon ran out of ideas and decided to go walk walk around the estates.. at first we tried looking into the drains for larvae.. but dun have the proper tools so cannot really see.. in the end we ended up playing at the playgrounds (got a super fun slide!) took photos together.. then lunch!!

the 3 interns at Sengkang town council

(2 more at pasir ris..)

after lunch back to conference room for rounds and rounds of games.. lol.. nothing better to do.. with no one to check or even talk to us..but eventually we decided to properly draw out our ideas to give the managers (who wasn't around for the rest of the day)

battle game on paper

haha.. dunno what kind of intern is this.. no sai kang even for us to do.. and no one to bother us at all.. (think the people in the office dun even noe we are there as interns cos we are in a completely different room from the office) if only there were filing or even photocopying to do.. we wld gladly accept the job.. (as said by the senior property officer, you can even learn something abt the company from filing.. but all say no action leh)

-yay tmr gg to watch movie with fellow interns!-

Day 5..

Day 5 is officially a slacking day.. lol

Out of eight and a half hours of work (Excluding lunch), we spent six and a half hours in a conference room slacking.. no one supervising us or giving us any work to do.. or even opening the door to speak to us.. lol dunno whether is this good or bad... (or maybe that's why our pay so low) We were only left with a stack of past training books that was written by EM services for the new officers to read.. but mostly the stuff have already been covered in the past few days training.. but nothing to do so we just copied stuff abt town council from the books to be able to fill up the report that we wld need to write after intern.

We ended up playing close to 2 hours of 'word game' ( using the last chinese word said by the previous person to form a new chinese phase and continue on and on and on..) lol first time we all play so long lar.. normally we play for a while then sian liao but we just keep going round and round.. we also spent some time finding some lizard that was running around in the room..

The two hours that was 'useful' was due to the talk we had with the senior property manager and the briefing given by the pest control task force to the cleaners.. and that briefing ended our day..

long weekend here i come..

hmm.. have i been sounding very whiny abt my internship?

Trying to embrace it..

I shall not grumble, i shall not compare.. I shall (try to) embrace it..

Tues and Wed at Town Council was much better then the 1st day.. was able to learn more stuff abt Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council and its operations.. (hee.. now we noe the history of town council and its operations by hard as every single person that give us the briefing keep repeating the same thing..) it was also much better as we had the chance to actually walk around the estate with the PM to know abt the common areas of problems, get driven around by the SPO (senior property officer) to check out the areas that have receive complaints by the residents of the area and a visit to the EM services warehouse to check out their emergency maintenance service unit (EMSU: all complaints are answered by them after office hours.. only applicable to town council under EM services..) However the rest of the time still consist of sitting in the conference room and doing nothing..

Today, we were expecting to stay in the conference room for the whole day for briefing by the finance manager.. but... the finance manager had some last min thing on and turn out we spent the whole day out of office! We went mosquito hunting!! haha.. we were soo excited as we really sick of listening to more briefing by the different officers.. :p

We were each attached to a guy from the pest company in the morning to walk around the different parts of pasir ris to learn more abt what they are doing to control the breeding of mosquitoes in the estate.. and to know which are the problematic areas to be able to come up with preventive measures for our mozzie project.. but anws... haha got attached to this friendly guy that told me a lot of info abt mozzies.. interesting!

haha.. do u know that in singapore there are different breeds of mosquitoes that are day biters which are aedes mosquitoes that only come out in the day and can spread dengue.. and there are night biters which are active at night and can spread malaria and elephantiasis.. so mosquitoes are always around 24/7.. hee.. also got to know how to differentiate between the different larvae of mosquitoes..hee.. feel free to ask me if u are interested! :)

anw.. we want around looking for mozzies and we spotted 2 different zones that were seriously breeding lots and lots of larvae due to litters blocking the drains and choked inspection chambers.. wow the inspection chambers were seriously breeding lots and lots of mozzies.. once the lid of the chamber was lifted up.. lots of fat aedes mozzies flew out.. and as expected i got bitten.. -_-'' hahaha.. the guys from the pest company was super excited.. haha.. sense of satisfaction bah.. cos it means eliminating a potential 'hot' zone before the NEA ppl.. haha.. below are photos of our 'hunting' at the inspection chamber..

