I didn't sit in for the whole of the TIP talk that time at school but I figured the school would want a work journal or something out of my internship experience so I decided to incorporate that into my blog, since this is kind of like my Pensieve anyway. Except I would have to be especially careful with the things I say (as with life) since I don't intend to get hauled to court for breaching some secrecy act or anything. It's just the nature of things, proper as much as it is surreal and amazing.

Anyway, Day 1 at my workplace was highly interesting and I genuinely like my fellow trainees. Spent the first half-hour doing the necessary paperwork and admin stuff, more signing of documents than I probably ever did. Tour of the place next, mighty swanky. Very well-facilitated, as we found out for ourselves during the extremely long lunch break. The company's definitely a scorer in the staff welfare department. There's just a lot of tapping of work passes to gain access though. Hopefully we'll manage to work out a pool date among us during our time there! We had systems training, basically getting acquainted with the system on desktops there. Their research facilities are just 'imba'. There's no other way to describe it. Pro, powerful, sick. It's like a Project Work student's dream come true or something, everything is there if you know how to go about finding it. Everything laid bare. Oh and we can SMS on our computers - wicked. Our trainer was really cute/cool (it's a toss-up between both adjectives), imparting not only the bare necessities but also interesting tidbits of information here and there. Very adorable! He was the kind soul who let us off on a long break too. After lunch, we continued with systems training. Joshua, Amalina (one of our newfound trainee friends) and I ended training earlier than the rest because...well, I don't know, the teams we were attached to respectively didn't use the other softwares? So we trooped down to our office to report to our I/Cs and this really nice lady brought us to see our superiors. My superior then led me around the cubicles and introduced me to my other superiors, most of who are very friendly and have a sense of humor. I think the latter's really important, there's no point having a fancy workspace if you dislike interacting with your colleagues. There wasn't much work for me to do in the last couple of hours. I had to write an introductory email about myself, which I quite enjoyed doing. I had to familiarize myself with the website and in the last hour or so, I had to summarize some content to go to the sidebar. I hoped my first proper assignment wasn't 'noobie' but my superior just dropped me an email in my work account to say I did a great job. I hope he meant it and not cos I'm an intern and he sees it as a babysitting task. I really hope he doesn't. They're all too busy to be playing nanny anyway. I like him enough I guess, especially when he lets me dress casually. God knows I dislike dressing formal, dressing up's such a bother at times. Hello tee, jeans and sneakers again, you guys can come out of my wardrobe and into more sunny days! :D

I don't feel like doing my holiday homework, oh no. Getting started's always the hardest part innit?

I'm so glad that I do not have H1N1. I was dreading being quarantined on the count of fever AND flu plus cough. As if missing SLC wasn't bad enough, I'm not about to spend $250 on noMADic camp with HC and miss out on it. I'll just go through it masked and sleep far away from the rest, I guess. The flu's been around since Saturday. It got worse on Sunday, especially in the evening when I woke up halfway due to nausea. Monday was the worst cos there was migraine too and I've never had those that were so painful, they made me cry. I can't remember much from yesterday except for being pumped with pills and sleeping. And answering SMSes. My parents came back from work to find me burning up, even the nurse who took my temperature at the clinic was looking a little scared. Even I got scared myself. Anyway, turns out I have a viral infection. Or an upper respiratory tract infection. Yay, no swine flu! Hope I can tahan the camp.. haven't packed yet zomg. I'm so bored that I created twitter (starbuxloverr) and I really miss good food (I crave soup. Campbell soup) and I miss my friends but I think I'll sleep now cos the meds are starting to take effect (: on the bright side, my immunity system will be stronger after it fights this virus huh.