From Day 1, it's been 1001 talks by mgt, from fire safety to service quality to address by CEO. The best bit was perhaps by Steph where we got to role play as hospital staff and patients and experience frontline stress and patient impatience for once.
We've also had a Hospital Hunt. Which includes running walking around the hospital and solving clues like finding a "Push when finished" button which is actually the cashcard eject button of a photocopy machine. HR misled us by zooming it in so much that we thought it was a big button!!! :/
Following the Hospital Hunt, we had the "High and Mighty" activity where we were given balloons, newspapers, foam cups to build a high and mighty structure to survive 2 tests. The tallest structure after the 2 tests win. Our generation supposedly loves suspense, and the 2 tests were not made known upfront. Just build the most stable structure we can. After forming a stable 3-legged base, we built up another stick of newspapers. put on the cups and the blown up balloons. Saw that other groups had higher structures. Amanda rolled on another stick to stick onto the newspapers. Tick tock tick tock. Masking tape still busy taping the balloons to the cups. Amanda stresses that should tape the stick first. Which btw I totally agree, cos what's the point of sticking the balloons to the cups when they are not connected to the structure ultimately? Panic. We randomly used rubber bands to reinforce the newspaper-cups joint. Time's up! When our hands left the structure, the weak joint gave way and the cups + balloons started to swing down and kaw-toh to us :S
Now, the exciting tests. First test is the Hurricane tests, where all other teams can gather around and blow as hard as they could to get the structures down. As our structure was closest to the front, they decided to start with us first. Which sucks. Cos everyone would have a lot of energy at the beginning. Turn out to be the opposite. Everyone was so shy, anyone hardly blew. Or rather, the 2 hiong guys are in my team. Out of the remaining 5 structures, they broke 2 joints and got 1 structure totally down. Next test is the Earthquake test, where two HR folks pick up the cardboard on which the structure is laid and drop it from knee height. They decided to start from the back this time. I was quite traumatized watching structures collapse after structure. But my team's structure stood firm! Woohoohs. Which means we won :D
Between the 1001 talks by mgt and super experienced folks and touring around SiGH, we've got lotsa tea breaks and makan at Tiong Bahru Market. The #1 principle for getting food is to go to a place with free shuttle bus from SiGH == Tiong Bahru Market or Bukit Merah. It has been TBM for the past few days for obvious reasons that it serves really good food :) had the dim sum today, the char siew pastry still rocks.
Jingx came back today (and on Tues and Thurs for that matter) for tea! Just nice I knocked off early and joined her and Matt for their usual tea break :) Matt shared quite a lot on our way back to office. Got to talk more to Magdalene in office and she's totally nice. While munching on the wife's biscuits from HK, I dropped some crumbs and she cleaned up for me. Nice right! :p I mean apart from cleaning up my crumbs, she's nice in talking to me abt my orientation and my aussie trip and even plans for the weekend. Totally nice!
A week on, and I'm still happy. But... this is just orientation. The fact that Matt had to go back aft tea, Mag was still there and so was Geoffrey shows that they do work OT, even on Fri evenings. which kinda sucks. So I'm just gonna enjoy before the real work kicks in. Gotta be.
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Folds of mountains
Overlay
Lush green beauty
Hands to trace
Imagine you saw a lollipop dangled in a hand in front of u. The lollipop is colourful and looks yummy. Follow it. The person holding the lollipop keeps walking. Turns over to tell you oh it could be for you. Carry on walking. Continue following. Then you discover that it was another kid he has been walking towards and he hands the other kid the lollipop. That's how cheated I feel, and I'm going to remember it forever.
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