Tuesday, November 25, 2008
okies haha i shall update about my very fun and meaningful two days this week! :D hee (:
yesterday we had a mid-programme session for all interns! (: haha and it lasted like half the day omg hahaha yayy i was saved from my com for half a day! :D hehe yepp kayy our session started at 12! (: it was a dialogue with our perm sec, and then we had lunch, and then we went to changi air traffic control centre for learning journeys! :D haha omg i didn't know this internship came with a learning journey lah hahaha omg it's really quite cool! ((: hehe yepp and omg i think it's really quite cool to be an air traffic controller! :D
heh the place itself is quite cool! (: there's this large room where everyone just sits side by side in front of screens that have like super cool radar images on them! heh cos they need to monitor the planes and make sure they stay within the air spaces, and make sure the planes don't collide with each other! and they get to guide the planes along their travel route all the way until the planes reach their destination! (: omg haha how cool is that! haha oh but they all had to take 14 courses and exams before they could get their license! lol but the courses are cool! (: like they learn to use the radar equipment, then they learn all the air routes, then they learn about meteorology too! :D omg i think meteorology is super super cool! (: haha they learn how to predict the weather! and omg apparently the pro meteorological people are able to predict the weather super accurately lah! like they can tell you if the rain is gonna come in 1 hr or 2 hrs! omg! ((: heh and once you get the license you can go anywhere in the world and work as an air traffic controller! gosh! (:
hehe and the cool thing about this job is that it's so exciting! haha cos air travel is so unpredictable! so i guess the work won't be the same everyday! (: omg that's totally the kinda job i want lah! (: not the mundane and boring sort! haha sighh just that this job is quite freaky too, you never know what might happen up there in the air! and there are so many lives in your hands omg, just one wrong direction and the planes will collide and then so many people will die! ): heh but i guess it won't be so suay also right! ooh haha but the pay isn't that great though haha apparently it's $80000 a year! and that's for the top level controllers! so when you first get your license i think the starting pay will be quite low! hmmm but then again it's considered a professional job and apparently they receive professional pay too! (: hmmm and it's under civil aviation authority of singapore! (: so it's part of the civil service too hehe coolios! (: but omg they work on shift so they don't sleep very much! and yeahh the chief and deputy chief were talking to us, and i noticed they had dark eye rings omg they looked like they hadn't slept in days! ahhh omg ok that's a bit sad hehe!
but oh wells i still think it's a cool job! ((: haha! and can travel to so many other countries too! (: super fun lah! :D
hee then after the session, i walked out with minjia, rachel, sharon (hx) and hongchuan! (: haha we decided not to wait for the chartered bus cos the session ended early and we didn't wanna waste our time hanging around waiting for the bus! and we decided we should exercise too haha cos we don't even get to walk around much nowadays haha cos we have desk-bound jobs! hmmm yeah lol the walk out was quite fun! ((: hehe i think that area of changi is super nice and peaceful and serene, but yeahh it can get damn creepy at night i guess! plus changi was a sook ching area! urgh! and omg we saw some scary stuff lah! like there was this orange cloth kite hanging from a lamp post and it was shaped like a human wearing a dress, so from far we all got a shock cos it looked like a bloodied woman hanging in the air ): and we passed a house that looked super ghastly and deserted, and on one of the walls of the house, there was this half-finished sketch of a man with a tortured expression on his face, it was really creepy omg! and we thought some deranged sadistic lunatic lived there, or maybe no one lived there, but the irony was that there was someone in the bedroom sitting in front of his imac and happily surfing the net! omg o.0
ah wells yepp then we went to the bus stop and took bus home! ((: hehe so that was the end! (: what a fun day haha ((:
then today was quite cool too haha (: i went for breakfast early in the morning with my mom at take 5! (: we ate porridge haha it's damn yummy it tastes just like the one from rj canteen! ((: ooh and then i went to work super early today! i reached office at 7:30 leh! omg haha there wasn't a single soul there except for the cleaner o.0 hehe cos i had to take one hour off to go back to school to submit h3 stuff! oh yeahh haha i got the ntu chem thingy! organic synthesis and mechanism haha and it's at hci yayy! :D haha but oh no i'm a bit worried too omg, cos people who have syf and stuff shouldn't be taking external h3 right? omg i think i might be killing myself by doing this leh ): either i will ruin my health, or i will ruin my school results ): ahhh. sigh, but then i was thinking that this was a rare and valuable opportunity! so i should seize it right! (: and anyway, what is life without some challenges here and there! :D haha so yepp i hope i made the right choice man, but then if next year you all see me looking dead and zombie-ish then you'll know why haha!
ohh yeah haha anyway! today i finally appreciated the full extent of how meaningful my job really was! (: haha i think it's cos i was finally wrapping up my report, and then i realised that the whole thing put together is really.... haha i dunno how to describe it! ah well let's just say that i felt proud of my work! (: haha maybe cos it's the culmination of my hours of research and stoning and nodding off, and of course, THINKING HARD! yes haha ((: haha and yeahh it's really meaningful haha i hope it will make a difference to psd man ((: hehe and my boss told me that mine is really a policy-making project (: and i felt so grateful when i heard that, cos i guess policy making is really quite cool, and i know some people really wanted policy making projects to work on, but ended up with very menial and operational tasks, so i am really really very grateful for this opportunity (: haha i just hope my report was alright though! :D
haha and yayy on thurs and fri i will be helping out with excel fest! (: haha that's another incentive for me to get my work done faster haha ((: yayy so exciting lah! :D it's a convention sorta thingy haha ok i guess i better not say too much here also haha i dunno if it's supposed to be a secret or something hehe! (:
yayy ok this is getting more fun ((: haha and at the beginning of my internship i used to think working life sucks! hmmm but i guess it isn't so bad when you find meaning in your work (: like when you really enjoy what you're doing and when you believe strongly in your cause, time really passes very quickly! :D haha and i like the fact that when i'm absorbed in my work, i really think of nothing else but work work work and haha it's quite good! (: takes my mind off things! ((: hehe oh man maybe it'll be quite cool being a workaholic next time haha! :D ah well but a bit no life also lah haha!
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shing: haha ehhh i'm not like you kayy! :p don't eat the newspapers kayy! and the tables and chairs too hahaha! :p
joyce: omg joyce! ((: haha i missed you so much omg yeah yeah yeah! come back sooner! :D let's go pig out yes omg omg! ((: i'm looking forward to seeing you again! :D haha the other day i did a personality test, and it turns out that you're my twin soul! :D hahaha :p cool right haha aren't you honoured :p and haha choir performance? did you sing? hahaha (: coolios must sing for me kayy! :D
