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lala @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008
To avoid sensitivity issues, I shall just use acronyms. Too bad if you don’t understand.

The AG is so cool. You can tell that she has been working in this sector for quite some time already and I thought she would be too busy to care about interns and new staff. I thought her job was to liaise with other high personnel from other Ms and SBs, have meetings with them as well as internal directors. Turns out she knew I was an intern and even invited me to attend today’s forum open to all Ms and SBs. Okay, maybe because I had nothing much to do too. BUT HEY AT LEAST SHE KNOWS ME. Haha. Well, today’s forum is really an eye opener. The public sector is really working hard to improve on policies and regulations to make operations in all Ms and SBs as cost efficient and effective as possible. Although some of the changes they proposed seem to render more work in itself, I believe we will see long term benefits. But one thing to note, we are still lagging behind the private sector by quite a bit. The questions posed by representatives from Ms and SBs were quite enlightening too. The AG asked me and another guy how we found the forum. I was taken aback by her sudden question. I told her I’m interested in the Assurance section but it was not mentioned in the forum. She commented that I was too young to be involved. Haha.

Okay that’s all for today. I’m getting off work. Another slack day again.

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---------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- lala @ Monday, April 28, 2008
It's been a long time ya.

Ivy mentioned abt my stagnant blog when i met her a few days ago. Yups ok. Ill try to write smth whenever I have time.

Now's the time.

Today is my first day at work at AGD.
This place looks really cool, but cold. Everyone seems friendly, but I guess there's alot of work to do, so they seldom talk. Or is it just so in my department?

Im posted to assurance and reviews, doing mainly reviews. Reviews here refer to Value for Money reviews which were recently introduced in the Budget 2007 I think, to access the various Ministries' budget expenditure and look into cost efficiency issues, to ensure that departments don't overspend etc. Pretty cool work it seems. But I don't really know what my job scope is exactly.

The HR officer, Fiona, brought me around AGD. Welfare here looks good. There's a pantry, a recreation corner with ps2, a pool table and a table soccer, a gym situated on the 11th storey. They also have a few seminar rooms to cater to meetings (both internal and external), but I don't think I'll get to use them.

I just realised that the AG's (Accountant-General, who is the highest ranked person here) office is just in front of me. I better watch my actions. haha.

I didn't do anything the entire day. Envy jen and jy who get to intern with other smu ppl. At least there's somebody to talk to when you're bored. And that is exactly the reason I am able to blog, yes after so long and yes out of boredom. I hope I get some work to do soon, otherwise I'm just going to rot in here.

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