my last day at starbucks ~

hello~ i got lots of things to update but today, let me finish this first, it should be done long time ago but i still haven't received the photos yet, what to do >.< nvm, maybe next time only upload the photos la.....

okay, as i said, i choose 17th august be my last day instead of other days. why?? the reason was........ 17th aug was the 234th day i worked in starbucks, hehe, easy to remember mah~ it's a bit too rush for me cuz i only left two days to prepare my stuffs but then i still stick to it, ya, that's me ^^

i thought my last day will be at nwp, but i end up with working at gp, kind of weird, but nvm, since my boss is there, i feel more comfortable working there too, perhaps for my whole last month at starbucks i worked at gp more often than at nwp.

gonna miss starbucks very very much, miss the coffee, frappuccino, foods, environment, people, customers and also the machines >.< i miss the aroma of the coffee beans T.T~ felt very sad to leave my friends over there, we have been working together for so many days, we chat, we joke and play around.... but i need to leave, know that since the first day i stepped into starbucks, i can't be working there forever, 它只是我人生中的小插曲而已 . new chapter of my life is going to start very soon, starbucks will become one of my memory then, a precious memory ^^ i'll visit it more often, to find back that feeling, when i am lost..... starbucks..... i love you <3

taken on my last day at starbucks with uniform before work

hui yin

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random

HAHAHA!!!!!!! today is my off day supposedly, but then my boss called me for my help, so~ is okay to me, since i'm gonna leave starbucks soon, summore cuz is my boss, he seldom ask for help, so i decided to work lo, he has been so stressful since he get transferred to gurney plaza, pity him... >.< haiz...... time flies, still got lots of things need to do, uni starts next week, AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

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let me have a quick post before i go to work

today is the 15th day i work in a role, siao liao.... @.@ need to wait until this sunday only got off day, really crazy~ i still got lots of things need to do.... what else i need to bring to uni? there got iron? do i need it? what else~ what else~?? long time didn't tidy my room d, currently can't find anything in my room, how am i going to pack my stuffs? i need rest, seriously, damn tired, working at gp is like working during cny, customers keep on coming in non stop for few hours, u can imagine they queue from counter until outside, and i need to ask same questions to everyone of them, in the end i got no energy to talk, crazy~~~ summore no time to drink water also, i only had my breakfast at 6pm. vorking at high-volume's store is killing, same salary but different amount of job, luckily i worked with those seniors, or else i will die there >.< but it is fun working there too, got chance to experience different things, few days is okay, long term working there is hell. okay, almost time liao, see u all soon. bye~

huiyin

update!! update!!

finally.... tmr is my off day, although i need to give tuition in the afternoon, but i still consider it as off day, fhew~ finally can get rest liao!!!!! pass few weeks ago, i started to work at gurney tower's starbucks as well, cuz there have not enough partners, so, i went there to help up. it's quite fun working there, got the chance to meet with other partners from other store, see different style of management, and i also learn a lot from there. during the first day i worked at GT, i was very unfamiliar with their things, cuz every store is different, although we have standard prosedures, there are still some differences, at first i was very uncomfortable with it, keep on thinking why like this why like that, but then since i was at GT, i need to adapt myself there, by now i am quite familiar with that place already, GT's starbucks is also a nice place to work at, the manager was my class's facilitator, Akmal, so i saw him before i went there. Adrian and Heidi are the store supervisors, they are very nice people, lots of fun working with them. Faruq and Zul are the partners, they are very friendly too, so glad to meet them. besides, i got the chance to meet partners from other stores as well, like rachel from straits quay, jun shean from 1st avenue, aya from queensbay,and also a partner from pragin mall, can't remember her name d...... in conclusion, GT's starbucks, not bad huh!!! ohya, actually i want to explain about what is so called back-to-back. it is a prosess of working at night and than followed by working in the next morning again, eg. today i worked for closing and then tmr i worked for opening. so now u all probably know what is back-to-back d, and what i actually want to tell u all is i worked back-to-back 3 days in a row...@.@ ya, they said i crazy d, but then is fun, just want to know where is my limit, that's all. so i worked opening at NWP and closing at GT, so......siao...... then the next week more cool, opening at NWP then closing at GT then go back NWP for spring cleaning then go back home sleep 2 hours then opening at NWP then middle at GT, really crazy, i admit that, and then hor......... i took mc for the next day, mucle cramp >.<, consiquence of lack of exercise for a long long period...... but...... shiok!!!!! >.< so, forcing myself to the limit is ......quite fun but very very very tired, now also not yet fully recover, hopefully tmr can get enough sleep, or else they have to suffer some more, cuz i keep on acting very crazy this few weeks.... hahaha!!!! it has been 3 months+ i worked at starbucks d....... never know i can stay at one place for such a long time, let see how far can i go, that's all for today, wait for the next update la!! bye!! hui yin

