Monday, May 28, 2007

Tequila Party @ Trailer 3

During our dinner time, as usual we went to the kitchen to order our food when our head chef Salvador suggested that we had tequila party at our trailer 3. He said that he'd bring the tequila. we didn't know if he was kidding or not but before we went back to trailer, he said he'd be there at 8pm.

After dinner, Genadi asked Mei yin and i to play bball with him. I agreed though MY was quite hesitant as she was quite full. still in the end, we still went to play- Martin and Radostin also went with us. When we went to the bball court, there were some youngsters playing bball too. so we went to join them too. we played till ard 7pm when we went back to trailer 3. Then we showered and waited fr 8pm to come.

Sal brought his 2 bottles of tequile over then disappeared awhile. The bulgarian girls, Gegana and Elena came over 1st and chatted with us. Later ard 9pm, the other bulgarians Deyana, desislava, simona, teodora, martin and radostin and genadi came to join in. We drank tequila with salt and lime. We listened to music and talked. Simona even danced bellydancing for Ditty lolx. It was midnight before they left.

Change of job description

From the 1st wk of work, i started off as laundry person and doing the stocking of the housekeeping carts, but after the hotel opened officially, the room attendants stock their own carts. Working morning to afternoon in the laundry, putting dirty linens and towels to washers, drying them in the dryers, folding the sheets and towels. On the days that Francis is off (Fri & sat), I had to do the lAUNDRY WORK all alone. It was demanding as i couldn't keep up with the sheets and towels to wash and fold. Hence one day while i was off, Jean had a talk with me and asked if i happy in laundry and if i wanna do another job. I asked if there's other job i can do. She said that she could put me in rooms so i'd be cleaning and making rooms too. so i told her that i'd try that.

so since then, i have been doing rooms from 8-12pm, then night laundry from 12.30pm - 4 or 5pm. At first, it was difficult for mt to keep to the timing as i was still not used to the routine. Stripping the rooms and making them up require alot of things to be done. Like u have to make the bed (all the fitted sheet, flat sheet, the blanket, the bedspread), clean the bathtub, sink and toilet bowl, and still put in the supplies such as coffee, sugars, glasses and cups etc. The first time i did the cleaning, i felt how tiring it could be.

And of course i much prefered laundry but its ok since i doing night laundry too. For night laundry, i usually do the folding of pillowcases, and the towels. sometimes i help with the folding of fitted sheets. Intially when i was in laundry, i didn't have any chance to get tips, but when i started doing rooms, now i got the chance. Sometimes i made mistakes such as overlooking the floors of the bathrooms and there were hairs and got lectures from Jean. But i tried to make sure i don't do it again. However sometimes i didn't have enough time to do all.

LET ME FLY AWAY FROM HERE
- 8:54 PM

Thursday, May 10, 2007

May 5, sat

My good friends ‑ MH, BQ, BC, YP, PRIS, SH, SW & his bro ‑ as well as my relatives (grandma, godma, uncles and aunts) went to send me off at the Changi Airport T1. I had lunch at Ajisen with my friends, then talked with relatives awhile then met with MY to chk in and waited for boarding.

Mei yin & I on the plane

We had 6 hrs of flight from singapore ‑ taipei on china airlines. Lucky for us we got the window seats and we got to watch I SAID SO, NORBIT on the plane too and had lunch too.

At Taipei, we had overnight stayover at Taoyuan Holiday hotel which is located 45 mins away from the airport and my luggages weighed 23kg. so heavy to lug around man. The hotel room we were given was pretty cool. got 2 queen‑sized beds, tv, seats and got bathroom even though the toilet flushing system kinda lousy.

Us in our hotel room

It was 8pm when we arrived at the hotel and it was raining. we wanted to go to shilin nite market but it was too far away and we din have enough time. so we ended up exploring the neighbourhood in Taoyuan. We went to 7‑11, tried the stallside food such as smelly tofu, fried chicken cutlet etc. We were out till 11pm before we went back to hotel to shower and sleep.

May 6, sun

woke up early, had brkfast at the hotel. It was buffet‑styled but with not many types of food. My stomach didn't feel well so i only had bread and porridge. Then we went to explore the other end of the neighbourhood, saw the pet shop with the cute cute malteses, cats etc. then we went to shop at supermarket for cheap snacks etc. At 12pm, we went back to hotel to rest before gg for lunch n take the coach back to airport cuz our next flight to SEATTLE was 3.35pm.

However we almost spent too much time at lunch, started from 12.45pm. we had alot of food for lunch ‑ beef noodles, some meat, fried fish, cakes, fruits and we couldn't have ice cream cuz we were running out of time. We only had like 5 mins to run up to our room and grab our bags and checked out. Fortunately we managed to make it on time for the coach. There was a long queue at the airport counters so we queued from 2pm ‑ 3pm then we wrote and sent postcards, and browsed the shops in airport before boarding the CA to seattle.

It was abt 10 hrs plus flight from taiwan to seattle. We didn't get window seats and the system was lousy that day, so for that long stupid flight we didn't get to watch any movies but we got play some games and slept for a few hrs. Later on, finally we could watch movie ‑ i watched CATCH & RELEASE and some parts of MUSIC & LYRICS. We had dinner & brkfast on plane.

