Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Todae Im hav been coughing my head off... but at least I get to sit in at TMP for the whole day. TMP is another max security house, albeit the older version, it's strict there la, cannot bring my belongings inside,including $$, hp and sweets!! In the end, I onli brought in my tissue, water bottle lo, so ke lian, That's y today I din take any medication becuz all my belongings were outside. I hav to get thru at least 10 gates before I finally reach the office lo and there is only one toilet that is shared by all male and female staff there. Strang enuf, the toilet is inside the prison officer's room lo (all males ) then still hav to hang the "toilet in use" sign to alert others when Im using. I also use it at top speed in case anyone barge in cuz the locks were not working lo, scary~ My attached buddy there, Dominic brought me for two personality assessments todae. I still remembered that I was his participant for his thesis two years ago, cuz his name very unique...haha, fancy meeting him again in PSB... During the assessment, the clients hav to complete a 334 items questionaire (PAI). But some of them not gd in reading english lo, and I have to read every single 334 statements for one of them, sometimes explaining to them. The second session worse, hav to translate the statements into mandarin for one client..wah sey, not easy le, on the spot translation, but I did quite ok la, cuz the statements were simple and short...haha..Dominic said Im good thou..wahaha..Altogether, I hav read out near to 800 statements to my clients lo...no easy feat, and I was coughing alongside, like an old woman..wahaha. My coughing seems to get worse, but it's expected la, since my medication cannot be regular, juz hope that I can recover by Xmas eve~
12:32 PM
Friday, December 16, 2005
Im sick; Im not chinese (wahahaa)...hmm..todae take off beczu im very drowsy after medication.. all in all this week has been fruitful... everyday I get to visit the clusters and interact with clients there. On monday it's a cluster (A3, A5) and KBC visit... for KBC Im surprised that it does not look wat it's supposed to be.. a lot of freedom and access to privileges, totally diff from the stereotype that I hav. Their presentations earned wow from us, very professional and well done; can tell that they put in a lot of efforts. For the cluster visit, I get to visit their workshops, bakery and laundry, well organized and hardworking, again it's a surprise for me.. Tuesday I get to visit A1 max security house. Yes all the hardcores are there, and I dun dare to make eye contact with the passerby becuz they all look so fierce and unfriendly lo..my sup's client also lai(2) tou(2)bu(4) xiao(3). perhaps he's the fear of many ppl many years back.. he's polite la, but I cannot really understd him but still impressed me with his standard of english. btw, I also saw angmors in the cluster too, which shocked me la, tot they will be housed in another place. Yesterday had been fun for me. all my clients were young, and talkative. Cuz im the only female there, they r curious and tok to me a lot. At first i dun feel comfortable with the attention they gave me, but they showed me respect and slowly, I opened up to them. They asked me the recent trends la, my personal life details la, and shared with me some of their work they have done. Im impressed again by their good conduct and despite their wrongdoings in the past, they seemed repentant and diligent when doin their homework. Im also flattered when they said I look like Christy Chung, wahaha (*my readers out there dun vomit la, they were quite sincere, but think they too long never watch TV, so pls pardon them lo=P)They even requested me to visit them today but unfortunately Im sick and cannot make it le:( My sup actually planned another assessment this morning, but I am too weak to go to work la, so missed this opportunity. I really wanted to go one...these experiences realli inspired me and strengthen my passion for my field. My sup is also a nice guy, like him a lot and he taught me many things which I can never learn from campus:) thats' all for todae la, the whole week's summary. Muz start buying xmas present le, have not bought any yet..opps=p
4:57 AM
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Third day of attachment le and so far I have done nothing but study the textbooks and some of the assessments in the office. Boring... fell asleep when I was attempting to read those very dry textbooks. Some of the contents were interesting and relevant la, but want me to stare at the book for 8 hrs will faint lo...macham preparing for another exam lidat...aiyoh.. hopefully tomolo will be more interesting, will be meeting my first "client" in the afternoon, looking forward to it since Mon liao...
Always feeling hungry in the office leh..prob becuz of the low temperature in the room bah... may hav to stock up cup noodles and shd try to bring a fruit everyday, muz hav a healthy diet even when working. My mum bought a large packet of famous amos cookies todae, so tomolo will be bringing some over to the office to fill my hunger, despite Danny's protests that I may end up looking like a pig..hummpphh
2:29 PM
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Finally watched Harry Potter yesterday la, overall not as good as expected, but still, it's enjoyable la... Todae is the first day of internship, hmm.. first impression: a run down and kampong like place.. kinda looks like the barracks on St John island I've been to during secondary sch days, but it's nice and peaceful la, very cozy actually... colleagues r nice too.. all quite friendly, have been introduced to hundreds of time liao, and everytime I had to repeat my name at least twice, aiyoh...shd have used Pristine instead of my chinese name la haha :P seriously, think I will put on weight there, cuz there is no canteen there, so we hav to drive out to eat, and the nearby hawker is Changi food village leh!! still can go old airport road eat if sian of the village food, luckily my supervisor drives haha...After lunch had nothing to do , so surf their intranet and read some stuff here and there.. but at least Im getting in touch with forensic psychology there, so excited lo...btw, forgot to tell Moreen juz now that I saw Donnie Yen look alike at the office this morning!! hee...he's also first day at work and my fren shared the same sentiments too, esp the eyes and the build, wahaha...tink my dear fren is drooling liao;P
But the workplace is way way way too far la, cannot imagine I have to spend 4 hrs a day on travelling to and fro, macham a trip to KL every day, kaoz~
1:45 PM
