Yep the title says it all. For the first two days of the holiday I went to work at Kontiki, located at Passion Wave @ Marina Bay in Tanjong Rhu. I'll tell you more on why I only worked for 2 days in the later part of the blog. The walk to the restaurant takes about 20-30mins hence it is pretty inconvenient for people to get there. Even I have trouble finding the restaurant on the first day so I took a cab instead.
The restaurant looked really pretty. It is a marine-themed restaurant and the people there are nice except for the lady boss. After working 2 days there, I realized many customers were actually friends with the boss. I have a feeling because this place is too isolated, its hard to even go to the restaurant without a car hence there are so few customers. I worked on a Friday and a Saturday. They told me to expect many customers on Saturday but the restaurant isn't even full. It could probably be because the restaurant has only opened for a week due to some unfinished paperwork. The weekend on the first week had many people just because there was a carnival beside their restaurant. My friend's friend tried the food at Kontiki and they said it isn't anything special, and the price isn't cheap.
Working at Kontiki is pretty troublesome to me. Not only is it far from my house, the walk to the restaurant is unbearable under the Singapore heat. By the time I reached the restaurant I'm already drained and sleepy. In addition, the place is not busy and it is boring. I would be standing at the same spot all day till my legs ache. As a girl, I would always bring my bag around. I've never worked at an F&B restaurant before, but shouldn't every shop have a staff room to put our belongings? What is something is lost or stolen? It could be anyone who took it. However, at Kontiki, there is no staff room or locker to put my bag. So where do I put my bag? In the corner of the bar! That's not all. What's worse is that I cannot enter the bar at all. I do not know why maybe it is because I'm underage? But it is not like I even know how to make the drinks or steal alcohol wtf. I would never do such lowly stuff. If I wanted to drink I will buy. My bag is in the frickin bar and I cannot even enter to retrieve my things. It is so inconvenient for me.
The manager keeps repeating it in my face to not step a foot in the bar. I wish I knew the reason why because it feels like I've committed a crime of stealing alcohol or money from the cash register before lol. Even when I want to get water I have to bother people to help me for my own needs just because I cannot step in the bar. How nice I must have felt to bother people a lot. The other staffs can enter but just not me.
The working hours are not long and the pay is quite good for F&B but still it is pretty inconvenient. At least it is bearable walking with my friends. Actually, even after all those, I never thought of quitting. It was not until the 2nd night where my parents offered to drive me home that day because they were out and it was getting late. On the first night I almost missed the last train hence my parents offered to fetch me home. They too cannot find the place and I had to walk out to the road so they can find me. My mom get pretty mad and annoyed because they couldn't find the place. I got in the car and my mom asked me all bout how's work. She knew how I find this job, it was on a facebook page that my friend showed me. My parents weren't all too fond of me working at an f&b outlet but since my dad used to be a head chef, he told me it was ok to experience it but not work there forever. My mom preferred me to work at retail, like my previous job, ZARA, where I wouldn't be all sweaty and sticky outdoors with no AC.
The facebook page actually says transport and meals will be provided. Yes meals are provided, but transport....... well they only provide the transport from the restaurant to the MRT when we are on the way home. I told my mom how I had to walk for like 25 mins to reach there and she was not happy about it. The facebook page says transport provided so we all thought it meant the trip from the mrt station to the restaurant too but nope. Eventually, my mom wanted me to stop working there because she feels that if I want to get a job just to pass my time, I don't have to work there, I can always work somewhere else, preferably retail outlet. She texted my manager as told my manager to remove me effectively as of the next day and transfer me the money I worked for asap.
The story of my 2 day working experience ends here and now I am currently rotting my life away because I'm so bored. The first week was still ok for me because I get to catch up on all the shows I wanted to watch. Managed to watched the whole 5 seasons of Teen Wolf and I am so in love with Dylan Sprayberry. He is one of a masterpiece, so good-looking and well, white. Had a mini Teen Wolf war with my friends on twitter and it was hell of a laughter. After Teen Wolf, I caught up on all my variety shows like Running Man, The Return of Superman, Show Me The Money and Unpretty Rapstar 2. Clifford introduced me to Yong Pal and it is a great drama. Only at episode 8 because I thought the show stopped till there but apparently I see wrongly so I'm gonna continue watching it soon. Also started watching on The Flash and I found a new eyecandy.
Because I still have 4 more weeks of holidays left, and nothing else for me to do, I started learning how to play league with my clique. I mean I am learning, my mentor are Zachus and Nat HAHHAHA. I kinda still suck at it. Still died 6 times sometimes with 0 kills. That's super sad. I'm learning how to play the character Annie, and everything I drop her bear on the opponent, I'll die. I never fully utilized the bear before because it is like a curse. The enemy would come at me and when I utilized the bear on the enemy, before the enemy dies, I died. Kinda prefer the character Ahri :-(
Yeah well was supposed to go lan today to teach my friend how to play league, not me teaching but my friends but we all think it is kinda a waste of money to spend time in lan just to learn how to play when you can learn it in the comfort of your own home. I didn't go in the end or I wouldn't be here writing this post but I'm sure my friend still went. She couldn't play on her laptop. League wouldn't load on hers. Well I hope I can get better at killing the enemy. Only playing against bots now and I keep dying. Well I suck at this HAHAH, but league is fun. Thumbs up. :D
