Iblawg Undergoes Internship

Second day of training was somewhat more relaxed. I mean come on, I dressed up formal on the first day ok! Then of course we were later told that formal wear wasn’t really necessary. Actually, I kinda knew that but, you know, it was after all the *first* day ma. Also, I tried a different route this morning to see if it was any quicker. Turned out to be a bad idea. I arrived on-the-dot. According to my watch, anyway.

I enjoyed listening to the radio though. Wacky as hell, those announcers. Thank god for these stations otherwise I’d have dozed off in the car. I was told that the City Council (Dewan Bandaraya Petaling Jaya now, no longer Majlis Perbandaran…, yea) was gonna start collecting parking fees next month. That’s tomorrow, by the way. My third day of work. I’ve done the math – A month’s parking would eat up to about one-third of my training allowance. *Wipes sweat*

Anyway, as trainees, we’re required to fill up a ‘log book’ to record our experiences at work. My log book is still empty as of today. I figured that I’d type them out first, because I think I actually type faster than I handwrite. So Day One entry is actually somewhere on the net right now, making it a ‘web log’, or blog, in a more literal sense. Heh. No I’m not disclosing the URL. It’s been made ‘private’, anyway. And by the way, to those who’ve offered to give me ‘intensive’ Chinese tuition, you can forget about teaching me now because by the end of my stint here, my command of the language will definitely improve multiple-fold. No prizes for guessing why. Yeah! Jia you, Iblawg!!

Seriously, this is such an invaluable experience because, like it or not, the job market now favors multilingual dudes. So this is one of the plus-points of my training – Mandarin-training thrown in. Oh, I’d also cut my hair. Basically the head looks like a dick head now because I told the hairdresser I wanted something different. I figured that my spikey-look era would come to an end, hence the new head. Poor Iblawg. I wish I could grow 2cm of hair overnight, every night, so that it becomes more ‘manageable’, and uhm, ‘normal’ again .

Noticed the blog inactivity? I’ve been doing some reading – the book is one of the birthday pressies given by my friends, earlier this year (for some reason I only remember Steph, ehe). And of course, I’ve been working out. With Alex. That RPM freak. Will save that experience for another blog entry, another day. Meanwhile, to those undergoing internship, enjoy yourselves and please, stop telling me you’re getting PDAs, laptops and whatnots, getting a CEO-treatment from your employer, or want to go to Italy (whoa this one fella I damn beh syok. He’s officially the most-envied MMU industrial trainee, this batch). Grr.

P/s: The Larian SJ10K is coming up on Sunday. Will collect my ‘goodie bag’ this weekend. Watch out for that entry!