My experiences during my internship last summer in SGEntrepreneurs is not only resulting in networking, real-job experiences, and self-improvement, but also resulting in knowledge of food available around SGE office. Located in South Bridge area, the office is surrounded by quite various places to eat at, i.e. circular road, central mall, raffles place, and Funan mall. All of those places are up to 10 mins walk from my office.
Circular Road
There are few places that I tried during my internship in this road.
1. Sinar Pagi Nasi Padang
It is so far the best Nasi Padang that I've ever tried in Singpore. Been talking about this quite a lot to my mom, because last time she came here, she had difficulty in adjusting with the food. She is totally an Indonesian, particularly Padangnese, because she majorly only can eat Padang food. So will be happy bringing her to this shop when she comes to visit me again. One of the food variation that I tried.
2. Hawker Centre
There is only one hawker centre in Circular Road. Among all of the stalls, I tried only one stall, The Malay Stall. Typical Malay Stall, it sells foods namely like Mee Rebus, Mee Goreng etc. But, I didnt tried such things, instead I tried more of their type Chicken Rice, starting from their Chilli Chicken Rice till their Black pepper Chicken Rice. On top of that, they also have Fried Rice, which can be considered worth-it to try, since most of the price in this area kinda pricey for an intern. :D
3. Yong Tau Foo Shop
I thought there will be no difference in the taste of Yong Tau Foo, because it is consist of foods that being put into the soup. But apparently I am wrong. Their Yong Tau Foo is the worst Yong Tau Foo that I've ever tried. Well, I only tried Yong Tau Foo in Banquet previously, VivoCity and Jurong Point.
Central Mall
There are a lof of resto that you can try in Central Mall indeed, but as intern and limited budget of everyday, here are the places that I went.
1. Burger King
Well, everyone knows how Burger King taste I think. And since it is franchise, they will adopt the same SOP globally, so the taste is supposedly the same. Beside in central mall, there is a Burger King opposite UOB Builiding as well, nearby Raffles Place MRT station.
2. Freshness Burger
As the name of the shop, all of their ingredients are fresh, which indirectly indicating that they are using organic ingredients somehow. Due to the quality of ingredients, you will see the price difference as well between this shop and "normal burger" in the other shop,
3. B1 Level of Central Mall
There are few numbers of eatery in this level. At the shop that selling this Crispy Chicken Cutlet Set Rice, you can find Laksa and some other soup noodles menu with their home-made drinks such as green tea, grass jelly, etc. While at the shop that sells Chicken Katsu Curry Set, you will find that they give you a lot of curry till you cant see the rice.
Raffles Place
I did not really try in Raffles Place, because so lazy to walk down there to simply get my lunch. But there are few numbers of resto in Raffles Place such as cedele (one of their nice menu) and TCC (there are other TCC in Funan and Central Mall as well). If I am not wrong to recall, I only bought from Mr Bean above the MRT Station before in Raffles Place area.
Funan Mall
Out of numbers of makan places that available in Funan Mall, I tried these 2 places.
1. TCC
It was during lunch hours and was really a busy hour for them, especially when I was eating there, there was an offer 1-for-2. I was eating with a friend, so we use that offers. From taking order to get the food ready took about 20 minutes. And if you ever eat with me, you will know I am the slower eater ever you met in your life. So hence with this, I would not go to this kind of place anymore if my office is really strict about lunch hours timing.
2. Qiji
Located at one of corner in Level 1 of Funan, it is one of my favorite makan place because they served it efficiently, so you can enjoy your food without long waiting time. I will consider eat here if I need a quick lunch as well. And you need to bring colleagues to get the seats while you are ordering the food, because it is really packed during lunch hours. I tried quite numbers of their rice set, here is one of them: Chicken Set Nasi Lemak.
Well, there are quite a lot of other places that I can try on around and there are some places that I ate before but I do not really feature here due to my personal reasons. So which one is your favorite place among those 4 I mentioned above?
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Friday, October 21, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
My Foodblog Exposures On My Internship
Because of above description on SGE website, few days back someone sent me an email to ask about recommended Indonesian food around Singapore. He asked me on behalf of his Indonesian friend who just moved to Singapore.
Well, my first reaction: what? how did the person know my email? After I read his intro then I recalled again, I remembered him vividly. He is one of people that I met during Echelon Day 0 networking dinner. He is not in my name card list that I put previously, because he never gave me his name card. :(
But I am a nice guy (obviously), then I replied to him, which apparently later on he intro me to his friend. Well, on the replied email I put quite some of recommendation places and of course I did free advertising about my foodblog in that email as well! Where there is opportunity, you shall grab it fast. LOL
Below is the print screen of our earlier email
Monday, June 27, 2011
Six Weeks With My Casual Dress At Office
Last week marks my sixth week of my internship, means it is already halfway for me! :)
There are more of fun and learning for me rather than any pains that most of my friends bragged about during their internship. As all of you can read from my earlier post, A Quick Glance About the Author, currently I am doing my internship at SGEntrepreneurs.
