G'day at work
3:02:00 AMI was grousing a lot about work yesterday but hey today turned out to be a pretty good day! Mainly due to Egg, food and the random acts of kindness by mah colleagues <3
First of all, went back to SA for their open house in the morning w WY and Belle~
FOOD (Arancini, Crispy Squid, Lucas' maggi)
Managed to snitch leftover food food TOTALLY untouched and to be thrown away. So horrific! Think of the kids in Africa, I can't bear to throw away food fresh out from the kitchen, so shared it and ate it...
Chef Alex told me to bring a plate of Arancini to Table 25 but it turns out that they have already been served that dish! Brought it back to Alex and he said, "Alright send it to the bin"
"Harh?? The bin?"
"Yeah, send it to the bin"
"Ohmygod so waste!!!..."
So I brought the plate of Arancini to the KP area, pretty unwilling to throw it away. It was perfectly untouched, not even placed on the customer's table, it was perfect, it was exactly like THIS:
How to throw away right plus think of the kids in Africa!
Amy was in the KP area too. I was still pretty scarred from my Polenta Chips incident so I dare not anyhow eat already la. I showed Amy the yummyyummy Arancinis and told her about its looming fate - the bin. SHE HEROICALLY SAVED THE RICE BALLS AND CEASED MY GNAWING GUILT by taking over the plate of Arancinis, putting it on the shelf, taking half of ball of Arancini, scurried further in, and popped it into her mouth! That meansssss, GREEN LIGHT! I get to have one too muahahaha. Sorry, I took one and a half :)
And someone else brought in a new dish of to-be-binned Crispy Squid as well. Lily came in, Amy asked if she wanted or not, she took one (duh), I took one too, a small one, dipped it in Yuzu mayo and ohhhhhmygawd, Arancini plus Crispy Squid in Yuzu mayo was....... *play the video below*
And someone else brought in a new dish of to-be-binned Crispy Squid as well. Lily came in, Amy asked if she wanted or not, she took one (duh), I took one too, a small one, dipped it in Yuzu mayo and ohhhhhmygawd, Arancini plus Crispy Squid in Yuzu mayo was....... *play the video below*
HEAVENSSSS whatever la, they tasted like heavens then :D
Oh yes! Lucas had the same break timing as me today, so I asked if he would be cooking his lemon-spicy maggi. "How you know?!" HAHAHA yes! So I asked if I could maybe have a fork-twirl of his maggi? I was referring to a small lil twirl with maybe like 3 strands of maggi, that would suffice. But his fork-twirl was GIGANTUOUS omg. Tried stuffing everything in my mouth one-shot because... "I need my fork! QUICK!" The maggi overflowed, my mouth wasn't big enough to contain the whole chunk lols. Proves that I don't have a big mouth #pun hahaha not funny also laugh please. Oh and Lucas' maggi is one of the best homemade maggi I've ever tried, was joking that it should be included in our menu haha
Andandand tried the next door cafe's Lava cake today! Khus bought one before but I didn't get to try it, they were all saying that it is very nice. The cafe is.... ABC, idk the long form of the name. Since it was considerably ex, Lily and I shared one. Ooh, the liquidy chocolate oooooozed out from the middle, too happy eating till I forgot to take a picture. It was nice, not too chocolatey but.... like not worth the price leh, $6.80
Andandand tried the next door cafe's Lava cake today! Khus bought one before but I didn't get to try it, they were all saying that it is very nice. The cafe is.... ABC, idk the long form of the name. Since it was considerably ex, Lily and I shared one. Ooh, the liquidy chocolate oooooozed out from the middle, too happy eating till I forgot to take a picture. It was nice, not too chocolatey but.... like not worth the price leh, $6.80
(Googled for this picture)
Random acts of kindness
1. I usually share a locker with Cheng but today she shared with some other girl eeyer so I was lockerless, all the rest were occupied. No choice, placed my bag on top of the lockers, placing full faith and trust in the integrity of our staff that they would not itchy-hand touch my bag and my stuff would not magically disappear into thin air like my bottle did last Friday :{ Okay not that my wallet had any money to steal anyway lols.
The locker room was super crowded at 4pm+, my break time! Retrieved my bag from the top, Ash saw and asked why I put my bag there and was saying it's not safe to just leave it there if my wallet was inside (it was) . He then offered to share his locker! Okay la another chef mentioned about sharing Ash's locker first. Ash uses a lock and told me his password in case he is unable to leave the kitchen on time at 10 o'clock which most probably will be the case.
So yeah! Main gist is that someone offered to share their locker, not a big deal but I'm thankful! : )
2. Was mentioning earlier about my missing bottle boohoo. Forgot to bring it home on Friday. Either 1) someone took it, cheapo, or 2) someone threw it away, mean. Was searching high and low yesterday, asked everyone in the KP area and Manager Caius too! But I couldn't find it, pretty upset because it's a good bottle kay : (
There's this dishwasher, let's call him Mister. I don't know his name because I don't understand what language is he talking, doesn't seem like Malay, doesn't seem like dialect, maybe it's a mixture, I'm not sure and neither do the rest of the staff communicate much with him. But I try to understand what he tells/ talks to me through..... hand signals. He tells me he plays badminton and he does a thumbs-up sign when he talks about it so..... either he is good at it? Or he likes it? He even showed me a video of him playing badminton. Okay he wasn't playing in the video, but like.... swatting the racket around, warming up perhaps?
To be honest, BEFORE TODAY, I was pretty scared of him because it sucks not being able to understand what is he saying and he hand-signals Saturday and badminton and a thumbs-up sign. He plays badminton on Saturdays? He is asking me if I want to play badminton with him on Saturday?? I really don't know! So I was quite freaked out and I would awkwardly smile, trying to understand/ communicate. I signaled that I want to sleep-in on weekends lols
Oh yes! Back to my bottle.
Yesterday I asked him if he saw my bottle by any chance. He signalled no and that probably someone snitched it. He did the 'Orhhhhhh' finger thingy. At that point of time, I felt that he was rubbing salt into my wound la but I just weakly smiled. Damn sad already kay.
This evening, he asked me to follow him to the office. I was on duty at that time and okay.... Quite wary but I did anyways. Honestly, I also don't know how come I understand him but I knew he was mentioning about the bottle I was finding yesterday! Sudden excitement OMG did he find it? Did he keep it?! He unzipped his laptop case and pulled out a plastic bottle. Excitement level droppeddd. No, that wasn't my bottle : ( I was pointing to some orange columns on a paper pasted on the wall, trying to express that my bottle was ORANGE. He was like "ohhhhh" then he signalled that he was GIVING ME THE BOTTLE OF 100+!!! I refused at first, but he insisted and omg I'm like superrrrrr touched la :') I must repay the kindness someday!
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