A new work has come....

So I guess now I have some good news and bad news.

I finally found a job in Kempinski Private Residences at HI. Sounds prestigious and cool, no? I thought so too, but perhaps I think too much....or at the very least feels happy too fast. Actually, I am happy that at least I'm no longer unemployed, that I finally able to make money on my own.

Honestly it's actually not that bad, if you count I will mostly stay in back office once I got used to everything and my new job but for the time being I have to stay at FO again. Now here's the disaster. Kempinski is a huuuuuuuge company, well known around the world. Unfortunately this particular establishment has a lot of problems that, if you ask me, my honest answer would be agreeing with the tenants: that it is entirely too expensive for such crappy facilities. So many problems here, now I actually thinking whether this is something I want or not.

My own BO team itself is actually great, every colleague is great. Just that my manager is a tad bit.....OCD? A neat freak that is super perfectionist that will not tolerate mess. At all. Though she's super funny and has a lot of clumsy moment, which always leads to a good laugh for every lucky person witnessing it.  Yet she's also very strict and capable at work. So I guess her points will be a so-so one. As long as she's not a biased person and actually can lead and tutor, she's ok.

But I'm not happy with my crazy working hours in the office. Since there's a management change from the Hotel to GI, which is in progress now, everything is super messy and there are a lot of wars in BO. Not to mention a lot of problems the buildings itself provided to us every day. Every freaking day I have to go home past 7....my working hours supposed to be only until 6!!! And it's extra tiring since I have to go home with Busway that always full every time I ride it. No wonder I'm sick now....and it's only getting worse I guess.

So if someone ask whether I enjoy the work or not, my answer is I have no idea. Seriously. I'm not even started my own part as a TR because I stay in the FO for 1 month. We'll see. If it's bad bad bad I guess I won't continue my contract after a year.

Wish me luck, yeah?

Bissous!

God has His own plan. RIP Papi Acun...

Another beloved family member has gone....

It's hard. It's really hard, and I didn't expect this at all.

He was my aunt's husband, and despite their youngest daughter is one of the closest cousins to me, and my own aunt is one of the closest family members, I was never close to him at all. I used to think that he was a big man with loud voice, sometimes obnoxious, but never went to borderline annoying to the point I don't want to see at all. In fact, he was a nice man and perhaps I just have a different view because he was so different to my own dad.

But there was no doubt he was a nice man and loving husband and dad, my cousin never forgot to mentioned it was because of him and her mom that she is such a devoted kind-hearted Christian girl now. He had a big ego, one that I couldn't blame at all with his status. Perhaps the defaults that I can see were he didn't really care about his health, loved to eat anything, and quite spoilt/whiny when he suffered. I remembered the first time he got heart stroke.

To me, because I wasn't close to him like I said, I was a bit indifferent when he was admitted to the hospital the second time, again due to heart stroke. Am I cruel to feel that way? I honest;y don't know. In fact, I feel bad more toward my cousins. Ci Ira was still hardly accepting of Engkong's death last December, and right before Xin Jia she lost her dad in law too. Now she lost her own father, and she took it really hard. She is kinda like me, I can see it. Everyone pity Dina the most though, she is getting married this April, supposedly on her birthday, but God has other plan.....I wish I can say it's not fair that he couldn't walk his baby daughter through the aisle, walking to her new life with Benny. I can't though, I know God has His own reasons and I believe it's for the family's own good.

I still wish this can happen differently though.

But we all know if we force him to live, fight through all his condition with machines and medicines, he won't be more than a vegetable. If anything he will suffer more, and it will sadden his family more. So God, You actually really nice to call him in his sleep. He walked through Your gate peacefully, reunited with our already passed family members. And I know everyone up there will be proud of him for such a strong family he had built with all his love and strength.

Where do I go with this entry, I don't even know. I guess I just want to rant, try to convince myself that I have to accept this fact. That he is no longer with us, yet he is in the arms of our beloved God now. I try to soothe this heavy heart. Again, why do I even have a heavy heart when I felt so indifferent?

