A Suuumptuous Meal On My 21st

Snow crabs, ginseng porridge, salmon sashimi,....etc etc. I really had an enjoyable time eating at Kuishinbo with kenny and karen. I would probably not enjoy as much if i were to really treat them this time as they had heavily subsidised it for me. Treat them next time ba.... Hahaha. Thanks alot mates for making the dinner possible:)


Oh yes, i finally got the last piece of my jigsaw - a brown bedsheet from Aussino to go with my purple quilt and pillow case i had bought a couple of days ago at Ikea. Yesterday's outing with hw was rather fruitful. Swimming, job interviewing, watching movie( Ong Bak 2, basically the story ending is crap) and catching up with one another all into one day! The possibility of treat my 3 khakis on Sat to GV Goldclass is now officially ruled out. Hw and i had checked at the vivo cinema that it cost 36 bucks per pax just to watch the movie and rest on the comfortable seat. We have to pay at least an additional 29 more bucks per pax to get a drink, a main course and dessert. Crazyyyyy!!!!!


But the best reward out of yesterday's trip is i bought the '三国演义' novel which i can take my time to read and appreciate. I think i took about 2 plus hours to just read 3 chapters yesterday! Haha!

Damn screwed up!

It's all about today's work man! Firstly a customer pointed to me the cold kailan dish from the menu afterwhich she said that she did not know the kailan is covered with blended ice. In the end it became my fault in not telling her it's a cold dish and we had to change a fried one for her. As if it was not bad enough, some time after another customer ordered a roti prata with curry dish and when she asked me whether the curry had chicken in it i said '有一点' . It was a rather ambiguous reply from me due to my uncertainty. I somehow regretted saying so as the customer flared up when she did not see any chicken in the curry. I was given a earful by my manager and rightly so for not asking around for help when uncertain. Now i am sure that prata curry has no chicken in it!

This incident aside, yesterday morning i went to Bukit Batok Driving Centre and cleared my final theory evaluation. Now i am ready for the final theory test which will be on 29th jan. I think i will need to put in more effort for the test man because i never really study much before the evaluation:P In the afternoon i met up with kok and al for a swimming session at kok uncle's house. The best part was that we managed to catch RED CLIFF 2!!!! SHIOK MAN!! The 2 hour plus movie at Lido was not a letdown in anyway only perhaps for the baby-ish voice of lin chiling. She sounded irritating at times but i was again impressed by the wits of 诸葛亮 and 周瑜. The exchange between them was intriguing at times especially their conversations. I really like Romance Of The Three Kingdoms and would hope to read the novel one day:)

Waiting for the right opportunity..

After working at Xin Wang cafe for close to a month, i think it was a wise and definitely a better decision to switch to part-time job. At least that was what my colleagues told me. 6 days work week with midnight shifts and no additional pay for a full-timer is a big no no. On top of that my supervisor just screwed up my Off which i requested to take this coming thursday and somehow became yesterday monday. Luckily i have not booked my theory practice yet as i prefer to see the confirmed schedule for the week before doing so. Mmm... now that i have gotten a taste to working in the F&B industry, a part of me tells me to find a better job while the current job will serve as a back-up.


Alright, that's for the job portion. Yesterday i managed to catch 赤壁 part 1 movie which i rented from Video-ezy. When i asked the person at the counter about the availability of the movie, i was like 'Woooo~' . The movie dvd i have been so eager to rent is finally in my hands! All the hype about the movie is not that exaggerating as i was fully impressed by the '八卦阵' 诸葛亮 devised and the battle scene for it too. That i think is the highlight of the movie man. I believe alot of effort is made to make the formation look that good on camera. How i wish the director had spent more time on the crafting of the individual characters like '关羽' and '张飞'. I just felt that they were a bit overlooked in this movie. But come to think of it, the movie already 2 hrs 15mins long will surely be stretched to 3 plus hours if the director did that. Now i can't wait for the part 2 of the movie to come out which is slated for a 22nd or 23rd January release.


Haha... i really can't wait...

Christmas not so Christmas afterall..

