Shinzz

Its Olympic grand opening day today and it is also a shitty day for me. Not relaxing in the middle of the living room with foot massage this time. Today, i’m assigned to be in charge of the ’staff cafeteria’ which also happen to be the ‘on-off lousy internet surfing’ duty. Work is getting shittier each day cos of some self-claimed ‘PROFESSIONALS’. Long story but i shall jus summarize it to just get it out of me.

Ever since i got here, the management team didnt show enough professionalism in handling the whole event (but the staff working are stil cool..thank god) A lot of things could be carried out in a better manner but so far there are a lot of hiccups and most of it are minor ones but after 2 weeks of continuous minor hiccups (same ones) it somehow is getting not so minor anymore.

And the management team, should i be specific??? are so NOT PROFESSIONAL because they play the revenge game. regardless of how good you can work or how much you can do, it doesnt matter anymore if u somehow are better than them. The best way for them to deal with situations like this is to send you away so that you will be hiding somewhere secretive doing job that noone wants to.

I’m seriously thinking of quitting this shit but i have not made up my mind yet. should i just stick with this shit hole and just stay on with whatever shit they throw at me (pardon all the *shit* people) and at the end go home and forget about the whole thing OR i could *let hell breaks loose*, pNA, personal communication;2008 then just walk away & have the rest of my days in Beijing to myself, visit gloria n edu mayb? (they havent reimburse me my flight ticket…. hmm… *thinking*) Any suggestion what is the best way of dealing the situation??

(Est: btw i didnt manage to get edu’s contact.. u have???)

Ok…. now i have some loads of dirty stuff to clear away and set up again for the next meal…

Till the next free time again. I cant upload any photos cos i dont have my cable here and there isnt that much of photos plus most of it are jus photos of food that i’ve tried so far and photos of me looking like i’m only on holidays no work at all………

*hope to finish early today and go home for the opening ceremony but anyway jus outside my cafeteria, live telecast that noone from the house would be free to watch* *whistling happily to myself and the walls*

Hello people… Ni hau!!

This post is now being typed out while i’m having my foot massage rite in the middle of my apartment’s living room.. total relaxation. Sounds good huh but the other days that i’m not doin this, i’m working my ass off in the House Of Switzerland.

Well to cut the intro short, i would jus link what Mr Caldwell has already blog about.. and there are some pictures too… –>*HoS*

There should be no pictures in this post due to the extensive work hours that i’m having here.  Its slavery, but again we are in China.. I’m here already here in Beijing for one and a half weeks and i;ve only manage to get my feet to silk street which is a shopping paradise for cheap and also pirated stuff.. and HouHai, a lake with alot of bars and also good small restaurants. apart from that its always working and working setting up the House. The whole House was a mess (even now) due to the late completion by the construction workers. (i blame it to the organisers being too nice and not push for the due date.) most of us arrive here expecting things to be ready for work but the whole interior of the house is still under construction and we service people have nth much to do as we cant do anything because of all the dirt. We polish milions of glasses just to get it all dusty again the next day even though we use lotsa cling wrap to ‘protect’ ‘em..

So, since its slavery here, of course we dont get off work jus because we have nth to do in the service side. Most of us were being sent to the kitchen to help out. (for one week i was Chef Wong hahhahahahahahahha) i had so much fun in the kitchen despite the long working hours.  Everyone in the kitchen is soo coooolll.. (Mr Hor, just for your info, i didnt turn potatoes only ok,..i also peeled some onions and sauted some.. hhahha and some other mise en place as well…)

Olympic is supposed to be a BIG  thing but so far i’m here, i havent have or felt anything yet. The tv is airing so many updates that is nowhere to be seen. The only feel was few days ago when the Swiss atheletes arrived..(even though i’m busy running around like a mad chicken, i still notices la…) on the streets are all quiet and normal. the people are also normal with no special olympic atmosphere..dont really know how to explain it..its weird..

Apart from work and minor complaints on the hazy weather almost everyday. Its damn hot here and pollution is so so so terrible. How la Olympics gonna happen??? i really wonder sometimes. yesterday was the only day i could see blue skies, only awhile..The only good thing here for the time being is the apartment we are staying. its so comfy and furnished basically.. and centralized air conditioned haha..

ok the foot massage is done, and i’m gonna go get ready to leave for the city to meet my aunt for dinner.. lets hope that i dont get lost somewhere near Suzhou hahaha.. (the taxi drivers here are always great, they will say they know the place and later after 15 - 20mins ride they will ask where is the location that we wana go and then we get lost and then we spend another 15 mins in the taxi going round n round.. but normally it only cost about 30RMb for all four people so we wont mind so much. hahah)

Tschuss zusammen!!

