06/09/2011 - Yin & yang

Trust me, it’s not gonna be the most exciting day yet, but it was indeed one of the most memorable day, in my working life. Imagine it started with a huge embarrassment in the middle of morning briefing. I mistook a hotel tour from 06 Sep to 02 Sep, which was humiliating for sure!!! And worst of all, Ms Courtenay was there, I must have brought her down down down…

Well the rest of the day involved with all sorts of running. Nothing was exciting enough to heat up the day, until lunch time. Guess what, I was about to leave when I caught him at the line waiting for his food. Sometimes I really think it does tons of good just to lay back a bit here and there. At least it gave me opportunities to get what was least expected! He was cute, as ever. But hei, did I just receive a glance from him. Well, I couldn’t tell, but I felt something unusual in his smile, it’s brighter than usual, much much brighter and bigger. I didn’t pay that much attention. Things only heated up when I went down to pastry kitchen. Hollywood, believe or not, I was fully trapped in the goddamn scam of the pastry team. I should have got the hint when the team leader asked me to fill in the date of delivery of the cake. She had never asked me to do so!!! Where the haze could I get a pen. Oh yeah, another guy told me the source, which was a pen held conveniently on his arm!!!! Damn, and still I didn’t quite get what was going on. So the story went on, I wrote down the date, returned the pen. And that was when it reached climax!!! The whole pastry refused to take it, they kinda babeled altogether at the same time like: She’s gonna put it below her pillow and dream about him, or she’s gonna hold it tight day and night, or stuff like that. Man, I was in deep shit!!! I couldn’t find a way to help myself but standing there, watching my face turning into ketchup color. I was insisting to return the pen when somebody commented:” Need his phone number, he could give you!!!” Gosh, it’s like a whole world was laughing in my face!! And all I gotta do is to dig a whole and jump down, sitting there like forever!!!!

I didn’t quite remember the exit part. Like I ran away as fast as possible or something like that. Well, who cares anymore. I knew it!! I should have realized it the moment everything just started and could have reacted differently, instead of acting like an airhead, blushing red bean!! I could have just turned around after that mean joke, and casually said something like: “what, really, I can take this pen? That handsome guy must be really lucky today to have his pen belongs to this pretty girl” Oh never mind, what bugs me was the entire kitchen already knew my tip top secret, how should I face them the next time? Part of me wanna get his phone number, the other part argued that why must I take the first move? It’s so confusing, it’s so hard, I hate it most when things turned out this complicated!!!Ashhh

Later in the afternoon, there was Weekly Sales meeting followed up. Okay, now this was where the steam coming from. We were reviewing out T&Cs regarding event setups in our ballroom: How to prevent damage and communication methods among related departments in order to protect our properties and client’s interests. Some elaborate setups with huge backdrops like today’s Hennessy dinner could cost us greatly in terms of our in house interior as well as everybody’s general safety, since they covered the exit doors. Worst yet, there was also a concern about tearing down timing whether it’d be enough before the next morning’s meeting from another big group. So we kinda had a very constructive discussion with Director of F&B – Phillip and F&B Manager too. There were lots of questions and difficulty raised from the Events Sales team, like how we are going to explain to clients about all of these in house rules and regulations, how to ask them for compensation should there is a case arising. We were also introduced to the Client Event organized this 26 Sep to introduce potential clients with the sales department’s new members coming soon. The entire 2-hour-meeting was a real debate on fire. Never before had I seen so much statements and diverse points of view like such!! Really worth learning and understanding. Furthermore, Courtenay also informed us about the upcoming Smartselling 1 for us – all newcomers. So exciting, I cant wait for it!!!!

