Internship Training Week (Mon - Fri)
Alright, we were told that 15th to 18th would be our training but funny that the entire week was office hour (8.30am to 4.30pm/5.30pm). Mmm, should i say i'm lucky to get this internship? For some reasons, i feel that i am but for some reasons i feel that i ain't. Mmm, shall TRY not to too grumble much.
Monday
8.30am - 4.30pm
Some were late... i reach at 8.30am despite the fact that we need to report at 8.25am. HAHA! I got a friend who's later! 45min late? HAHAHA!! Anyway, first day ma... they can't blame us for misgauging time! Seriously! I was ready to go at 7.30am! So i actually switched on the computer to blog (refer to First Day Internship post) and when i finished blogging it was already 7.55am!! Rushed to Airport! Yikes! Misgauging time!
Our in-charge, mrs sulaiha, is a really nice lady! I will miss her! So sad we weren't attached to her! She's just training us for this week. =(
She bought us chicken pie, curry pie and sugar rolls from polar! HEHE! CHICKEN PIE IS MY FAVOURITE! YIPEEE!!! Received a thick book... it teaches us our work mechanism... things like changi airport group's mission, vision, stakeholders, etc. Tonnes of things to know... GOSH! They call the classroom session...
Oh, and a few big people came to get to know us? HAHA! Can't really remember their names 'cept Ms Jaya who is my interviewer and will be taking charge of us. Honestly speaking, i think i was selected not 'coz of her... i left a rather pleasant impression on Ms Racquee and she's the one who selected me. I can guarantee that! 'coz Ms jaya was on her phone when i was talking about myself during the interview (few weeks back) and she doesn't seem at all interested in me... Ms Racquee was the one smiling and looking at me more often. HEHEHE!
Mmm, asked a lot of questions regarding our working schedule, pay, system, etc. I wanted to know when i will be working so that i can arrange my activities!
Went to the police division to make our airport pass! Wooots! I LOOK SO FREAKING UGLY!!! The policeman is a joke, man! He was laughing at Jia rui's photo and even show it to me! WHAT THE HELL!!! HAHAHA!!! 'coz Jia rui's head was slanted! HAHA!!
Got our pass and ready to get into the transit area! Errmm, walkabouts at the airport... was quite uncomfortable at the beginning 'coz in the transit area... the places were so alien to me. I've never been there! And 'coz we were walking here and there... i'm confused if i visited T1, T2 or T3?! HAHAHA!!! Blisters are growing on my feets... painful! Ate at T1 foodcourt if i remember correctly. I ate... beehooon! Not bad... not bad... Mmm, the 8 of us attached to the airport had fun i-guess! Did we watch friends before going home? HAHAHA!!
Went to look for black long sleeve button shirt. It's going to be our uniform! Yikes... went around but all seems so expensive~ G2000 sell one for 50 moolah! Goodness! In the end, i met weishan and we went uniqlo to buy and it was SO MUCH SO MUCH CHEAPER! I saved... at least $20 to $50! Wooots! And the shirt really look damn nice! Be it wearing it for work or out! Must thank weishan for informing me of uniqlo! Or else... i will be spending unnecessarily.
Reach home... i think i talked to rich on the phone at night. And i sounded like... really really really exhausted! Didn't even have the energy to raise my volume a little so rich had a hard time trying to catch what i was saying! HAHAHAHA!! And then bed time!
Tuesday
8.30am - 3.30pm
Needed rich to call me... HAHA!! Couldn't wake up? But i was punctual. Classroom sessions were cut short since there isn't much to teach us anymore! We started walkabouts... still had a hard time walking though i change shoe 'coz this pair of shoe just sucks! YIKES!
Mmm, we walked Terminal 3? HAHAHA! Can't remember le! But the transit area is seriously huge! There are just so many things to do in the airport... and you can just enjoy an hour or two without spending a single cent! Things like: window shopping, internet access for your laptop or you can use their computers, telephone booths for free local calls, leg massage on osims massage machine, sitting and napping area at the lounges, reading magazines, playing xbox, lan, guitar hero, listening to music, visit the gardens, watching movie or sports channels or even other channels, etc. A LOT MAN!!!!
I AM SUPER AMAZED BY THE BUTTERFLY GARDEN, SUNFLOWER GARDEN, CACTI GARDEN, ORCHID GARDEN!!! There's even a swimming pool inside! Yikes! If you are allowed in the transit and don't make full use of all these facilities... it's seriously a waste! Butterfly garden is a 2-level garden very beautifully built for interaction with butterflies and decorated with plants! There's a man-made waterfall from level 2 to level 1 and the butterflies were flying everywhere! SO BEAUTIFUL! And the breed will change according to season! AWESOME! x)
SUNFLOWER GARDEN ROCKS TOO!!! It's just plain... YELLLOW!! There were bees sipping nectar! Gosh, what a sight! I really love it! Some were opened, some not fully grown... different varieties? And they water them 24hours. MAN! AWESOME! From the sunflower garden you can see a row of SQ planes! WAAAAAAAAA!! x)
CACTI GARDEN LOOKS REALLY CUTE WHEN YOU SEE A HARRY'S BAR OVER THERE! BUT THE COLOURS WERE BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL! DIFFERENT SIZES CACTI ALL AT ONE PLACE! AWESOME!! And orchid garden which is indoor... has a koi pond with koi fish so FREEAKING HUGE!!!!!! YOU MUST SEE MAN!!! THEY ARE SUPER HUGE!!! x)
Watched friends and headed home! WHOLE DAY MESSAGING RICH AWAY? HAHAHA! x)
Wednesday
8.30am - 3pm
Full uniform day! I wore my business suit skirt, and the uniqlo shirt and brought along my blazer 'coz it's going to be COLD, COLD AND COLD~
Stupid skirt keep moving around like nobody's business! Feet cannot take walking around for long hours!
Oh, went to BUDEGET TERMINAL! AWESOME! I told rich i wanted to build a budget terminal and operate one too! From the way the person explained and introduce budget terminal to us was freaking interesting! Budget terminal used to look a lot worse than how it is now... very plainly to say... it looks like a huge warehouse. And yes, it's meant that way... (just go take a look at other budget terminals around the world) BUT as you know... critical singaporeans cannot take such a "look" and so it was "renovated" to look like how it is now. And it will continue to change as years goes by.
From NO INFO. COUNTERS to HAVE INFO. COUNTERS. From only ONE hanis restaurant to THREE restaurants. From NO KIDS PLAYGROUND to HAVE KIDS PLAYGROUND. Blah, blah, blah... Singaporeans are really GRRRRRR... hard to please. They are already paying so little but they are still expecting so much! Gosh... But budget terminal is the best place to watch plane take off! HAHA! You can see it so near!!! It's just before you! GOSH!!! VERY VERY NEAR!!! But you got to go into the boarding gates la! HAHAHA!!!
And 'coz it's budget terminal... it means that the parking fee for planes is cheap due to what? Due to low cost in their operations. Even their systems are mobile and wireless so that it can be used everywhere! Instead of equipting every gate with one system which is a waste of money, they can share!
Passengers who are departing are not mixed with those who are arriving (unlike T1, T2 and T3) as they adopted a system which is cheaper to operate. Forgot the name of the system but it's one way just like our human blood circulatory system! HAHA!!
Departing passengers check in, went through security checks, into the transit area then boarding gates take-off and arriving passegers will arrive, went through a passage way which will lead them straight away to an area with just duty-free store and a perfume shop and the arrival hall (so that passengers don't really loiter around and can just exit fast).
Not much shops inside the transit area compared to the other terminals and it is not really necessary to have more as the check in counters are only opened two hours beforehand (TO SAVE COSTS).
Efficiency is very important as you can see right? The planes can quickly unload the baggages and passengers, load the new baggages and passengers and take off quickly to save money on parking fees. And to maximise the number of flights each day. Cool, isn't it?
Mmm, in conclusion, budget terminal has great potential for expansion and so much more to go! x)
Once again, the 8 of us watched friends and headed home after that! This should be the day i took a 3hours nap after i reach home! FREAKING TIRED! I CANNOT STAND OFFICE HOURS!!
Thursday
8.30am - 3pm
All of us will miss Ms sulaiha! Mmm, our last "SLACK" day? Not idea... We wore civilian wear today 'coz she understands that we only need two sets of uniform (and we got to wear the 2nd one tomorrow).
