At singapore finally, and here at Raghuraman's place blogging from a Macbook! Exciting indeed! Let me first talk about how this laptop is... Well, I get the Apple PRO touch just like any other Apple products. User friendliness, the looks, performance... it's cool! Cost-we better not talk about it at the moment! Visual features are cool, and the dock, though something that I've used in the transformation pack, is obviously good and more, lets say, genuine here! In all, something that I've always wanted to try and here I am doing it! So, exciting!
Now coming to stuff @ Singapore. Firstly, the place is good! Really good! Be it the cleanliness, the way people follow rules here, the roads, the greenery, the transport-it's cool! And for someone who's come from India, these things are for sure, luring!
Me and Sharvil share the house here, basically a room for ourselves with attached bathroom, 2 separate wardrobes, AC, electronic water heater, a king size bed and a refrigerator, and a hall and kitchen which we share with the owner here. It's comfortable and well connected to all major places around. That's kinda the case with every place here i guess, thanks to the MRT and the buses!
A funky thing with the transport, something really convenient too, is the EZtravel card we have for both the MRT and buses. You can top it up for how much ever you want, and keep traveling! No tickets, no cash needed for anywhere you go! And taxis services are pretty affordable here. We took a Mercedes Benz taxi (which wouldn't have been the case hadn't the company not accepted to refund it!) to the Ministry of Manpower to get the visa today. Traveled in style you know!
Coming to the company... Infineon Technologies, is an awesome building! Shaped like a ship, it's really unique!
Me and Sharvil share the house here, basically a room for ourselves with attached bathroom, 2 separate wardrobes, AC, electronic water heater, a king size bed and a refrigerator, and a hall and kitchen which we share with the owner here. It's comfortable and well connected to all major places around. That's kinda the case with every place here i guess, thanks to the MRT and the buses!
A funky thing with the transport, something really convenient too, is the EZtravel card we have for both the MRT and buses. You can top it up for how much ever you want, and keep traveling! No tickets, no cash needed for anywhere you go! And taxis services are pretty affordable here. We took a Mercedes Benz taxi (which wouldn't have been the case hadn't the company not accepted to refund it!) to the Ministry of Manpower to get the visa today. Traveled in style you know!
Coming to the company... Infineon Technologies, is an awesome building! Shaped like a ship, it's really unique!
The best part is not that ofcouse, but how we went there on the first day! We'd planned to visit the office the previous evening itself so that we didn't have to search for it the reporting day, and that we did. We had a chat over a cup of tea with the seniors who're working there. That evening we went to a beach nearby, and planned to jog there the next morning at 0600hrs, then fresh up and leave to office. So what happened the next morning? pretty guessable now, coz that's what happens to all such great plans to great people... We went late!
What happend? Alarm rang at 6, 630, 730, we switched them all OFF, till the owner called at 0830 hrs to say all the best! we had to report at 0900 hrs! and bang! we get out of the bed, get ready, no bath! and took at bus to the MRT, came to a station called Aljunied (from where we gotta take a bus to the office), and got a taxi instead, that costed S$5, and reached office at 0920hrs! Thank God the HR lady wasn't available right then. we were asked to wait. 5 mins, she was there. she briefed us about stuff here. and we got our RFID cards issued (that's funky!). anywhere you go, you need this electronic card for access. we tap it near the door, a reads the code in the card wirelessly, and we're granted access.
met my project superviser, Goh Ban Hok. Sharvil's guy was in a meeting. So my guide took us around and showed me the lab i was gonna work n all.. lots of boards around, and complex instruments! let's see! Well, all looks good and interesting, let's see how my work goes on there!
So that was my first day as an intern - no bath, reported late, but had lots of fun!
met my project superviser, Goh Ban Hok. Sharvil's guy was in a meeting. So my guide took us around and showed me the lab i was gonna work n all.. lots of boards around, and complex instruments! let's see! Well, all looks good and interesting, let's see how my work goes on there!
So that was my first day as an intern - no bath, reported late, but had lots of fun!
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