okay so maybe the title is kind of misleading.. well it was supposedly some random thought that floated thru my mind as i spent my 'wonderful' holiday time polishing delicate wine glasses, folding napkins at the corner of a desolate pantry in the hotel corner. pls pardon more of my rumblings about my work experience. yup, i'm STILL working for another 3 more daYS!! haha though the ppl are acutally quite nice (specificially those from the concierge and front desk dept) the rest seem as if they have been zombies or perhaps mummified egyptians sent thru some time machine and planted to work eternally in this cold hotel chamber: they are SUPEr dao!! or rather, they seem to have lost this natural human ability to give a smile to a passing colleague, poosibly because (from what i have inferred over the past few days while mulling over dirty cutlery and pouring coffee for ppl) of their utterly BORING and MONOTONOUS work. well, the word montonous does truly look er monotonous rite? see... i'm not making sense anymore! and the reason is solely because i have been spending 8 hrs each day doing meaningless stuff. just a short summary of my interesting work schedule: collect dirty cutlery from kitchen, use a rickety trolley and roll back to the pantry, wipe the glasses spotless clean, move the cutlery back into some ulu corner, fold napkins into weird shapes, top up the water for the coffee-maker, arrange coffee cups, refill the coffee beans, clean up the mess made by those rich old businessmen, walk up and down 50 times to look busy, stand beside the coffeemachine to help them prepare coffee (and at the same time insulting the guests' intellectual level of not being able to just press ONE button for the coffee to come out), be a standby dustbin, to sum it up: a walking machine. no emotions nothing much... well and the rest of the time (if i'm lucky) is to talk crap with hopfeulyl some friendly parttime staff. so if i ever look quite dead after these 2 weeks of work, you now know why. oh well, at least i've learnt LOTS of things: hotel hygiene level is NOT to be trusted, okay i shan't dwell deeper or risk getting censored by some conrad person. wad else... and really lar, they waste super alot ALOT of food (like blueberry cheescake, croissants, cereal, breaded prawn, mini pizza, the most delectable food on earth DUMPED into the dustbin) i feel so guilty being the one doing so.. oh well the rich and the richer. but above all this, work has been yar quite erm fun... so now if you think of it, it really sounds like a cinderella story: wiping stuff, arranging stuff. okay i shan't go back into the whole whiny complains again. yup, hope the next time i post, i'll sound sane and not another zombie from conrad.
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