work's been pretty hectic for the past few days thanks to the advertisement we got in the papers and mags.
non stop lunch crowd from 1130 to 430. it's a nightmare.
there isn't even time to THINK. you just do it.
which is probably why today i got some sort of side effects from the endless routine of serving and making coffee. my hands automatically made coffee but the moment i wanted to serve it my brain went-- wait. wtf. who's coffee is this. nobody ordered this.
orz
it's really work until seh. i have no other words for the description seh. ahahahah.
sometimes in the cafe i feel pretty lonely too. especially with recent events going on.
i used to anticipate my friends dropping by for surprise visits.
after awhile i thought it'd be nice to just meet someone i know.
and after a longer while just seeing a familiar face makes me smile.
and a longer while after i just stop hoping.
so it was a great relief when i put my songs in the cafe playlist.
i feel at ease whenever i hear amu and clear. i sing along when anime songs are playing. and i grin everytime everyone in the cafe perks up a little when Jap starts blasting, bringing all of us out from our stupor.
SID keeps the energy flowing. even nicole and uncle start humming to the utaites. Exile and KSU will comfort me.
this is also the reason why i can happily carry out mundane tasks like washing the dishes. clearing tables. packing noodles.
didn't realise it, but i've been working continuously for 16 days now, not including the break i got for cosfest. yeap. non stop. monday to sunday. until i can't really differentiate the days of the week...
but it doesn't matter. i love working. or rather, i prefer having something to do, than nothing to do at all.
i would rather spend time at the cafe helping out, even if i'm not paid. money is just a by-product for me..
i don't want to stay at home, having nothing to do. my best friends are away. there is noone to go out with. at home, i can only go online, or play the ps3. when i'm stoning, i think a lot. and i'll probably go even crazier.
so yes, i love work because it's a convenient 15minute walk away. i can wake up at 1130 and still be in time for my shift at 12pm.
i love work because i see new faces everyday. and when i see familiar ones, i get to listen to different stories. gossips. tall tales. people watch.
i love work because people smile back at me when i smile at them and forgive me for my small mistakes.
i love work because of the heartwarming scenes i see occasionally. like how we helped deliver a last minute surprise birthday cake to a friend of our customer. how we sang the birthday song and there was this awkward silence when we realised we didn't know her name and then all laughed after that.
i love work because it distracts me from the possible fact that i'm actually, probably, feeling very lonely.
sometimes, when i'm really bored, kinda like a kid with an overactive imagination, yeah. i try to fanfictionalize my life at work. childish, i know. but i was bored.
edwin and lilian would be oyakata-sama and kenshin. HAHA. except that no, my managers and i don't go yelling at each other. but they do send me home sometimes...
aunty lilian is a little like kenshin. motherly. XD calm. always in charge. all smiles when alls good, but always reserving some sort of silent authority behind it all.
uncle edwin is louder, randomly sprouting comments and suggestions on what next to sell all his ideas.. sometimes we don't know whether to laugh and go "WTF IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE" or "WHAT? NO LAR. HOW CAN."
i mean. serving bak kut teh soup in a big tea cup??? xD crazy, but not impossible. desshou ne.
i haven't really thought of who nicole, lisa and jj would be though..
and if engracia successfully joins us next month, she'd be mouri. because she changed jobs to join the cafe. just like mouri did. hahaha then i wonder who will stalk her here...
i did ask lauren. but i am not sure if she will. she seems pretty happy with her underwater world :D but if she did, she'd be something like sasuke. same school, live near, something like going to and from school to work together.
and then the friends who dropped by so far? the other basara characters who visit the cafe.
meimei will be keiji. cause they're both so gay and disturbing. she'd fly back all the way from australia, to singapore, on holiday (altho in the fic keiji was on business) and will definitely drop by to visit. in fact she's coming tmr :D
it'd be nice to have a sasuke. i'm a spoilt brat for saying this but
sasuke would walk me home. accompany me to work from school. put up with my nonsense. keep me company. help me carry the plates when it gets too tiring for me to carry them all. talk to me during no-customer times flirt and handle all the female customers and aunties and convincing them to try our cakes make faces at annoying customers behind their backs and find a way to get back at them
and he'd be the one who would have brought masamune here.
hahaha. sue me for being a kid.
right now, i'm just fine with the way things are. it's a bit contradicting for me... i would like them to visit but at the same time i'm afraid they'd be disappointed.
so far ahthen likes it so-- :D thank god.
but i was really, really scared when i turned around and saw that you were not at the table anymore. i'm still really really sorry... i hope the hazelnut and macha helped :D and OH. WANTED TO TELL YOU. will probably tell you this in person when i see you. THERE IS JASMINE GREEN TEA WITH ROSE. it's those satchets kind though, but but but. GREEN TEA WITH ROSE.
just saying. XD
as for yukino. i'm thinking of ways to make your visit worth it. i shall practice drawing faces of atobe with the foam whenever i do a cup of coffee. or the uruha sign. BUT I CANNOT DRAW KUREI. siao ah. if i can draw kurei's face with foam, i will take a pic and show you immed. cup circumference too small to contain his awesome face. i can probably use coffee beans as the eyes...
.....
no, i am not trying to imagine how to do it. /____\
please drop by and say hi whenever you need to come down to toa payoh to run errands again? i will look forward to the time where you finish your dailies. or when your monthly contacts expire and you need to get new ones for cos I WON'T HELP YOU GET. YOU COME AND GET IT YOURSELF SO THAT I CAN HAVE A HIGHER CHANCE OF SEEING YOU.
then you can shun bian go buy your koi and crystal jade egg tart 8D
every night at work we also get to eat different things. according to what strikes their fancy. sometimes uncle edwin will have an urge to start cooking and he'd just fry mee goreng with bak kut teh. or what he calls "Papa's soup." carrot and celery and tomato soup.
or sometimes nicole will just try frying spaghetti with pepper and wasabi sauce. simple dish, but it's frigging nice.
or sometimes we'll eat leftover cold noodles that come from wrong orders.
i even get the leftover chocolate :D and raspberry sauce. and raspberry yogurt. and cake. and ice coffee. and hazelnut. and whatever nicole happens to be baking at the moment.
so yes! i'm eating lunch and dinner everyday! and other random stuff in between when it's possible.
okay.. i have reached a point whereby i'm running out of things to ramble about. it's 5am now but i still can't sleep. and i don't think it's because i drank coffee at 6pm either. work starts at 9... 3 hours of rest left... what should i do with it...
