- Spent 50mins on the train to Expo
- Took 25mins to walk from Expo mrt to the office building. Crap right? even the public bus refuse go to such an ulu place.. -_-
- 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
- Talked to my supervisor for about half an hour. She's a QS and a Chief Estimator at that. Woah.
- 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. :)
- 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)
- 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
- 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.
- Toilet
- Toilet
- Toilet
- Toilet
- Toilet
- Toilet
- Toilet
- WHAT?! 4pm only??!!!!
- ToiletToiletToiletToiletToiletToiletToiletToilet grrrrr only 430pm??!!!
- 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!!
