31/10/09
After awaiting for weeks, my car finally arrived on Saturday. Yes as the date indicates it was Halloween. Perfect timing right? Connie calls me at 10am and lets me know that I can come pick up my car but I didn’t want a repeat of the other day so I asked her to come deliver the car to me. It arrived at my doorstep at 11.30am in all it’s black, shiny and tinted glory. I should be excited, I should be crazy in love but instead I felt nothing much for it. Must be one of those withdrawal syndromes I guess. Anyway, Connie went through all the details I needed to know about the car, I gave my John Hancock on several documents and the car became my property. Gosh, I have my own property at 23 and would only start my real job on Monday, but nevertheless the car is under my name and I’m responsible for it. Feeling like a grown up already. =) I didn’t do much with the car on Saturday as I was still feeling unattached to it so it sat at home and so did I.
Since it was Halloween they were showing a line-up of horror movies and reruns of all the Halloween episodes of Simpsons (the dysfunctional yet lovable family). I plunked myself down in front of the idiot box and slowly roasted my brain for a few hours. Later that night I spoke to Him on the phone and really wanted to see him. Guess I was missing him already. He was bored as well but he was with his friends and they were roaming from one place to another trying to find something to do to cure their boredom. I was waiting at home for him to come over, calling him every half hour to get a status report. I needed to sleep early and wake up early the next day because I had to take the car to the temple to be blessed. Finally at 1.45am he says he’s on the way. I was happy. He came and we sat outside my house just talking and cuddling a lot. I t felt really nice. He was goofing off with me and I with him. I gave him his birthday present and he burst out laughing once he saw it was underwear. He looked at me, gritted his teeth and playfully said “I need this huh?” and grabbed my face and kissed me. I was laughing my ass off at his reaction. I’ll probably get him a real gift some other time. Besides, he owes me 2 birthday gifts! After awhile of more goofing, cuddling, kissing, talking and reveling in the silence, he left because I needed to sleep. I had fun with him. =) The next morning, my parents and I took the car to the temple to be blessed. All went well. When we got home, my dad and I took the car out for a spin and also to familiarize myself on how to get to my work place. The whole of Sunday I was terribly nervous about driving alone for the first time as well as my first day at work till I couldn’t really eat at all.
2/11/09
It was my first day of work at Salina & Associates PR and my first time driving alone. I managed to drive safely and not kill anybody. Thankfully. I ended up reaching work at 8.05am when work only starts at 9am. I waited outside the office as it was still locked for over an hour before the first employee came. She introduced herself as Nadia and she looked very pretty. She showed me my temporary seat as I found out that another employee Fauziah (Gie) will be leaving next week because she got another job offer. My table was the only one without a PC so Nadia told me to use Gie’s PC first and go through thr Client folders to familiarize myself with the clients. She listed out the 15 main clients that we are currently working on. After that people slowly started arriving around 9.45am. There is (Zarifah) Epa, Leonardo (Leo) and Carole. Nadia later came to me and told me that I was to assist her on the Sepang International Circuit (SIC) account and she wanted me to organize the newspaper clipping according to event and cut and paste them onto A4 sheets for the clients perusal. Basically that was all I did the whole day. I was also instructed to check out the Juvanex folder as I will be assisting her with that as well.
Gie informed me that the Boss would like me to attend the Theobroma-PRIDE (T-P) meeting on Tuesday and Carole told me to follow along for the Mattel Barbie photoshoot. I was excited to hear about those two. I couldn’t wait for Tuesday. I ended up leaving work on my first day at 7pm. The next day Carole got into an accident on the way to the Barbie photoshoot that I had to follow Gie and supervise the shoot on her behalf. We only reached the hotel half an hour late but thankfully the model was still having her make-up done. I was reveling in the beauty of Nikko Hotel’s Royal Suite. Things were not falling into place properly because after BH came and did the interview, MM was suppose to arrive at 2pm but they only arrived at 3.15pm and our meeting with T-P was scheduled for 3pm. The boss evidently was angry but she was already the conducting the meeting and told us to come quickly. We ended up going for the meeting 1 hour late. We were terribly hungry and thank god Theobroma is a chocolate lounge, I ordered Ms.Coco and it was dark chocolate heaven in a cup that satiated my hunger immediately! Thankfully boss didn’t screw us up, she was quite understanding. After the meeting we reached the office at 5.30pm. The minute I stepped in, I had many emails one of which was from the boss asking me to get the names and emails of Singapore biz desk dailies, an email from Nadia asking me to find 5 chinese talents, and Leo asked me to draft a press release for Denim. Left the office at 8pm.
Wednesday I pretty much did the same tasks from Tuesday that I hadn’t completed and Thursday I was given the task to forward Denim invites to celebrities, ammend the chinese talents search and call up 43 magazine editors to do a press release follow-up. I have an acute fear of talking to people of authority on the phone. I stutter, mumble and panic. I tried my level best to push that task to today in hopes I’ll have more guts to accomplish it. *fingers crossed* The boss called me into her office and asked me what I’m working on. I listed everything out to her and she said it’s good that I kept busy. I told her I definitely am but it is getting a little overwhelming because I’m getting things from all directions and I’m trying to figure out what to prioritize and complete. She was very nice when she told me that if I do feel overwhelmed I cam come speak with her and she can help sort out what I need to do because after all it is only my 4th day and she doesn’t expect me to know everything so quickly. She then called Carole in and scheduled a meeting for today at 11am with me to discuss on the CIMB Prime Plan and another meeting right after with Gie to discuss on T-P. Later that evening around 7pm, Nadia asked me to help her figure out a catchy invite for the Lux Masquerade Ball and Carole asked me to help her think of how to make things more natural for Garnier naturals event and then Leo tells me the people at Denim wants the press release to be amended and to include their new fragrances Heat & Chill. I helped with the first two but the last I told him I’ll do today because it was already 8pm. Nadia then told me that I don’t have to stay back till so late since I come to work at 9 I can leave at 6. They stay back because they come to work late so I don’t need to feel pressured into staying. Thank god she said that because I plan to leave early today. Hopefully!
Anyway that’s all of the updates till present day. *phew* Now I got to get back to work!
P.S. Photos will be put up at a later date.
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