*---------Checkmate.

Saturday, September 15, 2007

1:21 PM

Just like almost every HTM blogger, I will write about my internship experience.

I started on the 3rd of september. Had only 2 days of holidays as my Calculus paper ended on the 1st of September. Gotten my examination results via SMS whilst in office. Was disappointed with 2 subjects. My GPA went up by 0.03 though. Let. It. Be. Let. It. Be.

1st week of work was rather bad. 2nd week was better but theres some essence of badness in it as well.

Major Happenings during the 1st week:

Had to design 6menus using Microsoft publisher (did.nt know how to use but was comfortable with it soon after). Menu items were given to us in English, had to translate to Mandarin. Had to write an article in Mandarin on Thai Cuisine. I guess design of the menus were considered as a hurdle. And moreover, the alighnment was super horrible for the colour printer. I had printed 100 plus papers to adjust for the alighnment.

Just as I was having problems with the menus, I encountered another major problem on Thursday morning. Uncontrollable bladder. Had gone to the toilet for like 10 times that morning. Then, we went to the coffee shop near starhub centre to have lunch and fear struck when I was in the toilet for prolly 11th time. Theres blood in my urine and I was in pain. Immediately, I wanted to see a doctor. But It was lunch hour. I had to wait. Meanwhile I had hot fish soup for lunch and apparently, the heat that the soup gave me cleared most of the pain. Therefore, I went to request for more hot soup from the stall lady. But she intended to charge me $3.50 for a bowl of soup with veggies. In the end, after some small commotion (it would've been bigger if I was not not feeling well but under normal circumstances, I wouldnt want to drink additional hot vegetable soup), they charged $2.50. Went to the doctor and she conclude that I should be suffering from Urinary Tract Infection and will do an Urine test to confirm. I paid 77 dollars. But it was worth it la.

Then in the evening, I still went singing at ChinaTown which is so so taxing on me. But luckily when I woke up on Friday, I was feeling much better.

By the way, my boss brought us (Me and Victoria Chng) out to meet clients twice during the 1st week. It was an eye opener. We went to see Swissotel The Stamford and Swissotel Merchant Court, Sales manager to let them know about our requirements as we will be hosting our guests at their hotels. Went around both hotels to take a look at their rooms, suites and F&B outlets. Its an experience we can only get during internship, definitely not in school.

Went JB on Sunday and did some shopping at a Vivocity equilavent shopping mall, Jusco. But did not buy anything. My eyes got hooked on a CK Jeans white shirt though. 289Rm. Ha. We'll see if I'll buy.

Major Happenings during the 2nd week:

Our guests arrived on Monday and prior to their arrival, we did a room check. Our Job is to make sure their accommodation, logestics and F&B is taken care sui sui. Then we also usher and communicate with them. They will be here till Saturday.

One significant event was the the visit to PSA. We had a tour of the new PSA port which is restricted and requires security clearance. And it was very interesting.

Another new batch of delegates will be here next week. Busy busy.

Meet me up for more interesting stories and juicy bits