Yes!...Snow...! Record breaking 10 cm thick of snow in Glasgow....very rare occasion even for the locals....enjoy that night partcularly when i made a lot of footprints on the snow-covered ground...and made snow balls out of snow from eveywhere....remind me of ice kacang....nice weather...
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Thursday, January 20, 2005
Canton-Style
Just imagine that kind of hong Kong style restaurant...selling roast pork and roast duck...yah...i worked in that kind of restaurant...cannot imagine.
I know I am not a very good waitress in many ways...but working in this restaurant shows all my flaws. The first problem is cantonese. I understand but i dun speak...only makes me a mute when I work with colleagues. Then I dun smile....I always smile...wherever i worked...but i din manage to smile here becos i can't talk much and dun blend in therefore...i dun felt like smiling....which is deadly in terms of my professional practice as a waitress....then...is my backgroud....i worked in too many kinds of restaurant before...too many styles in my head....japanese...western...hong kong style...???....while the westerners think that stacking up plate in front of them when you clear plates is rude...they do it here in chinese style...where they pour all the soups and sauce in front of you in the bigeest bowl....before they remove it from your sight....then....i dun usually talk to customers....unless very occassional chat....but they are very traditional hong kong style...they expect a bit of chatting...i can't...especially in cantonese....if you know what i mean. And then they want you to be fast....i can be fast if i know what i am going to do...but then...fast is not my style.
Very hard...a job that I feel I am not good enuff.
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I know I am not a very good waitress in many ways...but working in this restaurant shows all my flaws. The first problem is cantonese. I understand but i dun speak...only makes me a mute when I work with colleagues. Then I dun smile....I always smile...wherever i worked...but i din manage to smile here becos i can't talk much and dun blend in therefore...i dun felt like smiling....which is deadly in terms of my professional practice as a waitress....then...is my backgroud....i worked in too many kinds of restaurant before...too many styles in my head....japanese...western...hong kong style...???....while the westerners think that stacking up plate in front of them when you clear plates is rude...they do it here in chinese style...where they pour all the soups and sauce in front of you in the bigeest bowl....before they remove it from your sight....then....i dun usually talk to customers....unless very occassional chat....but they are very traditional hong kong style...they expect a bit of chatting...i can't...especially in cantonese....if you know what i mean. And then they want you to be fast....i can be fast if i know what i am going to do...but then...fast is not my style.
Very hard...a job that I feel I am not good enuff.
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