countdown to NEW YEARS EVE!!!!

Hi everybody!!!!! who's feeling the great vibe for the new year? Anybody have plans to party? as I said before I have to work on new years eve and will continue to work up until midnight and past midnight for sure but I think i'll still have fun with my co workers after work. any resolutions? for me nope. no resolutions. Let's start the countdown everybody!!!!!!! YYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!

The light presents

I had to take a picture of the light up present decorations that my uncle ray bought for the fireplace. LOL they are too cute!

I love food!!!

My friend and i went to mishima again and got us some free sushi and an udon noodle soup. I ordered some fried tofu as a appetizer it was really good but too big for it to be an appetizer; that could have been a meal! LOL

Flowers for work

At this job where I now work, the pastry kitchen is full of women ONLY. why? i dont know but it is. anyway my co worker decided to add a feminine touch to the kitchen and bought some flowers to put in the kitchen to bring the mood up when we're slammed with work. It did the trick. every time i look at those flowers, they cheer me up. LOL she put "good morning" in spanish on a sauce container and placed the flowers inside. I thought it was too cute to not take a picture. LOL

HOW CUTE!!

I never knew my cousin steve and uncle ray were sooo cute!! LOL this christmas we got together and check out what i found by the fire place! a christmas letter to santa written by my cousin steve when he was a little boy and another letter that santa had sent to him responding to the letter. it was sooo adorable i just had to take a picture of it. LOL

My christmas

At work for the christmas party we made some wonderful christmas cookies! sugar cookies. they were sooo cute and so much fun to decorate!

good times!!

I was on youtube and remembered this song in spanish sung by brazilian singer Alexander Pires called "amor verdadero" which translates to "real love" it's such a relaxing video and the song is beautiful. WOW!!! check it out.ahhh reminds me of good times...back in the day. dont you have a song that reminds you of the good times?

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

HI guys!!!!!! just would like to take this time to wish everyone a very merry Christmas!!!! well... if you celebrate christmas. My friend Konnie who's in singapore at the moment, sent me these christmas pictures of her and some huge trees!!

Pictures of the crew!

Alright so you guys know that some ppl from my job were flown out to singapore to help open another restaurant out there so my friend Konnie was flown out there and she's been sending me pictures of the food and fun she's been having. check it out. the picture above is my friend Konnie at the building behind her is the hotel in which the restaurant is at. I think it's also where she's staying...well her and the rest of the Osteria Mozza crew from L.A.

sorry i havent posted lately

Hi guys just wanna apologize for not being around lately... or commenting on ur comments lately. I've been a very busy bee and have way too much of a social life. LOL if I am not working I am definitely out and about with friends or co workers or family always doing something. my job had it's annual holiday party and boy was I drunk as ever!! seriously, i am usually very strict about me drinking to only a certain point but boy did i pass that point big time last night. ugh!! never again will i drink that much. well i didnt drink too much. I had maybe 3 bottles of beer and 3 glasses of wine. I just have a small appetite and didnt eat much so the alcohol got to me really quick. I ended up sleeping at my uncle ray's hospital. LOL i walked in more drunk than ever and of course his nurses took good care of me. LOL so thanx Uncle Ray and ur nurses. LOL
I was gonna snap more pictures of the party but i only took one and it's not worth posting. cant even tell what it is.

I do however have pictures of other things like my friend konnie that flew from L.A. to singapore to help open Osteria Mozza in singapore. she is out there now and has been sending me lots of pictures of all the fun stuff she's done along with a bunch of other ppl from my job that flew out there to help train the singapore staff.

those pictures will be posted as soon as possible. I will also comment back on ur comments now. Alright everybody, that's it for me now but i will be back in a couple of hours.

see you all soon!

William Fitchner!!

sorry for not posting lately everybody, i've been sooooooo busy with work and running errands i just can find time to post but before I leave for work, i wanna say that william fitchner was at my restaurant last night having dinner. I dont know who he was with because i didnt see him. the servers send us little notes to the kitchen telling us who dines at our restaurant. Anyway if Wentworth Miller ever goes... which i doubt, i will make sure i get some kind of picture or something to share with you all. ok well that's it from me for now i'll be back on as soon as possible.

wow!!!

you all have been to an arcade before;right? well i am sure you've seen the little basketball game that you have to shoot balls into the hoop and earn points. well one woman did it so fast it almost looks like a camera trick. she has skill!!!

Amazing Pop A Shot Challenge @ Yahoo! Video

happy weekend!

Hi everybody!! i hope you are all enjoying your weekend. I know I am!!... except for the work part LOL
anyway have a wonderful weekend everybody! GET SOME REST!!

Odd news

Dont you just love random odd news? i know I do! lol check this out

English candy?

I've never been to England but according to a simpsons episode, English candy is sweeter than the candy in the U.S. is that true?

