Friday, June 30, 2006
My schedule has been pretty hectic since wednestday that i haven't had enough energy to update except for that little snippet on our deadlines.
Well, here goes wednesday...
Media and society, the only tutorial we had for the day... it was pretty interesting and we had a little debate on censorship in Singapore (i'll elaborate another time...)
Anyway, went to do a little bit of the journalism assignment at TM NTUC about liquid eggs... I know what they are, but they seem really weird... someday maybe i will try when i don't fart excessively after midnight and my eyes turn blue... then met up with darrell and accompanied him for a job interview at my store... aziana was the one who interviewed him... weird though, cuz they had the interview standing up... anyway, uncle zainal had just finished his opening shift and was there too, with eva, hana and taufik... Found out that it was hana's last day... Geez... I'm sad... I like her and eva most out of the indo crew... double blow when i found out that i couldn't send her off at the airport the day she was going back... all because of school...
Was called to work to train two oje people, a mother and daughter pair... mom was alright, but daughter was a bit clueless on what to do... she just stood around till i specifically told her what to do... anyway it was pretty slack for me except for the training part, nagging part and having to do the stuff the oje crew was supposed to do... cuz my job was just to greet customers, do lobby dessert selling occasionally... i found time to help out at cafe... things are kind of back to normal between me and nizam... we're chums again...
Thursday...
Somehow i managed to drag myself out of bed today and made it to school for medsoc with enough time to print out the notes... skipped gdf, then went for journ and apel... I know i tend to talk about my work more than school, but nothing exciting really happens...
Rushed to the airport to work and speed changed into my uniform... the rush had already begun... punched in straightaway and it was 'pia' all the way till 8.45pm... which was when i had my break with nizam...coincidental... but we bantered while eating... which was fun... (I had a doublecheese burger and iced lemon tea only cuz we ran out of fries... can you imagine? We sold the twister fries instead...) but then a rush came in and i went for a quick visit to the ladies room and punched right back in... the moral obligations of a crew leader... *sigh* anyway, the crowd did not die down till about 10pm... It has been pretty hectic cuz people are travelling all over the place with the large majority going to watch the wc finals... it didn't help that the other food places downstairs were closed for renovations or something... Didn't really like today's counter crew... I don't really like asking people to do things... the irony is that the manager will keep asking me why i am doing the task myself and why didn't i delegate? Problem is, i tell the crew to do something, they will do the exact opposite... They end up telling me what to do... What the hell... I'm the one in charge... One of them even tried to tell the kitchen crew (which included aziana, a MANAGER, for crying out loud) to change their gloves... we already were in dire straits (cuz there weren't enough crew) and there she is trying to do MY job... crap... I knew that there wasn't enough help and so i didn't say anything... that's the kind of situation you get into once in awhile... i knew everyone was tired and so i tried to remain smiling... but it kind of gets fake if you are not conscious... anyway there was an airport staff that EXPECTED me to KNOW that he wanted chilli sauce and told me "MUST REMEMBER LAH!" bloody crapper! We are actually not supposed to suggest sauces but we do it anyway for customers' convenience... but the downside is that it has become an 'expected to have' service... Bloody crap... I love my job...but it's customers like these that are the downside... Oh, big macs were really moving better than hotcakes cuz of all the 'ang mohs'... so then finally i could breathe easy again when the crowd finally died down and i took over the lobby... chatting with nizam and mr v (azman... so called valentino...so corny right...) and they kept singing 'xiao wei'... it's alright except that it was always the first two lines! So i printed out the lyrics for them so they could learn it properly... ok... i'm burning out...skipping journ lecture... cuz i will sleep during mr selvan's droning... might as well do it at home...*sigh*
Well, here goes wednesday...
Media and society, the only tutorial we had for the day... it was pretty interesting and we had a little debate on censorship in Singapore (i'll elaborate another time...)
Anyway, went to do a little bit of the journalism assignment at TM NTUC about liquid eggs... I know what they are, but they seem really weird... someday maybe i will try when i don't fart excessively after midnight and my eyes turn blue... then met up with darrell and accompanied him for a job interview at my store... aziana was the one who interviewed him... weird though, cuz they had the interview standing up... anyway, uncle zainal had just finished his opening shift and was there too, with eva, hana and taufik... Found out that it was hana's last day... Geez... I'm sad... I like her and eva most out of the indo crew... double blow when i found out that i couldn't send her off at the airport the day she was going back... all because of school...
Was called to work to train two oje people, a mother and daughter pair... mom was alright, but daughter was a bit clueless on what to do... she just stood around till i specifically told her what to do... anyway it was pretty slack for me except for the training part, nagging part and having to do the stuff the oje crew was supposed to do... cuz my job was just to greet customers, do lobby dessert selling occasionally... i found time to help out at cafe... things are kind of back to normal between me and nizam... we're chums again...
Thursday...
Somehow i managed to drag myself out of bed today and made it to school for medsoc with enough time to print out the notes... skipped gdf, then went for journ and apel... I know i tend to talk about my work more than school, but nothing exciting really happens...
Rushed to the airport to work and speed changed into my uniform... the rush had already begun... punched in straightaway and it was 'pia' all the way till 8.45pm... which was when i had my break with nizam...coincidental... but we bantered while eating... which was fun... (I had a doublecheese burger and iced lemon tea only cuz we ran out of fries... can you imagine? We sold the twister fries instead...) but then a rush came in and i went for a quick visit to the ladies room and punched right back in... the moral obligations of a crew leader... *sigh* anyway, the crowd did not die down till about 10pm... It has been pretty hectic cuz people are travelling all over the place with the large majority going to watch the wc finals... it didn't help that the other food places downstairs were closed for renovations or something... Didn't really like today's counter crew... I don't really like asking people to do things... the irony is that the manager will keep asking me why i am doing the task myself and why didn't i delegate? Problem is, i tell the crew to do something, they will do the exact opposite... They end up telling me what to do... What the hell... I'm the one in charge... One of them even tried to tell the kitchen crew (which included aziana, a MANAGER, for crying out loud) to change their gloves... we already were in dire straits (cuz there weren't enough crew) and there she is trying to do MY job... crap... I knew that there wasn't enough help and so i didn't say anything... that's the kind of situation you get into once in awhile... i knew everyone was tired and so i tried to remain smiling... but it kind of gets fake if you are not conscious... anyway there was an airport staff that EXPECTED me to KNOW that he wanted chilli sauce and told me "MUST REMEMBER LAH!" bloody crapper! We are actually not supposed to suggest sauces but we do it anyway for customers' convenience... but the downside is that it has become an 'expected to have' service... Bloody crap... I love my job...but it's customers like these that are the downside... Oh, big macs were really moving better than hotcakes cuz of all the 'ang mohs'... so then finally i could breathe easy again when the crowd finally died down and i took over the lobby... chatting with nizam and mr v (azman... so called valentino...so corny right...) and they kept singing 'xiao wei'... it's alright except that it was always the first two lines! So i printed out the lyrics for them so they could learn it properly... ok... i'm burning out...skipping journ lecture... cuz i will sleep during mr selvan's droning... might as well do it at home...*sigh*
what we could have been, 6/30/2006 01:34:00 AM.
