The day kicked off like a routine with morning prayers as my effective alarm clock, but I've left home a little later than the first day. Traffic was still smooth and I reached the front door of my office at around 7.30am. As I had no way of access to my cube, and with the hallway rather deserted, the cafeteria became an immediate sanctuary for me. I guess the early bird doesn't always get the worm, at least for this case. 20 minutes later I managed to find a nice floor mate to grant me access into the office, which indirectly reminded me of making my own tag.
During the first half of the day, I tried to get acquainted with the Graphical Test Generator (GTG), which is a solution implemented in another project to create a graphical functional test generator. The task proved to be rather daunting in the beginning with all the new jargons, acronyms and technical terms, but my endeavor was not in vain thanks to google.com. I proceeded with some Perl Script tutorial before realizing the clock struck 10.35, which was about time for me to get my tag done. A wise decision, it was to be at the badge centre as soon as the door opened because a long queue quickly crowded the room. Fortunately I've managed to acquire the tag as soon as lunch time arrived. It was worth the wait since I found the design very much to my liking. Besides that, there's lunch discount for me.. yay~!
Lunch wasn't much of a merry affair as I was alone in the busy cafeteria, until the last half of my stay at PG-12 cafeteria. I was curious about how the other staff members made their orders at the individual food stalls which served specialized food as those places had no menu. I mean, even if they are familiar with it, how'd they know what's available in the first place without taking up the time of asking. Note that there is a massive traffic of hungry humans during the first 15-20 minutes of lunch hour. Shall I be inconsiderate to make the line wait while I familiarize myself with the vocal menu? Perhaps I should stick to economy rice, hm... or maybe not.
On the other hand, I've finally gotten my welcome package/intern starter kit! But it turns out I already had most of what the bag provided me. Oh well, I suppose 2 of something is better than 1 (cues Boys Like Girls' "Two Is Better Than One"). The next 4.5 hours I spent in the office was pretty much self studying with Perl Tutorials and being intrigued by the GTG code provided by my supervisor. Time flied, and minor things caught my attention as I occasionally made my way to the pantry and the washroom, such as the happening clubhouse (it serves a Wii and a PS3 on two wide screen TVs, awesome much?) and the many long conversations in various languages that filled the air which I found rather peculiar.
Dinner was taken at somewhere new in Jelutong town, but I've decided to try Penang's specialty of char koay teow once again (it's virtually available everywhere here) to determine the best of the best. It's also rather comfortable to be able to use Hokkien almost all the time when you buy stuff or order food. Credits go to my parents! ^^
I've certainly have had wished that Perl Scripting was part of my studies back in uni, it would have certainly accelerated my learning pace here. As the second day ended, I pray for a more fruitful day tomorrow and somewhere deep inside the caverns of my thoughts and emotions, I wouldn't want to work anywhere else. Let's not be hasty in judgment, shall we? Au revoir à mon deuxième journée!
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