The angels ...

I remember that during schooling days, people always mention that this place is filled with girls, who make money from doing something illegal. They call it prostitute, chicken, hooker, and now, angel. I never really have any encounter with them, and before started working, I have not seen this kind of people before. Even if I do, I don't even know they are this kinda person, until last year when I started working.

Before the ones in Malaysia, I did see and witness this kinda people in Switzerland and believe it or not, I was just staying one street away from the red light district in Geneva, Switzerland and I see these people every 2 weeks, because I have to walk to this area when I wanna wash my clothes haha. It lasted for 6 months, walking in and out of this area every 2 weeks. They come in different shapes, colours, sizes, nationalities, race and religions. These places are mostly filled with Above 18 shops and they stand or perhaps sit in front of these shops. Price range from 200-500CH. 200CH when it is in-house while 500CH if you bring the girls out. Yes, I got my product knowledge haha .. don't ask how or where I know it from. Guys walk pass, they will randomly ask if they need anything like that and if you reject they will understand. I'm so used to see these people that I don't feel a thing about this.

Now, after seeing countless of them walking in and out of hotel coming mostly from one of the biggest country in the world, is so irritating, especially if they start shouting and screaming and start being rude. I know, they wanna earn money too but this is not the way. Someone said this to me, how can the guys do such things to these girls and shows how chauvinist and disrespect towards the females. But I say, if they can't even respect themselevs, there is no need for others to respect them. There are choices in life, they are decisions to make, they chose this path to walk, they bear the consequences. Even out of desperation, I believe there is a way, and everything has a solution. Honestly speaking, some of them can be really bitchy talking to you, and you really feel like slapping them.

Today, it was almost 1am when Dum Dum Mac Tong Tong got so tulan-ed with the guest come all the way from the country which is one of the biggest country in the world too and these people are one of the most demanding who pay little but demand for a lot of things. They can be the best workers but the worst bosses. She went up to assist as he INSISTED her to go up with him at bloody 1am. We went back to counter, get the info from another colleague and went to his room afraid that things will happen to her. Both of us, me and Dede Ah Ying went stood in front of this bloody kannasai guest room and we overheard this convo and we ended up laughing like hell ... and we almost burst out in front of his door

He: ohh chineseee
Phone: .....
Suddenly he sounded very excited
He: You got Indians also????

Almost burst out but we did not, we held on and omg ... so darn funny ... but seriously speaking, these guys are just so dirty and so disgusting ... just imagine sometimes ... the guy can be 80 years old!! At times, it's so embarassing that the guys do not have money to pay these angels WOAH! There was a day when the guest called down to complain that the angel refuse to leave the room! HAH ... how embarassing and they do not know that we know ... sigh ... tsk tsk

And yes ... we told our manager what we did :D :D HAHA ...

Une année

Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls around themselves because they are presenting themselves all the time: dancing is very much a confession.~ Suzanne Farrell

I remembered .. it was around this time that winter and the coldness was slowly fading away, and replaced by spring, followed by summer. It was this time of the year that I first met Kim, like ... just like that, I already know her for one year. In a different note, something something somewhere was also taken place and occured and it has been one year too lolz.

Now, looking back at those pics that we took one year ago, is just hilarious to see how we looked like back then. When we were still round. Yes, I meant ROUND in comparison to now, as, to date.

Yeah this was in Moevenpick, Geneva! Anytime better than any other ice-cream in Malaysia, even if they are imported. Best ever ice-cream.

Dreams

I dreamt again yesterday >.<

I dreamt that I was still working in my previous restaurant, though it was very physically demanding, but I enjoyed. I was in the bunk room sleeping and with all the sound and noise that was made by my colleagues, I could still dream about it.

I dreamt and dreamt and dreamt ... and it never stopped. From one person to another person, shifting places, things that had happened before, it came back to me, it came into my dream.

Looking back, it seems like a dream to me, just a dream and time flies so fast, like as though I just woke up from the dream when in a matter of fact, it did take place and the fact that I was actually physically there, experienced it, hands-on and it was me, I could not believe it, one year gone.

