Singapore General Hospital

Went to SGH sfter work todae...
to visit my OOTP chef...
he got stroke a few daes ago...
also down wif neumonia...

the usual lively and funny him
turned the exact opposite when i saw him todae...
looked pale and weak...
breathless... struggling for air every single second...
he looked lifeless... and seemed to be in pain...
couldn't talk... juz lying on the bed... looking very tired...

looking at him...
it suddenly dawned upon me dat...
life... is fragile...
todae u might be a bubbly lively person...
wif many dreams and ambitions...
full of urge and motivation...
and suddenly u r stricken wif a terminal disease...
hospitalised...
u suddenly become moody and lifeless...
dreams and ambitions all shattered...
become weak and demoralized...

treasure each and everyone around you...
u might never noe if that person will be there tomoro...

while looking for the exit out of SGH...
saw something dat puzzled me much...
in the hospital directory...
i saw...
"Nuclear Medicine"
O_o
never heard of dat b4...
wat do they actually do wif nuclear medicine?
will it cause a nuclear meltdown and kill the entire population of Singapore?
my...

anyway...
get well soon...

16 hrs of work...

Washed chickens todae... -_-
so sian...

was asked to OT for Chinese Banquet Kitchen a few daes ago...
so i agreed...
so todae worked 16 hrs... -_-
7 am - 11pm...
and to think longest lasagne only 14 hrs... Zzz...
even though work 16 hrs...
ain't as tired as working 14 hrs overnite...
coz subconsiously... ur mind is telling u...
it's nite time... you are sleepy...
go to sleeeeeeep...
den u'll feel tired... and wanna sleep...
but if in the afternoon...
somehow... u wun feel like sleeping loh...
or maybe it's juz me...

anyway... morning wash chicken in Kopitiam...
evening wash fish in CBQ...
i is hate washing fish...
my hands full of fish cuts... -_-
den help wif the cold dish...
and all the courses...
pretty much standard loh... lol...
also saw them roast suckling pigs...
mmmmmmmm......
oh well...
lucky off tomoro...
if not shag till i die... :P

Sze Chuan Vs Kopitiam

The difference between Sze Chuan and Kopitiam?
well... both of them have the same amount of workload...
(for me... to do...)
so the only difference is...
Sze Chuan... 1 do all the cutting alone...
or... another guy help me...
so it's a max of 2 ppl doing...
Kopitiam on the other hand...
everybody who's free help out wif watever need be cut on the table...
and for goodness sake...
6 ppl plucking spring onions together...
including the chef... O_o
OMG!!!
ended up... i'm so free by 1pm
i walked abt the kitchen looking for food to eat... LOL...
the chin chow drink very nice... :P
full of grass jelly...
$17 chicken rice can't fight $3 chicken rice sold at my house...
sad...
nasi lemak is not bad...
compared to nasi lemak outside... it's somewat near the top...
but...
my dad makes the BEST nasi lemak i've ever eaten up till now...

ok... we learnt how to carve vegetables a couple of daes ago...
todae... we learnt how to speak Thai... LOL
the whole kitchen learning Thai language from the Thai chefs... -_-
i is not interested...
i only noe sawadee kap... XD

after work... went for exam... -_-
well... not exactly exam...
but survey... the make the hotel a better place... Zzz...
come in a booklet...
like exam paper like dat...
multiple choice...
even got short answer questions... -_-
but i only filled in the MCQs... hahaa...

ah... and yes...
hotel rebranding to Fairmont...
and we'll be getting 5 dae work week!!! YAY!!!
but work 10 hrs per dae... -_-
well... no pain... no gain...

Vegetable carving

Ok... so as usual...
boring dae...
do the same old boring stuffs everydae...
and as usual again... free from work at abt 1pm or so...
nothing to do...
so we took some raddishes to carve our own roses...
it's time to put wat we learnt yesterdae to test... :P

for the 1st few seconds... i blur...
i dunno where to start...
staring at the chunk of cylindrical raddish...
and i finally sink the knife blade in...
slowly carving out chunks and chunks of raddish
it's nowhere near the looks of a rose... -_-
argh... so how do i continue?
i almost gave up...
it's tiring ok...
but still i continued...
trying hard to remember the cutting strokes she showed us yesterdae...
also looking the the sample she carved yesterdae...
slowly slowly... it started to take shape...
then voila! it's done!

My 1st time carving a rose

well... i ain't as nice as wat she did...
but hey... at least it still looks somewat like a rose... :P
considering the fact dat it's my 1st time carving something out of a vegetable...

