Berry-nice!

Grace just got a new puppy! A salt & pepper mini schnaucher! it is super adorable. so much so that the 3 sisters just fell in love with it the moment they saw it. Her name is called Berry. here's her picture:

Kawaii-dez-neh right?!! haha...she's only 2 months old..

She was given birth along with 2 other siblings, another salt and pepper colour like her and a black and silver male one. All 3 puppies were very adorable and the 3 sisters couldnt stop carrying them and playing with them in the pet shop. But the uncle was nice also la. let them play and never made a fuss. He sold Berry to them at a supplier's price and it was alot cheaper! make me want to get one too! Berry's name was chosen because of the t-shirt Praise was wearing. she was weraing this white tee with a teddy bear print on it. the dad made a casual remark to call it Bear which in turn inspired the mum to name the puppy Berry! quite a nice name la. haha.

Anyway Grace's family has a mini schnauzer already. She's called Beauty. Also the same colour but already 5 years old and very "grown up" haha heard from Grace that Beauty was afraid of Berry when they brought her home! hahaha...cant believe the older dog scared of the younger one. but i can imagine it. Beauty is scared of everything. even cockroaches. haha..small heart dog.

See how tiny she is. about twice the length of my palm!

intern-SHIT

Lots of things that happened the past few days. Maybe i'll just start with work. Finally got assigned other things to do besides reading contract documents. On Tuesday after one of my countless toilet breaks, my supervisor called me to her table and asked me if i was doodling on at my desk. i was like..."ermm, what? ermm....yah....haha.." then she told me that the CEO of the company happened to walk past my desk and saw the "pictures" ( i was happily drawing the comapany's logo...hoho...) i was kinda surprised that the CEO so free can walk around see what his employees are doing more than i was shocked at his findings..lol...so after that to prevent me from doodling more stuff, i was finally given actual work to do. haha high time.

I was assigned to call up sub-contractors to tender for specialist works in the "preliminaries" part of a project. Had to call up security firms, safety specialists, disposal services..blahblah...and invite then to submit a quotation. The fun part is they all think im holding some impt post in the company so when they send fax all sound very polite and apologetic.. haha...but the worst part is having to compare the prices of the various companies and see which are the better deals....because the various firms all charge different ways...for example: per service or per ton... hmm QS job isnt it? i should think so.

So my next job: MEASUREMENT. i met the GM of the company. He sounds like a very nice guy. Very friendly, sincere and humble. 30 years in the industry and not an ounce of arrogance. can be my role model sia...think he garners quite alot of respect from the employees too. Anyways, he trusted me enough to ask me to measure the entire floor finishes for an upcoming project that the company already tendered for. Now is the doing a more detailed estimate for the project part.

Well to start with, the project consists of two 6-stories bldgs and both had a shit-load of different types of finishes. Like really ALOT. think in total, about 17 differrent types of finishes. 17!! argh. Currently, im on the 2nd day of the assignment and im still stuck on the first few! maybe coz i had to measure all the dimensions...coz the dimensions given were quite lup-sup...anyway, im glad i paid attention during teo ai lin's classes and also glad i took the Cost Estimation module..or else the whole tendering process will be a blur to me! or yes..good thing too i bought the scale-ruler! haaha. for now, its the loooong weekend! can finally sleep more than 6hours! :)

first day as an INTERN

What a horrible shitty-fied day. Spent the better half of the day willing time to pass faster. horrible horrible HORRIBLE. ok here's what happened today:

1. Spent 50mins on the train to Expo
2. Took 25mins to walk from Expo mrt to the office building. Crap right? even the public bus refuse go to such an ulu place.. -_-
3. reached 20mins early. Spent THAT next 20mins waiting for somebody to "receive" me. why do i bother coming early? ok maybe that one is my own doing
4. Talked to my supervisor for about half an hour. She's a QS and a Chief Estimator at that. Woah.
5. My first assignment: Read a THICK stack of contract documents for a project they are currently tendering for and come up with the "project brief" . i had to come up with the "scope of work" and blahblah...of some primary school. ok at first this duty was kinda interesting initially coz i was actually reading sth that was from a REAL construction project and not some made-up one imagined by the prof. and also, because of measurement and cost estimating, what i read was super familiar. haha most came from measurement coz of the Specifications needed for the contractor to put in the "rate". i was most excited when i came across the "schedule of rates". wow...concrete, re-bar to BS4449, doors, ironmongery... they sure look exactly to what we have in school...hmm looks like our profs are doing a good job. :)
6. Lunch. ok my colleague was nice as he volunteered to drive me to the nearest foodcourt at that area. (can u imagine how ulu it is now? must drive to the foodcourt one can... lol)
7. After lunch. My goodness...Z monster was sure determine to attack me and WON, haha yes i took a nap after lunch. haha but short one la. 15mins
8. ok now the horrible part. i went through the specs of the project and guess what...just the specs and it took up about 100+++ pages....read and read and read till i started to get SUPER bored. i took out my phone and WOO, i had no reception at my cubicle. excellent timing to know that right? haha..so it was back to the stupid specs. haha.
9. Toilet
10. Toilet
11. Toilet
12. Toilet
13. Toilet
14. Toilet
15. Toilet
16. WHAT?! 4pm only??!!!!
17. ToiletToiletToiletToiletToiletToiletToiletToilet grrrrr only 430pm??!!!
18. i gave up. i took the contract docs and look for my supervisor.

