the first week of my attachment is over
all my fears of the stories i heard of attachments
vanished within the first day of the week
the staff at the infocomm systems department of ascott are very nice people
although the workload is immense and the stress is evident
they always seem to be laughing and smiling and sharing jokes
i'm very glad that i was chosen to be attached to ascott
as it has a wonderful environment to work in

the department is divided into infrastructure and system admin
interestingly all the staff of infra are males
and all staff of system admin are females
but i'm in system admin
interesting
my reporting officer is chang pei ling
she's a damn nice person
she assigns me with the work i have to do
and sort of looks after me
the other person who i first started to talk to was cassandra
who really doesn't look her age
enough said about that

ascott as some systems
after 1 week i have learnt how to create, edit or delete accounts
in the hotel information system (HIS) and employee information portal (EIP)
at first it was quite confusing
but after a day or 2 i was more confident and able to finish my tasks somewhat independently

another interesting thing is that
in the first week the IS dept shifted from temasek tower to liang court
temasek tower was nice cos the whole office was very well done and high class
but we were in cubicles so it was quite cool
in liang court we're in this room that used to be a training room
so when we report for work its like we're entering a classroom
but it is good cos we can just shout across the room

a lucky thing is that i started work on monday
and on tuesday, because of CNY, there was a company lunch for the finance and IS dept
so i had a 8 course lunch at a teo chew restaurant near temasek tower
on tuesday the employees of ascott all got bonuses, except me of cos
so on wednesday peiling treated me and 2 colleagues to a japanese restaurant
the food there was really nice
then on thursday, after moving to liang court
we went for another CNY lunch, this time at spring court
another 8 course, and this time it was better than the one on tuesday

the hours dun really feel very long
the attachment will get tougher
but i think i should be able to handle it
besides
1 week down only 24 weeks to go!