Happy CNY!

HAPPY CNY everyone!

I know its a little tad late, but im pretty much caught up with my drama so I don't have much time to blog..haha..How was your CNY celebration? This is perhaps the most heard question in this week..As for mine, well, it was very much spent on work..@@ But, it is all worth it because I will have four days off next week. Yeahu! Cannot wait to go back and indulge in my yummy foodie at home..XD

First time CNY away from home, and its pretty, okay. haha. Not too bad as I am not really that homesick type. As long as I can sleep well, eat well, I am pretty much contented. But, of course if I have the chance I would like to go back as well. CNY in Singapore is very much, scary I must say. Like in Malaysia, even though it is a public holiday, not everywhere is close, especially mall. They will still operate as we love to go out on CNY. But here, everywhere..i mean EVERYWHERE is close. The only FnB outlets available in malls will be fast food outlets like McD, KFC etc. TT

I was starving like mad on CNY eve and it is quite pathetic right if my 'Reunion Dinner' is spent at a fast food restaurant. In the end, we found Nandos and we are happy enough to sit in and have our dinner..Thank god. At least we don't have to eat burger..haha..

Because I don't have the chance to like go out for visitings this year, I have been religiously wearing red if I have the chance to. haha..

And then I realize, I have quite a few red outfits ya..not bad not bad..=p

While everyone enjoying their good food at home, I had developed an red eye as a result of not enough sleep. And I have to wear specs to work for two three days in order to let my eyes to recover. Damn...I hate wearing specs..TT Even on my birthday..huhuuuuu...

Oh yes, as usual, my birthday falls on CNY, again. And lucky me I can rest at home because my manager arrange my off day on my birthday. But, B is working pulak...Damnnn! Nevertheless, we did went out for lunch...Korean food ftw! Yeahuuuu..

Our fav Korean Mixed Rice..=)

As for my birthday treat, we bought ourselves a new phone each! And it is my favorite Samsung S2! Yeahuuuu..

We had been craving for this phone for a long long time and somehow, this phone is always out of stock because the demand is very high. Then at the same time our Nokia phone is giving us headache because it always hang and black out. So! A little treat for ourselves! And thank you my darling for sponsoring my phone! MUAKSSSSS..Me LOVE you! =)

Loving My Love cover! <3 <3

So, I am already 23 years old. *Damn!* But nevertheless, no matter how much I dread aging, it will still happen anyway..haha. So that's all for now. I need to get ready for work soon! A lovely week ahead to everyone! 

Happy CNY again! =)

The Ugly Truth about Working in this Line

The Ugly Truth about Working in this Line

1. People always consider Doctor, Pharmacist, Engineer, Professor as working professionals, but what about us who are in Food and Beverage industry?

People always have this kind of perception that everyone can work as a waiter or waitress, and you do not need a degree certificate to do so. We may not be major in Biology, Chemistry, Physics and sorts, but it doesn't mean that hospitality course is very easy, and it also doesn't mean that working in this line is a peanuts job. When you woke up from your holiday and heading towards the hotel's buffet counter, who is the one who set up the buffet counter for you? Who are the ones who are sweating like mad behind the kitchen counter preparing your breakfast? You may need to rush for your early flight, but we need to wake up even earlier to prepare everything in the restaurant.

Customers come in to the restaurant, look at menu and order. But menu planning is not as simple as ABC, you need to calculate food cost, research, food tasting after food tasting, seeking approvals and all. Then when we prepare the food and drink, we need to think about food safety, need to follow standard, need to practice, need to train new staffs, need to monitor the operations. @@ But, not everyone knows that!! But once again, every industry also has its problem, I am just stating from my point of view. 

2. Not everyone will appreciate what you do, including the higher management.

The very frustrating thing about service line is that people may not remember everything that you have done right, but will forever remember the things that you had done wrong. You may have an excellent service all along, but once you made one small little mistake, it may even affect the restaurant's reputation, especially you are holding bigger responsibilities.

We worked during public holidays like Christmas, Chinese New Year, National Day where else other people can take a break from work. And who are the ones who are serving food in the restaurant? And yet, some people they do not appreciate what we do, and only blaming us for obvious reasons like not getting a table, slower service etc. Its the same thing like going to a shopping mall, you know that public holiday people will surely flock into the mall, hence it is harder to find parking, getting cramp up in retail shops etc. Same goes to restaurant, when there is a bigger crowd, you may need to aspect a queue and the waiting time for food will be longer as well. But, sad to say this, not many people will understand.

Then you bust your ass off to work for the company, people from the higher management will come and give you unnecessary stress because they simply do not understand how operation staff works. Let me give you an example, company will always want to get higher profit margin, hence they want to save cost and cut cost. Money don't fall from the sky don't they? You want to get higher profit margin, firstly, you need to provide good service and good food for the customers because customers are the ones . By doing so, you will need to have enough manpower and resources to cater for that. If you want to cut down the manpower cost, fine, Then at least provide us with a good tools to work with. But, coffee machine don't know how old already, this not enough that not enough. Wah, and you aspect us to be technician and maintenance also? And the worst thing is, they don't understand the fact that it is not easy to run a restaurant operation. The least you can do, is to motivate the staffs to work better. You know like bonus, compliments and all. ( Everything that we learnt from the book ) But, the owner may compliment you, then those who works under the owner come and stress you with this and that. What is the point? haiy.

