17.7.05
bye stella!! (at least that's what i should have said if i went to her farewell last night...bleh...:( i completely lost my voice, save for a very very low note...(the low c, for those of you that might be interested) so i ended up performing using my manly voice on saturday night. my husband had a higher voice than me, it was funny...
opening night was great, best show we've done ever, and things can only get better! Because we've passed the "second night" - which is notorious for people missing the mark because the first night was great etc...but it was still so excellent! on cue, had the assistant director and cast cover for me in some of my parts, so i survived. will go back and do it again this arvo...
anyway, to the bitching column: don't ever go to winsure bbq kitchen in victoria ave chatswood (one closest to NAB). NEVER...don't do it to yourself!!!
i pointed at this dish that i wasn't sure what it was, and asked them to order it...they gave us some dish, so i thought "oh, ok.that's cool" and when we went up to pay for it, it turns out that the fob waiter decided to write something quite a bit more expensive that appears on the OTHER side of the menu, at about 3 times the cost. now i would have just paid it coz it wasn't a big deal, (the actual monetary amount is noticeable but not THAT much that i would bother) but i explained to the lady (in my husky man voice) that what the waiter put down wasn't the name of what i ordered, but it doesn't matter we ate it, we'll pay for it.
what she said next just plainly shocked me: she goes in an all bitchy, thinking i'd try and jib her voice "well if you think it's wrong then you shouldn't have eaten it" and i said "what the fuck?! i didn't know it was wrong until you rang it on the bill" and before i could continue my sore throat saved the lady (and possibly my own) grace because i was going to tell her many bad things in front of a full customer venue...she just stared down at the register and pretended not to hear a thing i said.
so, why did i get so worked up? surely it can't be that big a deal to react so much to - it's about $10 difference, i can survive with $10 less...i've worked in a restaurant before, so i should know that restaurants make mistakes too...so why the big reaction plus a big plug for the restaurant on my blog?
oh...a big WELCOME *WAVE* to celine: the new addition to my links list... :) didn't know you blogged, my dear! coming to think of which...it's been about a year or something since i last saw that girl..and about half a year since i saw her sister last...where have they disappeared to?!
i want more sleep.my cough has been waking me up every hour at night for the whole week now...i would like to have a decent 8 hour rest in a row where i don't get woken up by anything...sleep...doesn't everyone seem to want more of it...(especially frank, who claimed he enjoyed waking up early, in the am's, then what happened next day :P)
well, went auditioned yesterday, i didn't want to, because i lost my voice, but i really want to give it a go, and the director wanted to see me anyway, and i'm like..."why - i can't even speak right now!" but after a short audition, reading (whispering) line runs opposite the assist. director, i got let off, and i thought to myself "bleh, i don't think i'd get it, i suck" while hoping that they would do as they said and call me for a call back today for wednesday night. but i dont think they will - they prolly didn't like me tats why i got let off so soon. never got to do my monologue that i practised so much...erk...my "husband" in the play went for audition as well, and he says he didn't get to read monologue, but auditioned next to an older guy....i think we might be too young to cast in the play or something...i don't get why they needed us to put down our ages...what's the point of that? if i knew they wanted an older cast i woulda put down an older age...(*gasp* i hear you say - why would a girl put down an older age than her own?!)
hahaha...aah..*cough* it's so fun to be around with that cast...but once show starts you know it'll end sometime....and that thought is saddening... ;(
Hey Abbey, hope you're getting better by the day and losing that manly voice, heh, cool to hear the shows are going so well thus far.
Fobs are so uncool, but it's not like we didn't already know that.
What the heck is a 'winsure' anyway?
Hey Abbey! :)
Thnx for droppin' by~ I know, it's been DOGS YEARS since we've last seen each other...so how're you doing???
Let's catch up some time for a coffee or something!! Would love to hear from your show and acting career...
