Ok, so this was supposed to be posted on the 28th of March...but I was too lazy to open my laptop and type so I'm typing it...only now. Which just shows how forgetful I am (cos I forgot where I put the paper where this post was written on) and how lazy I am. (Cos I found this paper on Thursday but just couldn't be bothered to type it yesterday)

Date: 28th March 2008, Friday, 01.30 p.m. @ B2 Vivo City, on the steel table between Old Chang Kee and the pastry stall.

I'll miss BreadTalk Vivo City. Really. Today's my last day here and already I'm missing the place, yet I'm also finalizing my plans for the next 2 weeks I've left before I start my next phase of life at Ngee Ann Poly as a freshman. Maybe I'm sadist, but after Pei Pei Jie left, I really missed mornings with her when she was on duty, and now I'll miss my morning shifts with the other full-timers--

Mornings with Serene Jie who would usually just absent-mindedly nod her head to just plain ignore me when I greet her in the mornings...and when I tell her of my disappointment at her reaction, her reaction of just grinning at me with her hat askew on her head and telling me that I'm too chirpy and noisy, and that since I was so, she had no need to speak so much. Sigh. I miss her already. Sob.

Mornings with Kelly Jie, when she just nods to my greetings, when we rush around cos there’s just the 2 of us, and there’s so many cakes for her to display, keep in the refrigerator and go to the bank…and me? I have to wrap the dry cakes and display them for selling, duh. And sometimes, I’m really slow. ^_^

Mornings with Fu Ling Jie or Xue Yu Jie—which terrifies me cos I don’t know what I’ll do next that would earn me a scolding that would earn them a period of talking back from me, a period of black faces from them, and many disagreements. But overall, it’s always my fault, and because I’m stubborn as hell, I deserve these scolding. I really miss my fights with Xue Yu Jie-- which always starts with her scolding me, I talking back (another one of my bad traits) and her scolding me again. Sigh. I really must be a sadist to miss all this.

And while Pei Pei Jie has been gone for nearly a month already, I really miss my mornings with her, especially when I have morning shift with her and Wendy Jie. I really miss the gossips they always draw me into, which always ends up into an argument between the 3 of us, causing Wendy Jie to rebuke or tsk at me (as usual) and Pei Pei Jie to scold me again, asking if I really take that much pleasure in having her scold me every time she see me. Maybe I’m sadist—I miss her scolding after she left.

Hell, I miss them and they scolding me. But I most definitely NOT miss the freak-ass-idiotic Baker. I think Cybil, you would know exactly which baker I’m referring to.

I’ll miss my mornings and afternoons with Le En too, my senior who I always absent-mindedly treat as my junior…and those 2 mornings with Pei Pei Jie when you kept cracking racist and dirty jokes and me saying that I don’t like or approve of the jokes you keep cracking…and your tendency to keep commenting ‘Pervert’ in Chinese…Gods, I’ll miss all our conversations…

I’ll miss all the ups and downs I’ve experience here at BreadTalk, and what I’ve experienced would certainly play a big part in my future. Recollections of a certain Caucasian woman asking for the Sunflower Bun and when told that she’ll have to wait another hour for it, setting down her tray with a loud cracking sound and exclaiming “Outrageous” then storming out BreadTalk, the Indian Couple who insists on Fu Ling Jie holding their tray while they choose breads without egg content in them—which is utterly ridiculous when most breads are, and must be made with eggs—and when they both were not holding anything at all but insist on having one of the cashiers holding the tray for them and following them like their trained dogs. I do not regret taking the tray from Fu Ling Jie and telling them loudly that the only bread items without egg content are the Sunflowers Buns and the Baguettes, and since they do not want it, they can just take the Gourmet Fruit Loaf. And I certainly take perverse pleasure in telling him the price of the half Gourmet Fruit Loaf ($4) he took, and telling him that if he bothered to take the fruit loaf himself, he would have seen the price tag there.

This has taught me a great lesson—that racial harmony is crucial everywhere. This Indian Couple picked Fu Ling Jie just because she couldn’t speak good English, and decided to treat her as what most other see China nationals as, Dogs, because her job rank is lower than her. Taking over her position and duty at that point of time was to put them in their place, and telling them if they want to pick on someone, pick on someone with the same rank as you, and as a student with a powerful grasp of English, I can be their opponent. At times like then, I really thank The Cambridge markers for gifting me with the A1 in my English language. And using this against people like these really give me immense satisfaction. Bullies like these should be put into their places.

Here at BreadTalk Vivo City, I really learnt a lot, and experienced the working world of the lowest ranks. Here, the males still dominate the women, with the Baker Head’s rank higher the Head Cashier, and managers always males, and hardly a female baker in sight. Still, if of any indication, the contents of my arguments with David the head baker and Samuel the arrogant and “Puppy” baker—and I really mean “Puppy”—would certainly be beneficial in my future ventures into the working world. And yes, I’ll miss C.C. Ng, my store manager, David the somewhat insufferable and arrogant at times Head Baker, Jake the somewhat monosyllabic yet sometimes quite talkative baker, Zhong Shan and crazy baker(cos I really don’t know what he’s thinking at time—but then again, I don’t have the right to know, or the need to know, so yeah) and Ronnie, and kind baker(Cos I hardly ever talk to him).

I’ll miss you guys! Sob.

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