Letter To Miss Helen

I've wrote an email to my training manager 2 days ago that sounds like this...

Behind Cafe Aroma's bar..

Hi Miss Helen,

The reason this mail was sent because I have something to ask you regarding my industrial training.

As you know, I’ve requested for training only in the F&B service department, but after these few days of thinking,

I have the thought of exploring more towards the administrative or office section, such as PR, reservation, training, etc.

I saw this book when I helped Alice with her article

I know you have said that the departments allocation could not be changed after 7th of April, by doing so might cost quite a problem to you and others, but I have to ask if you could consider my request?

Besides wanting to explore in other departments, other reasons that has prompt me to think and ask you about this was because my frigging leg is going to break and darn I feel like a blardy slave.

I had observed the service style of both ‘Café Lounge’ and ‘Terazza Brasserie’ were almost the same, this fact has made me think twice of continuing my service there after ‘Café Lounge’ and also because of both places made the servers equally slavish.

Lets all say "what the heck!" together!

I was wondering if its possible and not causing too much of a headache for you, could you allocate me into other departments which falls under the admin/office section for the 2nd month of my training please?

I really hope this wont be much hassle to you, and I’m so sorry for the sudden request of change.

Do let me know what is your view about this, hope to hear from you soon.

-Melvin Teoh-

Can see, can't eat...

Wish me all the best.... T.T

Aroma Cafe - Sheraton Day 1

My leg has never been in such bad condition before....

I don't wana walk already, someone buy me a wheel chair.... T.T

Almost 8 hours of standing... And its only the 1st day, I'm gona be in hell for another 1 month...

Anyway, I shall not blog about the orientation day on the 7th of April, I'll save it for another time when I get hold of the pictures yea~

Today was my 1st day of work, I was assigned to 'Cafe Lounge' section for my 1st month of serving.


Its very different from the restaurant service at college.

1st things 1st, this is a cafe and not a fine dining restaurant, certain things just cant apply, such as placing things on left or right, and those minor crappy protocol stuff..

This is a 2 part restaurant, 1st section is the 'piano lounge', the other part was known as 'Cafe Aroma' which was where I'm placed, but I have to go both sides...

The thing required the most - common sense & 'anything also can' stance.

Not easy as easy as the ones in mamak...

Today was crazy, I always stand at a spot and look after the guest needs, seemingly to the assistant manager, that is known as "I have nothing to do".

Therefore, I was called to multi task here and there, and again and again and SOME MORE FREAKING OVER AGAIN...

Darn I always have to be JUST NICE in the assistant managers line of sigh or walkway and just so happen that I'm showing that so call "nothing to do" stance...

I'm not saying thats bad, because I get to train my alertness, in fact it is getting better, I hope...


Another difference which I wana talk about is the staff, each section only got 2, as for me at 'Cafe Aroma', I'm working hand in hand with Kakak Ying.

You must be wondering, how come I call her Kakak Ying when she carries a Chinese name?

Well, simply because she is from the state of Kedah, therefore she is much more fluent in her Bahasa although she is Chinese(mix Thai).

Believe it or not, she communicates with me in Bahasa instead of other languages, so I'm refering her as 'Kak' or 'Kak Ying'.

Anjing! Hehe.. Its name is 'Faith', the mo-hawk dog.. =)

Wad-da-ya-know, Bahasa Kedah(BK) shares a similarity with Bahasa Indonesia(BI).

So she speaks to me in her BK & I speak to her using BI mix BM.

Quite unique come to think of it, both of the same race & same country but speaking in a language other then the mother tongue or English.

She has thought me quite a number of stuff, no time to go through that. :)

1 of the Sheraton car park..

Ok la, I shall stop here for today, I will constantly update to tell you my progress.

I hope that you wont see me on a wheel chair after 3 months... @.@

Purple Hills

Holidays are great!

But holidays with no purpose is far lesser then great...

Besides catching a movie with friends on Monday and Friday, other days I just sit at home and go through the process of "fermentation" in front of my PC.


Not producing alcohol, instead I got myself a pair of red eyes from playing games & MSN, one of it which took up most of my time was the game '3 Kingdoms'...

Darn I tell you, to finish 1 silly champaign can take days and hours, I've finished 2 which took me 5 days..


Now I left 8 more... @.@

Eh no wait... I just discovered there are another 10 more!!! Which are side stories apart from the normal ones..


My senses are telling if this goes on, its gona do me bad...

Therefore, on Thursday I decide to make my life more health and lively again!

I was thinking what can I do...


And I remembered there was a place known as 'Purple Hills', its located somewhere within the Subang Jaya area..

OR SO I THOUGHT...

My friends cycled there once, so I thought I can make it to, hence began the journey.


I've never been nor seen that place before.

So I asked for directions and how long the trip will take and etc..

