Monday, May 30, 2011 6:09 PM
(:
1.09am
and so volunteering for sundown comes to an end.
designated water boy at the 16/28km mark,
and once again i'm in the midst of
an endless 2 hour long slam of ppl.
yet give me the choice of being a water boy
or a barista during happy hour,
and no doubt, i'd pick the water boy.
at least people are genuinely appreciative.
having said that,
volunteering really was an experience i guess.
and just like running a local marathon,
this is probably a once in a lifetime activity.
its not much of a big deal really.
volunteering, and pretty much anything you do,
is only as fun as the people you do it with.
so many thanks to those who went down,
rujun meijun shengheng weely
and to a smaller extent,
our handsome mr chia.
(:
note to self:
never volunteer unless its sundown,
the morning/afternoon sun will kill me.
i'd rather face supermassive sleepiness
as compared to the afternoon sun.
because cider is the elixir of life
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 4:58 PM
(:
12.01am
bookings for a restaurant
that didn't open on sundays.
so we just improvise from there on.
compared to the rest so far
very much low profile for a 21st,
planning was practically non-existant,
but the people more than make up for it.
typical cui gang outing.
but despite all those,
its been one of the most enjoyable so far.
happy birthday junjie (:
because cider is the elixir of life
Saturday, May 21, 2011 3:52 PM
so much for happy hour.
10.52pm
imagine happy hour.
imagine being the expediator.
imagine a horde of people
crowding around the hand off counter.
imagine these people
each with receipts of 15, 20 drinks
(due to the limit set by starbucks).
imagine say, orders of 5 grande caramel frappes.
now imagine the drinks being passed to you.
1pump-mocha mocha frappe, non-fat coffee frappes,
soy green tea frappes, 5 tall caramel frappes,
anything except 5 grande caramel frappes.
i'm really not kidding about
the wrong sized caramel frappes srly.
and there you are with a bunch of random drinks,
calling and calling and calling for a caramel frappe,
and no one answers or acknowledges.
and then you see more caramel frappes coming in.
and the customers get angry and frustrated.
they end up taking any random drink,
and they ask for bags for their 20 drinks or so.
but we've ran out of bags long ago.
big bags, small bags, pastry bags,
any carrier of any sort.
and trays and java chips
and green tea and tall flat lids
and whipped cream for that matter.
its a living nightmare.
as if work wasn't chaotic enough,
the customers weren't making things any better.
being the office workers that they are,
they think they're smarter than me the f&b dude,
and they try to tell me what to do,
as if i were their coffee boy in the office.
"don't call out the drinks;
check their receipts instead!"
thank you very much mr and mrs obvious.
if they had taken a step back to just
observe what they were doing,
they'd have realised that it was
impossible to say the least.
the initial battle plan was to
check the receipts beforehand,
but when most customers just throw
3 or 4 receipts onto the table,
then walk off to somewhere else
cause they think its too crowded and stuff,
its just impossible, i gave up halfway.
i don't know who's receipt belongs to whom,
and sometimes they don't too.
some don't even know what they ordered.
"check their receipts,
they probably don't know what they ordered."
and they have the cheek
to say it as if its my problem.
seriously, they're 30plus,
and they expect me to spoonfeed them their drink.
its so pathetic.
i know starbucks provides legendary service,
but if christine the district manager
was in my place instead,
i think she'd have done the same.
i just gave my most dulan face ever.
don't tell me how to do my job seriously.
its not as if they're students or what.
living on a budget, fine.
queueing for these kinds of discount
are at least understandable.
but all these guys were like
well into their 30s,
office people earning big bucks,
and they're willing to queue for 20mins
just to save up on the $3.
and its really just for the discount,
not as if they like the drink or what.
most don't even know what they ordered.
like this uncle who ordered
3 venti white mocha frappes,
no matter what drink came out,
he'd start waving his receipt in my face
and just keep going
"is this mine, is this mine, is this mine"
even if its a green tea frappe,
or dark mocha, or raspberry or mango.
seriously pissed me off.
quite obvious white mocha isn't green,
or brown or purple or yellow.
he just kept bugging me.
as if i weren't flusterred enough.
or the times where i call out for say,
a grande mocha frappe,
call and call and call for a few minutes,
and they just stand there and look at me.
and when i ask them what they ordered,
they look at their receipts and go
"i ordered a... grande mocha frappe. ya."
and i just give the wtf-is-wrong-with-you face srly.
once or twice is fine i guess,
but when its for half the time, really.
is it that difficult to just acknowledge,
get your drink and get lost.
but i guess its only by meeting people like these,
do we then get to appreciate the patience of others.
like this nice indian lady,
who ordered a tall soy strawberries and cream frappe.
and instead of bugging me like the whole world does,
she sat patiently by the side,
before she came to v politely ask for her drink
at like 5.15pm after the war was over.
you really appreciate people like these.
i upsized her drink to a venti instead.
at the end of it all,
i just stood at the corner,
and waited for my world to resume normalcy.
just stand there and let the feeling
of being slammed for 2 hours subside.
more than 500 frappes sold within that 2 hours.
that's less than 15seconds per frappe.
friday was the worst day of my starbucks life.
given a choice i'd switch back
to making drinks without hesitation really.
thursday was awesome, i didn't have to face customers.
i just make drinks as fast as i can.
i actually enjoyed happy hour before that.
but oh well.
thank god its over.
like a marathon,
its a once in a lifetime experience,
but just once is enough dammit.
because cider is the elixir of life
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 2:24 PM
((:
9.28pm
yup okay time for the bintan update.
okay its not really the long sought band holiday
that we've been musing abt for a few years,
but its more of a i-cant-stand-sg-anymore trip so.
yup planning and booking took all of
a week before we actually set off.
no thanks to our resident shepp (Y)
its was supposed to be a 4D3N bali trip,
venue tentative, dates non-negotiatable.
but shepp's mum said bali was gonna get bombed again,
so insist no go.
and since other options were like
penang or port dickson in msia
which would have to include a 18hr journey
to and from the destination on a cramp coach.
so quite lame in the end spend 2 days there only.
so yup decided on bintan instead.
