i laughed. i laughed out loud.

Back from work today with half my body drenched; luckily i did not pull a janet jackson in CBD at rush hour as moi was saved by the sling strapped across my chest. Did tons of reading (again! what's new anyway) while rest of interns were busy entering data, or crunching ratios and doing discounted cashflow. Started to realize that Corporate Communications is so not needed in an Accounting firm.

By the way, saw this "motivational" letter on BDO International website that "Since Big 4 are perceived as cold and arrogant, hence BDO is not eager to be one of the Big 5, we are happy to be the top player catering to a niche market of small businesses" - something along that line. I laughed. I laughed out loud.

As for my workload (if any) today, I was so busy pretending to be busy with reading through what I've read yesterday(twice), that my friend sitting opposite me really thought that moi was busy with work. I laughed. I laughed out loud.

Had this big hoo-ha at office from morning till past lunch time with trying to configure my wireless, then later, back at home with moi wireless. What a day with wireless. Then, realised that the office system will miraculously disable any connection to MSN and MSN Web. I laughed. I laughed out loud.

Apparently, I have to call hundreds and hundreds of SMEs and verify their contact details throughout these 10 weeks (Miss J tells me to spent maximum of 1 hour each day, and she reckones it'll be roughly 200 per day) because, "BDO caters to SMEs" and that is where their niche is. I laughed. I laughed out loud.

I was also asked to read Business Times (which is actually a very good read) to seek out news on SMEs, FRS, and any seminars held by competitors etc etc... Asked Miss J if we were to utilised such articles on SMEs for our newsletters and all she said was "Well, it's just reading so that we know what's happening, we don not really include it into the newsletters, but rather to help us know what they are up to, you know (what I mean)" I do not know what she means. I laughed. I laughed out loud.

But, there's always light at the end of the tunnel (gasp). I'll be given my own email (yeah!)so that I can email the SMEs (sad!) from a BDO address and not moi's unglam SMU or Gmail account. And dear Miss J mentioned that I'll be the sole intern with an email address. Wondering if it'll be a generic one like information@bdo.com.sg or ccs_intern@bdo.com.sg or worse, intern001@bdo.com.sg. I laughed. I laughed out loud.