"No Question Is Stupid"

Today went for the F1 training at 12.30pm, reached at like 11.45am, can't go in yet so I waited for Alvin at the bus stop and looked for Leanne afterwards.. We then went in and waited outside the HR office. Then this woman called ShuShu, a muslim as she said, but dunno wad race, told [actually shout is the right word.. xp] us to keep quiet and we proceeded to Millenia 3, one of the meeting rooms.. Had a boring lecture, then she had us ask questions if any cox she said that " No question is stupid."  At first it sounded alright.. But if you change the tone of speaking it a little, the whole meaning changes!

Like "No. Question. Is. Stupid." Means no question is stupid la...

Then another one is "No question. Is. Stupid." Which sounds more like if you don't have any questions, it is stupid... Well, its just my opinion and this results from days of working... D:

Anyways, some questions are seriously common sense.. Like this one: "What do we do when we're tipped?" 

Well, since it isn't stupid, I can't use stupid the word.. But all I wanna say is " KEEP LA!" Well, unless you wanna share your tips, everyone would gladly want to have a share.. 

After that, Amos took over.. Joker ar him.. Say alot of stuff that can actually be learnt by just working a few days in banquet and yadda yadda... Then had a mini buffet thingy, which is actually spring rolls and some thing which I don't know its name, and coffee and selection tea.. Got kamomile and ate quite a few servings as I did not had lunch.. After which, we were shown a demo by Amos himself what to do what not to do etc..

Then went to check our faces with our IC number, supposedly for the staff passes during the F1 period, and I rushed off to change and have dinner, saw Chi Lung and friends there.. Dinner was simple, some veg and egg and rice as I had not much time till 1730 hours..

Saw Sinyi and her bunned up hair.. haha, all the girls look so different after bunning up their hair lols..

Went down and saw Yumi, she told me my event tomorrow at 8am is cancelled, so I do not have to report for work.. I was like mouth agape.. Cox potential money to be earned gone.. T.T

So went for the briefing in a sian mood... Then when checking namelist to see which group I belong to, read the 1st column and there's no my name! YES IM NOT A LEADER... Heng.. Cox I 1st time since 4 months come back do Chinese Dinner set..  Checked the other columns and then thought to myself: "Eh, how come my name not up there? D:"  Checked with John and he put me under Tun Lynn..  Haha, heng.. Tun Lynn very reliable one.. He damn steady.. And Xian Shi in my group also... Found out our group has 4 vegetarians on one of the table, so Tun Lynn's agenda was to for him and me go pickup the normal food, and Xian Shi take care of vegetarians all the way.. 

After about 45 min after the ballroom doors opened, my 4 tables were barely 50% filled.. Somemore they are situated almost beside the VIP tables, which should make them close relatives of the families... But in the end, only about 75% of the seats that we're in charge of were filled.. I went for the "fanfare", which is the um, walk-in of the 1st dish.. When the doors were opened, the whole ballroom was dark except for the light lighting up the red carpet we're walking on...

The food tonight was quite typical though, save for the soup, which is fish maw and chicken in superior soup or something like that.. Most guests did not touch it, for reasons which I do not know of..

But one which stood out [in my opinion] is the one which has chicken, mushroom, veggies and sea cucumber in some heavy sauce.. But smells heavenly.. Fish on the other hand, smells heavenly to me as I love fish! xDD

Then there was stoppage of service, which in that period a photo slideshow of the morning's events were shown on two big screens.. The photographs were very well taken, expected from a professional photographer ma... Then there was the editing of the photos.. The Kens Burns Effect if I remember correctly, was very well utilised [cox professional ma..] Seriously nice photos...

Was telling Xian SHi we can'y clap even though its rather um..touching? xD

Then when they popped the champagne, I don't know why, maybe my reflexes? Both my hands swung up and clapped once before my rational mind took over.. lol...

The fried rice had yam, I can smell it! Anyways, as usual, nobody touched the fried rice as they're mostly full... The glutinous rice ball dessert, for the 1st time had to put 2 balls into a bowl.. Normally it is one..

