Getting paid without working

This morning I was a bit late because I can't seem to find my lip gloss anywhere in my room after the last time I used it. I gotta search into every bag for it. At last I found it hiding in the small pink bag of mine, Then I thought of it, the last time I used it was during my graduation day.**forgetful**.

I was supposed to meet mindy and Jack at Piccadilly's bus stop at 10am but when they message me saying they had arrived there but I was still waiting for bus at the bus station outside my house. So I replied them telling them to just go on and take the bus 250 (to Trafford Centre) without me. I predicted maybe we can meet in the same bus because I am planning to get down at one of the bus station which bus 250 will be passing by.

So,I waited for the bus, hoping that I can see both of them in the same bus. HA!soon as the bus arrived the station, I saw them waving their hands at me while I am going up the bus. See, is this fate or good timing **konon**. Lucky me, managed to take the same bus with them.**muhahaha**.

I learned that 3 of our colleagues were actually in the same bus as us just now , which was told to me by Jack and Mindy. Many people arrived at 10.30am even though we were all called to meet at 11am. At soon as we reached the meeting place, Chris (a hyperactive guy who will be the bar tender in the restaurant in the future), Conella (a lady who have a fierce face but a "sexy" voice, came from Bulgaria) and Andy (a guy who work at the same restaurant as our restaurant manager, gonna be our head waiter in the future) were already there.

Since we arrived there a bit early, Hussein (restaurant manager) brought us to visit our future working place which is still under construction. Joe (guy who was at the same bus as us just now) spoke to Jack he thinks that the restaurant will not be opening on the 3rd September 2007 as so many things were still under construction. Mindy and I overheard their conversation and laugh out loudly. Why? because next week we will still be paid full time even though we haven't start working yet.**just like money falling down from the sky**

**This is the restaurant which I am going to work in the future, it is still under construction now.

Then we are appointed to the room where the training was suppose to be held. The room was like this... ...

I snapped this picture while we were being given a 10 minutes break. It is just a small sized room where 16 of us squeezed in, including the general manager who does the talking in front. I wonder why the dashboard is just a few piece of papers instead of a white board? This dash board was like those facility people used in the olden days (my kindergarten days). My thinking is that flipping papers by papers as the person was writing and explaining stuffs there was kinda lame.

Ah, that blue shirt guy there, guess who is he? he is our future bar tender,Chris. He is hyper active, talking with fast speed, friendly and very easy to get along with. That girl over there, her name is Katrina. She used to work for Costa coffee but now had decided to join our team **maybe our pay here is higher**See, she is still buying coffee from Costa Coffee, did she miss her old working place? I didn't see her laughing much as we joke about funny stuff, I wonder what's bothering her??

We were being given 30 minutes brunch break at 12.30pm. Jack, Mindy and I went to the food court downstairs and not surprise, the food court was full of people. 30 minutes, we had to queue to buy for food, eat fast and finish everything within 30 minutes. I didn't take any lunch as I was on diet, plus I had eaten quite a heavy breakfast this morning.

**See, how pack is The Trafford Shopping Centre?McDonald had the longest queue among all.

During the training we were briefed on about serving etiquette, items in the menu together with alcoholic beverage, etc, etc. It was totally fun as I was there listening to Hussein telling his stories about places that he went to eat and spotted a lousy service, situation which he faced during working in the past and alcoholic beverage that he likes most. He gave us the idea of how to do both the suggestive selling and up selling.

Before the end of the meeting, he want us to tell him what is our favourite beverage, when it is my turn, I said TEQUILA as I only know this other than VODKA. I was planning to say VODKA at first but someone before me had mentioned VODKA, so I though it was better for me not to copy her. Hussein said that he can imagine me drinking TEQUILA one shot. **of course la, last time I go clubbing I used to order this**By the way, that was years ago... ...Form Six memory begins to conquer my mind as I think about TEQUILA, those were the days... ...but I manage to get hold of myself from day dreaming during the training as I don't wanna be the second day dreamer. ** the first day dreamer was a gal, seems to be day dreaming all the time as she can't answer what Hussein asked her.

Hussein made the group of us a bit nervous before he ends the training as he wanted us to describe our self with a certain favourite drink that we love. When it was my turn, I go for TEQUILA. This was how I spoke***eh hem eh hem***, TEQUILA may look plan outside but when you drink it in at once after you pop it, the taste is great and it is not plan at all. **How does it sound??**Then he add on, ya, just like you, you may look quiet on the outside but actually you are quite talkative!!**of course la, wanna make more friends ma, how to be friendly if you chose to be quiet,izzit?!?!**

The meeting ends at 3pm. He said that our uniform will be black in colour instead of grey as grey one had runs out of stock. We shall be starting on the 10th September 2007. He will call us again when he wants us to go for the real training in the restaurant, to taste some new dish, to learn opening a wine bottle, taste a bit of them and so on.

I cant wait till that day arrive. I wanna try their dishes. I wanna taste some wine. I wanna know how the situation working there as a waitress is. I wanna see couples dinning happily as I serve serving them. Most of all, I wanna work happily and get paid lavishly. $$$$$ is on my mind now.