Monday, November 5, 2007

First day at work...

The plane from HCM succesfully landed at Hanoi at 8.15am...

First unsuccessful scam!
The taxi driver was about to charge us USD25 for the ride to our hotel when it cost only USD10. Knowing this fact well, I asked the hotel receptionist to kindly translate to this , and finally he said a price of USD12. Fine, we paid him and he drove off so fast with his car boot still open! He must be really mad.
With only about 3 hours of sleep last night, my head is spinning a little by then. Took a shower, had lunch, and went to report at the office. Well well, first day, people are generally friendly. :) Got a new HP laptop for work and also a job scheduling tats just packed. And looking at documentations tat I'm unfamiliar with scares me a little. There is a need to pick it up very quickly as we are on jobs straight away. One job each week... Now i'm scaring myself more.
Just too tired to do anything else today. Gonna have dinner here at the hotel and got to bed soon.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Savvvvyy ! hehe.. so what kind of companies are you doing? Do you haf a translator to follow you around or do the clients speak english?

Andrea Tan said...

Hi Gloria,

Thank God you arrived safely and i'm surprised you've grown out of your 'old ways' so as not to get conned all the time..good one with the taxi!
Just think of the $$ when it comes to work..heheh...all the best!

molly said...

u still got time to blog? real disaster for first day work huh. hahahaha....wau i love jen's comment. translator following u sound good. but one thing for sure u dun need to spend extra on door lock, opening car door & etc. ahahha.....

She said...

Hey gurl, enjoy the ride. One day at a time and don't worry for tmr k.. cos no point. May the Force be with you. :p

cyberchic said...

haha..molly's comment was funny! locking & unlocking doors..awy,hope you're doing A-OK now! have fun! speak soon!

Gloria Chiam Nguyen said...

ehehe... ill be doing a lot of manufacturing companies... the plants here are far away and BIG.

n yess no more $$$ on locks and keys.

nop nop.. no more getting cheated! got cheap boots n sweaters! ahaha

Gloria Chiam Nguyen said...

ehehe... ill be doing a lot of manufacturing companies... the plants here are far away and BIG.

n yess no more $$$ on locks and keys.

nop nop.. no more getting cheated! got cheap boots n sweaters! ahaha