Seems like if I'm super hungry, everything smells great... xD

Yumi later told me that because of someone who could not make it on monday, she ask me to replace him lo...

Then was called by this guy to stack chairs... The chairs in the store were stacked yes.. But not high enough, only 8-9 per stack... We then had to move chairs and kept the chais at heights of 14-15 chairs... After stacking like until the 6th stack felt droplets dripping onto my clothes.. Then found out this chair stacking thing is machiam gym, can exercise... Did countless repetitions and in general, exercised...

Shiok sia.. Got to exercise..

Minivan-ed home and at the lifr lobby, saw some people come out of the lift.. Thought to myself during the lift ride: " Scarly this lift gt problem.. Aiya won't de la...]  At the 9th floor, the lify doors opened, an inch... I was like I DUN WANNA BE STUCK HERE! Pressed bell a few times, and after some bashing of the lift, it finally worked and broght me to 5th floor.. Climbed for the rest...

Big shots and slacking police..

Seriously can't think of any blog title appropriate for this so anyhow think of one.. xD

Today worked 5.30pm.. Since I need to walk the outer perimeter of Ritz to reach the security post, saw bomb disposal vehicle and some police vehicles.. Thought to myself " Shit tonight must be some big shot's son/daughter de wedding.. " How true man... Then reached at around 4.30pm and had dinner.. Saw Wee Teng, Chi Lung, Darren and some of their classmates.. [Sorry if i forgot your name.. Me STM.. D:] Told Chi Lung and some of them their sideburn cmi lol.. During spotcheck I think manager got tell them to cut ba..

Kira also came back to work today.. Talked abit also and then went to ballroom.. Hongjie, whom we saw later, also came back to work today.. Haha, good that there's people I know working.. Can talk ma..  Saw the number of ministers appearing.. wah lao, proness loh..

There is Mr. Jayakumar, Mr. Wong Kan Seng, Mr. George Yeo, Mr. Mah Bow Tan, Mr. Teo Chee Hean, Mr. Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Mr. Vivian Balakrisnan and maybe a few others whom I forgot their names..  They're spread around 8 VIP tables and there's one host table in the middle..  8 groups, which have 1 VIP and 3 normal tables are the groups who have to take note many more things.. D:

Heng the group I kena is not in the VIP tables. I kena one that is near the back corner of the ballroom.. Which is quite good, somemore I have 3 normal tables and 1 reserve table lol.. BUT the sway thing is I'm the only guy in the group! lol..

Then one of my group member, auntie Lily, was worried I cmi, so ask our in charge, Andrew to find another guy for my group. heng found one, somemore its Chi Lung! haha, same coursemate, easy to communicate la.. So I taught him some of the ropes and asked him not to carry so much as he 1st day and etc.. 

The Singaporean bride is marrying a Swiss guy whom they met at work and yadda yadda..

There's like 7 courses in total, and western somemore.. Luckily the utensils I prepared earlier was not "stolen" unlike some other sway groups.. So operation was quite smooth.. Just that during 3rd and main [5th] course de plates were stacked until so much that Chi Lung can't carry [yet] so I carry lo... Machiam the teacups de weight also.. D:   Teacups today need 30 only, so its quite a breeze.. Somemore I don't need to worry about auntie and the other girls as they're quite experienced..

Saw the police eating our peanuts and chips and drinking coke lol.. And one of them is checking his phone for sms.. So vigilante ar... Actually, cox their superior, who is a woman, was not there so they slack lol...

Tonight's appetiser is seafood if I'm not wrong, then there's this soup with onion paste, then some dish as a starter before main course, then lime soubet or something.. Forgot the spelling, but it is pronounced SOBE, as in the soy drink.. Then is the main course of Cajun Chicken and a big juicy prawn!  omg..   Then is dessert of some berries, a slice of cake and some pudding with whipped cream on top. Lastly is the petit four, which is 4 kind of chocolate with 3 each. There's white chocolate, brown chocolate, dark chocolate and green tea chocolate lol..

