3 Day Week

Well this week has been interesting so far. I have become a little disgruntled with the public transportation system. Something that is only 15 minutes away by car or taxi takes an hour or two by rail to get to due to lack of direct routes. I went to NUS and it took me two hours to get there, and I was late for a meeting with a professor that I arranged, luckily she decided to stay longer and meet with me a few minutes. We discussed programs on South East Asian Studies and what my interests where in the area. It was a good meeting and I learned more about what I want to do in Graduate School.

Monday at work I learned that Siti's mother is originally from Iraq. In broken English she told me that she disliked Saddam, and supported the war in Iraq 100%. Her entire family supports Bush in the war in Iraq and says that it needed to be done before worse incidents occurred there.

I have been trying to learn from the Malaysian restaurant, however the lady that runs the store isn't too open to helping and teaching me. I have tried to talk to her three times, each time being asked to leave or some other worker mysteriously asking me to do something else after the lady spouted something off in Malay. I found out today that the head lady is Anwar's wife. I was kinda caught off guard by this because Anwar has really taught me a lot.

Work has been frustrating the past two days because I have ran out of learning opportunities and feel that I am just getting in the way. Amir, my supposed supervisor has not been around at all here lately. I called him and requested a meeting because he told me to do so if I ever wanted to talk about the business. I decided since the past two days have been 100% unproductive I should contact him and see about learning his side of the business. From talking to the others working I have found out that no one really knows what Amir does because he is never around the factory or restaurants. I hope he comes through because we only have less than 10 days left on our internships.

Tomorrow we fly to Hong Kong which should be exciting. The next few weeks will feature short trips to Thailand and Malaysia.