I guess the answer is family. I grew up watching him there in every family gathering, and it has built a sense of closeness, a family tie that made me recognized him as a family.

God, You has freed him from all his pain. Please bless all of us with your strength, help us to face what I think as Your plan to bind our family together.

Beloved Papi Acun, I know we were never close before but know that you are still family and my beloved uncle. You have made my aunt so happy with the three children, whom gave you grandchildren and complete your life. Dina will be happy with Benny, he will take care of her well, and I hope you won't feel regretful that you can't be there for the wedding (as I'm sure you feel this way).


Rest in Peace, Papi Acun. I love you.....

Mata, hisashiburi....

Ohisashiburi....

Can't believe my last post is almost 2 years back, I wish I have the habit of regularly updating. Might as well start now I guess.

Just got back from my interview with Hyatt. I guess I can say it went well? It's obvious what they want from me is my Japanese, and even the Director told me so. Time to open Minonggo agaaaaaiiiiiinnnnnn.....

And I'm glad the 2 maids are at least here to help now, I'm seriously worried about mom. She didn't say anything but with her history of hurt kneecaps and all, better not risk it. Not to mention I can't help a lot either because the mosquitoes just love me. A freaking lot.

I'm still tired after the interview, I think I'll just play some games tonight & some chapters in Minonggo, if I'm in the mood. I'm not even sure if I want Hyatt though, but the location makes things easier somewhat & it's nice to see that they appreciate my Japanese. What if I get another one from, say, Bali? God, I dunno. Jakarta is obviously convenient but in the matter of hospitality, Bali is better. Too many pros and cons to list & me is too lazy to do it tonight.

I'm going for the games now.

I'll call it a day, before my head explodes.

Day 30: Disappointed

My dear, I really need to train myself to update things regularly.


As usual since it's been a long time I'm not updating, there are a lot of things I need to share.

Graduation day. Now this is a big problem to every PG students here. The Board has changed the date and make our graduation day at 21st May!!! How ridiculous is that??? Graduation day before final exam?? Did they not think about the possibility of someone failed? What about resits & retake?! Besides, what kind of fun is that when they hold something like this before the horror of exam....

Worse, I told my parents about this this afternoon. And they said they probably won't come because there is no reason for visiting anymore. Oh Jesus I really want to go to Vatican together with my family!! This is a once in a life time opportunity, why did it end up like this??? They seriously not thinking about us who live far away from Switz, how nice is that!!! They did not even listen to us when some of us decided to discuss about this with oh our so lovely program leader, whom we can not trust anymore.

Case number two, I finally got my F&B Admin grade, which I have totally butchered up during final exam. I wonder if I should take a math course or something, surely the problem is not about I'm bad at calculation. I mean, I did that a lot during high school and even without calculator!!! 4 years of no calculations in university has somewhat ruined my skills I guess. Anyway, thanks to my project grade & the fact that they made it 60% project & 40% final exam, I still can pass. OMG my exam grade is horrible, thank God I got a great team ...

Case number three. My roomie is being impossible again. I know I complain a lot about her being too noisy & too focused on herself, that's why I always stay in the library until late these days, so she can call anyone she wants to, can listen to music as loud as she wants to, can invite some friends to the room.......and now she said she can't be my roomie anymore because I'm too QUIET to her liking. She said she frustrated because of that. Why is she so weird?? I gave her her space already and now she wants to kick me out of the room. She even asked the Student Affair already without telling me first. How nice....
But anyway, I can't live with her anymore if she is going to be like that. What a spoiled girl.

On the other hand, I finally will go to Spain for midterm break. Not my first choice of place, but what can I do? Too many things happened and so little time to do everything at once. I have no other choice....and I'm travelling with these kids that sometimes annoy me because they keep asking me about everything but not doing anything by themselves, as if I'm the tour leader. Well, they are still kids, what can I say?