Well, basically what I do during internships are quite interesting in my opinions, coz such experiences are the things that I never experienced before in serious manner.
1. Writing
I like to write, but not about news and such. For the past 6 weeks, I have posted more than 20 news articles. Among those 20 news articles, we have 1 new section of article that we plan to publish it periodically: Key Indonesia Startup News (9th Jun edition and 23rd Jun edition). Well, it has nothing to do with I am Indonesian, it just a coincidence. :)
2. Running A Contest
Indeed running a contest is not as easy as it looks. Although you have great idea how it will work, yet executions of your idea are the crucial part here. We had one contest before that I was mainly in charge: Echelon 2011 SGE Ticket Giveaway. The responses that we had during the contest wasnt that bad in my opinion. During the contest, I see the power of social media whereby twitter is more useful than facebook in term of spreading the words about the contest to attract the traffic.
3. E-Newsletter
Well, it is true that I should know about basic html coding when doing wordpress blogging, but preparing E-Newsletter is more challenging. It is really challenge your eyes, but after you get used to with it, then it will be like a piece of cake for you. Initially it took me like half day to prepare it, now if I know all of the content inside the newsletter, it will only take me about 2 hours. :)
4. Networking With Others
This is what I like most during my internship. I have no idea why I like networking, maybe it is my basic nature loves to socialize with others. But as an intern, you will feel like a small fish in ocean (yeah I am the Nemo maybe..haha). But well, I did manage to know some other amazing people, some are written in my previous post: Have You Ever Heard About Echelon?
5. Other Marketing Tools
Well, as I told my employer earlier before I get into the internships, I want to get to know more about marketing stuffs. Well, she is really open and frank about it to me, and she shared to me quite much about the condition and environment at this industry. Gaining a trust results in access of few stuffs where I learn a lot from that. I can say that all of my suggestions regarding marketing strategy is more of by looking though statistics that we have and looks at how the market plays and twisted a bit here and there to differentiate it. Well, I think thats the basic thing we learn from school, but I just experienced it from the past 6 weeks during my internship and I am really enjoy it so much. So far I knew that bit.ly is really useful, then I know also about mailchimp. LOL I am not a tech-savvy, so pardon me if I sound like an old generation. =.=
Well, thats the major things that I've done for the past 6 weeks, not much maybe as other people experiences, but I am really looking forward to the next 6 weeks that I have. And actually I am considering to work part time during school term, since I only have 9AUs for next sem. Meaning I only have 2-4 hours of school from Monday-Thursday, and I am free every Friday for next semester!
If you are aware of the title of this post, it is true that I always wear tees to office, either with jeans, pants or short, depends on my mood and events after office hours. :)
There are more of fun and learning for me rather than any pains that most of my friends bragged about during their internship. As all of you can read from my earlier post, A Quick Glance About the Author, currently I am doing my internship at SGEntrepreneurs.
Well, basically what I do during internships are quite interesting in my opinions, coz such experiences are the things that I never experienced before in serious manner.
1. Writing
I like to write, but not about news and such. For the past 6 weeks, I have posted more than 20 news articles. Among those 20 news articles, we have 1 new section of article that we plan to publish it periodically: Key Indonesia Startup News (9th Jun edition and 23rd Jun edition). Well, it has nothing to do with I am Indonesian, it just a coincidence. :)
2. Running A Contest
Indeed running a contest is not as easy as it looks. Although you have great idea how it will work, yet executions of your idea are the crucial part here. We had one contest before that I was mainly in charge: Echelon 2011 SGE Ticket Giveaway. The responses that we had during the contest wasnt that bad in my opinion. During the contest, I see the power of social media whereby twitter is more useful than facebook in term of spreading the words about the contest to attract the traffic.
3. E-Newsletter
Well, it is true that I should know about basic html coding when doing wordpress blogging, but preparing E-Newsletter is more challenging. It is really challenge your eyes, but after you get used to with it, then it will be like a piece of cake for you. Initially it took me like half day to prepare it, now if I know all of the content inside the newsletter, it will only take me about 2 hours. :)
4. Networking With Others
This is what I like most during my internship. I have no idea why I like networking, maybe it is my basic nature loves to socialize with others. But as an intern, you will feel like a small fish in ocean (yeah I am the Nemo maybe..haha). But well, I did manage to know some other amazing people, some are written in my previous post: Have You Ever Heard About Echelon?
