first day @ work
Work was not bad. Had a good orientation around the office; it was nice and big. There's a theme to the interior design, the walk way represents the river, the bosses room and theatrette are given mountains' or forests' names. The office is split into 2 wings, right wing is the bosses office, left wing is the executive office. So the river will flow from the bosses room to the executive room which is like a small pool. Hhaha must see how it looks like then easier to visualise.
Anyway, met some of the pple in the office, 3/4 of the pple are not in, they're either on leave or overseas. Met some from my department too, mine is called the International Networking department, divided into 2 sections, Overseas singaporeans program and Friends of Singapore program. I'm a bit here and there in helping out the department. The IN department has several projects at the moment, one of the bigger projects is the Overseas Singapore Conference to be held in Bangkok this june. My current job scope is to co-ordinate this event together with the other pple in charge of this project. Alot of things are still tentative and unconfirmed. I pity my colleagues actually. They are so busy with not only this project but other projects around the same time too. I can really forsee the month of May to be the busiest month, with all the registration, updating, finalised material for the event. Wah!! OT!! oh no!!!
Anyway.. i had some stuff to do today. Had to try to think of some new ideas for discussion topics for the conference. Since the conference is held in Bangkok, neighbouring countries will be invited too, therefore i had to find topics for these countries to discuss about. China and India were included too. Some ideas i thought of were: Education, relationships and volunteerism. All discussion topics have to have a singapore perspective in it as well. That is, how singaporeans should be more involved in the region and make a singapore presence in the region and in singapore too. This is tough for me... i dont really read all the stories in the ASIA region, now i have to read all the papers, magazines to find ideas, not only for this conference but i can forsee for others too. Besides this, I have to research on some speakers for the event. We have approached some people, but either they rejected or couldnt be contacted. Those who are confirmed some suddenly say cannot make it. So.. i have to try to source some other speakers to give talk. Therefore i need to research online and do a short bio on them.
Heh.. not bad for a first day @ work ah. Time actually pass fast. Oh ya... i have to say this... i admire a company that has an excellent pantry... and SIF has a BIG pantry with a TV in it. hehe!
Oh well... tom's work will most prob be the same, i'll be attending a focus group organised by the MOM on singaporeans who went overseas either to study or work. MOM wants to find out how strong is the Singapore presence in overseas countries. Yep.. so i'll be part of that.
Luckily as well, SIF practices casual fridays.. meaning dress down. So i can wear jeans and tee on fridays. I'm glad my colleagues are quite friendly.. at least they bother. :)
Oh well.. i'm glad i had a good first day @ work.. only downside i can't d.l MSN messenger on the com, firewall blocked it, luckily i could d.l web messenger. Only thing is that i'm not sure if they allow online chatting while at work, plus my back is facing the main walk way, so cant tell if anyone was behind me.
Oh ya! I received 2 phone calls today. One from capitaland and other from Ukelele, a branding agency. yup.. i had to reject them. I feel horrible doing that... but i've signed the contract. I hope in 4 months time something really good come up from this position. CROSS FINGERS!!!!!
if anyone has good ideas for the conference discussion topics.. please do leave it in the comment? Thanks!!