To be continue~~~

CNY mood anyone?

Today is my off day again ( Well, apparently we need a good rest before the store officially open this Friday ) and we went down to China town to have our lunch sambil berjalan-jalan. Before this, I have already seen part of their CNY decoration and oh my, today is a huge eye opener for me. Every where that I walked, there will be  people selling lanterns, cute dragon plushies, CNY goods like peanuts, candies, guazhi, hanging tanglung deco, ang paos, pomelo, chinese sausage and lots lots more. Its SOOOOO CNY...I have never really experienced CNY atmosphere like this for a long long time. And we even found a very good bargain for cookies..XD

And I thought I am not going to have any CNY cookies this year..=p nononono..Next stop, hunt for Ba Gua..

I remembered when I was really little, we used to make cookies together at home, spring clean our house before CNY, go for CNY shopping etc. But, things has slowly changed as my parents became more busy, me and my brother had grown up hence we spent lesser time at home.And for many reasons, CNY celebrations slowly became more simple and less elaborate as time goes by. I really miss those good old times when CNY is the biggest anticipation of the year. Oh well, things changed ~~

I am now away from home and I really want to go home for CNY. But due to the delays of the restaurant opening, we still cannot finalize whether we can take leave and go back to Malaysia. Hence, we cannot buy tickets as well. Air ticket price is rocket high now,and bus tickets are limited. So pray pray hard that our boss will make up him mind whether he wants to close for CNY or not soon.

Playing around with my camera and I love my hoodie! haha. Oh, this is the top I am talking about in my previous post. Love it to bits. =p

Anyways, our outlet is finally opening this Friday ( Thank god ) and our real work is going to start now. Pray pray hard that everything will fall into place and go on smoothly. Fighting!!!!

Shopping day!

Since I am wearing uniform to work, the only time I could dress up nicely would be on my off day. No matter how lazy I am, I will try and spend more effort on my appearance and dressing since its my only time of the week to look good and feel good. haha. 

I know it may sounds a bit vain, but what to do...=p Since CNY is just around the corner and I am staying near China Town, the CNY mood is really hitting me. I also want to go for my CNY shopping!!! Hence, grab my money and went for clothes hunting. 

Its not a lot, but definitely enough for now since I will only dress up on my off day..huhuuuu..I know I may sounds a bit jakun, but its my first time buying F21 le! haha. As a student, F21 in Malaysia is always out of my budget, hence I rather stay away from it in case I see anything that I really like. But in Singapore, its really affordable especially during sales. So don't care, grab whatever that I think is nice. 

As usual, its not easy to find something that fits me, so I am going into loose clothings now rather than those body hugging ones. Makes my life easier and makes my mum happier. haha. 

Posting this picture because I like it. Muahahaha..

While everyone is dressing up more maturely, I am going against the flow and bought a pink back pack instead. =p

I really like this bag as it is pink color obviously =p and I could put in my files and all to work. Though I pretty much looks like a high school kid. I don't mind and I don't care. As long as I am happy, it is okay to pamper myself with things I really like once in a while. =p

Have a great week ahead! Stay happy! =)

p/s Damn, I'm turning 23 soon. TT

Its the ever famous Year 2012!

Hello 2012!!!!!!!

Happy New Year everyone!!! New Year, New hope, New start..everything new new new! =) Hopefully in this very new year everything will go on smoothly and everyone to be in the pink of health through the year..*fingers crossed*

First day of the year, and its freaaaaaaking busy in the restaurant especially for ice cream..Since not many part timers want to work on New Year, hence I have to be behind the dip case to assist them. I have been scooping ice cream nonstop through the night and resulted super fatigue body right now. Thank god I have my off day right now, resting at home and enjoy doing nothing but watching drama. haha. Awesome thing. Probably I'll take a nap soon also..hahaha..talking about lazy bums..

Just received my full month salary not long ago and damn, after calculating all the money that i might spend, suddenly I felt poor. haha..Yea I know, I think too much and being too kiamsiap. What to do, I am like that so please bear with me. =)

Have you ever walk around the shopping mall and came across with this particular clothes that you really like and you are being very hesitant on whether you should buy it or not, hence you walk around the shop conflicting with yourself. During the self conflicting period, here comes this woman who grabs on the last piece of clothes that you like and bought it on the spot. DAMN! For your info, its a super soft and thin sweater with a hoodie that you can even wear to sleep ( p/s its only 10 dollar because it is on sales ) Talking about being kiamsiap, who can beats me ya. haha. 

Then ever since then, I have been frequently going back to the same shop to see whether they have restock or not. And thanks to the New Year's luck, they have it restocked and even have it in size S! Yeaaahu. Grabbed it and paid on the spot. haha. The lesson of the story is, If you see something that you really like, grab it before it is gone. Sames goes to everything in life..=) 

As you work longer in this industry, you will meet different kind of people and customers along the way. You get angry, you get frustrated, but at the same time, you will learn how to deal with it better in the future. I am trying to be positive all the time, and trying to overcome my physical limits. Life is all about pushing the boundaries to be a better person isn't it?

Anyways, time to take a nap now since its my off day..wheeeeee~~~Have a great week ahead people..=)