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Monday, March 31st, 2025

Week 11 Blog-Gardens by the Bay and Sentosa Island

This past week in Singapore was rewarding and eye-opening, especially in terms of my internship experience. Thursday was a return to the office for basic training, where we dove deeper into the fundamentals of internal auditing. Even though we had a training session first day at work, this session clarified internal audit’s role in risk management and how it can improve business performance. I realized how critical internal audits are in identifying inefficiencies and ensuring compliance, which made me appreciate the work we had been doing for the past two weeks. Friday was a particularly exciting day, as we wrapped […]

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Monday, March 31st, 2025

Week 2 in Singapore, Bali Trip

I wrapped up my second week of my internship at Qapita this past week, and I gained much more experience and knowledge from my coworkers. This week assignments ramped up, and I started getting more work than in my first week, which was good as I felt more involved. Furthermore, after a long week at work, John, Matt, and I traveled to Bali on Friday night for the weekend. John and I stayed at a resort in Kuta, which is about 20 minutes north of the airport. Friday night we got in relatively late, so we pretty much went to […]

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Monday, March 31st, 2025

Week 11 Blog – A full Singapore week

This week marked a tiring yet adventurous week in Singapore. Firstly, for a quick internship update, my work week consisted of 4 work-from-home days this week, a little more than anticipated. Largely due to travel plans that my supervisor and boss had towards the back end of the week, they decided it would be best for me to stay home and work remotely, which gave me a great opportunity to find an awesome coffee shop roughly 10 minutes away from the Orchard Park Suites, as well as working outside by the pool area. During the weekdays, I stuck to my […]

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Monday, March 31st, 2025

Singapore – Week 2

This whole week was dedicated to creating a new routine and continuing to explore the city of Singapore. Two important aspects of any routine are the ‘what’ and the ‘when’. I already had a great idea of what I want to do in this city and what I want to achieve. The ‘when’ was the biggest question for me. Everything that I am doing revolves around my biggest responsibility which is my internship. What made this complicated was the fact that people in my office do not work on an hourly basis. It is a work environment infused by report […]

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Monday, March 31st, 2025

Week 11 in Sydney

This past week the weather was a seriously limiting factor to our weekends and our time spent exploring areas. As a result, this blog post will mostly focus on my time working at UPS and what I have been able to take away from the work that I have completed and the people I have met. These past weeks I have been working with UPS in order to help maximize the efficiency of the Package delivery notification processes and the information system they use to organize the notification of deliveries. In order to do so, I have worked with members […]

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Monday, March 31st, 2025

Hot Water Beaches

This past weekend, a group of the Auckland interns took a trip to the hot water beaches in coromandel. The beaches were about a 3 hour drive from the city and the drive itself was a sight to see. What felt like a movie driving through the night with a sea of stars above was truly breathtaking. After arriving at our airbnb which overlooked the hot water beaches we set out to look at the stars again with the waves crashing down from the beach. While there wasn’t a local large grocery store (quite common in NZ) there was a […]

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