Errr... what happened? Shucks. FORGOT! I know we didn't even watch friends 'coz thursday no friends? Learnt to read the FVID or FDIV? HAHAHA!!! Oh! Took a test on airport knowledge and got a lot of help from Alex. He worked as Changi Youth Ambassador before and so he really knows the airport inside-out. After taking the test, we don't have much to do and had our own walkabouts and that's when we were so bored that we pranked call people using the telephone booths inside the transit area! HA HA HA!! Yikes!
And you should know who i called la! It was private number but rich could recognised my voice still and also 'coz i started laughing before i could continue my prank. HAHAHA!! Prank called weishan too! While she's busy directing people at T3, we actually were fooling around at T1! HAHAHA!!! Prank calling was so funny and fun! They pranked Erica that she failed her SSM and has to retake it and 'coz it was system failure that's why the website display the wrong information and she really took it for real! HAHAHA! She was so angry when they told her the truth!
"WINDOW SHOPPING" was fun too! Hafiz is damn funny! Played the camera, the binoculars, telephone booth... Mmm, that's all? HAHA!
Friday
8.30am - 4.30pm!!!
IT'S RICH'S POP DAY LA... SO SAD IT ENDED LATE THAT I DIDN'T GET TO SEE IT! Cabbed down straight after i ended but i still didn't make it. Sigh! To think i even resort to changing in the cab! HAHA!!! Nevermind, at least i get to... see his camp? HAHA...
Anyway, whole day was quite slack also... even when we were attached to the information counters the last minute it was also quite slack 'coz the staffs at the information counters were so good at their job! HAHAHA! And also 'coz we know nuts! Did help them a little by directing people to the toilets, and checking their plane flights and i finally met some serious difficulties likes conversing with passengers in MANDARIN?!
Though i came from a chinese speaking family, i don't know words like BOARDING PASS, TERMINAL, FLIGHT in MADARIN!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!! *PULL HAIR*
And i made a joke out of myself! HAHAHAHA!!!
A passenger walking towards info. counter looking lost.
ME: wo ke yi bang ni ma? (May i help you?)
PASSENGER: wo xiang zhi dao... blah blah blah (cannot remember what but i will need to know the flight so that i can help her and sooooo...)
ME: ni shi shen me ji....... (oops!)
ME: *SHIT... I AM STUCK... WHAT IS FLIGHT IN CHINESE???*
Info. counter lady: *take over*
Passenger left.
Info. counter lady: Aiyo, bu shi shen me ji la! Ji means prostitute leh! blah blah blah...
Actually, i also know... just that when i wanted to direct translate the word "FLIGHT", i realised i can't do that. Lost for words, man~ And then i realised i don't understand when this lady ask if it's terminal one in chinese... 'coz... my brain don't recognise that word and it still don't recognise it 'coz i've already forgotten this particular chim vocab.
That's kind of all for my TRAINING WEEK! x)
Ja mata! x)
P.S. I really like my colleagues man! But too bad we won't be seeing each other due to shifts pattern. Argh!
Alright, we were told that 15th to 18th would be our training but funny that the entire week was office hour (8.30am to 4.30pm/5.30pm). Mmm, should i say i'm lucky to get this internship? For some reasons, i feel that i am but for some reasons i feel that i ain't. Mmm, shall TRY not to too grumble much.
Monday
8.30am - 4.30pm
Some were late... i reach at 8.30am despite the fact that we need to report at 8.25am. HAHA! I got a friend who's later! 45min late? HAHAHA!! Anyway, first day ma... they can't blame us for misgauging time! Seriously! I was ready to go at 7.30am! So i actually switched on the computer to blog (refer to First Day Internship post) and when i finished blogging it was already 7.55am!! Rushed to Airport! Yikes! Misgauging time!
Our in-charge, mrs sulaiha, is a really nice lady! I will miss her! So sad we weren't attached to her! She's just training us for this week. =(
She bought us chicken pie, curry pie and sugar rolls from polar! HEHE! CHICKEN PIE IS MY FAVOURITE! YIPEEE!!! Received a thick book... it teaches us our work mechanism... things like changi airport group's mission, vision, stakeholders, etc. Tonnes of things to know... GOSH! They call the classroom session...
