whhheeee!its my off day once again. :) looking forward to the arrival of boyfriend!
its the china national day week this coming week. so i've got 3 public holidays in a row, plus today i've got 4 offs in total! hahaha. so fun. so boyfriend is here to accompany me here.
went to the bavarian beer festival on thursday which happen to be my another off day lar. the gm asked for us go along to have a look at how this festival is celebrated. as this is a imported festival you see. the 3 IHG hotels in chongqing collaborated for this festival to happen. they are intercontinental chongqing, holiday inn yangtze and the hotel i'm with - holiday inn north chongqing! have uploaded some photos in my album so have a look if you are interested.
work for the past 2 days haf been great too. did my first opening of the lounge only yesterday. hahaha. so proud of myself k. cos i only follow my colleague once for that shift. and i have to be there at 6am alone when the place is quiet and dark with nobody larr. so i on the tv louder than usual.. like what one of my colleague advise me to if i felt the place to silent. hehehe.
so far, life at executive club lounge has been good. :)
and my first month here in chongqing is officially over! yayy! one month down and 4 more to gogo. hahaha. very very fast i will be back sooon already. those people who once told me that you will come and visit, better start your planning now already ahh. lol. if not i will be back in sg in a blink of eyes.
alrightyss. take care of my darlings and lovelies! hope the first month of attachment/holidays haf been great and wonderful. :))
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
ckg day #27
heyhey!
if you have something you wanna pass to me while i'm here in chongqing, you can do so now!
hahaha :) just drop the stuffs over at my place before sunday 30/9/07 this week. and the stuffs will reach me very very soon! and if you'll like me to help you buy things you want from chongqing, and cant wait until next year for it den drop me a mail with the items/descriptions. i'll try my best to get it for you here and you'll be able to get it in oct.
:)) take care.
if you have something you wanna pass to me while i'm here in chongqing, you can do so now!
hahaha :) just drop the stuffs over at my place before sunday 30/9/07 this week. and the stuffs will reach me very very soon! and if you'll like me to help you buy things you want from chongqing, and cant wait until next year for it den drop me a mail with the items/descriptions. i'll try my best to get it for you here and you'll be able to get it in oct.
:)) take care.
Monday, September 24, 2007
ckg day #24
sometimes i wonder, did you really forget all about it or are you just on the pretence? your actions just dont match what you have said. what the heck.
here you are telling me that you do not have enough _____ . so well, i dont mind _____ most of the time and top up for you first. since you said you will _____ with me. but you never did lar. so i assume you still dont have _____ . but on the other hand, you seem to be _____ like alot and non stop as if _____ drop from the sky man. so tell me, how am i suppose to feeel? do you even have the intention of ______ ? well, i'm really not in need of _____ actually, but your action just irks me.
i doubt so. fill in the blanks. all blanks are 5 _s long, so it doesn't mean it has 5 alphabets ok. lol.
anyway, today is my first day at club floor! yayyy! hahaha :) there's alot more things to learn and know up on that 25th storey. basically, we need to check in and out guest from executives levels, in charge of the breakfast and happy hour buffet set up, and operation of the business center (since their biz center is combine with club lounge). wheeeeee. so much to learn i know, but i like! cos it will keeps me busy and time will pass faster that way. i heard we even need to fry egg upon guest request during breakfast. most importantly i like face to face interactions with guest more!
just like today, there were several guests - english speakingss came up to the business center for use of internet or asked for stationary. hahaha. i just felt like a translator today as i'm not very sure of the informations yet and i cant give guest the definite solutions/answers. when my colleagues explained to me, i will translate to the guest. and when guest replies, i will ask my colleague lar. so funny. overall it's a great first day at club floor.
stomach hasn't been that good this two days. had soup noodles for both my meals at restaurant today. i've yet to visit the toilet after dinner, hope its a good sign larr.
yay! boyfriend's coming over to visit me during the october holidays in china. :)) their national day! many many off days ahh.
excitedd.
here you are telling me that you do not have enough _____ . so well, i dont mind _____ most of the time and top up for you first. since you said you will _____ with me. but you never did lar. so i assume you still dont have _____ . but on the other hand, you seem to be _____ like alot and non stop as if _____ drop from the sky man. so tell me, how am i suppose to feeel? do you even have the intention of ______ ? well, i'm really not in need of _____ actually, but your action just irks me.
i doubt so. fill in the blanks. all blanks are 5 _s long, so it doesn't mean it has 5 alphabets ok. lol.
anyway, today is my first day at club floor! yayyy! hahaha :) there's alot more things to learn and know up on that 25th storey. basically, we need to check in and out guest from executives levels, in charge of the breakfast and happy hour buffet set up, and operation of the business center (since their biz center is combine with club lounge). wheeeeee. so much to learn i know, but i like! cos it will keeps me busy and time will pass faster that way. i heard we even need to fry egg upon guest request during breakfast. most importantly i like face to face interactions with guest more!
just like today, there were several guests - english speakingss came up to the business center for use of internet or asked for stationary. hahaha. i just felt like a translator today as i'm not very sure of the informations yet and i cant give guest the definite solutions/answers. when my colleagues explained to me, i will translate to the guest. and when guest replies, i will ask my colleague lar. so funny. overall it's a great first day at club floor.
stomach hasn't been that good this two days. had soup noodles for both my meals at restaurant today. i've yet to visit the toilet after dinner, hope its a good sign larr.
yay! boyfriend's coming over to visit me during the october holidays in china. :)) their national day! many many off days ahh.
excitedd.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
ckg day #23
happy sunday to everyone! :) sorry ahh, jenn has been rather lazy to update over the past few days. though i had my another off day on thursday, i think i rest my day away if i'm not wrong. anyway, just let me give you guys a short sum up of my past few days.
