ITP

So far its been the second day of my ITP, which is Industrial Training Program (in case anyone doesnt know), and i'm enjoying it. I've been attached to The Show Company, aka Show Co...

1st day... introduction to the company, it's area of work, a little history (the dust there tells it all). Basically Show Co provides services in Sound, Lighting and Video. Usually all three on a single show.

The 4 of us (YuanJie, Arif, Maurice and me) met at aljunied and headed over to Show Co, despite having only a little idea on how to get there. Luckily we managed to get there without too much trouble. Waited outside the company for ard 30mins before Desmond, which is the superior that we were initially assigned to, arrived in his Nissan Sunny.... lolx... When I first saw Show Co, it looked like some old warehouse, totally different from wad I had in mind. First thing we did... hahaz, Desmond brought us to a nearby coffeeshop for breakfast. Intro-ed ourselves, had a slight briefing on working hours, pay, the company. After that, when more ppl came for work at 12 (cos they had a show the previous day, allowing them to come at 12 the next day, sounds fair to me), Desmond showed us ard and gave us more info abt the items in the company, mainly the cables. They then divided us to either one of the 3 sections of the company to be trained there for 3 wks each before rotating (9 wks of ITP in total). I'm into Video for the first 3 weeks. Then we went on to coiling and keeping the cables which they used the day before for the show, also allowing us to learn the names of the cable, where each cable can be found and where it must be put back after use. Other than that, he allowed us to jus simply roam ard familiarising ourselves with the equipments. Later on a sound guy named Raj (I think) taught us more abt the uses of the cables and also about speakers. Another nice guy ahmad, also a sound guy, chatted with us abt the company and it's principles. I also found out that they have a really nice office at the second floor, with a pool table. =P

Time passed really fast and then it was 6pm, which is also time for us to get off work... theoretically.... there's always OT pay, rite? hahaz

2nd day...
Reached Show Co pretty early again... this time, for the first.. er... hour, i think, we did housekeeping.... hahaz, sweeping and stuffs. Not that bad though, found a few interesting stuffs and it was also a long needed exercise. Today we learned, or revised, on the mixer as Raj did a basic PA system setup and went through wad a mixer does, how it is used with the processors and amps, how it is patched and the aux sends... learnt a little carpentry also, cos Show Co builds their own freight boxes, so yeah, i got a interesting hands-on lesson... lunch soon followed after, time really flies these few days... and the milk tea there is... erm... jus addictive... came back, learn more abt the PA system, then we jus hang ard trying out stuffs. basically for the rest of the day we jus hanged out, i helped out a little with the guys doing video, actually it was jus fetching cables for them, but at least after all the fetching, i get to stand ard and watch them do stuffs... (part of the learning proccess, i guess)... and that's abt it for the past 2 days.... phew, didnt think i would write all that down....

and this fri, i'm gonna go with Show Co to do my first show, or rather the setup, the show's on monday, so there's the setup on fri and sat, their rehearsal on sun, and the final performance on monday... at fort canning, dunno whether got ticket price... if dun have, all those that reads this and is able to come enjoy the music, please do...

and as for CNY, the company will be taking a "leave" for like ard 5 days, so we get the "hols"... but then there was also a pay cut cos of those days.... oh well, equal trade.....

So all in all, thk God that he has provide for me such a good company to work with and i pray that he'll guide me thru the rest of the 8 wks...

oh ya, also congrats to those who has gotten their O results back, like Kay, Zixin, Sean and Ezra... hope i didnt miss anyone out.... work hard for ur future, ok?

gonna go slp... ja

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