20/20

Happy to say that I have finally completed this long and torturous 20 weeks of internship!!!

I initially wanted to do up this post after I finished my final report but it looks like that won't happen by today, which totally should not be happening. My aim was to complete my report by this week so that I don't have to worry about it anymore la.

Ok so here's my boss + 2 of the other interns

A lot of people have been telling me that the thing that they miss most about internship is the company of the colleagues and friends. If you were to tell me that during the first few weeks of my internship, I will just roll my eyes at you, and say that I definitely will have no trouble leaving this company at all. Anyone who knows me/reads my blog (3/20) knows that I hated my internship place so badly and I couldn't wait to get out of the company.

But if you were to tell me that again now, I will agree with you.

When I initially started the job, I had my own desk to work on, all was good. That lasted until the 4th week. They took my desk away and I ended up having to share a tiny office with my supervisor. There are times when my supervisor needs his office for discussion, then we (me and XH ended up being in the same office) will be 'homeless' for like an hour. Ok but that's not the main point. Main point is, because I'm sharing the office with my supervisor, I see him for 9 hours straight almost every single day, except for days when he have meetings. Initially I thought that my supervisor was very serious person at work, and have the normal employer-employee relationship. 

I was so wrong. 

This was when Mac had their salted egg yolk burger. I don't think I can ever forget my supervisor's excitement for this burger. The person asked him if he wants to get the burger, and he went "YES!!!!!!" Actually he reminds me of my worm friends. My friends and my supervisor are around the same age but I can get along super well with them despite the age gap. 

And this was when he brought me out for SIWW, which was some water convention held at MBS. I always get so excited when we go out of office because I can get to sit in his car and I freaking loveeeee his car hahahaha. Actually I'm not sure if it's because of his car or because I just like the feeling of being in the passenger seat (XH, that's why I always want to sit in front hehehehe)

And this was on our last day of work. Our supervisor brought us out for Hai Di Lao and he said that whenever he eats at HDL, he will clear their snacks and ice cream and bring them home. And that was exactly what we did. It was super funny because we took so many that the snacks just kept dropping!!

We were so close to our supervisor to the point that I felt that I could tell him everything and anything. It felt like he was more like a friend than an employer. We were able to tell him whether or not we were going clubbing that week, and he would tell us not to drink so much. Some of his actions and the things he say are freaking humorous and there are so many times where we just end up laughing so hard. Obviously there are also times when he's mean as hell, for example when he's in a bad mood and he just drills us like crazy, expecting answers from us even when we completely have no idea. It's right and normal for a employer to do that but I guess it's just the way that he puts his words out. It rarely ever happens though.

Other than being a friend, my supervisor also did his job as an employer by teaching me lots and lots of skills that are essential when I start working in the future. Although some of these skills may not be very right/good, but even my friends agree that these skills are good for the reality of the workforce so I guess all is good. 

Also thankful for the friends that I have made from this internship. One of them was also a intern from RP but she stayed on to work after graduating, and the other is working full-time but he's gonna be enlisting so it was his last day as well. 

All in all just thankful for all of them

This entire internship has been super tiring for me, and I remember falling sick on the first week of internship because I couldn't take the 9am to 6pm timing. It was waay too much for me. During the 10th week, we had to do alot of OT because alot of shit happened and they lacked manpower. So ya basically like what I said, super tiring. The half day on Saturdays were the worst. I complained alot about the job scope, about the pay, about the timing, about basically everything. I was so unhappy. I have friends were doing internship as well, but their timing and job scope was not as bad. Oh well.

When I was first posted to this company, I didn't know what God wanted me to learn from here, why I was posted to this shit company that was not very related to my diploma. But I knew all I had to do was to trust Him. From my previous part time jobs, the workload and pay didn't matter to me as much as the people that I was working with. Like I really don't mind as mind as the people are nice and good. And yeah, I guess this was the reason why I was posted to this company.

Damn, if only I have the same inspiration for my report as I did for this post.