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Wednesday, May 10, 2006


oh my.. i am sitting in a very run down internet cafe with lots of mosquitos flying around but yet surprisingly a very fast internet connection. haha.. guess i have to thank God. didn't expect to find a place to come online here anyway. yeah i am at lobam, alive and kicking. just in case you're wondering, i'm being sent here by my new company to check on the human resources. 3 days here yet it felt like 3 months. not that it is very very bad, but it's just out of the world, somehow. life has been very exciting here, getting to know diff kind of ppl, etc etc.. long story.

i went to the office on monday morning, realized that there would be 3 other ppl going with me and they are all indonesians, 2 are actually students from NTU doing intern. we were placed at this training room to learn bout the company and some mechanical process which i still don't understand till now. i mean i'm doing HR, why should i know bout engineering stuff.. but anyway it's still a good learning.
after that we just rushed to the ferry terminal with boss, no time for lunch whatsoever and we started work once we reached here.
it came upon me within these few days that i am working under a tyrant hahaha... oh man.. all of us are like the apprentice, facing donald trump in the board room. it is stressful yet exciting. you won't know what kind of questions you'll receive and you gotta be really wise in answering. not to mention to do your job real fast and precise. i think my life will be cut short.

why is it so interesting here?
this place is basically industrial area. there's nothing except factories and small shops.. well of course with some eating places. it is so hot here and lots lots lots of mosquitos, no cockroaches though lolx.
i wore shirt, pants n heels on day 1, bad move. i learnt my lesson. t-shirt, jeans n slippers are the right attire.
the factory is really interesting. i am handling almost 300 employees in here alone (not including spore) gosh God really gave me a big challenge. i learnt a lot.. still learning.. met a lot of interesting ppl, made some new friends..
there are some students having attachment here, 2 from NTU, 5 from TP. nice ppl.. haha.. we went for meals a few times together. besides them, the ppl who are working here are nice too.. some of them studied in spore before, lots of NTU grads doing engineering here. feeling very grateful to have them around.. makes a lot of diff.

do you know how they describe this place? or rather this company? a commando training camp. our big boss is a super tyrant, he came, he scolded and he left. the dorm that we are staying is like a refugee camp.. 20 over ppl.. over populated.. look at the queue for the toilet man hahaa... we are all cramped together. the rules in the company are very strict and we really work hard, no time to slack at all.
one of the engineer said this when he just met me "how long do you think you will last in this company?" hahahaa... apparently lots of HR resigned (or maybe fired) before.. why? no one told me cos they didn't want to scare me hahahaa... why am i laughing.. cos this job is so challenging. fun.
ok la.. the job is not that bad. the living condition here is not that bad. i can bear with all these, i'm receiving high pay anyway. besides, this is really like a good moulding, in case i'm really going for church planting in africa next time.

thank you lord for being here with me, for giving me joy! i even had time to watch a korean movie on my new friend's laptop last nite.. hey nice show.. il mare or something. and i have plenty of time to sleep here since there's no other entertainment and feeling tired. we all agreed that this company really makes us disciplined and trained. so i guess it is indeed the perfect job that God gave.

i think i'll continue next time, i'm not sure how long more i need to stay here. but i will survive. lolx. and to those who are worried, i am doing real fine here, lots of friends here.
good bye mosquitos, i wanna go back and have a nice cold shower.. phew~

*livi* 8:37 PM

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