| | Well, I finally back, after numerous months of inactivity and dust collection. I guess I going to write somethinghnteresting, I suppose.
Employment
As you might or might not know, I currently employed at The Old Spaghetti Factory in Gastown (NO, it NOT an actual factory), aset this line chef. I was originally hired as kitchen service, where I would restock stuff around the kitchen and also restock bar glasses at the bar (obviously). The main duty of this position, is taking the stuff from the exit ramp of the dishwasher (using water at 80慢), stacking in, and moving it. So pretty much, lots of running around with heavy and hot stuff, with steam rising into your face obscuring your vision. Oh, did I mention that I pretty much have no grip with my shoes? Yeah, fun stuff.
So, after being promoted with a rare 50?raise (it usually a 25?raise, after 3-6 months with improved speed), I thought that my days of handling hot stuff would be over. I was totally wrong. If I stand at a particular point, the deep fryers are in front of me, and yes, the oil is hot. Overtop the deep fryers, are the overhead ovens which are also damn hot. Since I tallt not exactly a comfortable feeling? Behind me, is the hot water pasta ooker?(the pasta is actually precooked, and just reheated), where you would stick some pasta holders (think a Nalgene bottle with holes around it) with pasta (obviously) into the water running at 200慚 (~93慢), and then remove it, and put it in a plate/platter/bowl/give it to them, depending on the order. Now, what makes this particularly interesting, is that the grill in the water supporting the pasta holders is a bit slanted, which means that some pasta holders go underneath the water line (usually the rim stays above it).
When we encounter the ?strong>dinner rush? many orders fly out at once, and there only so many microwaves, deep fryers, spots in the overhead oven, and spots in the pasta cooker. So, when the line chefs call for ?strong>22 big?(meaning 22 large servings of spaghetti), and then a bunch of other pastas followed by a whole slur of stuff to go into the deep fryers and microwaves/ovens, youe pretty screwed.
Making Caesar salads sounds easy, but it not, especially when the machine printing the bill at the salad station keeps printing when you already have to fill that order of 20 Caesar salads that just came out a few seconds ago. The worse Ie seen, was 44 Caesar salads on the bill at once. Oh, the joy.
Academics
Following the stereotypical Asian route, I doing Science at UBC. Now, if it weren for the 10-12 hour weekly math assignments, based on material that was aught?/strong> in the lectures, I should be doing fairly well. Unfortunately, I do have 10-12 hour weekly math assignments. I swear, I spend more time on math homework per week, then all of the other assignments I do for all my other courses combined for two weeks. So, it not surprising that I 3 chapters behind in BIOL 112, nth pages behind in the novels required in ENGL 111...and etcetera for all the other courses I have.
For those of you who want some insight into UBC. Well, there are a lot of squirrels?/p>
Massive Wishlist
I have this big stuff-to-buy list this year (not like I had one in the previous years?, which I'll probably pick up (does that make sense...grammatically?) around Boxing Day:
My current desktop has a crappy video card. My mom needs a computer to replace her Pentium III (LOL). Sohy not build myself a new system, with a newly released Core 2 Duo and a GeForce 8800, and give my current one to my mom? Win-win situation =)
Now, the total comes to ~$1900, which is $400 more than my previous system. This is pretty much due to the high-end video card I planning to buy, since I never had a good history with buying mid-range video cards (got a ATI 9600 XT, and after a mere two years, it pretty much useless?. So, the 8800 GTS has good value for the long run. Oh, and I might be getting the E6300 (-$50) instead, I need to figure out which is better to accommodate memory timings and for overclockingr hell, I might the E6600, with the larger cache (+$100?. Wel see.
Now, since the laser printer I got for free is starting to crap out on me, I need a new one:
The headphones Ie been using to listen to music (or game =P) at night, recently crapped out on me too. Perhaps it has something to do with rolling over the extra long cord on an hourly basis for the past few years?
I also in need of a new wardrobe, seeing that Ie been wearing practically the same things for the pastive years @.@. Not sure how to estimate this, but I guessing this will run me in the nth hundreds of dollars, or specifically:
- Clothes-to-replace-the-stuff-Ie-been-wearing-for-the-past-five-years ~$250 (probably an underestimate?
Now, I don absolutely need a new digital camera, but Ie been itching for one. I probably not going to get this yet; I don see any shops carrying this model at the moment (and it ridiculously expensive as of now too):
Note: I by no means implying that you should buy these things for me (although, I won explicitly stop you from doing so), I just having fun listing the items I need to buy and checking the grand total with my bank-account balancehich may turn negative?/strong>
Faster computer: $1900
Buying clothes to cover ugliness: $250
Replacing crapped up made in China electronics withore made in China electronics: $125
Looking at your credit card statement: Priceless.
Closing
It really un?/strong>, to spend the days before, on, and after, your birthday studying for final exams. I 18 tomorrow. So yes?strong>I canotuff now. |
