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! :)