Sunday, June 12, 2005

2 months training in Putrajaya Shangri-La

Well, it's been 6 weeks since i started my training in Shangri-La Putrajaya... it's my second industrial training for my course (Hotel Management). For the first training i was in Corus Hotel KL, well that was quite a bad experience...

Before this training started i was so sad and so worried that i cannot stand the training... but after 6 weeks of training, now i'm kinda sad that training is ending soon... Putrajaya Shangri-La is just a small hotel with only 118 rooms, a 5 star hotel focusing on personalized services for the guests.. Because it's a small hotel, so the staffs are very close to each other... Luckily this training i am with Sherri, Bee Fong, Natassya and Jason, so at least there are companions... phew...

The people working there are very, very nice towards us... Miss Lyn, the Training Manager who is in charge of the trainees is a very kind, she even plan a discussion with us once in awhile... Then Miss Joann, the F&B secretary, coincidently, was our college senior! In the kitchen also the chefs are very, very kind to us... they will explain everything to us and teach us whatever we want to learn...

Well, 2 months there of course i've learnt new recipes, techniques, the experience... I also learnt that working in the kitchen is not as easy as you think, just cook cook and cook... imagine u have to work split shifts every day, sometimes double shift, you have to think fast and act fast, you have to be mentally and physically prepared for each task.. sometimes even get screwed by other people... handle complaints... Of course i know that everywhere, any company, any occupation also is the same... but...

Actually, i really enjoy cooking, i also wish that i can open a restaurant in the future... but, one of my chefs asked Bee Fong why did she choose this course, and she said that she likes to cook, and my chef answered 'well, that's a very expensive hobby' i find it very true, cooking u can just learn at home, from recipe books, from your mom, from your grandma, or take up cooking classes, why hotel management? I'm sure that i won't want to work in the management, but i'm gonna take up till degree... sigh! Is this life? Why is our future so important? Are there enough jobs for each and every one of us? There are so many fresh graduates who can't get a job for like 2 to 3 years... Why can't we just do whatever we want to do... it's like for example you study until the age of 24 or 25, then until 55 years old u work and work and work... everyday the same thing over and over again... 6 days a week... so sienz... That's why since you're still in school or college, enjoy every single moment of it... that's where you have true friends, that's where politics won't happen (well, not as serious as working life is), that's where there's still lecturers and teachers teaching you, that's where knowledge come from easily... i seriously respect those people who were born in earlier decades, most of them come from poor families and like during war and stuff, so they work so hard... it's like 10 times harder than what we're doing nowadays... but somehow people nowadays are like so pampered and picky on what they want to do... urgh!

I'm crapping... haha! Thanks for reading... Yawn... Good night! =Eve=

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