White chocolate is energy boost, brown chocolate revitalises you and dark chocolate keeps you awake.. xD

Anyways, the 3 traditional yum-seng toasts were quite funny.. 1st and 2nd are the normal marital bliss etc.. The 3rd one is the funny one..  The host said this one must catch their breath as it must be the loudest.. xD    Simple reason, this toast is to wish them to procreate, and according to the host, not 1, not 2, but 5! Yes, FIVE! HAHA.. I heard that I smile.. [in ballroom can't laugh ma.. xD] Then the host continued "The 1st 2 babies are each for the families of the bride and groom, the 3rd one is for the family itself, the 4th one is for Singapore, and the 5th one for Switzerland.."  I was "LOL".. and laugh softly.. xDD

Turnover was also considered a breeze except for the mountains of dishes to bring in.. The other glasses etc were cleaned out fast. The side of my ballroom, is mostly the older generation people.. The other side is the younger and ang-moh ones.. lol.. So my side of the ballroom had the people go out very very fast.. The other side lingered for awhile before making their way..

Then it was moving of some extensions.. Almost got pricked by a wooden splint.. Lucky sio... Extension was alright compared to the oval trays.. xD

Then at midnight, can go home lo.. Sad Chi Lung was randomly chosen by Simon earlier to stay till 1am, which is to do sai gang.. lol..  SO sad 1st day must stay later.. Simon must have see the "potential" in him ba.. haha

Reached home, bathed and fed my hamster before coming in front of this com to blog.. xD

Tomorrow there's training, which I never did officially have, so can see many many TRM people! haha

Till then..

Strange Dream...

Got a very strange dream last night. Not an ordinary one. Pondering about it. 

It is so wrong! ARGH! Is it hinting to me something? Or am I thinking too much about something that's why I dreamt about it.. 

I wonder....

Gym?

Today rolled around in my bed since like 9am to wait for the call from Zhihao to ask us to come down to bball.. In the end I drifted off to lalaland and woke up at 10.50pm.. Called Zhihao and he said he was about to play badminton with Ryan.. D:   

I said we'll meet at 11.15pm.. I called Gary to wake him up then he was like wtf, so late le? Go gym train wad shit? lol 

I met Gary at around 11.15pm and called Zhihao. He was engrossed in his badminton that he forgot the time lol.. So Gary and I went to his block downstairs and waited, meanwhile eating bread and snack for breakfast..

Zhihao finally came down and we proceeded to take bus 30 go jp.. Halfway through the journey, Gary's friend called him to say that their meeting time is pushed forward.. D:

So in the end he went to meet his future boss and Zhihao and I proceeded to the stadium at jurong west to meet up with Huiyock and the others.. Saw Jeffrey and PinKoon there..

After going up and down a few times, finally got to the gym and tried almost all the facilities there lol.. The only true exercise I had is running for 13min and some machine which I do 3 sets of 15..  Muscles ache like hell.. Partly due to the  aches during work and partly cox of the machine..  

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Then I went to the weighing scale. Actually its a weighing and height machine. My weight increased by *gulp* 5 grams.. From 52.85kg to 52.90kg.  :/

Height-wise I've grown *GULP* 1.5cm! 5 months since my checkup I've grown 1.5cm.. Now 184.5cm.. Shit man I must grow sideways! ARGH!!!

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At around 2.15pm, we proceeded to Pioneer Mall to have lunch.. Zhihao had vegetarian food while Huiyock had fries and a very watery red bean soup, which suck totally.. Even I can cook better than them lol.. Why add water and save a few beans when they cost so little? siao man..

I had ba cho mee and tau suan which was not gooey but watery.. D:  Sianded by tau suan, but not as much as the red bean soup...

Said byes to Huiyock [he live just beside Pioneer Mall lol] and Zhihao and I went to jp and went our separate ways. He went home and I went work via mrt.

Reached there too early - 4pm for work that starts at 5.30pm - and rotted in the locker room and then went to the cafeteria to rot till 5pm, when I had my dinner.. I din had much space in my stomach though, due to the tausuan and ba cho mee still inside..

