eventful day

Today, I spent 3+ hours wrapping mochi, and it wasn't until the 147th one that I finally "got" how to wrap mochi correctly.

Also, I accidentally stepped in a very sticky mouse trap. The chefs were unsuccessful in catching mice, but they were successful in catching a Nancy. Now my shoes make a sticky sound whenever I walk. Sigh.

*edit*

I almost forgot! We ordered in burgers today b/c we were super hungry (and yet we work in a kitchen?!), but because I still can't open my mouth really wide, I had to find some other way to eat it. Solution: cut the burger into small pieces, and proceed to eat a piece of bun, a piece of tomato, a piece of patty, a piece of bun...repeat. A piece of bun, a piece of tomato, a piece of patty, a piece of bun...repeat.

a day in the life of nancy wu

Monday - Saturday

8:00 - wake up, morning routine, check email, do QTs, eat breakfast

9:40 - walk to work

(street outside the place where I'm staying)

9:55 - arrive at work; change into black suit-uniform

(we're all required to wear our hair in a bun...sometimes I see my coworkers with their hair down and I can't recognize them! hahaha)

9:59 - punch card in

10:00 - stand at the front desk, and proceed to do one of the following: go on google reader, check email, gchat, chat with co-workers and use www.xuezhongwen.net as a reference, or sit and stare at them doing work....

(i'll get a picture of my co-workers later...)

10:30 - head upstairs for lunch!

(we sit kind of segregated =P hahaha)

11:00 - back to doing nothing

(nice lobby area; that room over there is where the hosts work)

11:30 - employee roll call

(only the heads of each dept. show up; also serves as an announcement time. takes place in front of those doors by the purple glass wall)

11:50 - head upstairs, change into chef uniform!

(it definitely gets dirty every day. I have to wash my uniforms every two days. sigh. Also, the other chef uniforms are waaaay cooler than mine. Mine was kinda dug up last minute..hehehe)

11:55 - head downstairs to the pastry room. do a hodgepodge of things, such as: baking cakes, making mousses, cutting cakes made the day before, decorating the cakes after cutting them, washing dishes, assembling desserts on a plate to look pretty for customers, weighing endless amounts of ingredients, asking 298374 questions to my two "masters"

(yep. we used 11 litres of heavy cream for one dessert one time. nasty)

4:30 - dinner time! and chat with my coworkers!

(there's always rice or fried noodles. meat, fish, vegetables, soup, and a dessert soup. their green bean soup is delish)

5:05 - my "masters" return from their "rest", and we proceed with dessert-making

7:00 - get off work & punch card out, unless I stay late to help out. Latest I've stayed is 9:00PM, when the other chefs leave

7:15 - leave work, and either: walk home directly, go buy a bubble tea before heading home, go grocery shopping before heading home, wander around town by myself...

(bubble tea. delicious, freshly made, and super cheap...ahhhhh)

8:00 - shower

8:15 - gchat, write emails, listen to sermons, read, watch gossip girl, play with Bailey....

10:30 - sleeeeeeep

i'm still alive

My first tooth took 20 minutes to extract.

My second tooth took 15 minutes to extract.

The stitching for the second tooth took almost half an hour because it was so far back.

My bleeding took an hour and a half to stop.

Thank God I'm still alive.

PS - my teeth were HUGE! zomg. I would have taken a picture of them, but I doubt any of you would have wanted to see....

why did God create wisdom teeth, only to have them be removed?!

lots of novocaine

will not calm my fearful nerves

i loathe the dentist

... please pray for my wisdom teeth surgery tomorrow!!! :( :( :( :( :(

Christmas came early for my coworkers

Michelle: it shouldn't be that weird

you should take off a week!

if we visit you the 15th onwards...

21st you come back from hk

and that's 7 days

hehehe

me: hahahahaha

october is the busy month too

for the restaurant

hahaha

oops.

Michelle: hahaha well you're not getting paid

so it's like they got a present

by you being there

me: hahahahahahahaa

a present!

i'm a present!

"t-i-wan"

I'm going to start a new series of posts, titled "t-i-wan" for "This Is Taiwan," inspired by the "TIA" (standing for "This is Africa") taken from Blood Diamond. Plus, if you say "t-i-wan" fast enough, it sounds like you're saying "Taiwan!" Heh heh heh.... I'll use this saying for things that are extremely unique and would only happen in a place like Taiwan...

Allow me to introduce you to "t-i-wan" -- supermarket shopping.

(I wonder if Burger King actually gave them a license to use their name...)

(Jeannie, do you want me to bring some back for you?)

(This is by far the strangest thing I've seen in the supermarket so far... Pineapple-flavored cheese. Gross!!!!!!)

satisfaction

There is something extremely satisfying about a perfect swirl, even if it only happens 1/120 times. *ahhhhh*