First day of
internship was enjoyable because my colleagues were pretty friendly. In the
morning, I met up with Chermaine and Rilwan before heading off to the office
together. We were kind of early and we had to wait for the employees there to
open the door for us. First day of work; my supervisor was on reservice and he
would be back only on the 21st December. Hence, the person who was in charge of
guiding me along was Richelle, a pretty young and nice lady. All I had to do
for the first few hours was to learn about their two main financial products -
Dual Currency Return and Equity Linked Convertible Investments which the Wealth
Management Treasury Products Department specializes in. Well, it's something
which I have learnt while completing the module, Financial Market Product. The
products are like call/put options and equity shares. Therefore, it seemed
pretty familiar to me. My job scope was relatively simple; I just have to
update the daily rate sheets, upload it and update the necessary errors of the
trades. Besides that, I was supposed to manage the daily mass fixing and do the
closing which was like checking the details of the trade confirmations. Kind of
relaxing and at times, I felt bored as I had nothing much to do. As for my break
time, I joined my three colleagues and they treated me to lunch on the first
day. As for the second day, I joined Chermaine, Rilwan, JunQian and around 8 colleagues
from their department. Another lunch treat for the day; we dined in at some
Thai Cafe near our office.
To sum it up, I am
enjoying my internship but I detest the fact that....
· I have to wake up early in the morning
· I have to squeeze in the bus and train with
the working adults
· I have to wear heels to work because of blisters
· I have nothing to do at work
· time passes real slowly
· my stomach would growl before my lunch break
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