Thursday, November 11, 2004 @1:49 PM
YEA! Han is back from her holidays!!! yippee.. finally! =) Talked to her for awhile on the phone and listened the things that happened on her holiday trip! Interesting.... take note of her recount on her blog soon.
I went to GlaxoSmithKline, which is a major pharmaceutical company with extensive manufacturing operations in Singapore, with Jiaying, Yue Qiu, LiSha and Ms Khang yesterday for a job shadowing experience. Basically, this company produces the active ingredients in medicine before sending them in batches to its secondary site to be made into tablet/syrup form to be sold in stores like Guardian etc. Familiar brand names like Panadol, Nestle, Ribena etc are actually from this company. hee... I only knew it yesterday.
Students from The Chinese High (TCH), Nanyang Girls' High (NYGH), Victoria School (VS) and other various JCs came. We were brought around the site, saw the process of "white cake" being formed from raw material, from centrifuging to drying of compounds in a complete vaccum. I really experienced a lot after seeing how the machines are operated and asking questions about their company and the manufacturing processes. The entire trip was quite educational.
But what made the trip even more exciting are the actions of a gay couple, the two male teachers from VS and NYGH. Throughout the talk (I observed), both of them went to the toliet many times and for long periods of time before coming back into the auditorium. The male teacher from NYGH who was wearing a hot orange t-shirt, kept touching the other teacher's shoulder blade and stomach. -puke- Told Jiaying, Yue Qiu and Li Sha about it... and we started giggling and staring at them. Indeed, after some observations, all of them agreed with me! Even Ms Khang... we told her when we were out of the company's gate. She laughed along with us and said that she too felt the same way. ha!
Happy Deepavali to all, especially Mr Suria!