Saturday, October 31, 2009
11:48 PM /
top.
this wk's been a crazy wk.
BECAUSE I FINALLY FOUND A JOB LA! yeah!!!
not at a hotel though. it's at a malaysian restaurant selling curries and roti pratas.
curries and roti pratas in sydney?! yes! that's why i'm there. i'm so glad i got in to work at a place that makes me feel rather homely even before i started working there.. (before starting to work there, i used to like to visit to have curries, martabuk and nasi lemak!)
:) that's in the city btw. so it's an hour journey given that i need to take ferry and bus from home. :O
just when i was happily newly employed, i received another call suddenly one day from another restaurant.
i had applied for the latter restaurant earlier than the malaysian one. that time i was told to wait for trial but i never receive response back. so i thought it's gone because when i tried calling back to follow up, i couldn't reach anyone at all for a few days sia! call the interviewer's mobile he NEVER returned my missed calls. i rang up to the restaurant itself, several times either the interviewer aka supervisor is not around and then still never return my call. this kind of ignorance in service is already very annoying.
when i finally reached him after like DAYS, he simply said he will get back to me again.
(usually in such cases, most ppl would have said 80% is merely fogging me isn't it?) so i kindaf got discouraged and gave up hoping for it after the phonecall.
then one day, i received call from them suddenly, like more than 10 days AFTER that phonecall, to be told to go for a trial which happened to be one day after my malaysian restaurant's trial.
aahhhhHH!!! 不知道是否应该高兴。
so now i'm juggling between 2 jobs! wohooo!!! i'm so happily keeping myself so so occupied. so so happily!!
however, i guess i'm just only juggling between 2 temporary. i may work a while to try which one i better prefer. because i can tell both manager like me pretty well.
(of course~ who am i~ heez....)but currently, a bit shit. i have classes 4 days a week. i had work another 4 days during the week too. 真是要命。and the supervisor who called me up after i found my first job was pretty non-negotiatable to my available hours. shit him man~ i dont really like him. we almost had an arguement today man...
he was like "look, we hire you because you told us you can work these days. now you're telling me you cant work so many days."
i was almost on the verge of telling him "look, if you cant agree to that, i can always quit. up to you. anyway i already found a job JUST BEFORE you finally decided on me. and i'm a student anyway, my priority is not to stick behind yr bum man... at least i needed some free days to work on my sch work hello~ otherwise, i can jolly well not continue."
@#$@#^&&^**^%$#%
since i'm not their priority in the first place before they finally decided to call me up, i am actually conscious that, sub-consciously they are not my priority as well. i am just starting out to work with them for a while to earn a little more extras to earn back on the pants and shoes i eagerly bought to prepare for work with them (not the malaysian one). cost me quite a bit man! at least cover back the expenses then i'm just waiting to leave them man... make me wait... then work me like i owe them like that.
:P
heez... 我现在不是在摆架子。我只是负气不服他们差点不要我
。(i know too that some may say "then why bother crawling back to work with them after you have already found one" but i guess half my mentality is to 'revenge' on them and suck some money out from them for a while first) 也许就是前几个都做不下去,所以才终于轮到我吧~
(well, you could have guessed why they cant last with a supervisor like that, even kylie almost quit but in the end she got transferred to another branch nearer to home.) 一轮到我他们好像挺赚到吧,马上就肯定我,现在还想绑住我排到我一天都不剩。害我next week都不知道怎么去malaysian的那家的呢。
可惜supervisor不太善解人意,休想我忠心于他们呢。:P
but, as i've just started out at the malaysian one, i'm still uncomfortable as to how well i may blend in with them. after all, most of them working there are malaysians. only very little (less than 5) singaporeans and they're working in the kitchen, not waiting on the floor. so... i'm still...
anyway it's just starting only... so far done 1 day with them only, so i should accept that i still cant tell whether i'll fully enjoy working as i'm still in the learning process at this stage. at least the malaysian manager is much nicer, friendlier and more approachable. i like him personally. easy to talk with.
