i could not believe my ears!

a week ago i walked into one of the shops in bangsar village, but i shall not reveal the name of the shop/cafe/restaurant. the waiters and waitresses had so much fumbled word and sentences, and i kid you not!! (yes, indeed i sound like a terrible person... but its something that i find rather hard to tolerate).

it was funny, but i think all employers should take responsibility for how their waiter/waitresses serve their customers. seriously, what the hell were you thinking?? letting your workers work without, well it doesn't have to be perfect english, but make sure their pronounciation is rather accurate and that they know the products well enough to explain it to their customers. i think we lack of that in our service industry.

i think this is an epidemic, which we need to abolish all together!

even some of our local celebrities have problems speaking proper english!! what is going on here?? please, you're representing malaysia, and its rather embarrasing to hear you speak that way!

"are you enjoys" - commonly used

"i'm washing, i'm washing 60's tv" - sang on national tv

"the food is voluptuous" - instead of delicious

HELLO people, WAKE UP and SMELL THE COFFEE!

first incident
the conversation went like this:

me/hubs: "hello, could we take a look at your menu please?"

waiter: "yes sir, this is the menu... we have good food..."

me/hubs: "ya, we heard a lot of good reviews about this place, so we were just wondering what kind of food you served here..."

waiter: "we have spagherri, also a lot of salad like season salad..."

me/hubs... we looked at each other in awe (i could not believe my ears!!) i felt bad, but i could not help the fact that this guy made a booboo, and it was pretty loud.

oh my brother was there too with us you could ask him too, i am not exaggerating any part of this!! i had to hold my breath as i did not want to burst out right in front of him. so, what i did, i repeated those words that he had mention and made sure he heard my pronounciation. hopefully that helps...

don't get me wrong they had good food on the menu, i just don't know if the walk-in customers will be impressed with spagherri and season salad. when i think about it again, who would want to order season salad?? you must be out of your mind!!

then the next incident, last friday...

second incident

me: this is not the only branch of the cafe right?

waitress: no, no there's another one...

me/hubs: is the menu the same at the two branches?

waitress: no this place a little bit more...

hubs looked at me and asked: what? what a little bit more?

me: explained that the menu here is more extensive or had more variety!

then... there was a girl standing at the counter looking at the dessert selection they had, and asked the waiter...

girl: what cake is this?

waiter: this, this is the sticky dick head... (and he looked at her with an innocent face, thinking he had mentioned it correctly)

CAN YOU IMAGINE MY FACE THEN? oh gosh, i had to kick hubs on his shin just to stop laughing!! i said to hubs, i think what he meant to say was "sticky date cake!" but he said it so fast... and the results was sticky dick head.

what a cake to order huh? go figure.

had such a great laugh, i almost peed in my pants!