Sunday, May 11, 2008

Hey Where're the Votes!?

Looks like you guys are very lazy (for those who haven't voted). Just click on a little button can liao mah. So bad leh you all... LOL

Song No. 5:
7 Seconds
Artiste: Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry

Album: The Guide (Wommat) (Youssou N'Dour) and Man (Neneh Cherry)
Released: 1994

Fun Facts: This song probably gave me a very lasting impression because it's in some language which I don't understand! Of course, it's the very gothic background music and the soulful vocals from Youssou N'Dour that makes this song so unique and lovely. I love the solo parts from Youssou N'Dour, even though I don't understand a word. This song is unique also in the sense that Youssou N'Dour is Senegalese, while Neneh Cherry is Swedish, and the song is sung in English and French. Beautifully arranged, I would say. Also one of my favourites and highest played song in my playlist.

Can't embed the song again cos it's disabled. But DO watch/listen to this wonderful song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbBSDE-Dywo

Update: Wigan 0 Man Utd 2 (79th Min), Chelsea 1 Bolton 0 (79th Min) Ok Man U wins the EPL. Full-stop.

Watching Wigan vs Man Utd

The day is almost over, and I've not uploaded my latest post. The score is already 1-0 to Man Utd. Cristiano Ronaldo had scored a penalty kick at the 32nd minute. It's his 31st goal for the season. Awesome lad. The commentator said that if he gets 32 goals, he'll equal the record for the highest number of goals in a season, from someone in the 1959-1960 season. Gosh he scored that many goals? Looks like Man U is gonna win their 10th premier league championship after all. Poor Chelsea.

Today is Mother's Day. Mummy and Father went for some 1-day tour around Singapore with their friends. Hmm... Father's IC number kena 4-D's first prize! Too bad he didn't buy... After they came back from the trip, we went to have dinner at Pizza Hut at Bedok. We had the Mother's Day Special, whereby there are 2 pizzas, with some appetizers, drinks and soup and some free gifts for the mother.

The waiters and waitresses at that outlet were all students working part-time. And it seems once again they gave me a very bad impression of students who work part-time at restaurants. Firstly they are very unprofessional, and they can't handle a lot of things properly. One of the girls accidentally knocked into a table full of dishes and leftovers from the customers who had left the table. This made some food or oil or whatever spill onto the floor. Then one of the guy waiters went to mop up the mess, without doing a good job. He did place those yellow signs on the floor to caution anyone to be careful of the wet floor. However soon after that one of the other waitresses who was in a rush slipped and almost fell flat on the floor. Luckily she managed to maintain her balance, but I think she might have hurt herself. Later on, she wasn't so lucky. It's the same girl again. This time she was holding a tray of soup and drinks and she smashed all of them on the floor. She herself broke her fall with her hands, but I think she might have got some cuts. I didn't see any blood though. What a bad dining experience. Pity the poor girl though. But you can tell that they are probably just secondary school students. So young and ignorant. The floor is pretty slippery already without any "lubricants", yet the girl, perhaps trying to rush, was walking so fast that it's not unexpected that something like that would happen just now. Then talking about service, our soup and appetizers arrived, without any cutlery! We had to remind them to get our fork and spoons for us. Bad bad experience. As if what I encountered just two days ago was not bad enough.

9th May 2008, Friday

After work, I went straight to VivoCity to meet up the Blk 22 people. We were initially planning to have dinner at Marche, but it seemed that there wouldn't be space to accommodate 20 people. Therefore we went to look around for some other place. They decided to go for Hog's Breath Cafe. I remembered my company held an event over there, and the finger food sucked big time. I was quite reluctant to go there for dinner again, but it seems that we have no other better choices. Therefore we went to the restaurant asking for 12 seats, since the rest have not arrived. However we had to be split up into 2 tables. Therefore the few of us who arrived went in to get our tables. I ordered a Tex Mex Combo, which is a set of steak and some other stuff. It was rather tasteless. Wasn't worth the $26 I paid for. ZZZzzz... Anyway the waiters and waitresses were apparently students working part-time. Probably around the same age as those I encountered today at Pizza Hut. They really gave very bad customer service. Not only did they not fill our glasses promptly, they also didn't know their stuff. When we asked what dish it was when one of them served our dish, she looked stunned and went to ask her supervisor instead. Ok perhaps you can't blame them for their ignorance, since they are only part-timers. But it is definitely the restaurant managers to blame for hiring them without giving them proper training. Then when Adrian and his girlfriend arrived and joined our table, Kelvin wanted to tekan the staff a bit and asked one of the more senior staff to clean up our table, fill up our glasses and take Adrian's orders, in a very stern tone. The senior staff quickly cleared our table of our dishes, then forgot about the rest of Kelvin's orders. Kelvin said he wanted to @#$%^&* him already. Anyway we finished up our dinner at last, then wanted to know whether the restaurant accepts any credit cards which give discounts. Jiajun asked one of the girls the question, and the girl merely shooked her head, then took the card away from Jiajun and walked off. We were all like O_O ... We learnt from Zhongming that their table paid with OCBC card which gave some discounts. Therefore JJ went to check with the staff again to ask for confirmation. In the end we got the discount. ZZZzzz... Don't ever tell me to go back to that restaurant again man.

After dinner we wanted to look for a place to sit down and talk cock. We searched high and low. In the end me, Shenggui, Patrick and Yok Hian, the first search party, found many seats at Starbucks. Now, this outlet seems to be one of TWO Starbucks outlets in VivoCity. I called Charles, who was with the rest nua-ing at some chairs, to join us. In the end they found themselves at the OTHER Starbucks outlet. Eventually they gave up their search for us and went straight to Harry's Bar at HarbourFront. So the four of us, who already bought our drinks at Starbucks, brought our drinks over to Harry's Bar to join them. They got a very large sitting area for all of us. And we nua-ed the night away. Seems like this will be the last time Zhongming's batch will meet us as NTU undergrads. Time really flies soooo fast. Everyone is graduating and entering the next phase in life, neverending work.