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Words from Before It's Too Late by Goo Goo Dolls.

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Yesterday was my last day at work.
Waking up today morning is like, strangely awkward. Since I have been waking up at unearthly but regular times for the past...one month plus plus, almost two. Feels weird and kind of empty, cause I stop doing what I have been, and Lost, well yeah, because I haven been 'in touch' with my holiday assignments, which fyi, is enough is make anyne go BONKS. Reality check, I've only a measly 2 weeks. Geez.

It has been a really joyful time working there; met lots of funny people, mostly adults who have gotten married and even have kids. All the staff and promotoers who taught me various things. Hanging around the counter chatting in low voices because the supervisors are walking by; spotting for celebrities and weird customers; mumbling and grumbling in voices only fellow staff colleagues and promoters can hear in the midst of serving a customer; the self-satisfaction when you see the satisfied look of a customer in his/her face; the times when the seniors and promoters joke around and suan one another; when the items doesn't have a price tag and we have to go hunt for the promoter for it, else we have to do it ourselves and sometimes, by the time we come back to the counter, the customer has gone off cause he/she is in a rush for time, and cannot afford to wait; the boring but incredibly cheap staff canteen food and the company that comes with it.

Conversations are super funny! And come to think f it, everyday has been pretty eventful, and I don't think I have been truly bored. Cause there are always other staff stuck in that narrow little cashier counter of ours. And we will all be talking and making funny comments. The aircon there is just right, neither too cold nor hot. Cause there will always be some customers, regardless of how big or small their items are. And they tend to love coming to our cashier counter to pay when the announcement over the PA warns them that the store is closing. With all the huge items like a whole WMF pot set. Or baskets full of Corelle/Dynasty/Iguana plates and bowls. And a whole lot of other things that didnt belonged to our Tableware section.

I remember yesterday, right in the morning a Freddy Toh came with his reservation of Dynasty items, and asked the cashier (Yuri) to bring it over to bedlinen side for him cause he's got other stuff there. Yuri did, and before that we wrapped up everything completely. She brought the heavy basket over. Like duno how long later, he came back with a staff from the other side. And the staff had the cheek to say "We only got two staff, not enough since so many items and they want delivery o we brought it over." HELLO. We have only got two staffs here also can. The other two at the other cashier also need to serve people? Fancy jamming up the line, think you some dua pai is it. After printing the receipt, Freddy-pei asked. How come got 3 thousand plus dollars? I want to check the receipt. So Yuri printed it out and they checked. When they were finally satisfied, they used like, 56 $50 gift vouchers to pay. Asshole staff at the bedlinen counter. Wth wrong with u siah.

After that the phone rang. Yuri and I were folding Sasa bags.
Ivy: "Yuri, you want to pick up?"
Yuri: "You can answer if you want what. Haha why you hesitate?"
Ivy: "I scared I don't know how to answer the questions if it's from a customer..." -picks up phone-

Ivy: "Good morning, Tableware."
YeeTing: "GOOOOD MORNING~~"
Ivy: "-.-!"

YeeTing is this other senior who is really very nice to me! Hahas, one of the best seniors around man. She is like, damn high I don't know why. And fyi she called from the temporary cashier counter set up directly opposite us, super near.

Ivy: "Ohmytian why you call me from the other cashier??"
YeeTing: "I shouted for you so many times you cannot hear mah! So I call. GOOD MORNING~"

All of us laughed like crazy. LOL. She is super cute lah! Hahas :D

Later at the staff canteen during our break. LOL. Winnie our supervisor, and the househod duty manager Joseph, came and sat down with the 4 of us. And Winie started talking bout this really funny incident when her husband brought her to a sauna. In Singapore. FREE. Somewhere near Sembawang.

Winnie: "I asked my husband. Where are we going?"
Husband: "____ loh."
W: "Go there for what? There got what for us to do?"
H: "I dunno leh. Just go loh."
W: "What you mean you dunno, then you bring me here for what? Tell me what to do here at least I can plan and see what we need to bring mah!" -angry pissed off supervisor tone-

I think hor, she is as hot-tempered as her bowl of laksa. LOL. Whatthehell siah.

W: "Ohmygoodness the water is super hot okay. I must leave that bucket f water there for like 20 mins to cool down before I can put my feet in. It's too hot already!"
YeeTing: "That hot?"
Yuri: "Yeah you know Malaysia also have this kind of natural sauna one! Yeeting u dunnoe meh?" (Both Yuri and YeeTing are malaysians)
Winnie: "YEah it's free too. So got quite a lot of people. ADults and elder people, mainly."
Joseph: "Water so hot, can go cook eggs!"
Yuri: "Oh, what kind of sauna? Those that you go completely naked in? Or with clothes?"
Winnie: "Can wear whatever you want. Don't want to wear also can."
Joseph: "Aiyoh, Yuri only goes to those that involves taking off clothes."
YeeTing: "Wear bikini lah! Whoa. HAHAHHA."
Winnie: "Crazy ar, the old ahpeis there already immersed in hot water and the temperature so warm. Wear bikini there, you want them to die of coronary?!?"
Joseph: "Can bring tea leaves go make tea."
Winnie: "You know got people bring buckets there to fill with warm water then bring home? I saw one bring a huge rubbish-bin-like container to put all the buckets of water in?"
Joseph: "I know this guy who makes tea at the shelter he set up himself, using this kind of free hot water. And he distributes them!"
Yuri: "BUt malaysia also have lehs. For what type of people de?"
YeeTing: "Not naked people one lah! HHAHA"
Joseph: "Bring fish lah! Go steam. Then eat there!"
Winnie: "You know the water is so hot when it drips you can see the steam coming off the ground! And you can choose between soaking ur feet only or your whole body. There are buckets hanging around everywhere for you to choose."
Winnie: "Then there were this family of cheena people. They went to fill the tall buckets full of HOT WATER. And they just jumped right in without waiting for it to cool!"