Oh, and a few big people came to get to know us? HAHA! Can't really remember their names 'cept Ms Jaya who is my interviewer and will be taking charge of us. Honestly speaking, i think i was selected not 'coz of her... i left a rather pleasant impression on Ms Racquee and she's the one who selected me. I can guarantee that! 'coz Ms jaya was on her phone when i was talking about myself during the interview (few weeks back) and she doesn't seem at all interested in me... Ms Racquee was the one smiling and looking at me more often. HEHEHE!
Mmm, asked a lot of questions regarding our working schedule, pay, system, etc. I wanted to know when i will be working so that i can arrange my activities!
Went to the police division to make our airport pass! Wooots! I LOOK SO FREAKING UGLY!!! The policeman is a joke, man! He was laughing at Jia rui's photo and even show it to me! WHAT THE HELL!!! HAHAHA!!! 'coz Jia rui's head was slanted! HAHA!!
Got our pass and ready to get into the transit area! Errmm, walkabouts at the airport... was quite uncomfortable at the beginning 'coz in the transit area... the places were so alien to me. I've never been there! And 'coz we were walking here and there... i'm confused if i visited T1, T2 or T3?! HAHAHA!!! Blisters are growing on my feets... painful! Ate at T1 foodcourt if i remember correctly. I ate... beehooon! Not bad... not bad... Mmm, the 8 of us attached to the airport had fun i-guess! Did we watch friends before going home? HAHAHA!!
Went to look for black long sleeve button shirt. It's going to be our uniform! Yikes... went around but all seems so expensive~ G2000 sell one for 50 moolah! Goodness! In the end, i met weishan and we went uniqlo to buy and it was SO MUCH SO MUCH CHEAPER! I saved... at least $20 to $50! Wooots! And the shirt really look damn nice! Be it wearing it for work or out! Must thank weishan for informing me of uniqlo! Or else... i will be spending unnecessarily.
Reach home... i think i talked to rich on the phone at night. And i sounded like... really really really exhausted! Didn't even have the energy to raise my volume a little so rich had a hard time trying to catch what i was saying! HAHAHAHA!! And then bed time!
Tuesday
8.30am - 3.30pm
Needed rich to call me... HAHA!! Couldn't wake up? But i was punctual. Classroom sessions were cut short since there isn't much to teach us anymore! We started walkabouts... still had a hard time walking though i change shoe 'coz this pair of shoe just sucks! YIKES!
Mmm, we walked Terminal 3? HAHAHA! Can't remember le! But the transit area is seriously huge! There are just so many things to do in the airport... and you can just enjoy an hour or two without spending a single cent! Things like: window shopping, internet access for your laptop or you can use their computers, telephone booths for free local calls, leg massage on osims massage machine, sitting and napping area at the lounges, reading magazines, playing xbox, lan, guitar hero, listening to music, visit the gardens, watching movie or sports channels or even other channels, etc. A LOT MAN!!!!
I AM SUPER AMAZED BY THE BUTTERFLY GARDEN, SUNFLOWER GARDEN, CACTI GARDEN, ORCHID GARDEN!!! There's even a swimming pool inside! Yikes! If you are allowed in the transit and don't make full use of all these facilities... it's seriously a waste! Butterfly garden is a 2-level garden very beautifully built for interaction with butterflies and decorated with plants! There's a man-made waterfall from level 2 to level 1 and the butterflies were flying everywhere! SO BEAUTIFUL! And the breed will change according to season! AWESOME! x)
SUNFLOWER GARDEN ROCKS TOO!!! It's just plain... YELLLOW!! There were bees sipping nectar! Gosh, what a sight! I really love it! Some were opened, some not fully grown... different varieties? And they water them 24hours. MAN! AWESOME! From the sunflower garden you can see a row of SQ planes! WAAAAAAAAA!! x)
CACTI GARDEN LOOKS REALLY CUTE WHEN YOU SEE A HARRY'S BAR OVER THERE! BUT THE COLOURS WERE BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL! DIFFERENT SIZES CACTI ALL AT ONE PLACE! AWESOME!! And orchid garden which is indoor... has a koi pond with koi fish so FREEAKING HUGE!!!!!! YOU MUST SEE MAN!!! THEY ARE SUPER HUGE!!! x)
Watched friends and headed home! WHOLE DAY MESSAGING RICH AWAY? HAHAHA! x)
Wednesday
8.30am - 3pm
Full uniform day! I wore my business suit skirt, and the uniqlo shirt and brought along my blazer 'coz it's going to be COLD, COLD AND COLD~
Stupid skirt keep moving around like nobody's business! Feet cannot take walking around for long hours!
