I got the job wei. Now hopefully I can keep it.

I am waitressing at Northern Bites, a cafe next to Manly Beach. I went for my 'training' today at 5pm and was allowed to go back at 8pm. There are so many different ppl working there.

In the kitchen, we have a Nepalese and another Caucasian whom I think is definitely not from US, UK or Aus. He's from somewhere in South America. And when I started, there's another girl who came in for her first day as well. She's a Brazilian. Her name is Ananda. And there are quite a few Indian guys working there. Rahid, Deep (he say deep as the ocean, deep into ur eyes wtf).

You see, the thing about being overseas is that almost everyone is SO friendly. I was just in the cafe for 3 hours and all of us are talking like good friends. Joking and fooling around.

The rate is supposedly AUD$12 per hour. However, Ananda told me here in Manly, a waitress can earn up to AUD$20-25 per hour depending on how long you have been working there. But the usual lowest wage is prolly AUD$12 per hour and if you stay for more than 2 weeks, it goes up to AUD$14 per hour. Good huh? But never mind la. I am just a newbie. Work for 3 months here in Northern Bites and after that, start looking for other opportunities agn lo. Think positive yo.

And the best thing is that, since my employer doesnt employ with tax so we can work as many hours as we want and he gives us cash. Of coz, this is kinda illegal but.....it's good for us students rite. I am planning to work on Thurs night, Friday night, Sat half day and the whole of Sun!! If there are slots for me la...If not, then just Fri, Sat and Sun lor.

After my shift ended, I went to Coles and got some IndoMie agn. I saw they are having a promotion for Milkyway. 4 for $2. How can you NOT buy them?? I bought 8 sticks only coz I have $10 with me only as I didnt go to the ATM. Bummer....I'll go back agn tomorrow.

Coz I went out at 5pm, I missed my dinner. So when I came back, I cooked a packet of noodle and drank apple juice! Yum!! See....this is the kind of dinner all guys are looking for. I make the perfect Indomie + AJ dinner. Muahahhahahh!! If you wan to book me, call I-WANT-TO-MARRY-LESLEY-COZ-SHE-MAKES-THE-BEST-INDOMIE-AJ-DINNER-8888. Thank you sekalian!

I grabbed a bottle of natural mineral water as well. But when I got back and tried to open the cap, fizzy mineral water sprayed across my whole table and body. Chibai! It's carbonated mineral water rupa rupanya!! Why the hell would anyone want carbonated water? Then I have to wipe the whole table and blablabla. Sigh, why my life like that?

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Oh...and I am gonna buy the new Ipod Nano chromatic. In red colour la duh. I will give my current Ipod to my sis. I wanted to sell it at a very cheap price at first considering it's quite new but my sis wants it so..Everything here in Manly is so expensive, so when an Ipod cost AUD$200++ only, it seems ridiculously cheap. Comes in 8GB agn.



Yeah here I come!

Did I mention that I went apeshit with chocolate today? I finished a small bar of Milkyway choco bar and a huge box of Smarties and another bar of choco/caramel nougat all in 2 hrs time.

I lurve Milkyway!! Gotta stock up my cupboard with Milkyway.

Cacat wei.

I went to see the doctor today. She told me I have an infection on my blister and I am not to walk around anymore! I am to stay in bed for the rest of the week altho she did say if I stop doing some hard-core walks, my feet will be much better. So I am resting as much as possible so that come Thursday night, I can afford to stand and wait tables. Sigh!

I cant even walk down to have my meals so the kitchen workers send them up to my room. Bad service tho! Dinner is served from 5.30pm to 7.00pm. Just now, I called them at 5.45pm. Waited until 6.45pm, my dinner still not yet arrived. So I call again. Baru, they send my dinner up and it wasnt the one I asked for. I wanted cream mushroom pasta and they send tomato chilli pasta wtf!

Sigh. After eating I was still hungry coz I missed both breakfast and lunch so I cooked a packet of Indo Mee to eat heheh.

All that means I have to miss all my lessons as well. For the rest of this week. Luckily, both classes of EVT115 are cancelled for this week. And EVT110 is cancelled this Thurs as well.

I kinda feel like orang cacat le. Just lying in bed all day. I am gonna miss breakfast agn tomoro coz I am not gonna wake up at 7am JUST to have breakfast OK. But I have 2 oranges and 2 pears on my study table now (accumulation over the past few days). I think that's my breakfast for tomorrow.

My feet reli hurt ok.

I have blisters as long as my thumb on my foot sole and it is fucking killing me. I think I wanna go see a doctor.

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I might just found a job. Not confirm yet la. The boss has to test me this Thursday night to see if I can get along or not. The restaurant is just 10 minutes walk from my college. I reli hope I get it so that even if I spend, I wont feel guilty.

