Sup guys, just finished my service practical. PHEW, I'm done for service..finally...2 weeks of it..but I really learned a loooott of stuff, thanks to the service instructor, Mr Oriol for his guidance. I learned the most when I was waitering in Bellevue, the fine dining restaurant in school. It's not that simple as it looks, just serving and clearing, there's still a lot of other stuff behind like setting up cutlery, crumbing down, serving wine, punching in the orders in the micros system, collecting orders at the kitchen. It was really fun and interesting, although it can be sometimes stressful, considering that I served 7 people in a table for my first day. I served the academic dean on the second day plus another table and I served 2 tables on the third and fourth day. Luckily, the last day was the easiest, only 1 table of 3 and it was my cha-ki's table! ^^
All in all, service practical was really nice, gonna miss it, be it restaurant service or cafe service. Runner, stewarding, waitering....
I just ended my weekend duty in Cafe, service for brunch and dinner. Guess what? On my way back to the room, smelt Singaporean food in Ron's room! (My Singaporean classmate).
Ahhh, Hainan Ji Fan!! Chicken rice! It was really good, hands down to Ron's cooking. The rice was nicely flavored with the chicken stock and ginger, and then I thought, why not listen to Singapore music and eat Singaporean food?
Lol, we started to listen to Singapore NDP songs with Jermaine and Hatta. Ahh..the good old singapore songs...really makes wanna go home as soon as possible. " Count on me Singapore", "My Island, Home", "We will get there", and "Home".
I think "Home" is the best NDP song ever. I'm still listening to it on Youtube as I'm typing down this post. I'm feeling really nostalgic now....This is home~~~, Truly~~~ Where I know I must be~~~
Lol, kk I think I better stop it. Okay, I'm going to shower now and then finish my English project due on tuesday. Au revoir!
Sunday, 27 April 2008
Monday, 21 April 2008
CBL starts!!!!!
Ah, just finished 1 week of CBL ( Craft Based learning) Practicals in school. It was fun. CBL is like practical lessons in the hospitaity industry aspects. I started in the service first with my first week (14th April - 18th April) in cafe. It was simpler than the fine dining service since I was serving in Cafe Vennois in school but it was busier and more hectic. Still, I feel that it was really a good experience and I'm really happy with my service group members who were there to support and motivate each other.
OH yea, it was really a long day for last week. We had breakfast, lunch and dinner to serve the school but the key event was during lunch where we had to do setting up of table (mise en place) and announce the soup of day along with serving water. Dinner wasn't so bad since it was buffet style and people helped themselves to everything. Haha, and there were many functions of a waiter in the cafe. Besides waitering, I did stewarding (emptying food waste and arranging used plates and cups in trolleys to be brought to the back of the kitchen for cleaning) and runner (in charge of transporting clean plates to the front and bringing dirty ones to the back). Yea, it was kinda tiring but I liked it.
So, I just did my first day of fine dining service in Bellevue restaurant in school. It was nice. The pace was slower and not so tiring but the service section was more demanding. We served breakfast and lunch. Waitering for breakfast was okay, I only had to pour coffee for guests who wanted it. Lunch was a-la-carte, meaning we have to take orders from guests who are presented with menus for a 3 course meal: starter, main course and dessert. We had to serve bread and butter at the start, take orders, set up cutlery for starter, main and desserts, clear plates, monitor water glasses to see if it's empty and......Smile! I still need to practice on that.
Phew, I'm glad it's over for the day. My very first day and I was given a table of six! In the end, it turned into 7 people (All teachers)! It was a bit nerve recking at the start and I almost messed up since I was scribbling badly on my paper taking the orders but in the end, it turned out well. When I reflected back on the day, it wasn't THAT bad. I didn't make any major screw ups and I only had to serve for breakfast and lunch. So.... I was free at 2 for the whole day..but..still have to wake up at 6am everyday.
Hmm, it's 4.15pm in the afternoon now. I can't wait for kitchen practical to start though. It's nice to serve but I like to make food for people to eat as well.
Well, that's all for today. Haha, and I apologize for the late post. Been busying, mostly lazy but hey, I still posted this right? ^^ Till then!
OH yea, it was really a long day for last week. We had breakfast, lunch and dinner to serve the school but the key event was during lunch where we had to do setting up of table (mise en place) and announce the soup of day along with serving water. Dinner wasn't so bad since it was buffet style and people helped themselves to everything. Haha, and there were many functions of a waiter in the cafe. Besides waitering, I did stewarding (emptying food waste and arranging used plates and cups in trolleys to be brought to the back of the kitchen for cleaning) and runner (in charge of transporting clean plates to the front and bringing dirty ones to the back). Yea, it was kinda tiring but I liked it.
So, I just did my first day of fine dining service in Bellevue restaurant in school. It was nice. The pace was slower and not so tiring but the service section was more demanding. We served breakfast and lunch. Waitering for breakfast was okay, I only had to pour coffee for guests who wanted it. Lunch was a-la-carte, meaning we have to take orders from guests who are presented with menus for a 3 course meal: starter, main course and dessert. We had to serve bread and butter at the start, take orders, set up cutlery for starter, main and desserts, clear plates, monitor water glasses to see if it's empty and......Smile! I still need to practice on that.
Phew, I'm glad it's over for the day. My very first day and I was given a table of six! In the end, it turned into 7 people (All teachers)! It was a bit nerve recking at the start and I almost messed up since I was scribbling badly on my paper taking the orders but in the end, it turned out well. When I reflected back on the day, it wasn't THAT bad. I didn't make any major screw ups and I only had to serve for breakfast and lunch. So.... I was free at 2 for the whole day..but..still have to wake up at 6am everyday.
Hmm, it's 4.15pm in the afternoon now. I can't wait for kitchen practical to start though. It's nice to serve but I like to make food for people to eat as well.
Well, that's all for today. Haha, and I apologize for the late post. Been busying, mostly lazy but hey, I still posted this right? ^^ Till then!
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
Still Mid term break time!
This was when i went to the food museum during the term break. It's was a school trip meant for going to the chocolate factory but they canceled last minute -.- lol, we playing "masa masa"
Lol, daniel's hungry...
Jenny's eating too much already...
More mid term break stuffs...Skiiing!
ME!
My Ski blades!!!
Good views!
Me and my friend's brother's girlfriend
Sorry, no flash turned on, andy, me and his bro
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