Post Mortem

Industrial Training......... a part of a culinary programme to learn and experience the real culinary world or kitchen life in a hotel or restaurant.It is also something that could be called as legal slavery system where the restaurant or hotel needs some workers with no experience or so needed to do all the miscellenous duty such as stewarding,choping and peeling onions, cleaning the kitchen and runinng here and there to get stuff.

But behind all this agenda, there are actually some sense in this work as i discover.But i do not know if it actually works.

Stewarding/washing the stuff - its preparation for the trainee to help prepare food in the kitchen as while they wash the equipment , they will know wat equipment is in the kitchen .Other than that,one will learn to minimize usage of equipments to minimize the things to wash later on.For plates and cutleries, so the trainee will know which plate serve with which food as well as the cutleries.....the trainee will find it out from the leftovers or stains on the plates.....

Cleaning the kitchen-Train one's stamina....sweeping and moping the floor is actually hardwork as you are already tired after a day's work and you will have to scrub the floor if there are hard stains there.Another reason for cleaning the kitchen, so that the trainee will realize that working without making a mess is good.

Running from one kitchen to another kitchen- As it only happen in hotel, most of the time, the trainee have to run to other kitchen to get ingredients that the chef needs,and sometimes this trainee are not wanted in the other kitchen .So this will force the trainee to learn how to socialize with the other chefs from different kitchen.

Now , that the 3 months of legal slavery is done, it's back to college life which i am looking damn foward to.How much have i improve? How fast can i do stuff? and all the juicy gossip from everyone.hehehehehe

Food Poisoning.....On CNY eve!

Chinese New Year supposed to be a big bang with nice foods and celebration.I was supposed to be working on the Chinese New Year Eve but on that morning , i woke up feeling weak and pain in my stomach. In the end ...in half an hour , i went to the toilet twice.....i got the feeling of food poisoning. Must be the vietnamese food i ate the day before coz that's only wat i ate that day. Damn those people whos cooking there.....

In the end, had to go see the doctor....and it was proven that my assumption was correct.So for two freaking days.....the toilet had been my close friend and you won't believe what one can do in a toilet.......Suffering and groaning and laying down is not a nice thing to do , especially on CNY eve and CNY itself.Furthermore i won't be having holiday for 2 weeks coz of this....Damn those people who serve and cook the food for me again.....

Finally , i can see the sun rise

From the darkness , i finally could actually sense things are getting better and i could see the sun rises....... finally some light in the darkness of industrial training.Things were getting better as i spend more time at my industrial training venue....the multi-tasking restaurant, Cuisine Studio.

I was kinda upgraded into preparing starter, preparing bread & basket for service, and doing the stewarding Better than last time when i was only doing stewarding and moving stuff.Although i only have a day off every week but i am starting to like to work there especially the night shifts.Tired but fun.

Saw the Dc27 blog founded by the "Kucing Kurap" , Tuan Maynard......It seems like everyone's industrial training is going well.Oh yeah, by the way,i am missing you guys and i am saying the truth ...no matter if you are a guy or girl...i miss all my dc27 members especially my group 2 guys.

Wanted to take a photo of the uniform in my industrial training but its a bit hard to take photo there without grabbing the attention of my co-workers.The uniform there is like those surgeon are wearing.It's not like any normal chef jacket.No buttons.And the best part, its all in black...i got my dream of wearing a black chef jacket.I had to wear the white safety shoe from taylors though.And with those white shoes, one will really look like a surgeon. Imagine a team of black clothed surgeon working in an open kitchen...that's how it looks in where i am training now.

Anyway, tomorrow is a big day for me.My senior is off tomorrow , so its only chef Jean Michelle , me and the "sous chef" Ng.I am damn scared of screwing up tomorrow as before this , i have the help of my senior in case of any question or help.Tomorrow will be kinda like a test for me.I am gonna do my best ...not gonna give up .....will just eat whatever the chef will scream at me. i am gonna work there tomorrow like that is my bedroom ...hahaha

Last but not least, i miss college life of lepaking and relaxing all the time.I miss watching TV.I miss my dc27 mates .I miss all my other friends.And i miss missing Eagle Scout Group recruitment drive for new members, and all the activities they are gonna have in the next 3 months.I miss camping and i seem to found a place nice to camp...with all the facilities.Planning to make a trip after my industrial training....wondering if any dc27 mates up for the challenge and fun.....

no pictures from the training cause training is busy and means business!

