Work today was boring (oh what’s new!)

We reported at 8am and waited for awhile before Cherry came.

With nothing to do, Cherry asked us to wipe the pencil cases on display inside the rooms for a photo shoot later.

Rooms were set up in different styles to be shot for the hotel’s brochure. We saw how professional the photographs were shot for awhile before Cherry asked us to follow a banquet staff downstairs for I don’t know what reason, so we happily followed him down to the Banquet Store Room.

We didn’t know why we were told to follow him, but when we reached, he asked us to wipe glasses?! There was no proper table, the glasses were inside the container on the floor and we had to sit on plastic boxes to wipe the glasses.

Imagine 2 girls and 1 guy in suits sitting down in the Banquet Store Room wiping glasses. We invited many stares.

After wiping all the glasses, we had nothing to do. We asked if we could go back to find Cherry but he was reluctant to let us go. He asked us if we wanted to fold napkins but we refused.

In the end we realized that Cherry asked the Banquet guy to give us stuff to do because she had nothing to do. And since we didn’t want to fold napkins, we found 3 chairs inside the store room and started sleeping. We slept for like 1 hour before we needed to go to the toilet.

After our “Xi Hu” toilet break, we met Cherry and she asked us to go down to the Banquet Office to check the menu for the 2 weddings taking place tonight. When we got there, the lady there asked us to go to the Banquet Store Room again to take 80 wedding menu covers! When we got back, she asked us to go to the F&B office to photocopy 37 sets of the wedding menu and 43 sets of another wedding menu.

To make things worse, the photocopying machine there sucks. It’s forever having errors and we gotta open and close some part every time. So irritating! At first we didn’t even have white paper, we had to like go around asking for it. Sometimes people here are so not helpful.

So we took quite some time to photocopy the menus because of the faulty printer. And when we got back to the Banquet Office, the photocopied 43 sets were rejected because there was a faint line at the corner. We were asked to re-photocopy it again. Whoa PISSED.

After photocopying, we went to in-room dining to eat pastry before going down for lunch (:

We met Ehui on the way back and he asked us to follow him. We were assigned to different major events happening in the hotel already. YH’s gonna do the Opera Night, I’m doing Singapore Evening and YJ’s doing some Calendar Event.

He brought us to a function room where different set-ups were done for the big bosses to choose for the Opera Night.

In the end, some maroon design was chosen but the big shots wanted them to change the flower arrangements and napkin rollers.

We felt so extra when all the big shots were there discussing which set-up to choose. We stood there listening to them discuss and discuss.

Alan was there too and then he decided to tour us around the hotel again. This time he brought us to the offices where the MICE people were and then to Horizon Club Lounge to take a look.

After that we followed Ehui and Cherry to meet up with the client for my event that I was assigned to.

My event’s rather major and they are looking at around 670pax. The whole of China Hall would be used up and there’s still not enough space for the tables because of the stage they are gonna build. But no matter how major it is, I still don’t have much to do I guess. But hopefully I’ll be able to observe and learn a lot from this major event that’s gonna happen at the end of Oct.

After the meeting we knocked off at 5pm (: Headed down to Lotus to buy fruits and herbal tea before taking the shuttle bus back home.

Played with Latte and Sushi for awhile before YJ had to go down to the mall behind our house to collect her phone. The stupid repair centre said it’ll be done by 6pm but it still wasn’t done by 7pm. And apparently yesterday they said if it wasn’t done by 6pm they wouldn’t charge her. YJ called them and YH yelled at them refusing to pay a cent and finally she agreed.

So we walked down to collect her phone back and then went to eat dinner opposite our apartment. Headed to Jia De Li to buy water and other stuff before heading home.

Everyone came over (Chang Fang, Jie Ying, Yu Hong) and played with Latte and Sushi. They are our new source of entertainment but it sucks when they pee and shit.

Right, so Joanne’s friend who is a local was shocked when she told her that we bought puppies from the street. She said that nobody buys these puppies because they are already sick and they have injected stuff to make them active. They’ll only live for a few days? Sigh, we’ll see how it goes.

Actually we were supposed to start work at 8am tmr and the day after but Ehui asked us to reach at 9am cuz it’s quite pointless for us to go so early. Haha.

Gotta settle money first though before crashing!

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