Training at CH

Finally! I feel my feet on the ground.

My final internship presentation was over yesterday and that marks the end of my 3 months internship. 3 months does sound relatively short compared to a usual 6-months program and yet, it was still filled with meaningful experiences and misadventures. :)

I'm going to miss the amusing sights of passengers taking the KTM daily. If you take the train daily, u'd know. People emulating Mission Impossible moves as the ktm train makes its last call: Frantically trying to get access pass the automatic entry barrier, people dashing across the platform in various directions, men taking long strides and even big leaps to rush into the coach other than the women's designated coach (some still end up in the ladies coach, not by choice though. A mistake or unawareness! Haha), ladies hurrying in small steps while clutching tightly onto their handbags on one side. Some do make it after the impossible feat just in the nick of time before the ktm closes its doors while others would be left disappointed. It takes about 15-25 minutes for peak hours whereby the crowd starts to gather over time and 45 minutes during off-peak hours. I'm also going to admit that I did all the silly things that a daily commuter could possibly do. Haha. Since I take the KTM and LRT to work everyday, I missed my ktm train once because it was pouring down heavily, overshot the LRT station by a few stations once before I realized whats going on, got onto the wrong side of the platform and only noticing it after looking across at the other side of the platform (My client's office and actual office near KLCC is in the opposite direction hence, the difference in length of queues), was slapped with a penalty once for my TnG card due to my forgetfulness too. Besides, I made a clown out of myself once after trying so hard to make my way out of the crowded LRT train before hurriedly rushing back inside (thanks to one of my seniors who absent mindedly told me to get off one stop before my actual station! -.-) and almost always missing the right LRT stop if not for another senior who was always reminding me that it's time to alight from the LRT. Haha.

I'm also going to miss the interesting locations I had for fieldwork. What more the fieldwork itself and the people that I met along the way. It felt like mini adventures being assigned to different places every few weeks and the rest of the experiences that came together with it. I had the chance to try yummy food at Midvalley discovering Go! Noodles, DubuYo and some cream-like puffs. Yums! It was my first time eating the baked cheese rice at Kim Gary's too. Hahhaha.

There were times of stress at work no doubt. It was tiring as well. Sometimes, tiredness clouded my thoughts and made me feel like wanting to be back at university to study. My main shortcoming at the firm was also communicating in Mandarin as generally, most interns from my batch were more comfortable speaking in that language compared to English and thus sometimes, connecting with people was a difficulty too. It was a 'banana' struggle which I faced daily back at my office and eventually, I overcame it a little by little over the days, weeks and months. My seniors however knew of this and would speak to me in English as most of them were good at both languages. A few close interns chose to speak to me in English individually too. The good experiences definitely compensate for these shortcomings, making those less memorable experiences less significant too in the end. :)

Lastly, I'm going to miss the bunch of people over there. The ones who I've got to know over the months have definitely made my internship more meaningful including my seniors, manager and other intern. I'll miss the time spent at fieldwork working in teams, having lunch together, stocking up snacks at a way too convenient AEON supermarket for tea time, carpooling back to lrt after work, telling how sleepy we are after lunch and doing everything together.

Then, there's the interns who are all friendly and really noisy people. At first, I was not familiar with everyone as I felt a little reserved having to converse in Mandarin but these situations do push us out of our own comfort zone sometimes to improve on our language I guess. :') After 3 months, I realized the silliness of interns definitely makes the office a much more interesting and cheerful place. :D I'm thankful for the times we ate at our hmm.."favourite" lunch place - Ambank foodcourt (cos its the nearest to our office), the noisiness and silly things we did back at our office, taking biscuits from the pantry for tea time, walking to the LRT station as a group and taking the LRT ride together until we part ways at different stations, plus packing and leaving our office at 5.45 sharp daily. LOL, (back at office la), hopping onto the LRT one stop away just for McD and lunch during lunch hours and accompanying some of colleagues for random shopping adventures before Christmas and annual dinner.

Not forgetting, interning at KL gave me the opportunity to be closer with my brothers since I had to parasite at my 2nd bro's room. Haha. Grateful to both my aunty and uncle for taking care of me as well. Besides, the dramas airing on TV especially 'Another Miss Oh' definitely accompanied me throughout my late dinners every night. When the drama ended on TV, it was also my last week of internship edee so it definitely would bring me memories.

I missed the Cheong K session among planned by afew of the interns on Sunday as I head back down to Ipoh the other day and they recorded their singing on Whatsapp group. I don't know why but it totally touched my heart and made my eyes filled with tears. Maybe it was because on the last day, their craziness affected me plus they gave me such a warm farewell and I could feel their sincerity individually, even the ones who I just got to know not too long ago. T.T I also had a long conversation and appraisal session with my manager/company supervisor on the last day of my internship before I left. It was definitely a good heart-to-heart session otherwise, I would definitely have regretted not having a proper conversation with him before I left. All these experiences gave me some blues after I ended my internship on Friday until yesterday that is. Haha

Some pics to do the talking:

Annual dinner. With Karen

The first few colleagues whom I got to know. Coincidentally, all my closest friends at CH. <3 3="" :="" br="" nbsp="">

Christmas dinner without Me! Haha. CSU4 interns and my company supervisor/manager. With some interns missing inside here.

Farewell lunch. A small bunch of us, interns and seniors, among the large group of colleagues.

I had to return all my things to the company on the last day. I asked the HR dept if I could at least keep my intern tag/photo. She said 'No'. *sad betull. Luckily I had took a pic as safekeeping beforehand! At least, my only memory left are photos. Lol


Thank you CH and everybody! :D


Now, its time to play before my new semester begins. Hahaha.

Yay! I am finally ready to move on to the next phase of my life that is: My final semester as a student. Gonna have to work hard and put effort into my final year project and graduate happily! :)