I is happy... XD

1st dae of Kopitiam...

So... how's my 1st dae in Kopitiam?
boring... Zzz...
woke up very reluctantly todae...
working 7am - 3pm this week... Zzz...
i hate waking up early...
but yet... i dislike going home at night either...
can i work 3pm - 6pm?
LOL!!!

anyways...
Kopitiam having Thai promotion for a couple of weeks...
starting last week... and ending this week...
Thai chefs are hired from dunno where in Thailand to cook in Kopitiam...
and the whole dae i juz do mise-en-plus... Zzz...
so sian...
den got nothing to do...
the Thai chef oso nothing to do...
so... since so many ppl nothing to do...
she taught us how 2 do vegetable carving... hahaa...
she carved a rose outta a carrot for us to see...
which i took a photo of...
but it's too blurred... i shan't post it... :P

BUT... she made another bigger rose outta a sweet turnip...
bigger... so... = easier for us to see...
wow... so nice lah the roses... O_o
skillful sia...
after she finished... again... i took a photo of it...

Beautifully done...

she saw me take a photo of it...
and she told me "no no no..."
then she walked away... -_-
came back later wif a few banana leaf leaves and some carrot carvings...
and a plate...
and she made it nicer for me to take... LOL...

Nice rite?

then she asked me if i wanna take them home... -_-
i said no thanks... LOL...
rot in my home? hahaa
anyway... i appreciated her offer... :)

so... wat's in store tomoro?
hmm...

End of longest lasagne

Finally... marked the epilogue of the longest lasagne...
a very tiring event... Zzz...
yeah... and i'm blogging this iv only a half sane and half sleeping mind...
worked from 11pm - 1pm...
14 hrs... Zzz...
it's not fun at all...
the feeling of booking in when everybody else is going home sucks...
ok... we were quite energetic in the beginning stages...
till Zhou Gong start knocking into our heads...
dat's when things start to look sian...
anyways... here's an account of wat we did the night b4...

i wanna sleep le... LOL... :P
started work at 11pm...
den need to wait till function rooms and banquet kitchens are cleared b4 we can start work...
pushed all lasagnes to respective kitchens to start baking process concurrently...
due to the amount of lasagnes to be baked...
we need to bake then in 5 different kitchens for 3 seperate times...
due to the lack of combi-ovens for our 1000+ lasagnes...

after we placed all lasagnes into their respective kitchens...
we had a little break...
to wait for 4am... when we'll be starting to bake the lasagnes...
so passed by the laundry area...
and O_o...
all the part-time banquet staff throw their clothes all over the shop...
even on the floor too... -_-
i pity the laundry ppl...

Juz look at the mess...

4am...
started baking the lasagnes...
all of us seperated to different kitchens to proceed wif the baking...
KM and i were stationed in Chinese Banquet Kitchen...
Ben's in Main Kitchen... i think... :P
and wow...
i saw a VERY old fashioned rotating oven...
it's like a ferris wheel inside...
wif 5 "beds"
enough to fit 5 of us inside lying down and rotating... O_o
now dat's a huge oven...
wanted to take a photo of it...
but inside too dark... so didn'e in the end... :P
but i took a picture of the lasagnes baking in the combi-oven... :)

Baking in process...

9am... completion of baking of lasagnes...
so moved all food warmers to all available exits of the hotel...
waited for the go code to start pushing out the lasagnes...
will then be assembling the lasagnes at abt 9:45am...
judges will then have to measure the lasagne for a total of 560m
b4 it starts going on sale at 10am...

yeah... i was supposed to be at station 2...
but minor setback...
so got send to the end of the tail instead at station 28... -_-
coz the stewarding measured wrongly... Zzz...
so business was very bad at the tail...
but very good in the front and the lobby of Raffles The Plaza...
which i heard...

Me and the lasagne...

saw Derrick Lau... he cam over to sae hi to me... hahaa...
he came to help out wif the TP students...
wow... suprised to see him here... XD
a lot of SHATEC students are here too to help...
aiyah... forgot to take a photo wif Ah Lau... :(
only remembered after i reached home... -_-
too shag to think... sian...

11pm...
clearing the war front...
pushing back all the leftover lasagnes back to Jr. Ballroom Kitchen...
ta pao them into take-away boxes for the students who helped...
and for those who wanna bring home some lasagnes...
also sent a whole warmer of lasagnes to the tuckshop for staff to consume... LOL...
and yeah... the students were so happy to be able to bring back the lasagnes...
even more happy when we told them take as much as u want...
coz we got a lot of leftovers...
so all of them each not bringing home less dan 5 packets... O_o
wow...
all so delighted...
everybody took tons of lasagnes home...
me?
spare me the lasagnes... -_-
lol...
bo pian... students...
got free lasagnes.. who dun wan?

help clear this help clear that...
finally ended my dae at 1pm...
went home...
struggling to keep awake... till now...
i guess i'll be off to bed soon... lol... :P

Coming up next week... Kopitiam...