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The classes today were alrite....EVT111: Introduction to Event was fun coz the lecturer is a bubbly middle-aged guy. ISYS123: Information System is not bad too. We have 2 lecturers for ISYS123. The guy teaches us about Word and the gal teaches us abt Excel and Powerpoint. In computer lab today, we learned how to align paragraphs, add header/footer, small caps and blablabla. I'm gonna revise agn later. A-potensi student ok.

The most boring one so far is definitely MGMT***: Service Management coz the guy is a new one? His name is Shackar Blitz but he wants us to call him Shak. Yeah whatever Shak! He has this French/Isreal/Greek accent which is mixed with Aussie accent and it just gets fucking annoying. He just goes on and on and on and on abt service. Doesnt reli interact much.

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Oh yeah, I finally managed to get some songs in my Ipod coz I watched the tutorials in apple.com. Sigh. Sohai. And now they have new Ipod!!! Nano-chromatic sumthing rite? Did you see the red Ipod??? Ahhhh, omg! Anyone pls. If you are rich enough, buy me one as a advanced bday pressie plsssssssssssssss!! Ahahha, muka tembok.

Commit suicide mode: ON.

Wah lan eh.....

Timetable for Lesley Woon, ID: 13237


EVT111 EVT111-L-1 Mon 08:00am-10:00am 1-11 10
ISYS123 ISYS123-3 Mon 2:00pm -4:00pm 1-11 14
Computer Lab
MGMT112 MGMT112-1 Mon 04:00pm-06:00pm 1-11 11
EVT110 EVT110-L-1 Tue 10:00am-12:00pm 1-11 09
ISYS123 ISYS123-3 Tue 2:00pm -4:00pm 1-11 14
Computer Lab
MGMT112 MGMT112-1 Tue 04:00pm-06:00pm 1-11 03
EVT110 EVT110-L-1 Wed 10:00am-12:00pm 1-11 15
EVT115 EVT115-1 Wed 12:00pm-02:00pm 1-11 16
EVT110 EVT110-L-1 Wed 03:00pm-05:00pm 1-11 15
EVT110 EVT110-T-2 Thu 02:00pm-04:00pm 1-11 09
EVT111 EVT111-T-2 Fri 10:00am-12:00pm 1-11 03
EVT115 EVT115-1 Fri 02:00pm-04:00pm 1-11 16

So this means I have 24 hrs of lessons in 5 days. 6 hours straight on Mon, Tues and Wed. 2 hrs on Thur and 4 hrs on Fri. I have to wake up early only on Monday. The remaining 4 days I can slp until latest 9.30am.

Looks like I'll miss my lunch on Tues and Wed. How can liddat one? I paid for them ok.

Are the number of hours too much? Not rite.....If compared to real uni students. I think the hospitality students have it harder. There are 2 days where they have lessons from 10.30am - 7.30pm. In addition to at least 4 hrs on other days. Wow.

Yeah!! Lessons gonna start on Monday!! Finally!

On another note, I think the college is super super strict with stupid rules. Like:
1) Girls with long hair must tie up their hair. And hair must be dry. Wtf?
2) You can oni take off your jacket when you are having a meal. But as soon as you stand up to clear ur table, you must wear your jacket agn. Wah liu..
3) You must wear your uniform in Front of House (which are all the areas potential customers/visitors might be at) from 7.30am to 5.30pm.

Pls dont do this to me in summer. It's getting hotter and hotter by the day.

Sigh! Once agn, lessons are starting!

Surfing, Sydney, Sadness and Sickness.

Yesterday, we were required to attend the teambuilding and surf safety course. In teambuilding, there were around 100 students and we are divided into groups of freaking animals. Cat, Sheep, Pig, Snake, Horse and Monkey. I was SOOOO lucky I wasnt Pig coz it would just make me feel that much worse. LOL. And you had to find other group members by mimicking the animal that you are. I was a Cat so I have to meow meow to find other members. Wow.

Later in the afternoon at 1.30pm, we went for the surfing. My frens and I wanted to skip it at first coz the water is so going to be fucking cold but in the end, we still joined.

It is sunny but windy.
Manly Beach. Look at the waves.
Us waiting for the wetsuits and shirts.
Before us, there was another group of students from ICMS who went for the surfing. So the wetsuits were WET. But luckily, I found one which is dry while Julie and Simone had to put on wet ones. Poor them.
Wearing the shirts.

Surfing is so much fun!! When you can catch the wave at the right time, it just brings you in so fast!!! But I did get swept away a few times when the waves are TOO big and I didnt prepare to jump. I scraped my knees a few times on the ocean bed and drank so much salt water + seaweed. Honestly, the first time the waves covered me I actually panicked coz I fell under the water but after a couple of times, I kinda got used to it. The 3 of us were like screaming like banshees esp me coz the water is soooo cold.

