ITP ramble

Warning: Ramble of last day

Last day of ITP: YES today was the LAST day of our internship at KPMG, and gosh, I was so darn busy the whole of today... (Happily so, though, thankfully...) Things looked up after lunch when my laptop finally acted normally, and was chiong-ing stuff up till the very end before we shut the laptops down and went for clearance.

Our team leads treated us all to canadian pizza during lunch, and by golly, it was a lot. Stuffed myself with the pizza slices, and then the chocolate cake that we bought for the department. @_@ After clearance was basically the time for photo-taking, present-giving, photo-taking, de-briefing, cake eating, and well, photo-taking. ^^;

The excitement that coursed through me from when clearance started was pure ecstasy. As one of my friends said, it felt like we had just graduated. As each item was returned to the company, I felt like something was lifted off of me. By the time we were all done and back at the office, I could hardly stop myself from grinning like an idiot. =^^=

Went out: All of us went out after everything (Like yes EVERYBODY =D) and boy was it AWESOME!! ^^ All of us went high after a while and major trigger-happiness ensued. Loads and loads of photos were taken, with extremely lame poses at different places- We acted like there were 2 gangs and started taking photos and what-nots that showed so, and of course, took lame silly-face photos- ^^;;

Swensons: Dinner was at Swensons, and gosh I was just so dead full by the end of it- >_< Shared this tomato garlic bread soup thing, and ordered a plate of baked rice. Chatted a lot, threw a cricket away, and well, I think there was some photo-taking. Was nice =)

Arcade: Okayyy, we couldn't decide what to do so we just walked around, finally stepping into the arcade for one round of Daytona ^^;; I was the only girl in the race, and WAH I GOT 4th OUT OF 7 PEOPLE!! =D Was oh-so-happy ^^ Twas the first time I didn't end up last or second last. Heh.

Overall: Bad thing was that we dragged real long, and I actually only reached home at like what, not that much earlier than 12am. Doh. Twas real tired out. Feet hurt and all, but just the memories of the day kept me grinning to myself- ;)

Quite sad that we probably won't be able to gather like that ever again... But yea, it was a really REALLY good time that we had together- All the OT-ing together, nonsense-talking, emo-ing, cursing of the laptops, snacking etc.. Twas hard work and relatively stressful at times, but the company was good. Real good. ^^

Will miss you guys after this... For anyone in the group that is reading this... A big THANK YOU for everything these few months =) Enjoyed myself loads.

Photos: Please click here to refer to azlan's blog post for the photos should you be interested ^^ More photos were taken on someone else's camera but I don't think there's a link for them so... >_<

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Recollection

Outings: Our department had this POM (Pub-of-the-month) thing, starting with an MoS gathering. Food and drinks were on the company's bill, and it was basically a time a month where everyone could mingle and chill.

It was tempting to go for the pub ones after the MoS outing... Since it was a company thing (and therefore felt safer/more comfortable) and also since none of the POM outings lasted till very late... Of course, you could stay till late if you wanted to, but you could leave anytime, with each POM starting at like 6+ 7pm. BUT I didn't go, of course ^^;; It was a good time to try and catch up with my work so I suppose it was a relatively good thing.

Missed the monthly mingling with them, but I guess stories from my friends brought me in to their fun and joy too. ^^

Only sad thing was that I missed the chance to mix with the full time staff outside of work (like my team leads, the full-time developers and our development/overall leads).

Biscuits: Oh, yes, and how could I forget..? The biscuits that made their appearance not long after we joined for our internship. That started the daily biscuit-snacking routine that my friend and I adopted. ^^;; Heh. As a result, the entire department started to notice my ever-present appetite. Ah well. Heh.

Okay, done: Okay, I think I've done enough of rambling... I still need to do some work and my brain ain't working no more... Sleep beckons.


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Hyper trigger-happiness

Of Surprises and Madness

Horoscope:

"You don't 'do' surprises. You plan surprises -- for other people -- but in your own life, everything's planned and accounted for. Aw, come on! What fun is that? Let yourself be surprised and you'll like what you see."

Plan surprises? Yep, I love doing that... But letting myself be surprised..? The surprise will have to come first >_<>_<

I would ramble a lot more about this area... but hmm. Nah...

Okay, this is weird. I've had a friend prompt me to update... And the first thing I talk about is my horoscope of the day. ^^;;

Hot: Okay, this is one thing I've been complaining a lot about... The weather is just ghastly recently... I leave the house feeling ultra warm in the morning... and by the time I finish strolling to the MRT station I'm perspiring like a mad pig. (Do pigs sweat a lot?) Of course, I suspect it's something to do with my semi-crazy sweat glands of late... but I shall blame part of it on the weather anyway >_<

Unfit: Alright, alright, so that's the other reason to my overactive sweat glands.. Hm, so what else is new? The whole world knows I'm unfit, but I shall say it anyway.

I'm unfit.

Like, majorly. I've had the urge to work out like quite a bit recently but never got the chance to... And today, I finally managed to go DDR a wee little itsy bit with Clar. By the end of the first song, I was tired. And guess what? I failed the second song -_-" Like... @.@ My legs were actually DYING by the third song. Argh! Like how unfit can I get, seriously?

You know what? Don't answer that.

ITP: Hmm... I guess that takes up quite a bit of my life now... I'm OT-ing quite a bit recently cause of the pressing deadlines and all... I've had terrible days (thinks pointedly about yesterday) where I spend half the day trying to solve a problem that wasn't even programming-related. -_-" Like the application I was using for programming just went berserk on me. So I had to delete my project and re-import the entire thing... Stupid. Utterly stupid.

Madness at the workplace: Heh, so I realise many of us aren't really sane... *coughs* Me included, but that's not the point. It can be really fun, and I guess the insane-ness is what keeps me sane at work ^^;

Of course, there _are_ times where some people drive me mad, but I haven't gotten the urge to throw them out the window yet, so I suppose that's good ^^;

Lyrics: I swear I had some song to blog about to cause of the lyrics... (don't ask me why I keep doing that recently... I have absolutely no idea) But I just can't recall the song right now... So that'll have to wait till it comes back to me ^^;;

'Ignited' (Cosplay group): YEAH going with Ignited to watch Pirates of the Carribean tomorrow~ Supposed to be a chance to 'get to know the existence of several members that some of us don't know about' >_< I'm one of those invisible members I guess ^^;;

At the last end-of-year event, Skye was calling "Ignited!! Come here!" and I had absolutely no idea whether I was actually part of the group... so I hesitated a bit, then turned and walked off to change out... Partly cause I didn't want my counterpart to be bored any longer and wait, and partly cause I really didn't know whethter I was considered part of them...

My heart was really screaming and asking me to linger a bit longer to hear what she wanted to tell the group, but I turned and walked off with this coldness spreading through my insides.

Ever since I joined the livejournal community though, I've started to feel as though there's some confirmation of my part in the group... One, cause I'm actually _in_ the community, and secondly, cause Skye actually messaged me about certain events too- =) And another from the group actually called me up one day to tell me about a particular new anime/manga/cosplay magazine that just came out (*cough* the main reason was cause the team was in it *cough*)-

Considering I've never really had anyone else from the circle apart from Skye calling me up about stuff, I was really happy =D

Of course, to those who have no interest about this part of my life, I think I probably just bored you guys to death, or amused you. Anywayz, I'm just looking forward to tomorrow, and the chalet that's coming up =D


The end: Alright, that's just about enough of rambling... I should really get ready for bed, or I may just very well fall asleep in the cinema tomorrow... And that is not good. I'll update again when the inspiration comes~ ^^


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