新年快樂!

Hello once again my very happy cakes.

I’m almost at the end of my Chinese New Year trip to Kuching, Sarawak. Currently third day of CNY and we sort of already ran out of people to visit.

Usually there would be like heaps of people that we’d have to visit each year. Actually, normally we would go to Sibu as well but since my uncle and my grandparents (mom’s side) are currently in KL, we figured we’d spend the rest of our CNY in KL.

But I’m working tomorrow and on Friday as well. Hopefully Su-Ann is nice and gives me a 6 hour shift instead of 8. She mentioned the other day that they had an overload of staff.

Working in Starbucks in fun and tiring I guess. I’m still the new guy so I’m mostly in charge of making blended drinks and cleaning the tables a.k.a ‘buzzing’. The kind of thing no one really wants to do.

It’s not too bad, actually. The only boring part is doing the dishes.

Some people just don’t know how not to make a complete mess out of their cake.

I’ve met some really really nice people as I’ve probably mentioned in the earlier post. So because of my manager, I have now memorized the ‘recipes’ for all the blended drinks. Hoorah!

Some people have visited me. Which is nice. Sort of makes my day if you know what I mean. But sadly, most of the time they come during peak hours so I barely have any time to talk to them.

To those who have visited me – u da man.

I better be going out somewhere clubbing or something on Friday night. It’s been a long long time.

Time to get mah dancin’ shoes on.

Haven’t done much lately, but what I have accomplished is jailbreaking iOS 5.0.1 on my phone!

Hoo Hoo Hoo HOO – rah.

Yes.

Notification centre, finally. But the rumours were true: the battery life is shiiiiiit.

It’s now 6.16pm and we’re scheduled to leave the house at 7pm and I still have to shower after my dad finishes. Shouldn’t be too long now.

Apparently the plane that we’re going to be flying in is supposed to fly in from KL but it’s been delayed (according to my cousin because he’s on that flight). So we’re not so sure whether our flight is delayed or not.

AirAsia’s website says it’s on time and I somehow don’t trust it 100% but there’s nothing else we can do.

Anyway, shower time.

See you lads when I get back home.

j.

Hello, Starbucks.

Wasaaaaabi.

Once again, it’s been some time hasn’t it?

Mostly due to me going out almost every single day, pulling all nighters then sleeping all day.

Cos I’m cool like dat.

Well anyhoo, my mom managed to get be a job in Starbucks in Pyramid because she has ‘connections’ and so I was employed as a part time casual worker.

What I expected to be doing (because I was told this) was to be cleaning up the cafe – like doing dishes, clearing the mugs/cups, sweeping.

And stuff of that sort.

Today was my first day at work (excite!) and the first thing I learnt was how to make a Mocha Frappucino.

Su Ann (my boss) exploded with information on how to do this and that and being me, I only managed to pick up half of what she said.

Eventually I got the hang of things. Met some nice nice people who taught me how to do more stuff (make more drinks).

At first I was kinda bummed out about not being a barista but I ended up spending half of my shift (which is 7 hours long) making drinksies (:

It was fun, and tiring.

Su Ann’s number one rule is to never not do anything. So my ‘colleagues’ (I have colleagues now!) told me that if I had nothing to do then I should pretend to wipe some tables.

I even resorted to arranging the mugs and stuff that were on display because she assigned be to 1 hour of ‘Cafe duty’ – aka clean up the cafe.

So I roughly know how to make most of the drinks with the guidance of some very nice people.

But it’s been a long long long day of standing,walking around and blending frappes.

Ai shood goe tu bed soon.

I think I’ve declared myself an insomniac. Well, partially.

Rolled around and around in bed for about an hour and a half until I decided to put on Ingrid Michaelson to sing me to sleep.

And work it did. I shall do the same tonight.

Oh and if I haven’t told you yet, Justin lent me his USB mic for a day and I recorded two thingies – a cover of another K-Pop song aaaanddd ‘Put My Friends In A Blender’!!