Oh, went to BUDEGET TERMINAL! AWESOME! I told rich i wanted to build a budget terminal and operate one too! From the way the person explained and introduce budget terminal to us was freaking interesting! Budget terminal used to look a lot worse than how it is now... very plainly to say... it looks like a huge warehouse. And yes, it's meant that way... (just go take a look at other budget terminals around the world) BUT as you know... critical singaporeans cannot take such a "look" and so it was "renovated" to look like how it is now. And it will continue to change as years goes by.
From NO INFO. COUNTERS to HAVE INFO. COUNTERS. From only ONE hanis restaurant to THREE restaurants. From NO KIDS PLAYGROUND to HAVE KIDS PLAYGROUND. Blah, blah, blah... Singaporeans are really GRRRRRR... hard to please. They are already paying so little but they are still expecting so much! Gosh... But budget terminal is the best place to watch plane take off! HAHA! You can see it so near!!! It's just before you! GOSH!!! VERY VERY NEAR!!! But you got to go into the boarding gates la! HAHAHA!!!
And 'coz it's budget terminal... it means that the parking fee for planes is cheap due to what? Due to low cost in their operations. Even their systems are mobile and wireless so that it can be used everywhere! Instead of equipting every gate with one system which is a waste of money, they can share!
Passengers who are departing are not mixed with those who are arriving (unlike T1, T2 and T3) as they adopted a system which is cheaper to operate. Forgot the name of the system but it's one way just like our human blood circulatory system! HAHA!!
Departing passengers check in, went through security checks, into the transit area then boarding gates take-off and arriving passegers will arrive, went through a passage way which will lead them straight away to an area with just duty-free store and a perfume shop and the arrival hall (so that passengers don't really loiter around and can just exit fast).
Not much shops inside the transit area compared to the other terminals and it is not really necessary to have more as the check in counters are only opened two hours beforehand (TO SAVE COSTS).
Efficiency is very important as you can see right? The planes can quickly unload the baggages and passengers, load the new baggages and passengers and take off quickly to save money on parking fees. And to maximise the number of flights each day. Cool, isn't it?
Mmm, in conclusion, budget terminal has great potential for expansion and so much more to go! x)
Once again, the 8 of us watched friends and headed home after that! This should be the day i took a 3hours nap after i reach home! FREAKING TIRED! I CANNOT STAND OFFICE HOURS!!
Thursday
8.30am - 3pm
All of us will miss Ms sulaiha! Mmm, our last "SLACK" day? Not idea... We wore civilian wear today 'coz she understands that we only need two sets of uniform (and we got to wear the 2nd one tomorrow).
Errr... what happened? Shucks. FORGOT! I know we didn't even watch friends 'coz thursday no friends? Learnt to read the FVID or FDIV? HAHAHA!!! Oh! Took a test on airport knowledge and got a lot of help from Alex. He worked as Changi Youth Ambassador before and so he really knows the airport inside-out. After taking the test, we don't have much to do and had our own walkabouts and that's when we were so bored that we pranked call people using the telephone booths inside the transit area! HA HA HA!! Yikes!
And you should know who i called la! It was private number but rich could recognised my voice still and also 'coz i started laughing before i could continue my prank. HAHAHA!! Prank called weishan too! While she's busy directing people at T3, we actually were fooling around at T1! HAHAHA!!! Prank calling was so funny and fun! They pranked Erica that she failed her SSM and has to retake it and 'coz it was system failure that's why the website display the wrong information and she really took it for real! HAHAHA! She was so angry when they told her the truth!
"WINDOW SHOPPING" was fun too! Hafiz is damn funny! Played the camera, the binoculars, telephone booth... Mmm, that's all? HAHA!
Friday
8.30am - 4.30pm!!!
IT'S RICH'S POP DAY LA... SO SAD IT ENDED LATE THAT I DIDN'T GET TO SEE IT! Cabbed down straight after i ended but i still didn't make it. Sigh! To think i even resort to changing in the cab! HAHA!!! Nevermind, at least i get to... see his camp? HAHA...
