will be out cold for awhile...

we're switching to the smart broadband internet coz the pldt dsl fees are too much of a burden now.. (our plan was the 1,995php..) more explanation on my DA journal...check it out!!

till next time guys!!

finally!!!!!!!

i got my chance to work with my chefs this weekend!!!!! im so excited!!! oh...let me just explain for those who have no idea what im talking about...

for the past few months ive been pestering our admin. secretary, who obviously loves to play favouritisms, to let me come to school every saturday to help the Chefs on their short-course lectures....in a way, id be an "apprentice" to them... ^___^ but our admin secretary, Ms. Lotees...she likes to play favouritism and doesnt like to give me the chance to help out (willingly, even!)...but now....this weekend, our Chefs have this big catering event for a baptismal party!! and they're short-staff....after knowing that, i volunteered myself to the oppurtunity...

but Ms. Lotees immediatly turned me down saying she already chose 12 students who would participate...(i got really pissed..just not infront of her..)

thankfully my classmate, Hershey (who's a favorite of Ms. Lotees), helped me out! It turns out Ms. Lotees havent chosen any students at all yet and that she was actually having a hard time to pursuade the students to agree....Hershey helped me big time!! ^___^ im so grateful for her!!! Hershey was the one who spoke to Ms. Lotees to let me help out since i was willingly already!!

it feels like this would be my first "job" as an apprentice.... ^___^

for the whole day of saturday i'd be in school to prepare misc-en-place [french for things in place, basically all the prep-work for ingredients, etc.]...then sunday would be the catering event....and it would be during the evening...so who knows what time i'd get home?! but maybe i'll just sleep over at my classmates house...just to make things less complicated for me....

*sighs* i cant wait!!!! i just hope i dont screw up!!!

2-week recap

i havent posted anything for a while now....so let me just recap on what has happened to me for the past 2 weeks...

• enjoyed the birthday celebration of my neice which was a family bowling tournament at EAstwood!!! we even got medals as souveneirs!! ahahahahaha!! ^___^

• Christine came over to my house...and i made her dinner!! ^__^V (poached chicken with chive cream sauce and mashed potato with roasted garlic and cilantro and sauteed asparagus)

• my brother was finally wed last Sunday!! ^__^V i dont have all the pictures yet...but i'll post them as soon as i get a hold of it...

• finally made my presentation for school...cook any meat dish at home, just like what i did 2 months ago with fish & seafood...i made herb crusted roasted lamb chops with lyonnaise sauce and couscous and salad greens with balsamic vinegrette!!
  

• and...i finally had my hair chopped again!! ahahahaha!! if the people who've seen me with short hair before can remember what i look like...well...that's it...with the addition of highlights!! yep, i had them put dark purple-somewhat-red highlights on my hair!! ahahahahahaha!! it was fun!! ^___^ unfortunatlely i still dont have pictures of my current hairdo for now...

so...that's what has happened to me for the past 2 weeks....oh!! and just recently the school informed us about the midterm schedule....its after our Christmas break, the week of my birthday!! great!! i have no birthday!! T-T and in addition to that, we have to prepare our resumes already for our job interviews...its part of our curriculum to have a 2-month apprenticeship...which will also happen after the midterms...soooo...i will really have no birthday at all!!!! i'll be too busy... >___< well other than that....i just feel so overwhelmed by it all!! the midterms...the apprenticeship....uugggh......whenever i just think about it i go into my "praning" mode.... O__o my midterms, by the way, is a hands-on practical exam....i'll be assigned to a kitchen and a recipe to cook on my own...which the chefs will judge and grade me...cooking alone in a huge kitchen isn't much of a problem...but when real chefs look at you when you're working.....they kinda have the way of crumbling one's little confidence one has. oh well...i just have to endure it and hope to get things right in the end...

so that's it for now....till next time guys!! ^___~