War starts tomoro!!!

Will be required to reach hotel by 11pm...
den will work through the night baking the lasagnes at 4am...
work till supposedly 11pm on Sundae...
but i gotta feeling will +++ until dunno wat time de...

i'll be situated to the right of the MRT entrance to Raffles City shopping mall...
along the Café Cartel stretch...
i'll be right at the corner where the lasagne bends towards Swissôtel The Stamford lobby...
i'll be at label "2A" or near "2"
juz in case someone wishes to come locate me... LOL... :P

official timing for the event starts from 9am...
but we'll only be out at around 9:30am+
depends...
it's fine if u dun wish to eat the lasagne for $10 each...
u can still watch anyway... :P

Dun mess wif the HR people...

Well... we are getting our locker pest-busterized...
so the pest-busters wif the HR ppl will be accessing our lockers these couple of daes...
to nuke the cockroaches out...

so we all have combination locks... like those used in SHATEC...
and the HR have the master key to open our locks in case something happens...
so obviously...
we ain't supposed to change our locks...
esp those which require a key...
coz the HR can't open it...

went into the locker room todae...
noticed a small hand-written note on the door of one of the lockers...
of coz... the curious me went to take a look...
after reading wat's on the piece of paper...
i can't help but literally LOLed...
funny things DO happen when u least expect it... XD
apprently... the note read:
"See Chris Tay @ HR office or I'll cut your cock."
WOW!!! FIERCE!!!
now u noe... never to mess wif the HR ppl...
they can... and will... do anything to u... O_o

Woah... fierce...

but actually... if u looked closer...
wat the note really implied is dat...
see dat HR guy or they'll break his LOCK
it's juz dat the "L" looks like a "C" when it's scribbled onto the note...
k... major joke of the dae... :P

anyway... went for fire evacuation briefing todae...
a boring 1hr talk... Zzz...
telling us how to evac the whole hotel coming next Mondae...
so we are supposed to walk and not run...
we're allowed to use lifts for this drill though...
but...
in case of real fire... DO NOT USE LIFTS
hmmm... imagine Equinox... O_o
WALKING down 70 storeys... Zzz...
can faint... -_-

End of SLWE

So fast no more off liao...
even though these couple of daes a bit boring...
but the thought of going back to work even more boring... Zzz...
haiz...
so funny rite?
when u get off... u feel sian...
feel like wanting to go work...
but when off finishing...
dun feel like going back...
LOL...
sianz...
oh well...
another 4 more daes in Sze Chuan...
den i'm outta there... :P

The Impossible Quiz 2

Well...
remember the first impossible quiz we used to play?
here's the sequel to it... :P
same load of crap...
it helps a lot by playing the 1st...
coz some questions are parts of the 1st... :)
here u go... enjoy it... LOL...
dun get too pek chek... hahaa...

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/398163

PS: I played till Qn.67 -_-... try again another time... :P

The Universe...

Ever wondered what's beyond space?
what's beyond the universe?
they sae the universe is infinite...
wat if there's an end...
wat would it be like?
wat would it look like?
maybe the universe is an inverted sphere?
if u travel in a straight line... u'll reach back to the same exact point where u started?
or maybe the universe is juz an entity?

imagine... the universe is actually a living thing...
and stars and planets are the cells to this "whatever it is thing"
the universe is it's "blood"
blood for this super giant...
and that this giant is living in another world...
and that is only another "cell" of it's universe... O_o
wow... i'm thinking too far...

or...
wat if...
we are juz a piece of data file of a mega super computer?
imagine...
someone actually...
delete... Universe:\Galaxy no.18923928\Solar System no.986263\Planets\Earth.dat
O_o

i'd better go sleep...
good nite...

