The Start of a My Lifetime

A good day I bid to those taking PR Internship. Let’s start with my name, I’m Teo Rui-Ming, 21 years of age and still enrolled in Curtin doing this very course. I did my internship at a local 4 star hotel named Meritz Hotel situated in Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia which currently is in its third year. That’s right folks, a Hotel that’s still considered new by normal standards.

Now on to the important part, I did my internship for a month starting from 29 December 2014 and ended on 30 January 2015. And yes, I know that this blog post is exactly a month plus from when my internship ended, and according to our glorious unit outline and wise online Blackboard modules, we had to blog our Internship experience “fresh”. And so, to explain why I am currently doing my blog posting now will explain one of my unusual ‘habit’ much later in another blog post. 

Carrying on, I was placed under the Marketing Department, Public Relations Section. Formed since 2012, Meritz Hotel so far have only have one Public Relations Practitioner which so happened to be one of my senior from the same university with the very same degree as I am currently pursuing. Coincidence? Maybe not so, I like to think of it as it’s a small world.

During my internship with Meritz Hotel, I performed PR tasks akin to those of an In-house PR roles. From media clippings to corresponding “sponsorships” with external “clients”, I actually enjoyed my brief one month internship with Meritz Hotel. The main thing in this internship that I learned that, is no matter how good or how bad we do our “assignments” in the University, out here in the real working PR world, it’s totally different. And so, I am glad that we have to take this course or unit as it actually prepares us for the ‘real’ world.

That should be all for now, stay tuned.

Teo Rui-Ming