never say no. but feel free to say "i'll check with my manager" and never return
Monday, November 12, 2007
Today was officially the first day of work at a hotel that I will probably never work for, doing a job that I will probably never ever do after this- and come to think of it, I'm not even paid $2 an hour like they do at McDonalds.
Mandarin Oriental is a really nice hotel. They are basically 3 rows of rooms that all have amazing views, not like some Thai hotel that gives you a picturesque view of the side of the building and maybe some other shopping centres nearby. You can either see Singapore river AND Esplanade AND the Singapore skyline AND PSA (which had some brown smoke billowing out for no reason.. Michael took a photo!), or go to another row of rooms and see Suntec and raffles city and St Andrew's Cathedral and the rest of city hall, or go to the last row and see the ocean and SINGAPORE FLYER UP CLOSE :O Really amazing hotel, but the jobs are insanely tiring, and it didn't help that I stayed up talking to various people on MSN and then watched air crash investigation on National Geographic until almost 4am. Heh.
AND the food at the staff canteen is good and it's free :D Ate dinner with Michael, Timothy and Avinash. We had triples. The cook must have thought we were crazy, but nope, we're just hungry, totally underpaid and tired growing sec 3 boys in black and gold hotel uniform :) Argh I'm too tired to write anything properly. I didn't even take any photos cos my phone decided to run out of battery- and anyway phones weren't allowed today. But they're fine tomorrow, so I'll probably take some photos photos photos.
Oh did I mention I have to report at 7 AM TOMORROW? Means I'll have to leave home at 5/6+. Are there even buses then? Bleah. At the end of the day, I wasn't dead like I was half-expecting to be. But I'm dead tired.
A surge of randomness at 9:12 PM, Singapore time.
never say no. but feel free to say "i'll check with my manager" and never return
Monday, November 12, 2007
Today was officially the first day of work at a hotel that I will probably never work for, doing a job that I will probably never ever do after this- and come to think of it, I'm not even paid $2 an hour like they do at McDonalds.
Mandarin Oriental is a really nice hotel. They are basically 3 rows of rooms that all have amazing views, not like some Thai hotel that gives you a picturesque view of the side of the building and maybe some other shopping centres nearby. You can either see Singapore river AND Esplanade AND the Singapore skyline AND PSA (which had some brown smoke billowing out for no reason.. Michael took a photo!), or go to another row of rooms and see Suntec and raffles city and St Andrew's Cathedral and the rest of city hall, or go to the last row and see the ocean and SINGAPORE FLYER UP CLOSE :O Really amazing hotel, but the jobs are insanely tiring, and it didn't help that I stayed up talking to various people on MSN and then watched air crash investigation on National Geographic until almost 4am. Heh.
AND the food at the staff canteen is good and it's free :D Ate dinner with Michael, Timothy and Avinash. We had triples. The cook must have thought we were crazy, but nope, we're just hungry, totally underpaid and tired growing sec 3 boys in black and gold hotel uniform :) Argh I'm too tired to write anything properly. I didn't even take any photos cos my phone decided to run out of battery- and anyway phones weren't allowed today. But they're fine tomorrow, so I'll probably take some photos photos photos.
Oh did I mention I have to report at 7 AM TOMORROW? Means I'll have to leave home at 5/6+. Are there even buses then? Bleah. At the end of the day, I wasn't dead like I was half-expecting to be. But I'm dead tired.
A surge of randomness at 9:12 PM, Singapore time.
who is operating this random rubbish?
andrew!
raffles
four L '08
25091992
BAYLEY!
holyspirit
i like soft toys. :)
random interjection
i made this blog template with NOTEPAD >< if you hate it, go sue notepad.
how you can help!
hey look, i learnt to parody from lit! :D
what else you can do (updated)
do all my chinese homework for me :D
um. and find me something else to do besides randomly stoning around.
disclaimer
the author is in no way responsible for the polar bears that drown from melting icecaps which may be an adverse effect of you staring at my seemingly pointless blog. that was a really long sentence, by the way. the author is also not responsible for any injuries, both mental and physical, which maay arise as a result of insanity which is silently being injected into your helpless veins as you read this utterly long disclaimer, if you are even bothering to read it. also, the background picture is not mine- the source is
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Raphael Lacoste in
2003. There.