CLASS!!!!!

hi there~~


here i come again >.<

today i am going to write about the class i attend two days ago, will be updating the post during cny soon, i hope.

okay, just to inform, to be a barista, certainly you need to attend classes, or else the training program won't be complete. since they will not open class unless there is enough people, i have to wait until now only i can go for the class. 14th february was my first day of class, valentine's day, easy to remember, pity to those couple who need to sacrifice their time on that day. according to my senior, this class is a big class, a total of 20++ new barista, and the place they use to held the class was our store, so good, i am more familiar with our store :) so, the class started at 10 am, i reached there around 9.30 am, saw a lot of people with same uniform. our facilitators for the first days were Emily, 1st avernue's store manager and Akmal, gurney tower's store manager. they are very friendly. to me, the class is quite boring, then we have our lunch at the food court, just imagine a huge crowd of people wearing black shirt black pants sitting together. then go back class again. that day we do a lot of coffee testing, we tried house blend, sulawesi, kenya and also a supermarket's brand coffee, just to let us differentiate starbucks coffee beans and other coffee beans. besides that, we also tried low fat milk and full cream milk to experience the diffence between the body of the milks, seriously orange to learn what is called acidity and also sarsi to taste the flavour. luciky we didn't get diarrhoea after this. although the class is quite boring, we actually learned a lot of new things about starbucks and also coffee. in conclusion, coffee ia an art, learning the knowledge about coffee is fun. after working at starbusks for one and a half months, i only realise starbucks is a big family.before that, i only heard seniors said he or she is from where, what happen to this store, that store, never fell connected to them cuz i know non of them, but now i know a lot of people from different store, maybe i dunno all of them, at least we meet before, now i have friends from 1st avenue, island plaza, gurney plaza, straits quay, queensbay mall and pragin mall, i think that's it la, boarders and gurney tower didn't send new barista this time, whoa~ it's a really big family i tell you. starbucks is a great place to work at, you can feel the friendlyness among all partners, like what we are creating for the customer, i love starbucks so much

on the second day of class, Eric, the store manager of straits quay taught us about bar, a lot of knowledge we have learned tat day. besides, all of us have the chance to do two drinks, after that oni know that caramel macchiato actually taste not bad, oh yea, it was the 1st drink i have in starbucks. luckily no more coffee testing that day, two tall size coffee is enough to cause insomnia >.<>

hui yin

day 26

hihi!!!
today is the day after thaipusiam, which means they are coming back from botanical garden, and i only know that when i arrived at store that day. from the infomation i get, every year they will pass our store around 12 midnight, and today is friday, store will close at 1 am, so.............. u can guess what i am going to say, ya~ tonight die la >.< brendan do cafe, i do bar, ee ling helps both of us and as usual, kevin do his stuffs la, after he finished he also help us. thaipusiam already like this, can't imagine how are we going to survive during chinese new year TT.TT in the end we go home at 3 am @.@ extremely sleepy, ohya, i accidentally do mistake again, really not purposely u know, i dropped a pice of chocolate caramel on the floor when i want to put it in the box, then..................... we eat lo, really not purposely drop it so that we can eat the cake, trust me >.< align="center">
this is the casing for the cakes and beside it is the empty bottles of seriously orange



the left hand side one is the dunno-what-cake that i ate during first coffee testing and at the right is starbucks chocolate cake. both taste very nice ^.^

this is the snownut, i give one to my mom and another one to my brother, so i didn't have the chance to taste it

this is raisin scone, my brother have it too, actually is my dinner, but then i am full after i ate the tomyam danish, so i took it home

today eat a lot of mark-out food, lolx!! i don't think we have second chance to do that, haha!!