Hoorahh cakes. I’ll put up the lyrics in the next post I guess with the recordingding.

Tomorrow’s shift – 10am to 6pm. Visit me! (but there’s a chance I might be somewhere in the back doing the dishes)

Good night to you, you, and you.

j.

It had to be done.

Back to the usual

Hello again!

It’s been a couple of days hasn’t it? You didn’t miss much anyway.

Actually, I’ve been through quite a lot but I probably won’t elaborate much because Liverpool are going to play Man City in 15 minutes so I’ll just make this one a quickie. Soz.

So I came back from Miri on the evening of New Year’s Eve.

I enjoyed it, I think. Arrived first day, did nothing. Second day, slept most of the day.

Had to wake up at 6am on Saturday morning because I was my cousin’s ‘best man’ and had to escort him to his wife-to-be’s house/extremely huge hotel suite – because she’s from New Zealand (but born in China).

Waking up at 6 was a lot easier than I had expected. Probably because of the air of urgency around the house.

Went over with two of his other friends and we had to do all these ‘challenges’ (decided by the bridesmaids) before we could get to the bride’s room. Sort of like tradition for Chinese weddings nowadays.

Speaking of Bridesmaids, has anyone seen the movie? Don’t. It’s horrible.

Was pretty tired by the time we got to open the door. Then we escorted her back to our place and had the tea ceremony and yada yada yaa (look it up if you wish).

Lunch. Big lunch. Then had a two hour nap.

Then we had another big formal dinner at night and I had a ‘confetti firework thing’ go off in my face thanks to some guy from the bride’s side not knowing how to use it.

Only confetti. No worries. Otherwise I’d punch him. If I could. Nah, I wouldn’t. You don’t think of me as someone who’d ruin a wedding, do you? Of course not.

Silly you.

Sooooo, I had the ‘honor’ of going around to each and every table with them to ‘yam seng’ and drink and drink and drink. Wine + Beer = Yay.

I don’t like beer that much anymore. Not since Centurion.

Flew off in the afternoon the day after and got home around evening-ish.

There was a party/gathering going on at one of my neighbour’s place but I convinced my parents to let me go hang out at Ken’s.

A lot of new faces. People I didn’t know. Was kind of awkward at first – until I got drunk.

We introduced them to our Aussie drinking games (Cross the River and King’s Cup/Circle of Death).

So by the end of the night, we were all buddies. Oh and I played Battleshots with Phil!

Go look it up on 9GAG if you haven’t heard of it. Izawwsome.

Decided to drive back at around 6ish. Sooo bad. Somewhere along the night, I decided to top up what was left of my Smirnoff with Midori.

Worst idea – ever.

It tasted good, and so I kept filling it with more Midori and kept drinking.

I couldn’t gauge how drunk I actually was until I actually started driving.

Took almost an hour to get home. And when I finally did, I changed out of my fancy clothes and KO-ed right away.

Thing is, I was still intoxicated and as I’ve learnt – it’s not good to sleep in that state.

Ended up waking up multiple times and puking after dreaming of a swerving car. That was kind of like my signal that I should get up because I needed to puke.

Second time I went over my limit. Don’t plan on going over again anytime soon.

It’s a bad place to be. I finally got the last bit of alcohol out of my system at around noon. Slept like a baby after that.

The whole of that day (after I got up at around 4pm) was spent writhing in uncomfortableness. Probably acid reflux again – like what happened after Centurion.

So I’m fine now. Went out with Daniel and Ariel for a 4 hour conversation lunch yesterday at Pyramid and then met up with Eugene in the evening.

I love catching up with people. If I haven’t spoken to you in a while, call me!

Anyhoo, it’s about 10 minutes past kickoff (see how much I care about you guys?)

I’m off to watch the game. YNWA!

Enjoice cakez.

j.