Work was briefing of the event, which is Singapore Media Awards. Wah lao the gals din listen to instructions lo.. Normal table put 5 butter and VIP table is 1 per pax. All the tables were 3 per table.. I go double check with manager.. Heng sio.. If I din they'll get it from i dunno who liao..   Then gt one smart person go pour water in white wine glass instead of the red wine glass... -.-" Luckily it was a small problem..  

Then some of us guys are told to move some buffet table setting.. I moved one w/o paint, yay!

But good things don't last. I was told later to move one ridden with wet paint back to where we got it from.. D:   

So in the end my hands are all paint and so is my shirt, but shirt heck la, cox not I wash.. xp

Scraped the paint of with soap and fingernails...

Dinner was alright, just some SK here and there.. The turnover was a disaster zone with some hope... I could carry an extension cox everyone was doing so! Wow, changes in circumstances really change you in one way or another lol..

Then I was assigned chair mover.. Moving chairs is easy for me! Don't know why though.. Moved alot with a few others before we were stuck, no space..

So we moved to the back. Then this girl came to us and tell us to move the chairs in the front to the middle.. I said we'll do it but in a short while, cox we're still orientating the chairs at the back lest they fall.. She dunno where sot, go complain to a captain.. -.-"

We moved as she told and nothing happened lol..

Finally cleared the storeroom of chairs and at the same time we were told to go home! xD

Today's extension "saga" taught me really that circumstances can and will change people.. xD

ちょっと待ってください-Stresemann's tone in Nodame Cantabile.

Today woke up by an sms from Gary. "Eh bro, paiseh but today i no want go gym le."  I was half awake then and thought "ok lo..."  smsed him and drifted to sleep. Little did I know I would get more than I wanted....

Went to meet him at around 1.45pm as I dragged the time.. He had to go Bedok Camp to get his power risers - The props he used in NDP which costs $300+ - home, and he doesn't need to pay for them.. so good..

Reached Jurong East and bought waffle for lunch.. Sad that girl who always gives extra extra filling wasn't in charge of the waffle counter. ):  Finished it and went to the platform. Saw Jovell there waiting for her friend, talked to her abit and then recieved an sms from Kira. "Look opposite of ur seat..."

Looked up into the next bench and saw him with headphones smiling and me and waving.. I was thinking "wah so coincidence!" haha  Also chatted with him until the train arrived.. Said byes and stood all the way to Bedok. Luckily had Straits Times to entertain me while on the train.

Reached Tanah Merah and took bus 14 to the camp. Actually, we had to walk in quite a distance. On the way, saw some private properties. One of the bungalows stood out as it has like 4 storeys and a rooftop with a small pavilion on it. I think it is used to hold bbq parties and the like... 

Rotted outside while waiting for him to come out triumphantly with the power risers. Then as butler-of-the-day had to help him carry.. -.-

Carrying this Large [yes there are small, medium and large sizes] power riser is a test of endurance and navigation.. Or so he said.

I must have looked damn stupid. Walking through citylink mall and marina square holding this with my both arms out. Its like doing cocktail recption for both hands, just more heavier.. D:

Weaved though the crowds of citylink mall and marina square with Gary as the buffer many times for the long legs of the power riser. We reached pasta de waraku and he returned his uniform to his employer of 2 days. He quitted his job as he found one which pays much less, actually pays for his transport and meals only, and one which he is interested in - hairdressing - he wants to intern in his friend's friend's shop for experience so as to gain a better chance to appeal into the course in ITE next year..

After that, he carried it till the end of marina square before passing it back to me. I then carried it all the way to dhoby ghaut, where we had lunch/dinner at Long John Silver's. Finished with the food and proceeded to the lan shop we played at.

Battlefield 2 was the first game and it was exciting, just that my ears have some problem listening I guess...  D:   Then also wasn't alert to the surroundings whether there's any enemy.. But overall, killed more than I knew I could thanks to Gary's leadership skills.. haha   xD

Samtaro joined us later and we also had fun playing.

