My Internship Experience @ Colomono Studio

Hello readers! I'm currently having my last weekend of my mid sem break right now, so today I'll be sharing about my internship experience at Colomono Penang that I was supposed to blog about it waaaaaay earlier as I finished it on 1st of April, somehow it was postponed for N times due to the workloads and it's rather difficult comparing to food post because I had no idea how to start, like there are so many stuff to talk about, so many fun happenings in 3 months! Tbh I've never thought I could really enjoy working this much that I actually can't wait to go to work every day! Continue your read and you'll know why :)

A humble looking exterior at first sight and my first thought was "o..k....", tbh I was very envious of my friends who get to go KL for their internship while there were very few Broadcasting students who stayed in Penang. But, of course after working for three months, I couldn't be more glad to intern here.

So I'm gonna first introduce what excites me the most when I first started to work here.

Dolly! A golden retriever that doesn't retrieve gold lol

Cassie, a very fierce dog at first that finally allowed me to touch her after a couple of weeks! So basically the first thing I do when I stepped foot in the studio is to rush to the kitchen, just to see them waving their tails at me :3 I'm so sorry to my colleagues back then because what excites me happened to be the two dogs behind the studio instead of you guys haha, we weren't as close as we are now teehee.

My job during my internship was basically edit long version wedding and come out with a corporate video with my two other intern friends. I've edited two long version weddings, one Chinese and one Hindu. Somehow we always work beyond the job scope which was kinda fun, such as painting the office walls, feeding the dogs, do some light housekeeping, shopped for groceries for the company, ok I kinda miss that life right now.

We shopped for our company steamboat and that's when I found out there were some really funny guys at work. On the steamboat day itself, we did lots of preparation work like cleaning the ingredients while the guys prepared the gas, chairs outside. The bottom right photo was taken when the colleagues were shooting for a video competition which they got the 3rd prize! After the steamboat session, we went for a movie night watching "Her".

Photo from Jay Chuah

This was taken after the movie, good old time :)

Photo from Jay Chuah

Remember when I said the colleagues won the 3rd prize in a video competition? It turned out that everyone in the Colomono family was treated at House of Steamboat! Throughout my internship period I already had like three or four times of steamboat, so my friends at college actually said I gained weight after 3 months. 

Also, not to forget all the treats from bosses and colleagues! The first row was where we had our lunch at Morganfield's. Next, we had yee sang in the studio and celebrated one of the bosses' birthday. Moving on to the drinks from Tong Pak Fu after some light housekeeping. Last but not least, the Tau Fu Fa which boss always buys for us on a regular basis, but that's not all! There were also spring rolls, subway cookies, bubur chacha, herbal tea, ice cream, appom and lots more! Also, for our farewell lunch, boss treated us lunch at KOI Japanese Restaurant which I blogged about it HERE. Well that explained how I gained weight. Fat but happy tummy back then :) 

  

A huge part of my internship was made up of food, food, more food with the combination of fun and laughters. Besides, I'm really thankful for all the teachings and guidance from the Colomonians, especially for the corporate video, it wouldn't be possible without all the helping hands. Whatever problems or questions we faced throughout the internship period, all of you managed to help us out even tho you had some other tasks going on, we really couldn't thank you more :)

Corporate video for Rainb Ragazzo Hair Salon, watch the full video HERE

Finally, all the interns were presented a clapper board with our own names on it! Was happy and down at the same time when I held it in my hands as it indicates that my internship was coming to an end.

One last group photo before I end this post

Missing J boss, Five, Abel, Angela was behind the phone. I'll give them a short intro each, so you may skip this part if you want. The one in stripes shirt is Tyger, subway cookies supplier and also good in editing stuff, always run to him when there's trouble, TY hoho. The guy in pink, Yang Kwang, talented in chair-falling, just cause he can fall off from his chair just by stretching. Boss W is behind me, tau fu fa supplier, thanks for the lessons you taught! The only girl beside me, Ker Li, hope you succeed in dieting la ok? Don't just teach us to do online shopping ok? The one and only guy without body, Joseph, you laugh in a really funny way with all your funny conversation haha. The guy in black, Forrest aka Bangala, stay dark so we can always make fun of you! Btw really thanks for helping me as well. The guy in cap, Sunzane, another funneh guy who taught us how to use a slider, ty for everything else in case I forgot. The one on the far right, CY, fierce, fierce, still fierce, smile and don't frighten new interns awaaaaay (god bless for writing this). 

Phew that was a long one, in overall, it was an enjoyable three months with all of you peepo.

Colomonian rocks, and will continue rocking!

