I’ve started work =) internship at The Ascott Group (read: as-kert). NOT Escort. Common mistake I get a lot these days. The week started out really slack. All I did was just go online to hunt for numbers of certain certain people, like Elim Chew and MacDonald’s Managing Director. But e bomb fell on Tuesday… … I was suddenly assigned the impossible task of getting ____ done. E norm is for 4 people to work on this for 15 weeks. This time its one Mel and 8 weeks to get the same thing done. Been stressing my brains out over this. However, I’m really determined to make sure I don’t screw this up and I do a more than brilliant job at it! Besides this, piles of stuff have been coming up upon me. Simple stuff like “find out how long it takes to get me from Singapore to Paris” to bigger stuff… but I’m not complaining. In this one week I feel like I’ve really learnt a lot.

I’m doing this internship in Corporate Communications, which is essentially the PR of the company. We’re in charge of attracting and influencing the media to write great stuff about us =) its pretty interesting watching and learning what to do and use to get the job done! Been making lots of phone calls and learning what to say what not to, when to, and the lot…

I read the book The Pact by Jodi Picult (pardon me if I misspell her name) recently. Its not particularly engaging if ure looking at its content really, but the way it was written was what kept me going till the wee hours of the morn. I liked the way the author weaved the past and the present chapter by chapter. Its challenging since some ay its hard to keep two stories in your head at once, but that was the idea I particularly liked. The story talked about love, and loss. About how a young 17 year old boy shot his beloved to death. He claimed she longed to die, and as time passed, how she only became happy when she discussed her inevitable death, by choice. It looked at love in an unconventional way and it dealt with the phase of adolescence we know so well about and adults look at with such reproach. It set me thinking about many things. Many things I’ve chosen, whether or not they were for the better.

As you can tell there really isn’t that much to do now at work, since I’m free to the extent that I sit here updating my blog on Microsoft Word before copying and pasting it onto the blog, lest my boss walks past and catches me idling away on blogger.

Okay marketing communications just assigned me a task. Time to get busy.

Till next time =)