I had dinner with my friends today for a birthday @iPot today. Btw, iPot was not bad, it's pretty unique concept but it was pricey! We ended up paying $129 in total and I straight away grabbed the receipt to check if there was any mistake. Don't get me wrong, the service was good for a hot pot restaurant, the quality of meat was good and the meatballs were hand made. But still, it was pricey and I don't think I will crave to go back there again.
Anyway, we were chatting about why we applied for our job few years back, when I suddenly realised, wait.. I can't remember why I applied! I remember that my manager offered me the position before he even quited Golo, and I didn't refuse it, but I didn't eagerly leaving Golo either. But then it came back to me.
I remember it was a stocktake day on a weekend, I'm 80% sure it was a Sunday. We closed the store at 6 though those stocktakers and staffs and Luke the manager were all still doing stocktake. I was 3rd in charge, so I closed the store, closed the registers, counted all the cash, and then did the banking.
Two weeks after, I received a phone call from the head office, telling me the bag I banked was $400 short and asked me if there was anything I remember happened that night. I said to her the money was short by $95 that night, but not $400. And she said, it's not that the money was short from the banking bag, not from the till. I vaguely remember the figure was in full amount i.e. $8000, but the figure banked that she said was not a full amount i.e. $7600 (But I'm not too sure about this full amount thing as it happened long time ago). She suggested me going back to the store tonight and check the paperwork. I then make a phone call to the store to check who's gonna work that night. Lucky the manager wasn't working that night. I told my friend not to tell anyone that I was coming to check.
When I came that night, I found out that the banking bag slip had been ripped off the banking book. And that the banking bag number that I wrote on the banking book has been changed from ending 2 to ending 1. The amount was unchanged. I tried to remember if I changed the banking bag, but I was pretty sure I didn't, changing a banking bag is quite a hassle, so I was sure I'd remember if I changed it. Thinking back about that night, eventhough I was the one who banked it and locked the safety box, there were a LOT of people still in the store even after I've left the store. The manager was there too, and also my team mates. I couldn't suspect my team mates, we were pretty close. I could only suspect my manager, but I wasn't sure either.
The timing couldn't be worse either, it was Monday when I got that phone call, I was flying home on the Friday. I sent the email explaining what the findings were, and told them I was flying overseas. I didn't hear anything from them after, but I guess they had same suspicion as me. When I got back from my holiday, I heard that the manager had been given a warning, demoted to assistant manager, and was transferred to another store. I came to work only for a week, and then handed in my resignation.
Can't believe I almost forgot all this :/ I planned to write it long time ago, but never get the chance to. When I remembered it again today, I thought I better write it down lol. I might forget it completely in the future. People say you can subconcsiously refuse to remember memory that you want to forget, I guess that maybe right, eventhough in this case, it's not a memory I want to forget. It's experience, not everyone experiences this kind of stuff ;p but good that it ended well, if it didn't, I might want to forget it completely then.
Friday, September 7, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
The owner of my apartment is....... *drumroll*
I've been living in my apartment for about 5 years now, and just after they told me the unit is being sold, I found out that the owner of my apartment is in fact the writer of The Chasers!
I didn't suspect him to be anyone really, plus I don't watch The Chasers though I know what the show is about. But few days ago, I don't know why, I suddenly wanted to google him. So I googled him, and the first page of google comes up with details, pages and photos of this one man. I wasn't sure about his middle name though, since in my contract, there was no middle name. But I kinda felt this could be the guy, since when I did the inspection long time ago, his apartment was full of pictures hanging on the wall. Not his photos, but more like things celebrities/artists would hang. But I still thought, ah it can't be.
I still asked my bestie though if the owner is the chaser guy (she met him last month when the owner asked for access to my apartment to show to prospective buyer. I was in Singapore back then, so I asked my bestie to be there just to make sure no once touches my stuffs without permission. After all, the content of this appartment are all mine! lol). She doesn't watch the chasers. But considering she has another best friend, she checks with him too, the Google :P and here was her reply:
"ehhhhhh that's the guyyyyyy!!! I don't know the chaser, I mean I dunno who are the guys, but it's him!!! LOL apparently I met a famous guy hahhahahahaa... had a chat too, even got his phone number hauhahahahaha"
And my response was "Wuahhhh apparently I've been living in an apartment of a famous guy @_@ and just knew about it after it is about to be sold lol".