Ben's Gurney Paragon, Penang

Happy Mothers' Day to all mommas around the world! Thank you for the 3728472 level of pain you suffered in labour, and taking care of your babies 24/7, 365 days a year with no annual leave, public holiday etc etc. To all the moms, you're free from housework today and you may continue with it tomorrow LOL jk. So, bf decided to be a good boy (heh) and treated his mom to lunch at Ben's Gurney Paragon last weekend to celebrate M's Day in advanced, I happened to hung out with them so I got to enjoy his treat as well teehee. I believe 99% of Penangites already know about this place so I'll just skip right to the main point aight? (and mainly because I didn't take much photos) :(

It's located beside Miam Miam which I blogged about it HERE, HERE and HERE (yep that's three visits).

I was first quite surprised by the menu as I thought it would be very very very pricey based on the environment, turned out it was quite affordable.

Photo source: Ben's official website. Click for larger view or download the pdf file HERE

So we ordered:

Spaghettini Carbonara which I loveeeeeee it A LOT, it tasted even better than Itali*nnies even though the amount of sauce was quite little, bf and aunty had a few bites and I finished the rest until the very last drop of sauce, it was too good to resist! One little thing that I hope can be improved is the amount of bacons! It was too little for me :( The rest was really great tho!

Aunty ordered Char-Grilled Seafood Spaghettini with chilli flakes and wilted spinach. It was an appetizing dish that tasted sour and spicy at the same time, the seafood were all very fresh, squids were cooked to a perfect timing where they didn't taste like rubber band lol, in fact they can be chew off easily! It wasn't very spicy, thus it can be accepted by most of the people.

Berrific Sundae with fresh mixed berries, ice cream and chocolate sauce. The portion is suitable for 2 pax sharing but it tasted normal to me as it can be prepared at home without needing any complicated steps. At first we thought there were only strawberries cause other berries were no where to be found lol, turned out there was a small amount of blueberries and raspberries underneath the ice cream. I'd recommend you to try out other more unique or hard-to-make desserts.

In overall, I'm very fond of the pastas and guess I'll bring my mom here to celebrate her belated M's day as she isn't in Penang right now, I'm sure she will love it as much as I do! The staffs were very attentive in making sure there wasn't any empty cup of skyjuice, most of the desserts on the menu are very tempting as well, hoping I can give some of them a try!

That's all for now, chao.

Tomyummy Noodles House @ All Seasons Place, Penang.

Hello readers, it's another hangout day with my besties again! This time, we wanted to try out this new Tomyummy Noodles House located in All Season Place, I've always been a fan for spicy stuff and I was quite excited about it since the reviews are good.

So JiaYi and I reached there earlier than the time we planned, so we figured to have some light thing to fill our stomach since it's not good to take in spicy stuff with empty stomach and we were kinda hungry as well, so we were chewing on bread while waiting for KhuiChing.

The staff was nice enough for allowing us to eat bread inside after we informed them that we were waiting for a friend and I went on telling them the logic how we didn't want to take in tomyam with empty stomach lol. You can also visit their Jelutong outlet if coming to All Seasons isn't convenient for you!

KhuiChing asked us to order first since she was already on her way, you can choose from a variety of ingredients and two soup base, tomyam and chicken, they are also serving rice and snacks if you dislike noodles. 

JiaYi's tomyam noodle.

KhuiChing chose the clear soup one as she was sick. Took a sip of the soup and it tasted pretty sweet, not sure if there's MSG tho, overall it was still ok.

My tomyam noodle with quite a lot of ingredients and I ended up wasting it :/ couldn't even finish like half as I was still quite full after consuming the bread. The first few sip of the soup was quite good, spicy enough for my liking, somehow the soup became quite concentrated it almost felt like sauce. I didn't fancy the fried fish here compare to those fillet type where you can find it in some hawkers and I personally think that the ones in Prangin Mall, Bayan Baru hawker and Lip Sin Sunshine taste better than this. Overall it was still fine but didn't impress me soooo I probably not gonna visit them for the second time.

Fried Enoki which was unsatisfactory. All I can taste of was the frying powder instead of the mushroom, and it was completely tasteless without the chilli sauce. I'd say the one in Farlim night market is better than this.

The overall experience was okay, you can still visit them for their tomyam if you love spicy food as it is really darn spicy, as for the fried enoki... it is better if you try something else, the prices are affordable, I'd suggest them to cover up their ingredients as there were quite a number or flies. Enough with the remarks, presenting you our selfie!

Khuiching, blogger, JiaYi <3

 Hope we can always stay this way and perhaps you can be my bridesmaids in the future teehee, lublubxoxo to my girls :D

Sorta awkward ootd by yours truly, till next time!