Wednesday, 19Sept
was on morning shift. mrs ong, mr lau and mrs tan (directors and lecturer of BA ehh..) arrived at the hotel around 1030 in the morning. was called up to recieve and greet them at the lobby area. roommate and i followed mrs tan to her room for a quick chat before i went back down to gsc for my shift. after a short nap after work, we had dinner with the 3 vips at nanbinlu. some place where we have never been to before actually. since they were alright and pleased with the dinner at some restaurant which we just anyhow choose, i shall just omit my personal thoughts here. dinner was an interactive one and mrs sue tan is super funny when she tries to talk to the waitress there is chinese. :)) after dinner, we went down to jiefangbei to show them around the more central area of chongqing. desserts at kfc which drinks and their yummy eggtart before we headed back to the hotel.
Thursday, 20Sept
woke up super early in the morning to send the 3 vips off from the hotel. they came to chongqing from jinan and were heading to shanghai next. bid farewell and came back to sleeep till i'm satisfied. lol. watch tv, sleep, surf net. well, there's what i did for the whole day lar. and i was also informed on this day from my fom that i will start my days on executive club floor from netx week onwards! hahaha :)
Friday, 21Sept
afternoon shift with candy and toni. got myself occupied with kakuro, some number game that can be found at their national english newspaper - china daily. after dinner, candy and i compete spider with each other. i also brought down all our pork floss mooncakes for her since she likes it and we dont.
Saturday, 22Sept
my last day at gsc! morning shift with rainny and beyond again. hahaha, most of the time, i will be on the same shift with them. especially this week, bcos my supervisor need to cover the position of assistant manager for a period of time. work with beyond is always entertaining ahh, cos this girl knows alot and is very bubbly. she wants to be a tourguide in future lar. so you can imagine how she can keep talking nonstop. hahaha.
after work was out with the two of them. first we went to a store opened my rainny's friend and see see look look. next, they brought me to a food street near jiefangbei there to eat the snacks and fingerfood they loves. its nice man! though its very oily.. i love the octupus leggs the most. :)) they wanted to bring me to experience something new. so i got to sit on the skytram to across their huge river and view the sunset! prettypretty. too bad my cam is not professional to capture sunset larr. hehehe, but the view is breathtaking enough. wheeeeeee. :)
beyond was like a tourguide on training bringing showing rainny and i cos even rainny has never taken the ride before! so we went down to the hongyadong area and visit their souvenir shops. they bought some gifts and i bought a few things too. but i will sure be there again when i'm leaving chongqing to buy back gifts for everyone!
Sunday, 23Sept
my second off day of the week. this week also rounds up my training days in gsc. the people there are my first bunch of friends ive made in chongqing. all nice and friendly people. though my days with them are short, they will always be remembered. and i'm sure to pop down at gsc as and when possible to disturb them. :))
still thinking if i should head out later..
Wednesday, 19Sept
was on morning shift. mrs ong, mr lau and mrs tan (directors and lecturer of BA ehh..) arrived at the hotel around 1030 in the morning. was called up to recieve and greet them at the lobby area. roommate and i followed mrs tan to her room for a quick chat before i went back down to gsc for my shift. after a short nap after work, we had dinner with the 3 vips at nanbinlu. some place where we have never been to before actually. since they were alright and pleased with the dinner at some restaurant which we just anyhow choose, i shall just omit my personal thoughts here. dinner was an interactive one and mrs sue tan is super funny when she tries to talk to the waitress there is chinese. :)) after dinner, we went down to jiefangbei to show them around the more central area of chongqing. desserts at kfc which drinks and their yummy eggtart before we headed back to the hotel.
Thursday, 20Sept
woke up super early in the morning to send the 3 vips off from the hotel. they came to chongqing from jinan and were heading to shanghai next. bid farewell and came back to sleeep till i'm satisfied. lol. watch tv, sleep, surf net. well, there's what i did for the whole day lar. and i was also informed on this day from my fom that i will start my days on executive club floor from netx week onwards! hahaha :)
Friday, 21Sept
afternoon shift with candy and toni. got myself occupied with kakuro, some number game that can be found at their national english newspaper - china daily. after dinner, candy and i compete spider with each other. i also brought down all our pork floss mooncakes for her since she likes it and we dont.