She did mention there's something about him that made her feel errr... but she didn't tell me what yet. I checked with my sis too if she remembers his face, and she said yeah, I still meet him every now and then. Huh???? I never met him again??? She said she sometimes meets him in the building, or sees him at the cafe downstairs, so he still lives here. And yes I show her the photo and she said yep, that's our owner.
Ah btw, talking about the cafe, I've been living here for 5 years, and I never ever ever bought anything in there lol :P The first time I stepped in was few weeks ago when my uncle came visit me and bought coffee there nearly every day :P and he is from Indo :P
I didn't suspect him to be anyone really, plus I don't watch The Chasers though I know what the show is about. But few days ago, I don't know why, I suddenly wanted to google him. So I googled him, and the first page of google comes up with details, pages and photos of this one man. I wasn't sure about his middle name though, since in my contract, there was no middle name. But I kinda felt this could be the guy, since when I did the inspection long time ago, his apartment was full of pictures hanging on the wall. Not his photos, but more like things celebrities/artists would hang. But I still thought, ah it can't be.
I still asked my bestie though if the owner is the chaser guy (she met him last month when the owner asked for access to my apartment to show to prospective buyer. I was in Singapore back then, so I asked my bestie to be there just to make sure no once touches my stuffs without permission. After all, the content of this appartment are all mine! lol). She doesn't watch the chasers. But considering she has another best friend, she checks with him too, the Google :P and here was her reply:
"ehhhhhh that's the guyyyyyy!!! I don't know the chaser, I mean I dunno who are the guys, but it's him!!! LOL apparently I met a famous guy hahhahahahaa... had a chat too, even got his phone number hauhahahahaha"
And my response was "Wuahhhh apparently I've been living in an apartment of a famous guy @_@ and just knew about it after it is about to be sold lol".
She did mention there's something about him that made her feel errr... but she didn't tell me what yet. I checked with my sis too if she remembers his face, and she said yeah, I still meet him every now and then. Huh???? I never met him again??? She said she sometimes meets him in the building, or sees him at the cafe downstairs, so he still lives here. And yes I show her the photo and she said yep, that's our owner.
Ah btw, talking about the cafe, I've been living here for 5 years, and I never ever ever bought anything in there lol :P The first time I stepped in was few weeks ago when my uncle came visit me and bought coffee there nearly every day :P and he is from Indo :P
Sunday, August 19, 2012
If I didn't go to princess coco
Why did I go there tonight? If only I didn't listen to my friends mentioning it... if only I didn't respond to them with "Let's go there!", I wouldn't be this pissed off and furious.
We arrived at princess coco at 9 (158-166 Day St Sydney). A guy asked us how many people, which we replied 4. He then said, there is a table at the back, they have finished and will be leaving soon. Maybe 10 minutes. So we said, yeah, that's fine, we'll wait. He then suggested us to browse their display of chocolates and cakes. We followed his suggestion. That actually will be used against us at the end...
We waited and waited. The same guy kept coming to us saying sorry, they will leave soon, which we always replied with smiles and "It's okay". We meant it. We didn't mind. The 4 of us were chatting happily and we didn't even feel it was that long. He kept coming and coming and said same thing, which we always replied with smiles and same respond. More and more customers coming in and queued.
At 9:45 finally the customers on that back table left. But then that same guy came to us saying "The table is available, but did you guys arrive first or those guys came first?" while pointing to some customers behind us. We said we came first, which was the truth. When we came, there were nobody waiting. We were the only ones standing in that place. Other customers were already sitting down. Then he said "Because those guys said you guys came after them, and I couldn't remember who came first.". We said, "No, we arrived first. There were nobody queuing when we came.", He then said, "But those guys said they came first, and nobody was queuing too, and they are 5 people. So is it okay if they sit on that back table and you guys sit over there?" He pointed to the window which has some pots or decorations, I can't remember, and a table next to it with a stool. I looked at it and said "There's only a chair there". He said "We'll move the stuffs and add chairs. We'll be adding more seatings too soon.". For your information guys, the so called table next to the window was not actually a table. It was just like a stool having a table height. Seriously, we were a group of 4, that table did not look like it could fit 4 cups of coffee. We kept saying we came first, and then he said that those guys came from Brisbane. Do you guys live in Sydney?
