Day 38 - Maldives

Yup, its more than a month already. Time flies.

Last Friday was my last day in FO. Glad to change department because of the travelling and i wasn learning much. Went snorkeling with Christina and Sin Sien on Saturday and enjoy the weekend off.

I changed to Finance department this week starting Monday. Jovin, Theresia n i are in Finance. Christina,Ray and Daphne in HR and Sin Sien,Marvin in Kihavah's pre-opening office. Our work time are all the same which is good. 9-6pmeveryday. Loving the work and the people in finance. Enjoying it. =)

But this week was really tiring for all of us. There was a big group from China,about 36 of them and none of them speak English except the tour leader. The fnb manager requested us to help them out for 4 days while these guests are here. This group of Chinese are very demanding and not friendly at all. They ask for every ridiculous thing they can think of and they are super stingy people. Not willing to even buy a bottle of mineral water. My friends and i were assigned to different outlets at different time to serve this group. I worked every night until 9 something or even 11. Working more than 12 hours everyday. Je suis fatigue!! In the end we get nothing but complaints. Sigh. We also have to assist the water sports centre with these people for fishing, snorkeling and dolphin quest. We were like 24 hours on call. It was hell. I went with them for snorkeling and it was horrible. They were like kids. We had to help them put on masks and so on. Urgh! Really terrible terrible people. At that time i wish i dont speak Mandarin or cantonese. They finally left yesterday and we are all happy. Haha.

*breathes*
Finally i get to rest today. Tonight night audit. Its gonna be fun. =)

Day 24 - Maldives

Finally i have the time to update this blog.

Time really flies. I've been here for almost a month already. Work have been good. Still more of a translator but i also get to learn other things. People here in my department are all very nice and crazy people. Sometimes we just couldn stop laughing. I'm gonna miss them when i change department.

Last Saturday's day off, i went out with Christina and Daphne to see dolphins together with some guests. It was a good trip just spending time together to relax.

Yesterday was my day off too. This time 4 of us. We went kayaking and snorkeling. The funny thing is, the sea here is very strange. Some parts are very deep and some were very shallow until my ankle or sometimes till my knees. Christina and i was on one kayak, while Sin Sien and Ray were in another kayak. We kayak till a certain point and our kayak stopped because the water was up to my ankles. Christina and i had to come out of the kayak and pull until somewhere deep. We laughed non stop. It was a good day out. Tiring though. I wanna dive on my next off day. =)

That's all for now. Bye bye.

Missing Malaysia....

Day 18 - Maldives

Updates coming up..

Stay tune.

=)

Happy Birthday Daphne

Wish you all the best in life. Love you always.

Day 10 - Maldives

Finally my off day. 2 days of night shift is tiring.

I just came back from a meeting with the HR director, Mr Bernard. It was suppose to be a 30 mins meeting but it turned out to be 2 hours because there were a lot of things to discuss. We prepared powerpoint to present to him about all the problems and what we have learnt this 1st week. also what have to be improve. He was impress because its only our 1st week and we've got a lot of points. We now need to do a proper report so that he can present it to the managers. There're new plans for us, hopefully its approve. We're excited.

Finally i have to time to upload pics. Here goes..

Spa. Everyday i have to walk here to take a boat to my workplace. 2boats everyday.

The island i'm working in. Veli

Another island, Dhigu

Dhigu. Pool and Sea

Will upload more nx time. or just check in facebook. tags from my friends.

Anyway, i thought there was no way i get to celebrate my bday here. I just kept quiet. My friends just greet me and thats all. Until last time after my shift at 12am, i came back to the room and found the 2 guys in my room and everyone was still awake. Din suspect anything because they told me they're waiting for me to go yum cha. which we do every night. Everyone just do their own thing until suddenly they started singing the birthday song. I was suprised. Theresia was holding a cake. We just cut, eat and then everyone slept. They told me it was suppose to be the night before but i had to worked till 2am so the plan was off. Even though its just a small thing but i really appreciate it. They purposely try to get someone to buy me a cake from Male. Daphne was outside in the cold waiting for my dear cake. Haha. Thanks gal.

the guy who bought the cake gave wrong age. i'm only 20 ok? haha

Thank you Monkeys(Theresia, Daphne, Christina,Marvin, Sin Sien, Ray & Jovin). I really appreciate ur friendship and love. Wish you all the best in everything. Love you all.

Day 9 - Maldives

Happy Birthday to me! Haha. *Missing everyone back home. Wish i could be with them today. But hearing their voices was good enough to make my day=)*

No way to celebrate bcoz i worked till 2.30am this morning. Sometimes i dont even see my friends because of the different shifts.Anyway, last night was a little party with dear Chritina. Went back and was so hungry. Christina stole some maggi from my friend's luggage. Went to the canteen but it was locked. Sigh. no hot water. Ended up eating oreo and chips.

Today doing noon shift again. suppose to end at 12am but dont know today until what time again. Last night a large group from China came around 1.30am. These people are from Guangzhou and they dont speak english. Not even a bit. A guy came up to me to ask for "Fire wood" only later i realise he wants matches. *faints* They got so noisy the moment they know i can speak cantonese. Ask for this and that. Even the briefing done by colleague was passed to me bcoz they dont understand. It was hard talking to a large group of people. Tonight another group. Hopefully they dont speak cantonese. Mandarin is wayyyy easier for me.

Tomorrow is off day. Thinking what to do...hmm...

Got to log off.

Bye.

Day 8 - Maldives

The week passed by so fast when work starts.



Today i'm working the noon shift which means starts from 3pm - 12am. Its really tiring but not as tiring as the night shift. Work is so far so good, not learning the system stuffs but more like a translator for the Chinese. There're really a lot of them here and they cant speak english. They are very happy when they know we can speak Mandarin, Cantonese or Hokkien. These 2 days i'll be busy with the big group Chinese guests coming in.


Yesterday, a guest complained to me about the menu which was translated in to chinese. There's a dish which has the word "ai" means cancer and cement and a lot of other funny direct translations. So now this is my assignment. A few of us have to help change all the menus of the different restaurants. We have 8 altogether. A lot to do...but fun reading the funny translations.

Mr Heinecke, who is the owner of Minor Corporations, had arrived today. He is the owner of all the Anantara Resorts in Maldives, Thailand, China, Laos, Vietnam and so on. He owns nearly all the fast food outlets in Thailand and also the clothing industry in Thailand. You can read more bout it in the website. The HR Director will arrange a meeting for us trainees to meet him. This is really a good opportunity if we make a good impression. It'll do good for our future. never know he might hire us when we graduate. Hehe.

Alright, gtg. My guests are here. Ciao.