Saturday, 22Sept
my last day at gsc! morning shift with rainny and beyond again. hahaha, most of the time, i will be on the same shift with them. especially this week, bcos my supervisor need to cover the position of assistant manager for a period of time. work with beyond is always entertaining ahh, cos this girl knows alot and is very bubbly. she wants to be a tourguide in future lar. so you can imagine how she can keep talking nonstop. hahaha.
after work was out with the two of them. first we went to a store opened my rainny's friend and see see look look. next, they brought me to a food street near jiefangbei there to eat the snacks and fingerfood they loves. its nice man! though its very oily.. i love the octupus leggs the most. :)) they wanted to bring me to experience something new. so i got to sit on the skytram to across their huge river and view the sunset! prettypretty. too bad my cam is not professional to capture sunset larr. hehehe, but the view is breathtaking enough. wheeeeeee. :)
beyond was like a tourguide on training bringing showing rainny and i cos even rainny has never taken the ride before! so we went down to the hongyadong area and visit their souvenir shops. they bought some gifts and i bought a few things too. but i will sure be there again when i'm leaving chongqing to buy back gifts for everyone!
Sunday, 23Sept
my second off day of the week. this week also rounds up my training days in gsc. the people there are my first bunch of friends ive made in chongqing. all nice and friendly people. though my days with them are short, they will always be remembered. and i'm sure to pop down at gsc as and when possible to disturb them. :))
still thinking if i should head out later..
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
ckg day #18
i have shaokao today againnn! yumms.
had been at work for the past 2 days, on afternoon shift. recieved a box of eight mooncake from the hotel yesterday. hahaha. roommate and i each have a box as each employee is entitle to one lar. so we have sixteen mooncakes to eat which we cant possibly finish it ourselves. so good girl jenn cuts one of it and bring down to share with my fellow gsc colleagues. afterall they will be giving their mooncake away to their relatives and will not be able to try. everybody here is so nice to us, so any chance available, i will want to repay them. :))
highlight(s) of today. went for medical checkup in the morning. i'm required to go through the check by the government as i'm residing here for half a year. and so blood test is needed! was still half asleep in the morning and was totally awake when we walked to the first station - BLOOD TEST. they took 1 and a half tube of blood away from me larr. rarr. kind of scary though cos i watch them poke the needle in and stuff. yucks. luckily i did not faint like some angmoh girl behind me did. and she didn't even look at it ahh.
other tests were like blood pressure, organs function, heartbeat thingy, B ultrasound thing and urine check. the toilet in the checkup center is the smelliest i've ever come acrossed already. partly bcos i wont visit public toilets outside lar. but no choice this morning! have to produce urine for them.. its smelly until you will puke when you first step in that kind ahh. they have no flush to keep the bowls clean. that's whyy.
so after med check. back to the hotel to sleeep.
shopping in the afternoon after lunch at jiefangbei again. managed to get 2 winter tops at a good price and a new bag. hahaha. i'm spending so much even before my first pay comes in. gonna stay in hotel as much as possible next two weeks to reduce my expenses already.lol.
bought shaokao on our way back to the hotel.
on morning shift tml. need to sleep early. mrs sue tan, mrs ong long fung and mr philip lau checking in to the hotel tml morning. here for a visit and meetup for the hospitality trainer from IHG. gonna meet them up for dinner too! :) they will be here for a night before heading to the other city of china ba.
wheeeeeee! goodnight pple. :)
had been at work for the past 2 days, on afternoon shift. recieved a box of eight mooncake from the hotel yesterday. hahaha. roommate and i each have a box as each employee is entitle to one lar. so we have sixteen mooncakes to eat which we cant possibly finish it ourselves. so good girl jenn cuts one of it and bring down to share with my fellow gsc colleagues. afterall they will be giving their mooncake away to their relatives and will not be able to try. everybody here is so nice to us, so any chance available, i will want to repay them. :))
highlight(s) of today. went for medical checkup in the morning. i'm required to go through the check by the government as i'm residing here for half a year. and so blood test is needed! was still half asleep in the morning and was totally awake when we walked to the first station - BLOOD TEST. they took 1 and a half tube of blood away from me larr. rarr. kind of scary though cos i watch them poke the needle in and stuff. yucks. luckily i did not faint like some angmoh girl behind me did. and she didn't even look at it ahh.
other tests were like blood pressure, organs function, heartbeat thingy, B ultrasound thing and urine check. the toilet in the checkup center is the smelliest i've ever come acrossed already. partly bcos i wont visit public toilets outside lar. but no choice this morning! have to produce urine for them.. its smelly until you will puke when you first step in that kind ahh. they have no flush to keep the bowls clean. that's whyy.
so after med check. back to the hotel to sleeep.
shopping in the afternoon after lunch at jiefangbei again. managed to get 2 winter tops at a good price and a new bag. hahaha. i'm spending so much even before my first pay comes in. gonna stay in hotel as much as possible next two weeks to reduce my expenses already.lol.
bought shaokao on our way back to the hotel.
on morning shift tml. need to sleep early. mrs sue tan, mrs ong long fung and mr philip lau checking in to the hotel tml morning. here for a visit and meetup for the hospitality trainer from IHG. gonna meet them up for dinner too! :) they will be here for a night before heading to the other city of china ba.
wheeeeeee! goodnight pple. :)
Saturday, September 15, 2007
ckg day #15
i recieved 7 sms-es from ngeeannpoly informing me about me exams results.