+pay rate! yippee!!! although i suppose both should be the same rate. still, you could have guess which one i'm currently more interested with. just that now i'm still not getting much shift from them so i'm working with the shitter supervisor during the other days.
but i guess most likely, the pay rate wouldn't affect my ultimate choice. i guess i'll still choose to work at a happier place with lower pay than to keep having problems with my shifts working at another even if they pay better. still! everything is still too early to judge. who knows, i may eventually still not be able to fit into the environment that i thought i may be able to easily feel comfortable at? and then even if they pay well or what, i may ended up deciding to stay with the problematic scheduling place because i may not feel that homely after all?
however i dont think i may have a big issue about not being able to blend in well ba...
and and AND u know what u know what?! the malaysian restaurant, 70% of the staff are males! with the front staff who are mostly young guys around my age or so, students ma~ older or younger doesn't really matter. my point is: so many eye-candies whilst working! hahaha... can you imagine how fortunate it's like when working there? like i told cindy: "you cant imagine i couldn't bring the angle of the 2 ends of my lips down during my first day. hahaha! i'm so trying to hold my (flowery) excitement down while working! i had to tilt my lips to one side some of the times to try to hide my wide grin but deep inside me, my heart was already so happily skipping around." hahaha! cindy thought my description is a little over exaggerated.
until just yesterday, cindy told me she saw a guy wearing the shirt with the restaurant logo i'm working at. then she realise what i meant, couldn't agree more too, felt as happy for me and a lil envious that i'm really fortunate to be able to work at that place (with many yandaos as i described). she saw 1 on a random street only she can imagine how it's like with couple more. so can you imagine?! hohoho~ so that's one more reason or so-call opportunity cost to consider even if i were to give up on that job. hahaha! so that malaysian restaurant has double the advantage over the other. :D
the other workplace? mainly indian peoples and a more serious working environment ba... a more individualistic environment ba i should say. however! the location is....
*faintz* on an upper storey... with a balcony area directly facing a beautiful beach. so everytime while i was working, i get to feel like the white waves are accompanying me too. that's a really relaxing feeling. though i've so far been allocated the balcony area which is the furthest from the kitchen, ie most inconvenient section. i dont mind at all! hahahaha.... how contradicting eh? :D
替我高兴吧!
guess i have to start weighing the pros and cons of both places soon and determine the opportunity costs for both until i can no longer cope with 2 at the same time. talking economics here eh~
now i wanna earn many many money and start saving many many money because i wanna save up to go for my cairns trip! 凯恩斯!等我啦!我又要来啦!:)
oh ya! another really exciting thing about those are.... i am entitled to a meal for every shift i do at the asian cuisine restaurant. so whenever i like, i can always take home a meal on the menu with a choice of bottled drink too. well, i can't possibly kill myself drinking soft drinks everyday. so now i'm taking them anyway and stocking them up at home, next time i dont havta buy soft drinks le la... and those takeaways, can sometimes be my next few meals. imagine i'm working almost daily during the later part of the week and the wkends. muahaha~ i haven cooked for a while~ i haven been to the groceries for food for a while~ my food expenses will be saved quite substantially man~ so that's the few good things working there, despite a pretty problematic supervisor.
and then.... at the malaysian one, after lunch shift, kitchen will normally prepare food for staff as well... sometimes they cook food out of the menu and man... though i've only worked once so far, the food they cooked was really delicious!
zi char kind of food! yummys! i kindaf miss
zi char food whilst here!
even if they dont prepare food, we can also help ourselves to the big pots of different kinds of curries after work. so.... so long as i get to work, my meals will be provided for. although i cant takeaway for this restaurant, but as long as i sometimes can fulfil my cravings for curries and some south-east asian food (teh tarik, chendol, ice kacang, etc), i'm easily contented eh? heeez...
as well as if i go dine in with my friends next time, i can have 20% discount. isn't that really good?! i have been telling eugene i wanna introduce him this restaurant which serves some 'jia xiang cai', until now that i've already successfully applied to work there, i still have not brought him there to eat. now i think that i'll frequently get to eat those food, i doubt there's still much chance i will bring him there to eat. so i'm influencing jeff to come visit me at work one day, by telling him to come try out 'singaporean flavoured' food, then eugene can get to enjoy tgt. hohoho~
hohoho! can you tell i'm so so excited? i'm really happy. because it meant that my attention will no more be on nothing and then always bugging busy friends. i still get to go out and now when i go out, it's for a meaningful purpose because i'm earning something instead of always going out to spend. woopey!