Cuisine Training

Cusine Studio........that's the place to eat,learn,and shop.That's also where i am undetaking my training.Training is hard no matter wheter you are ready or not ready......For the last few days, i have been working my ass off ....working from 2pm to almost 12am or so.What have i been doing there??

Washing
Cleaning
Moping

Well , i can't complain much for i am a trainee there , but seriously i enjoy my time there other than all the scolding from the chef(french) and the manager.It seems i am a bit slow or maybe cause i was having this fear of working there.....anyway ...the scolding is worth what i am doing there.

Now my job upgraded.....i have to help out in kitchen , which i am still learning due to the fact i do not know where the ingredients are .In the same time, i have to do the stewarding and whatever the manager ask me to do.

In a short story, Industrial Training for me is hard and difficult but fun cause can learn a few stuff .The scolding is getting worse but i think i can still hang on.Hopefully, i dun piss the chef too much.I am going to work my ass to make sure i do not get scold anymore..... ciaoz

Good luck to all my dc27 members in their training .....miss you guys

BANG and another BANG!!!!!!

BANG.......screecccccchhhhh.........BANG....... thats the sound from last week.What happened? My first accident.And the best part, i crashed into a car and into my neighbours wall divider.Damn! Jimmy and Maynard were in my car. Got 45 mins of lecture from my mom and sour face from my younger sister . It was her birthday and my parents were out whole day to settle the car insurance.Sorry sis!

Another question...why i only updated it now? coz i wasn't in any mood to write anything.Term 3 is over and now is term break.Just sleep, eat and sit in front of pc and go back to sleep.I am like a lifeless geek who is supported by the internet....hahaha.Quite boring though.Now just waiting for industrial training but bad news , i may get stuck with two of the most hated person in my batch DC27.

Oh yeah, i got 2 new knives and a bucther's steel .It cost Rm 1,050 after converted back into RM from aussie dollar. Those knives are just NICE!!! they are just nice....no words else can describe it , maybe coz its my own knives .ahahhaaha.Thats all for now.ciaoz.....

P.S: I miss daily college life.WHY?

1)I miss "Kucing" and "Beruang"

2)I miss Andy's sarcasm

3) I miss Yi lin's shouting and sreaming and her look whenever i disturb her

4) I miss someone

5) I miss cooking in the kitchen with my group mates , making noises

6)I miss Hadi's superb acting and emotions.

One Night Stand in the Jungle.....

FINALLY AFTER A LONG WAITING, i was back in the jungle after about 7 months or so.Just missed the scent of jungle, the mysterious aura of the jungle and of course the inhibitants of the jungles(spirits,ghosts&etc).Templar Park was ther destinationof the night.The camp started on the friday morning but Me and two of my other two council member,Jet Thye and Vincent decided to drive there on Saturday due to my exam which was on saturday.

We left for Templar Park at 11.00pm or so.We reached there around 1200am or so.The place was just dark,which was expected.Then this funny thing happened.....I opened the car door adn i could hear loud music of people singing.I was shocked!!!!WTFG !!!!Who will want to sing in a jungle middle of the night......In the end, we found out that there is a malay stall proividing karaoke service ....
Hopefully the "inhibitants of the jungle" doesn't mind.

After doing nature's call next to the car near some bushes and changing into short pants and slippers, the three of us started the hike to locate our troop members.On the way , after 20mins hike, we saw some of the rovers going down for a drink at the malay stall mentioned above.So we went back down with them....seniority rules in the troop, what can be done?

After drinking for an hour, the 9 of us started hiking back up to the campsite which took 30mins.And we have to cross the river to get to the campsite.The water level was at my waist.Fuhhhh...was a bit wet by the time we cross to the campsite.Basically, pitched our tent in the dark, then i took a short bath in the cold river which just remind of the old days.In the old days, my whole council was asked to half naked ,basically in our "swimwear" and were to sit in the cold river in 1.00am in the morning to discuss problems and how to improve ourselves....which we call pow wow.