At the end, almost everyone lined up to do a relay race.
Big waves. It looks small here but when you are in the water, the waves are just so huge that you cant look over the wave. My whole body are now sore from all the surfing and carrying the surfboard. I got small bruises on my inner thighs as well. Hahah.
After I came back from surfing, I found a msg. Jia wei and Lai are in the city and asked me to meet up with them. So after showering and skipping dinner, I took the ferry to the city and meet up with them. We walked thru the city for almost an hour and seriously, I wanted to kill Lai coz he promised good food and when we reach there, it is full and blablabla. I was so hungry! We ended up in Chinatown where I just dont care and bought some hawker food to eat. Both of them bought some food as well and we just sat by the benches and ate.

I was still hungry and we went to a Japanese restaurant and had rice. I forgot abt the portion size in Aus so when the bowl of rice arrived, I was like omg. But still I managed to finish everything. Maybe I have eaten a lil bit too much.

2 and 1/3 faces.
China town.
The Japanese stall which sells seafood balls. They sell so many balls and we had to wait like almost 30 mins just to get 4 balls.

After that, we went for a movie and watched Stepbrothers. Stupid movie. Hahha.

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Bad news. My very pretty Japanese friend went back to Japan yesterday coz her mum died. It was so sudden. But she doesnt seem so sad. Maybe she anticipated it. She will come back at the end of this month.

So weird, I was just looking at pictures of her and her mum in Facebook before I heard this news.


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I am feeling so ill now. After I had a huge dinner in Sydney, my tummy was kinda upset. I thought it would go away but it continued until this morning. And it still hurts now. I took a antacid tablet just now and it doesnt seem to help.

I went down to Manly to get my uniform altered today. It cost me AUD$100 ok!!!

I picked up some plasters and sunscreen from a chemist as well coz it is starting to get so hot now. It is impossible to get around without sunscreen nowadays.

The past few days.

Orientation is so boring. There's like 1 whole week and each day we are oni required to turn up for 1 or 2 hr. I don't even have to wake up some days coz the program doesnt apply to events students. The earliest I have to wake up so far is 6.30am coz there was a computer induction at 8am. Since it was stated that students had to wear office clothes, this is what I wore for the first day. Damn office lady-like.


Then a few days later, we had a welcoming cocktail party for both students and their frens/family. Since my family are in Brunei, I went there with my frens. The finger foods were reli bad. But then, the buffet dinner was alright.

Here in the picture(Clockwise from top): Tamra, Julie, Naoko, Debra, Simone, Me and Amanda.
Julie, Naoko, Simone and me. Dun ask me why I look pregnant and fat coz I am not pregnant and yes I'm fat.Oh ya, I havent intro right...? Julie is the Taiwanese/Australian girl, Naoko is Japanese duh and Simone is the Portugese/HK girl.
No skills in taking pictures coz I manage to cut half my face off so there you go.
Jodie and I. She's one of the study abroad students from USA.
Kelly. One of my roomates. I made a mistake with her name. It isnt Hallie. It's Kelly. Opps. She reminds me of Tina from the L Word very much!

The ice sculpture which is also our badge.
After the party, most of the students decided to go down to the Shark Bar. Manly is pretty small so I think that's the oni bar we students can go to.

Naoko and I. Hahah.
The very small bar.
You get to play free pingpong wtf.
Jay chatting with Nao. Jay whose full name is Javier is from Sweden. He's 23 I think.
Old school funk.
Jay with some surfer girl. I think she's from USA as well.
There wasnt many ppl dancing at first. But then Chris Brown's Forever came on and everyone rushed to the dance floor. Including me and Nao heheh. But I didnt dance much la. Clubbing meh wtf. I went back to the table after a couple of songs.
Among the people, there is this HK guy who is so fucking obnoxious and embarassing. Lucky he's not my fren. He was dancing reli badly and dirty dancing with the pingpong table and taking off his shirt. Like wtf. U think this is reli clubbing meh?? It's just a small bar ok.
But when the 4 of us decided to go back, he offered to take us too.
I got officially enrolled yesterday and received my textbooks. Total damage: AUD$267. So useless one the textbooks. The thickest, heaviest and most expensive book is this Go Office 2007 which is basically a book to teach us how to use Microsoft Office. AUD$100++ ok!!! And I dun even like to study abt computer. Sigh...The oni proper textbook I can see is that Festival & Special event Management. The book called 'The Professional Waiter' I see already oso want to burn it ah. Waste my money.
The beds of my roommates. Kinda messy rite...
My side of the room. I'm so organised! *kambang*
Oh ya, if you see popoly, that's my panty hanging by the window coz I always wash them by hand and hang them up to dry. It's faster that way. Heheh.