Sunday, February 28, 2010

INVISIBLE BRA



















It comes with detachable straps!




Found gorgeous halter or bare back dress but not comfortable of not wearing a bra?Worry no more!Invisible bra will come to rescue! ;D


colour - NUDE

material- silicon

size:- cup A x 1 (available)
B x 1 (available)
B x 1 (sold)
C x 1 (sold)




RM 25 *steal*


**Available in black lace and nude cotton(no stock as of 11/4/2010 but new stocks are coming soon.Thus, any1 interested,do let me know so I can put u in the waiting list ya! ;D )

**Unfortunately no pic and only available upon request

DAINTY GLAM









Back














button close up..sparkle ey? ;)





double line under the bust




it comes in red too!




colours to choose from



Finding the perfect dress for dinner?Searching no more.A top notch lace dress suit for the awesome occasion.The material are heavy and flow perfectly.

RM 69 *worth every penny*

size:- UK 6-UK10 (bust area fits up to size 34)

champagne x 1(available)

x 1 (sold)

black x 1 (sold)

red x 1 (sold)

RUFFLES RAP






back view










tuck in a pair of skirt..voila!the office look! =)







back view



A dainty chiffon indeed.Pair it with a skirt and killer heels for the office look or ur comfortable jeans for that casual meet ups!Ah,lovely pieces ey? ;D

size:- UK 6-12

White x 2 ( 1 available & 1 sold)

Black x 1 (available)

RM 39*steal*

DOUCECYLYCIOUS






*belt is included*




pair it with a skirt!




wear it with belt for that edge look!






ruffles shoulder


close up *see the lines?it gives the dress an awesome flows*


size:- UK 6-10

white x 3 (available)


RM 55

Saturday, February 27, 2010

To Tip or Not To Tip


A national debate is rearing its ugly head amongst us and I must confront it. It seems that some people need to know if there are times when it is okay to completely stiff a server. And my answer may come as quite a shock to some of you, but I say: yes. On the rare occasion, it is okay to stiff a server. A reader named Dee writes:

Only once was it so bad that I decided a tip wasn't deserved. When the waitperson came to pick up the signed credit card receipt, I took the opportunity to tell him that there was no tip included for his service. I told him that since he waited until clearing from the appetizer to tell me that they'd run out of Prime Rib, that I never received the hot tea I'd ordered, that I got baked potato as a side when I'd ordered rice pilaf, and that my dining partner's entree arrived 15 minutes before my second choice was served... for all those reasons, I told him I didn't feel he deserved a tip.


I think Dee was right to refuse a tip and she was also right in explaining to the server why he wasn't getting one. Forgetting to get the hot tea was his fault. Of course, things slip our mind and we can fuck up. And sometimes at work you can have only four mistakes happen all week but all four of them happen to be at the same table. It's like the perfect storm of bad service. Maybe the kitchen didn't tell him they were out of Prime Rib until it was too late. Shitty, yes. But maybe he should have accepted the blame and try to make up for it by bringing another app that was comped while she waited. He certainly should not have brought out her friend's food when her order wasn't ready to come out with it. That was dumb. And maybe the kitchen sent out the wrong side, but if a table has already been slighted, it's the server's responsibility to make sure everything else is right. I would have been hovering in that kitchen to ensure that it came out quickly and correctly. I have found too that it helps if you just are completely honest to a table when this shit happens. Tell them: I Screwed up. I am sorry. What can I do to make it better? Customers like it when we accept responsibility for mistakes. They hate it when you blame the kitchen or the the runner or the host or whoever the fuck. They aren't dealing with any of them, they are dealing with the waiter, so therefore everything is the responsibility of the waiter. Period.

Of course, I think it's better to leave at least 10% so that there is enough to cover the taxes and tipping out. And if you are really unhappy with the service and you feel it was the waiters fault, let a manager know or just don't go back. I stiffed someone once. It was at The Black Eyed Pea in Houston. The waiter was an idiot and kept fucking up our order. And then at the end when we mentioned something about going back home, he said, "oh to your trailer park?" What the fuck? Did he just call me trailer trash? Now I may have spent my formative years living in a mobile home (trailers are for horses and mobile homes are for people, just so you know) but he cannot insult me like that. He should have had the decency to go to the sidestand and then do it like all self-respecting waiters. That was the final nail in his coffin and I picked up his 20% and put it right back in my pocket.