After the short bath ...which happened while Karmen was doing pow wow with the committe members...i went to sleep.It was a good nite to sleep ,plus i have my sleeping bag.My other two members slept without anything , resulting shiverings and moanings or being cold.hahaahah

Woke up next morning, and got this story told by my senior.

Senior:7 of the boyscout went home earlier!

Me : HUH! why? they can't stand it?

Senior:Nolar, accident happened.one of the junior was starting a fire and wanted to speed things up, so he used petrol.

Me : Yeah? and?

Senior:He somehow dropped the jerry can of petrol into the fire and the fire went out of control.
The fire burst and it was like fireworks,wood from the fire was flying around......

Me : WTF! SHIT!!!!!What happened then???

Senior: One person got burnt and another got cut on his leg and the other 5 were slightly
injured....

I was damn suprised to hear the story.What is happening to the boyscouts nowadays.It seems that they just are accident prone.But still,they won't be real scouts if they never experience pain and the hardwork from the activities they do.

I am damn lazy to write now as i noe the nmext story will be even longer.I just return home after the camp.I wrote this post after just eating with Andy,Maynard and Adrian.......And yeah...it seems Shah Alam people like the chicken chop rice at the food court near my place.....Hahahah.Will post the second part of my camping story tomolo.....

Fun Night......in College

21st November 2007.......that was the night where DC27 Group 2, my group was cooking in the kitchen for asian buffet.Luckily i was assigned with Han and Andy, my original team in kitchen practical.We were told to prepare stirfried beef with pineapple Vietnamese Style. This means we got the chance to use the big cooking stove with those fire which are blue flame...those used in chinese cuisine.It was Fun...the fire was just damn cool.



Suprisingly it took us like an hour or less to prepare the beef and i gave some sample to everyone in the kitchen including the lecturer chefs and none of the complain.....their comment?? Nice ,quite tender, flavourful,got taste and colour. At that time , i thought a tail was gonna grow from my back after listening to those comments. GOOD JOB GUYS,ANDY and HAN! We did great that night.



And then i and andy became the comunicator for that night .He was taking care of outside and i was taking care of inside.We did quite good. Replenishing the food was fast and most of our dishes was out by just in half an hour.Using the walkie talkie ,we contacted each other for the whole night, the truth: i wanted to help in the comunication part coz i could play with the walkie talkie.



Service over around 10pm.All sat down and had our own dinner.The servers and kitchen crew.But still , everyone is still sitting according to their own circle of friends.After the dinner, did a bit of stewarding.That's my last job of the night.



Then , the spy networking group started to assemble.The members gathered outside at the courtyard and each of them started complaining bout one person.It seems tat this person is currently having problems with everyone.Just hope this person will realize it, stop being .....P.S: i was a bit angry.....a bit onl.y

This is What I Would Like To Call As Aniq's Happiest Moment Of His Life

This is What i would like to call as Aniq's happiest Momment of his life.It's was a story happened long time ago and i think it will be a good story to tell everyone.It was Mischa's birthday and the whole lot of us decided to give her a birthday suprise at her house at the stroke of midnight.So there were Me,Han,Maynard,Andy,Shane,Samantha,Jimmy,Aaron,Jimmy,and of course Aniq who will be the main character today's story.

Who's aniq?Very Easy,This is Aniq. He is who i want to call as the cute mascot of DC27 group 2.He is just as joyful as a bear.



Soon after suprising Mischa, somehow these college kids ended up in the playground and the time was like 2 am in the morning.I am not sure if it's instinct or these college kids wanted to exprience once again the joy of playing in the playground.
What we did there 2am in the morning?
We launched some fireworks with no sound effect,played on the swing,slide,and monkey bar.


*College Kids protesting in a playground

*Shane on the swing

*College Kids tracing back to their kindergarden days


*I told you Aniq was very happy

So in the end, we decided to end that happy moments when it was like 3am in the morning.And of course , Aniq was sad, but we promised him to bring him there again...when we are free.But sometimes , its good to be a small innocent kid who can just play everyday without any worries.

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