I just wondered ... two guys ... both Europeans ... but one is like super nice, like really nice, treated people darn nice and another one is like one of the most useless person I have ever come across. Both the boss, but the level of differences is just humongous.

It was just ... THAT moment ... that will not happen, ever again.

Monsieur Michel, Vous manquez cher ... Vous êtes les meilleurs chef :D bravo!

Geneve 12

Nothing last forever, good things come to an end ... with just a blink of an eye. One day, you will just miss those simple little things that what is perceived as a bitter memory for you. As bitter as it is, you will somehow miss it though during that moment, you feel like wanna end it as soon as you can. When it actually ended, you wanna have that kind of feeling once again. But, as a brutal fact, it will not happen. All are left is just what you have up at your head. Perhaps, you will not be able to meet those people again and not be able to step at the same place again, who knows. Maybe, years down the road you will be at the same place, but THAT feeling might not be there anymore. Truth to be told. What I'm saying is ... all about Geneve, the place I called hell, the place I call heaven. It's everything there, from bitter to sweet and gets sweeter. haha. J actually did training 4 times, and all in Geneve o.O I was quite shocked but I guess I know the reasons.

Some classic ... and olden stuff

Walking in ... oh Schweiz Oh Genf .... or .... Oh la Suisse oh Geneve ... or Oh Swiss Oh Geneva! haha

Let's splash water ... these times never come again .. it's like an abandoned place there but it was still kept in a very good condition, neat, tidy, clean and you just feel very calm there

Knock knock oops nobody's home

From high above ... this is how it look like :P

Finit 11

I HEART my in-training time. What makes me wanna blog bout it? Well, it was because I had these 2 guests from France hehe ... and yeah I said something that I used to say to people there, which is Merci Au Revoir hehe.

Daddy said "come come to daddy here" HAHA yeah that was his exact words he told me :P

I just wish he is still my boss hehe the one and only one that is always on our side

Mohin from Iran, from my ex-school during my higher diploma days hehe

I have a sudden urge to crop my hair short but I cant, I will have to wait til at least next year or when my hair becomes superbly retarded until the extent that even with the existence of superman, nothing can be done to rectify it.

Geneve 11

A little chat with someone I know last year and currently in London made me feel that time flies so fast, even faster than I could breathe and I realized how nice and how sweet Swiss is, and that we definitely miss that place so much. That place is like heaven to us, our paradise and somewhere that made me feel like we are in a different planet altogether because it was so nice and we were like caught in our own world, doing our own things and nobody even cares, nobody even bothers if you look stupid and silly. No pressure from anyone and anywhere, the time that we used to hang out and do stupid stuff that nobody else in the school was so free to do that kind of stuff. Hehe. That moment of time, even very simple things made us happy and laugh like there is no tomorrow. The joy, the happiness is all written in each and everyone of our face. All we have now is pressure and stress, that sometimes we wonder .... where have those moment gone to? Nobody wants it to end up like that, and it ended up too fast. We want to bring back the joyfulness and bliss once again. We want to be in our comfort zone ... once more. It really does feel like cloud nine. 6 months was short, but the memories we had was much more than ever. We have gone so far apart in distance ... and we will be waiting to meet up again, but ... one member will be missing and that makes us incomplete.

Talking to him makes me miss Luzern ... but ... I miss Geneva too. My starting life in Geneva was horrifying and ungodly, and it really does. However, in the end of it was awesome, beautiful, intoxicating and momentous. I know that it is cynical that I am missing that place but ... it is a fact. It was quite depressive with the amount of time I have spending time surrounded by 4 walls in a small cubicle.

With the thought that I have now, it is time to put up some pics .... to take a break from all the drinking partying and birthday session


More pics to come .. connection is pissing me off big time

We were inside the building we are and before that we were inside the green building, and it's adjoining hehe

To see the pics before and now made me realized how much weight I lost

Tourists going hoo-hoo-ha-ha over this water jet ... when the people in Geneva don't find it attractive but I still love it as it gives me the feeling of calmness and it soothes my mood

This is how the whole place looks like and it's really impressive ;)

Finit 10

Today is the day that Mr. Grand left us. He's such a sweet guy .... I'm bloody serious. I know that days are short, I only spent few days working with him, but .. he helped me out a lot, and he's such a sweetie. Days are too short hehe.

