Orientation

Attended my company's Group Orientation @ Mandarin Meritus today. It was a MASS orientation for the various companies under the kep umbrella - abt 200+ of us.. and 32 young global managers from worldwide. Until today, i didn't realised the scale of business of my company- impressive. And also a company that cultivates and believes in environmental preservation! Orientation programme was informative.. and the food at mandarin meritus was great.. (however due to the weening appetite i've these days... i didn't benefit a lot though.. haha) Will be back again on wed for another seminar.. :) Got to interact with some other keppelites. Met an ex-iras staff - (who was in the same exco in the recreation club as i -think i was the welfare sec, he was the librarian?.. ) who also joined the kepland abt the same time as me.. small world..

God is really a God that turns things around.. In spite of the wrong moves made (from the iron rice bowl job @ iras to the time spent studying the m5, m9, hI @ my OWN expense and zitch dollar in return to the save-my-face-CONTRACT job@sgx To the current great opportunity..), He made the best out of every situation.. when my bank account was down to the near gonner stage.. the sudden SGX offer (despite of no relevant experience... but found favour with the hiring avp & vp) , when things were going downhill for me - the frustration of doing the ROUTINE & non-progressive & mundane stuff... for a superior that doesn't think much of you cuz you are not of a AUDIT backgrd).. i felt led to apply to kepcorp (perhaps inspired by the tv show "highest point" which should be either on air or just ended..) despite not really meeting the practical work experience... and the favour with the interviewers (my bosses now) during rd 1 interview... -despite i was speaking in tongues.. and thank God for the gst experience @ iras - now anything query regarding gst will be directed to hermione... despite being just the tax accountant. (by right, this was previously handled by the manager who had left! ) well.. don't despise the day of small beginnings... :)

met joyce and the friend who joined us for mid autumn celebration for dinner.. I'm AMAZED that i could speak relatively Cheem mandarin.. to the extent that sze hui - who majored in chinese language in NIE currently - commented that if you consider teaching, high chance you will be teaching chinese... HAHA... ya.. I speak relatively fluent chinese, with near flawless pronunciation and sentence structure and alrite vocab. Nah... teacher? not now... Woo.. and we really talked a lot.. we stayed 3.5 hrs @ yoshinoya talking.. Not bad rite? considering that joyce said that sze hui was usually rather quiet during grp discussion ... and i actually managed to engage her to chat with me for so long...

:)