Good Job? Rubbish?

*This post was written half way and was continued later due to exhaustion faced by the writer*

Slept for like 12 hours for the past 4 days......Been going to college at 7.30am and reaching home only at 11.00pm in the night for 4 days .Culinary arts is hard......not so easy as it seems.Today was our 'Le Brioche' bakery sale by my group...DC27 Group 2.I was the leader for this project and gladly i will say that everything went smoothly and reached our target and demands.Everyone worked just well.

First time for me that everything went alright.....not much big problem that couldn't be solved in just a matter of hours.Production of the pastries to be sold of the day just went alright....That was the happy part of the day....By the end of the bakery.....what did i see?

Yi Lin was sick and lost her voice

Jay was sick

Zaha was not feeling well too

Everyone is freaking tired


but Aniq was happy coz as he was the public relation personnel of the day, he met lots of gals.

The majority of the customer for the day were mostly gals....maybe around 80%.He was so happy that he was singing some song with these words in it ...Honey...Sweety.....Cupcake.He was just like a dancing bear.....hahaha

Amidst of all the happy morning...evening was devastated.We were asked to cook in our applied tech with this recipe and we are to make it different .Everyone was so tired because of the morning that most of us were like zombies cooking.But everything was done though.We presented the dishes....and as expected....chef Frederick gave comments on our dishes.I was lucky enough that i had tissue in my pocket and i placed my completed dish in the oven for 2 mins before serving.....he said i passed....Weeeeeee

Then our director of programme came,"chauve" guy or known as Chef Bala.




Guess what did he said????


RUBBISH.......THIS IS ALL RUBBISH!!!!!!!



And everyone went emo......hahahaha....I was a bit offended but oh well i found out the theory behind his action.Its all pyshcology tactics.

Doubting My Ownself

I am doubting about my mind reflexes and my words.......

Came back today to home....and suddenly i realized that i am gonna have an exciting culinary term at Taylor's .It will be sO THRILLING and stressful ...all because of my action.....silly actions i presume. The first sign from GOD when i somehow became the class reputation.My plan backfire when i was trying to nominate Leon as he was too trying to nominate me.DAMN...... and then like normal DC members, when the rest saw that there is a fire....they add oil,petrol,spirit methyl,kerosene ........and POOF ......Okay...Vincent you are the Class representative.And for the comedic part, the French lecturer ,Monsieur Yeoh gave me a new name Sern Sern.....as if Vincent isn't a simple name for him.And i got laughed....

And for any one's information, I don't want to be a class rep.It will be a nice job if i don't have to handle the photocopying duty. That's the worst job.I would rather do stewarding, sweeping floor than being a class rep.And some more , it was not on my own desire.Who will do a job given to him without his desire and still put their effort into it....I know i won't give much effort
AND AGAIN I DON'T WANT TO BE A CLASS REP....ANYONE IN GROUP 1 OR 2 IS UP FOR THE JOB, YOU CAN SMS OR EMAIL ME .......I WILL GLADLY GIVE IT TO YOU AND TREAT YOU TO LUNCH FOR A MONTH.....AND I MEAN IT.....


Another sign is when today the Chef asked who wants to be the leader for the first bakery session.Something in me made me raise my hand.....I think some of my group members must be thinking .....Hmmm...Vincent must think he is so great and tak sedar diri to take the responsibilities...... Maybe i thought it will be fun to try it first.So if i were to do a bad job.....i can say its the first session and such short time to prepare for it.

I may sounds emo in this post .....no i think i am emo .......especially being chose as the class rep part........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.....