Kitt also had finished her training already and her classes had started, nobody will disturb me while I'm busy or free already. Mamaaaa .. miaaaa!!

Mr Mignon is not here anymore too, he broke my heart because he left booo!!! He's like the nicest ever manager in my entire life. No kidding. It feels so different now. He used to buy food and asked me to eat, he was very patient and he even helped me with MY work o.O na rak sial. Bless him.

On a similar case in a different environment, different location ... Geneva!! This is the 10th part ... alright I'm serious this time around, it's finishing real real soon. How I wish that I am still there HEH. Haha. Oh well ... just let me dream and wish okay, say nothing. Life's tough there but it's peaceful there and learning to appreciate the calmness and the peacefulness is just something that I cannot achieve here. I know not many people there but ... life's so much easier, nothing is complicated and everything is straight forward. Nobody annoys me there except during working hours.

Don't you think he looks like E.T? Hehe ... no, I did not say that, but my beloved manager told me that LOL. Not me not me .... my manager hehe. So mean then come to think of it, it's true. He does look like one hehe.

Geneve 5

Feeling a bit Geneva-ish I decided to ... post some pics from Geneva. From Malaysia, with Love :p since that I did not post for a very long time now due to the crazily working hours and in the end of the day, all I have with me is just tiredness and exhaustion. I have nil strength to post pics. I have it today, just for today.

Going up the stairs, omg it feels so like the leaning Pisa towers but this is much more tiring haha

Just hanging around, checking everything out ....

Tadaaaa .... the beauty of Geneva ... the cosmopolitan city of Switzerland :) with different nationalities, different origins speaking multi languages staying and living in one small little city called Geneva.

An overview of the lake and the fountain, that's what Geneva is most famous for and that's what attract the tourists the most, not the museum, not the church, shopping yes ... and fountain yes haha well not fountain but more like water jet :p

The three of us, Tina and Jack ...

I miss you, Geneva ... :(

Finit 9

Everyone is good at something, and I believe ... yes I believe that I am good at something too. Previously, I know that I am good at this, but I didn't know that I am THAT good. Today, I am gonna confess and I wanna be proud of myself ... for once. Yesterday, I slept around 3pm til like 10-ish for dinner and just as thought I couldn't sleep back, I realized at 2-ish that I was sleeping so nicely since 12-ish til this morning at 7am. So, I think it all answers all my doubt about my talent, more on .. my gifted talent. Please be proud for me coz this is my strongest point. Sleeping 8 hours a day isn't enough for me, it's sufficient but not enough. HAHA! Blogging now due to my erm ... my screwed up working hours, 5pm til 1am =.=

It's time for an update from my in-training ... yes again I know... and I know it's like a neverending set of pictures, but trust me, it's really finishing, real real soon. It's close to one dozen part already. I am typing so much because I don't have a chance to type or talk so much after 8 nights haha.

This is Lucy, the one that welcomes me when I first joined. However, her English is very minimal. Thus, during busy times, it's difficult to communicate ... and she loves tickling me :(

This is Beranjere and I hope I spell her name correctly, I mean .. you know how powderfool my French is haha. See the back of us? I eat there sometimes, but that's the place the managers usually sit.

Well, this is my fave barman, Cervat. Umm ... when I first started, he was really mean, shouting and all. However, not that I understand what he shouted lol. We have very big communication barrier, I couldnt understand French, he couldnt understand English. But, we have to work very closely to each other. As time goes by, I like him more and I know how things go and then he's being really nice to me too. He used to make drinks for me, give me free drinks when I didn't even ask for it. He jokes with me too, okay I know my French is like superbly limited but I can understand okay!! haha and he even pulled me to the back of the bar to give me wine, and and .. when I didn't ask for any drinks after I finished my training, he gave me without request. Usually, when people want also he's reluctant to give. He's from Turkey btw and he said he's kebab coz he knows I love eating kebab HAHAHA. omg!!! I damn miss him.

