A little bit of this, a little bit of that

I went to Carrefour today and there was hardly anyone. (by comparison to "normal" times, I mean) Just another sign that everyone has left on holiday.

Everyone's leaving for Malaysia or has left. I will be leaving in about two weeks too. In the meantime I have my internship.

Which is actually not too bad, really. Now that I am working on something else. And also...now that I have started to warm up to the others. Like I mentioned I-don't-know-where before, I need time. But now that I am finally settling down, it is almost time to leave.

So it's like, in two weeks I shall be leaving the company, which is kinda a downer. (I'm the first of the interns to leave, by the way) But three days later I shall be leaving for Malaysia, which is great :D So hey, I am happy. But...I don't really want to start class again in September :|

By the way I think I should clarify about saying that "Now that I am working on something else" earlier. It's not that I didn't like what I did at the beginning. It's just that there were too many idle moments when I didn't quite know what to do. There was no exact result to reach, making me unsure of whether I had actually finished or not.

The first half of my internship was mostly sifting through documents, which was not very stimulating for my brain, either. There were some interesting stuff...but mostly repetitive so that in the end my brain just got numb from it all. Then when I got the microcontroller I was simply happy (I would like to say ecstatic because it's so much more poetic but then that would be exaggerating it) that I could start programming on it, which was a change.

And now that that is done, for this final month I am working with another intern, doing some programming. And the best thing is that this programming is about what I have been looking at since the beginning of my internship.

Another good thing, I guess, is that I am working with someone. Unlike before when I was working alone, with no one else doing anything close to what I was. It was what my tutor mentioned as well, that it might be a nice change to work with someone, and really, I couldn't agree more. (not that I told him that...lol) I might not be very social, but being completely solitary isn't too much my style either. At least, not all the time. And maybe that did help in my "warming up to the others", as I said earlier. I mean, it's hard to say anything to someone when you have nothing in common. Or at least it is for me...I know that some people have no problem talking to others! (like my father...heh heh heh :P) And when I have nothing to say, I just clam up. I must have spoken more to Etienne (the guy I'm working with now) in the last two weeks than in the preceding 4 and a half months o_O

Oh yeah, and it has been two weeks since I saw one of my girl friends. Last weekend, after coming back from my weekend with the guys (more about that another time...I will post photos but most probably after my modem starts working again, or after I get back to M'sia :P), I suddenly realized that the last girl I had seen was Liu Qiong, right after the INSA holidays started. (Sunday, I believe) That was the weekend before. So now that another week has passed, it has been two weeks. (at the company there are only guys in the lab...and the girls I see but don't know don't count!)

As I wrote in my private blog at that time:

Ratio of time spent with guys vs time spent with girls:
Before stage (1st sem): ~ 1:1
After starting stage: > 99:1
In the last week (Mon-Sun): X:0

(stage = internship)

Oh well, I'll see the girls in M'sia ^_^