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Rice Table Restaurant

There surely must have some reasons for all the recent controversy on the standard of the service industries. Singapore although is a developed country but the service and the graciousness of the people over here, really proof otherwise. It's not totally that bad, but it only takes one black sheep to taint all of us.

Here's my exciting encounter with the waiter at Rice Table restaurant in Suntec. On 19 Dec 2005, Monday, together with my friends, we decided to try out at that restaurant as we have heard quite a lot about it.

On arrival, first glance at the almost empty restaurant will means that there's definitely have seats for us. So we took a while looking at the menu while waiting for the staffs to come serve us. However, we realise that all the staffs were standing at the cashier counter chatting away, as if we were invisible. For your info, the cashier counter and the main entrance is 2 steps away.

So I took the initiative to step a tiny step forward so that we will be a little more obvious that we are some hungry soul wanting to eat. Looking at all the staffs at the cashier counter, I really thought I am invisible or some sort, they just continue with whatever they are doing. With the increasing blood pressure, I have to make my presence felt by calling out! I regret the outcome of what is going to happen, the staffs, after realising I exists they turned to look at each other, as if I have Bird Flu, as if I am the cause of the upcoming pandemic.

So with all the sudden "arrows" flying everywhere from their eyes, I think the most junior staff got struck. So with all the dismay displayed in his face (read: FUCK OFF), he slowly approached me and asked me a few questions which will bring this entry to climax!! I can't really remember the exact conversation, here's roughly what happened.

me: Can I have table for (turning behind and counting the number of people) 5?
waiter: (Totally not hearing what I say) HEI, GOT MAKE RESERVATIONS A-NOT??
(Hello~~!! If got make reservations still ask you for table for what? Too much time to spare? And what's with the rasing of voice)
me: erm.. Sorrrrrrry. No.
waiter: NO RESERVATIONS?!?!??!?! (Sound as if it's the most ridiculous thing he ever heard!) NO TABLE! (After saying this, he turned around and walked off.
me: ........... (Jaw almost dropped on the floor. Eyes almost popped out. And feel as if I am going to have a stroke there and then!)
me: (turning to my friends) WAH LAU, DARN FUCK UP ATTITUDE!! (And nodding in unity in disgust! And walked off.)

Did I mention that throughtout this whole "conversation", he did not even look at me once in my face and need I mention that his standing posture, body language remind me that of those ah-beng trying to pick a fight.

This is really service at it's worst! I mean I would have understand if you tell me nicely n politely if the restaurant is fully booked on MONDAY night. I would really appreciate if you were to apologise for the restaurant been fully booked. And I would been really gladful if the FREAKING ATTITUDE of the staffs is better!

I don't know what image of Singapore will be paint if I were a foreigner. You tell me..

I am not lazy, just physically conservative.

WooWooh~~~!!! My blog has been around for a year! I have survived the average expectancy of a blog. Well, if you haven't noticed, my blog has moved from http://kangblog.blogspot.com to http://nerdblogger.blogspot.com. In case you are wondering why the shift, I've actually wanted this site name when I start my bloggin life style but this name was initially taken by someone else.

If you have been following my blog since the beginning or you have at least went through all my entries at least once, you should know that I actually delicate this blog to her. Go read the 1st Jan entry. Don't be lazy, I won't include the link here.

Gosh! I'm writing crap already! Here's some happenings during this week. I'll talk about my Birthday celebration some other day.

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On Thursday, I went for an interview for an intern for PSA. Big company, Big prospect but miserable pay. They are offering $700/mth. So there I was, scheduled for the 4pm interview, at 3.30pm I am still in Woodlands, thinking that I still have 1.5 hours to prepared for it.

So after staring at the clock for 5 sec, trying to figure out how much time does it takes for 3.30pm to reach 4.00pm, I realised I am super late for my interview. So in less 30 sec, I am hoping for a cab to pick me up and fly me to my destination.

I was 15 mins late upon arrival, I was shocked to see other interviewee wearing extremely formal, with shirt and tie. Well, I wasn't really prepared for this interview, I was wearing tshirt and jeans. I feel so much like an outcast on his death parole.

The moment I step into the interview room, the guy interviewer commented I am very casual for the interview, how I wished there was a hole there for me to hide in it. A quick introduction from them and they asking me questions about myself. I don't know what's wrong with me, I was basically been a comedian making both of them laughing and smiling throughout. By the way I did commented how miserable the pay is.

In less than 15 mins, I'm done with it. Even the receptionist outside commented that I was rather quick for the whole interview. In my mind, I was laughing and thought to myself how I really screwed up the whole interview.

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Friday, the most troubled day of the week, went for another two interview. In between the two interview I received a call from PSA informing that I am accepted for the internship. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!?!? I can't believe that after screwing up the interview I sill got accepted!?!? With that I am faced with two choices, an opportunity to make my resume looks good or find a better paying job. Can you believe that I am so troubled by it that I called or smsed everyone to ask for an opinion, I even got off the wrong MRT station thinking of it! However, the utimate decision still lies with me. So in the end, I've decided to decline the job.