This is one of my managers ... and he loves calling me China girl, and I'm like no .. I am NOT china girl you European boy -_- and he likes telling me that my family is eating at which table ... not my family but .. some Asians who has similar skin colour and chiky eyes, that's my family -_- and yah, don't ever see him after work. Oftenly, I just have to laugh as ... once, he was wearing a NBA singlet and bermudas ... with slippers and reading newspapers -_- don't ever tell people he's my mgr siut -_- I told him so many times that I am from Malaysia, not Indonesia -_- he said the same, I said nooooo ... nevermind, only my mabuk manager knows the difference hehe

And ... if any of you are wondering if there are any other female waitress there or we call it as chef de rang ... the answer is no.

Geneve 4

Enough for the Merdeka celebration, it's more than enough coz I got so fired up that day haha. So yeah forget about it yea. I made a record today. I shall record it down at the World's Dede Book of Record for recording the day that I did not even feel sleepy at work. Yeah like 9 hours without feeling sleepy. I think that wine works the best! Guess what? I had dinner the nite before, and I drank both white and red Aussie wine. It was such a long long time I did not drink wine. Haha .. I know some might not believe that. So, O-KAY-lah ... I did drink in July, just a couple of glass okay! No biggie, man. OMG! The dinner sucks, but I have the wines to compensate. Do you know what is the conclusion now? Drink wines, yes it's plural, before going to work!! HAHA! After 4 days of night shift, I do not know what day is today, what date is today, and I can't differentiate from day to night and night to day. I feel like a drug addict as I can't face the sun anymore. The moment I step out of the working place and I see the sun (that is the only time I face the sun), immediately I have to turn away. My eyes could not take it. It is not to say that it's the bright afternoon sun, but only the sun at 7 plus in the morning. That shows how sad it is!!

Enough of crappy stuff, po leow genug ;) It's my baby's time named Geneva :D

Blardy connection, pics cannot be uploaded now, will do so again later. After my beauty sleep that is.

A church at the old town

This is taken from the inside of the church :D

Wondering where is old town .. here it is, I went there less than 5 times throughout my 6 months there

What do I love doing here? What else if it's not shop? HAHA .. SHOPPPPPPP ;) and I worked just right there .. everyday I see all these shops :p and I wait the tram just at the side of the road :p

omg this clockkk ... it's damn special ... why? I see that 5 days a week, sometimes more :o coz it's just located outside from where I work hahah

Nite out @ Geneva

This is an .... an .... an .... outing in Geneva. Not really an outing, it was actually a impromptu one that I never expected that I will go. Anyhow, I did promise Adik that I will go out at nite with him before leaving for good.

This is the truth, and I am not afraid to admit, I have never gone out to clubs in Geneva, call me a sad case fella. HAHA. Seriously, I never. What I did then was to work and back to work. So .. yup.

That nite, I just went out. By not knowing anything, I drank something and it's Sex on the beach. After that we went downstairs .. but you know something. This gotta be the best ever thing you could ever ask for. You know what? It's ladies nite. No, it's not the simple Ladies nite in KL. BUT ... this is FREE FLOW all the way. Free flow okayyy? Get drunk also nvm haha. How often can you get free flow throughout the nite? How? I have never got that before until that day. Just DRINK!!! Let's maooooooo!!!

Sex on the beach mon cherry :D

Starting ...

So many people .. stuffy .. so I sweat .. that's why red okie :p

Finit 8

Heyz, I was so dead tired yesterday that I was in bed at 11pm and woke up at 10 or 10 plus. 11 hours of sleep was so great but I never have enough. I still wanted to sleep. Hence, the reason for no updates.

Anyways, not really alert now ... I am but not that ... and thus, all the pics for today ... well, from my in-training only and nothing else, will do bout some starbucks outing some time soon.