Collecting of larvae sample at the choked I/C

Samples collected
(right are the aedes mozzies.. left are the night biters.. which i dunno what is their scientific name :p )

After lunch (and 2 hours of break = watching tv at coffee shop), we followed the leader to 3 different roofs of HDBs in Pasir Ris to show us the potential breeding grounds of mozzies on the roofs.. haha.. we were soooo excited.. haha.. but lots of climbing up and down, bending down and walking around.. but was worth it! the view was nice! hee.. but i think we were so desperate to relate our internship to what we learn in school that we kinda paid more attention to the different M&E stuff on the roof that we learned in PF2104... like the vent pipe, the water tanks.. where some were not adhering to the standards (hmm shall not go into details for that).. we also went into the pump rooms and switchroom to see see.. there also can breed mozzies hor..

nice view!
(sian didn't realise my phone was in the wrong mode.. now all the photos i took today is blue-ish)

Overall can say that today was enriching.. even though not relevant to what we learn in school.. the visit to so many roofs without needing to get any permission from authorities, the 'hunting' for mozzies is not something we can easily have access to.. so trying to embrace this project mozzie thingy.. trying not to complain abt the irrelevance.. (but realised that the industry ppl still dunno abt pfm.. cos the managers and officers keep thinking we are studying estate management.. still say to the pest company ppl that we are experts in the area of mosquitoes.. blah..)

p.s. for those who think that my internship would take a turn for the better and be more relevant to what we learn.. u are wrong.. the mozzie project is for the whole internship.. so pls treasure ur internship as it is more beneficial..

1st Day of Intern

What a day!! phew.. it's been a long day of travelling and waiting..

Met up with Wei Chen at the HQ near Bukit Merah at abt 8a.m. Went into the office at 8.30a.m. only to be told that i was supposed to report to Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council.. faints.. all thanks to that email that told us to report to the add in the letter which was the HQ add .. piss (i did call the HR person to clarify and was told that the place to report to would been given to our school and they wld pass it on to us.. and yet the correct info was not pass to us by SDE.. sian) So me and 4 other gals that was attached to that Town Council had to make our way there..

Walked quite a distance to Tiong Bahru MRT (and we saw a rat running around the pavement that we were walking on..eeks)and took MRT to Pasir Ris and walked to the Town Council.. reached at abt 9.40a.m. and was told that the PMs were having a meeting.. waited for 1 hour before the meeting ended.. by then we were like sian diao already..

Walked around the office and was introduced to the different ppl working there, filled in forms and was told that we would be doing a project on mosquito prevention (or they call it 'killing mozzies') diao! dunno how this is related to our course.. -_-''' anw.. we had a briefing by one of the staff there and was told we had to go to Sengkang after lunch.. haiz.. travel again

Had lunch at White Sands and then headed to Sengkang the town council to report to another PM. Was only briefed by him for abt 15 mins and then we were free! it was abt 3.30p.m. and the 5 of us were left in the meeting room to 'rot' for 2 hours! haha.. nothing to do and no one to care abt what we were doing.. so we played 10 rounds of bingo before becoming really bored.. but by then it was already 5.15p.m. and we prepared to leave at 5.30p.m... Long journey home from Sengkang.

haha.. can say not a very productive day.. just felt a lot of time wasted on travelling and waiting..
Still no idea how this internship is related to our course..
but at least the people at both Town Council are very friendly! and we can wear jeans and track shoes to work haha.. :)

Tue: reporting time 8.30a.m Pasir Ris Town Council
Wed: reporting time 8.00a.m. Sengkang
Thurs: reporting time 8.30a.m. Pasir Ris Town Council
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