Blogging used to be a routine so that people can know whats happening around me when I’m far away. It turns slow… slower… and almost dying.. All this delaying is because of lame excuses like busy, no time and not really in the mood.. but i guess, at some point i dont see a point of putting things up when you question the purpose and consequences ..But a big draw out would be the lame internet connection at home that just settled in. And all the excuses piled up a mountain high i dont even know what to blog about or where to start and which event out of so many i should be focusing on.

Well i’m trying my best to sit to blog at least once a week but even that is so much of a difficult task.. isk isk.. Nth i could say to be exact but here is the recap for the happenings last two months i guess. Lets hope i get a little diligent and would be disciplined and also motivated enough to be updating frequently.. Cryst, Est & Lek are my motivation caused they damn rajin updating all the time..

So i’m hoping to get back into the blogging mode again..need motivation, not complaints ok people. I shall start with a full of photos recap to lessen the mountain high back dated piles of events that took place. (I shall just forget about those small mini mini stuff)

Reading Est & Lek’s updates, they always have smth happening with their colleagues made me think of how happening my own work place is. Well not that bad that till we only come to work and off we go. Every month we have staff’s birthday celebration, a get together session and also a ponteng/curi tulang broad daylight.

So far i only brought my camera out once during the celebration days (and for my own month, i didnt snap.. )

For The April Babies..

At the back of the office in our MINI Pantry…

Those orange plastic bags are bags filled with food we catered from one of Ms. Puteri’s contact. We cant afford to have buffet lunch as most of us have different schedule for classe, so best is to have food for all even when they have to rush back to classes after the cut cake session..

Selamat ‘Belated’ Birthdays!!!!

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Apart from colleagues that brighten up my days, the best part of my job is to get all the wonderful ‘daughters and sons’ along the way. Following is a day out with my ‘huang nu er(s)’

In MFM with Ann

Jenny and Rachel.

Its fun to hang out with them cos it makes me get grip of fun & crazy things that i’ve kinda stop doing except when i’m out with Cryst or Winnie.

See…

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Apart from hanging out, the past months I did not forget to pamper myself.. From shopping to traveling.. thats not something I would forget though haha.. but there are different things that i’ve tried—> (please be advice the picture below might be highly addictive, viewers discretion is highly recommended)

My SEXY legs.. (Kenko Fish Spa in Pavillion)

Fat People’s Fat Leg with alot of ‘Garra Rufa’. See the difference, one alot of fishes and the other less.. We were told that the fishes will nibble away dead skin so the more fishes nibbling your feet means alot of dead skin larr..

My friends and I recently came across this topic about Pedicure and Fish Spa. Its really very subjective to conclude which is better than the other. I believe both contribute to a certain positivity. I think its fun and natural way without much stress to the skin. Here a link if you wana find out more about it —–> *click*

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Winnie’s birthday simple lunch meet up.

Simple isnt it? Our table was filled with FOOD!!

I sacrificed half day leave to make this gurl happy. We went to Kura, in One World Hotel for lunch. I rushed my daily tasks and joined Winnie and CCL for this scrumptious meal.

Me and my ex-roomie..

Its a hearty meal but only three of us.. really miss the time when we used to celebrate with that group of friends who are now all in SINGAPORE (and now Winnie oso leaving.. *sob sob*)

No cake for her but i bought her a ? bag as pressie. Nice?? Pretty similar to the one she chose for me on my birthday haha..

Thats the once awhile short lunch meet up that we can afford out of our Stressful & Busy schedule.. haha.. damn pathetic right???

As per mentioned earlier, my job created opportunity for me to meet great people but also every few months, it would be emotional time cos have to bid farewell to graduating students. Everytime you know them better, thats the time they would be waving bye bye and saying ‘ I’m stepping into another level in my life.’

This semester i went to my first Farewell dinner of the year, CULA 7. This class i could remember the sweet girl, Stella who always around the photocopy machine in the office. The very small class and friendly people. The time here and there we would bump into the others around college and exchange nods and smiles. And now they are all off into the industry..

All the best people!!

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KDU 25th Anniversary- In conjunction of the 25th anniversary celebration, this year our annual dinner was held in One World Hotel (mentioning OWH twice dy, like no other place to go rite??) and the theme of the night is VIVA SILVER. Well we are to dress up as silverish as possible but not many actually understood the colour. Silver is not a normal colour i would wear or have in my wardrobe. Searching for a decent enough dress was pretty difficult and much to my disappointment, many didnt even bother to follow the theme.. Where la the team effort?? @!#!~!@~

I was seated together with all the bosses of my department and being one of the naughty ones its not easy to pass the two hour event okay.. and all the time my camera was nicely seated in my ’silver’ clutch. No Pictures from Annual Dinner?? I dont know what to say to myself.