Mr Balula ... almost closing already, but I was already off duty that time :p my last day was schedule 6 which is 11-3 and 6.30-11.30 :p

This is my fave manager, and the ever funny manager, but also kinda scary coz .. coz .... he walk pass me and he can just put the ice cube in my shirt during winter .. and on my last day while I was there (as in not working, but there to visit), he actually took the whole ice bucket and wanted to pour on me =.= and ... he chased me from inside until the street =.= does he look tipsy there? HAHA yesh and yea he loves doing the F1 sound almost each time he sees me -_- and make funny eyes when he walk pass me :s and not to forget, he's the one who always let me off early, sometimes few hours beforehand :D :D

It's Tina ... omg not another chubby pic of mine =.=

I was lucky enough to get hold of him to take pix. Usually, he doesn't do closing, I can count with my fingers how many times he did closing. But, he did that night, of course I asked beforehand what shift was he doing that day hehe. He's one of the seniors there :D and his perfume is so damn nice :D :D he's Jean Phillip but we call him J.P and when pronounced it in French, it's Gee Peh

Geneve 3

Let's go back to nature today. It cannot be denied that nature is very refreshing, cooling and calm, that gives you the utmost satisfaction of relief.

Represents you ... Geneve

This is a very quiet place, very solemn ... great place to hang out to release your stress from work

Wasser ... water ... eau

Rabbit ...

This is where the water jet comes out from ... the base

Not to forget ... the famous and attractive unique clock on the hill. This attracts many tourists ... I do not know what, but somehow everyone comes to Geneve, they will definitely take pix of this. No, it's not for display purpose, the time is correct, it moves, see it was almost 3 that day and I almost finished work haha.

Zum Wohl

I know that I just blogged about work, but ... I guess, that's the only thing I can blog about currently. It was my last exposure day today and I went to the club floor today for it and I love it. At least it does not make me feel like a bodyguard, yea finally. Haha ... f&b in the morning and my hand was trembling later on, I could not even hold a paper haha. But, it's alright haha. First time usually is a real killer after not holding heavy stuff since mid June. Then, I was wrapping some stuff for the rest of the day and you know something? There's this guest that I suspected he's from Swiss, coz he has that Deutsch accent, who knows????? He really is!!!! haha anyways ...

Yea, the work today brings back memories about my work back in Geneve, like how I started. This time is definitely easier for me, as some of the things are the same. Coffee here is more high tech haha, you don't need the skill haha. Touch screen omg ... I'm so much behind than the time now :o

Let's go back in time .. few months back ... Adik had this school thingy going on in this club ... apparently the school sponsored few hundred CH for their students to drink that nite, but I sneaked in. Well ... just one only =.= went there to see see look look. Yea was there til the wee hours and I had like what ... 3-4 hours of sleep :p

Back: Therry and Fadi,
Front: Me, Maria and Sophie

Rolande, Mimi and me

Group pic ... alles zusammen :D

While these 2 pics took place just a week before I got back ... in Shakers

Before ... and .. chubby =.=

After ... if I'm prepared I will reveal how red my face is, this is the least red one :D haha

After this, we went to the lake at 5 plus to see sun rise ... :D

Finit 7

I seldom have porridge. I had it, today. After work today, dad and I headed to this place which is very famous for their porridge. I have been going since like forever and never gone there for dont-know-how-many-donkey-years ago. It's located in Jalan Tun Sir Henry H.S. Lee. The traffic there is bad, but ... once in awhile for the sake of food, what matters is the food. Their porridge is somehow different from the normal ones. For this, they serve you the porridge and raw fish. Not that they expect you to eat it raw, but you have to place those fish in your porridge and eat it after a few minutes, it will be all cooked by then. Nice heh? Satisfying~

I have kinda abandoned my pics from Genf regarding my in-training, so here it goes

Another extra 20 tables for the summer, and the sun shines very brightly here in the morning and if you so happens to do mis-en-place here before lunch, die if you hate the sun, luckily I didn't

This is David, pronounce it in the French way haha ... he hardly speaks English, how can I communicate? Well, broken English works the best.

Haha omg I forgot his name, ecaille means seafood, coz we dont take the seafood from the kitchen, it's prepared by one kitchen staff. Only one, and if it's really busy, one person from the kitchen will come to help. And .. it's located at a different place, that's the first thing you can see from the outside of the rest. Many people would just look from outside you doing the seafood coz it's a glass and sometimes I feel that they are at a zoo looking at monkeys -_-

This guy was absolutely new, and do you know how long for me to ask him to take pic only he agreed? DAMN long alright. AND .. not like I can converse in French -_- but the absolutely broken ones but understandable, apparently haha

Just for pic ...