Yes, Dee, it is okay. Choosing to leave no tip is alright if there is justification. We know when we are doing a shitty job and sometimes it just happens. When it happens to me, I am not surprised with a stiff. What we don't like is when we know we gave great service and don't a tip. Or when we realize we fucked up, we tried to fix the problem and they say they are satisfied and then they still don't tip. Fear not, sweet, Dee. You were okay in your actions. We love that you tip above 18% when it is deserved. For that, you rock.

What are your thoughts, fellow servers?

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THE SITUATION IS STILL REAL


For those of you with kids. Or are just messy eaters. Get this bib that shows how much you love The Dark Esquire's SITUATION single.

Zak B loves the SITUATION so much he remixed it into a bass wobbling dancefloor anthem. Not sure if he's got a bib but he's sure got some skills.

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It reminds me of New Orders CONFUSION and I think Arthur Baker in New York in 1986 would have played this to Bernard and said "Bernie - the situation is real".

Last few 12" copies are available from here:

http://thisisnotanexitrecords.bigcartel.com/

Danceteria 1-2-3!!

And for those that are LONDON based Detachments will be headlining The Legion this coming Thursday with support from Gyratory System and Hounds Of Hate. Here's the Facebook invite...

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=365080235129&ref=mf

This will be the last London gig before their H.A.L. tour in April so be sure to pop down.

Friday, February 26, 2010

This Woman Doesn't Tip


There is a new hero in my life and it is a restaurant in North Carolina. I have never set foot in the state before, but I am ready to pack up my humble belongings, throw it into a U-Haul, move my ass to Winston-Salem and get a job at Kanpai Japanese Restaurant. This restaurant did what all servers dream of: they banned a customer named Monica Covington from their restaurant because she was repeatedly a bad tipper. Cue the choir of angels singing the Hallelujah Chorus because this is surely an intervention from the hand of God. I guess after a few times of crap tip, they added an 18% gratuity to her and then she complained about it and the next time she came in they refused to seat her. What I wouldn't have given to be host that day to see the look on her face when they told her to shuffle her ass over to the Burger King for dinner instead. Is she had a hankering for some sushi she was going to have to settle for an Asian Chicken Salad. Of course, she thinks it's an injustice to her so she started a petition demanding fair treatment. Bitch, how about I start a petition demanding that people leave enough money for the servers to tip out the bar and the busser and pay their taxes and still have some left for their pockets? She claims she has always left a good tip, but we know how that goes. She thinks a dollar is a good tip. I'm just guessing, but she might be one of those ladies that leaves Bible verses too. She can't understand why she is singled out. Uh, you were singled out because you suck at tipping and servers were sick of looking at your cheap ass stuffing all you can eat shrimp down your pie hole.

Get over it, Monica Covington. I looked up the stats of Winston-Salem and the population is 185,776. You are a teeny tiny fraction of the population and no one gives a shit about you and your issue. There are three other Japanese restaurants in Winston-Salem. You can drag your cheap ass to one of those places and hope that they haven't put you on the short list of "Bitches To Not Serve." If they also refuse to serve you, may I recommend you get some frozen egg rolls, Uncle Ben's Rice, some chopsticks and start your own damn Japanese restaurants where tips are optional and the food tastes as bad as your wig looks.

Domo Arigato and here's the article.

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Thursday, February 25, 2010

JAVA LACE






Front



Sideways (side zipper closure)





Back




Pretty lace details below



Cheongsam high neck


Undeniably, close-fitting cheongsam dress with a high neck accentuates the curves.What's more awesome is that it comes in eccentric lace!Oho..when culture meets fashion! =)


only available in jazz blue


x 3 (sold)


size: UK 6-UK10 (stretchable)

measurements:-

length-32 inches

pit to pit 15 inches



RM 50

I Quit. Again.


