Piece of advice

Well well well, a 3 day weekend but i'm stuck at home, doing my report! Urgh, what a good thing to do during weekends... Well, yesterday i went out for lunch with 3 of my best friends, Ching Yee, Anjanna and Ria, since all of them got no classes due to haze. Oh, by the way, the haze had cleared out already, and 'flew' to Penang instead. Hah! Oh, last Thursday during law class we learn about this 'neighbour principle' in the Negligence chapter saying that 'we should foresee that our actions or omissions should do no harm to our neighbour', well, thanks very much Indonesia, the haze doesn't harm us right? Hah, the haze just make people sick and faint and die right, isn't it harmful enough? So can we sue them for negligence? Oklar, it's just crap, sorry... Ok back to lunchie, we drove around in Danau (Taman Desa - my lovely neighbourhood) and decided to dine in Hao Wei Dao Restaurant (means Tasty Restaurant in english), well, they have some set lunches with free dessert going on, so i ordered Chicken Chop with Pineapple Rice, An ordered Spaghetti Bolognaise, Ching ordered American Breakfast (weird huh? Lunch time eat breakfast set, well... that's Ching Yee!) and Ria ordered Chicken Aglio Pasta. The service was DAMNNNNNNNN slow wei... we waited 1 hour for our food... anyway, i imagined mine as a piece of chicken with pineapple fried rice but it was a piece of flatten chicken chop (well i got it right) and white rice and chopped canned pineapples in a small sauce dish . Hmm, i'd give it a rating of 6/10, i wouldn't mind coming again, as the food taste not bad, just that they HAVE to improve their speed.

Then i went home to continue sitting in front of the computer and staring at the blank page of my project. Urgh, i just don't have the mood to do it! I don't know why but i seem to be very lazy since after my training in Putrajaya.

Then for dinner, which was suppose to be in Sri Neela (Taman desa Pasar Malam Night), we cancelled as we already went for lunch, so me and my parents went for dinner at Tengkat Tong Shin, behind Jalan Alor, a restaurant called 'El Cerdo'. It's a restaurant opened 1 month ago by a German chef serving mostly pork dishes...

Walk up a flight of stairs and Monica, one of the waitresses welcomed us into the restaurant. The place is air condition, moderately litted and there are about 12 dark brown wooden tables. The restaurant is decorated in yellow and orange and with various pictures of pigs all around. First Monica gave us the beverage menu and we ordered Rose Tea (it's actually Chinese Tea). But usually people will order wine because it goes really well with meat. Then mum ordered as she came before. First came an individual plate, very small portion of German sausage with marinated white radish and a basket of baguette, complimentary from the restaurant to stimulate our appetite. You can taste a bit of wine they use to marinate the sausages. Then came the appetizer platter we ordered, it has small portions of different appetizers from the a la carte menu: Seafood cocktail, cheese and ham salad, liver pate, pork in wine aspic, and one more is in some spanish name but it is 'chee yau char' (pig oil's sediment) Haha, heck with the name, i dunno what you call it! Yum yum! Maybe i was damn hungry, that's why everything taste wonderful to me. Then came the two main course which is the Grilled Pork Shouler Steak, and the Barbequed Pork Ribs. First bite on the steak, my gosh, it's so tender and nice! They come with side dishes like carrot and raisin salad, jacket potatoes, roasted tomato, red cabbage salad. The steak is a must try, but the ribs were too sweet and strong with wine taste, so i didn't really like it.

After finishing our main course, the head chef came out and sat down with us and chit chat for a while. My mum ask him to give me some advice being in the cuisine line, and the first thing he asked me was 'what do you want to be in the next 15 years?', i shrugged. Then he said that, if you want to be successful, you must make a decision on what you want to be in 5, 10, 15 years from now. Lock yourself inside the room, and think what you want to be. Don't care about what your mum or dad says, or what they want you to be, it's your life, you ownself choose your path. And parents OUGHT to support you in whatever you do. He also said that it's really hard work and tough working in the kitchen, but it's fun. He even asked me to work during weekends at his place. Then he said 2 things that makes me enjoy cooking even more! He said 'it's hard work, but it's fun, especially when you see the satisfaction on the guests' faces' and 'when it's tough, when i'm stressed, you know what i do? I cook.'

I really, really enjoy cooking, but i also know that working in the kitchen is tough, and it's tougher for a girl, so until now i don't know whether i should do management or not. Guess there's alot for me to improve on... even our lecturer in college said that our class lack of time management and he did not see any improvement since the first day he taught us. Sigh! Guess there's alot of thinking need to be done! Ok, gtg now, signing off... =Eve=