Next is Starcraft: Brood Wars. 3 vs 1 .. Samtaro and I were zerg and Gary protoss.. The enemy is terran. Found out a bug! haha I rushed with zerglings and killed the SCVs, and one of them was building a building so I killed it while it is building halfway. It seems after that the computer stopped progressing as it did not have he intelligence to tell another SCV to continue building. We realised it only after we progressed by ALOT.

So Samtaro suggested we play another round. This time it was much more fun as they were not "stuck".. Had to help Gary during one of their "invasions" though, used my flying units to kill them off as they were ill-prepared with anti-air.. Won the battle as expected via our rush..

Next was a game, ricochet. Never played before, but almost got hooked until I realised it was quite late. Gary kept saying "ちょっと待ってください" [chotto matte kudasai] in Stresemann's tone in Nodame Cantabile. All these waiting accumulated and

in no time it was 11.33pm. I was like wtf and had to go home straight. Heng his mother allowed to help us pay for the taxi fare

, if not I'll be dead by the time I get home if via train and bus. D:

Sad forgot to take the picture of me miserably carrying the power risers.. And I will return half of tonight's fare asap! xD

SBS

Actually the title of the post is largely influenced by what just happened to me.. So I'll talk about it later...

Today went to work at 1pm. Almost missed the bus stop because the bus driver did not notice it is a bus stop as it had no shelter.. -.-"   

Anyways, 1st thing to do was take some newspapers and display to let some guests to take and read. I think it is for show and to collect dust..

Then from 1.10pm to near 4pm was steaming. Well, steaming of chair covers la! [What were you thinking??]  Very tedious, very troublesome, very scalding.. lol  Sometimes the steam condenses into hot water and scalds my hands.. Some more there's like 500+ seats for the event. After steaming, we went to clear up one of the stores, I think it is to get us something to do and make us useful lol..

Found out there's a store in B2, the carpark.  Took out black chair covers to the back of the ballroom. Seems there's a rather formal event on friday.

Then it was rotting in one of the stores. Then AoXiang, Xian Shi and I went to banquet office to book slots for next week. As expected, there are people from TRM waiting to get their photos taken. Apparently for staff passes for F1 event, as the area is restricted to staff or people with F1 tickets.  Saw Xuanyi, Qilong and their classmates. 

The cocktail reception saw 6 guys holding trays of soft drinks. Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Orange and Soda water/warm water on request. Finally know how those girls experienced during the cocktail receptions before wedding dinners and the like. Seriously arm can get numb etc.. 

After the event, was chair moving time.. Moving chairs allows us to go near the banquet office and see if there is anyone there. Met some TR03 girls, then weiwei and her friends and some other people. xD

Dinner was alright, quite filling..  But all was used up by moving extensions.. Can't believe no one can carry extensions alone if you count out the light extensions. Miserable indeed. Even I can't carry.. ):

After turning over and packing up some extra items, we knocked off at 9pm. The voucher says 9.30pm for all of us. 8(.5) hours of work.. Quite alright for today, at least can talk to some of my course and groupmates for TRM camp..

Anyways, went to the bus stop with AoXiang and another colleague to wait for bus. My bus 97 came after 10min of waiting, my handphone says 9.30pm and I flagged. Only to see it whizz past me like nothing had happened. The stupid bus driver could not see a hand out?! Somemore my hand so looonng lol.. No shelter doesn't mean its not a bus stop ok.. Si Bei Stupid.

In the end, took 70m to the esplanade bus stop as it had a shelter.. -.-

Waited for ages, and my sudden spoiling of my bluetooth music player did not help. Stood up rotting.. Then Gary called to confirm some things we're gonna do tomorrow. As i was about to end the call, a bus without the sign on the front nor the side appeared, it went past me, and I saw the small number plate at the back "97". I scolded "Fuck" immediately. The time was 10.10pm then. 

