Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Work started at 9am today and we were 15 mins late because we had some problems with our uniforms.

In the morning, we were asked to call other hotels to check out their room rates. It was a pretty easy task because we could speak in English and act like we’re potential guests. But, it soon got boring because we had to repeat everything and ask about different periods of stay.

After we finished calling, Angeline started teaching us how to call to ask for guest’s arrival time. It was quite hard adjusting to speaking Chinese to ask every question but after awhile it got pretty okay. We spent quite a lot of time filtering out which guests to email or call though- and we were constantly using the Opera System.

Soon it was lunch time and YJ and I decided to go over to Super Brand Mall to eat Macs! Since we had 1 hour, we went to H&M after that and I already eyed which tops to get after work.

Went back to the office and did more calls. After calling, I helped Patrick send emails while YJ updated the calling records. And then we updated the no-show records together because it was so tedious.

It sounds so boring right? And trust me, it is! Office jobs are so omgboring. Although we have things to occupy us with, I’d rather be at BQT where things are so flexible.

We were supposed to end work at 6pm, so when the time was up, YJ and I tried to say goodbye but was stopped by Angeline. She asked us to reply emails and update the ETA of guests before leaving and also update some report thing. In the end we left at around 6.30pm.

Went over to Super Brand Mall to meet Angela and Joanne and they already finished dinner. So YJ and I went to eat while they shopped. After that I went to H&M to buy 2 more tops before going down to Lotus to meet the 2 of them and YH.

Did some grocery shopping and the most extreme thing we did today was to buy 30 bottles of Oolong Rose Tea. THIRTY 500ml BOTTLES (YJ, Joanne and I bought 10 bottles each).

Our whole cart was filled with the bottles and we still had 3 cartons of milk and 3 big packets of Oreo and a lot more nonsense. People that walked past us stared at our cart.

We didn’t want to risk trying to take a cab back because we had 5 people so we hurried and caught the last shuttle bus back to our place (:

Came home, packed out stuff and watched “The Invisible”.

I don’t feel like going to work tomorrow and be stuck in the office the whole day again.