A Real Ethereal Encounter... The Starting Point.. OFF TO WORK!!

For about slightly more than 4 months since November 2010, I have been working almost everyday, slugging my guts out for the money to buy myself a laptop and some new clothes in preparation for my new year in a polytechnic. Yeah, these things have already come to pass, for, the things as mentioned, well I go them already, and got awesome new best friends, Michelle and Joel, but that is after I have officially entered into a polytechnic and into a course for Biomedical Engineering, where the stress levels now is almost as gruesome as when I was working... BLAH BLAH BLAH OMG I AM RAMBLING ALL OVER AGAIN!!

NOW, BACK TO THE MAIN POINT!!! This post is describing some things in the days where I was working, and soon, you will be able to find out about what is the Ethereal Encounter...

Now, to be posting up the name of the restaurant would not be so nice, and might even get me into trouble, so let us leave it at that. Up to the point now, it would have been pretty obvious that I worked as a waiter, firstly in one of the outlets near my home. I worked as a part-timer, and thus I was only called a few meager times when help was needed. I thought it sucked as I would not be able to earn what I needed and so, I worked as a part-timer at a hotel too, booking the dates to work when the outlet does not need me. Now, hotel working hours are truly the 'no day no night' type, as one of the guys there told me he had been on a 19 hours shift!! Can you imagine that? That is just crazy but the longest shift I had was 12 hours which is still damn long, I guess.

Finally, a new shopping mall opened, and with it, came my chance to work more at less gruesome hours than at the hotel!! Delayed by the hotel shift, I came to the newly open outlet at the third day it opened. This was the period known as the 'soft opening', to let people know of the restaurant and all that it will eventually offer so as to attract more customers to come. Those days were pretty tough too, for I started work at 8 in the morning and ended up late at night, 10 or 11 plus!! All that ordering, serving, clearing, accounting and cleaning up, it was back-breaking work and I had no choice but to adapt, fast!!

As the time goes on, the waiting staffs that does not work in the kitchen became friends with me and till the time that some people have to depart to start their school life already, I started the alumni of our working group!! Urged to lead the group and get an event up as soon as possible, planning for a barbecue was done after some time. Shopping list, equipment needed, food needed, all were prepared BUT!! 

This is a very sad BUT, as by some awful coincidence, the selected date was a very busy day for a lot of them, and things were paid for beforehand already... With what remains of the people that were going to the barbecue still, my colleagues asked their friends to come along to share cost, and to make it more interesting, it evolved into a barbecue cum tonning event.

This part will be further continued in the next post, A Real Ethereal Encounter... Where it all Started.. Encounter!!...