hui yin

looking forward for the coming tuesday^^

day 23, 24 & 25

yo~
this few days nothing much happened, tuesday managed to wake up and be at store on time, not many people that morning, got the chance to taste butterscoot cinnamon roll (dunno i spell it correctly or not) and chicken melt, very delicious ^^ then............. felt very sleepy, finally went home and slept till night. wednesday do closing, first time learn to do bar closing, many things to wash, suddently the song " 洗刷刷 " ran over my mind, swt..... thursday closing again, this time done everything faster than the first time, but then i break something, duuno what is its name, hopefully they don't blame me, tonight will know how they settle it. ohya, i get shock when i touched metals two days in a roll >.< and i bang my thumb when i opened the cupboard, so painful~~ tonight duuno they will let me do bar or cafe, will see tonight...........



hui yin
peppermint mocha frappuccino, i love it !!!

day 22

today is my off day, or i should say yesterday was my off day since now is already 3.16am. although is my off day, i have to go there at night, after closing more accurately la cuz starting from tomorrow starbucks is selling new foods ^^, so all of us need to be there to help out. what we do was arranging the foods in the food case, and i was the one pointed to do the mission, in the end, my nickname become "designer"............ speechless =.= luckily that day i didn't help to draw the board, or else.............. u know la, i don't have the artistic cells in my body, don't shame myself. okay, we are out of topic now, back to the foods, we used up about one hour ++ to put all the foods inside the food cake, some more the cakes are really fragile aka very sensitive, need extra caution during handling the cakes, can u imagine we have to arrange them every morning and the keep back in the fridge every night? omg.......... now everyone love middle so much cuz middle task no need to deal with these difficult stuffs, i personally still prefer opening than closing, arranging is better the keeping. now we got about 30 smtg food to mermorise, gosh O.O............. baru saja i started to remember the names of th food and now i have to delete them and key in new names........... so pity me, some more the names are very long, i think they want to make the food more class, more attractive ~ ohya, tomorow...... i mean today i am doing opening, so i am the first one among the partners (they use the word 'partner 'instead of 'colleague') who promote the foods to the customer XD,yo!!!! ( duuno i proud for what) if you are a good observer, probably you will discover something, yeah~ i am doing opening but now i still lepak-ing in blogger, cool huh?! cuz i am doing opening, they let me go home earlier, Kevin followed me at the back cuz it is very late d, about 2 am, very dangerous riding alone especially girl~ by the way, the he is doing opening also, cuz he is the manager, he knows the most, of course he must be the one who in charge in the opening ceromony, good, if i have any problems with the food, he will help me up, hehehehe...................... okay, i need some sleep before i go to work, or else tomorrow there will have a panda inside starbucks serving the customer. night!




hui yin
now is 4.00 am in the morning...........

day 18

today i tought i will be doing opening with Edwin, mana tau when i was tidy up my hair besides my motor, i saw Kevin parks his motor behind mine, O.O!! unexpected........ then like always, do this do that, morning usually not much customer, bad thing is will be very boring, good thing is there will be not much trouble during handling POS register......so..... just let it be......... today ate firecracker, not bad, it tastes spicy ......... then go back at 4 smtg, wait till 6 smtg go back store again. today's meeting got a lot of things to brief, but before that, we do coffee testing and tea sampling. we taste Verona and Chai tea (if not mistaken),of course chocolate cake cannot bo left out ^^ everything tastes nice today.then we were informed that starting from next week there will be new foods coming, gosh @.@.......... a lot of new things to learn, even troublesome than now, haiz................. tomorrow opening, so got to sleep now, nite :)