Resident Evil : Extinction

Oh and yeah...
forgot to mention...
b4 our Hari Raya visiting...
we went for a movie... :P
watched RE3: Extinction wif Johnny...

quite a nice show...
pretty much similar to the previous 2 counterparts...
the same old T-Virus... zombies... mutations... infestations...
u name it...
so it seems most of it u can rather predict...
so the wow factor is low...

gore/violence... moderate...
a lot of cut scenes...
made this movie so PG... Zzz...
i'd rather watch the R21 version of it...
on wif the blood and gore...

plot... not bad actually...
at least it broke of SLIGHTLY different from the previous 2...
but as i've mentioned...
it's still the same old T-Virus... zombies... mutation... infestations... etc...
the only difference between part 1 - 3?
RE1 : in the lab...
RE2 : outside of lab in Racoon City...
RE3 : worldwide...
yeah... it juz gets bigger...
so RE4? zombie fly to the moon? LOL...
for RE fans out there... this movie is good to watch...
it's still worth ur $9... :P

so the final verdict?
4/5
there you have it... :)

Selamat Hari Raya

K... 1 dae of SLWE... (Super Long Week End... LOL... :P)
went wif Johnny to visit Lokman... some team leader of banquet loh...
went there and there was another group of full-time banquet staff there...
they left juz minutes after we arrived...
some need to go back to the hotel to work... hahaa...
ate some things there...
all spicy malay food... :P

a while later...
some part-time banquet staff arrived to visit him...
lol...
all ITE and Poly students...
ok lah... juz visiting only loh...
tried the Osim i-squeeze...
LOL...
after the foot massage...
legs felt very light...
is it due to the intense pressure of the massager dat makes u feel nothing when u take out ur feet suddenly?
i dunno...
but the "lightening" effect last for only a few minutes...

Look... I-Squeeze my feet... :P

after our visitation... :P
went to Bugis for steamboot...
Public Holidae + Weekend = 100% guaranteed no seats...
not willing to queue...
we went on the Suntec for our dinner instead...
Carl's Jr.
it's either their standard dropped...
or my expectations grew...
the food ain't dat nice as it used to be...
sad...

The bigger dan my mouth burger... -_-

GONE

Don't ever leave things unattended for long...
Ahhhh!!!
a bowl of porridge on the table...
thought i could eat it later on...
Wrong!
Now... it IS GONE!!!

i'm sad...

Super long weekend

I'll be having Sat, Sun and Mon off...
wahahha!!!
coz clearing PH along wif my 2 offs... :P
now headache... dunno where to go... wat to do on my long weekend... :P
i hate boredness... Zzz...

nothing much at work oso...
doing my work verrrrrrrryyyyyyy slooooooooooooowly...........
coz the guy told me...
"dun do so fast... if not later nothing to do..." -_-
ok... i tried...
but still finished wif lots of time to spare... lol... :P

anyway...
this the the staff rest room for us to sleep in...

Note there's another mattress under the bed... :P

Boring dae in Sze Chuan

The same usual things...
cut cut cut... chop chop chop...
todae @ break time...
went into the staff rest room to sleep...
usually sleep on the sofa...
din bother to take the key to sleep in the room...
but todae... Charlie went in... and i followed suit... :P
1st time in dat room since my ½ year in the hotel...
woah... got double decked beds dat can accomodate 6 ppl...
no pillow... :(
and air-con very cold... lol...
so sleep 1 hr and wake up liao...
had an early dinner and chatted wif many ppl throughout the duration till my work starts...

not many customers todae...
so very boring...
nothing to cut oso... LOL...
cut finish liao... i ask...
need to cut anything else?
he look around desperately to find something for me to do...
but couldn't find any...
coz i finished cutting everything dat could be cut... LOL...
"Err... no... you go over there and ask if they need any help?"
(pointing over to the wok area)
ok... so i went...
also nothing much to do...
coz no business mah... LOL...
so juz helped dish out some dishes... cut come ducks...
walk around... chat around... LOL...
realised 99% of the ppl there speak cantonese... -_-
and i'm the 1%... Zzz...
even the chinese nationals speak cantonese... Zzz...
ok lah...
2 hrs plus of doing nothing...
so sian...
wah.. the China girl there very pretty lehhh...
but too bad i dun fancy China ppl... LOL!!!

Jackie Chan is in Singapore!!!

