Friday, June 5, 2009
My mum helped me get a temp job at NIE GPR, and I started on May 27th.
Actually it's pretty slack, and the other temp staff Jiahui also isn't particularly busy, so I have absolutely no idea why I was hired. But I'm not complaining! I get free transport, cheaper food, aircon, computer access etc. everyday!
The people in the office are very nice to me, and I was initially kind of a bit afraid that no one would ask me to go out for lunch or something, but they always do! And they go to different places, introducing good stuff to eat, especially reccommending the shaved ice (it's flaky!) in Canteen 2. Pity the NIE Canteen closed, so we must walk further to eat lunch.
I even got treated to - can you believe it - Sakae Sushi on my 3rd day there, courtesy of Madeline, whose birthday was upcoming! She knows my mum and vice versa, and it was super nice of her to treat us!!
I've mostly been doing things like entering data into those master excel files they use for all the 2009 courses, typing out things based on templates, filing things in their respective paper folders, photocopying a bit here and there, putting certificates into envelopes... not much, really.
But today began what looks like a bit of hard work, because Jiahui and I are supposed to go and organise files that date back to 2003, for all the courses and stuff whose paperwork has been collected over the years. And it's all in this somewhat stuffy storage room with cabinets and cupboards and LOTS OF FILES. Chris has all his ideal scenarios, which would mean a lot more work for us, and we've decided he'll leave it to the people who come after we leave in July :P
So we spent some time talking about how to arrange it, and then actually got down to taking the files out and arranging them chronologically by year, and alphabetically by AG. We only managed to do from 2003 to 2005 today (considering we only started at what, 3.30?)
I'm going to Malaysia until Wednesday, so we're going to resume the organising when I go back on Thursday, because it's really sucky for one person to do it alone! Some more Charles has reservist, so Jiahui will probably be helping Chris/Suming out I think.
There's another temp staff on the other side called Amos, who is really really lame. But besides that, he likes to take things. I shan't say it for fear of getting him arrested (kidding), but it's really O.O when you hear what he and his friends have taken. I can't believe such wu liao people exist on this island.
It's been pretty good thus far, hope it stays this way!
And also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YUE! [she turned 14 yesterday!]
Thanks to all the blogs i referred to (countless) for html code help :) (esp. cyn' and sixseven)
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