I WILL NOT HOLD MY WEDDING DINNER

IN A HOTEL!

a buffet will be fine. NOT a NINE course dinner!

NEVER.

seriously.
being a BANQUET waitress sucks big time.
and i'm only referring to BANQUET.

and fast food waitressing totally pales in comparison
even though i have to do the DIRTIEST job like climbing into a rubbish bin.

the money it's definitely NOT worth the energy i put in.

both gin and i are willing to STUDY HARDER next year so we won't end up to be a waitress.

it's always wise to have a lot of working experience
but seriously, banquet waitressing is something you definitely shld NOT try.
listen to me.
i start working since sec 2.

so i started work on fri.
it was a western dinner for aussie companies. (some prize presentation)
and cool,
the guest of honour was VIVIAN BALAKHRISNAM!
i was practically staring at him when he was on stage, so well-spoken, so well-dressed
SO MAN!

sadly,
that's the only thing that was comforting to me.
i was serving this table with lots of ang mohs and a few chinese.
they are from this woodhead wilson company

[this entry is gonna be REAL LONG!]

so ok,
back to my point.
i poured red wine glasses after glasses,
white wine glasses after glasses.
served food from top to bottom.
served from right to left.
served ladies first.
served finish one table before proceeding.
top up drinks.
clear dish.
top up drinks.
clear dish.
clear everything LAH!

basically, u'll think that it sounds SLACK!
try it man.
and wait. this is only an appetizer for me.

CHINESE DINNER IS A KILLER!

cocktail was not too bad.

all you have to do, is to carry this tray with lotsa drinks and serve it.

it's now that i realised, water/liquid is super heavy. all the particles.

before cocktail was to prepare ALL the plates, trays, fork spoon, bowls and whatsoever lah.

and boy, the pple are REAL KIASU. they took like MORE than they need, so they won't need to keep working back and forth from the kicthen and cool, they left me with nothing. so i followed a few of them and ransacked the whole hotel for spoons, plates, trays and whatever. and rushed to do cocktail.

FIRST DISH.

the bloody cold plate. the waiter and waitresses have to do this presentation walk in. we were asked to be there 5 mins before the walk-in. so we were outside the ballroom, holding the HUMONGOUS plate and wait, and wait, and wait, and waited.

furthermore, the plate itself weighs a ton and the food make the whole dish weighs 10,000 tons. and we have to carry it looking super professional. one hand below and blah blah.

in my opinion, the walk in was the best.

the rest of the day is screwed.

but luckily i've gotten myself a WONDERFUL partner. haoguan.

he's so nice. but he broke my tender heart.

cos he started WHINING when he knew he's gng to partner with me.

as he will end up doing ALL the stuff, but it was rather true.

he did all the serving and all that i did was clearing plates, replace drinks, clearing plates again and top up drinks. i didn't even touch the fish and didn't even learn how to deborn.

aiyeah.

i got so much things to blog abt.

but i'm SO tired

cos i started working selling bags at 9.30am

till the end of waitressing at 11.30pm

but that's NOT THE END OF THE STORY!!

the main highlight is still unsaid.

i will continue soon. on mon perhaps.

cos i'm so tired

and there's church tmrw.

:D

but sadly, there's banquet tmrw.

)):

i hope i get someone nice like guanhao

*cross fingers*

pple i get to know!

1) guan hao.

2) the western dinner's barman who reassured me that i will learn to love my job.

3) aunty alena

4) wu qiong

5) barmen for today's banquet. they are VERY nice.

6) two bloody guys who kept laughing at me. one guy who laughed at my chi.

7) few china girls.

8) this REAL nice guy(ah beng) who helped me ALOT.

9) all the managers (who are not exactly my friends) and some of their xiao dis.

done. i am having BACKACH, MUSCLEACHE, LEG CRAMPS.

whatever lah

be back for idiot's guide for waitressing-PART 2