Thursday, May 18, 2006
to my horror! i woke up at 8! today when i was supposed to be at work by 8.45!! left the house by 820 and knew it was a loosing battle. arrived at 920. Good Thing, mrs tan not there. hehe
today for a funny change, i came home straight after work, and it felt a little loser at first, but then after i changed into my pj's i think its a good option too. back in the comforts of my home :)
today at work, my new partner is a lady named may. and so i had to teach her things. but she's so hard working and ..sucha law-by-law person. then it made me wonder what will my mum be if she were to work at frutta. what kinda person would she be? and..i can't imagine. maybe she'll sit down and have loads of ice cream with me! or will she start cleaning everything like a true blue housewife? i know my mum isn't one. but well, that's what may did[correction:aunty may]. so much so..i decided to step back and let her wash the cloths, tidy the tasting sticks and clean up whatever she wanna wipe, cos after all she's the lady and she's been through all the cleaning the house business before. the feeling is so so much different from teaching someone from your era, eg:alvin.
at first i thot it was good and fine.
and then i got a little pissed
she's quite an easily alarmed lady i would think. like some character you'd prolly be able to identify with in a fiction book. the common character who's small in sice[size>a sign i tired], with big bright mousey eyes and ears but scrurries around and does many many things all day long. like the mrs-spick-and-span in some enid blyton book. at this point, how i wish i really had a character to draw a parallel alongside her. this is a sign that i havent been reading all my life and this causes me to feel slightly wasted and incompetent.
halfway through the day, the display unit B started to loose its cool [pun!!] and the ice cream started getting soft.the temperature fell to minus 10,though it should rightfully be at minus 20. and i suggested what we always do: transfer some to disp unit A, put the rest back in chest freezer and sit around and wait for display unit B to chill up again.she started going on abt how we should call mrs tan and let her know. or as long as mrs tan knows this happens it's alright. and i managed weakly to say that aunty aileen knows, it happens quite often and if aunty aileen knows, mrs tan should know. assume ok.with that she relaxed.but i think when i was explaining mebe she didnt quite understand.so she got a lil flustered.
maybe im just a lil in-shock to see someone more hard at work than me. plus it being her first time. she also went on to tidy the ice cream on her own! so obviously i felt redundant. cos its good to let her practise also. hmm. so i sat down and ate ice cream.
at the end of the shift, while counting money [which was for aunty dpris to do,soley]. she noticed this sticky one dollar coin, and asked me to wash it.
i was laughing up in my head.
perhaps this is the first time you see me writing so much about work aside from the constant complain that i ate too much gelato. but i just realised, i spent one third of the day at work!what do you expect if i dont talk about that?
my mummy suggested sakae sushi for dinner. and i hope that really materialises (i have this tendency to let her make the final decision so she can go for what she really wants). and for once, im welcoming it. its starting to feel good really, when its not from your own pocket -in terms of parentals paying :)
being self sufficient is not everything la. sometimes its more efficient to be otherwise. :P
charlene said a lil' prayer for you at 7:13 PM