Anyway, whole day was quite slack also... even when we were attached to the information counters the last minute it was also quite slack 'coz the staffs at the information counters were so good at their job! HAHAHA! And also 'coz we know nuts! Did help them a little by directing people to the toilets, and checking their plane flights and i finally met some serious difficulties likes conversing with passengers in MANDARIN?!
Though i came from a chinese speaking family, i don't know words like BOARDING PASS, TERMINAL, FLIGHT in MADARIN!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!! *PULL HAIR*
And i made a joke out of myself! HAHAHAHA!!!
A passenger walking towards info. counter looking lost.
ME: wo ke yi bang ni ma? (May i help you?)
PASSENGER: wo xiang zhi dao... blah blah blah (cannot remember what but i will need to know the flight so that i can help her and sooooo...)
ME: ni shi shen me ji....... (oops!)
ME: *SHIT... I AM STUCK... WHAT IS FLIGHT IN CHINESE???*
Info. counter lady: *take over*
Passenger left.
Info. counter lady: Aiyo, bu shi shen me ji la! Ji means prostitute leh! blah blah blah...
Actually, i also know... just that when i wanted to direct translate the word "FLIGHT", i realised i can't do that. Lost for words, man~ And then i realised i don't understand when this lady ask if it's terminal one in chinese... 'coz... my brain don't recognise that word and it still don't recognise it 'coz i've already forgotten this particular chim vocab.
That's kind of all for my TRAINING WEEK! x)
Ja mata! x)
P.S. I really like my colleagues man! But too bad we won't be seeing each other due to shifts pattern. Argh!
Monday
8.30am - 4.30pm
Some were late... i reach at 8.30am despite the fact that we need to report at 8.25am. HAHA! I got a friend who's later! 45min late? HAHAHA!! Anyway, first day ma... they can't blame us for misgauging time! Seriously! I was ready to go at 7.30am! So i actually switched on the computer to blog (refer to First Day Internship post) and when i finished blogging it was already 7.55am!! Rushed to Airport! Yikes! Misgauging time!
Our in-charge, mrs sulaiha, is a really nice lady! I will miss her! So sad we weren't attached to her! She's just training us for this week. =(
She bought us chicken pie, curry pie and sugar rolls from polar! HEHE! CHICKEN PIE IS MY FAVOURITE! YIPEEE!!! Received a thick book... it teaches us our work mechanism... things like changi airport group's mission, vision, stakeholders, etc. Tonnes of things to know... GOSH! They call the classroom session...
Oh, and a few big people came to get to know us? HAHA! Can't really remember their names 'cept Ms Jaya who is my interviewer and will be taking charge of us. Honestly speaking, i think i was selected not 'coz of her... i left a rather pleasant impression on Ms Racquee and she's the one who selected me. I can guarantee that! 'coz Ms jaya was on her phone when i was talking about myself during the interview (few weeks back) and she doesn't seem at all interested in me... Ms Racquee was the one smiling and looking at me more often. HEHEHE!
Mmm, asked a lot of questions regarding our working schedule, pay, system, etc. I wanted to know when i will be working so that i can arrange my activities!
Went to the police division to make our airport pass! Wooots! I LOOK SO FREAKING UGLY!!! The policeman is a joke, man! He was laughing at Jia rui's photo and even show it to me! WHAT THE HELL!!! HAHAHA!!! 'coz Jia rui's head was slanted! HAHA!!
Got our pass and ready to get into the transit area! Errmm, walkabouts at the airport... was quite uncomfortable at the beginning 'coz in the transit area... the places were so alien to me. I've never been there! And 'coz we were walking here and there... i'm confused if i visited T1, T2 or T3?! HAHAHA!!! Blisters are growing on my feets... painful! Ate at T1 foodcourt if i remember correctly. I ate... beehooon! Not bad... not bad... Mmm, the 8 of us attached to the airport had fun i-guess! Did we watch friends before going home? HAHAHA!!
Went to look for black long sleeve button shirt. It's going to be our uniform! Yikes... went around but all seems so expensive~ G2000 sell one for 50 moolah! Goodness! In the end, i met weishan and we went uniqlo to buy and it was SO MUCH SO MUCH CHEAPER! I saved... at least $20 to $50! Wooots! And the shirt really look damn nice! Be it wearing it for work or out! Must thank weishan for informing me of uniqlo! Or else... i will be spending unnecessarily.
