1st day at work

So the 1st 2 days have passed by for my IA in china..ok la..let me briefly sum up what happened on the 1st day.. for those who still cant rmb..im working at Corning fibre optics..and no..their fibre optics isnt made from corn..its made from glass melted and pulled and ah i cant rmb whatever they breifed in chi..anw..

Day 1 @ work

supposed to report to corning at 830am..takes ard 1.5hrs to reach my workplace..so i decided to wake up at 6am jus to be in time..then again..when i woke up...

tts 6am in shanghai and i tot it was 8am. Apparantly i didnt know tt summer has longer time for daylight..so like i woke up, checked my watch again and again to make sure its 6am then like..got rdy for work..surprisingly train wasnt crowded..then again mayb i was too early and missed the morning crowd..

then near my workplace...well there's an road side stall tt sells smth tt looks like roti prata..seriously..haha.. and of cuz like all food in china, oil is free(ie too much oil )..well abit paiseh to take a pic without buying so when im brave enough to try it ill oso take a pic of it then yea..it really looks like roti prata.haha

then i went to corning, up to the receptionist..showed her the piece of paper then told her(all translated into eng)

William: Hi, im from ntu doing gip, im posted here *gives receptionist gip IA attachment slip*

Recep: er, we dun have any students doing attachment here. And this is nt 200 qinjiang road..

William: what?! but i thought this is corning!!

Recep: their are a few Cornings ard.

William: (wt#$%^&* man!!) ok, so where is 200 qinjiang road?? I tot this place is 200qinjiang road

Recep: this is 69meilian road and i have no idea where 200qinjiang road is.

William: (wt @#$%^&*#$%^&*#$%^&*#$%^&* !!!!!!!) ok thank you.

well fantastic man!! great stunner to start the day..well still i jus tried my luck and walked down along the qinjiang road..and there i saw the REAL corning tt im attached to..

so after i found the REAL corning...I LEVELED UP!!! *play final fantasy fanfare*

STRENGTH +3
INTEL +2
AGIL +2
SKILL +2
LUCK +3
SLACKNESS +5
CHARM +10
EMO -2

LAMENESS +15

ok lame i know..tts y my LAMENESS increased the most.. anw....

pic of chinese workers gg to work in their bicycles.. well my workplace is in a 'high tech park'. And well...its filled with low tech bicycles...bicycles are jus everywhere in china..

Work started with briefings...and more briefings..and more briefings(yes all in chinese..i can dare say its the most number of chinese words ive heard in 1 single day)..then lunch.

Since my company is too ulu-lated most of the workers bring their own lunch..or order from food catering services...which is what i did for the 1st day..order from food catering service..

then after tt more briefing and finally meet the supervisor...

well i didnt get my own cubicle(or actually more like a room) till quite a while later...and...

oh yea..tts a pic underneatht the table..hahah..surprising it can hold with mine and my partner's(i got another gip student in the same department as me) com on it.

Im under the process engineering department..think its on the software and hardware on how they process the fibre optics..and in machinery and the programs used..well tt is what i heard from my supervisor..(btw i feel proud alr understanding 20% of what my supervisor said, he's prc. Usually i would only understand <5%)

ok..more on work soon..after i survive the week ahead..hahaha