Just a blink of an eye, 16 weeks has past and it marked the end of my SIP. I still remember at that point of time i was thinking of whether to choose DBS M&A/ HSBC- Investment as my first choice. In the end i chose HSBC-Investment and hope that i might be able to get in because I'm quite attracted to the word 'investment' haha
First day of work, I met up with Zhongwei, Junjie and Aziemah at 8.30am @ Singpost. We were rather quiet and scared as we were wondering how our supervisors were like. In the end, both of my supervisors were in Malaysia and I followed Qixiang (NYP's Intern) for the first two days. He asked me if I know Bloomberg (I didn't even heard of it before) and told me that every morning I've to summarise headlines. Once I heard " summarise headlines" , i went 0.0!!! because i really hate summarising. 12.30pm, we went to have lunch with all the NYP interns and Jon ( the contract staff) Had some small talks and one of them told me that i'll learn alot of things in my department.
On the third day when my supervisors (SK and Adeline) were back, i met both of them and told Qixiang that SK looked kinda fierce :/ hahhaa but then Qixiang told me that they were quite friendly and damn joke lol. We had lunch together and SK asked me lots of questions. One of it was : How come you're posted to investment department when you are studying Dip BIT. I bet most of my coursemates got this question asked when they told their colleagues they are from BIT. And of course, on thursday we've got a farewell lunch for Qixiang and thru the conversation Qixiang had with his friend on Sametime, I realised that day was his birthday too!
One week past and I'm all alone with 2 supervisors. First time doing the headlines and I'm quite excited (though i dread doing it). I must say that i really tried doing it and also afraid to let them see what I've done. As time past, 熟能生巧 is the proverb that could describe the things i did in the period.
During these 16 weeks, SK and Adeline taught me a lot of things ( from studying to working ) and i swear i'm going to remember what they said. Also, I met a lot of awesome colleagues in HSBC Insurance :))
P.S. I will miss them alot!!