I was working night shift on X'mas eve. It was a long long night, with big groups of people streaming in after 12am as if it was meal times. Perhaps i have been working in my cafe for too long or that i have not hit the streets for too long. X'mas has become a festival distant to me. It's just another festival to get together, a much needed off day for working people. What's the point of countdown man? Haha... maybe for youngsters( not that i am old lah ) Oh well, i am sure i will be working on New Year Eve and on New Year again. But at the same time i will be converting to part-time soon!:)


Yes, let me tell u a secret...tomorrow is my off day!!!!!!!

Long long day at work..

Yesterday was quite a crazy day. I had to work split shifts read : 12-2pm, then 8-2am. Somemore it's a saturday lah:S As i thought going back home during the 6 hr interval was a bad idea, kok n al and i went to bugis to have a walk. We ate at the food junction food court... Which i felt the price of food there was expensive. I had Nasi Bryani - 5 plus bucks. It's somewhat an hour of my pay. Kok and i felt al had worms in his stomach, after the beef ball bee hoon soup he had, he boought an ice cream at ground floor, drank dragon fruit juice at bugis street and finally ended with fries and lemon tea drink at Carl's JrO_O Siao lor.. Dunno where the food had all gone to..hahaa. The outing was rather ok. We were all doing window shopping, with kok and al trying a jacket from marina square's Zara. I must say the velvet jacket looks nice and the material feels good. But it's a tad too expensive at 89 bucks. Afterwhich we hung out at the Carl's Jr there and had a lengthy conversation too. Then at 7.20pm i rush off for my second shift of the day.


Ok, this is the killer period. Crowds kept streaming in and the queue was long that customers lined up to the end of the cafe. Everyone, the supervisors and manager were rushing like mad to clear tables once the previous customers had left and we had to keep serving the dishes. Things were just slightly better at 11pm and at 1.30am more than half of the cafe was still occupied! Aaah! At the end of the day, i heard the net earnings of the cafe was 10,000 bucks. I think we should be rewarded for our work lah.


The possibility of doing part-time in january is becoming increasingly imminent...

One more night shift to go...

I kind of hate doing night shifts, particularly the 6-2am working slot. This has been the case for the past 2 days where i have been working till late. It's basically the housekeeping work that makes me shag out. Sweeping and mopping of floor, wiping of tables, washing of cloths etc etc. In short - SAI GANG (shit work)


After the first night, my fatigue level was manageable. I had slept about 6 hours and woke up at 8.45am before going swimming with hw at Mount Faber Safra. But on the second night, the fatigue level kicked in. Upon reaching home, i simply laid flat on my bed and the next timing i woke up, it was already 12.30pm O_O This is utter madness! Right now i am already considering working part time from January onwards. I will have to see how things go from now on..

SHAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, wow, wow... First day of work at Xin Wang Cafe was already so happening. I just wonder how things would turn out for the rest of the week:/


Today i was taught the respective table numbers and also serving of dishes to the customers. On gauging my work performance today, as a first timer it's not bad already lah. 万事起头难嘛。。 I think i deserve every single cent of my pay man. Lunch and PARTICULARLY dinner time were plain crazy. I had to keep serving my customers during the busy period without any break. Sometimes i had to carry 2 dishes on one tray on my left hand and one big bowl on my right hand. Not easy i must say. I have understood the difficulty of working in the F&B industry. One must please the customer and at the same time not put a foot wrong. I really salute those who has worked before in this field! In the afternoon, the 老总(big boss) of Xin Wang came to our outlet and had a thorough inspection of the place. I heard from my manager that he was the one who accepted my email job application and gave me the job. One of my fellow colleagues even joked that he came down to see me -_-!!! Especially since he has not come down to this outlet for a long while. Everyone single person from the manger to the supervisor to the chef and service staff were so tense up and had to put up a 'good show' for him to see. Hahaha..i also tried hard to find things to do like arranging the chairs and menus. From what i know, he was very stringent and serious with the quality of service and food served. Maybe that is why this particular Xin Wang outlet is one of the busiest around.


My manager has been a great help in making me adapt to the working environment and has also been constantly asking me whether i was able to cope. Not forgetting my supervisors who at first i thought they were 'bo chap' about the service staff. As the day went by, they were able to teach me the proper way of serving dishes. I must say my fellow service staff colleagues are quite friendly and offered their help whenever they could:)


I have brought home the menu of Xin Wang and i am expected to memorise the number codes respective to the dishes. I hope i can master them in soon in due time. I know it's not gonna be easy but i am gonna persevere on:D