Latihan Industri Minggu 1, hari 1

Today is the first day of industrial training and strangely i fell asleep during the working hours several times. This has been attributed to a lack of sleep that has snowballed since the night before i came to KL up till now. Another factor is the lack of mental stimulation during the training.

I got there half an hour early at 7 am (yes my working hours starts at 7.30 am) and signed in at the guard house. After waiting on the bench and getting sized up by the steady stream of managers and engineers signing parking and flashing their ID cards at the guard house, the HR manager finally reached the factory and she asked me to follow her to the meeting room where i waited some more.

There i was briefed on some pertinent issues and then assigned to an engineer which i would be sticking to throught the 10 weeks of training. The engineer is called Azril and he just started working for about 6 months.

He brought me around the factory for a bit, asked me about what I intended to do for training and then the senior engineer asked me to help her on her powerpoint presentation which i did as it was the first "real" work that i got for the whole day. Thanks to that i didnt dozed off.

2 meal breaks during working periods sounds good but the food at the canteen is so teruk that i dont really feel like eating hence i just scooped a bit here and there to tahan lapar a little.... Which made realized. Thats y Arzil didnt want to go for lunch.... He might hate the food there too.... Swt at least i will just have to endure it for at least 10 working weeks lar...

10 working weeks aint that long thanks to the economic slowdown, people arent buying that many volvos and the factory had to reduce production by putting in to place some "lay-off" days where i wont need to go to work on alternate fridays. I sure hope they add more of those in the near future after i know my way around KL more... Would like to lepak at One-Utama or MidValley or the Pavillion lar....

Overall, today was a boring and unproductive day. In fact i felt even more productive if i woke up at 12 pm and read MalaysiaToday, friend's blogs, checked my mail, eat lunch and watch anime during for the rest of the day during my study break. Did i really get in to the right place for latihan industry?