My friend told me 15 to 20 minutes traveling time.

I say bullshit.

The road seems to never end!


I traveled all the way out to the sides of USJ area near USJ 17-20.

And I notice something weird...


But he said go on, so I went..

It just doesn't look right, I thought it was within Subang Jaya area?

I called and ask again, and he say, "yeah man, just go on."

Okey....


I began to doubt, but I was thinking, it must be the turning just in front, cannot be that far...

15-20 minutes mah...


Oh my goodness, I was expecting a turning that my friend told me, but I did not expect that turning leads into the HIGHWAY...

What kind of place it that, I thought it was suppose to be 15 to 20 minutes?!?


I'm suppose to go all they way, following the road..


Ahhhh! I'm on the highway above another highway.


Ya Allah, it leads me into the middle of the highway...

Bare in mind, I'm on my unserviced & unused for God know how long bicycle, good thing I pumped air into the tires, if not die la...


Unfamiliar places.. I din know USJ has expend so much..


I'm lost.... But according to my friend, I'm on the right track..

What to do, come so far don't tell me turn back now meh...?

As I was standing on a higher ground and catching up my breath, I saw this!

It isn't clear I know...

Summit USJ! My house is somewhere near there, and now I'm looking at summit, and its like so small.... Which means I'm very very far away! @.@

I cant believe I actually cycled till this distance.

I pressed on, and finally!


He said there will be a sharp corner, there I will see an opening that leads into the hills.

I was so darn happy when I see the entrance.

I leaped in!

But...


!@$#

I thought I made it all the way to see this.....

I rang up my friend and he explained.


Oh... There was another passage on the right side leading up towards the hill.

As I was about to walk up there, I noticed strange noise around the area, my ears and eyes went up, scouting for any unknown things.

My eyes lead me to these..


There were a battalion of them roaming around the area!

That explains why I have to zoom so far to catch their picture, knowing me that I always seek to take clear pictures, another thing was because something happen before...

Few years back at Pangkor Island, I took a photo of a monkey, and the next thing I knew it was chasing after me, I ran a quarter of the island till it stopped.

This was the last moment of the bugger before he made me look like an idiot carrying all my friends stuff while running, a group of people just sat there and laugh... -.-

I should have watch more animal planet,
I din know this position means "I'm tulan!"

I stood in front of the pathway, thinking should or should I not go up there, there were a lot of monkeys, what if it see my face and felt like beating me up?

I was alone, if I got hurt then how? No one to call for help..

But I came all they way, with much sweat and energy, I'm gona leave just like that? I finally gather the guts, I walked up..

Terrorizing the Ramli Burger stall... "roarrrrr!"

Suddenly, I heard the sound of thunder above the sky.

Crap its gona rain, immediately I decided to give up my campaign... =(

I turned back and head home, half way through, it rained...


Was it a waste? Was it stupid?

To me, its all worth it..

Hey, come on, who can say that they cycled all they way from Subang to Putra Heights before? Got la, but not much.

Cycling on the highway isn't a normal daily thing that everyone will or can do, but I've done it, I'm not saying no one else other then me did before la.


Nothing like a cup of coconut juice after all that up hill and down hill of cycling, its not really tasty, but its the taste of an achievement that makes it taste so good.

Just like drinking champagne, if drink for fun, there isn't much to shout about, but if drank during a celebration of something, its a total different feeling altogether.

Definitely I will revisit Purple Hills once more, I shall not rest till I can gaze from its peak!

Truly I believe it will be an eye opener. =D


Purple Hills anyone?

Memories Of Term Three In Black And White

*Jump up from bed*

"Oh crap! I'm late for college!"

*2 seconds later*

"Eh... Today where got college..."

*went back to sleep*

Don't you think its really funny, during college days we slack and procrastinate, not wanting to go to college.

But during holidays, we complain that its boring and prefer to be at college instead. "*cough* *cough* Janice *cough* Janice...." =P

Restaurant briefing..

Today its my 1st day of holiday, term 3 was finally over!

Year end exams was quite a piano on our head, it was the mark of us being big boys and girls in the Hotel Management/Culinary Arts/Tourism Management course!

As usual, my faithful blog poser - Sio Sen.
This was after our Housekeeping assessment.

I remembered the days when we saw our seniors all wearing their formal suit waiting in front of the exam hall back in term 1, soon we were standing on the very ground they stood.

For this term, they were many different things that spring out. I'll just talk about some of the ones that I remembered ok? =)

'Plant and Premise' presentation

Term 3 has never fail to deepen my hatred towards mathematics and business subjects.

The subject of statistic is a very good example, but I never hate this subject at first, allow me tell you why.

The 1st class statistic class was big, it was a combine class with other groups, our statistic lecturer was new in Taylor's college.

