It's been slightly more than a month since I've joined the company. The journey thus far has been well, fun and if I might say, unexpectedly enjoyable. I've experienced so many new things for example, walking on a retracting aerobridge and standing on the aerobridge while it extends out to meet the cabin door. How many people in this world can have a job that lets you do that? Also, there's another part which I like which is when the aircraft arrives at the gate. How many jobs can have employees saying, "The plane is here!" as normal as a person on the street saying "The bus is here!" There are like tonnes of other interesting stuff that happens during a single shift but I better not reveal too much here. You can ask me in private if you want too. :)
The training programme of course is by far one of the most extensive a person can undergo. It seriously is not for the weak brained.
Since this is my blog, I shall be abit of a showoff and tell you how much I scored. 97% for the Arrival Test and 98% for the Departure. More showing off, I topped the batch. =p Ok, time to be modest again.Meet Batch 778. There are 13 of us and by far, one of the few batches with so many guys. Oh, and we have 6 TCSOs. I dunno why the other colleagues seemed so fascinated by this. 
Me and my peachy weachy uniform. I think they're giving female CSOs new tops. There are like 7 mannequins with different colour tops in the office today asking for votes on the prettiest colour. So far, maroon's in the lead. =) I hope nobody votes for that Mandarin Orange. PLEASE.
So we had to go to the Changi Air Freight Centre for about 3 weeks for the training. It's right beside the ferry terminal where the NS boys take the boat over to Tekong.
So since Batch 778 belongs to the Singapore Airlines/ Silkair (SQ/MI) Operations, everything we learn is related to them from the orientation to handling passengers with special needs.
On the 1 Oct, we were sent down to the airport to give out lollipops to kids. We were with Snow White. The little boys were so shy. I think they really liked her but were too cool to admit it. LOL. Oh, and there were some very big kids who were ahem, adults but wanted lollipops for themselves. Grow up and get a life please.
Down for Line Training. We got to go to a home to do Community Service one morning and it was so meaningful. We sang, danced, brought the clients out for a walk, celebrated the birthdays of the October babies and sang somemore. What a blast. Came back to a Welcome Hi- Tea to meet all the executives and mingle. I actually really liked this part of the training programme. At least we knew who our bosses were and they knew us.
Alas, all good things have to come to an end. Batch 778 has graduated from the Arrival/Departure training course. Now onto OJT and a few months of SOLO before we head back to the Air Freight Centre for the system training. Can't wait till we're all reunited again.Time for bed! Got an early morning shift tomorrow. Peace out peeps!