Im sorry I totally cracked up the way the conversation is going. In my head the china people were like, cooking themselves. Crystal was also in helpless laughter. She's this other really friendly part-timer girl with me, and yesterday was both of our last days.

Winnie: "Oh gosh. Can you imagine the temperature of the water?! And there was this old man. He filed a bucketful of water and POURED IT OVER HIS HEAD immediately without hesitation!"

I really really couldnt stop laughing at this point in time. Stupid things were going on in my head, and her body language matched with her descripton, along with her small chubby cute appearance combined were super duper hilarious. Crystal was laughing nonstop also. Jesus. THe old man, bless him, must be senile. Still cook his brain like that. SIAO. China people. Worse. Like brewing themselves in a pot of soup. Omg, these people are nuts, INSANE.

Joseph: "If you bring the food there to cook, and sell, whoa. Can earn money! GO there, Bring the ingredients and use the hot water to cook wanton mee. hot water, cold water, hot water, cold water. NOODLES FOR SALE~"
YeeTing: "Shi shao de loh~~~~" -in her malaysian slang and really funny funny tone-
Yuri: "But i think its good for old people, cause water warm mah, can sooth their pain in ostheporosis etc"
Winnie: "Yeah yeah I think so too."
Joseph: "Go there make money, set up a stall.."
YeeTing: "Joseph shi lame dao~~~~~~" -insert Malaysian slang and super cheeky face-

Omg, I couldnt stop laughing at the conversation. Joseph keeps going on and on about food. Winnie plans on bout her next trip there with her husband, and to keep in ind the things to bring like foot scrub, ice water, two eggs (thanks to joseph), towel, etc. YeeTIng keeps talking and adding spice with her slang. And Yuri keeps asking bout attire there. Crystal and I digested our bloated stomach by just laughing.

Then we had 5 mins left, so we went upto look at sportswear. 4th floor. Then this girl looked at me, like recognising me like that. Then she approcahed me and asked some weird question. Its was only then that Crystal and I remembered we were still in our uniforms. LOL. So we told them, uh, sorry we don't belong to this department, we don't know.

As if that wasn't enough. We went to this section of Puma's because Crystal was looking for Puma shoes. While we were mindlessly scaning and browsing, a lady asked me, "Hi, have you got the kids version of the Ferrari shoes?" I went, "Uhmm. I..."

Haven't even answer, then Crystal got bombarded with another question. "Is this all for the sales item?" Crytsal replied, "Actually we dont work here, we are fromdownstairs." I added in amusedly "We are on our break." Customer was like, "OH, you are shopping too?" And her husband gave us an amused but friendly smile.

And when I was looking through Reebok things, the promoter looked at us, and gave us a curious face. LOL. "Can I help you?" He must have thought we were looking for a price tag of a random item.

I tell you, we didnt stay longer, just went downstairs to quickly sign back in. Of course, not without the usual toilet trips and locker-hang-around-for-a-whiles.

Oh. And on my last day, I broke a ceramic pot. Yu know the huge Korean pots used to keep food warm and all. The box even had a huge fragile sticker slapped on it.
$68 bucks.
I just dropped it on the ground. The indians were like GASPPPS. And I swear the promoter jumped.

"Orh, ni si liao ni si liao!" (You die liao you die liao)

Yeeting saw the commotion and came over. "Open and check, nvm." SO we did. The promoter did the honours man. She took out the lid first. Flicked her fingers at it. Intact.

The indian guy and his family, yeeting, me and promoter heaved a sign of relief. Promoter removed the lid, and everyone went AWWW, GASPS, etc. I just looked on in shock. She did this really comical action many of us probably have seen on msn.

She threw her hands up in the air, and swung them around in horror. Like singing hallelujah. But this is for the wrong reason. Yeeting gave her that fierce look and she went back to change another one for the customer. Meanwhile, she told me, nvm, continue tending the till and serving the customer. Said the higher rank people will settle. So I did.

Customer: "Hmm, Ivy Tan."
Ivy: "Yep, that's me."

Shit.
Im so busted. But since its my last day, I guess nothing worse can happen. LOL. And nothing did. HAHAHA. Damn funny.

Yeeting: "Haiyo Ivy, its your last day, and you break something! HAHAHA. Not bad huh!"
LOL. When i stick my tongue out at her, she says "Ni bu yao huai dan huh!" (Don't be naughty huh!) And she calls me Si3 Gui3 (I dunno how to translate this), cause got once when she was the cashier and I was her packer, we tried calling customers over to our cashier after previous ones left. But they couldnt hear. LOL.

YT: "Shi fan de loh~~~~ (Is irritating one LOH~~ *in malaysian slang*) Call so many time also can't hear."
Ivy: "Yeah lah! Aiyah." -looks at auntie in her 40s trying to dress young and act chio- "People's hearing abilities decline with age you see."
YT: "SI3 GUI3 ar ni IVY!"

And we will be sniggering to ourselves when serving the customer. LOL.

Shucks. As you can see, I miss that place, and I hadnt blogged bout so many things. Shall do so the next time I get the complete set of pictures of all the people working there :D HAHA

P.S. Vivien (another nice senior. Aiyah. Everyone of them is nice lahs. HAHAHA) called me. LOL.) At 1015am, it was because she forgot ytd was my last day. And today only she was working cause two of the part-timers left. LOL. I think she meant morning shift? At 12.15pm later, she called to ask bout some delievery stuff I packed. LOL.

Finally, on a final note, TABLEWARE ROCKS! (: <3

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