Only managed to snap 4 pics at the end of the night before we departed to Long Bar. Out of 4, 3 was taken with Don same place and time just different brightness and clarity. Duh…

The best out of 3.. which is still not good… haih…

Don got a coffee machine from Lucky draw. Everyone of us got this photo album as door gifts. We were each given a box with an album inside with an individual photo but you wont get your own photo unless you are damn lucky. In order to get yours, everyone was asked to run around the ballroom doing ’system-barter’. Well a good ice breaker i would say..

Last one with Kenneth.

Thats about all on the annual dinner.

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The rest of the photos are from meet ups and Friday nite out. Lazy dy, read captions la…

During Salah’s visit, we went to Redbox. Me n Mama Jee

Me and Izzo

Photographer wannabe.

Rest of the people either smoking like a chimney or discussing worldwide politics.

Crazy two in Laundry.

Pee-Ka-Boo in Decanter Hartamas

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Thats all.. phew.. i’m tidying up so that i can start on the past long ago S’pore Trip. hhaha..

Ade!!!

For months and months of planning and then practices, finally the event was over jus yesterweek. Planning the menu took months to at last come to satisfactory and they begun searching for ingredients which went on concurrently with the planning of the practice schedule. Took up most of their time and it finally came to an end but that would make another good beginning for some of them.

The effort for preparation for the second largest hospitality event ‘Food Hotel Asia’ or better known as FHA is not a cruise down town. This team of five had to stay back late nite to perfect their menu. To make it a good practice, it was made into a dinner so that ppl can try out the menu and give valuable comments for improvement.

One fine week some months ago, I went to savor the exquisite menu in the whole of KDU.. haha.. with a few companion to make things a lil more fun.

We started off with choosing the different set of menu. They had one couple preparing Duck ala Mandarin, another couple, Lamb Rack with tones of beans I don’t eat and lastly the reserved Cod Fish aka Not on Menu Item. The focus was mainly on the first two items but I of course get to choose the ‘Not on Menu Item’.

 Started with :

Appetizer 1

Appetizer 2

very simple, light and  appetizing, great combinations. (please dont ask me for the breakdown.. )

<—–He can tell you more …

Then we had our three types of main course,

-Canard-

Roasted duck breast with pickled orange and orange mashed potatoes.

 -Classic Fine-

Roasted lamb rack on a duet of beans and red wine jus.

-Atlantic Simplicity-

Pan seared Canadian Cod on a pillow of russet and safron mashed tossed with organic chives.

Pictures stories it all so nonit to further explain la.. cos it will confuse me..

Apart from eating of course we have to camwhore la..

See all the girls so busy checking which photo turns out good..

Me n Joey

As normal, we all bullied Mr. Hor

Everyone were so happy that nite.

 Later that nite, the photographer of the day, Leon, took some really awesome photos for their portfolios.

‘The Team’

The ‘anchor-boy’ …

Of course have to take group photos la…  a nicely taken group shot.

Bravo to all.. we brought home a gold, a silver and two bronzes.. Will be out in the papers soon hahahaha…

What is the most important thing in your life?
-My life

Do you smoke?
- Nope

What is the latest gadget that you own?
-My E65

Who did you mostly text yesterday?
- Denise

What is the last thing that you bought with your own money?
- Lingerie.. whaha.. sales lagi

Where do you wish to get married?
- …..Wish??? haven’s start wishing yet

How many kids do you want?
- 4 probably???

Are you in love?
-how do ya tell when u’re in love?? need guide la von…

Where was the last restaurant you had dinner?
- Bora Asmara

Name the lastest book that you bought?
-Shopaholic with Baby

What is your full name?
- What is the info for anyway??

Do you prefer your mother or father?
- Cannot choose like this… unfair.. i dont prefer either cos both is equally important..

Name a person that you really wish to meet in real life for the first time.
- hmmmmm…noone in particular

Do you do your own laundry?
- of course la.. no maid to do it for me… anyone interested to write in for the position???

The most exciting place you want to go?
- Puerto Rico.. for what ever reason….

Hugs or kisses?
- Hugs!!!!

Single or attached?
- Single-ched

Point out 5 things about the person who tagged you.

• - She repeated over and over she wanted to be my daughter in law
• - She likes pink alot.. always pinkified wherever she goes
• - She is super noisy.. like a  bug
• - She is  very playful
• - She loves me more than anyone else in coll..

Things I am passionate about

for me to know for you to find out.. heheh
Things I say too often

• - Yeah rite..
• -Nth is fair in this world, jus fair enough. 

Books I’ve read recently
- FO Management Text

Songs I could listen to over and over again
- Leona Lewis-  Bleeding Love

Things I learned last year
- To pamper myself a lil more..

I Tag
- Wanted to tag but i think they will not reply so i shall jus end it here…