As for internship, I don't even know where I wanted to have it anymore. Currently waiting the response of Marriott New Orleans and Dubai. Just applied to Pan Pacific Singapore, Seattle and Wyndham Xiamen too. I'm still hoping for Marriott though, I always wanted the best one. Or maybe I'm just greedy.


Due to the trip to Spain, I guess I can't celebrate Easter properly. Forgive me, God. I hope we still can go to Church a bit during the week. Hopefully we can have a safe trip.

Winter clock ends today. Less sleep for 1 hour, at least this is weekend. I'm still a bit tired after walking until Chateu de Chillon today...


Will call it a day now.

Day 29: Is in dilemma...

My dearest friend


Maybe that's how I should call this blog from now on, hehehe~

I just started reading Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl last Friday, still continuing now, and I'm still surprised as of why I didn't start reading it sooner. I knew about Anne Frank since I was in junior high school if I;m not mistaken, I remember I found the book, the old version in Sanur's library. I remember opened it and look at some entries, maybe because the book was the old one, I ended up not interested. Funny how now I seemed to be can't be separated from Nazi-themed things. Last winter I visited the Anne Frank house, the Secret Annexe, in Amsterdam. It was pretty much an overwhelming experience. I almost couldn't hold my tears, one visitor even broke down crying. You really can feel how intense it was, how in such a small and comfortable (or maybe quite big but not so comfortable) place a young girl was living there for about two years in fear and also every kind of emotions she has experienced there.

Then after that I visited Auschwitz in Poland with my dearest best buddy the Cool Cat. Perhaps because it wasn't so cold, it was sunny day in winter, it was in the afternoon and Cool Cat promised to kick me if I shed a tear, I wasn't feeling sad at all. Maybe I was bracing myself and forced myself to be strong because I knew it would be another intense feeling trip. Nevertheless, I feel so lucky I'm able to visit one of the most horrible place in the history. God has permit me to arrive here & there safely, has blessed me to understand the horror of Nazi in the past, He allowed me to be safe and to see things by myself. I shouldn't complaining of small things should I?

Even though I said so, I'm still complaining about things in my life now. Well, I'm a human and that how a human is.

Is it?

Or is it just an excuse?


I will change the topic now.

We finally got our F&B admin project's grades. I was so relieved when I saw I got 9.6 for individual grade and 9.5/10 for the whole group. If my individual grade is indeed 9.6, it will be such a great help to boost my exam! I mean, I'm not good at numbers and the exam is full of calculations. I have to worry about this.

As for operations management, I have to say I am very very very satisfied! This is the first time I did a presentation and the audience really enjoyed it, and even laughed so hard. I have to admit this is all thanks to Steven. He was annoying because of his attitudes and curses but he knows how to do the work well, making the PPT in one night, giving ideas for funny clips......I never be able to do that. Now I' worried if I can do marketing well.  Anyway, even Mr. Schofield praised us.

Next week I will have both exam in the same day. God help me, I will study hard so I won't get resits again like last semester. Enough is enough.

Not to mention I just found out I had spent 500 chf until now!!! I think I will just go to Lyon for midterm, makes my life much easier.

I have so many things to write in 1 journal.

Now it's about graduation day. I can't believe this school!! They changed the graduation day from 4th June until before final exam!! What kind of graduation is that?? There's no way we can celebrate our graduation with so much anxiety for exams.....and even resits. What if there's someone who failed??? This is ridiculous. And even sadder is, how ignorant our friends can be. The other day we had a meeting with our program leader to talk about this, but only 1 people came! I understand those who have CBL, it was their last day and they have to prepare everything. But the others??? Simply didn't come, even though they complained about it a lot. Too much money to spend huh?