SEVEN you know?!! dunno why they send me so many also. furthermore i did not sign up for it since semesters ago lar. the first semester i signed up for it, they didn't send me my results via sms. so i decided not to sign up anymore. ohwell, who know this sem they send me so many to remind me over and over again how i did for my final papers. rarr. even until this morning, i'm still recieving it lar.
crazy. so how many did you guys received ahh?
cup noodles for lunch today. woke up late after 12 hours of sleeep. yayy! 12hours! hahaha, like finally i'm able to rest all i can. i'm so happy. :)) too late and lazy to go down to restaurant for lunch. kind of sick and tired of it also larr. hehehe.
went out arnd 3plus for a little shopping, top up our cup noodles, biscuits and milo. bought another top and belt from giordano again. hahaha. i found the reversible belt that i wanted long long time ago at a much cheaper price. wheee. roommate bought a top and a vest for her brother tooo. but she is somehow low on cash already so i help her paid for a part first. next stop, we went to get our groceries before i also have no more cash.. hahaha. well, normally i pay for the groceries first one anyway. so there goes my 500rmb in a day! ohno. spending 500rmb in china in a day is alot for their people here! so please jenn. you need to save! =/
came back to hotel to drop our stuffs in our room before we walk out to the side of our hotel to eat shaokao. yummyliciouss! and its very worth it larr. though its still a little spicy even though we requested not to put chilli. the chilli here is numbing-ly hot ahh.. den diinner back at the restaurant before i came up first and roommate went to get her running shoes with her colleague.
so my off day is coming to an end. back to work tomorrow onwards till wednesday before my off days on thurs and sunday!
takecare people. :))
SEVEN you know?!! dunno why they send me so many also. furthermore i did not sign up for it since semesters ago lar. the first semester i signed up for it, they didn't send me my results via sms. so i decided not to sign up anymore. ohwell, who know this sem they send me so many to remind me over and over again how i did for my final papers. rarr. even until this morning, i'm still recieving it lar.
crazy. so how many did you guys received ahh?
cup noodles for lunch today. woke up late after 12 hours of sleeep. yayy! 12hours! hahaha, like finally i'm able to rest all i can. i'm so happy. :)) too late and lazy to go down to restaurant for lunch. kind of sick and tired of it also larr. hehehe.
went out arnd 3plus for a little shopping, top up our cup noodles, biscuits and milo. bought another top and belt from giordano again. hahaha. i found the reversible belt that i wanted long long time ago at a much cheaper price. wheee. roommate bought a top and a vest for her brother tooo. but she is somehow low on cash already so i help her paid for a part first. next stop, we went to get our groceries before i also have no more cash.. hahaha. well, normally i pay for the groceries first one anyway. so there goes my 500rmb in a day! ohno. spending 500rmb in china in a day is alot for their people here! so please jenn. you need to save! =/
came back to hotel to drop our stuffs in our room before we walk out to the side of our hotel to eat shaokao. yummyliciouss! and its very worth it larr. though its still a little spicy even though we requested not to put chilli. the chilli here is numbing-ly hot ahh.. den diinner back at the restaurant before i came up first and roommate went to get her running shoes with her colleague.
so my off day is coming to an end. back to work tomorrow onwards till wednesday before my off days on thurs and sunday!
takecare people. :))
Friday, September 14, 2007
ckg day #14
my week 2 in chongqing is coming to an end soon. and its down to 20 weeks more before i am back in singapore. results for ngeeann pple are out this morning! hopefully all my lovely friends are satisfied with your results. if not, do jiayou for the next sem ok! just this last semester left before we attend the graduation ceremony. well, as for myself... i did my normal standard. grades were as usual like the past few semesters. though i know i could have done better, but i'm quite alright with my results. :))
gambatte ne.
hadn't been updating for the past few days cos i was quite tired and drained out having to switch from afternoon to morning shift. which means, lesser hours of sleeep for me. :(
tuesday i cant really remember really what happen this day. but i guess nothing much really happened to leave me a deep impression. hahaha :) the only thing i know when that i'm on afternoon shift.
wednesday
woke up after a few hours of sleeep. when i dont get sufficient sleep of at leat 10hours. i'll be forever tired. reported to work at 7 and i even stole some nap during my shift. to pass time quickly, i went for breakfast which i dont usually eat in the morning. something good about morning shift is that we have 2 breaks in between. the breakfast and lunch. and time will seem to pass faster after 12noon. hehehe.
come back home at 3plus, log online to read some mails, watch tv and was planning to nap for awhile before heading out. supervisor from frontdesk and western restaurant was bring us out to see some scenic areas at night in chongqing, and roommate said we were to meet at 0530 lar. BUT they called at 0430 to meet us. whatever lar, was so confusing cos i wasn't the one who arrange with them you see. when i dont get rest, going out also wont have fun. i was having bad headaches and occassion spins lar. rarr.
they brought us to shop arnd at jiefangbei first. but i wasn't really in the mood for shopping seriously. and its just so uncomfortable to have people who are not shopping to watch and wait for you try. ohwell, i'll rather shop myself with my own space.. or people i'm comfortable with. :) i miss shopping with dearest meiho lar! den when night falls, we walked from jiefangbei there to this hongyadong which is beside their river. quite pretty actually. but i din take any photos.. was even more tired by then. took bus back home, tired to sleeep earlier than usual. tried, that is.