Seattle Airport

We arrived at Seattle at 11.30am, had to go thru the US custom n waited to find our luggages. so it was 12pm when we finally could go chk in for ALASKA AIRLINEs to Oakland airport and the bad thing was we din know where the counter was but finally found it ard 12.30pm, then queued and chk in till 1pm. our flight was 2.15pm and we sat outside for a while and saw the Gray Line of Seattle was quite unique got automated level to load the luggages. Then we queued to go thru the US custom again & it was very troublesome cuz we had to remove all outer coats, shoes, laptops, and liquid stuffs to show. My bag was checked cuz i forgot to take out my laptop. >.<

The Oakland AirportUs taking the AirBart

By the time we were thru, it was almost 2pm and we rushed to the boarding gate. we were sooo lucky that we managed to catch e final boarding ‑ 2.08pm. Then we flew for abt 2 hrs and we reached Oakland abt 4.30pm. One of my luggages was on the other flight so i got them to deliver it to my hostel that night. then we took airbart to bart coliseum, then took bart to bart st powell. then went looking for the bus stop with muni 30. stopped at the bus stop near Rite Aid and i went in search to buy MUni Passport for 3 days and finally found the booth to buy after making 3 stops. >.<>

This is the Cable Car Turnaround I saw when i was buying the Muni Passport

It was 9pm by the time we chk in, unpacked some stuffs and we were soo hungry that we juz had dinner at the cafe in hostel.

7 May 07, mon

I overslept and luckily din miss the free brkfast ‑ bagel with jam and orange juice.

Our activities:

1. Walk along US Maritime beach

2. Browse Ghiradelli Square & shared the popular hot fudge ice cream

3. Walk along fisherman's wharf

4. Watch sea lions

5. browse pier 39

The carousel at Pier 39

6. Rode cable car to Lombard st (crookest st)

The chef @ BOUDIN making bear-shaped sourdough

The crookedest street

7. Rode cable car to Downtown union square

The Macy's shopping mall

8. Shopped at VIRGIN, RITE AID, WALGREENS

9. Went to Yuerba Buena esplanade

10. Got dinner from subway ‑ turkey breast special @ $2.95

11. went to Golden Gate Bridge ‑ walked all the way to the other end, climbed over gate, and
walked all the way back

Sunset at Golden Gate Bridge

8 May 07, tues

1. Free brkfast at 9am ‑ 2 waffles with jam & orange juice

Activities:

1. shopped @ SAFEWAY ‑ bought a strawberry donut

2. went to golden gate bridge, took pics & bought souvenirs

The Golden Gate Bridge Gift shop

3. walked ard golden gate park

The Stow Lake with Strawberry Hill in the middle

(Not that it looks like a hill to me)

4. walked ard chestnut st and lombard st, looking for clam chowder for lunch

5. went to Fisherman's wharf & had clam chowder in bread bowl at BOUDIN

Clam chowder in sourdough with lemon teA

6. went to Union square to browse chocolate shops

7. went to Coit Tower

8. went back to Fisherman's wharf hostel

9 may 07, wed

8am ‑ reached Oakland Airport to chk in for Oak‑sea & sea‑fai, and slowly browsed the airport

9.25am ‑ flew to Seattle, i started reading my chi novel

11.30am ‑ arrived in seattle, searched for lunch ‑ BK whopper jr, browsed shops

3.15pm ‑ flew from seattle to fairbanks, read another chi novel

6.30pm ‑ reached fairbanks, got our luggages, search for a place to stay

7pm ‑ no more buses, most hostels were closed, or out of beds. In the end, we decided to camp out at the airport. we found a spot near restrm, water cooler and not in obvious view. First night in alaska, we discovered that the sun here sets very very late, ard 12am.

8pm ‑ i read finish chi novel, stone abit, napped and chatted with MY

10 may 07, thurs

7am ‑ took bus to transit ctr, walked to westmark fairbank to put our luggages there

8am ‑ searched for us social security office to apply for social security.

8.30am ‑ found it but it only opens at 9am. so we walked ard and found a playground with swings so we sat on it, play the ball. Then saw the FORGET‑ME‑NOT epresso and we were hungry so went to chk it out

8.50am ‑ we had english muffin with sausageand egg and hot chocolate. very tasty!

9.30am ‑ applied fr social security

10am ‑ explored fairbanks, had ice cream cone, talked to people, relaxed along the Chena River

1.30pm ‑ went back to hotel to wait for our pick‑up and get our luggages.

2pm ‑ Hue, F&B manager, picked us up along with 3 other bulgarian girls. On the way we stopped for lunch ‑ subway he paid. den we stopped for snow (snow hardened into ice), for moose, carabou.

6.30pm ‑ reached TOK, and we were assigned to a new trailer #3 and the further end bedroom. we exclaimed and admired the facilities offered by the trailer ‑ furnished kitchen, bathroom and bedroom! Then we unpacked stuffs

9pm ‑ went ins earch for food n had hotdog bun. Go back to trailer and use laptop and talk with the bulgarian guy, Martin. (also living in the same trailer but different bedroom)

LET ME FLY AWAY FROM HERE
- 10:13 PM

Saturday, May 5, 2007

Where are you content? (stunning pics)

You are content in your IMAGINATION. You are a dreamer, an optimist and like to be alone with your thoughts, often thinking about what could be and what couldn't be. Remember, the imaginative mind is a powerful thing.Quote: The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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What is your secret life goal?

You just want a bit of happiness in your life - and why shouldn't you? Your character is generally cheerful and although sometimes you may struggle you are always optimistic. You couldn't care if you were living in a cardboard box, working as a streetcleaner aslong as youre friends are around you - who cares!
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LET ME FLY AWAY FROM HERE
- 10:29 PM

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