10 May 2010

Today is the first day of my internship. I reached the company around 8.35pm, however I can't enter to the company without a pass to scan for opening the door. After few minutes I saw an Indian guy and I told him I was the first day internship at the company. Then he bring me to the receiption counter there to wait, there are still have a lot of worker haven't reached the company yet.

Around 9.20am, I saw the clerk and she gave me the company contact to read and sign. Then she bring me to a meeting room and let me alone to study the company profile and working strategies. After that a foreign guy was coming and presenting the company function and the developed software to me.

Around 10.50am, the clerk bring me to the upstair of the company which is the technical department. When the first step I was entering there I saw that all are males. I was the only female at there... There are 2 chinese guys, 4 malay guys and me are the internship students for the technical department. After that, they are preparing a desktop for me and I have to install eclipse and Notepad++. Then my supervisor told me to study Talend and download and install that to the PC.

I was going late for lunch after the chinese guys told me that was the lunch time. Then I only know that the lunch time is 1pm. I was coming back early to the company before the 4 malay guys coming back and they didn't see me already going for lunch. After that 1 of them come to tell me can going for lunch already. They are scared me didn't know the lunch time but I told them I was already have my lunch.

Then I was install the pgAdminIII and Aqua Data Studio. I learnt how to use the Aqua Data Studio to create the connection and obtain the database from the company server. However the PC didn't know why can't get the database to Talend. Talend can help me to convert many types of database to other formats. Since the connection can make Talend become hang, my supervisor told me to use localhost to create PostgreSQL by pgAdminIII and convert it to excel and XML formats.

Today I was feeling extremely tired. First day already had to learn a lot of things and all the workers are seem nicely.