I may have mentioned before that I have had a lot of restaurant jobs and therefore I have quit a lot of restaurant jobs. Every once in a while, I will give my employer the standard two weeks notice but on the very rare occasion (okay, almost every time) I will just decide that I am done with a certain job and move on immediately. That is how I left Houlihan's. Both times. Yes, I worked there, quit with no notice and then they hired me back later. I don't know who was more desperate, me or them. The second time I quit, I had really had it. I remember that it was a few before Christmas and I was sick to death of serving the dredge that had to come see The Radio City Christmas Ex-crap-aganza. Houlihan's squeezed every drop of energy I had in my body and milked me dry. It was late at night probably around 1:00 AM or so, after we had closed and we were doing our sidework ready to get the fuck out. Our assistant manager came out of the office to give us a vital piece of information that he had forgotten to tell us hours earlier: the carpets were being cleaned that night and we had to move all the tables and chairs off the carpet and into the bar area. And he just told us this now? I wanted to strangle him. I wanted him to suffer a slow death. I wanted to force feed him a Houlihan's chicken stir fry which may be the worst fate anyone would ever have to endure. That was the straw that broke this camel's bitchy ass back. That was something we should have been told hours before so we could start preparing. You know, as soon as a table was cleared drag it over to the bar so we wouldn't have to do all of them at once. There are no words to explain how pissed I was. I recall dragging chairs and throwing them with all my strength (which is not very strong so it's not as menacing at it seems) down the bar and letting them crash into the wall and the floor. My manager told me to take it easy and I gave him a big look of "fuck you." I had already done my money drop so there was really nothing keeping me there except for this carpet cleaning crap. After moving about four tables I decided I needed to leave. Christmas was days away and I really wanted that day off to go to mass and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ our Heavenly savior. Either that or wake up and have mimosas on that day. Which ever one, it was time to compose my letter of resignation. I picked up a bev nap and did that very thing.

Dear Houlihan's,
Effective immediately, I quit
.


I laid the napkin on the manager's desk, punched out and went home. I assume the carpets got cleaned. Good thing they were worried about the carpets. Yeah, the carpets were the grossest thing in that place, sure.

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FLORAL PUFF


CRYSTAL PINK

x 1 (available)




close up






OCEAN BLUE

x 1 (available)
x 1 (sold)



close up








SUMMER BROWN

x 1 (available)


it comes with lining!


The sweet tiny floral prints can be flattening for everyone.Pair it with a plain basic top and add a waist clincher if u want to,u're all set to meet the loved ones.yay!


size: fits UK 6-UK 12


RM 35

FAIRY FEATHER

CHICKY CHIC








close up



5 colours to choose from

black - x 1 (sold)
white - x 1 (sold)
red - x 1 (available)
turquoise- x 1 (sold)
purple - x 1 (sold)






PEACOCK BOW






close up





7 colours to choose from





Wondering where to find a cheap feather other than
DIVA?No more worries, we bring u a cheaper version of awesome feather to jazz ur outfit! =)


red- x 1 (sold)
blue- x 1 (sold)
turquoise - x 1 (sold)
pink- x 1 (available)
purple - x 1 (sold)
brown - x 1 (available)
yellow - x 1 (sold)








RM 18 *steal*








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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

American Idol


So I have not had to work for a couple of days and have been trying to get caught up on all the important things in life that must be taken care of. I watched The Olympics and American Idol. So yes, this post is about American Idol. I know, I know, it has nothing to do with serving but I feel that I must put my two cents in about the top twelve bitches who sang last night. And then I have to go to work tonight and will probably gather up some more waiting tables dreck to write about next time. In the meantime, this (ridiculously long pause) is American Idol:


  • Paige Mills- First one to sing and was really good, but I hope people remember to call for her ass since she was at the beginning of the show.
  • Ashley Rodriguez- Whatever. Average. Goodbye and good luck with your post-Idol career as a karaoke host.
  • Janell Wheeler- Pretty girl, mama.
  • Lilly Scott- This chick is cool. I love that silver hair thing she's got going on. She looks like a super hero.
  • Katelyn Epperly- I couldn't take my eyes off the thing in her hair. And with that necklace, hair-do and earrings, she needs to tone it down. You know that fashion rule that says you should always take off one accessory before you leave your house? She needs to do that two or three times.
  • Haeley Vaughn- This Billie Holliday flower in the hair chick is kinda interesting, but she needs to develop a new look other than that fucking thing in the hair. We get it. You're quirky. I liked her even though she was all over the place vocally.
  • Lacey Brown- Ouch. My ears were bleeding. She works at a church. God will welcome her back to the job when her ass gets booted off this week. Bye.
  • Michelle Delamor- Not bad, but seen it, heard it before.
  • Didi Benami- She really thought that the crocheted sweater that her Gran made for her was the right thing to wear on Idol? She reminds me of that Megan babe from last year who always cawed and flapped her arms like wings. And that last note she hit? No, honey.
  • Siobhan Magnus- Boring. And someone else wearing a flower or feather in her head? Don't they have stylists there who are telling them to chill out with the head decor?
  • Crystal Bowersox- Love me some Butter Teeth. She can sing, but her teeth... I can say that, because my teefs are all jacked up too.
  • Katie Stevens- Whatevs. All I could think while she was singing was that it would be a good karaoke song for me the next time I am all drunk on vodka gimlets.


