HEY WHATTAP. Sorry for the lack of updates. Nah actually I'm NOT. IN YO FACE. Hahah ok work has recently been the only thing that's been revolving around my life. It's been three weeks in total so far.

But to be honest, I'd still much prefer to work than go to school. Maybe coz I don't feel financially troubled like every other working adult, (tho I'm facing the brokest moment in my life so far after ocip. cannot wait for my pay to come in thxamillion haha), so it's not like I've to work and slog my life away to pay the bills. It's not like I have 3 mouths to feed at home. But yes, I still prefer to work than study.

Seriously though, I feel tired every single day, but it's a fulfilling kind of tired? Unlike school, I feel excited about work. Work to me has been interesting and my workmates haven't been giving me a hard time at all. Quite rare actually but maybe it's coz we're all young.

And the days just pass me by so darn quickly. In a day, the hours aren't dreadfully long. It could be 9am one time and 6pm the next.

My other wkw friends don't feel the same way coz what we're doing is kinda like saikang work since we're all mere interns. But for me, I honestly learn a lot? Every day? Even adjusting to work culture is learning to me. How to work with colleagues and how the workplace functions. It is all new to me.

And I'm always doing something. I could be doing post-editing, writing, researching, understudying filming outside, recceeing for potential interviewees. They're all small tasks first and for my boss to test waters with me. Most see it as saikang, but I honestly think I need to do all these things before doing anything bigger. And even these seemingly small tasks are important to me and I try my best to do whatever I can.

And for every work place there's a different kind of work climate and environment? I've to say I'm quite surprised by how mine works. I never imagined it to be this way. There's a lot of open communication between bosses and subordinates. There is not much of any hierarchy and people just speak their mind about things and are very direct. To put it, pretty casual I would say. But different departments in a workplace also means different working culture lah. So even that, I learn.

I'm quite a work noob, never really worked anywhere long term in my life coz I always thought that I'm gonna work for the rest of my life, why work when I can just study and not worry about these things that will be inevitable in the future. And I always had savings.

So today I learnt about how work actually works. After kena scolding by the boss heh.

I feel naïve sometimes, only learning about these things at this age. I hear about them all the time but never experienced first hand. So I really look up to my friends who work part-time. Study + Work since 18/19 years old. Not easy.

Like, I realise at work, whatever you do, whenever something happens, somebody has to take the blame. It is always 'who did this?', 'who asked you to do this?'. It's always WHO WHO AND WHO. And the most common answer I hear is "not me". Even if subtly put. "Not me" can be said in varied forms "this one not I do one", "so and so asked me to do one". Hahahaha, I think it's universal language. The arrows shoot and the fingers point, metaphorically.

Then the lowest strata of the food chain gets everything.

But, anyway, today I kena coz I help people too much then I never do my own job properly. That was totally put in perfect Singlish. But yes, it's kinda funny writing about this coz I'm sure everyone will get the brunt of work every now and then but this one's my first so I guess it's ok for me to talk about it tehehhh.

I guess, in the end, the lesson learnt is, to manage your own duties first before you go help others OTHERWISE YOUR BACKSIDE IS THE ONE THAT WILL BE UP IN FLAMES. Burrrrnnnn. And I prioritised wrongly lah. I didn't know what was more important so it caused my ass to undergo 1st degree burns.

Of coz I was affected by it for several hours and I contemplated a lot on my journey back home but I was really surprised, even by myself, that I was able to counsel myself in my head and feel so positive by the end of it. I am such. A Winner.

I keep telling myself that I'm still learning and things will eventually be fine. I always expect a lot from myself in everything I do, so when I fall, I fall bad. But I will try my best to get BACK UP AGAIN. Aiya, I always feel sad when I kena scolded one lah. I feel more concerned about my relationships with others. To me, people relationships are the most important. But. This WILL BE one small incident. Which, will eventually be nothing by the time I reach 80. So what for ponder so much about a wounded tail.

Nevertheless, I really love my job. And I admire all my colleagues, coz I never knew the role of a "Producer" for a segment on a show, would also mean you have to be the "director", "scriptwriter" and "researcher". I always thought producers for everywhere just had to fork out money haha. Now I know that here, they write the scripts and direct the cameraman on what to film. Not only that, they pitch for their own ideas and research their own topics. (other than those that the intern has to look for lah) Pretty awesome stuff. I'm seriously impressed coz it's almost like a one-man show.

And I got to be a part of some of this action and so far, I've been out for one filming and one recce. Just went to recce at Holland Village/Road today. And discovered things in SG I never knew or got to.


Yeap. So those are some of the photos I took while I was out! And I'm working with Otelli Edwards too, she's cool. Wonder what those places are for and what show it is? I'll tell yall when the shows are out lah hahaha, but you'll find out if you watch enough TV.

Besides work, I've actually been spending a lot on food. Makin me broke as hell man.

Last night, I got to meet Kimberly my Taiwanese friend who was with me on exchange in New Zealand!!!!! While my exchange duration was 6 months, hers was like ONE YEAR?!?!?! And I was damn honoured that she transited in Singapore lor, before she went home. It was only like 4 hours but within that 4 hours I'm damn happy I got to bring her around to see SG a bit.

I know Chinatown is already damn Chinese and she's like Taiwanese but it's still different and I'm sure it was a sweet reminder of home especially since she's been in angmoh NZ for soooo long!!!! NOISE AND CROWDS will definitely be missed. AND CNY COMING ALR so Chinatown was damn hapz. And she was just damn happy lah. I'm also happy my dad came with us hehehehe got car to drive heh.