my beloved life
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
haha, cant have a new layout without a new post right? anyway, where was I the last time? ah, during exams! seems to long ago already. Btw, congrats to all my fellow friends who officially graduated! Wendy, Adam, Melissa, Michelle, WELL DONE! My results, as most of you know, are not good at all, but nothing to elaborate there.
Anyway, Singapore is not too bad now. First day was quite scary though, coz I don't know anyone and everyone seems to be quite busy, hence I was kinda 'left alone' for most of the day. Then, I made my mistake number 1. I thought usually the closing hour is at 5.30pm, so I duly requested permission to leave from my boss, Jean (thought wana be polite!). Of course, it back fired, as the closing hour here is actually 6.30pm! Got a little scolding there. Then, I made mistake number 2 for the day! she asked me to see her in the meeting room to discuss things. When i went in, she sat me down and asked me all sorts of questions about finance, like 'do you know what are funds?" "do you know how does a call/put works" "can you explain what are derivatives?". As you can see, at this stage, I was totally lost already, so I replied to all of them "I dont know!". Of course, that will lead to scolding and asking me to brush up all that. Ah, what a stressful first day!
2nd day was nothing much, basically just reading materials in the research portal. 3rd day was when the real thing starts, the other intern came over and teach me 1 thing, then the senior straght away ask me to find the info, compile and finish it by that day itself! wow, hello, I just learnt it for 10 minutes and you want me to do ALL THAT?? So i just tried my best to do it for her la, in the end, amid a few mistakes, I got it done, much to my relief!phew!4th day again was nothing much. At the end of 4th day, suddenly the other intern, Eliza became sick and said she couldn't make it to work the next day. I was like "shit, now I have to update bond list!".. To explain that, every morning Eliza will format and source information from Bloomberg, calculate and finalise everything in an excel spreadsheet before 10.30am. So it goes, 5th day, my first REAL task. Of course, being a real novice, I ended up finishing everything at 11.30am. Thankfully I didn't get anything scolding as it was my first time. Not bad for the first week. This week should be relatively free as almost everyone is going for training.
That's it for this time. Again, special thanks to Michelle for grinding her HTML skills to help em set up the blog skin, and Wendy for giving comments, thanks so much!!
Oh, b4 I forget, congrats to two of MY friends, you know who you are, CONGRATS!! hahahaha!!
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