I predict that Ashley and Lacey will be gone this week. The two of them will go home to minor celebrity and be singing in malls for the next three months while they wait for the American Idol finale and hope they get to come back and sing in a group number. I liked that silver girl Lilly best, but didn't call in for her because I really don't care that much. Okay it's not that I don't care, it's just so much effort to dial the number. It's exhausting. Oh, and I really don't care that much.

Off please. Thanks.



Monday, February 22, 2010

Bloody Mary Whine Bag


It's been a while since I had a real bitch in my station that made me need to vomit out my feelings about her, but last night she slid into booth number one. I only had one nerve when I got to work and that bitch had to get all up on it. She was wearing a lot of make up, like Tammy Faye (may she rest in peace) levels of make up. And she was wearing a black top that had sequins on it. It may have had some feathers around the collar too. I'm pretty sure it did, but I already tried to erase her image from my memory and parts of last night are gone forever. The loss of memory may or may not have something to do with the alcohol that was consumed after work; not sure.

"How's the the Bloody Mary?" she asked, when I queried about her cocktail of the evening.

I acted like I have tasted one before and said that it was delicious. They get ordered all the time and no one ever returns it, so I assume they're good. People really think I have tasted every cocktail on the menu? What do they think I am, a fucking alcoholic who sits around at work and drinks every night? Okay, maybe they do know me, but I have never tasted a Bloody Mary because that would involve a vegetable serving and I try to avoid those at all costs. I brought her Bloody Mary and later on when it was time for the second drink, she whispered to me that the Bloody Mary was awful and she would have a Cabernet instead. Fine. I don't give a shit.

After the show, she called me over to again let me know that the Bloody Mary was horrible. "Oh, I'm sorry, I said. And I was sorry she didn't like her drink because I knew it was expensive. "A lady over there had two and she really enjoyed them."

"Well, it was horrible," she said as she rolled her eyes to the back of her head.

"I guess it's a subjective opinion then. I'm sorry." End of story, I thought.

"No, I'm a bartender and I know. There was no vodka in it. It was just tomato juice and horseradish."

She was wrong of course. I know for a fact that it had vodka in it. I watched it being made and we don't leave liquor out of drinks. We just don't do that. I gave her the check and she looked at the $45.73 total and gasped. "Is the tip included?"

"No, ma'am."

She shot me this look that said, "Are you freakin' kidding me?" She gave me a twenty dollar bill and a credit card and told me to put twenty to the check and the balance on the card. So I took her credit receipt back to her with a total of $25.73 on it and she looked at and grunted. "No, I wanted to put twenty in cash and then the balance on the card!"

"I did that, ma'am. Twenty dollars cash plus $25.73 totals $45.73, does it not? I believe that is the total of your check, correct?

She looked at it again and then snorted out, "Fine!" Like she was doing me a fucking favor. Look lady, I didn't fucking invent math. Do I look like Pythagoras? Pay your bill and shut the fuck up.

On the way out, she of course had to let the bartender know that the Bloody Mary was horrible and that she was bartender and she knows best and blah blah blah. I don't get what her deal was. If she didn't like the drink she should have fucking told me. The lady at the next booth sent her drink back and had more juice added (because we did pour liquor into her drink). I hate when people complain after it's too late to do anything about it and they won't accept an apology and they just keep bitchin' about it.

This lady was a windbag. A big gassy bag of wind that had Bloody Mary and Cabernet breath and was rocking a black sweatsuit looking ensemble with sequins and fucking feathers. 'nuff said.
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