!Tuesday, November 15, 2005
for today and yesterday i had a taste of wad working life would be like and im not loving it as much as i expected to.
on the first day, i was being explained how d company works and learnt how to check invoices.
then i went for a business meeting with d boss to meet clients over lunch at intercontinental and our lunch consists of lobster salad, abalone and scallops soup with genrous servings of mushrooms, crabs and prawns, grilled cod fish decorated with egg white, scallops and asparagus fried rice and dessert. and each dish was served in nicely decorated plates and are all inidividual servings. i think ive never eaten a more expensive lunch. anws. with d boss sitting beside me and the clients directly opposite me,i think i put on a very good show. d boss says mus be at ease so that d clients will trust you. and so, i TRIED to be all lady-like and at d same time TRIED to be at ease. and i laughed heartily whenever a joke was said. and smiled my sweetest whenever i should. and kept my mouth shut whenever i can. but d clients started posing questions at me. (instead of d other girl on attachment with me as well) think it's beacuse im d one sitting near to them. but i learnt alot from them..so their questions help me to learn i guess. d other girl is a vegetarian..so she has her own individual servings of vegetarian food while we have our seafood one. hahas. hers looks really yummy cus as my close frens would know, i don't really eat seafood. d boss did ask if we had any food preferences but i didn't know it's gona be so seafoody and i can take SOME seafood but i think ive never eaten so much seafood in a day. so i learnt to appreaciate seafood or look as if i am and at d same time pace my eating with the clients. i cannot eat while they talk as i have to be smiling but when i look they would have eaten a huge portion without me knowing. thats bad because it's individual serving and when d next dish comes i cant be d only wan still eating my own previous dish. hmms. and d girl seems not really with us. and when i dropped my handphone( in between her and d empty seat) she didn't help me pick up..so sadds. but i learnt alot during d meeting and am really thankful for d boss's genrosity. after checking more documents, we left for d psa warehouse and ive never seen so much liquor and tobacco in my life.
today, i learnt to check more important documents and they seem to trust me more now, giving me d most recent documents to check. in the morning i alloacted testers to d different dfs locations in vietnam.and i learnt to raise proposal. d general manager gives me d quantity of stocks she wants and i am supposed to type it in excel to be raised to d vendors. after seeing hundreds and hundreds of branded names, i nearly fainted. thousands of code numbers, quantity, names. and somwhere must separate different goods, for example, perfume and cosmestics separate and separate d different locations also mus separate. first i was given one stack to deal with but before i hardly even started, the general manager finish writing d quatity for another pile and gave it to me. i nearly died. rasing proposal is scary. typing d wrong quatity is scary. and d other attachment girl told me she was playing minesweeper. wahhs. is dis unfair or wadds. looking at thousands and thousands and thousands of numbers on d computer after hours and hours is really no fun.
but, i must say, d office is really nice to us. d people in it are nice generally. what made me laugh today---d team leader was saying ' bon-gag-rri jin tian hui lai' and d whole day she was talking abt this 'bon-gag-rri' and i thought it was a new indian man coming. towards d end of d day, however, i found out she was talking about d bvlgari stocks arriving. ahass.
my desk is facing d gm ( she can only see me and d team leader from her room), behind d team leader and d only girl of d row horizontally. i love my desk cus its against d wall so i seemed to have my own space with a lcd screen comp. at first, d both of us were under d team leader but now d other girl is being assigned to another guy so we sort of work separately. but its not really so bad. hahss. ohh..and i love d nice clean toilets. :) ahass.
and i lied to myself over and over again. but whatever u do, did , say or said always mean so much to me. i could never understand....and you would never understand.
i want you in my arms ;
- 11:53 PM
