Work and Service

Nice picture eh? I went to google image 'Italy' and this lovely picture came up! I WANNA GO ON A HOLIDAY :<

Haha okay forgive my randomness. Yeap so i started work again at Cacio e Pepe on Saturday in the kitchen. My skills were still a lil rusty but i think i did okay (as you can see i'm writing this post without being cooked or anything) I cut my pinky though, while slicing the tomatoes for Caprese (don't worry there wasn't blood shed on the food IT'S CLEAN)...now i can't practise properly on the guitar :S i'm gonna die once practice resumes.

Yay so yesterday i learnt to make 2 desserts from scratch! Ben the other part timer was teaching me as i jotted down notes on the lovely vintage looking notebook Chenxin gave me last time. During break (3 - 5.30pm) everyone else were either reading or sleeping (actually they all started out reading but plonked haha) and i was there studying COS THERE'S NOT ENOUGH TIME DAMMIT nahhh i just decided to study. But i was soooo tired urgh. Plus Sundays are our major clean up days so i was exhausted like hell.

Then i found out my bosses were expecting me to work for the whole of June including weekdays.I mean, i definitely can't!i have MYE to study for - even right now i have insufficient time. i only have 16 days to study minusing my work days. and i didn't work cos i needed cash or something but cos i know my bosses are facing a tough time looking for part timers (the prev one was lousy and just resigned, and Ben can't work for the whole of June) so i decided to help out since i felt bad for rejected Bee's request to work a few times alr. Of course, the pay is an incentive haha.

SLV
Then this morning i woke up early like 7.15am cos today's SLV day! (Service Learning Volunteering i think i'm not sure what it actually stands for) but i had to go to VJC first to submit my mt essay.And now i'm gonna rant about the MRT system:

SERIOUSLY JUST DO SOMETHING PLEASE. actually wasn't it all fine before even without the Circle Line? THE GOVT SHOULD STOP INTRODUCING MORE PEOPLE INTO SINGAPORE.
It is terrible - how would you like being packed like freaking sardines even after missing the first train (can't squeeze in anymore people). I alighted at Buona Vista because i thought changing to the Circle Line would save me from the excess skinship BUT NUUUU apparently alot of people use the Circle Line too. i decided to just tap out and hail a taxi. (no i'm not a rich kid who can just hail a taxi on a whim - i happened to have higher purchasing power cos yesterday was payday!)

And just my luck i got the white taxi the EXPENSIVE ONE. but i felt it was worth paying cos it was a comfortable ride (i hate taking taxis sometimes cos of that heavy pandan smell and the bumpy ride that gives headaches) and the driver was polite...and pretty cute HAHA ok that was unnecessary.and since he took the AYE we drove on one of the roads i love driving on the most ever since i was a little kid peering out through the windows of my dad's car.it's like a highway and you'll see giant billboards advertisements and the shipyard with lots of containers on one side and work officers and buildings on the other (and the old train station).

After vj i took the bus to Mountbatten to meet the core SLV team (Dawn Tif Eric Ida and myself) to prepare the programmes for the elderly and TungLing Eldercare. We went to Old Airport Food centre to order the tau huay for the elderly and haul them back to the centre. When the rest of A15 arrived later they were pretty nervous cos they didn't know how to communicate with the elderly.

Personally i prefer working with elderly to working with kids contrary to what alot of people think. It's not that i dislike kids or whatever but i happen to click better with the elderly, and kids require lots of energy to handle (urghh). And on my mom's side of the family all my cousins (esp the female cousins) flock to the babies (either the nieces/nephews or cousins) and start fussing over them and -spoiling- them. I don't really like the idea of giving the babies loads of attention and goodies (most likely they'll end up spoiled but not always) and so i always avoid joining the crowd of female cousins showering their affection for the babies.

I was the emcee for the programme so i had to be patronising - and i exhausted my whole range of limited vocab (i'm all ready for oral now haha) and tried to connect with the elder folks. apparently everyone was surprised with my emceeing ability cos usually in class i'm not outstandingly social (my class has ALOT of interesting outstanding people) and well yup i'm  pretty pleased with myself haha. I had to act out that emceeing role cos obviously that wasn't in my personality and Dawn was saying "if you used that emceeing personality with me i would've punched you cos i know that's not you" which is true. Dawn knows me really well haha.

I felt it was a good SLV though i thought we could have done better cos it was quite messy.But today was a great day :)