When there's no Better Idea for a Restaurant Name

The best thing working overtime, is I can skip a boring meal from my mum.




It’s always full of work in PageOne so today out of nothing I volunteered myself to work OT until 9pm. You know, I’m always curious that why they have 3 shifts where the fact is we have only 5-6 of us working. Today I start with morning shift and I go back together with the last shift.

Unlike Kinokuniya which is support by staff from various divisions, here we have to one-leg-kicking everything from collecting shipment till housekeeping and customer service. If there’s no chore to do, sun must be rising from the west that day.

But it’s pure fun. I’m loving it.

Oh ya, today I bump into Elaine while I during my lunch break. She have returned from Sabah for 3 weeks before she go back to her University.

She’s such a pleasant girl to talk with.



Back to the topic, I am entertained by a menu when I’m having my dinner in a Malay Restaurant.

“Cik, Mek TomYam ni mee ke ape?”

“Itu name kedai lah~!”


I was like, oh.. alright..

Shhhhh~!

Have been promise to send the kids photos, and I’m awfully late.



Send already lah, no more complains okay?

A Dreadful Breifing

Back to the corporate world again. This time is with Kinokuniya bookstore, PageOne the upper floor to be exact.



My first day of working starts with a serious briefing. Every staff is standing still in horizontal lines like boyscouts waiting for order. I even ask Grace whether we need to sing Negaraku in occation like this.

But she gives me a stern face instead. Haha.. Alright la, relax…



The person-in-charge talks a lot about the internal operation of the bookstore, what-to-do and what-shouldn’t that kind of stuff, which I can’t understand at all. All I understand is every staff of Kinokuniya needs to take turn to do a public speaking in front of others, because it’s the only thing which is less complicated.

Wei, say is say “retail assistant” jeh.. Actually is bookkeeper lor. Need or not oh? Lucky me is under PageOne, no need to embarrassed in front of other people :P

The briefing ends with an awkward talking practice: Good morning sir; How do you do; Can I help you; Thank you; Please come again…

They speak so fast, I couldn’t even keep up!