Saturday, October 13, 2007

Work started at 8am today, which means I was up by 6am when I slept at around 1.30am last night.

Too much gossip already, that’s why we slept so late.

Ehui’s off today, so we were following Cherry around. There weren’t any events going on today so we had nothing to do.

But we were made personal assistants by Goh and I’m not very happy about it. The things he asked YJ and I to do was really quite weird.

Firstly, we were at the Ballrooms (tower 1, level 2) with Goh. Then he asked us to go down to the Banquet office (tower 2, basement 1) to print out a to-do-list email that was drafted by him.

So YJ and I went down, printed out the email and went back up to look for him. He edited the email and asked us to go down again to type the email and print it out. After printing it out, we went up again to show him and he edited the email a bit more. He then told us to go down again to edit the softcopy and save it.

After that we stayed at the banquet office for quite some time with nothing to do. Cherry was upstairs and Goh was somewhere around. So we used both Goh’s and Ehui’s computer to go online!

YJ and I were supposed to knock off at 5pm but when 5pm struck, Goh was like “let’s go”. And we had to follow him al the way up to the Ballroom.

When we were there, he totally ignored us and started a meeting with some clients. The only thing he asked us to do was to move 2 chairs from the VIP room out so that they could have the meeting outside. -.- After that we were totally treated as transparent by him so we went to find Cherry. And Cherry said we could go already.

Went back to the Banquet office to look for Tracy and Niki and they were going off too.

There was a dinner tonight for the whole banquet department because of the incentives they had selling moon cakes. Ehui booked 10 tables at some restaurant and there were 14 dishes in total + 15 bottles of beer per table + 2 bottles of wine per table. Each table cost about RMB900.

So if you do your math, there were a total of 150 bottles of beer and 20 bottles of red wine.

8 girls met outside the staff entrance and we took 2 cabs down to the restaurant. YJ and I shared a cab with 2 hostess (they are like 1.77m tall and skinny. They came from modeling schools) and 4 of us aren’t Shanghainese. The cab driver brought us to the wrong place but it was the restaurant we were supposed to go. So we had to take another cab down to the restaurant.

Dinner started off okay although we waited quite some time for everyone to come before we started eating. But after awhile we couldn’t take it our table (9 girls + Yu Hong) started eating the cold dishes. It wasn’t enough for us and we took seconds from another empty table.

The food was great and after dinner almost everyone started to get high. The experience of going to dinner with such a big group of people was really fun. The people here drink like nobody’s business and smoke like nobody’s business.

They could finish the 150 bottles of beer and they are still not drunk. We saw a few guys getting high though.

Some of the guys kept asking YJ and I to drink red wine and in the end we were the only 2 girls left with the guys because slowly a lot of them went home.

YJ and I were fine with drinking because the atmosphere was already so high but there was a spoiler lah. In the end we only drank like 2 glasses of red wine. And their red wine is nothing, won’t get drunk. It was quite sucky because we wanted to stay longer and have fun but we had to go because of some reason. Damn sian.

The restaurant was so near our place; 5mins cab (RMB11). So we reached home at 10pm which is like freaking early. Gossiped for 1 hour with JY (:

My shift has been planned out for next week already. Working at 8am everyday and I’m only getting 1 day off because I owe them off days and repaying them back slowly. Thank goodness YJ and I have the same shift for this whole week (: