silence is golden

I was told i cant blog about my workplace..

I was told i needed approval if i wanted to post pictures of my workplace on any social sites..

I was told that there were interns that were terminated because they blogged about their workplace..

I was told that i cannot communicate or publish any document related to my workplace..

All these were in the terms and conditions of the the Internship Agreement.

and i signed it..

Hence, the silence from me.. I don't want to get terminated =(

But boy...do i have stories =D

French Food

Ok, firstly, OH-MAI-GATT!! This blog is abandoned =(

In my last post, i said i wanted to blog about French Food.. and it was just 11 days since my return from France.. but now, ITS BEEN 4 MONTHS!!! How time flies... seriously..

Anyways, a promised post must be fulfilled....

So, rewind to 4 months ago, my first night in France.

France - the culinary capital of the world.

France - where French cuisine is respected beyond borders and continues to influence chefs worldwide

France - where fine dining food was born (arguable tho)

France - where all the famous chefs around the world and cuisiniers got their basics from

and my first meal in France was...........................

at McDonalds... Teehee~!!
and it wasnt cheap =( It was 7 euros for the cheapest meal.. plus minus RM 30!! But of course it was my first day there and converting was all i did ><

Anyways, here's some other food that i tried there..

Mussels.. meh, nothing to shout about..

ok, in this big pot was clams.. for only 11 euros (i think) and it was yumm and damn worth it..
had this in Capitol, Toulouse..

This was bad, really bad... Some steak I had in a Greek restaurant..
Lesson learnt: When in France, go to a French restaurant.
Its like eating Penang Char Koay Teow in Johor!! and eating Johor Laksa in Penang ><
Makes no sense right?
The only thing i liked about this Greek Restaurant was the free 1st round of red wine we were given by the restaurant manager and after dinner they pulled the diners to the dance around the restaurant.. OPA here and OPA there.. Just like in the movies..hahah..reminded me of the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding..

This was not bad.. escargot.. My first =)

I was a noob with the tools.. I didnt even know you needed special tools to eat this damn snail.

This is what i miss the most!! Canard!!!!! or Roasted duck!!
i think i had duck twice or thrice while i was there at different places each time and loved it all!!!
But after the 4th or 5th piece of the duck, the fat on the duck kinda geli-fied me and i had to leave it out..but still, it was yummeh~!

And everywhere i went, i always ordered the hot chocolate. Weird that i never order chocolate drinks/chocolate shakes anywhere in Msia but somehow hot chocolate in a cold foreign country leaves me so soothing and warm and nice.. =)

France in pictures..

*someday i'm gonna look back at this post and feel nostalgic Good times-Good Friends*

Bonjour Francais!!!

The Emirates A380 double decker flight. Up to today im not sure whether i sat on the lower deck or the upper deck of the plane. But fo' sure the A380 is spacious and super comfy.

This was the view that greeted us on the way to the 'hotel'. First stop was Paris. Stayed at Formula F1. It was ok. Generally clean hostel. hehe.. We got a....get this... graveyard view from our room. HAHAHA...
The hotel lobby has several vending machines which were utmost popular among Taylors students. Haha.. I love their coffee vending machines! Hot chocos from there early in the morning =yummeh~!

Along the streets of Paris..

So, we wasted no time once we landed in Paris. Checked into the hostel, took a bath and headed straight to the streets. First stop, THE EIFFEL TOWER.. Because it was the first night in Paris, I didnt know what to expect. Big regret when I didnt bring out my thick coat that night.. =( That night was fun. First time taking the metros and stuff. Got lost, asked directions which led to lost in translations..hhaha.. Our French is an epic fail there. Of course we could ask how to get to a place in French but when the Frenchie replies, keywords are all we catch. Haha.. Most of the times it's good enough..>.
So, that night we ended up walking to the tower from the Arch de Triumph because according to a policemen we asked, she said it was just 3 roads away. Mana tau, it was a freaking 40 minutes walk! But hey, thats what i did in France, walk, walk and walk... Anyway, so the tower was beautiful with the lights shimmering. Bought a ticket to go up to the highest floor but ended up only going up to the 2nd highest level cause of time constraints and the number of people at the lift.. I guess we were all tired also that night therefore didnt mind not going up right to the top although we paid for it. The higher the level, the more expensive the ticket is.

View from the tower.

The next day was planned for pure sightseeing. We visited the Versailles Palace, Lourve and Notre Dame Cathedral- All the famous hot spots in Paris.
For me, the Lourve was meh~! If ur not an art lover/appreciater, the Lourve is just paintings after paintings and the occasional naked paintings..LOL.. And i think the Mona Lisa is so overated.!! Okay okay, maybe i dont appreciate whatever story there is behind the picture but still, to me its just a weird lady with a werid smile staring at you..HAHA..

Of course the most popular room in the Lourve was the room where Mona Lisa was in. Soooo many people in the room i tell u. Theres even a barricade around the picture so that people couldnt get too near to it. So really, u can only see it from afar. And its also the only picture in the whole building with a glass protector. U can see from the reflection from the picture above the crowd that were all eager to view the Mona Lisa. But hey~! at least now I can tell people that I actually saw the real Mona Lisa~!! Teehee!!

Nah~! Our expression after seeing Mona Lisa.. LAME-O~!

Arc de Triumphe~!

Taken at Le château de Versailles or Palace of Versailles. Super beautiful gardens over there. We were there for 3 hours and yet couldnt not cover the whole area. Loads of walking to do over there. I told myself if i ever visit this place again, I will definately pay 30 euros and hire the buggy. It will be damn worth it. hehe..

And so at the palace gardens, all our super model pictures were born

Outside the palace with Louis XVI


At the Notre Dame Cathedral. I tried to catch a glimpse of Quasimodo but too bad he wasnt there..LOL..
This looks exactly like the one in Vietnam.. Heheh...



Next stop, Toulouse!! It was a 6 hour train ride with the TGV from Paris. The train is something like our KLIA Ekspress train though. Haha.. All this while I thought the TGV was like a super speed train cuz TGV (Train Grande Vite-> English: Very Fast Train) and also our French lect use to tell us how 'fast' these trains were. Ala.. tengok x2 their 'fast' not that fast lah.

Anyways, the main reason we headed to Toulouse was to participate in the management game whoc carried marks in our exam (20%). The game was hell but thats a whole other story man..haha.. I was grouped with 4 Malaysians and 4 Frenchies (2 guys, 2 girls). All the Frenchies were Masters students btw. 1 guy i found hot but nearly choked when i found out he was 34. Im so serious he looked max 25!! and the other guy was a botak 40 year old Frenchie who got sent to further his studies by the French government. So yea..=meh=


So anyways, we had two day trips organized by Taylors. We went to Albi and Carcasonne both about an hour away from Toulouse.

At Albi we visited the biggest cathedrals there. It is known as St Cecile cathedral. The only cathedral in the world which is built out of 5 million red bricks. And also, Albi was recently awarded as a UNESCO heritage site. Later, we went for wine tasting at err... Domaine Du Moulin (or sumthing..lol) Too bad most of the grapes were already harvested so no chance for us to go grape picking. There was an extensive meat buffet prepared for us and of course different types of wine for us to taste. Me being the Malaysian that I am didnt care much about the wine and straightaway indulged in the meat buffet which was meant to complement the wine we tasted..LOL.. There were at least 10 different types of meats served from beef, pork, chicken salamis to all types of hams.. Yummeh..haha..

Wine vats

We managed to have a 10 minutes visit to the Albi morning market that day. Interesting of course. All the types of veges that we seldom see. As u can see from the above pic, they made a swan out of the squash by drawing some eyes and noses on it.. LOL..

The cathedral at Albi

There was a wedding that day and these ol ladies were about to sing

The gardens outside the cathedral

Lunch at Albi. The restaurant was full and we had to sit outside. omg! The most uncomfortable meal I had ever eaten. Funny thing-i ordered a hot chocolate and 2 minutes later my hot choco wasnt hot nemore =(

Taken at Cacassonne. The whole of Cacassonne is a medieval city. Very much like our Malaysia's Bukit Tinggi =)

Super cute horses/ponies (im not sure) in Cacasoone.. They're so fat!!

You cant actually see in this picture but it was taken along the Seine River in Paris. It was also our last night in France =(

We made it all the way to the outskirts of Paris (Serris) on the last day to get to this factory outlet area called La Vallée Village. It was one stop before Paris Disneyland.. Yea, we went that far.. Longchamp were selling like hot cakes here since its all at much much MUCH cheaper prices. The handbags here ar not rejected items or anything but just back dated fashion ie: the oh so common foldable water proof bags..

One funny thing u will see in France are how the ASIANS jam pack Longchamp stores.. Its so funny that wherever we went, we were bound to see one of our batchmates in a Longchamp store. The funniest was in Toulouse where the area that we stayed only had one Longchamp store and the Asians aka us, bought soo many Longchamp bags till the store out of stock.. ><

But according to my Frenchie mates, Longchamp in France is just a regular brand. Nothing exclusive. U wanna talk about exclusivity, and they straight away said Hermes. Hmm.. Funny eh, how we malaysians look up to Longchamp and u'll see those Malaysian girls flashing their Longchamp bags when its just another regular brand in France. But them diff country, diff situations larh.. ><

The picture was taken in La Fayette in Paris. La Fayette reminds me of Harrods in London. One big branded place.. Anyways, look at the freaking queue. This queue was just to go in the store to VIEW the bags.. We havent talked about the queue to PAY for the bags.. So, yeah thats how crazy it is. Sabby, who had a bag to buy manage to cut queue nearly at the front as u would have guessed, we had one of our batch mates who were nearly at the front of the queue and still she took nearly 1 hour despite having a the bag code which she wanted to buy. Conclusion: crazy queues.. ><

And btw, the Louis Vuitton queue.. omg... i fly back to Malaysia and fly back to France and i still wouldnt have gotten into the store to VIEW the bags..LOL.. very exaggerated but u get my drift..!! =)

Well, that concludes my post this time.. Next up, FRENCH FOOD!!! and no, French Fries isnt one of them..haha..

au revoir~!

Being 23 and feeling.....well 22!

Yes, i know... Its been super ages since I last updated this blog.. Anyways, I thought i would complete my birthday post first before my next post on France.. =) So yea, it's that time of the year again. Somehow, i wasn't too excited about this birthday coming up. Maybe because I was so preoccupied with things from dissertation, to Internship placement finding, to the France trip and 4 days right after returning from France was me birthday. hehe.. Basically, didn't have the 'feel' lah u know..haha.. So, im 23, feeling just like 22, acting no different from 18..Heheheh... Anyways, i was also actually glad that my birthday celebration was a simple one with the closest friends..=D

Had dinner at Souled Out-my 3rd time there. I still like the place, food and ambience. So yeay-good choice of place =D

The following are just pics from my phone. Ill upload the other pics another time when i get them from Eugene's oh-so-pro camera..hehe..

=( - (like i needed a reminder..lol)

I had this last year as well @ Wong Kok for lunch. My FREE giant size teh ais!! I loike!

This photo was taken and given free by Souled Out Staff. Yes they made me wear that bull hat..hehe.. I loike!! (the photo, not the bull hat..lol)

These are prezzies from me friends.. The highlight is of course the Desigual bag.. The red thing is a Happy Birthday greeting on a leather card.. (err..??lol..) So, i love the bag!! Basically, i love Desigual. I got introduced to the brand in France and love love it.. Its funky and unique!! I told some friends in France that I loved the bag and they must have took it as a hint (which i seriously had no intention to) and bought it in France. ( well, i think they bought it in France.. they refuse to tell me where they bought it from =(
So, as i was saying, i loved the brand and the style that I even bought a Desigual bag for myself in France. So, as a result.
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I have two now!! yippie!!! The black one is me birthday prezzie and the red one is the one I bought meself. And i think the black one is nicer..hehe.. But nevermind, bottom line I have two now.. =D

All in a days work..

So, i was back at work@ Coffee Beans during the semester break. I had to go back. I missed my free morning lattes, I missed the smell of fresh brewed black coffee in the morning although i dislike the taste of black coffee and I missed playing with the coffee machine..LOL..
Maybe i should open a cafe in the future eh? HAHAHAH-seriously though..hmm..

Anyways, thats not the topic for this post. The topic is on guest belongings. I lost count on the number of times where guests leave 'presents' for the staff. Common ones are parking ticket, books, files and shopping bags. Just the other day a guest left behind her shopping bag behind. I took a peek inside her bag and it was all clothes. There was a receipt inside the bag-Holy Moley, the receipt showed RM 759.00!! and she could leave it behind.. 1 hour later and she was back to claim it. And another time a handbag was left behind. Not just any handbag, a Louis Vuitton handbag.. tsk tsk tsk...

I mean yea, people are forgetful at times and i guess its your luck also if the lost item was found or not. Thank goodness in CB, most of the guest's lost items are found as finders keepers do not apply in CB,among staff..haha..

So, there was this incident a couple of days ago at CB. So the behind story is this guy (seriously sissy and i can tell abit of a drama king) lost his yellow book at CB. This book was found by another staff, put it on top of the garbage bin. (All lost items are normally placed there-not to be thrown away but temporary placement) The book was unclaimed for around 40 hours. Therefore, another staff threw the book away. He thought it was garbage.

So 1 and a 1/2 days later sissy guy came to CB. Unfortunately, it was my shift that morning. Mind you, the day that he left his book was my off day. So, i didnt know a thang about the book.
Following is the plus minus convo i had with him: (The ones in bracket and in red was what i wish i could say to him aloud..lol) and in the real convo, oh-my the sissy's engrish, grammar fail.

Sissy: Hi! I left a book here two days ago. It is yellow in colour.
Me: Oh really? Lemme go check.. *goes to dustbin-where all lost and found items are placed* Nope, sorry dont have.
Sissy: HAR?? OMG! DONT HAVE?? HOW CAN??
Me: um.. I dont know. When did u leave it behind?
Sissy: 2 days ago.. I came here to buy coffee then later forgot to take.
Me: Wait. Lemme check around the outlet and ask my other colleagues.

So, i went around the outlet and asked some colleagues. My manager that day didnt know a thang either as she was off as well. Another colleague whispered to me that he thinks he might have thrown it away since it was lying there 2 days already. So, i guess the mystery was solved there and then but i had to put on my poker face and face the guest. And also, i dont blame my colleague for throwing it out if he did. It was unclaimed for 2 days.

Me: Sorry sir. Dont have I checked the whole outlet. Normally lost things are placed in this dustbin but as u can c, *points to dustbin* nothing there.
Sissy: OMG!! SERIOUSLY?? That book is very important to me.
Me: Oh, u said u lost it 2 days ago, so why didnt u come back yesterday or the day u lost it?
Sissy: When i lost it that time, i forgot to come back. And then yesterday i was too tired to come back. I was working part time you know.

Then , i was thinking, if the book was really important, no matter how tired u are, u sure come back and claim it wan ma right?

Me: Oh lidat I dont know wheres ur book lo. Normally we keep the lost things here *points to dustbin again* but u c, theres nothing here.
Sissy: OMG! Can u check the outlet again.
Me: (Omg! u idiot.. i say dont have means dont have la..) I checked dy. Dont have.
Sissy: *angry + shouting like a mad drama king* HOW CAN U ALL BE SO IRRESPONSIBLE??!!
Me: (Excuse me sissy pants, look whos the irresponsible one here?) Im sorry sir but if we find it, ill let u know. *Gives him a pen to write down his details*

And guess what, the idiot didnt even know what was the topic of the book.

Sissy:I forgot the tile of the book. "Asia sumthing sumthing" but its yellow in colour. So, u really dont know wheres the book?
Me: (Hell yeah i do. With DBKL). Nope, but if we find it ill let u know.

The convo above looks decent but at that time i was pissed cuz Mr Sissy was shouting the whole time. Dahla, he had a gay, annoying voice.

So, yeah. i guess the book was thrown out but watodo.. If u urself lost it, u cant go around calling other people irresponsible for not keeping the book for u right? Ur own belongings, u jaga urself la. And if it is found, you can thank ur lucky stars lo.. right?

May is Mars in French

I actually have nothing blog-worthy to post up.. Just seeing that my last post was in March makes me sad..haha.. How is it that there are so many things happening here n there in my life but I have nothing to post up? probably because Im aware who reads my blog..>.<

Anyways, updates from uni, stress days are ahead I can feel it. The end of semester + the event planning stuff + 1000 tickets to sell + roadshow events to plan out..sigh..

I also had a 1 week holiday awhile back. Went to Genting with 6 peeps. I dont know if this is age related or what but hor, I just cant stand the some of the rides. hahah.. Dont get me wrong, im not afraid to get on the roller coasters or whatever but I'm more worried about the headache that I will have to endure after the ride..This headaches are not long tho- probably just like maybe 5 mins after the ride is over then its all gone.. Roller coasters are fine for me but rides like 'spinner'-where it just goes round n round n round and rides like 'pirate ship'-the ones that go back and forth are a big no-no. They are lame rides and not worth the headaches..hahaha.. Haih.. old liao la..

Also, this is my first time in Genting where i'm legally allowed to enter 'the casino'... I remember the last time i attempted to go in was when i was 16 with my friend Erny and we practically got shoo-ed by the guards at the front entrance..LOL.. This time I could go in without even an ID check.. haih..old liao la..!! hahaha..
Neways, thanks to Eugene, I got a speed tour around the casino and lost...............10 bucks at the slot machine..>.< Interesting environment but i pity those who work in the casino lah.. Especially the ones working as dealers at the black jack table or roulette table. Not sien meh? Everyday the same hand gestures and dealing with filthy rich old apeks.. haha..

So, we had dinner at Gohtong Jaya and had an unexpected one night stay at Genting Hotel as well for FREE. But imagine-no spare clothes, no toothbrush, no toothpaste, no facial wash.. Talk about random-ness and the geli-ness...LOL..

Also, during the hols, I went back to work at Coffee Beans for a few days. I have to say I enjoy working there lah. Dunno why eventhough the pay there is relatively low.. haha.. I love making coffee for people. I enjoy playing with the coffee machine. I love to see different antics of people everyday. I love to cuci my mata when I become cashier. =) I think i was meant to be in a customer service industry lah. Im so patient..hahaha..

I like chatting with the old mat salleh aunty's. They're the nicest people I tell you. And I like to be cheeky with some customers. I would say out their order even before they order. And they would look at me and go, "how did u know?" and I would reply "Haha.. Random guess" But actually, they came to the outlet several times already and for some reason I can recognize them and their order. Most of the times they stick to their old orders. And some customers wanna be cheeky with me asking irrelevant questions. But hey! two can play that game =)

And here's a secret. When u ask me how a cake on the display taste like, I dont really know! Cuz out of the 10 cakes displayed, I probably only tasted 2 of them. Why would I wanna waste my staff meal on those cakes? I rather have a real meal during my breaks or wait for that cake to be recorded as wastage to eat it. So, what do I do? I bullshit my way to make u convinced. haha.. evil i know. I'll just describe the taste on how the cake looks and should taste like by the name it comes with. hahah..

So yeah. There goes a blog post. So long!

Its a new app i downloaded on my phone. So just bare with me. =)

To a genie/fairy godmother, I like the white one. Just saying. No pressure =)