Yayness!

I have officially cleared all my work requirements. My final reports and presentations slides are all PDF-ed and presented. Actually, I finished my work ahead of time on Tuesday and was waiting eagerly to present (in order to slack and read blogs the entire day right after) on wednesday. So I was pretty annoyed to find that my presentation date is being postponed.

One annoying thing I can think of about working in China so far is, their timing is very 'flexible' meaning there is no such thing as a fixed schedule. To illustrate, I was supposed to present Wednesday morning and I was all psyched up to do a 40 minute and 46 slide presentation all by myself and then, I was informed by my manager that my presentation will be pushed back to Friday afternoon.


Well Ok... fine, 2 more days of waiting. After complaining and griping to all my friends, I dealt with the fact I'm gonna be the last among all my friends to present.

So on Wednesday night, I was playing dai dai for close to 3 hours since my presentation is on friday and I kinda am familiar with the presentation content. Hence, I wasn't too bothered on preparing for my presentation. I slept late as well.

I was in for a somewhat rude shock. On thursday morning, after I put my laptop and bag on the table, my immediate colleague came over and said in chinese, "Presentation have been brought forward to this morning 11am. Meeting room has been booked."


I was like, WHAT! in my mind. And I just smiled and said, no problem.


And strangely, no matter how annoyed I am at the sudden and super last minute change in timing, I was feeling very peaceful and relaxed. This is weird because usually before most presentations I would be like a kan cheong spider busy writing small cue cards.

My presentation went better than I expected. I was jitterish the first few minutes though but it went smoothly and for the first time, I didn't refer to any cue cards.

Well it was pretty smooth going, except for the last bit because I was trying so damn hard to suppress a cough which I know will make the cough even worse but I still try to hide it. It was ultimately a vain effort to suppress my cough because I ended coughly badly. My ending line was a cough and a seemingly endless one. It was so bad that I had to go to the washroom. Thankfully it was the last slide.


Hahahaha.. what a way to end the presentation to management and colleagues.

At least I did alright before the last slide. Thank God =)


I cannot believe tomorrow will be my last day. 3 months of interning in a chinese company; 3 months of living on my own with 2 awesome babes and equally awesome neighbours; 3 months of speaking chinese (more frequently).

I'm feel so thankful that I managed to get through these 3 months alone in a department with no teammate to share the burden of report writing and presentation preparation. And I'm still surprised at myself for churning out a combined 80 page report for 2 departments (inclusive of appendix of cause) and a set of presentations slides. In all of my years in SMU, I have never written a single full report that comprises more than 20 page. It was always team work or I was just in charge of vetting.


And I'm proud of my 2 roomies as well, they had to do reports plus presentations on top of all the translation work they had to do! Their translation rocks! haha I would have quit my internship if I were given translation work to do.. hahah, nah kidding. Hmm. I think it was a wise move afterall to tell my manager that my technical chinese is lousy and in need of serious improvement on day 1.

Im going for a photo taking session later with the 2 departments I helped did research and report for. And I'm really worried I'll tear or worse, cry.

Im such an emo person.

I'll miss life here. *I can already feel tears coming to my eyes. Sheesh*


Back to normal life.

Here I come, HK!