My company has a very interesting way of celebrating christmas...Each one of us is supposed to write 3 christmas wishes (within the budget of $10-$15) on a piece of paper and hang it on the Christmas tree at the receptionist area. Then each one would have to pick a name, and grant one of that person's wishes...
I saw many interesting wishes, like ez link card, NTUC voucher, CASH in a red packet, and SCALE RULER (which actually only costs less than a dollar!) haha...Scale ruler is actually one of our main tools at work...without it, you would have to keep relying on calculator to measure any drawings from the architect...
Well, I have already written my 3 wishes at work, which are in the form of items...If i were to make another wish, that would be, "I wish everything that bothers me so much now, will turn well at the end."
"Life is not a fairy tale..." but why others' lives seem to be like a fairy tale to me???
Wednesday, 17 December 2008
Monday, 15 December 2008
Sunday, 14 December 2008
KL trip
If i were to describe my first business trip in 3 words, that would be:
TIRING
First day ~ The moment we touched down at KL airport, we rushed straight to the meeting place, with our luggage...went to grab a quick lunch...meeting and discussion lasted till 8 pm at night...went back to the hotel to check in, ate dinner, continued doing some work till 11 pm, unpacked, bathed, and finally concussed...
Second day ~ Breakfast @ 7 am, grabbed a cab to the meeting place, meeting started @ 8 am all the way till 6 pm with only Lunch break and toilet breaks in between...afterwards, went to the site where the building would be built...went to the mall for dinner...traffic jam...then finally reached the hotel @ 10 pm...bathed, watched TV for few minutes, concussed...
Third day ~ Same routines repeated till 6 pm...walked around the mall, ate dinner, went back to hotel, started packing up the luggage, watched TV, then concussed...
Fourth day ~ FINALLY, i could wake up at 8 am...instead of 6 am!!! Ate breakfast @ 9 am, checked out of the hotel...and SHOPPING all the way till 4 pm...went back to the Hotel to take the luggage, took the cab down to KL Sentral, took the KLIA express train to the airport, shopped in the airport, and finally off to Singapore...
I used to have a very naive thought that it would be very fun and enjoyable to be able to get the job that allows you to travel frequently...My first business trip proved it wrong, haha...Despite having such a big hotel room to myself, I had neither time nor energy to really enjoy it...I planned to soak myself in the bath tub every day, but i really didnt even have the energy to wait for the bath tub to be filled...the only wish that I had every day after the meeting was just to SLEEP! The responsibility that i had on my shoulder was very minimum for this trip, yet i already felt the physical strain on myself...I wonder how would it be like if I were like my senior or my boss...
INTIMIDATING
Throughout the whole 3 days-meeting, I really felt like I was just a little girl in the sea of working professionals...people who are experts in their own fields, who have years of history in this industry behind them, whose experience are uncomparable to the level that I'm standing on now, whose charisma could send chills down my spine...I met architects and structural engineers from the renowned US company, a team of Japanese architects, structural engineers, and M&E engineers, a team of architects from Singapore and Malaysia, a team of kitchen consultant, fire consultant, facade and landscape consultant, security consultant...The whole team for this project was really there...a total of about 40 of us...It's really really scary!
INSPIRING
I am greatly inspired by the client...She's only 1 year older than me and yet she has the ability and the power to control everyone in the meeting, even those who are much much more older than her. The way she talks...the way she carries herself...the way she takes control of the situation...the way she delegates tasks...are really what i admire the most. I kept on asking myself,"When can I be like her?" Well, the power of money also plays a role in shaping such a character, i believe...I also love the way she rallied the whole team together, encouraging us to trash our ego and to work together hand-in-hand to deliver a better building...
The presentation by the structural engineers caught my attention the most. I loved studying about trusses, beams, and all sorts that require the calculation of forces, tension, etc during my university days...My job is not related to all these though, but I had the chance to see the structural engineers discussing about post-tension beams, trusses, shear walls...deciding where to put them in the structure of the building, carrying out simulation to analyse the swaying of the building...i think it's really really cool!!! A lot of hard work though...and their job is more risky than mine...
Well, overall I really learnt a lot from this trip...I have to thank my boss for giving me the opportunity to be exposed to this kind of environment...To bring a building to life really requires so much efforts and cooperation from so many parties and it took years to complete, so please dont take for granted the apartment unit that you are staying, the shopping mall that you visit, and any buildings that you step into...
TIRING
First day ~ The moment we touched down at KL airport, we rushed straight to the meeting place, with our luggage...went to grab a quick lunch...meeting and discussion lasted till 8 pm at night...went back to the hotel to check in, ate dinner, continued doing some work till 11 pm, unpacked, bathed, and finally concussed...
Second day ~ Breakfast @ 7 am, grabbed a cab to the meeting place, meeting started @ 8 am all the way till 6 pm with only Lunch break and toilet breaks in between...afterwards, went to the site where the building would be built...went to the mall for dinner...traffic jam...then finally reached the hotel @ 10 pm...bathed, watched TV for few minutes, concussed...
Third day ~ Same routines repeated till 6 pm...walked around the mall, ate dinner, went back to hotel, started packing up the luggage, watched TV, then concussed...
Fourth day ~ FINALLY, i could wake up at 8 am...instead of 6 am!!! Ate breakfast @ 9 am, checked out of the hotel...and SHOPPING all the way till 4 pm...went back to the Hotel to take the luggage, took the cab down to KL Sentral, took the KLIA express train to the airport, shopped in the airport, and finally off to Singapore...