Much love,
Celine x
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opening night was great, best show we've done ever, and things can only get better! Because we've passed the "second night" - which is notorious for people missing the mark because the first night was great etc...but it was still so excellent! on cue, had the assistant director and cast cover for me in some of my parts, so i survived. will go back and do it again this arvo...
anyway, to the bitching column: don't ever go to winsure bbq kitchen in victoria ave chatswood (one closest to NAB). NEVER...don't do it to yourself!!!
i pointed at this dish that i wasn't sure what it was, and asked them to order it...they gave us some dish, so i thought "oh, ok.that's cool" and when we went up to pay for it, it turns out that the fob waiter decided to write something quite a bit more expensive that appears on the OTHER side of the menu, at about 3 times the cost. now i would have just paid it coz it wasn't a big deal, (the actual monetary amount is noticeable but not THAT much that i would bother) but i explained to the lady (in my husky man voice) that what the waiter put down wasn't the name of what i ordered, but it doesn't matter we ate it, we'll pay for it.
what she said next just plainly shocked me: she goes in an all bitchy, thinking i'd try and jib her voice "well if you think it's wrong then you shouldn't have eaten it" and i said "what the fuck?! i didn't know it was wrong until you rang it on the bill" and before i could continue my sore throat saved the lady (and possibly my own) grace because i was going to tell her many bad things in front of a full customer venue...she just stared down at the register and pretended not to hear a thing i said.
so, why did i get so worked up? surely it can't be that big a deal to react so much to - it's about $10 difference, i can survive with $10 less...i've worked in a restaurant before, so i should know that restaurants make mistakes too...so why the big reaction plus a big plug for the restaurant on my blog?
- i lost my bloody voice and couldn't be heard, and that REALLY shits me because i love the sound of my voice (latter part - i joke i joke, i kid i kid)
- pointing an item on the menu makes me responsible for whatever chinese characters were written onto our order sheet by the fob waiter - so much for trying new things at a fob joint.
- you would think copying chinese characters from the menu onto an order form is plain simple...obviously not true to fobs
- ordering an item on the menu in a fob place implies that i know exactly what it is, which is just plain shitty. "lets just order what we ALWAYS order...again - that way, we'd know exactly what we've ordered!
- fob restaurants don't bother repeating an order to you, or assumes that they are 100% correct on orders so they don't bother telling you
- going into a fob restaurant implies that the uneducated rude H-A-G at the counter is entitled to tell you off for their mistakes and make you pay for a dish you never ordered
- fob restaurants count pennies and assume that other people are trying to rip them off because that's what they do to others on a daily basis
oh...a big WELCOME *WAVE* to celine: the new addition to my links list... :) didn't know you blogged, my dear! coming to think of which...it's been about a year or something since i last saw that girl..and about half a year since i saw her sister last...where have they disappeared to?!
i want more sleep.my cough has been waking me up every hour at night for the whole week now...i would like to have a decent 8 hour rest in a row where i don't get woken up by anything...sleep...doesn't everyone seem to want more of it...(especially frank, who claimed he enjoyed waking up early, in the am's, then what happened next day :P)
well, went auditioned yesterday, i didn't want to, because i lost my voice, but i really want to give it a go, and the director wanted to see me anyway, and i'm like..."why - i can't even speak right now!" but after a short audition, reading (whispering) line runs opposite the assist. director, i got let off, and i thought to myself "bleh, i don't think i'd get it, i suck" while hoping that they would do as they said and call me for a call back today for wednesday night. but i dont think they will - they prolly didn't like me tats why i got let off so soon. never got to do my monologue that i practised so much...erk...my "husband" in the play went for audition as well, and he says he didn't get to read monologue, but auditioned next to an older guy....i think we might be too young to cast in the play or something...i don't get why they needed us to put down our ages...what's the point of that? if i knew they wanted an older cast i woulda put down an older age...(*gasp* i hear you say - why would a girl put down an older age than her own?!)
hahaha...aah..*cough* it's so fun to be around with that cast...but once show starts you know it'll end sometime....and that thought is saddening... ;(
Hey Abbey, hope you're getting better by the day and losing that manly voice, heh, cool to hear the shows are going so well thus far.
Fobs are so uncool, but it's not like we didn't already know that.
What the heck is a 'winsure' anyway?
Hey Abbey! :)
Thnx for droppin' by~ I know, it's been DOGS YEARS since we've last seen each other...so how're you doing???
Let's catch up some time for a coffee or something!! Would love to hear from your show and acting career...
Much love,
Celine x
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