hui yin

day 17

today i do opening with Edwin, reached there around 8.20 am, supposing we have to be there at 8.30am, which our working hour starts........ i wait, wait and wait....
8.45am....... maybe he miss the bus.....
8.55 am...... hey man, our store business hour will begin in 5 minutes, where is him??
9.00am...... maybe he really miss the bus, wait another 10 minutes and see..............
9.10am, customers started to come, have to explain to them and say sorry ><, i called him, nobody answer the phone, maybe he is on his way here......
9.17 am........... called him again, still no respond......
9.24 am..... called him again, get frustrated, called our manager, Kevin, the only phone number i left, and he said he will come immediately..........
tik tok tik tok............ after don't know explain to how many customers later, one of our store's regular customer came, we start chatting.........
around 9.50am, Daya reached Starbucks, Kevin asked him come first cuz he lives nearer, few minutes later, Kevin also reached Starbucks, with an angry face, sure very angry la, has to sacrifice his sweet dream..... then rushing inside the store, we were late for an hour, not yet finish opening the bar the customers already came in, don't know why this morning so many people came to starbucks, everything kelam-kabut.....@.@ Kevin failed to contact Edwin too, so he decided to call Edwin's brother. time run extremely fast today, finally Edwin reached, he tought he do closing today, and his phone was in silent mode............ speechless =.= after that Naim came, he do middle, starts at 12pm, first time meet so many staffs in the morning.......... then i went home at 1.30pm, today my working hour only 5 hours, but it was like 2 hours nia............ haiz............ tomorrow opening again, got to come back at night to attend the meeting............ that's all for today............


hui yin

.......day ??

long time didn't update d, there's only one reason............ lazy lo.........
that day the 大扫除 was really tiring, went home around 2++ am, the rest went home at 4++am, those do opening the next day so kesihan, only can sleep a few hours nia, i doubt if they sleep that day...@.@ luckily i do middle.... then can't really recall what have i done after that, started teach me how to handle POS, then......... nothing new d...... ohya, Beng is transfered to Pragin Mall since saturday.... erm.... what else i want to say................... i prefer opening than closing, dunno why, i like morning than night. i off on monday, hang out with Janet, watched "my exhunted girlfriend" (something like that la), not scary at all.......... erm...........that's all i think....




hui yin
forgot what i drank d.........
mango passion frappuccino, not my taste.....
mocha, it don't taste good as i didn't add shot.....
green tea soya milk latte, XD...... my favourite ^^
caffe latte, i didn't add sugar, so.......
java chip frapp again.......... how come i always do wrongly for that frapp?? >.<

day 8

ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
totally exhausted, closing is so tiring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! today is the first time i do closing, finally met all starbucks' staffs, one is Brendon and another one is Ee lin (i think her name spell like this la). Brendon is younger than me, he just finished his SPM, very funny guy cuz he is also new, just entered starbucks a few days or weeks before me. Surprisingly, he talked mandarin to me, i tought we will use english or hokkien cuz to me, he looks like he is came from kebangsaan school. then he told me he is not from chinese school but he can talk a little bit mandarin, then i was thinking why he talk mandarin to me?? do i look like 100% from chinese school?? whatever la, can communicate is good enough d. he worked middle today so we don't have much time to chat.
then today do closing with Victor, long time didn't see him d, Beng, and Edwin. suddently came in a girl, she is Ee lin, she is suppose to come on tomorrow but she got the wrong infomation from Victor, so i got the chance to meet her earlier. the 2nd surprise today is Victor can speak mandarin too, he spoke mandarin to ee lin but how come he spoke english to me?? what's wrong with the world?? suak......... then i can learn english more........... so, rojak language again.
today do another coffee testing with them, this time we tried breakfast blend and apple-dunno-what. the coffee is not as strong as sumatra, to me it taste better. closing has a lot cleaning to do, clean this clean that, sweep the floor mop the floor, even wash the toilets also, so so so tiring......... tomorrow will be doing closing also, but tomorrow we have 大扫除, so everybody will come tomorrow night, playing with the water.............. i have worked in starbucks for one week d, i did enjoy working with them, everyone is so nice ^^




hui yin
6th cup of coffee---- Hazelnut latte, not bad too, like caramel latte but with hazelnut taste
i get the chance to eat a tuna pie too, and also a bottle of "seriously orange", ya, that's what written on the bottle, "seriously orange".............

day 5, 6 & 7

day 5
still the same persons, Daya, Edwin and met Naim in the afternoon. as wad i was told, there are still 2 more people i haven't meet, i think i will meet them very soon. today started to learn how to make hot coffee d, confused..... ohya, we also have coffee testing today, drank sumatera and ate dunno-wad-name cake, half cheese and half chocolate, quite nice :)

day 6
my 1st off day, on 1/1/2011 , settled all my stuffs, some more went shopping koh.......