thursday
was on afternoon shift BUT still need to wake up in the morning. appointment to meet this guy who is a hospitality trainer from IHG (Intercontinental Hotel Groups). he shared with us he job and his vision, also to check on how we are doing somehow. cos we are under this new training scheme too. went back toom to sleep after that. i was planning to skip lunch and have more sleep actually. BUT my FOM (front office manager) called arnd 12 and inform us that the EAM (executive assistant manager) is meeting us for lunch at 1230. he's the 3rd big shot in the whole hotel hierarchy, he's very nice to us. so together we had lunch with him, our fom and training manager. lunch was great! its at our chinese restaurant which we dont usually get to eat at. food was yummylicious. interesting stories were shared over the table by EAM himself.
got back and prepared for work after lunch.
i caught the da vinci code on hbo after work. hahaha. reminds me of marv and gang. the time we went to watch together and were sitted right at the front rows lorr. lol. so funny. after the show, i was flipping through the sixty over channels on stop by on this korean drama and guess what, i heard to soundtrack which we used us 'the blog song' for campus idol! so qiao, but i dont know which show was that already lar.. so i was missing my ba_comm people lots loads last night man. rarrr. mh, marv, lex, yc, eric, melv, dav, yf, cat, clar.. the list goes on. :))
friday woke up and checked results at 6. off i went to work at 7. knocked off at 3. came back, chatted online with some pple before i took my long awaited nap.. so shiok! i even overslept for dinner. hehhh.
its my second off day of this week tomorrow! yesssh, more rest. more sleeep. :)
takecare peeeps!
gambatte ne.
hadn't been updating for the past few days cos i was quite tired and drained out having to switch from afternoon to morning shift. which means, lesser hours of sleeep for me. :(
tuesday i cant really remember really what happen this day. but i guess nothing much really happened to leave me a deep impression. hahaha :) the only thing i know when that i'm on afternoon shift.
wednesday
woke up after a few hours of sleeep. when i dont get sufficient sleep of at leat 10hours. i'll be forever tired. reported to work at 7 and i even stole some nap during my shift. to pass time quickly, i went for breakfast which i dont usually eat in the morning. something good about morning shift is that we have 2 breaks in between. the breakfast and lunch. and time will seem to pass faster after 12noon. hehehe.
come back home at 3plus, log online to read some mails, watch tv and was planning to nap for awhile before heading out. supervisor from frontdesk and western restaurant was bring us out to see some scenic areas at night in chongqing, and roommate said we were to meet at 0530 lar. BUT they called at 0430 to meet us. whatever lar, was so confusing cos i wasn't the one who arrange with them you see. when i dont get rest, going out also wont have fun. i was having bad headaches and occassion spins lar. rarr.
they brought us to shop arnd at jiefangbei first. but i wasn't really in the mood for shopping seriously. and its just so uncomfortable to have people who are not shopping to watch and wait for you try. ohwell, i'll rather shop myself with my own space.. or people i'm comfortable with. :) i miss shopping with dearest meiho lar! den when night falls, we walked from jiefangbei there to this hongyadong which is beside their river. quite pretty actually. but i din take any photos.. was even more tired by then. took bus back home, tired to sleeep earlier than usual. tried, that is.
thursday
was on afternoon shift BUT still need to wake up in the morning. appointment to meet this guy who is a hospitality trainer from IHG (Intercontinental Hotel Groups). he shared with us he job and his vision, also to check on how we are doing somehow. cos we are under this new training scheme too. went back toom to sleep after that. i was planning to skip lunch and have more sleep actually. BUT my FOM (front office manager) called arnd 12 and inform us that the EAM (executive assistant manager) is meeting us for lunch at 1230. he's the 3rd big shot in the whole hotel hierarchy, he's very nice to us. so together we had lunch with him, our fom and training manager. lunch was great! its at our chinese restaurant which we dont usually get to eat at. food was yummylicious. interesting stories were shared over the table by EAM himself.
got back and prepared for work after lunch.
i caught the da vinci code on hbo after work. hahaha. reminds me of marv and gang. the time we went to watch together and were sitted right at the front rows lorr. lol. so funny. after the show, i was flipping through the sixty over channels on stop by on this korean drama and guess what, i heard to soundtrack which we used us 'the blog song' for campus idol! so qiao, but i dont know which show was that already lar.. so i was missing my ba_comm people lots loads last night man. rarrr. mh, marv, lex, yc, eric, melv, dav, yf, cat, clar.. the list goes on. :))
friday woke up and checked results at 6. off i went to work at 7. knocked off at 3. came back, chatted online with some pple before i took my long awaited nap.. so shiok! i even overslept for dinner. hehhh.
its my second off day of this week tomorrow! yesssh, more rest. more sleeep. :)
takecare peeeps!