My blood was pretty much boiling. IF I was with my bestfriends only, and not with one of my best friend's boyfriend, I would have exploded there and then. It was very very very unacceptable!
1. He wasted my 45 minutes waiting for nothing.
2. He was the one who greeted us and came saying sorry every few minutes, and he dared to say he forgot who came first? In a restaurant/cafe, the order of customers coming is crucial and they have to remember it. It's not my job to fight for what is actually my right!
3. He said he forgot, but when we said we came first, he said "But those guys said they came first". Didn't he already make his decision on who to believe? What's the point of asking which one came first? Remember I said his suggestion to browse the chocolates would be used against us? Well this is it, there was possibility when those guys came, they didn't see us because we were looking at the cakes. But hey, that guy should have known that. And we're further inside the restaurant anyway.
4. He said "They are from Brisbane. Do you guys live in Sydney?" HELLO????????? What do you mean by asking us if we live in Sydney??? Are you telling me you would only give seats to people NOT FROM SYDNEY????? What kind of logic is that? Did he think I would pity them and then let them have it? I'm sorry, NOT EVEN THE SLIGHTEST. It just made me even more PISSED OFF! Since when you serve customers based on WHERE THEY LIVE????????? For godsakes, if you serve people outside Sydney all the time, by the time it is Sydneysiders turn, who knows your business might already been closed!!!!!!!!! What if I said No, we're from Japan, China, America, England or whatever country, would you kick those guys and said sorry, these people came further, so you can't get the seats?????????????
4. When we said that window is small and won't fit, he then said he'd try to move the people sitting in front of us to that window area instead. First, those people were already sitting there since we arrived, that table is that right and we didn't want to take what other people have. Second, how can you just for the sake of 5 people who were obviously wrong, then went through all those trouble to move 4 of us who came first, and then move another 3 people who came even earlier to the window? Let me remind you again, that window was really unseatable. It was small. Even for 1 person, it was pretty much just a stool squeezed in between 2 tables.
5. When I heard that guy said he wanted to move those other people to the window, I straight away said to my friends "So do you guys want to find other place?". Seriously I couldn't be there any longer. The guy kept smiling, no flinch or any sign that he actually felt bad for making us wait 45 minutes and then still had to leave.
6. We then decided to go, and on our way out, he kept smiling and said sorry repeatedly and said next time you guys come, you guys will be VVIP. For god sake, STOP BULLSHITTING! I'm not stupid and I wasn't flattered! If they really felt bad, then don't give us fake promises! Now tell me, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO REMEMBER US? When I come tomorrow, I bet you money, you won't even remember! If he really meant it, get our name down, or give us his name card or whatever. JUST STOP those sweet talk! I'm not a kid, and that kind of thing would only add sin to yourself.
7. When we left, those Brisbane customers said thank you to us, that they appreciated it bla bla bla bla.. seriously I didn't blame them, though I wasn't in the slightest pitying them either, but since they said thank you, well, isn't it obvious that they came AFTER us? and that we GAVE them our place?
Really, I regretted going to princess coco tonight. If I didn't go, I wouldn't have wasted my 45 minutes waiting for nothing, I wouldn't have been wasting my 30 minutes writing this on my blog but instead would have finished watching another episode of drama. And surely I wouldn't have wasted my energy being furious over it. It might have cost me a wrinkly, who knows? And I can't even sue them for all of this lost.
princess coco really does not deserve any respect from me. The name doesn't even deserve an uppercase from me. It will really get me thinking many many many and MANY times just to go back there. I so hate the service, smiles everywhere, but just smile, no ethics.
We arrived at princess coco at 9 (158-166 Day St Sydney). A guy asked us how many people, which we replied 4. He then said, there is a table at the back, they have finished and will be leaving soon. Maybe 10 minutes. So we said, yeah, that's fine, we'll wait. He then suggested us to browse their display of chocolates and cakes. We followed his suggestion. That actually will be used against us at the end...
