Very long never write anything here.
Not that nothing happened in my life, I was just to lazy to type it out.
A few people kept asking me about my blog. Apparently I wasted alot of their time when they visit (many times) to find the same stuff here since 31st May... Hee hee
Erm.. Maybe I can just give an update on what I've been through for the past few weeks...
Officially I started work in The Nielsen Company (as they are known officially) on 1st July. Most people would know them as AC Nielsen, or the firm that provides the TV stations with the rating report.
From 1st July till probably end September, I'm just gonna be sitting through classes with 14 other recent graduates. But the classes are really fun and informative... So far, the focus has been on exposing us to the company culture and entire range of product suite offered by the company.
Typically what happens each day is that we will sit for lectures on various topics. The trainers are usually the directors of the company, which is a pretty strange sight cause you see these REALLY SENIOR people talking to us REALLY UNIMPORTANT people about REALLY TRIVIAL topics (Company culture, Structure, product type, etc.) I don't know, maybe it's just something about their flat and open culture that I have yet to learn to appreciate.
On certain days we get to do more interesting stuff like mystery shopping, case study.. We're supossed to visit a store next week for an audit check but I just noticed that it's on the 22nd and I have to attend my stupid convo! I'd pick the store check over the convo ceremony anytime if it wasn't for my parents...
Haha... Okay... So.... Other than the training sessions I must say the people in the firm are really nice, not just the 14 other trainees, but also our trainers, mentors and our babysitters from the HR dept. We see them so often it feels like we've known each other for a long time... Haha.. we even jio-ed the people from the HR dept for dinner next Friday, which they gamely agreed to join!
Of the 14 other trainees, many of them were from NTU (5), 1 from SMU, 0 from NUS, 1 from Starhub (He had worked for 3 years prior to joining Nielsen), 1 from India (MBA!) and the rest are a mix of SIM and Monash. It's still early for us to call each other great friends but at the very least we get along really well. Let's hope the relationship stays as well when we start getting real work to do!
Enough about my job... I am very happy to announce that KJ and I recently celebrated our 1st ever anniversary together. Anniversary "X" as I call it, marks the length of time we've been together, where 2 < X < 3. Subsequent anniversaries can then defined as "X+1, X+2, etc" Unfortunately, KJ hates my definition and insists it's our 3rd anniversary (even though we are celebrating it for the first time..)
To complicate things even further, we have absolutely no idea what is the exact date we got started. So the date 07/07/08 was fixed as randomly as possible. Each of us contributed a random 5 digit number which was then multiplied. From the result, the first and last number happend to be 7, so we decided 7th of July each year is a good arbitual date to celebrate our anniversaries from now on! (Yeah, I know, we are really weird....)
Haha... We decided on the 7th july date in a cab on the 5th July (Gasp!) The short amount of notice fate given me meant that I did not have time to properly think through what useless thing I can get for KJ that will thrill her socks off. Remembering that she always complained I never bought her soft toys, I decided that's the absolutely useless thing I will get for her this year! Muahaha...
1 hour of speculative hunting in causeway point eventually resulted in a great success, for the retailer that is. According to the receipt, the huge panda bear toy I got measures 70cm in length. If I am priced the same way the panda is, I will be worth exactly $163.40 Sing dollars today. Go figure.
A greatly weaken Braun Buffel wallet and Posb account aside, I am relieved that the piece of cloth stuff with cheap cotton I selected was a great hit with KJ. Ah... The simple pleasures of life...
Hahaha... Stay tuned for the next episode of my random chatter!
Not that nothing happened in my life, I was just to lazy to type it out.
A few people kept asking me about my blog. Apparently I wasted alot of their time when they visit (many times) to find the same stuff here since 31st May... Hee hee
Erm.. Maybe I can just give an update on what I've been through for the past few weeks...
Officially I started work in The Nielsen Company (as they are known officially) on 1st July. Most people would know them as AC Nielsen, or the firm that provides the TV stations with the rating report.
From 1st July till probably end September, I'm just gonna be sitting through classes with 14 other recent graduates. But the classes are really fun and informative... So far, the focus has been on exposing us to the company culture and entire range of product suite offered by the company.
Typically what happens each day is that we will sit for lectures on various topics. The trainers are usually the directors of the company, which is a pretty strange sight cause you see these REALLY SENIOR people talking to us REALLY UNIMPORTANT people about REALLY TRIVIAL topics (Company culture, Structure, product type, etc.) I don't know, maybe it's just something about their flat and open culture that I have yet to learn to appreciate.
On certain days we get to do more interesting stuff like mystery shopping, case study.. We're supossed to visit a store next week for an audit check but I just noticed that it's on the 22nd and I have to attend my stupid convo! I'd pick the store check over the convo ceremony anytime if it wasn't for my parents...
Haha... Okay... So.... Other than the training sessions I must say the people in the firm are really nice, not just the 14 other trainees, but also our trainers, mentors and our babysitters from the HR dept. We see them so often it feels like we've known each other for a long time... Haha.. we even jio-ed the people from the HR dept for dinner next Friday, which they gamely agreed to join!
Of the 14 other trainees, many of them were from NTU (5), 1 from SMU, 0 from NUS, 1 from Starhub (He had worked for 3 years prior to joining Nielsen), 1 from India (MBA!) and the rest are a mix of SIM and Monash. It's still early for us to call each other great friends but at the very least we get along really well. Let's hope the relationship stays as well when we start getting real work to do!
Enough about my job... I am very happy to announce that KJ and I recently celebrated our 1st ever anniversary together. Anniversary "X" as I call it, marks the length of time we've been together, where 2 < X < 3. Subsequent anniversaries can then defined as "X+1, X+2, etc" Unfortunately, KJ hates my definition and insists it's our 3rd anniversary (even though we are celebrating it for the first time..)
To complicate things even further, we have absolutely no idea what is the exact date we got started. So the date 07/07/08 was fixed as randomly as possible. Each of us contributed a random 5 digit number which was then multiplied. From the result, the first and last number happend to be 7, so we decided 7th of July each year is a good arbitual date to celebrate our anniversaries from now on! (Yeah, I know, we are really weird....)
Haha... We decided on the 7th july date in a cab on the 5th July (Gasp!) The short amount of notice fate given me meant that I did not have time to properly think through what useless thing I can get for KJ that will thrill her socks off. Remembering that she always complained I never bought her soft toys, I decided that's the absolutely useless thing I will get for her this year! Muahaha...
1 hour of speculative hunting in causeway point eventually resulted in a great success, for the retailer that is. According to the receipt, the huge panda bear toy I got measures 70cm in length. If I am priced the same way the panda is, I will be worth exactly $163.40 Sing dollars today. Go figure.
A greatly weaken Braun Buffel wallet and Posb account aside, I am relieved that the piece of cloth stuff with cheap cotton I selected was a great hit with KJ. Ah... The simple pleasures of life...
Hahaha... Stay tuned for the next episode of my random chatter!
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