Was it a wrong decision? I don't know, you tell me.

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Another thing, have you met with those 13 - 14 years old students asking for legal donation in town or central HDB area. Here's my 2 encounter.

First, this doesn't quite invovle me but other in the streets. It's at the traffic light area at manadrin hotel, crossing the road will be Heeren and the other side it's the California Fitness centre. These bunch of girls are basically harrassing the civillians that were innocently passing by, 2-3 girls cornerning guys with or without girlfriends. I don't know what are they trying to promote? Themselves or gain donation for the charity organisation.

Second, I wasn't harrass by the girls in this encounter but I think they were rather rude. So here I was walking towards the bus interchange and was stopped by this 13 - 14 years old girl. Initially, she told me she was doing a survey and asked if I can kindly contribute a little of my time. Of course, I gladly agreed because I know the feeling of been an surveyor.

However, 30 seconds into her opening speech, I realise I was talk into donation for an charity organisations. I should have remember their organisation and named it here to shame, fortunately for them and unfortunately for me, I forgot about it. After realising, I have been "conned" into a donation talk, I politely decline the donation. It is then she start to give me the face that she is very disappointed and pouting her lips, as if she is about the cry!

What the hell!! She told me that it is a survey and not some donation thingy, I already did not give you my two cents worth on telling you the differences between a survey and a donation, she still dare to make it seems like it's my fault! WHAT THE HELL!! The worst thing is that, I have to apologise for her time wastage to make her feel better and who knows, she pout her lips even more!! WHAT THE HELL!! ANGRY!!

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Sunday, I called up and talk to lp. I am so so so sad and dissappointed after it. Why? Because I have lost a friend and the feeling of losing one is just as bad as losing someone who you cherish. Well, she want me to totally dissappear from her life, meaning that I don't exists in her life at all. At that moment, I felt as if my heart has been stabbed. Nonetheless, I decided to respect her decision, hoping one day she will come round and regret her decision, in fact I felt sorry for her.

What I can do is only so much, I can only hope and pray that she will meet someone better than me, who will take her by her hand and guide her through her life.

This time, I think I really have totally let go and moved on..

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Now, since I got no work, no girlfriends, no nothing. I AM BORED! If you reading this give me a call and ask me out, k?

Happy Birthday to me...

Quick! Wish me happy birthday!

More parties and pictures on the way. Will update when I'm ready.

By the way, today is also the anniversary of my blog. Yeah!!

Pleading for help!!

Been back in Singapore for a little more than three weeks and yet I feel I have achieved nothing except seeing a lot of people! I regret I have neglected quite a few bunch of people, not that I purposely want to neglect them but I just doesn't have time and money for it. Every outing requires money and time and I have limited resources for both. Hmmm.. How about some donations to the needy? (ME!!!)

So what have I been doing all these while other than meeting up with a lot of people. Well, one thing is I have been trying to access into my HDD which I have problem trying to that. I certainly hope I'm still able to rescue my data from it. Here's what actually happen and I seriously hope someone will be able to help me with it, if you happen to know or know someone who can help, pleassssseeeeeee let me know!!! Getting a little panicky about it, I have like thousands of photos in it!

I brought back my HDD back from Australia, the HDD is running using SATA and my operating system is Windows XP Professional. The HDD is split and formatted into 2 main NTFS partition, a 30GB partition and a 50GB partition. The operating system is installed into the 30GB partition and in the 50GB partition it contains all my other stuffs, i.e. pictures, assignments, projects, thesis, presentations, researches, lecture notes, basically my life is stored in it. As we understand Windows XP Professional has the ability to add security features into the drive especially so on NTFS drives.

However, my Singapore PC, operating on Windows XP Home edition has a screwed up SATA HDD which is about to crash! Not knowing that, I plugged my HDD into the system and power on it and before it prompt for the login screen, it start performing a Disk Check on my HDD drives. It then showed an invalid key in my HDD and starts replacing all the invalid keys with a key of its own. I reckon it has replaced the whole 50GB of my HDD as it took nearly 2 hours to complete the whole process and a few millions key were replaced.

Now even if I were to boot up directly from my HDD I am only able to access the 30GB of my HDD. Although it is still showing the directory of my 50GB partition, it only displayed that the drive is invalid and a quick check in properties show that the drive contains 0KB of datas on a 0KB drive. I've tried accessing my HDD using a program that read NTFS drive without going through windows, the program is running a 'raw' kernel, but to no avail! Please help me!!!!! I really need the data, not very urgent yet but as time draws nearer, I reckon my balls will also start to "shrink".

I thought of running my HDD using linux system but I don't think I can find anyone who has such a system here with SATA capability.