Wednesday, April 23, 2008
hola! coma estas? me llamo xinhui. mucho gusto! (hey how are you? my name is xinhui. nice to meet u! :))
today's the 2nd day of work at FTA 2008 and unlike the first day. it wasn't as happening HA. thus time passed SUPPEERR slowly. my partner, esther, & i kept checking our hp times to see if its time to knock off! LOL but luckily i brought my camera today! took fotos of my work place and also the yummy food exhibitions during my lunch break:P
although it feels boring when we have nth to do, my job still rocks cos we get to sample so much yummy stuff! haha and guess wat? esther & i were so bored we decided to write down the list of things tt we tried today and this is wat i came up with:
spanish biscuits
spanish red wine
australian beef
mushroom soup
belgium waffle
bulgogi
gelato
japanese rice
meat spread
onion rings
german sausage
turkish sweet
pennyslyvania cheesecake
cheese
korean seaweed
HAHA coolness isn't it! LOL. :P ok but don't say that we did nth okie we do have stuffs to do as well! job scope includes providing info abt the spanish exhibitors, giving out brochures/free gifts,taking business cards & also other nitty-gritty things to help out.
it's only my 1st time doing exhibitions but i really really hope it will open doors to future opportunities! its really great meeting all sorts of people. and i LURVE working with the spanish. they are really such humourous ppl u noe! kept teasing us cos they noe we cant spk their language. LOL and and my colleague & i both agree tt so many of them look really charming, esp. in those business suits HEHE.
ok shall let the fotos do the rest of the talking!
official staff!((:
me sitting at my booth counter! hehe doesn't it look great? personally i feel the spanish booths look 1 of the best since the colour is so outstanding and bright! very easy to find. haha.
my colleague esther & i~
the picturesque view from our glorious counter LOL.
the image behind our counter. haha alot of things but still looks pretty neat and orderly rite! those stacks and stacks of square things are our brochures. feel free to have one! hehe (:
the view on our left. which is actually the Turkey section. haha this booth sells sweets and esther & i kept eyeing those long strips of sour sugary sweets! :D
the view on our right! this is the nutrexpa booth which promotes chocolate powder, meat spread, honey etc. haha the kind ol' man there gave each of us a bottle of honey! oh and the 2nd stall( right side) is the one where i tried my first glass of young red wine! wasn't as terrible as i thought. learnt smth today! the spanish exhibitor taught us to hold the glass at the bottom not only cos it looks elegant but also to prevent our body temperature from spoiling the taste of the wine (:
bundle of spanish biscuits given to us FREE by one of the spanish exhibitors!!:D hehe more than enough to last us till FRI!
met up with sharon during lunchbreak and we decided to roam the halls! RAHHH! hahaha see we look super happy(:
Mr I LOVE BRATWURST! this guy is super cute! he wears a tag tt says I AM ANDY! dun u think he looks like some good jolly o'l fellow? tts the feeling i get! he gives such a bright smile whenever we approach him for those yummy german sausages. hehe oh and i reckon he is the guy on the left when he was younger? HAHA.
SUPER tender-yummy-delicious-gastronomic Aussie beef! gosh it totally melts in ur mouth. DELICIOUS!
rows and rows of sweet delicacies!
lotsa cheese! haha but honestly speaking? i think i still prefer my kraft cheese. heh YES NOOB I KNOW but i realli still cant appreciate this kinda true blue cheese still! it can differ from type to type. the spanish goat cheese i tried ytd rocks but the creamy cheese thingy i tried today was JUST PLAIN HORRID. *belch*
LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THE FISH! haha at that moment the thoughts running through my mind were along the lines of " omg just think how much sashimi we can get out of that huge salmon! " (=
loads and loads and loads of SHELL FOOD! *gasp!! MY ULTIMATE weakness! oysters scallops clams...u name it they have it! i love them ALL!
....and lastly..GELATO! the way he made it reminded me of the way we do it at Ice Cream Chefs. lol but i think its different cos his end-product is not some meshed up ice cream but smth tt looks like a pretty cake. THUMBS UP definitely! :P
haha ok so i guess that pretty much sums up my work cum food experience at the 2nd day of FTA 2008 (:
P.S but the best part of the day? it came in the form of an A4 envelope where i received my confirmation for nanyang business school! (: just seeing the word "future undergraduate...successful.." makes me so happy! hehe no longer need to worry about not getting an interview anymore!
hasta luego ppl! CIAO! (:
Labels: exhibitions, FTA, spain, yummy food
dual income
Saturday, January 12, 2008
ok maybe im being slightly ambitious; i gotta admit having 2 jobs in a day is really tiring.right from the start, today proved to be a more fulfilling day with 4 lessons waiting for me to relief. 1 sec 2, 2 sec 4 and 1 sec 5 class. it was the same noisy sec 2 class again tt i had taken ytd and true enough, they didnt steer away from their innate characteristics of being ultra rowdy. now i understand why teachers do go crazy at times yelling at students to keep quiet. it has indeed proven to be quite a handful, as i have now experienced. so anyway the sec 4 classes were generally ok.
as for the sec 5 class, i had mentally prepared myself for a difficult time as the age difference is simply non-existent. however to my surprise most of the students spent their free time constructively by doing their homework and talking at audible levels, yet unlike the bunch of 14 yr olds. well i have to admit it was kinda weird though having a bunch of sec 5 boys in the front row STARING AT ME doing whatever i was doing. when i qns them about doing smth, they answered cheekily, " teacher, we doing smth wat. we watching you" -_____- ok tt was quite nerve-wrecking and at first i had wanted to stare them down but i failed miserably; i couldnt help it. i burst out laughing. haha ok its damn loserish i know but wat else can i do! so anyway, they started asking me qns like how old i was, whether i was attached, wat schools i came from etc. etc. some of which i answered while others i avoided or appeared mysterious, esp. the age qns. i din want them to know i was just THAT much older than them! but then again, they were convinced tt i am 18 or 19.
so anyway, the day ended with a pleasant surprise-school ends early at 1230 on fridays! (: (: haha yes i know. how slacker-ish of me but be it student or teacher, having a break on fridays is always welcomed isnt it :P
after school met chris at ikea for lunch. i had long heard about the famous swedish meatballs there and had been dying to try it. and true enough, they tasted HEAVENLY! on top of tt, we had the salmon salad and chicken wings which were totally to die for! hmmm a great meal always makes me happy and this works 100% of the time. (=
when nite came, i went off to ice cream chefs wif anticipation since it has been 2 weeks since i last worked! was really happy to see the familiar purple sign upon approaching and within mins, i had started to scoop some ice cream to eat (: i realise smth, after working there, i have almost never eaten ice cream outside of working hours lol. anyway, around 8pm i commented to my co colleague that it seems kinda empty for a friday nite to which she replied for me not to jinx it. TRUE ENOUGH, 30min later we were SWAMPED with customer after customer such tt i simply could not find time to talk to jingxian and siying who came down today. (my apologies!) anyway, probably cos i havent been working there for so long i kept making mistakes today! felt so embarrassed..oh well i must redeem myself tml nite when i work again. so anyway, today's shift was exceptionally long as the last few customers only left 40min after our closing time. and yes i got stuck with mop duty!! ): tt totally sucks cos i was already feeling super duper shagged but the optimistic side of me reminded me tt i could tone my arms while doing tt (: so yup i persevered till 12 and finally went home feeling exhausted but accomplished.
how can i not when i managed to earn almost a hundred today? :PLabels: class, fatigue, icecream, yummy food
