Tonight I went round to Rydges hotel for Alanna's hen night. It was very interesting to compare a buck's night (organised by a man) and a hen night (organised by a woman). The room tonight was amazing- on the floor with all the penthouse suites and luxury rooms. You walked in and there was a kitchen to your left with a massive living area, which lead onto a walk-in wardrobe, and the bedroom, which was attached to the bathroom (with a huge bathtub in) and lots of ...

Chats invited me, Dan and Dane for a Sri Lankan lunch at hers today, although Dan turned her down because he went out last night for one of his mate's birthday. She had made chicken, a lentil dish and some potatoes cooked in spices and onion, with some rice. She showed us how to mix them all together in the middle of the rice, and then eat with your hands as they do in Sri Lanka (my experience of eating like this in the ashram in India helped!). Then we went to C...

I had been looking forward to getting cheap Tuesday $1 vanilla malt milk so that I could try it on the breakfast cereal I have at the moment, and Alice had told me that you could also get $2 magnums. I was happy that you could get the strawberry and white crumble flavour in this deal but then so sad to find out that this was maybe the last week that they were doing this deal (I'm not sure whether the night owl workers were talking about the milk or the magnums or...

Allen being the prankster he is, rang into work pretending to be an Indian man who wanted to book a table for 20 at 2.30 (i.e. the time the kitchen closes- I'd have been there all day!). My heart sank as obviously everyone who went out was a bit sore-headed and fragile. Me and Alice had been lying in our beds on our break, and when the time came to get up and get ready for the next shift was finding it hard to get motivated, so I played 'eye of the tiger' and 'w...

'Deep cleaning' is somehow even more rubbish than usual cleaning- I had to deep clean the bathrooms today. I wasn't supposed to be opening at lunch today, but covered for Dan so he could participate in Josh's paintballing bucks (i.e. stags) party, which Alice has, quite amusingly, also been invited to (as otherwise there wouldn't be enough staff next Friday because of Alanna's hen night). It was depressing working knowing when they were all having fun! Apparentl...