Part of statistic class, posed by Karl..
Eh wait, this wan I secretly took wan I think! =P

Apparently she cant stand the noise we make hence walked out of class, the funny part was she left her handbag on the chair and later came back in to take it and walk out again.

But thats not the point, you imagine, it was our 1st class, and we were prepared to learn something, suddenly this happen, don't you think its a little 'cut steam'?

From that day onwards, I never pay attention in statistic class anymore... I don't know why, call me weird but, its just the feeling of wanting to learn is not there already.

Leisure Commerce Square, took this picture near the students council room..

I'm so glad term 3 has no more accounts, but hell is so mean....

We have a new subject known as 'Purchasing and Cost Control', and darn this subject because it teaches you how to buy and budget stuff, got money then buy la, so troublesome...

I made it sound so useless because I dislike this subject, get the point? :D

To make things worst, we were the 2nd batch that our lecturer teaches, which means she was new to this, and the class was as bored as learning about Bordeaux(some bodoh state in France)...

This is the way we learn 'Purchasing and Cost Control'..
Sleeping dude - Christopher Jonathan Morley Charles No Balls.. :P

But nothing can beat the LAN subject of 'Bahasa Kebangsaan A', cater for those who has [D]ynamic results in their BM paper for SPM.

The only thing that impresses me in this class was the lecturer - Miss Aidah, I tell you, we were students that holds strong to the motto 'late come early go, do work then wana go'.

"Ok class, kamu semua break 10 minit dan balik."(ok class, you guys have 10 minute break and come back.)


Me, Karl & Jeff will takes another extra 20 minute(for Friday class) because we went and eat our breakfast, by the time we went back in, class is over! =D

I assume that we really pissed her off sometimes, she wont show it, but the words she use was obvious with signs of a wrath yet unleashed, very patience of her, a quality worth to be respected.

During restaurant service, yet again another pose by Sio Sen~ =D
I wonder if we will be in the same group for term 4?
If not, then who is gona be my blog poser next time... T.T

This time round, the new batch 29 came in, it was great to know that 2 person from SMK USJ 8 joined the hospitality course.

Max - Culinary Arts & Chooi Yin(spelling not sure) - Hospitality Management which I knew through Max.

As time passes, I get to know more and more from the new batch 29, which is a good thing, getting to know new people is something I like. ;)

Vicky, Eigan & I

At the same time, I came to acquaintance with quite a few other people from Higher Diploma, Mass Communications and even people from other colleges.

Some I got to know even better compare to others.

Doreen, Alice, Fandi, Ting & I

In just 3 months, things come and go, some might say "what so great about 3 months? things will remain the same most of the time la or turn worst..",

Its true, but you'll just never know what to expect sometimes.

Ahh.. A nice but blur picture... =(

Who in this God created world would ever thought that I will learn Bahasa Indonesia?

In fact, some said that my progress was fast, and some say need much more improvement, anyhow its still a learning process. =D

Lim Yin, I & Hui Wen

Frankly speaking, I was a person that dislike using Bahasa Malaysia because I got a 'D' for it.

But now, I'm learning both languages at the same time, I always believe what goes around comes around.

There was this time, I wanted to buy metal wire to tie up the fence on my house balcony due to the cats coming in to shit in my house regularly, of all houses out of 5 floors, why mine!? =/

After Oenology presentation, back at term 2..
Rebekah, Sio Sen & I

I went to this Chinese DIY shop to get some wire, I asked for 2 meters long, the Chinese boss charge me RM 0.50 for it, he asked one of his worker to settle it for me.

Later do I know mum said it wasn't enough and she demands for another 5 meter.

Another 'Plant and Premises' presentation

I went back again and asked the same worker(an Indonesian guy) that cut the previous wan for me for another extra 5 meter.

After he was done, I asked him with my half bucket Bahasa Indonesia, "mas, kayak gini berapa?"(dude, like this how much?),

He looked at his boss first, and when the boss went away, he turned back to me and say "20 sen cukup dong"(20 cent enough la), 2 meter 50 cents, 5 meter 20 cents...

Jeff & I, last restaurant service

I was ripped of... I don't mind the money, but what I hate was the integrity of the boss, few cents also wan to con from me... Imagine if it was a RM 100++ business... =/

See, speaking the language of the people rubs away the differences of the two regardless of race and gender, sometimes got profit also.

There are other stories, but save it for next time k. =)

Ivana, I & Fandi

These memories will be written here, and one day who know, me or you may look back and laugh about the things that happened.

Now, we shall move on! Industrial training here we come! Let us all bring wonderful reports back from our training, sure got lots of story to hear~! =D

Some picture I took at Westin KL, apparently its some
art work done by some kids that stayed in the hotel...

All the best and take care guys! See you all after 3 months! ;)