IA IA

I have to start by apologizing for failing to make any entry for such a long period of time. The main reason, as you guys would have guessed, is plain laziness.

I am now on the 5th week of my 22 week industrial attachment, and so far it has been rather slack. Initially, I did have some problems with my supervisor as she was not pleased with my powerpoint slides. Yes, I make powerpoint slides for my attachment. Anyway, I have settled this with her by making better slides and now it is all rosy again. During my free time, I read random articles online and play with the instruments at my disposal. During my not free time, which does happen once in a while, I read up on my supervisor’s presentation materials and make powerpoint slides.

If you guys do not know yet, I work in Rhode and Schwarz at change business park beside expo MRT. The company specializes in making instruments to test mobile phones and wireless technologies. The MRT journey in the morning is a bitch, and I am not even talking about the 1 hour journey. I hate it mostly because of the people. Everyone stands near the door, and therefore even though the train has not reached its capacity yet, no one can enter it due to morons blocking it at the entrance. I have to take a train at Bukit Batok to Jurong east and then a train to Tanah Merah and later another train to expo. Nowadays, I have somewhat managed to solve the problem of irritating people standing at the door by taking a slightly earlier train. This also enables me to always get a seat by the time I reach Buona Vista. My trick is to stand just in front of a person sitting down, and the moment he gets up, I have a seat. Alot of people stand at the entrances, and hence it’s relatively easy for me to get a space to stand nearer to the seats, which proves my earlier point that they are morons.

I am usually the second person to arrive at work at about 845am. Work is supposed to start at 830, but somehow everyone assumes its 9 and many stroll in at 915. When I reach my office, the first thing I do is switch on the computer, and then I use the coffee brewer to make myself coffee. I enjoy the coffee with my sandwich. Talking about sandwich, this is all I eat at work. I bring 2 sandwiches everyday, and I have one in the morning and the other for lunch. The main reason for doing this is not the motivation of saving money so I can blow it all on a euro attachment. It is because the food at my workplace is unhealthy, expensive and not nice enough to justify the first 2 reasons.

I am making an entry after a long time, and therefore I shall keep this one nice. My next one shall include detailed information about my direct supervisor, who is from PRC, and her boss, who is… yea I should try to end it here

Malik