So end of the day, I was completely exhausted from overwhelming ups and downs of my emotional scales in all aspects of work life balance! But a jelly moon cake lying beautifully inside the kitchen was a nice touch to end the day. I was so eager to try it, just to realized it’s actually not as such a big deal as I thought. Perhaps my expectation was too high, or the cake just simply didn’t make any grade at all. Whatever, I’m still grateful to my 6th auntie-in-law, she’s just awesome in every way, so that my life could be better in some way or another~~


PS: Come to think about it now, the kind of feeling I had when I was tricked by the kitchen team, was rather like when I first met you. The similar blush, butterflies in stomach, and skipping a heart beat. And yeah, it happened at the kitchen too, to a kitchen member too. Why must it be so, dear? Like destiny or what, I didn’t mean to cheat on you or anything. Sometimes my minds just couldn’t keep my heart from following what it wants to do….

Night before holidays begin

Yeah, to be precise, it's the 1st of September, right before our National day!!!

We were so excited, not merely for the public holiday itself but for the Karaoke Champion Night coming up. At the bottom line, it was organized to farewell Sis Hoa, who was going to leave us on the 5th to join Happy land with sis Linh. However, the fact that it has been a long time the whole team havent been to any KTV and this chance miraculously happened to cure that quest XD. And Ms Courtenay accepted the invitation too.

Work life has been awful and awesome at some points of time. One day, I was caught dead eating guest leftover buffet without permission and right at the public, well it's a shame on me. For yesterday morning, I screwed up the Revenue meeting report with my missing details here and there. It's all about carelessness, I feel bad though, for I have claimed myself a person who pays attention to details and now look at me. Worse yet, this week's sales meeting was a complete boiling point,the drama at peak occurred when we couldnt open Delphi programme in the New boardroom because it was not installed properly. All the way was my improper coordination. Yet Sis Nguyet and Sis Thanh were taking all the blames from the angry birk - Nghi. I was so mad at me, seriously. Coz it's already the third time and I must not afford to let it happen.

All the sadness aside, I have tons of lessons to learn by heart. The bright side of the days stay in those knickknacks that we had. We were well treated those days, fool was always around us, though we didnt ask for them that much. Food from the sales team in Danang, food from Hungry Ghost in Event services dept. Food we ordered out: yogurt, goi cuon and bánh da lợn. All were so yummy, I couldnt resist and yea, so many weights have been recklessly added too TT^TT.

let's go back to the KTV night. At first we met sis Linh, it's such a long time and still her figure was envious as usual, I wonder how... Ms Courtenay was like a spring momentum of the whole night. All the tunes didnt sound so right, but her spirit and unique way of singing them made those songs selected by her seemed like they were made to be sung by her. The atmosphere was exciting, energetic and crazily fun. A new member of the team was also introduced to us, Ms Thao-who will take over wholesale acc. And I was introduced, in shock, to another side of Diem - wild and sexy in a simple way. She's like, smoking hot, no frills, just thrills!Now i understood what made her qualified for the position, not anybody else....

So Courtenay and Nghi picked up some of the 90s, 80s songs that swear to God, I've never even heard of their names, but somehow they were magically familiar to us, so we could sing along with them. Sis Chau was like a super(ficial) star of the whole show with her dancing, expression and all. we loved it so much!!! She really deserved the title of PR leader, no doubt. Sis Thanh indeed had a brilliant voice that impressed us so much, totally opposite with her normal soft husky briefing voice. On the other hand, Truc - the fun girl, seemed to be shy and introvert all night long with not much singing nor dancing, just sit and chillax. Yet she's cute in her innocent outfit, which was somehow converse with her bubbly personality. Sis Nguyet make a duet performance with Courtenay in YMCA. It was so entertaining, we were literally rolling on the floor laughing :)))). Sadly though, she had to leave early for pending work at her office.

The rest of the night ran quiet slowdown after Courtenay made a move. We just gradually calmed down and ended the night jolly together.

In sum, the night was not too long, yet amazingly great. For a moment, we thought we were much closer than we used to be at work. The rest of the team could not make it, but we all know there will always be a next time for us, sooner later :D