Reach home... i think i talked to rich on the phone at night. And i sounded like... really really really exhausted! Didn't even have the energy to raise my volume a little so rich had a hard time trying to catch what i was saying! HAHAHAHA!! And then bed time!
Tuesday
8.30am - 3.30pm
Needed rich to call me... HAHA!! Couldn't wake up? But i was punctual. Classroom sessions were cut short since there isn't much to teach us anymore! We started walkabouts... still had a hard time walking though i change shoe 'coz this pair of shoe just sucks! YIKES!
Mmm, we walked Terminal 3? HAHAHA! Can't remember le! But the transit area is seriously huge! There are just so many things to do in the airport... and you can just enjoy an hour or two without spending a single cent! Things like: window shopping, internet access for your laptop or you can use their computers, telephone booths for free local calls, leg massage on osims massage machine, sitting and napping area at the lounges, reading magazines, playing xbox, lan, guitar hero, listening to music, visit the gardens, watching movie or sports channels or even other channels, etc. A LOT MAN!!!!
I AM SUPER AMAZED BY THE BUTTERFLY GARDEN, SUNFLOWER GARDEN, CACTI GARDEN, ORCHID GARDEN!!! There's even a swimming pool inside! Yikes! If you are allowed in the transit and don't make full use of all these facilities... it's seriously a waste! Butterfly garden is a 2-level garden very beautifully built for interaction with butterflies and decorated with plants! There's a man-made waterfall from level 2 to level 1 and the butterflies were flying everywhere! SO BEAUTIFUL! And the breed will change according to season! AWESOME! x)
SUNFLOWER GARDEN ROCKS TOO!!! It's just plain... YELLLOW!! There were bees sipping nectar! Gosh, what a sight! I really love it! Some were opened, some not fully grown... different varieties? And they water them 24hours. MAN! AWESOME! From the sunflower garden you can see a row of SQ planes! WAAAAAAAAA!! x)
CACTI GARDEN LOOKS REALLY CUTE WHEN YOU SEE A HARRY'S BAR OVER THERE! BUT THE COLOURS WERE BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL! DIFFERENT SIZES CACTI ALL AT ONE PLACE! AWESOME!! And orchid garden which is indoor... has a koi pond with koi fish so FREEAKING HUGE!!!!!! YOU MUST SEE MAN!!! THEY ARE SUPER HUGE!!! x)
Watched friends and headed home! WHOLE DAY MESSAGING RICH AWAY? HAHAHA! x)
Wednesday
8.30am - 3pm
Full uniform day! I wore my business suit skirt, and the uniqlo shirt and brought along my blazer 'coz it's going to be COLD, COLD AND COLD~
Stupid skirt keep moving around like nobody's business! Feet cannot take walking around for long hours!
Oh, went to BUDEGET TERMINAL! AWESOME! I told rich i wanted to build a budget terminal and operate one too! From the way the person explained and introduce budget terminal to us was freaking interesting! Budget terminal used to look a lot worse than how it is now... very plainly to say... it looks like a huge warehouse. And yes, it's meant that way... (just go take a look at other budget terminals around the world) BUT as you know... critical singaporeans cannot take such a "look" and so it was "renovated" to look like how it is now. And it will continue to change as years goes by.
From NO INFO. COUNTERS to HAVE INFO. COUNTERS. From only ONE hanis restaurant to THREE restaurants. From NO KIDS PLAYGROUND to HAVE KIDS PLAYGROUND. Blah, blah, blah... Singaporeans are really GRRRRRR... hard to please. They are already paying so little but they are still expecting so much! Gosh... But budget terminal is the best place to watch plane take off! HAHA! You can see it so near!!! It's just before you! GOSH!!! VERY VERY NEAR!!! But you got to go into the boarding gates la! HAHAHA!!!
And 'coz it's budget terminal... it means that the parking fee for planes is cheap due to what? Due to low cost in their operations. Even their systems are mobile and wireless so that it can be used everywhere! Instead of equipting every gate with one system which is a waste of money, they can share!
