C'est vendredi et Je suis dans l'amour
We had our departmental birthday celebration today. Jolly good food and fun! :)
They got this ice cream uncle to station outside our office - you know the kind that you see with a bicycle with an attached box-cart type? There are quite a few of them in Orchard.
It was good old fashioned ice cream! The mini scoops of ice cream in a cup/cone/bread or the huge icy chulk of ice-cream block wedged between two rectangular waffles biscuits. Yums Yums! Reminds me of my primary school days, where I used to queue regularly for them! Ah those carefree days...
It was totally delicious and it was real nice to see the uncle smiling from ear to ear when he left us. $90 worth of ice cream sold in 1 hour, we were pretty sure he was calling it a day after leaving! (The ice-cream were like $1 each and we had 70+ at the party today, some obviously had second/third helpings!)
After the birthday party, it was back to the work war zone. It was a hectic day at work today. Many emails to reply, many documents to review, and my boss decided that she wanted me to sit in for a conference call today.
It was my first ever conference call.
The call involve folks from the London, US and Latin Americas regions. We are at phase 1 of a new project that my boss is initiating, and my boss wanted me to take the call on her behalf.
It was quite an experience. Imagine being in a phone conversation with 8 people at the same time. The call took like 45 mins and it was tiring just holding the phone (wish I had speaker's phone, then again it wouldn't be too feasible as the contents of the call are not ready to be broadcast as yet)
And I had questions directed at me which I obviously needed to answer... Its strange but I felt myself being a little nervous. And no, its not because I am speaking to ang-mohs and I was worried about not sounding coherent. Afterall I do converse with the Euro folks everyday! Hmm.. I guess I was caught off-guard as I took the call thinking that I could just be a listener/ silent audience, and not be expected to speak up! :D
Post-call work? I have to report back to my boss on Monday. And methinks there would be follow-up conference calls and meetings. Well, I'll find out if she wants me to play a more active role in this project.
J'espère si
They got this ice cream uncle to station outside our office - you know the kind that you see with a bicycle with an attached box-cart type? There are quite a few of them in Orchard.
It was good old fashioned ice cream! The mini scoops of ice cream in a cup/cone/bread or the huge icy chulk of ice-cream block wedged between two rectangular waffles biscuits. Yums Yums! Reminds me of my primary school days, where I used to queue regularly for them! Ah those carefree days...
It was totally delicious and it was real nice to see the uncle smiling from ear to ear when he left us. $90 worth of ice cream sold in 1 hour, we were pretty sure he was calling it a day after leaving! (The ice-cream were like $1 each and we had 70+ at the party today, some obviously had second/third helpings!)
After the birthday party, it was back to the work war zone. It was a hectic day at work today. Many emails to reply, many documents to review, and my boss decided that she wanted me to sit in for a conference call today.
It was my first ever conference call.
The call involve folks from the London, US and Latin Americas regions. We are at phase 1 of a new project that my boss is initiating, and my boss wanted me to take the call on her behalf.
It was quite an experience. Imagine being in a phone conversation with 8 people at the same time. The call took like 45 mins and it was tiring just holding the phone (wish I had speaker's phone, then again it wouldn't be too feasible as the contents of the call are not ready to be broadcast as yet)
And I had questions directed at me which I obviously needed to answer... Its strange but I felt myself being a little nervous. And no, its not because I am speaking to ang-mohs and I was worried about not sounding coherent. Afterall I do converse with the Euro folks everyday! Hmm.. I guess I was caught off-guard as I took the call thinking that I could just be a listener/ silent audience, and not be expected to speak up! :D
Post-call work? I have to report back to my boss on Monday. And methinks there would be follow-up conference calls and meetings. Well, I'll find out if she wants me to play a more active role in this project.
J'espère si
posted by Shazza at Saturday, June 04, 2005
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