At around 10.30pm and 30+ other buses later, I could not wait anymore and smsed Alvin if he could help me find out the time for the next 97 on this bus stop as I forgot the iris number.. He smsed back "arriving, next bus 15min later".  Sure enough, the bus did appear moments later, ending my nightmare of a bus wait and some respite for my aching legs.

The bus wait time for pm off-peak is between 13-23 min. This is a guideline, the interval between the buses should be within it, not ALWAYS exceeding it. Si Bei Sian by this Si Bei Slow buses and these bus "captains", are they educated with the knowledge that bus stops need not have a shelter? Si Bei Stupid sia..    And I'm Si Bei Suay today.

Now you get the drift ba.. xD

WorkWork

Went to work in the morning via 97.. I thought I was going to be late when I was relatively early.. Reached there at 9.36am for work at 10am. Worked at M-floor..  My ears are failing me as I misunderstood the manager's instructions and cleared things I wasn't supposed to clear.. D:

Kena scolded like F--- and then was sent off to lunch... 

After lunch went to clear and pack some stuffs from the other meeting rooms. One of the event is Mitsubishi de regional higher-ups' meeting. Most of them are Japanese cox their names are displayed in front of their seat. Then some were Chinese Singaporeans. Pro was the outside usually has Straits Times as newspaper. Today, additionally to The Straits Times, theres the japanese business paper, which obviously splashed all over the headlines is the resignation of Japan's Prime Minister, Yasuo Fukuda.

Anyways, walked alot today around the 3 floors of the staff-accessible hotel. Dinner time at 5pm met Amar and Ulrig. Talked abit and then went back to work.. Then it was all walk and slack and walk and work and walk. [You get the drift.]

Finally knocked off at 9pm but had to wait for stupid bus 97 at stupid bus stop w/o shelter nor seats till 10pm.. -.-"  Finally sit in bus but leg too long so extend to 2nd seat. Then at harbourfront bus stop this auntie just squeeze and sit down.. =.= I jus bend my legs up to the next seat [aiya dunno how to say, but many teens do this nowadays..]

Tell the auntie "my leg too long le" Then her attitute like change or smth "haha yealo"

Me lazy to do anything as was dam tired and was gong gong due to sleeping on the bus lol..

Reached home! Finally let my legs rest abit..

Skill loss..

Today went to NP for that briefing on TRM camp. As usual, some of us were late, including me lol... But at least I went..   My group, Bowser, has only half of the members turning up... -.-"

Our buddy group, which form our "ride" called Battle Budgy, is called Wario and all of them turned up..

Marcus, Ivy and Weiwei are in that group, Xinying is in my group but she din come. Then Wario has the most of our OG de grpmates luh.. Theres Weihuang, HuiShan, Xuanyi, Lilin and Mike.

Plus me and Matt in Bowser and "BB" will have 7 xmen 9 de ppl lols...

Settled some stuffs and went home.. Went to dapao food for Gary and me and went his house eat.. Then went home rot abit before going out with him to Dhoby Ghaut. The bus card which he just add value yesterday, when checked with the person at the mrt station, expired yesterday.. D:

So he had no choice but to say byebye to his sec sch card and buy a new adult ezlink card.. Upon reaching Dhoby Ghaut, I went plaza sing to have a haircut and he went for his modelling interview at Dhoby Xchange.  He waited for like 1hr45min before getting interviewed, from 4.15 to 6pm... Me was cutting hair, then bought something to eat, then went Dhoby Xchange to roam around, saw some S&W mates and talked abit..  Then we parted ways and I went the supermarket to roam and explore the merchandise there...

Then when he finally finished his interview, met at the ljs and ate dinner before proceeding to the LAN shop which I long time never go.. Met Zhihao and his Aunt on the way, actually, outside the building lols.. They went there to pool.. Pro sia.. xD

Then in the lan shop, I kena pwn BIG TIME in battlefield 2, kena pwn BIGGER TIME in Starcraft, and Age Of Empires 3 was okok..

Lost skill in these games.. Haii..

Tmr go work! Muz settle all debts! xD