me: "ermm...no offense, but this stuff is kinda boring. Do i need to read everything?"

Supervisor: "ohhhhh ya it can get very dry...nono u dun have to read everything."

me: "ohhh okok..." (shit stupid me...)

SO the rest of the day i just sat at my table and busy myself with lots of things. like more toilet breaks, walk around and see what other pple are doing. And omg la..the whole office is filled with QS-es..and they are all doing the same thing...looking at BQs....looking at plans....doing taking-off...there was this woman did taking-off the whole day. i asked her why she dun use software she replied: " ohhh this project dont have soft copy" i was like ohhh really..poor you...but of course i said it in my head only. hah

Yahh thats my first day as an intern. totally poured ice cold water on my excitement for working in the industry la...hopefully it'll become better as the days goes past...looking forward to being posted to the site! which is at Jurong East! hoho...cant-wait-dez-neh!!

Exams-over time

It has been a while since my last entry. Exams are over for a couple of days now and what have i been doing? Nothing much basically...just playing the PS3 and dvd after dvd...haha wanted to start on some korean drama but couldnt bear do burn my time watching the story slowly unfolds and reaching a potential disappointing ending...hoho...

Been slacking for 3 whole days before Huifang and Weichen finally finish their last paper..seems like eternity that MY own last paper was over..haha although it was only 3 days...I picked them (hf, wc and Joyce) up from Vivocity after their "monster" story (which was worse than a horror flick by the way) at about 9pm and we headed off to Mount Faber, The Jewel Box..woolahlah...

Oh i totally ripped this from the web. hehe we didnt take one of the whole glass bar thingy- nice RIGHT?

I parked the car and we had to make quite a long walk up to the place. We went to this open-air bar which was called The Glass Bar(dun ask me why their names so coolio-milo haha) and ordered some drinks. Poor me had to order mocktail coz i was the driver but the other 3 girls happily ordered non-alcoholic drinks too...haha good friends wanna pei wo mah...lol

Well, the view up there was rather nice...the breeze was good...no mosquitoes...the ambience was soft with candlelights...the live music was power too...some tina-turner wannabe was crooning away..maybe too loud for normal conversation to go on...but nonetheless it was good...from our seats we could see sentosa and keppel bay and....ermm alot of lights...hahaha...

Joyce said that this type of place only couples would go to coz it's so 'romantic' material-type but hey look around and the pple in groups of more than 2 out-do the couples man...furthermore, the tables come with a set of 4 chairs...ok maybe thats too far-fetched.

It was nice la, we managed to catch-up, talked...i even brought along a book with many "life questions" in it in case we ran out of topics to talk about. haha..We should really do this again...and please before i go off to Korea. :)

AND YES, i received a sms today telling me i have been selected for the top10 finalists of the sde dnd pageant. -_- To all my "voters" out there...u all happy liao larh...the saboh successful...haha..eh and i still dunno who put my name up there in the first place. hmm.

Exams..woohoo

4 papers down last one to go. Construction Technology on Monday. hahaha freedom awaits....but then again....one week after exams ends is time for internship...was looking forward to it during sch time but now...just wanna slack....

Cost estimation paper today was seriously "chui" la....no other word to describe it....lol...first of all, the 1st question on Aprox Estimating was totally what i didnt expect! Read the question then read it thrice more! couldnt believe she was giving away marks likt that! I continued the question....ohhh then i realised why it's worth 30marks...ALL of it....there was simply too much stuff to write! draw 2 tables! During exams?! M-A-D-N-E-S-S

Then the essay questions...ok larh they were not so difficult but as i was answering them...i felt like i was doing another module...maybe like....Scope? Sustainability? no idea...then theres the element of not enough time! argh...i spent 45mins answering a 50marks question...Quality= ZERO....this reminds me of what xuemei said," Wahhh i heard many pple..no actually i heard A say 'this exams no time to finish all my papers!'..wah when i heard that, i was consoled enough le....muahahaha YES"

LOL stupid Xuemei...his "finish" maybe is no time to thoroughly check through his answers le? or no time start with a intro and a conclusion leh? hahaha....hilarious man...