Another thing: internship

I got rejected from Ritz-Carlton Penha Longa Portugal. I guess it's a good thing. Even though the place, the payment & the accommodation isn't that good, but I want the name! It will look good in my CV later of course! But I have no idea where I want to have my internship now. I'm thinking about a lot of places: Switz, USA, Japan, Canada, Singapore, China.......hmmm......my priority is Switz, USA and Singapore I guess. I would say Canada and Japan would be almost impossible, considering the nature of the Japanese. Besides the RC over there told me they don;t accept internship student when I called. On the other hand, I'm still waiting a reply form RC Boston & Singapore, and also from Kempinski Geneva & Sanya. I need to send more. Massive sending always good at this rate~

Last thing: mid term break

I was thinking to go with Pailin etc for a tour of German, Prague, Austria tour but I;m worried they will call me for interview at the time. So....I guess even though I want to go, I have to cancel it and make another plan. I can just go to Lyon, it's near, and maybe visit Sha in Paris for a moment? Besides, I'm getting worried that Ray has became quite clingy to me. I hope Ruhafzo's fortune telling isn't true. He;s not my type & he has a girlfriend. Not a good idea at all.


..........it;s too long already so I will write about Ron & Felix tomorrow I guess.


I will call this a day and hopefully tomorrow will be a much better day.

Day 28: Not funny, it's snowing again....

My dear, today I started with annoying things


My roomie, who is always stressed these days, left in a hurry, made a lot of noises when preparing herself, and left without making her bed or turning off the bed lamp & desk lamp. Which were attacking my eyes like crazy. God, she's worse than my previous roomie...

And when I finally went out, it was snowing and still snowing until now.

And I was happy we don't have slippery grounds anymore....or should I say we didn't have...


Anyway, today I just got interviewed for the Ritz Carlton company, the Penha Longa in Portugal. Honestly, Portugal isn't even in my interest but I really want Ritz Carlton!!! I'm in love with RC since I started working in Starbucks PPL.....despite it being in a relation with Mariott.

It looks good, yes?

They said it's smaller than the ones in Spain but still looks cozy. I need to ask David more about this. Like I said, my point is not Portugal, it is Ritz Carlton.


But if I got recruited, I have to start in June until December. Then I won't be able to attend Fina's wedding T_______________T
Despite all of that, I have no idea why but I started to feel hopeful and excited. I still have to send some CVs though, who knows.....they probably won't accept me. I wonder what will they see with those general questions, I hope they can see I'm genuine (or should I say gullible nad naive?)


Now that this interview passed....at least I can concentrate with operations management. Hopefully, really hopefully, it will end well....


Pray for me, my dear....

Day 27: @____@

Oh God, I'm really not cut to write in a blog obviously...


ANyway, my life is pretty much....frustrating. Though I'm sure it's because I have time management problem.

I just finished CBL last week, finally finished with all lacking of sleep, super tired days with morning classes to attend (never not attend one, yay!!), and on top of it all....finished with my allergy!!!

Not exactly finished but....at least I won't get in touch with the allergens anymore.

ANd now, I need to focus on projects and internship hunting.

Project wise, both are challenges for me. In operations, some of my group mates are frustrating, especially a certain someone who talks a lot but rarely shows up in meeting. What a pain. Not to mention this project doesn't go to the way it supposed to be...

F&B......this is hard also since it's full of calculations. Oh God.....I think i need to take a math course, I didn't have such a big problem with calculations in high school. $ years without figures sure can make you senile.


As for internship....


Bye bye, Canada. If only you're not so picky in term of students, I will definitely go there.

Bye bye, EU......with the very same reason with Canada, plus why don't you accept Asians???

So...USA? My friend said it'll be easier since we will go through agency but how far we can go I have no idea. Thanks to those "people", my country has a bad image in the states as far as I know. Bah...

And my family will skin my alive if I even try to try Middle East or India or Africa (I'm not interested either).

SO.....final choices??


USA, Japan, China, Taiwan, Singapore......and my own country.


And I don't know what to say anymore.


I need to ask Junesea & Sebastien to send me the CBL pics...


Need to go back now, either to project or bed, The latter is more tempting....



I will call it a day....