We waited and waited. The same guy kept coming to us saying sorry, they will leave soon, which we always replied with smiles and "It's okay". We meant it. We didn't mind. The 4 of us were chatting happily and we didn't even feel it was that long. He kept coming and coming and said same thing, which we always replied with smiles and same respond. More and more customers coming in and queued.
At 9:45 finally the customers on that back table left. But then that same guy came to us saying "The table is available, but did you guys arrive first or those guys came first?" while pointing to some customers behind us. We said we came first, which was the truth. When we came, there were nobody waiting. We were the only ones standing in that place. Other customers were already sitting down. Then he said "Because those guys said you guys came after them, and I couldn't remember who came first.". We said, "No, we arrived first. There were nobody queuing when we came.", He then said, "But those guys said they came first, and nobody was queuing too, and they are 5 people. So is it okay if they sit on that back table and you guys sit over there?" He pointed to the window which has some pots or decorations, I can't remember, and a table next to it with a stool. I looked at it and said "There's only a chair there". He said "We'll move the stuffs and add chairs. We'll be adding more seatings too soon.". For your information guys, the so called table next to the window was not actually a table. It was just like a stool having a table height. Seriously, we were a group of 4, that table did not look like it could fit 4 cups of coffee. We kept saying we came first, and then he said that those guys came from Brisbane. Do you guys live in Sydney?
My blood was pretty much boiling. IF I was with my bestfriends only, and not with one of my best friend's boyfriend, I would have exploded there and then. It was very very very unacceptable!
1. He wasted my 45 minutes waiting for nothing.
2. He was the one who greeted us and came saying sorry every few minutes, and he dared to say he forgot who came first? In a restaurant/cafe, the order of customers coming is crucial and they have to remember it. It's not my job to fight for what is actually my right!
3. He said he forgot, but when we said we came first, he said "But those guys said they came first". Didn't he already make his decision on who to believe? What's the point of asking which one came first? Remember I said his suggestion to browse the chocolates would be used against us? Well this is it, there was possibility when those guys came, they didn't see us because we were looking at the cakes. But hey, that guy should have known that. And we're further inside the restaurant anyway.
4. He said "They are from Brisbane. Do you guys live in Sydney?" HELLO????????? What do you mean by asking us if we live in Sydney??? Are you telling me you would only give seats to people NOT FROM SYDNEY????? What kind of logic is that? Did he think I would pity them and then let them have it? I'm sorry, NOT EVEN THE SLIGHTEST. It just made me even more PISSED OFF! Since when you serve customers based on WHERE THEY LIVE????????? For godsakes, if you serve people outside Sydney all the time, by the time it is Sydneysiders turn, who knows your business might already been closed!!!!!!!!! What if I said No, we're from Japan, China, America, England or whatever country, would you kick those guys and said sorry, these people came further, so you can't get the seats?????????????
4. When we said that window is small and won't fit, he then said he'd try to move the people sitting in front of us to that window area instead. First, those people were already sitting there since we arrived, that table is that right and we didn't want to take what other people have. Second, how can you just for the sake of 5 people who were obviously wrong, then went through all those trouble to move 4 of us who came first, and then move another 3 people who came even earlier to the window? Let me remind you again, that window was really unseatable. It was small. Even for 1 person, it was pretty much just a stool squeezed in between 2 tables.
5. When I heard that guy said he wanted to move those other people to the window, I straight away said to my friends "So do you guys want to find other place?". Seriously I couldn't be there any longer. The guy kept smiling, no flinch or any sign that he actually felt bad for making us wait 45 minutes and then still had to leave.
6. We then decided to go, and on our way out, he kept smiling and said sorry repeatedly and said next time you guys come, you guys will be VVIP. For god sake, STOP BULLSHITTING! I'm not stupid and I wasn't flattered! If they really felt bad, then don't give us fake promises! Now tell me, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO REMEMBER US? When I come tomorrow, I bet you money, you won't even remember! If he really meant it, get our name down, or give us his name card or whatever. JUST STOP those sweet talk! I'm not a kid, and that kind of thing would only add sin to yourself.
7. When we left, those Brisbane customers said thank you to us, that they appreciated it bla bla bla bla.. seriously I didn't blame them, though I wasn't in the slightest pitying them either, but since they said thank you, well, isn't it obvious that they came AFTER us? and that we GAVE them our place?
