working in my mom's shop is not as relaxing as I thought.
Although I have been there a couple of times ever since I came back, today's basically the first day I worked for the whole day, from the moment the shop door was open until the very last minute we cleared and cleaned the shop and called it a day. because,
one of the worker took a leave today I'm a very obedient and helpful daughter that's all =p
At first I thought it was an easy job as I didn't really see much customers around for the past few visits I had, I even brought my ipod and reader digest to kill my time haha so smart right? And as what I expected, there ain't a single customer for the first hour, my mom was terribly sick so she had some rest in my grandma's house nearby so it was only me.. and an aunty staring into the blank space. Actually it was only her doing that! haha I was happily reading my book and texting.
And the next thing I know, I was very much frightened by "the sudden continuous influx of customers" during lunch time. It was scary T__T Out of the blue everyone came to have lunch here, I took orders, served desserts and drinks, cleaned tables and the worst part is to calculate the bills omg. I'm never good in math, can you imagine
I actually asked the customers to pay rm49.30 when the bill is only rm24.20?And speaking of taking orders, I don't even know what kinda food they have in the kitchen, and whenever people asked for recommendation, I would give a very doink smile and said
"everything is nice in this shop!" (but this is true) =.= cannot tahan myself. And I made mistakes in taking orders too! I would miss one bowl of Laksa Terengganu when the customers asked for two. Imagine when I had to take order for 10 teenagers who are constantly changing their mind *smack head*
And trust me, there are so many kinds of people with different variety of weird taste in this world that you can never think of. There was this uncle who actually asked me to
add warm water to the red bean soup dessert that he wants, what the? =.=
And I was practically bullied by a kid! The kid came with his dad and his little sister, wanted to have 2 red bean soups and nasi lemak and some other stuff. I served the red bean soup bowl by bowl, thinking that they might spill if I hold two at a time then as soon as I served the first bowl, the father gave that bowl to the little gal. The 5-year-old boy was obviously super beh syok so he looked at me with so much hatred and said
"WHY CAN'T YOU JUST SERVE TWO TOGETHER? YOU CAN'T TAKE TWO ISSIT?!" and you know what, this ego arrogant 1+
apologised and ran back to the kitchen immediately to get what he wants T___T AND (yes I haven't done telling story yet) when I served his nasi lemak, he pointed at the sambal sauce and screamed, at the top of his lungs,
"I SAID I DON'T WANT CHILLI ALREADY WHY YOU STILL GIVE ME CHILLI HOW YOU TAKE ORDERS I DON'T WANT CHILLI!!!!" It was the father who calmed him down by saying he could take the sambal away. Why la my life is this pathetic? T___T
Somemore there was this weird uncle.. which I suspect he has some mental problem, stood in front of the counter and stared at me until I could feel goosebumps all over me. No, I'm not discriminating mentally-ill people but he seriously freaked me out! It was my fault also la when he walked in, I passed him the menu and since then he kept following me wherever I went.
The last thing he did that I finally couldn't take it is when he asked where I live, with a smile. And I replied "oh this is my mom's shop" I don't even know why haha and he seemed to find the answer perfectly fine hahahaha.
There was a group of chws students came to have lunch after practicing pancaragam (brass band), based on their sweaty uniform =p They make me miss my
secondary school life so so so much! =3 the usual gathering aka yumchar after some school activities, the noise and chaos in class, the discussion about handsome seniors =3 ahh the good old dayssss =))
sorry no photos for this post I was ultra busy today okay didn't even have time to reply text! but sying did take a few photos of this shop using her dslr to show me when I was still in perth, how sweet of her =3 I might post them up in my next post, or not.
my conclusion is.. it's really fun but tiring as well. I was dead tired and my whole body was so smelly and sticky after the 4 hours of war. I was quite surprised that the aunty is way more organised and calm than me hmm. And everyone loves
bubur cha cha!!!! *bubur chacha glittering at the background* Basically every customer would order at least one bowl of bubur cha cha, and there's no doubt why it's this popular because it's so damn nice and cheap!
Okay okay, conclusion is I needa go to bed now, 'cause I've promised Lian that I'm going to have grilled/fried squid with them and watch Monsoon Cup after that tee hee such a nice plan. My cousin said I'm excited about my first day because I'm jakun like that =.= and because I've never worked in my entire life before so I found this fun wth.
sorry for the wordy post heh. I'll miss you Sarah if you happen to be stranded in Thailand hahahaha *TOUCH WOOD*
edit: I almost forgot to mention this. This morning I received a tragic news from my parents, a person whom I know but only met once, passed away in a car accident in Besut last night. Life is so fragile and unpredictable le sigh. I met him once when I was planning to get into Matrikulasi Pahang and he was a senior, which means he's only 22 this year. He's studying med in a local uni.
Sometimes I wonder why do we even need to love and care for a person and then see him/her leave, when you are not even mentally and emotionally prepared for it? I always believe that there's a reason behind everything, but I can't really comprehend the rationale of this incident. Imagine the excruciating pain the parents have to bear. Maybe that's why it's important to stay alert and play safe on the road. May him rest in peace. And heaven really does exist, I'm sure he'll be there =)
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