Because we heard that there was going to be a typhoon this early morning, yesterday night we thick-skinly called our in-room manager and asked if we could get a lift to the hotel but that means that we have to meet him at 7am downstairs our house.

And when Joanne woke up at 5am today and I woke at 5.30am today THERE WAS NO SIGN OF RAIN WHAT-SO-EVER. So we called our manager again and told him that we could go to the hotel ourselves.

Headed back to sleep and we left our house at 8.15am.

It was the last day of orientation today. Same thing, we spent the whole day inside Training Room A.

We were given this booklet (in Chinese) and there were blanks we had to fill up (in Chinese too). It’s been so long since I’ve written Chinese and we were always the last ones to finish copying all the stuff. I don’t know why I bothered to copy because I couldn’t read or understand what I was writing but copying made me not doze off!

After lunch there was a test we had to do after the whole orientation. And yes, the test was in CHINESE.

Like seriously, we didn’t study nor pay attention in class for the past 2 days! We were so going to be screwed.

But in the end during the test, the 7 of us and the Australian guy started helping one another and passed answers down. We even got help from the speaker to help us translate whatever we didn’t know how to read. We also wrote our open-ended questions in English. Thankfully we could do that!

It was no ordinary test where you passed with 50%, you needed 80% to pass! And they tested us from the year the hotel was built, who was the founder, who is the current CEO, how tall is the building, mission, vision, guiding principles etc etc etc.

But hey, 8 brains can do wonders! We were just slow in handing up our paper because of language problems.

After the test there was a tour around the hotel but we were exempted from it because we had already toured it like 3 times!

So Yu Hong, YJ and I had to change our uniforms because from tomorrow onwards we’ll be in Events Concierge.

We’re wearing SUITS! :D :D :D

But we had a difficult time at the place where we exchanged uniforms. The in-charge there was so bitchy and refused to give us what we want. There weren’t extra suits for us and we had to wear other people’s suits.

The thing is that these suits are custom-made for the staff and it takes 1 month to get it done. So they tried their best to find what best fitted us but the one they gave me, the sleeve was too short and the skirt was too tight.

YJ’s had problems too and we requested if we could change our skirt and the bitchy in-charge kept saying NO.

Yu Hong’s suit was like too long for him also lah.

So what could we do with such a bitchy person right? We called our new manager to tell him the situation and asked him if he could tell that in-charge to give us whatever we wanted. He didn’t even want to speak to her! He said he’ll ask his assistant to call the department.

Soon enough, we heard the phone ring and that bitchy in-charge was like called up. We waited and waited and when she came down she changed our skirts to something similar and it fitted much better.

I think she hates us man; because just 1 phone call and she had to give us what we wanted. Too bad our manger’s a big shot Singaporean there :P

After all that, we could go home. But since YJ and I changed out of our uniform we couldn’t go into the staff canteen to eat dinner.

We headed to Super Brand Mall to have Burger King for dinner while waiting for Joanne and Angela to come over.

It was raining already and the wind was super strong. Heard from a French Manager that there’ll be a typhoon soon and it’s the worst so far in Shanghai.

After dinner it was raining and there was wind. But it wasn’t that strong. We could even WALK HOME. Yes, I think we’re mad. Got cab don’t wanna take, chose to walk home when it’s windy and rainy.

I just finished watching Dr. Doolittle 3 and now we’re watching Garfiled the Movie which is in CHINESE.

First day of work in Events Concierge tomorrow; how exciting!

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KC: There's nothing to take during a typhoon eh. And they said there was going to be 1 today but nothing serious! It's like normal rain, but with stronger winds!