Really, I regretted going to princess coco tonight. If I didn't go, I wouldn't have wasted my 45 minutes waiting for nothing, I wouldn't have been wasting my 30 minutes writing this on my blog but instead would have finished watching another episode of drama. And surely I wouldn't have wasted my energy being furious over it. It might have cost me a wrinkly, who knows? And I can't even sue them for all of this lost.
princess coco really does not deserve any respect from me. The name doesn't even deserve an uppercase from me. It will really get me thinking many many many and MANY times just to go back there. I so hate the service, smiles everywhere, but just smile, no ethics.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Prosecutor Princess - Have You Ever Been Loved?
Been looking for this lyric for agessssss!!!! Finally I found it!!
Okay.. that's a lie.. the truth is, I've been loving this song since I watched the drama last year, but just started wanting to find the lyric lately.. and just started searching for it today lol :P But it is quite difficult to find, considering this song only has Korean character for the song title in the OST tracklist. Anyway I've found it yay!!! So before I lose it, I'll just post it here :)
It is a really nice song, sweet, catchy, light and uplifting. Should try listen to it :)
I got it from this URL: http://koreanlyric.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/have-you-ever-been-loved/
Enjoy :)
Okay.. that's a lie.. the truth is, I've been loving this song since I watched the drama last year, but just started wanting to find the lyric lately.. and just started searching for it today lol :P But it is quite difficult to find, considering this song only has Korean character for the song title in the OST tracklist. Anyway I've found it yay!!! So before I lose it, I'll just post it here :)
It is a really nice song, sweet, catchy, light and uplifting. Should try listen to it :)
I got it from this URL: http://koreanlyric.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/have-you-ever-been-loved/
Enjoy :)
Have You Ever Been Loved? (사랑해본 적 있나요) – Kim Yoo Kyung
siganeun gipi jamdeulgo nan kkumsogeul geoniljyo
pingkeubit gaseume muldeun sarange ppajyeotjyo
pingkeubit gaseume muldeun sarange ppajyeotjyo
chagaun bombimajeodo ttatteutage naeryeowa
eoreoitdeon nae maeumsoge sarangeul naerijyo
seolleneun baramgyeore sarangi naegero watjyo
du bore heureudeon nunmuldeureun sori eobsi nuneul gamjyo
kkum sok geurim gateun saranghae bon jeok innayo
nunmul sogeseo pieonan iseul gateun sarangeullyo
gyejeoreun bakkwieogado nae maeumeun bomijyo
naege on seonmul gateun sarang japgoman sipeoyo
seolleneun baramgyeore sarangi naegero watjyo
du bore heureudeon nunmuldeureun sori eobsi nuneul gamjyo
unmyeong gateun geureon saranghae bon jeok innayo
yeonghwa sogeseo geurideon soseol gateun sarangeullyo
seuchyeojinagan uyeon soge mannami
ijeya naege jeongmal chajaongeojyo
kkum sok geurim gateun saranghae bon jeok innayo
nunmul sogeseo pieonan iseul gateun sarangeullyo
unmyeong gateun geureon saranghae bon jeok innayo
yeonghwa sogeseo geurideon soseol gateun sarangeullyo
eoreoitdeon nae maeumsoge sarangeul naerijyo
seolleneun baramgyeore sarangi naegero watjyo
du bore heureudeon nunmuldeureun sori eobsi nuneul gamjyo
kkum sok geurim gateun saranghae bon jeok innayo
nunmul sogeseo pieonan iseul gateun sarangeullyo
gyejeoreun bakkwieogado nae maeumeun bomijyo
naege on seonmul gateun sarang japgoman sipeoyo
seolleneun baramgyeore sarangi naegero watjyo
du bore heureudeon nunmuldeureun sori eobsi nuneul gamjyo
unmyeong gateun geureon saranghae bon jeok innayo
yeonghwa sogeseo geurideon soseol gateun sarangeullyo
seuchyeojinagan uyeon soge mannami
ijeya naege jeongmal chajaongeojyo
kkum sok geurim gateun saranghae bon jeok innayo
nunmul sogeseo pieonan iseul gateun sarangeullyo
unmyeong gateun geureon saranghae bon jeok innayo
yeonghwa sogeseo geurideon soseol gateun sarangeullyo
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