Well... new outlet... means a lot of things to blog...
1st dae in Sze Chuan...
so reminds me of Palm Beach... LOL...
all the chaotic war the kitchen fights...
there's something different though...
ppl are not shouting around despite of the roaring of the wok range...
why?
coz they use microphones!!! O_o
wow... high tech... LOL...
suddenly feels like K-Box... :P

k... Sze Chuan is boring...
it's like a holidae camp there...
i do nothing but cut veges thewhole dae... -_-
wat did i cut?
hmmm......
broccoli... kailan... long beans... curry leaves... carrot... ginger... cai poh... and a spiky thorny plant... dunno wat the name... dunno wat... "jiu qi" or wat... aiyah... watever...
after dinner... i cut finish quite fast...
den nothing 2 do liao...
ask if there's anything else to do?
i was given i carton of kai lan (AGAIN) to pluck and peel... -_-
so i practically cut veges ONLY for the whole of todae...

ya anyway...
msged WL todae informing him i'm on split-shift...
so if he free can ask me out...
no reply... so i went to sleep during break...
sleep for 1 hr... WL call me... ask me if i wanna go play CS wif him and his collegues...
O_o
WL got play CS de meh? LOL!!!
ok... so went play wif them for an hr...
b4 returning back to the hotel...
passed by Raffles Hotel...
a service staff told them Jackie Chan sitting at table 1 in the Empire Cafe or wat... i think so...
so we walked pass to go see Jackie... :P
can see a few ppl sitting at other tables looking over to his table...
how can ppl cope wif such publicity? O_o
more publicity = less privacy...

i think i'll enjoy myself more at Kopitiam...
lol...
i can't wait for the 21st Oct to come...
excited!!!
daes pass by so slowly...
when will dat dae come?

Boring dae...

A totally boring and unproductive dae...
rot at home the entire dae... LOL!!!
wake up and watch TV the whole dae... O_o
many nice shows on air...
can't help it... haha... :P
well... another dae has passed...
tomoro starting work in Sze Chuan Court...
hopefully everything goes smoothly... :)

I'm Gay!!! O_o

Thought i would be called up for mobilisation todae...
but turned out... there ain't nothing... :P
so went out wif a handful of girls to TM...
hmmmmmmm......
i feel so gay... going out on a girls outing... LOL!!!
but still ok... not dat bad...
would go out again if i had the chance...

while walking around in TM...
passed by a fish stall...
or watever u call it...
they were selling fish... duh...
and i saw something dat looks soooo... much like my crabby...
and it's smiling at us... :P
so cute...

Does it look like it's smiling? LOL!!!

- It's always better to make more new friends

Final dae of lasagne production

It has finally come to an end...
no more boring lasagnes...
free at last!!! XD
next week going to Sze Chuan Court...
split-shift... -_-
hey... look on the bright side...
more $$$... :P

went for a tour around the RC complex...
chef brought us around to see the routes to be taken on the actual dae...
and where the lasagnes will be placed...
a bunch of chefs walking around sure attracts lots of eyes... LOL...
45mins of touring ended back in main kitchen...
back to work... :P
todae passed very fast...
coz nothing much to do...
no need to prepare lasagne skins for tomoro...
coz todae we officially completed our 1000 moulds of lasagne + extras... :)
so went home early todae...

yeah... and i forgot...
WM cut his finger... O_o
thumb to be exact...
dat's wat u get when u talk and laugh when cutting hard cheese...
he cut his thumb into two... OMG!!!
well... it's a bit exagerrated...
but... it's still kinda serious...
afterall... he did lose a part of his thumb...
ouch...

2nd last dae of lasagne!!! XD

Todae very sian... like no mood to work...
maybe do the same things for 3 weeks liao...
so very stagnant and boring...
so work very slowly...
meeting up wif bikees later at nite oso mah...
WL finish at 10:30...
so we still gotta wait...
and the worst thing happened todae...
the stupid blast freezer spoil... -_-
greatness...
but in the end it got repaired...
so still ok...
we're not in a hurry anyway... :P

anyway... slowly slowly do...
time pass slowly... till 10pm...
so met up wif Aron, Ben, KM, WL and WM for supper...
while on the way to supper...
saw a dead cat on the road... eew...
so sad lah... and disgusting oso...
dun even wanna describe...
after supper... went pool at Golden Mile...
and the dae juz ends like dat...
Zzz...

I'm gonna act blur...

World's biggest ironing machine

While pushing the lasagnes to the freezer...
have to pass by 5th storey laundry area...
my...
i have to sae...
dat's a real eye opener for me... O_o
imagine the whole level 5 of Swissôtel The Stamford and Raffles The Plaza...
is the laundry area...
where they wash all the dirty linen of the hotel rooms...
restaurant table cloths...
staff uniforms...
guests clothes...
OMG... dat's one helluva big laundry area...
it's like those mega airport luggage sorting system or something like dat...

saw many... many...... many............ washing machines...
walked past a very warm area...
heard a ssssssssss... sound...
turned my head around...
O_o
i saw the biggest ironing machine i've ever seen in my life...
it can actually iron a king sized bedsheet complete wif folding in 10 secs...
and it's so straight... O_o
wow...
dat place is really incredible...