Monday, September 10, 2007
ckg day #10
hello people! :) its a brand new week ahead. hows everyone getting along... well, its my off day again today.
hadn't been updating for quite somedays. let me track back a little.
saturday.
was roommate and my off day together. we woke up arnd 2plus in the afternoon? hahaha, wash up and we headed to a new place - jiefangbei. this place is like our orchard road, bugis and marina square back in singapore ahh. and its very very pack! colleague told us that even during weekdays, the place will also be very crowded because young pple likes to go there. we went to get the more important thing done first which was to take passport size photos... the hotel need many more of it for admin purpose. den we had lunch at their macs, which is good and cheap! :) and we went shoppinnggggggggg. bought a top from their giordano, wanted to buy the adidas pullover but didn't have enough cash for it after buying the groceries and stuffs. its on sales! rarr. but its ok, keep telling myself that i should be saving money instead. anyway, its so hard to find milo here in chongqing lar, and we finally found it at the supermarket in jiefangbei.
so we took bus from jiefangbei back to hotel instead of cab. though its a longer journey, but i think its worth the time and money. hahaha. :)
sunday.
work on B shift. which is 15:00-23:00. receive a mooncake from restaurant supervisor during my dinner time! work was still memorising and learning of ext numbers and top questions asked by guest. the opera system used by gsc is kind of limited access cos they dont exactly need the whole function. but its still fascinating to be able to see it on real operations after learning it from classes. cant wait till i'm transfer to club floor and front desk where i can learn more and put my knowledge to better use. hahaha. supervisor always let me off earlier when i'm on B shift.
monday.
here i am. slacking in my rooom. :)
results is gonna be out real soon.
prayss hard.
hadn't been updating for quite somedays. let me track back a little.
saturday.
was roommate and my off day together. we woke up arnd 2plus in the afternoon? hahaha, wash up and we headed to a new place - jiefangbei. this place is like our orchard road, bugis and marina square back in singapore ahh. and its very very pack! colleague told us that even during weekdays, the place will also be very crowded because young pple likes to go there. we went to get the more important thing done first which was to take passport size photos... the hotel need many more of it for admin purpose. den we had lunch at their macs, which is good and cheap! :) and we went shoppinnggggggggg. bought a top from their giordano, wanted to buy the adidas pullover but didn't have enough cash for it after buying the groceries and stuffs. its on sales! rarr. but its ok, keep telling myself that i should be saving money instead. anyway, its so hard to find milo here in chongqing lar, and we finally found it at the supermarket in jiefangbei.
so we took bus from jiefangbei back to hotel instead of cab. though its a longer journey, but i think its worth the time and money. hahaha. :)
sunday.
work on B shift. which is 15:00-23:00. receive a mooncake from restaurant supervisor during my dinner time! work was still memorising and learning of ext numbers and top questions asked by guest. the opera system used by gsc is kind of limited access cos they dont exactly need the whole function. but its still fascinating to be able to see it on real operations after learning it from classes. cant wait till i'm transfer to club floor and front desk where i can learn more and put my knowledge to better use. hahaha. supervisor always let me off earlier when i'm on B shift.
monday.
here i am. slacking in my rooom. :)
results is gonna be out real soon.
prayss hard.
Saturday, September 8, 2007
ckg day #7
I HAVE BEEN IN CHONGQING FOR A WEEEEK ALREADYY! :)
whhhheeee. fast? i think its kind of slow lar. hahaha. perhaps when i learn more things and there's more for me to do at work, time will pass faster. first week of the 22weeks of oiap down!
results gonna be out on 14th. roommate says that if we fail any module, iap will auto we reduced to 6 weeks and we have to return back to sg to repeat and study. ohman. please let me pass all lar. not that i dont want to be back in sg but i dont want to study alone! prays hard.
morning. met one of the HR personnel to go police station to get our visa and paperwork done. after that i reported for my morning shift as soon as i got back to the hotel. so basically, i start to memorise the first page of extension number today. i also answer my first call at gsc lar. it was a jap guest who speaks in a very-difficult-to-understand english. colleague cant understand so they pass me the phone. initially i talk it wasn't english lar. cos it sounded really foreign! but i manage to figure out what he wanted and manage to save my colleague from paying extra charges for the room. the guest actually wanted to delay his checkout time. yayy! :)
den it was their general staff meeting which they ask me to go too. the first part was actually their skills competition finals from different department. felt kind of cheated to attend the meeting larr. but den when it finally get down to the meeting, which was like one and half hour later... the GM actually introduced me as an intern to their whole employees during his speech. i was like, woahhh! hahaha. lots of friendly associates (what they call their people) came over, chatted with me. telling me they will bring me out someday. so cute of them larr!
when the meeting finally ended. went back to gsc to took some photos with one the supervisor who is leaving the team. and room sweeet room! :)
tml is my off day! yipppeee.
anyway. i always wanted to blog this but i always forget. SO i'm telling you guys that the people here eat rabbit's meat! they braised it, make it with salad.. etc etc. so eeyer lar! i dont even dare to open the lid up to see. whahaha. i didnt try too lar.
dad bought webcam home already! so now i can webcam my family everyday tooo. :)
so yups. goodnight.
