me and korean looks
At 9:29 PM on
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
had an outback meal...should be considered dinner i guess.. with my supervisor and another senior, Sun-Young Kim.
the same supervisor i had coffee with the other time, she treated us to outback cos sun-young is leaving front desk to join f&b office from 20th nov onwards.
so i just knew about it,
she's getting married this coming end of march 2007.
she's 25.
she's changing dept cos her bf wanted her to work a more regular timing job than at front office where it's either a super-early-one or a end-uber-late-one.
and!
she's the same senior which i didn't have a good impression with when i just started work at hilton.
which made me feel guilty and re-inforced the phrase : don't judge a book by it's cover.
i came to realise that she's actually UBER nice!
and! she's real pretty too!
talking about photos, i realised that my laptop can take pictures.
so when i'm about to finish up my internship with hilton, i would bring the laptop with me to work and start grabbing people to take pictures with me.
me in the hilton uniform and others too.
-grins-
oh!
today, after alighting at Sillim, i went to top up my fare-card, something like ez-link which you tap upon entering the gate and exiting it.
so i waited in line for my turn.
when it was my turn,
i said hello politely to the guy at the counter (which was an uncle)
and just handed him the card and money for him to do the transaction.
then he went on to speak to me.
asking if i came from busan cos i speak like i came from there.
i was in shock.
i mean how the hell would you be able to tell where i'm from esp since i just learnt to speak the language only when i came here? hahs.
AND! a great achievement today at work!!
firstly, work went by super fast today.
cos we had so many groups to handle today so i was kept busy making keys and issuing breakfast coupons for the groups.
then we had to do some packing of goodie bags for the group from GSTAR.
heard from my senior, Dae-Hwan Noh, that this GSTAR thing is a computer games thingy thing.
so they have some kind of function or seminar here in hilton.
then! after packing the goodies bags with my supervisor jin-sook, i went outside to front desk and see what i could do.
then came along guests to check in.
seeing that my other seniors were busy with other things, i went on to offer help to these guests whom i secretly hoped that they weren't korean cos i can't do korean guests yet.
so they said they're from GSTAR and i went on to find their reservation on Fidelio.
when i did find their reservations, my senior said that he'll take over from there and so i went in to the office to get the goodie bags for them.
then one of my supervisor, Myeong-Jin Kang (who looks absolutely drop dead gorgeous by the way but it's simply too bad cos he's married if not i would so introduce him to some people who might be interested.) told me that he needs my help cos the guests are Chinese nationals and that they're saying something about checking out earlier.
So i had no choice but to flaunt my chinese speaking talent there and then, which i felt is absolutely funny by the way cos i haven't been speaking proper chinese for almost 2 months since.
and so there i was, speaking to 4 guests checking-in in chinese while Myeong-Jin and Dae-Hwan stood next to me and tried to get me to explain stuffs to them.
after getting them checked in and all and the guests being happy and all, i felt so UPLIFTED!
and! it was only when my senior were closing cashier accounts and counting money in the office after changing shifts that i realised i had forgotten to recommend them to shop at Namdaemun!!
i mentioned to the guests that if they needed help to get to nice places to eat or walk around, they can come down to front desk and my colleagues can write down the address in korean for them so that they can show the cab driver. BUT i totally forgot about Namdaemun! HOW COULD I???
-grins-
typical of me?
hahs.
one good day and hopefully more to come. in LOVE,
pr social butterfly pam