Intership

I’m back from lunch early today. Time flies and it is the end of internship!

I can’t understand why my grey pants always has that ‘damp’ smell. It is the kind of smell that only goes away if you sun-dry your clothes. My mum did hang the clothes out to dry. I really wonder why.

Well, internship has brought me a peek into the marketplace. What it feels like to wear a shirt and tie just to sit at a desk and stare at a screen.

Some thoughts about the corporate life and other random stuff :

1. MRT

Every morning, a thousand and one persons jostle, squeeze, push, force their way into the train as they go to work. There’s the occasional auntie that runs with her noisy heels up the escalator, shoves everyone at the train entrance, trying to squeeze into the already sardine-packed cabin. My goodness. Does anyone know that the next train comes in two minutes????

2.Food

I regret wasting all that money on expensive cai fan. Only towards the end of the ten weeks of PA did I discover $3 cai fan. I paid $4.50 for a plate of rice with 1 meat dish and 2 vegetables! It’s quite funny how my mindset changed after 2 months at raffles place. A meal costing $5 is considered cheap! (I used to think $3 for cai fan was expensive.)

3. Inner voice

On the first day of my internship, at a briefing conducted for all of us noobs, the person told us that in the office, people don’t shout and talk loudly. It was on that very day that I was introduced to the inner voice.

The inner voice is a unique part of everyone. Girls understand it more than guys (on the presumption that girls talk softly and gently – there are exceptions of course). I have discovered the inner voice in me. That soft, gentle pseudo whisper that I utilize in my communications in the workplace.

The only problem with this is that, on Saturdays/ Sundays, when you try to sing in service, it feels really strenuous to do so.

This has also made me understand the importance of using your voice to sing and the need the warm up your voice.

4. The lack of social activities

I think I say less than 20 sentences in the 8hrs in office. There really isn’t much talking, since you’re an intern and you don’t really know many people. Anyway, any socializing or non-work activity is frowned upon. That is why I am typing this in a word document to make it look like I’m doing my work. (oops.)

5. The increased agility and speed of your fingers

Sometimes when I get really bored (like now) I’d be engaged in non-productive activitied like blogging, reading people’s blog or reading the news. This probably happens approx. 20% of the time. So when my spider senses, or rather people’s noisy heels, tell me that someone will be walking by my desk, I quickly press alt+tab. I’m pretty good at that now. =)

Yawn. I’m getting sleepy already. 3.5 more hours to go!