I used to have a very naive thought that it would be very fun and enjoyable to be able to get the job that allows you to travel frequently...My first business trip proved it wrong, haha...Despite having such a big hotel room to myself, I had neither time nor energy to really enjoy it...I planned to soak myself in the bath tub every day, but i really didnt even have the energy to wait for the bath tub to be filled...the only wish that I had every day after the meeting was just to SLEEP! The responsibility that i had on my shoulder was very minimum for this trip, yet i already felt the physical strain on myself...I wonder how would it be like if I were like my senior or my boss...
INTIMIDATING
Throughout the whole 3 days-meeting, I really felt like I was just a little girl in the sea of working professionals...people who are experts in their own fields, who have years of history in this industry behind them, whose experience are uncomparable to the level that I'm standing on now, whose charisma could send chills down my spine...I met architects and structural engineers from the renowned US company, a team of Japanese architects, structural engineers, and M&E engineers, a team of architects from Singapore and Malaysia, a team of kitchen consultant, fire consultant, facade and landscape consultant, security consultant...The whole team for this project was really there...a total of about 40 of us...It's really really scary!
INSPIRING
I am greatly inspired by the client...She's only 1 year older than me and yet she has the ability and the power to control everyone in the meeting, even those who are much much more older than her. The way she talks...the way she carries herself...the way she takes control of the situation...the way she delegates tasks...are really what i admire the most. I kept on asking myself,"When can I be like her?" Well, the power of money also plays a role in shaping such a character, i believe...I also love the way she rallied the whole team together, encouraging us to trash our ego and to work together hand-in-hand to deliver a better building...
The presentation by the structural engineers caught my attention the most. I loved studying about trusses, beams, and all sorts that require the calculation of forces, tension, etc during my university days...My job is not related to all these though, but I had the chance to see the structural engineers discussing about post-tension beams, trusses, shear walls...deciding where to put them in the structure of the building, carrying out simulation to analyse the swaying of the building...i think it's really really cool!!! A lot of hard work though...and their job is more risky than mine...
Well, overall I really learnt a lot from this trip...I have to thank my boss for giving me the opportunity to be exposed to this kind of environment...To bring a building to life really requires so much efforts and cooperation from so many parties and it took years to complete, so please dont take for granted the apartment unit that you are staying, the shopping mall that you visit, and any buildings that you step into...
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
It took me more than a month of hard work...countless hours of over-time...before finally getting the chance to follow my senior and my boss to KL for meeting...Yippeee...I never imagine this to happen so soon!!! I thought I have to wait for years before I could fly with them...well, looks like when u persevere, perform at your best, and never give up, the opportunity will come right at your doorstep...
My boss, who pities me for working so hard, even asked me and my senior to extend our ticket so that we can shop around next Saturday in KL ;)
I'm pretty excited...mainly because I could meet the angmohs and japanese, whose faces were never made known to me but whose voices are so familiar, thanks to the weekly tele-conference,haha...
Right now, the challenge that lies ahead of me is how to put on a professional mask during that 3-days meeting next week, such that I wont look as blur as sotong...
My boss, who pities me for working so hard, even asked me and my senior to extend our ticket so that we can shop around next Saturday in KL ;)
I'm pretty excited...mainly because I could meet the angmohs and japanese, whose faces were never made known to me but whose voices are so familiar, thanks to the weekly tele-conference,haha...
Right now, the challenge that lies ahead of me is how to put on a professional mask during that 3-days meeting next week, such that I wont look as blur as sotong...
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
I suddenly feel like listing down those places that I would like to go this December...with a special someone...
- Singapore Botanical Garden
- Kent Ridge Park, all the way to Mount Faber
- Marina Barrage
- And lastly, i want to go photo-taking along Orchard Road...
Hmmm...got time or not ah? I only have less than 2 weekends to do all these, before Home Sweet Home...
- Singapore Botanical Garden
- Kent Ridge Park, all the way to Mount Faber
- Marina Barrage
- And lastly, i want to go photo-taking along Orchard Road...
Hmmm...got time or not ah? I only have less than 2 weekends to do all these, before Home Sweet Home...
Monday, 1 December 2008
I have only worked for 4 months, and I think I really really need...
A SECRETARY!!!
I need a secretary for the following reasons:
- to regularly tidy up my desk
- to file all my important documents and drawings for all my projects
- to edit tables and reports
- to make coffee
- to compile all my taxi receipts and claim the $$$
- to remind me of the schedule of meetings and trainings, the deadlines, and so on...
hahaha...what a crazy wish! but I really feel more tired doing all these things than doing the technical work...and when I'm so caught up with so many things to do, the obvious consequences of neglecting all the above are unorganized files (into which I dumped all the documents without arranging properly) and an extremely messy desk, whose surface is unseen by naked eyes, hahahaha...
well, i'm learning to be less messy, to write nicely, to be very organised...like the Japanese ;)
A SECRETARY!!!
I need a secretary for the following reasons:
- to regularly tidy up my desk
- to file all my important documents and drawings for all my projects
- to edit tables and reports
- to make coffee
- to compile all my taxi receipts and claim the $$$
- to remind me of the schedule of meetings and trainings, the deadlines, and so on...
hahaha...what a crazy wish! but I really feel more tired doing all these things than doing the technical work...and when I'm so caught up with so many things to do, the obvious consequences of neglecting all the above are unorganized files (into which I dumped all the documents without arranging properly) and an extremely messy desk, whose surface is unseen by naked eyes, hahahaha...
well, i'm learning to be less messy, to write nicely, to be very organised...like the Japanese ;)
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