It Isn't Easy!

Hello everyone! I would like to briefly introduce myself before I share my internship experience! My name is Loke Ming (but most of my friends call me "Lemon"), a Mass Communication student currently in my final year working on my final semester.

I completed my internship with Worthy Book based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on the last summer break. If I could use a sentence to sum up my internship, I would use "It Isn't Easy!" I would like to share what I have experienced and learned during the 2-months internship in this blog post.

• Languages

It is not easy to work in this multicultural country. Apart from learning and understand different cultures, language plays one of the essential roles when it comes to communication. During my internship, I spoke in Mandarin and Malay with my colleagues as well as having discussion with my supervisor in English. I realized that people feel more comfortable when they communicate in their native languages. I feel I am lucky as I am able to write, read and speak in three major languages used in Malaysia. It is a big advantage if you are multilingual when you are working in Malaysia.

• Transportation

I would bet everyone would have faced the same problem when working in a busy city. Good public transport is essential for anyone that depended on it to get to work. You would see the bus stop or train station crowded every day, even early in the morning. Thus, if you want to get to work on time, you would need to know how to get onto the transport because there would be a lot of people who wanted to get in as well. Apart from this, you would have to learn to endure standing in a crowd for more than an hour on high heels while you travel to your workplace. But since I had my own vehicle to get to work, it wasn't that bad for me. The only thing that I needed to face was traffic jam. I learned to be more patient after experiencing two months of terrible traffic, so at least there was a good point in this.

• Multitasking

During my internship, I often received some urgent tasks assigned by my supervisor. Apart from submitting my current task on time, I had to complete the assigned tasks by the time my supervisor needed it. Everyday, I had to organize my working time very well in order to complete these additional tasks. In addition, I would receive tasks that were out of my job description. I had to be professional to complete these tasks by doing additional research and to consult with my supervisor. I discovered that learning how to apply the knowledge gained in class is more important than simply gaining knowledge.

In conclusion, I had gained a deeper understanding of the theory of "Survival of The Fittest" suggested by Darwin in these two months of internship. It indicated that only living things that are best to survive in a given environment would survive, and organisms would learn to evolve in order to adapt to their environment. I believe that this internship is like a survival test, that we had to learn to become the best in order to complete the internship.

The internship is a pre-test before we enter the "real society". This pre-test is to allow us to find ways to survive in this pre-test by applying the knowledge we learned in class. I had survived the pre-test. I hope you enjoyed reading my entry on the "survival skill" needed to become another survivor in the future.

Feel free to leave your comment or feedback down below! :) 

Cheers,

Loke Ming Ngiam

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