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

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此刻的我 很想哭

最近的心情又陷入谷底了

为许多事情烦恼 担心

真的真的很想好好发泄一下

可是行程不准许我这么做

连现在想写出来也不行

明天 后天有课

得专心上课才行

只怕我无法把那些烦恼阁在一旁

心情好复杂

得去睡觉了............









hui yin

我 。emo

老实说，我并不喜欢和认识的人一起工作，因为我会感觉很不自在，我在工作时跟在学校时更本就是判若两人。在学校我很少讲话，在别人眼中是一个很严肃，很 cool ，很凶，很难相处的人，难听点就是很骄傲的那种人，虽然我至今没听说过有人那样讲我啦，不过我一直都感觉到我会给别人距离感。在工作时，我可以跟他们有说有笑，一起疯狂，很友善，还有一些在学校里更本不会看到的性格，所以每当有熟人在时我就会变成那个沉默寡言，很 cool 的我，因为他们没见过另一个我，一旦另一个我出现了，我就会成为他们口中所谓的假惺惺，很会演戏的那种人。其实我并不是不想然别人看见另一个我，只是我一直都找不到机会表达，也不会表达，可能我看过许多失败的例子吧，有多少人会了解我的用意，就连与我最铁的朋友我也不敢保证，我给人们的第一印象已经成了定局，很难在改变他们对我的看法了，所以，一直以来，大家只看过其中一个我而已。这也是为什么我不喜欢 form 6 的其中一个原因，我无法接受别人突然的转变，自然的我也转变不了， form 6 对我来说，很假，很不习惯，很不喜欢。每当我第一次来到一个新的地方时，那一天的我将会决定接下我会是一个怎样的人，很遗憾的，我第一天进入 form 6 时十分不习惯，所以不爱说话，不去参人，结果就演变成现在的结局。反而我第一天进入 starbucks 时是以很开朗的心情，没有人知道我过去是怎样的人，所以我很自在，不必担心些什么。上次去 NS 是我也是蛮不自在的，认识的人实在太多了，会说闲言闲语的人也不少。其实，starbucks 一直都在请人，不只是给我们的 store，也包括给其他 store，他们一直都在问我有没有朋友想工作，但我从来都没问过其他人，你可以说我自私，但我只是为我自己着想而已，人不为己天诛地灭。
今天听说有一位我认识的人前阵子来 interview ，目前在考虑当中，而偏偏她的性格是我超不喜欢的那种，被我列入 "假" 的名单里的成员之一，依我看，这份工作不适合她，她那么千金小姐，承受得了吗？连我都觉得蛮吃力的，如果真的能在这里工作的话， 那么她真的是假到不能再假了，金像奖有望了，对不起，我实话实说而已，我不想跟认识的人一起工作，尤其是与我性格和不来的人，希望你可以找到另一份更适合你的工作，这里不像 form 6 。
半夜写 blog 就是这样，从头 emo 到尾。下星期就要拿成绩了，很紧张....................




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^^

心情篇

不知不觉我在 starbucks 工作已将近一个月了，一直都在 post 表面的事情，忽略了内心表达，今天就好好的整理一下吧!! ^^ 好久没用华语了，感觉好生疏哦，迟早我的语文全都剩半桶水 ........... 哎 >.<
erm............ 该从哪里开呢? 随便啦............ 大致上大家都很好，很谈得来，很热情，很能玩，很幽默，很 friendly......... 才认识他们不到一个月，可是我已经可以感觉到当我离开时一定很舍不得。当然啦，好归好，防人之心不可无，外面的社会哪有这么单纯，居心斗角的事情少不了。原本还以为大家都是 happy go lucky 的类型的，哪知为了上位，还是会有拍马屁，backsteb之类的东西，表面对你很好，在你背后却............. 虽然只是那几位有野心的人而已啦，我只会呆在那里几个月而已，完全不会跟你们争，所以请别把我当对手看待，我只是想开开心心的工作而已，搞到现在我为了安全生存也要开始讨好你们，哎............. 为什么人类就是这样? 单纯点不是很好吗，做那么多小动作，有本事就靠实力啦，靠伤害别人上位，有什么好得意的，良心过意得去吗? .............. 我好像太激动了，事实并没有那么恐怖啦，只是社会生存道理而已，人类丑陋的一面，没什么的，选择只看大家好的那一面，生活自然好过些，这就是我的观念 ^^，只要你别对我下手，我也不会怎样对你的， 我相信人之初，性本善，大家好好相处就好。conclusion, 当作吸取经验吧， 迟早也是要面对这些事情的...........
erm............. 话说回来，我觉得这里的人让我感觉到的亲切感多过以前学校的人， 心机也没以前学校的人重，或许这就是华校生和英校生的差别，比起在学校， 这里让我觉得更有归属感，可能是我以前排斥 form 6 吧， 还是这里的人比较成熟? 不懂.......... 虽然我 prefer 读书 than 工作。才一个月没动到书感觉上我的大脑没有function 一年了，糟糕，快点开学吧 !!!!!!
新年快到了，也意味着成绩也快出炉了 @.@, nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
还有还有，我已经中咖啡毒了，救命啊~~不对，不是咖啡， 是绿茶， 啊!!!!!! 我中starbucks 的毒了 !!!! 疯了................
我已经开始胡言乱语，习惯就好，别见怪..................
无论如何，在starbucks 工作是我的选择，而我并不后悔这个选择，我会更加努力，做到最好, 加油!!!!!




hui yin

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...........