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It's the end of the 2 weeks of attachment at Conrad this June holidays.

I can definitely say it's been one of the best 2 weeks of my life!

I've learnt so, so much and made so many great friends. I don't regret coming for this attachment one bit, even though there was no pay and I had to sacrifice quite a lot of studying time...

This morning was the same as the last few days'. I helped Dewi set up the buffet and the tables for lunch. It was Lilian's off day, so Terry came in the morning. Today was the day I saw most of him. He came only in the afternoon the last few days so I hardly said anything to him.

I went for lunch at 10.30am. Ate with Feng Sheng. After eating rice, both of us went to make popiah. It came out quite ok, but a bit big. Then, I cut it into a few pieces, but it was still too big to eat in one mouthful. It was very funny trying to stuff such a big piece into the mouth and we kept laughing and laughing. Feng Sheng said that he almost suffocated cos it was completely filling his mouth. Haha!!! :D

We went to collect our appraisals from banquet after that. Dalland was the one who filled in the forms. He was still filling it in when we went to collect it. When I finally got my form, I was really surprised. I got excellent for everything - efficiency, initiative, interaction, punctuality, responsibility and overall. Under general remarks, he wrote "Plesantable lady. Aways show 'can do' attitude".

Haha... I was so happy! But the thing is, I didn't feel like I was that good, considering that I left super early on monday for my swimming competition and I was late on one day when my Dad's car tyre was punctured. Excellent for punctuality? Hmmm... And actually I did what everyone else did too. How come I got better evaluation? I also don't know.

But I glad, cos I really did put my all into this attachment and I'm happy that it was recognised. Just that maybe it was a little overrated. Ha...

Anyway, lunch at lobby lounge today was super busy. There were only me, Dewi, Terry and Raju.

It was rush, rush, rush. Not enough people to do eveything and also so many things to do.

I was mostly in the pantry today, washing plates, cups and teaspoons. The teaspoons were used so quickly that once I finished washing one batch, I had to put the next bunch of them into the dishwasher.

And there were quite a lot of orders for coffee so the others would come to the pantry and say "make me 2 coffee" or something like that. I was the only one there, so I had to wash the stuff, and put down everything to make coffee (or cuppaccino or latte) whenever there was an order, and clear arrange the dirty cutlery that the others cleared from outside.

I seriously can't remember how many times I used the dishwasher (full load everytime). There were so many things to be washed!

But it was fun though. Cos I prefer busy days than times when there's completely nothing to do. The situation was crazily busy, but also very fun. Haha... :)

Ah Ming and Chef Garnesh also came up to lobby lounge during lunch to refill the pastry. They stayed for quite a while in the pantry and it was really nice to get to see them again. Kuok I came up later too. Suddenly seeing so many of them made me miss pastry a lot...

Kuok I was quite surprised to see me, cos the last time he saw me, I was in the banquet uniform. He said it was weird seeing me in so many types of uniform everytime. From the chef's uniform in pastry, to banquet, and now lobby lounge. He said maybe next time he'll see me in oscar's uniform, but I said I don't want, cos I don't like the yellow shirt. Haha... :)

After clearing the lunch buffet, Dewi gave me cake to eat! 3 slices of chocolate cake, and a yellow cake. I ate some, leaving 2 chocolate cakes cos I was quite full. I gave it to Aishu and Marz later. And I forgot to eat Caesar's salad again! Argh... Never mind, at least I got to eat cake.

Afternoon tea was not that busy. We just stood around like usual, not doing anything much. Then, I got called to wipe cutlery and fold the lunch napkins. I folded till about 5pm, then I decided to go. Aishu already went down for dinner. I said bye bye to the people there, but said I would be going up later cos me and Aishu bought them chocolates.

Aishu ate her dinner, and we met Sean in the canteen.

After dinner, I went up for a short while with Aishu to give them the chocolates. Then I left. I began to feel really sad about leaving.

I went to HR to return my locker key and name tag. (Last time I got to keep both when I went to pastry. I guess they forgot to collect it back cos I told Charlotte about it and she said they need the key so she asked me to return it. I want to keep the name tag though, so I didn't tell her about it. Hee...) Charlotte gave me a Conrad bear. I think it's so cute! I absolutely love it!

Then, I went to the pastry kitchen to say bye bye to them. There were only Ah Hau, Kuok I and Virginia there. There were also quite a lot of other people I didn't know. Saw Ah Ming on the way back too. I'll surely miss them a lot! When I left, it really felt like what I felt when I left them during December last year. Really really sad! I almost cried! Think I'm too emotional...

I said I'll come back during the December holidays! Hope I really will!