yesterday very "hak" (black)... put me in a very bad mood for the entire day... i went to church in the morning. it was fine. it made me feel at peace and comforted. but it was 1st Aug, so it was a longer session. and at the end they made all of us read the pledge for racial (and religious) harmony. tsk... after that we went to takashimaya for lunch or something. we finally decided to have dinner at this japanese restaurant opposite yoshinoya. i thikn it's called RENGAYA. with that "shao1 rou4" lantern hanging outside. the last time i went there, they had no yakiniku. hello? then what's that lantern hanging outside for? it's deliberately misleading. and it was on a saturday night, no less. it was totally absurd... then this time i had lunch there, i'll make sure it's the last time i go there. i hate that place. the service is so poor it's totally unpardonable. that chap changed table for us pretty efficiently, so that's one thing i have to give to them, but other than that, everything was horrible. we ordered one tempura rice and one katsu don. it was simple. but we actually had to wait for half an hour before the food came. the tempura came before that, but it was still later than the next table. that man ordered a whole tempura set meal. and his came earlier than our simple tempura rice. and we ordered at the same time you know... then sugarpie was almost going to finish her tempura rice but my katsu don still hadn't arrived. just like the next table. the man's tempura set came and he was finishing it before the lady's udon arrived. how long do you take to cook a bowl of udon? hello? why must you make everyone at the table watch the other person eat? first i had to watch sugarpie eat her rice. then she finished hers and had to watch me eat mine. when we told the waiter "we ordered a katsu don but it still hadn't arrived and i'm almost finishing mine already" he didn't eve say a word of sorry. he just grunted acknowledgement that he heard us and then went off. hello? you have to at least have the basic courtesy to say "sorry, lemme go and check for you" mah... so rude. then immediately a waitress brought out the food and put it on my table "your rice". just like that. i hate them.... they're all so rude... she could have just said "sorry for making you wait. here's your katsu don, enjoy your meal". is that so difficult? so rude!!! AND, the best had got to be this. i found a strand of hair in my rice. taboo! how can you have that at a japanese RESTAURANT? how dare you.... when we were paying at the cashier i brought along that piece of hair, placed on a piece of paper. then i passed it to the lady and told her i found a strand of hair ("here") in my rice. she didn't even bother to listen to me and simply threw it away. huh?!?! after that i stared at her and THEN only did she pay attention. i told her about how long i had to wait for my food and stuff like that. and her reaction? "sorry... because we have a new guy in the kitchen today..." yah right. like that's an excuse. i wonder what on earth that 10% service charge is for. i am never going to dine there again. so people, DON'T GO TO RENGAYA JAPANESE RESTAURANT IN TAKASHIMAYA OPPOSITE YOSHINOYA if you don't want lousy service and not-fantastic food. it's expensive AND the service drives you nuts. other things... we waited quite long for the bus to get home. then when we got onto the bus, dammit... it was freezing cold in that bus. the aircon was blowing straight at us like mad... tsk tsk i nearly died there on the bus. and we had to sit in there for about an hour. cos there was a traffic jam. ugh... what luck... i'm still in a bad mood... from yesterday and this morning... another thing i wonder, why do some people take so long at those self service machines? paying bills (they dunno how to insert their NETS card. fantastic), depositing cash (not knowing where to start. and knowing when they're done with the process, still standing there waiting for i-dunno-what), updating passbook (again, not even knowing where to insert the passbook and checking their passbook IN FRONT of the machine), withdrawing money (who can't use an atm machine? sad...) !*&@^#%$#^&@*!(@*&#^$%#@^!! posted by Yee 12:47 PM . . .
