September 14th, 2009
If I could sum the entire couple of months in one word it would be ‘boredom’. Its a little over a month left to go before I complete this period of so called industrial training and I do not feel that I’ve learned enough to even fill 5 minutes of a presentation. Heck, things has been so slow I could practically complete an entire week’’s work in a day. I had to crap alot in my log book. So much so everyday has only a line of words to describe my activities for the day. A very short one in fact. Sometimes I do not even have anything to do for the entire day. Tempting as it is to honestly put “Today I went online and Facebook’ed.” into it I figure the university won’t be so much so appreciating of such an over honest student in their midst… or would they? Hmm…
But looking at the blogs and facebook pictures of my friends during this free times like Winston and Khai Ling makes me wonder what would happen if I was having my industrial training a.ka. internship overseas, at a university or even at a multinational company. Before I started my industrial training I used to wonder if I would have some relaxation time at work to go online to check my mail and stuff. I think I wished a little too hard.
Listening to X-Japan on my PSP while ranting about this right now isn’t my version of a good job I tell ya. No matter what, I still wish to learn of new things. On how the SCADA system is implemented, the various ways that it could be done and the alternatives that could be made as a few example of what I believe should be taught. The only skill I ever dare to admit that I’ve picked up on the job is Microsoft’s Paint. I’m so bloody good in it I’m sad. This is so NOT what I signed up for.
Thinking about it, I should have just went down to New Zealand to work with my uncle. At least I might get to go for tactical weapons combat and self defense training from special forces personnel. Sigh. I’ve been learning and doing more outside the work place than in it. My weekends are usually full and my week nights is most commonly filled with meetings and appointments. The occasional yumcha session included.
The lecturer will be coming for a visit and I’m suppose to show them my log book and do a short presentation on my progress. But…what progress? I do hope they do not mean Facebook progress. Posted too late. Lecturer already came to visit. I was somewhat unprepared but it went smoothly. More or less.
I wanna learn more and go to the site for at least once so I could write a tad more in my report not to mention take more pics.
23 more days to go.
Sigh…I’m feeling depressed all over again.
June 12th, 2009
I was so looking forward to actually learning someting new without the hassles of exams and such during this Industrial Training period. Willowglen the company I’m working for specialises in SCADA is located about 30-45mins away from home depending for the traffic. Arrived an hour early for work on Monday. Totally forgotten about the school holidays and thus the lack of traffic. Given a key card which also acts as my attendence monitoring system(thank god MMU does not have this or should I say phailed to implement this). That passion of mine went into hibernation mode 20mins on the first day on the job. Literally, as you will later see.
I was assigned to the Project Software dept. Apparently what they do is that they act as middle men between customers and the R&D department and is tasked to solved software problems. I was given a ‘Introduction to SCADA’ textbook and a beginner’s manual on their software setup and was tasked with reading up on it. I had no computer on my desk with or without any interweb. I slept while reading. Agonising. Thank god I had a computer with an internet connection on day 2. It was a blessing. Luckily my supervisor noticed my boredom and hooked me up with a connection. She’s awesome for that I tell you and she now sits behind me at work. Heh. So far she hasn’t said anything about my excessive net usage yet but then again as long as I’m given something to then then I won’t be lingering my life online anyways.
There’s another Trainee here as well but she’s leaving by this week leaving me the only fresh meat Trainee around these here parts. Week one has been unsurprisingly boring in the office. Outside the office however, it has been a heartwrenching down hill hell hole for me. But of course seeing how shit always happens to me and that I’m never lucky enough to experience what society normally does I guess I should be considering it as a norm by now. Heh.
June 4th, 2009
Starting from next week I’ll be starting my internship. The university calls it Industrial Training a fancy name with the same meaning I guess. Honestly, I can’t wait to begin working in a new enviroment. No exams, no classesm no labs and no tutorials for the next 4 months.
I won’t really call this a honeymoon break but I do hope it becomes that way in a sense. I need a rest. I have stuff carried forward in my head that would make a can of Surströmming to shame. Hopefully, I’ll have more time on my hands to so what I want but its gonna looks like a long shot. I’m also gonna be working during the weekends for Lolitech Logitech again till the end of June.
Working 7 days a week non-stop. Heh. I sometimes wonder why do I punish myself like this. I just hope I’ll keep sane till the end of the month and not go into a murderous rampage of mass self destruction.