45mins travel time.
hassle free.
cheap.
IN.
and although to ernest's dismay and horror
there weren't any jetskis or parasailing nearby,
i guess it was a good weekend getaway in some sense.
a few days away from the city and work was just
very appreciated (:
living in a resort in the middle of a kampung,
quiet and far away from all the regular tourists,
with a semi decent beach to boot,
this was the life man :D
okay the only notable watersport we did
was snorkelling on the second day la.
cause no jetskiing and parasailing,
and they didn't allow us to kayak over to nearby islands.
and since kayaking around the beach seem lame, OUT.
but still.
another item struck out from my bucket list!
okay la after the initial weird sensation
of breathing purely through the pipe in your mouth,
and swallowing down loads of seawater in the process,
more or less got used to it la.
and it was semi awesome hahaha.
would've been nicer had there been more fish,
and yup ernest's request of a turtle/dolphin/shark.
but its still an experience ba haha.
mostly coral and seaweeds
and small fishes,
and the random groups of clownfish
hiding amongst the anemone.
and the dozens of sea urchins lining the coral bed.
and finding more nemos.
but ya la there's only so much you can snorkel
since the marine life isn't that abundant
and the water isn't that clear anyway.
so we went up to the beach to lag
(as is our usual habit)
then swam out to this floating platform
supposedly used for scuba diving
and then uhh monkeyed around
i mean. what else can we do really.
hahahah cui gang ma.
but ya la before long had to go back
cause it started raining.
which then brought us the opportunity
of sitting atop an open air speedboat,
in the middle of a thunderstorm,
rain lashing (really painfully) against our faces,
strong winds chilling our bones,
protected only by a wet towel,
which we cleverly removed a while later
cause we wanted to see who would be the first
to chicken out and hide back inside the towel.
hwachong's smart future world leaders huh.
btw unsurprisingly, ernest lost haha.
on hindsight, it was pretty dangerous,
but it was seriously quite fun hahahhaha.
what the hell man.
taken before that fateful trip
when we were still warm enough to smile.
okay despite the fact that we only did snorkelling,
the rest of the trip turned out pretty enjoyable too.
be it playing mahjong or talking cock,
lying down and staring at the brilliant stars,
trying to wake ernest and rujun up every morning,
playing saboteur/bang/poker by the beach,
sprawled around the living room of the villa
watching the most fail late night horror movie
called tak or sth,
our short karaoke session with the few other guests,
accompanying ernest back to the villa
for him to have a quick nap after every meal,
our neverending requests to the poor concierge,
and of course, the many failed attempts
at downgrading our cui villa to the seaside rooms.
and of course,
the main purpose of our trip,
the beach.
i guess its cause we live in sg
that's why we're so fascinated with beaches
that you can wade out to at low tide
and walk amidst marine life at its original state,
schools of fishes, corals, crabs, starfishes
(what we did to those we found doesn't count la)
and best of all,
all these can be done when you're 200m away from shore,
barely knee deep in seawater.
how awesome is that.
haha man i dread working life already.
3 months in to a fun and interactive job
and i alrdy wanna escape from
the routine of everyday life.
what more a mundance office job
that i'll be doing for the next 20 years or so.
but then again,
those worries can be brought up 5 years later.
for now i shall just sit back and enjoy life heh.
next up, thailand-cambodia-laos! :D
because cider is the elixir of life
Monday, May 09, 2011 1:53 PM
D:
8.53pm
From: "Violet Chow - Display Concepts.net"
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 14:29:14 +0800
To:
ReplyTo:
Subject: RE: job enquiry
Hi Jiawei,
Job is at Boat Asia event. Keppel Marina. 1pm to 9pm.
$60 per day
Thanks,
Violet Chow
#07-02 HB Centre 12 Tannery Road Singapore 347722
Tel: 6-254 7708 Fax: 6-254 9004 M: 9-668 4916
E: violet@display-concepts.net
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From: cheongee@hotmail.com [mailto:cheongee@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 3:26 PM
To: violet@display-concepts.net
Subject: Re: job enquiry
Hey
What are the timings?
Thanks,
Jiawei.
Sent via BlackBerry from SingTel!
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From: "Violet Chow - Display Concepts.net"
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 14:29:14 +0800
To:
ReplyTo:
Subject: RE: job enquiry
I have a 4 day job this week.
Can you work?
Thanks,
Violet Chow
#07-02 HB Centre 12 Tannery Road Singapore 347722
Tel: 6-254 7708 Fax: 6-254 9004 M: 9-668 4916
E: violet@display-concepts.net
sounds so exciting!
i mean, compared to the monotony of work.
not that its not fun, but its getting quite.
mundane. oh well.
damn you la starbucks
this whole week working liao.
and why did she have to email me
the day before she expected me to work.
last minute ttm man.
looks like i was hired
by DFS all these while :\
and they didn't tell me nuts
till 2 months after the interview.
shucks, looks like i blew it.
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