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Saturday, August 21
10th of May was the first day. Slightly over 100 days later, my attachment has ended.
I wouldn't miss the journey to work every morning, nor the inhuman waking hours in order to make the 1 and a half hours transit. What i'll miss will be the human touch, especially Yuanhao, my attachment partner, and Kris, my colleague or rather they should be called friends. With them around, the place seems more livelier.
Orignally, i had wondered on the first day of work just how was i going to survive through the arduous period. The staff that first greeted us were all female and much, much older than Yuanhao and me. The lab of more than 6 staff contains only 1 desktop, and our boss was nowhere to be found. He was in europe togther with our officer-in-charge for a conference. So that means 1 whole week of going-to-work-at-9-and-slack-the-whole-day-till-6.. wow. 7 days down, 96 more to go.
Thankfully, after they came back from the trip, everything started looking up.
Shirley, our officer-in-charge, was a very nice lady who assigned real work to us (YES!) and patiently explained everything to us. Shortly after their trip, Kris joined us. He was from the same batch but had already graduated and is now hired back as a temp staff. The three of us had lots of laugh together, from playing billiard to getting free food and to blowing lab gloves up and exploding them. ;) And the staff member who treated us as free labour did not had her contract renewed after it finished, so we both weren't really bothered when she left. Glad even.
On our 2nd last day, Shirley organized a farewell dinner for us at our boss' house, which was really nice of her. The most senior staff member, Dorothy even brought us breakfast on our last day. What made it even more cool was that she was once my self-declared arch enemy. =) Old memories are kept, new challenges await.
Farewell Oncology Laboratory - Dept. of Paediatrics, NUS.
8/21/2004 01:01:00 am + + Kese + +
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