End of the preceptorship

It appears that the laziness bug (along with a bit of the amnesia bug) has struck again. This was supposed to be posted last night, but due to some "unforeseen" circumstances, it has been delayed till this morning. (^.^|||)

Anyways, yesterday was the official end of our preceptorship. We had our debrief over at the Suntec store at around 2 pm, so we left our own store at around 1 pm (after tearful farewells and stuff... well, not quite, but you get the drift). After which, we sat through a long debrief which touched upon the operations protocol, the ground layout and also future changes to the stores. It was kinda informative, but also kinda boring at the same time.

After a short walk around the new store layout (which is going to be the template for the stores of the future, or so they say), we departed for our next destination, karaoke over at Party World in Tanjong Pagar.

The beginning was a bit slow and stuff, as everyone was shy and reserved and much coaxing had to be done before anyone started singing. But slowly as time went by, people got a bit more relaxed and started singing and having fun.

The event was originally stated to end at 7 pm, but we already have people leaving at the halfway mark, and by 7 pm, just almost all participants had left, leaving us down to 6 people in the room (which was a rather big room since we started with a big party of 20+ people). After a couple more songs, another friend left and we were left with 5 people in a big room... which started to feel really empty. Haha~ (^.^|||)

In the end, the 5 of us left sang until the very last minute (which actually lasted until 9 pm as it turned out that we had booked the room for 5 hours. !!! ) before we settled the bill and left the place. After which, 4 of us decided to go for dinner over at Lau Pa Sat while the other had to go home.

The night ended with a nice dinner (along with an interesting talking session with jargon and crap) and we finally left to go home at around 10:15 pm.

All in all, this was an interesting night and a fitting end for the 6 weeks stint we had over at our preceptorship. Well, it's time to prepare for work again (this time, to make some money to tide over my current crisis), but for this couple of days, perhaps we can take a short break and catch our breaths, and rest our feets too!

Oh and, this is not quite the end too, since in a sense, we're now friends with our preceptors, and there might be more interaction in future, so it's not really farewell for good. At the very least, I'll be going back to my store this Sun to join them for lunch (Wee!!). Looking forward to it!!