Passengers who are departing are not mixed with those who are arriving (unlike T1, T2 and T3) as they adopted a system which is cheaper to operate. Forgot the name of the system but it's one way just like our human blood circulatory system! HAHA!!
Departing passengers check in, went through security checks, into the transit area then boarding gates take-off and arriving passegers will arrive, went through a passage way which will lead them straight away to an area with just duty-free store and a perfume shop and the arrival hall (so that passengers don't really loiter around and can just exit fast).
Not much shops inside the transit area compared to the other terminals and it is not really necessary to have more as the check in counters are only opened two hours beforehand (TO SAVE COSTS).
Efficiency is very important as you can see right? The planes can quickly unload the baggages and passengers, load the new baggages and passengers and take off quickly to save money on parking fees. And to maximise the number of flights each day. Cool, isn't it?
Mmm, in conclusion, budget terminal has great potential for expansion and so much more to go! x)
Once again, the 8 of us watched friends and headed home after that! This should be the day i took a 3hours nap after i reach home! FREAKING TIRED! I CANNOT STAND OFFICE HOURS!!
Thursday
8.30am - 3pm
All of us will miss Ms sulaiha! Mmm, our last "SLACK" day? Not idea... We wore civilian wear today 'coz she understands that we only need two sets of uniform (and we got to wear the 2nd one tomorrow).
Errr... what happened? Shucks. FORGOT! I know we didn't even watch friends 'coz thursday no friends? Learnt to read the FVID or FDIV? HAHAHA!!! Oh! Took a test on airport knowledge and got a lot of help from Alex. He worked as Changi Youth Ambassador before and so he really knows the airport inside-out. After taking the test, we don't have much to do and had our own walkabouts and that's when we were so bored that we pranked call people using the telephone booths inside the transit area! HA HA HA!! Yikes!
And you should know who i called la! It was private number but rich could recognised my voice still and also 'coz i started laughing before i could continue my prank. HAHAHA!! Prank called weishan too! While she's busy directing people at T3, we actually were fooling around at T1! HAHAHA!!! Prank calling was so funny and fun! They pranked Erica that she failed her SSM and has to retake it and 'coz it was system failure that's why the website display the wrong information and she really took it for real! HAHAHA! She was so angry when they told her the truth!
"WINDOW SHOPPING" was fun too! Hafiz is damn funny! Played the camera, the binoculars, telephone booth... Mmm, that's all? HAHA!
Friday
8.30am - 4.30pm!!!
IT'S RICH'S POP DAY LA... SO SAD IT ENDED LATE THAT I DIDN'T GET TO SEE IT! Cabbed down straight after i ended but i still didn't make it. Sigh! To think i even resort to changing in the cab! HAHA!!! Nevermind, at least i get to... see his camp? HAHA...
Anyway, whole day was quite slack also... even when we were attached to the information counters the last minute it was also quite slack 'coz the staffs at the information counters were so good at their job! HAHAHA! And also 'coz we know nuts! Did help them a little by directing people to the toilets, and checking their plane flights and i finally met some serious difficulties likes conversing with passengers in MANDARIN?!
Though i came from a chinese speaking family, i don't know words like BOARDING PASS, TERMINAL, FLIGHT in MADARIN!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!! *PULL HAIR*
And i made a joke out of myself! HAHAHAHA!!!
A passenger walking towards info. counter looking lost.
ME: wo ke yi bang ni ma? (May i help you?)
PASSENGER: wo xiang zhi dao... blah blah blah (cannot remember what but i will need to know the flight so that i can help her and sooooo...)
ME: ni shi shen me ji....... (oops!)
ME: *SHIT... I AM STUCK... WHAT IS FLIGHT IN CHINESE???*
Info. counter lady: *take over*
Passenger left.
Info. counter lady: Aiyo, bu shi shen me ji la! Ji means prostitute leh! blah blah blah...
Actually, i also know... just that when i wanted to direct translate the word "FLIGHT", i realised i can't do that. Lost for words, man~ And then i realised i don't understand when this lady ask if it's terminal one in chinese... 'coz... my brain don't recognise that word and it still don't recognise it 'coz i've already forgotten this particular chim vocab.
That's kind of all for my TRAINING WEEK! x)
Ja mata! x)
P.S. I really like my colleagues man! But too bad we won't be seeing each other due to shifts pattern. Argh!
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