Friday, 16 March 2007

Intensive week

On Monday, I started my internship with Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong. The office is located in Central Plaza, an amazing building. I work on the 59th and it has more than 70 floors. So to handle all the people they are several lifts serving only a certain range of the floors. For instance, I have to take a transfer lift first that shoots me straight up to the 46th from where another lift takes me the the 59th floor. Crazy, aye? My first working day was pretty easy. As nobody had time to do a proper introduction, I tried to get acquainted to the department's business reading older presentations. Tuesday, however, was already the first day I had to work late and stayed in the office till 9pm. The superior of our boss was coming from Germany to get to know the Hong Kong office. So everybody had fire in his/her... And I could contribute with something I'm pretty good at: fine tuning Powerpoint slides :). In the evening, Ruth (a uni mate from Switzerland, who is doing an internship in HK as well) took my to the Night Market introduced me to the HK shopping culture.
On Wednesday evening, I joined in for an afterwork drink with the "young talents" of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce at the FINDS bar. It turned out that the general manager and the marketing officer were Swiss. They kept offering us free drinks and as polite as we were, we kindly accepted. What's more, they invited us for the next evening. That Thursday night was really crazy. First, we had so many free shots at FINDS that any reasonable thinking was put out. It was then when we decided to move on to the renown Hey Hey Club and were even prepared to pay 160 Honkies entry (stupid!). We stayed way too long which left it marks on the following day...!

2 comments:

)i( said...

Hey Ratana!

Got your url from Peter :-)

HK, pretty groovy ... say hi to my "former employer", for me, haha, I worked for MercedesBenz for three years at the Car Show in Geneva :-p

Will be reading about your adventures for sure!

Liebs Grüessli,

Carissa

p.s. you done the Central-Mid-Levels Escalator already?

)i( said...

Btw: I just saw your other blog, from NZ. When I was there, we had to do the Abel Tasman in just two days, how exhausting :-D But amazingly beautiful...

U in touch with the @MC in HK? If you see Nadya, the Ukrainian girl from the HK MC, say hi to her for me pls :)

Last totally random note: Yat Wan will stay at my place in Geneva this coming Easter weekend :-)