A lazy Sunday spent at home... not doing anything much but napping intermittently and reading Xiaxue's Blog

Oh God, how loser am I... I am so totally not doing anything on a Sunday and yes tomorrow is Monday and it's a fact that it's going to be damn hectic...

I exchanged duty with my colleague Mark yesterday cos my new GM on the block called for an urgent Update brainstorming meeting at 3:00pm.... (In case you are wondering what is Update, it a DL size booklets that RTC sends to all its members to inform them of upcoming events and F&B promotions...) duhz...

So fine I dilly-dally in the morning cos I didn't want to reach the office exactly at 10am cos I know for a fact that I'll never get off at 3:00pm sharp... his meetings are always very very long and okie... since I am not really in a bitchy mood... I would say the sessions are sometimes pretty insightful as well...

Okie, so on the MRT I got a call from my darling Donkey that AA was looking for the person on duty... urghhh so its me lah... and she had to save my ass by lying that we only start work at 10:30am on weekends...

Pain in the ass manz... so I rush my ass into the club and called his office... "Morning Mr. AA, you were looking for someone from the department?" Feigning Ignorance all the while knowing that I am 30min late...but thank God I was late otherwise I would have felt even more cheated of my time and no off in lieu damn it...!!! $%%%^$ESS#$R%$w

Okie went up to the office where he was having a meeting with some HODs from the various departments and then he announced that from now on... PR will take charge of all poster spots in the club we will manage the poster allocation for all the departments.... farking hell what does that make us? Official poster changers!!!!?????? And our department is UNDERSTAFFED...UNDERSTAFFED!!!!!!! Is that so hard to understand... and then he say he wanna bring back the screening of 'advertisements' of club promotions and events in the Theatre before every movie screening and that means... yes I have to do the PPS. slides....

The warning lights are going off in my heads and in fact I think like everywhere... but no choice got to say 'Yes, Mr. AA noted, we will do as instructed'... #$%$## (the price of professionalism - everything also have to say can do...even though you'll spend hours tearing your hair out and screamin vulgarities while your life ebbs away before the computer and you are literally squeezing even damn braincell for whatever juice it will yield and kill yourself with all the caffeine that you can ever get your hands on...)

Okie...the next to come was that he was us all to gather at 12pm (yes lunchtime) at his office and we will take a walk with him and we will conduct a club inspection... basically it's more work again as when we walk around we'll have to make pointers of things he points out and yes...get it fixes...

The inspection (part 1 only) took a freaking 1hr 45min and by the end of it... I was tasked to change lift signs and all 'doggied-eared' menus in all the outlets...absolutely fabulous I would say...

Well at least I wasn't the worst hit... the worst pple to kenah were colleagues in the Engineering department, Housekeeping Department and F&B.... by the end of the inspection... they were told to remove scotchtape stuck on weird hidden corners of the kitchen, repair broken lampshades... repaint coin-sized spots....overturn tables and check if the legs are stable and yup we went into 6 or 10 toilets... (Male/Female) and I had to hold my breath in the Gents as they usually don't smell as nice as the females... urgghhhh

So the inspection stopped at Level 2 and we were given a 30min lunch break before carrying on with the brainstorming meeting for the Update at 3:00pm!!!!! FARK FARK FARK!!!

I was so damn blardy tired and so freaking irritated... damn... in case I haven't mentioned before... my June Update is already all completed... just need him to sign and approve the artwork and I would send it out to our printers on Wed and the stuff is suposed to be delivered by early next week...

But no he wanted this brainstorming session... brainstorming session... come on even a fool can equate that to Full Revamp of EVERYTHING RITE..otherwise it would be called a Review Meeting NOT A BRAINSTORMING MEETING

Okie enters this meeting and he spends the first 30min explaining to us the purpose of producing the UPDATE booklets to all present... basically... the F&B manager, 4 Executive Chefs, the Asst F/O Manager, Sports& Recreation Manager and Executive and Yours Truly....

So I had to be the flip chart girl and write down all the points about Marketing, Communications and blah blah while all the while he was cracking jokes about me being left-handed and the weird way left handed people write... then he ask me which school I came from and I was like which school do you mean? Sec sch, Poly or Uni...he say Sec Sch so I say Westlake (Well most pple don't really know the school well...just a neighborhood school tucked in a corner of Braddell...but hey so what... i had great friends there...and I am happy to be from a neighbourhood school...)
then he ask me what uni I studied at...and I said Oklahoma City University... he was like huh???!!! Again...it's not NUS, NTU, SMU or SIM... but what the heck the program was great and the lecturers was great...

Basically I don't even know why he was asking that... does the schools I came from have anything to do with this brainstorming session at all??? Come on I am fairly confident of my braincells in my head irregardless of where they were trained at... anyway...

To cut a long tail..errmm...tale short... as expected the whole freaking booklet will be changed... emphasis should be given to F&B and all the other departments will be marginalized in publicity allocation from now on and the cover pages will only feature F&B stuff from now on...

Great! And I have to schedule food shots with all the outlets on Monday, and find some daddy figure and some poster girl to take picture in a Nonya Kebaya somemore... tell me where to go find at such short notice...

And oh ya for the Father's Day promotions at all outlets... all patrons who take up F'Day's Set Menu will be given a doorgift...a polaroid picture in a card frame... and yes yours truly department is appointed as the official photographers for the day...we'll have to hang around the outlets lunch and dinner on Father's Day to take pictures of smiling families...while yes our Dads get ignored and we are denied of a celebration with them...

Blardy Fabulous....

And June 18 happens to be my Dad's birthday as well...seriously... it's his birthday and it is Father's Day as well but no I have to be working....

So tomorrow is justifiably a challenging day at the office...i shall have to rush for all the foodshots plus grab whatever pictures I can from our archives and do the copy-writing and confirm the details of the various F&B promotions and events at the Club.... Fantastic...

i wonder if we are going to get an increment for our efforts... this Club is always putting us through Hell...it should be called Raffles Hell Club!!!!

See that's why i am spending such a sucky Sunday at home...licking my wounds and prepping myself for the war tomorrow!!!


And i forgot to add that by the time the meeting ended it was 5:30pm and by the time I got back to the office and rushed out a series of emails to the various departments to ccordinate the activities to accommodate the revamped Update...

I left at 7:00pm... and I was supposed to be working 10:00am to 3:00pm!!!!!!!!