Thursday, September 6, 2007
ckg day #6
yawnns.
super tired.
sleeping late at night is really bad when i need to work morning shift the next day. plus when i've got nothing much to do. it adds on to my boredom and i can doze off anytime one lar. i bought i few of my stuffs down to keep me awake. but not of any use lar.. so work was kind of boring again today. and its only until the end of my shift already den they say they will be training me to get hands on with the transferring of calls for internal and external guests, and own departments too. so the first thing i need to do now i to memorise ALL the extension numbers in the whole hotel. rarr. i dont mind lar. i'm glad that i have something more constructive to do now! :)
knocked off at 3, came back room to nap.
dinner was with a few front office colleagues. they brought us to go try their chongqing hotpot. i think its really super spicy lar, the smell of it is choking enough. so i just had food from the clear soup ONLY. and they order alot of food from intestines rather than more meat. so i kept eating mushroom lor. hahahaha. they were very friendly and nice people lar. they insisted on them paying for us, to like celebrate and welcome our stay with them. was still kind of tired throughout the dinner.. listen to their interesting stories sounded like bedtime stories to me. hahaha. stayed at the hotpot place for like 3 hours (even though i stopped eating after first hour) before coming back to the hotel.
morning shift tml again. but heading out of the hotel with the HR peeople to the gong an (aka police station) for some admin works in the morning before heading back for my shift.
yawns. boyf just asked me not to wait for him. so i should be heading to bed already.
goodnight my dearestss in singapore!
ckg day #5
it was my off day yesterday.
but i kind of lazy to blogg in cos there was nothing much for me to talk about also lar. was busy watching youtube on the last episode of huan huan ai. BUT i'm uploading the video at a damn slow speed lar. in the end i also havent finish watching lorr. the channels on tv also got nice ouxiang ju to watch. so basically, my day is fill with watching of shows. :)
reported for my second day of work this afternoon. ok. they teach me something new today, which was to page for the housekeeper on each levels. den there is nothing much alr. i spend my time there..reading some stuffs, writing in my diary. my sup also released me earlier than my scheduled knock off time lar. hahaha.
nothing interesting.
gonna go sleep alr. morning shift tomorrow! off day is on sat. :)
take care pple! jenn misses you.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
ckg day #3
first day of work!
reported to the HR office first thing in the morning to get our uniform, name tags, pins.. went though some admin stuffs, orientation and mini training. we took so long to get our uniform done lar. but good thing is that everything is provided from top to toe. :) next, we reported to our own department - guest service center is where i am in. will be attached there for a month before i move to executive lounge.
guest service center aka Gsc is the operator center. we will recieve alot of calls from internal and external guests asking for many different kinds of questions. therefore in order to be able to pick up calls, i need to have a lot of information and knowledge about the hotel, surrounding area, everything! hahaha. guess when i'm done memorising, i can move on to club floor alr. hahah.
the most tiring part was when we were being brought on the hotel tour to meet all the department heads. we went into every single department offices in the hotel. craziness lar. but it really makes us feel welcome though. cos everyone was expecting us, knows tt we are coming. but after one big tour, saying hi and trying to remember who's who and what position they are in. and when i finally got back to my department. i was already so drained out.
anyway. i had my first meal at the staff canteen today. and i understand why are we blessed with the priviledge to dine in at the hotel restaurant alr. the chongqing taste is really very different. =/ the spicy numbs mouth.. rarr. i barely had 10 mouths of food for lunch. terrible jenn.
keep bumping into the GM bcos he dines in the restaurant very often too. breakfast saw him, dinner also. hahaha. i'm happy to see him around in the hotel seriously. as he gives me the feeling of home. hahaha. its true! should try to strike a conversation with him the next time if possible.
though i very much wanted to sleep in after i knocked off at 3:30pm, i still headed out as one of the front desk supervisor has offered to help us get the correct sim card. BUT. so damn suay, when we were ready to make our purchase, their system (like our hello shop or m1 shop) breakdown! roars. and they kept saying there's nothing they could do but to wait. so in the end, we still dont have any china line yet. wth. but my hotel room has free incoming! can call if you know how to lar. hahaha. room no 1417 :)
had kfc for high tea. shopped for some neccesity. waited for roommate to dye her hair black at the salon cos our hair needs to be blackk. came back hotel for dinner.. and here i am.
its my off day tml. :) SLEEPING DAY!
reported to the HR office first thing in the morning to get our uniform, name tags, pins.. went though some admin stuffs, orientation and mini training. we took so long to get our uniform done lar. but good thing is that everything is provided from top to toe. :) next, we reported to our own department - guest service center is where i am in. will be attached there for a month before i move to executive lounge.
guest service center aka Gsc is the operator center. we will recieve alot of calls from internal and external guests asking for many different kinds of questions. therefore in order to be able to pick up calls, i need to have a lot of information and knowledge about the hotel, surrounding area, everything! hahaha. guess when i'm done memorising, i can move on to club floor alr. hahah.
the most tiring part was when we were being brought on the hotel tour to meet all the department heads. we went into every single department offices in the hotel. craziness lar. but it really makes us feel welcome though. cos everyone was expecting us, knows tt we are coming. but after one big tour, saying hi and trying to remember who's who and what position they are in. and when i finally got back to my department. i was already so drained out.
anyway. i had my first meal at the staff canteen today. and i understand why are we blessed with the priviledge to dine in at the hotel restaurant alr. the chongqing taste is really very different. =/ the spicy numbs mouth.. rarr. i barely had 10 mouths of food for lunch. terrible jenn.
keep bumping into the GM bcos he dines in the restaurant very often too. breakfast saw him, dinner also. hahaha. i'm happy to see him around in the hotel seriously. as he gives me the feeling of home. hahaha. its true! should try to strike a conversation with him the next time if possible.
though i very much wanted to sleep in after i knocked off at 3:30pm, i still headed out as one of the front desk supervisor has offered to help us get the correct sim card. BUT. so damn suay, when we were ready to make our purchase, their system (like our hello shop or m1 shop) breakdown! roars. and they kept saying there's nothing they could do but to wait. so in the end, we still dont have any china line yet. wth. but my hotel room has free incoming! can call if you know how to lar. hahaha. room no 1417 :)
had kfc for high tea. shopped for some neccesity. waited for roommate to dye her hair black at the salon cos our hair needs to be blackk. came back hotel for dinner.. and here i am.
its my off day tml. :) SLEEPING DAY!