day 7
today worked for 8 hours, with Kevin, our store manager, a bit nervous, he reached there earlier than me, paishe nia, let him wait me..... he taught me everything again, to make sure they did teach me the correct things in correct way, until now, i have learn 3 versions of opening d....
he is one of my sifu also, learned all hot coffees from him. although i do mistake on ice-blend today, he didn't scold me, how lucky i am......... i did one module with him before i go to have my lunch break, come back met Edwin, then learned what to do in the afternoon, then started to saw some blood after one week here, ya, blood, i cut my thumb with the plastic cover, so pain >.< then i was not caution about the coffee maker, burn my left arm when i try to move there, not a big case la, small injury nia, they told me i will get use of these soon.......... so pity to my hands........... tomorrow i will be doing closing, Kevin said it's time to learn for the closing, that all for day 7.......


hui yin
4th cup of coffee--- Caramel latte, not bad, can taste the milk more than the coffee
5th cup of coffee--- Java Chip Frapp (cuz i do it wrongly T.T )

day 3 & 4

finally, i met another colleague on day 3, his name is Edwin, my second sifu... he is going to be our new supervisor very very soon. his english is pretty hard to listen cuz he talked very fast, and also with a lot of vocab, every time he talked to me i will answer "huh?", in the end, he gave up speaking english with me and we start using hokkien, gai nia............ but it is easier to understand la. then in the afternoon met Naim, a malay, actually i already met him in day 1, he is the one who made the dunno-what-name coffee for me, the time he started his shift is the time i end, so not much we interact, and we speak in malay.......... in conclusion, i use different language to comunicate with different people, swt..........

day 4, i met beng early in the morning although he is not in duty, he just came here for shiok, he is the one who interviewed me for the 1st time, or i should say he told the manager that i came for the interview.... he is going to be transfered to other branch soon, cuz we have new supervisor.... ohya, he is our present supervisor too...

learned a lot this few days, trying very hard to remember what should do what should not do, everyday recall what have i done yesterday......... haiz.......... now i am even more hardworking than during the school days. erm~ that's all for day 3 & 4 i think :)





hui yin
3rd cup of coffee----- green tea latte ;) it tastes good .........
( actually it's not coffee )

day 2

today, met two new colleagues, one is our supervisor, he is an indian and his name is Daya, another one is a barista, his name is Victor, my senior aka my first sifu >.<>. when i was exposed to the handbook, the first thing i can relate is chemistry. omg, there are so many processes i have to memorize, so many coffee, so many names, so many apparatus......... haiz..... it is not easy to learn cuz i used to learn something new in mandarin, it take time if use english. make many mistake during making the coffee, luckily they didn't scold me, moreover, they help me settle all the coffee i mixed wrongly,thanks them a lot! my first coffee for my first customer was........... mocha frappuccino.......i think, i was too nervous until i forgot to remember it, just realised that it was my first coffee few minutes later, can't really recall what's the name d..... besides, i can't differentiate the size of the cups, they all look the same, so, did a lot of mistakes again.... T.T
haiz........... feel like going back school again, a lot of books are waiting for me to read......... that's all for day 2, need to start reading and memorising d, bye...




hui yin
my 2nd cup of coffee, Java Chip Frappuccino........ forgot to see the name of my 1st coffee :p

first day working at starbucks

today is my first day working at starbusks officially, so i consider it as a memorable day. still have a bit nervous cuz we use english to comunicate, and as you know, my english sucks, that's why i am using english to post my blog now, hoping that my english can get better. back to the topic, they called the first working day as "first impression", which means i was introduced everything about starbucks by the manager, a lot of things i have to learn now on. ohya, i received my uniforms already, actually i wanna wear the starbucks' tee-shirt long time ago, to me, it looks very cool......hahaha XD !!! being a barista is one of my dream also, so i think i will love my job very much :) so far, the manager is very friendly, feel comfortable talking to him, i hope everybody working in starbucks is as friendly as him, then this will be the best experience ever. i am so glad i get what i want, thanks for taking me into the big family^^ i will do my best !!!



hui yin
first cup of coffee today, but i forgot the name d....