5. Other Marketing Tools
Well, as I told my employer earlier before I get into the internships, I want to get to know more about marketing stuffs. Well, she is really open and frank about it to me, and she shared to me quite much about the condition and environment at this industry. Gaining a trust results in access of few stuffs where I learn a lot from that. I can say that all of my suggestions regarding marketing strategy is more of by looking though statistics that we have and looks at how the market plays and twisted a bit here and there to differentiate it. Well, I think thats the basic thing we learn from school, but I just experienced it from the past 6 weeks during my internship and I am really enjoy it so much. So far I knew that bit.ly is really useful, then I know also about mailchimp. LOL I am not a tech-savvy, so pardon me if I sound like an old generation. =.=
Well, thats the major things that I've done for the past 6 weeks, not much maybe as other people experiences, but I am really looking forward to the next 6 weeks that I have. And actually I am considering to work part time during school term, since I only have 9AUs for next sem. Meaning I only have 2-4 hours of school from Monday-Thursday, and I am free every Friday for next semester!
If you are aware of the title of this post, it is true that I always wear tees to office, either with jeans, pants or short, depends on my mood and events after office hours. :)
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
A Quick Glance About the Author
It was 21 Sept 1990 in one of clinics, a mother tried pushing so hard in order to get a baby out of her body. All of these 9 months, she endured obstacles she faced by having another soul inside here body and finally this little soul can see the world with his own eyes.
Yup! That is maybe the story of mine when I was about to born and see this "ugly world". So, a son of her is finally can feel the world by his senses on 21 Sept 1990 and his name is Egi Septiadi.
During his childhood, Egi Septiadi or usually being called Egi, is a quiet person. He did not really talk unless people initiated the conversations with him. He spent his childhood in a small city of Indonesia, Bengkulu.
After more than 10 years in Bengkulu, he asked his parent to get him being transferred to Jakarta, capital city of Indonesia (there is another story behind it, so you might ask the author). He moved to Jakarta when he was at Junior High School 2 while he lived with his aunt back then at Jakarta.
To make long story short, he spent 5 years at Jakarta: 2 years of Junior High School (Labschool, Rawamangun) and 3 years of Senior High School (SMA Negeri 8 Jakarta). (un)lucky him, after he spent 5 years at Jakarta, he moved to Singapore to continue his study at Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
Currently, he is studying Chemistry at NTU, under School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS). Hopefully he will gradute by next year, 2012. While he studies his major, he realized that Chemistry is not his true call and tried looking for an alternative. At the end he decided to take Minor in Entrepreneurship.
He finished Minor in Entrepreneurship last year, Oct 2010 to be precise. During the programme, he found that he is more passionate to such subjects comparing to his major. Given a chance knowing few of Startups Co-founders, he tried his lucks asking for internship during his third year under them.
Mr Kah Howe Lee accepted him for one month internship during last December holiday while for this year summer holiday he is currently doing his internship at SGEntrepreneurs under Ms Gwendolyn Regina Tan. So far, his ideas about exploring himself regarding what kind of job he loves to do are still intact in his mind. But yet, he has not tried any jobs that related to his major.
So, that's the quick glance of author life.
Yup! That is maybe the story of mine when I was about to born and see this "ugly world". So, a son of her is finally can feel the world by his senses on 21 Sept 1990 and his name is Egi Septiadi.
During his childhood, Egi Septiadi or usually being called Egi, is a quiet person. He did not really talk unless people initiated the conversations with him. He spent his childhood in a small city of Indonesia, Bengkulu.
After more than 10 years in Bengkulu, he asked his parent to get him being transferred to Jakarta, capital city of Indonesia (there is another story behind it, so you might ask the author). He moved to Jakarta when he was at Junior High School 2 while he lived with his aunt back then at Jakarta.
To make long story short, he spent 5 years at Jakarta: 2 years of Junior High School (Labschool, Rawamangun) and 3 years of Senior High School (SMA Negeri 8 Jakarta). (un)lucky him, after he spent 5 years at Jakarta, he moved to Singapore to continue his study at Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
Currently, he is studying Chemistry at NTU, under School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS). Hopefully he will gradute by next year, 2012. While he studies his major, he realized that Chemistry is not his true call and tried looking for an alternative. At the end he decided to take Minor in Entrepreneurship.
He finished Minor in Entrepreneurship last year, Oct 2010 to be precise. During the programme, he found that he is more passionate to such subjects comparing to his major. Given a chance knowing few of Startups Co-founders, he tried his lucks asking for internship during his third year under them.
Mr Kah Howe Lee accepted him for one month internship during last December holiday while for this year summer holiday he is currently doing his internship at SGEntrepreneurs under Ms Gwendolyn Regina Tan. So far, his ideas about exploring himself regarding what kind of job he loves to do are still intact in his mind. But yet, he has not tried any jobs that related to his major.
So, that's the quick glance of author life.
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