April 20, 2005

Background: My friend is interning at a rather prominent advertising firm, who's not paying her an allowance for anything. She spends an average of RM15 a day on food, petrol and parking. She also wants to quit, but apparently this internship counts as her practical, which is worth 4 credit hours, which we were supposed to do in semester 4, after we've taken our specialisation subjects, not before. I think someone got shafted.

It's her second week interning now, and she's screaming bloody murder. She has 6 more weeks to go, and was saying she wouldn't make it. While chatting...

Saffron: i think you will die lor
Saffron: can tell them you wanna quit?
Wei Wei: I ALSO THINK SO
Wei Wei: but what is my valid reason??
Wei Wei: then somemore
Wei Wei: if they need to talk to parents leh??
Wei Wei: then dunno wat will tengku think also
Wei Wei: aih
Wei Wei: eh
Wei Wei: if i said accident
Wei Wei: got no MC
Wei Wei: they need MC i think
Saffron: you run out and let a car knock you down la
Saffron: see how
Wei Wei: wah sei
Wei Wei: need ah??
Wei Wei: later i die how??
Wei Wei: i jz wanna get hurt
Wei Wei: not die
Wei Wei: wahahhaha
Wei Wei: not my time yet!!
Saffron: erm...let motorbike hit you la then
Saffron: dun pick car
Wei Wei: i still wanna enjoy life.....appreciate a lot of things
Wei Wei: wahaahahaha
Saffron: or if you pick car, pick the kancil in small road
Saffron: dun pik volvo or benz
Wei Wei: hhahahahhaah
Saffron: hahaha, eh, you blog about how I tried to kill you la
Wei Wei: u ah!!!
Wei Wei: hahaha
Wei Wei: ive u da credit to go n blog abt it

So, tonight's blog. Actually, I was writing another blogpost about dogs when Opera closed. I never take advice and compose in notepad first, and I don't feel like re-writing the same thing again, so this is sort of a filler post.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

that's you and me both, baby. Notepad's for wimps. Live dangerously, blog dangerously.

Anyway, a BMW or Benz is a better choice if your friend ever wants to get knocked down. Especially if the driver is a hot young man. If they're driving kancils it's obvious they're not going to be able to pay for your medical bills or settle for anything when you sue them. Besides, if she manages to snag the guy's heart, she doesn't even need that intern job anymore.

Buaya69 said...

internship with no allowance?!? F@#K!

Matty said...

heyo! I'm wondering, how come there aren't any allowances for intership! isn't tht a tad bit ridiculous? (not even minimum wages?!)

Anonymous said...

Maybe it was terribly hot in hell, and Satan wasn't gving out any ice cream :P

Saffron said...

@Taste:
Eh, what happened to your blog links? I think Plant or Knight had em, what did you do? Threaten to give them BJs? :)

I'll pass on your recommendations to her, heheh.

@Belacan:
Yeah, damn cheap company. Supposed to be one of the bigger brands as well, but so cheapskate.

@Matty:
Yeah, ridiculous. But then my friend never asked for it I think, so it's also partly her fault la. Parking saja already RM100 per month!! OMG!!

S£ΔNNΔ said...

Ridiculous perhaps... But very real... These days, it's hard to get any allowance or salary for an internship... A few years back, I managed to get RM400 a month, but these days you get amounts like RM200, RM100, or even RM0... But then, just tahan lah... If you don't do it, even worse... To quit would be like running away... It's not like they're paying RM0 for a full-time job... Because the truth is, nobody really wants to take trainees or interns much anymore... So if you can even get in, you're already very lucky... But then again, it might also depend a bit on what field you are in... But either way, internship may be bad, but it isn't getting better either way, so when I was at it (did it twice, once for engineering, and once for computer science), I learned to just suck it up... In the end, what matters is that you get what you have to do done, and learn to get along with staff well while you're at it... That's what the internship is for... Not for money, but for the experience... Umm, I just realized I've been lecturing, so I'll stop here... :p

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