Sunday, September 2, 2007
ckg day #1
hello everybody !
finally, i found some site to host my blog larr. unable to use and view blogspot/livejournal/xanga/multiply.. friendster blog is not very useful too. therefore, i would need to use the blog from china yahooo. hahaha! not bad also lar.
thanks to my dearest friends, lovelies, buddies and everybodies who had came down to the airport yesterday to send me off. my mama, mrchan, stephie, liying+bf, cheryl, jane, joanne, ame+bf, my BOND -alex, marv, melv, yc, david, eric, danielle, dingren.. (did i miss out anyone?) thanks to my dad for driving us down. thanks for the presence pple! thanks for the letter, cards and donut. thanks for the bondultimatum. i'm touched. thanks to those who wanted to come but unable to make it.. jenn understands ok!
yupss. i have reached chongqing safely last night, close to midnight. transportation provided to the hotel. check in and started unpacking our luggage. gonna stay in the guest room for 5 whole months! hahaha. quite cool. meals, laundry and housekeeping covered. triple :)
i am enjoying my life ! meals are provided in the hotel restaurant. for us :) we can choose to eat in the staff canteen or the restaurant. of cos we will choose restaurant larrr! so for breakfast lunch and dinner today, we had great foood. abalone and lobster for dinner lar. omg. i think van and i are so lucky and fortunate.
people here are v hospitable too. they took extra special care to our needs.. really. i'm touched (again). managers from different departments will called personally to welcome us. cos they aint in office during weekends and cant welcome us in person. so far everything has been good.
met the front office manager this morning and our supervisor in charge of us. they are not on duty today too! but came back just to give us a simply briefing. met the GM of the hotel, who happens to be a singaporean during lunch at the restaurant. meet quite alot of pple which i cant really remember who.
tour arnd the hotel ourselves before heading out to buy the calling card in china. first trip made out of the hotel. taxi charge was cheap at 5rmb per trip. but taxi condition was not tt great and drivers are very scary! they dont stop at red lights, honk at any blocking objects.. even police car. exciting and thrilling ride for 5rmb. lol. its scary lar, really.
anyway. it has been raining here in chongqing. since last night until night. drizzle most of the time. another day of enjoyment like a tourist before i officially starts my attachment on monday.
people who wants to know my china hp no. do get from me personally ok? otherwise you can always drop me a mail when you miss me. hahaa.
finally, i found some site to host my blog larr. unable to use and view blogspot/livejournal/xanga/multiply.. friendster blog is not very useful too. therefore, i would need to use the blog from china yahooo. hahaha! not bad also lar.
thanks to my dearest friends, lovelies, buddies and everybodies who had came down to the airport yesterday to send me off. my mama, mrchan, stephie, liying+bf, cheryl, jane, joanne, ame+bf, my BOND -alex, marv, melv, yc, david, eric, danielle, dingren.. (did i miss out anyone?) thanks to my dad for driving us down. thanks for the presence pple! thanks for the letter, cards and donut. thanks for the bondultimatum. i'm touched. thanks to those who wanted to come but unable to make it.. jenn understands ok!
yupss. i have reached chongqing safely last night, close to midnight. transportation provided to the hotel. check in and started unpacking our luggage. gonna stay in the guest room for 5 whole months! hahaha. quite cool. meals, laundry and housekeeping covered. triple :)
i am enjoying my life ! meals are provided in the hotel restaurant. for us :) we can choose to eat in the staff canteen or the restaurant. of cos we will choose restaurant larrr! so for breakfast lunch and dinner today, we had great foood. abalone and lobster for dinner lar. omg. i think van and i are so lucky and fortunate.
people here are v hospitable too. they took extra special care to our needs.. really. i'm touched (again). managers from different departments will called personally to welcome us. cos they aint in office during weekends and cant welcome us in person. so far everything has been good.
met the front office manager this morning and our supervisor in charge of us. they are not on duty today too! but came back just to give us a simply briefing. met the GM of the hotel, who happens to be a singaporean during lunch at the restaurant. meet quite alot of pple which i cant really remember who.
tour arnd the hotel ourselves before heading out to buy the calling card in china. first trip made out of the hotel. taxi charge was cheap at 5rmb per trip. but taxi condition was not tt great and drivers are very scary! they dont stop at red lights, honk at any blocking objects.. even police car. exciting and thrilling ride for 5rmb. lol. its scary lar, really.
anyway. it has been raining here in chongqing. since last night until night. drizzle most of the time. another day of enjoyment like a tourist before i officially starts my attachment on monday.
people who wants to know my china hp no. do get from me personally ok? otherwise you can always drop me a mail when you miss me. hahaa.
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