Monday, July 10, 2006
First Day at work
Yesterday was suppose to update my blog but was cut off half way due to unstable internet connection, haizz...so will just do a summary on what happen on the 8th and 9th. Firstly, we went to Qi Pu Lu on the 8th to do some shopping. It is suppose to be the place where we can get cheap stuff, especially imitation stuff. Well, as I am not one who loves to do shopping, I don't quite like that place because there are alot of people. And people are all pushing one another around, thus don't think it is exactly a very nice place to shop. However, if you don't mind the crowd, it is a not bad place. And you can bargain all you want there, one of my friends got a shoe that is suppose to be 280 yuan for just 80 yuan, ha, so think it is heaven to pp who loves to bargain.
Noticed somethings about China during my 5 days stay here. Firstly, the pollution here is quite bad as the sky is always quite misty and the skyline is always blur. Even though so, I have to admit that the scenery at night is really gorgeous. Even the view outside my aparment is very nice and because I am staying on the 23rd level, I have a paranomic view of PuDong. Secondly, the traffic here is quite bad, think this is one trend present in a developed city. The cars here are all very fast and when you want to cross the road, you must look twice or even trice before crossing because cars can move even when it is red light if they are turning. So green man here does not mean that it is safe to walk, it just say that it is safer, so pp coming to Shanghai must take note of that.Thirdly, pp here smoke alot , think because of the cold weather during winter. They smoke even in air conditioned area and this is something I can't quite accept because it is a torture taking every single breathe. But guess, this is something we have to accept because it is a norm here. Will continue observing and note them down.
Anyway, today is my first day at work. We woke up at 715am and went to the bus stop at 8am to take the bus. Ha, and I experienced something that I will never be able to experience in Singapore. 4 buses came within the next 25 mins and the 3 of us can't squeeze up the bus because it was soo packed. They really pushed their way through and squeeze up the bus. To avoid being late on the first day, we decided to take a cab there.
After that adventure, we went to work on time and got to know that we have shuttle bus to take us to work.Ha, good thing for us because without it, think will be late everyday. Had an introduction in the morning before going to our respective department. I am glad to know that the pp in the company understands English (because it is a MNC) , making things a bit easier for us. The pp were all very nice to us and the job scope is quite interesting too, so think will enjoy my 22 weeks attachment here. (hope that everything will go on smoothly, crossing fingers). We are going to have training this whole week before starting on our projects, so it would be like going to school, ha , but enjoy the lesson so far.Lunch was also provided for so we are able to save a bit here. Food is not bad and we were given fruits too.
Ended the day taking the company bus back and getting dinner around our area. Hope that everyone is doing fine in Singapore.Take care!