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I enjoyed my first day of work at Raffles Hotel yesterday. :D
I still remember what the manager Jason briefed us:
Wedding couple
Raymas & Corrine
25 tables
3 vegetarian tables
2 muslim tables
Drinks for the day
Cocktail reception- soft drinks (coke, sprite, orange, diet coke) and beer
Dinner- soft drinks, beer and wine
It's a wedding banquet! Actually I was dreading doing banquets 'cos I'm not so confident of carrying sharks fin soup on my shoulder with an oval tray which is really quite heavy, but I was new so the manager appointed me and a few others to serve drinks. My job yesterday was fairly easy, but it's real tiring too. Cass had to do the table, and it was the first time she was doing a chinese wedding dinner. I tried to observe how the people were serving the food, and realised they didn't really follow the way they were thought in TCCIHS (the hotel school). Especially the putting-one-spoon (fork)-and-spoon (fork) between the fingers of one hand to scoop food like thongs/ chopsticks.
Gee, the ambience was really nice in the banquet. When the wedding couple came in, there were waitors pouring dry ice at the entrance to create a smoky effect when the came in, and through the route there were more waitors and waitresses pouring dry ice too. Omg I felt so happy for them I felt like crying! The slideshow before the wedding couple came in already brought tears of joy in my eyes. And the song playing when they walked in was "Come What May" from Moulin Rouge. It was so sweet, and the bride is really pretty! And later they went up to stage to make their marriage vows, and cut the wedding cake. I would've swooned in happiness for them before I remembered I was working. I want to hold my wedding banquet in Raffles Hotel! :)
I realised I DO like to get out of trouble by smiling. And so far I haven't gotten into more trouble after smiling (and apologising, of course), so I guess I don't really have to do something about it hee. Actually I think I'm the most cheerful waitress around! :)
I still have much to learn though! I realised I didn't know how to refill chinese tea. -.- I almost wanted to just pour some warm water at the bar into the teapot when my friend (actually I'd made a lot of friends there) stopped me. I was supposed to go into the pantry, take out the tin of tealeaves and put some in, then add hot water.
Oh, and after the banquet we cleared up everything and prepared for today's events, like sorting out the exact number of utensils on large oval trays and setting tables. I was asked to refill toothpicks in the toothpick holder and my perfectionism acted up again, with me stuffing toothpicks into the toothpick holders and making sure every holder looked full, neat and standardized. I actually like doing saikang! Haha. And after we were done with our ballroom we had to help out at Casuarina Suite, which had a Christmas party for the British alumni earlier on. It was about 12.30am then. And after that we were finally finished our work! :) We booked out at 1.30am, and waited for the bus to come fetch us home.
Pretty lights on the roads of City Hall when we were all sitting on the roadside waiting for the bus like illegal workers reminded me that Christmas's coming! I never really enjoyed Christmas lights since I hardly go out to town at night. Yeah, and later my bus came, we boarded the bus and the driver started to send the few of us living in the east home. I was the last one to drop, since my home was so far off! I only reached home at 2.30am, and my parents were up waiting for me. Thank goodness today is a holiday, or else I'd really have tired them out for work today. My upper-arms are still feeling like jelly now. It's okay, optimistic me thinks that I'll grow nice muscles on my arms soon if I continue working like that! :D
Tired but satisfying. My hard-earned money is rolling in~
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Earlier on yesterday: JLPT
It was easy! Well, I was taking Level 3 so it's pretty much of my standard. It was like HSK. But I totally flunked my listening. There was no repeat and I wasn't used to that, 'cos my brain works slow in translating and I was guessing possible answers with the information I'd translated in time. I can read and write japanese, but I just can't listen to japanese! Oh well. I'm pretty sure I can ace my other two components which are vocab (100 marks) and grammar (200 marks), so I should be able to pass the test (we only need to pass with 60% and that's the highest level you see on your cert- a pass, there are no distinctions or anything) since the listening compnent costs me 100 marks.
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I didn't meet with Liz to go for the car boot flea market after all! Yeah, rushing from Nanyang Girls' School to Kallang MRT station via bus took a really long time, and I figured by the time I find my way to ECP Big Splash after I get lost and everything I would meet Liz and have to leave, since she had to leave at about 2pm for her piano lesson later. Anyway I found out from her that Elvin Ng's jacket was on AUCTION AT 100 BUCKS! I have no idea who got it and paid how much for it in the end, but 100 bucks was way more than what I'd expected to pay (if it was on first-come-first-serve like last year, I would expect $30- hehe), so there was not much reason for me to travel down and get lost for a normal flea market anyway. I'm so sorry Liz! But she had good buys though. And I had fun eating lunch with Yiling and Cindy at SUBWAY singpost haha. I missed their sandwiches! Gossiped a bit before we left.
I shall book my schedule for work next week with my in-charge soon! :D
I was so excited I had to take a photo of myself in my uniform. I have a nametag too, which is not in the picture. Lol I realised everyone has fake names! I was "Queen" for the day while Cass was "Red". There were fellow waitresses joking and asking me where is my King! Hahaha.
