I swear I don’t have problems with my work. I love my colleagues cause they pamper me a lot. I think my supervisor is finally starting to acknowledge me (even though it means I have to hear him yell and scream for me). And really, my colleagues are caring, REALLY CARING. Which is not something I’m used to, I guess. Cause they keep telling me to go back early, usher me to lunch, worrying about how I’m getting along with work. I’m still stuck at filing and apparently will only get back to all the archi stuff next week. Filing has been boring but because there is a disgusting amount of paper (consisting of a box and plastic bags and piles of paper) I can’t help but to want to clear them. Now there’s only half a box left and I hope I get it done by tomorrow. It feels to good to have accomplished something right? My colleague came up to me today, he’s one who is always asking how I’m doing and had told my supervisor about my work in filing saying that it wouldn’t have benefitted me and stuff so he came up to me today and asked me, ‘Actually, do you really like this filing job?’

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not angry at him for asking such a question but honestly, what was I to answer. If I didn’t like the filing job, should I tell my supervisor and just leave all that pile of paper which has (I assume) been entrusted to me? Should I be happily fb-ing like mad and screw such a nonsense job which will not be beneficial to my logbook experience? Isn’t that just being lazy? Isn’t that just being selfish? My supervisor knows that me doing filing will not benefit me, hell I’ve told him about it and he did his best and all and since I was already given the job, why not make use of it? So thanks to the bloody filing job, I got to know all the current projects inside and out, the suppliers, contractors, (fuckin’) RFI’s and what goes through all these people (cause filing itself is boring so I go through them to check out the main points and it’s a wonder how much information is transferred in a day). I also get to know how bad your connection to the supplier can be and what not, and realized that only by raising your voice can you get things done seriously, even I was pissed with what they were doing. So stupid. I also go through samples and since my Boss is some person in PAM he has all the PAM stuff and holy shit you should see all the info I scraped from there. Not to mention he’s a total green building geek. Something I’m totally not.

Well, all in all, my experience was not exactly worthless but if it goes on over than a week, I think that’s a bit too much. In my opinion, there is no job I can like. If I had my choice, I would rather stay at home lounging about, surfing the internet though my older bro told me that I’m the type who can’t stay still and would be totally annoying without work to occupy my thoughts. Unfortunately, that small little bit of me agrees with my older brother and as long as I have something to do in the office, I’ll be happy. :)

Although I’m rather worried at the amount of work I’m gonna get when I get my ass back into the archi department. My colleagues have been going all, ‘just you wait, we have tons of work for you,’ while smiling smugly. So am I enjoying work? Quite really, though I do miss seeing daylight…

I have so many stuffs to talk about. Birthday, camp, work, camera but alas, my fingers are always tired by the end of the day thanks to work so I can barely type. That and I have better stuff to do in life. When I have a life, I tend to not blog. So anyway, I’ll post when I feel like it but pics will be sorely limited cause during camp, my camera was taken by my family who went on their own vacation without yours truly and on my birthday, it just felt totally awkward to hold a camera during your own birthday party. So since it’s gonna be all words, I shall stuff in random pics that I have (WTF?!)

Anyway, in reference to the title (I’ve been reading/typing too many formal letters), I have somehow, been demoted to the admin department in the firm. Dealing with letters and filing. I wonder if it’s because I’ve been doing a REALLY bad job. I’m totally paranoid on what to do cause, the usual me would be totally mad and bluntly asking my boss for the reason as to why I’m being made to go through papers, punching holes through them and shoving metal hooks into ‘em. But my supervisor is the loud type too and as much as I think he would  accept my views as he usually does, I’m afraid of the view of the PA of the principal architect. Wait, scratch that, she has no views. She totally whips out whatever emotion she has and the my supervisor and her tend to get into this whole chinese drama setting which is totally awkward to step into. Apparently all the receptionists have all fled (one even fled after only working for a week which can totally ruin your CV mind you) thanks to her nagging. It’s amazing that…. she totally pampers me. It must be the age factor considering I’m practically her daughter’s age. That or I must be super efficient or as she has said, I capture stuff really fast. But you know the saddest thing?

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I KINDA MISS DOING STUFF LIKE STUDIO.

I guess my brain refuses to work at such a mundane pace where all it has to do is think ‘ah, tender goes here!’ or ‘oh! This goes into THAT file!’. When I see the people discussing in the conference room I yearn to join the discussion. I have before but thanks to the new post I’m too busy filing.  I wanna go for site visits. I wanna use CAD. My colleagues have pointed out it would totally ruin my log book but there’s still work and I’m not one to leave work incomplete! Since it doesn’t have a dead line….

Sigh, if it goes on longer I just might have to drag my supervisor out for a man to man talk. ERGH. At times I wonder, cause he encourages people to speak out loud (just like him), and he has pestered me to voice out more so maybe, just maybe, he’s waiting for me to beg him. But that might just be me…

… IS OVER!

HOLIDAYS!

NOT!

I started interning.

Sem 5 was a whirlwind, earthquake, tsunami, flood and every other natural disaster packed into one whole shitload of a semester. Oh wait, there’s still a sem 6. I’ll find some other shitier metaphor when I’m done with sem 6 but coming back to sem 5. I’ve learned a lot. Mainly, the fact that I so totally can’t do religious buildings namely, a mosque. How bad CAN a mosque be you’d think. Mosque is always synonymous to a dome and a minaret but look here, I’m in a course which encourages thinking out of the box and having a dome a minaret is not so out of the box. In fact, I would have loved to make a mosque with curvy and open spaces and ramps and any forms that Frank Gehry would have thought of but sadly, I was not gifted with a dynamically creative brain and came out with a geometric, generic, flat roofed thing called a mosque. In internet language, what I have gone through the whole sem was… EPIC PHAIL!

Working drawings was another shittier subject. I am to be blamed for everything shitty in the subject cause I kept procrastinating which was what I did NOT do in the past sems. I bring myself to shame. Oh boo hoo.

History was embarrassing and boring. I came late to each and every class and when I do come, I zone out. And I didn’t study much for the last exam. Ergh. I regret a  lot.

And finally, Project management…. it’s so bad I don’t even dare talk about it.

Since all is well and done, the only thing I CAN do is well, pray for the better next sem and work 18327408237403924823 times as hard. I will try my best T__T

P.S I’m can’t find my specs so I’m typing without them. Screw spelling errors and typos. It defines ME.