Simpsons christmas episode

Katy Perry guest stars in a new christmas episode of the simpsons where she plays herself... she is featured at the end and wow the it went out with an interesting scene between moe the bartender and katy perry. check it out. just press the green button and it'll become red and press that button again... check out the very last scene after the credits. ha h ha ha ha what is ur take on it?

My restaurant rant!

Alright guys here's the deal about going out to eat at restaurants late at night...
First off you must know that when ur out and about with ur friends dining at restaurants at night, you must know that there is a group of restaurant staff everyone from managers, to chefs to cooks to dishwashers to hosts to runners, to waiters, to expediters to a whole bunch of other people working their asses off to serve you so here are MY things kitchen/restaurant staff wont tell you!!

1.If you're eating at a busy restaurant be ready to wait for your food. Dont complain because aside from your order, we are cooking 9 other people's orders all at the same time and you asking for substitutions isnt helping us out at all and can throw us off when we are slammed with a billion orders at once already.
3.When we are slammed (slammed means unbelievably busy... like when we have a ton of orders to do all at once.. just a note for those of you not familiar with american slang) we still have to have ur food at ur table all at the same time hot and looking pretty.
There are a lot of orders coming in at once so if we get ur order wrong... we bring you what you ordered and take it off ur bill.
4.If you are allergic to seafood, let your waiter know because if you order a meat dish and it is grilled, we grill fish and meat on the same grill just at different ends of the grill but there is still a possibility that we grilled ur meat too close to where we grill the fish. so do let us know.
5. If you have a peanut allergy, please dont ask for peanuts on the side. why do you want them on the side if youre allergic to them??
6. When you eat out in a large group, try to order dishes that you can share... large groups of people means large list of orders we must cook at the same time so we make 7 dishes and that will only be youre table alone... now we are backed up with 8 other tables. So please try to be considerate... late at night because we have been working our asses off and would love to leave work as soon as possible.
7.PLEASE DO NOT WALK INTO A RESTAURANT 5 MINUTES BEFORE CLOSING TIME... that means we now have to cook ur food just as we were putting our stuff away... now we have to wait until you take ur sweet time eating and still stick around to see if you feel like ordering dessert!!! And believe me, the pastry department is the last to leave because what comes after the main meal? YES!!! DESSERT!!! so when the restaurant closes it's doors, the cooks that cook the savory food get to close up shop and go home but the pastry people have to wait until you take ur time eating ur meal then order dessert. so we wait until the last customer leaves to start cleaning up and putting things away... we are still working an hour after the restaurant closes... we want you all out as soon as possible because we have a solid hour of cleaning and putting things away before we can leave.
BUT THE DISHWASHERS ARE THE ABSOLUTE LAST ONES TO LEAVE. THEY HAVE THE WORST JOB IN THE RESTAURANT BECAUSE THERE ARE TONS OF DISHES AND CONTAINERS WATING TO BE WASHED AT THE END OF THE NIGHT SO NOW ALL MY DIRTY DISHES THAT HAVE BEEN SITTING THERE WAITING FOR YOU TO ORDER, ARE NOW TRANSFERRED TO THE DISHWASHER SO I GET TO LEAVE NOW BUT THEY STILL STAY FOR ANOTHER HOUR AFTER THE COOKS LEAVE!! PLEASE BE CONSIDERATE.
8. We are masters of multi-tasking cooking and the speed we cook at will amaze you.
9.DO YOUR BIRTHDAY PARTIES AT HOME OR A FRIENDS HOUSE!!! OR A PARK!!! we have to prepare your food and your guests food all at once, and while we are doing that, we are getting slammed with tickets(orders) from a bunch of other tables so we have to do ur party and hold the orders from other guests so we can get your party over with and once we send out your food and dessert, we need to now cook and send out the ton of orders that were piling up while we were cooking the food/dessert for you and your guests!!! so now we have to work as fast as lightening to get the other food out on time.
It would be very considerate if you do a nice party at home or a park or friends or relative's house... parties at a restaurant when the cooks are already slammed? not very considerate. If you provide the cake for your own celebration at a restaurant, we serve your cake but we have some of it too.. LOL
10.The pay sucks but we've eaten food from all over the world. We eat for free and snack when we have a chance to do so... we've also eaten some of the finest food in the world!! (depending what restaurant we work in)... and we have extensive knowledge of food from all parts of the world... some of us have worked at mexican restaurants, french restaurants, italian, greek, chinese, hungarian, ethiopian, israeli etc... you name it, we probably have worked in at least one of those and do know the food quite well. Also, we learn and write down the recipes for the food of every restaurant we work in... we have tons of recipes at home from all the restaurants we've worked at. LOL
11.We cook food for lots of celebrities so that 56 dollar steak you paid for, is the same kind the celebrities paid for except they get a free entree and free dessert. (we call it complimentary entree or dessert.
12. we like when you compliment us after eating our food. It makes our long shift a little better.
13. The savory food kitchen and pastry kitchen swap food. They cook us dinner, we give them dessert and vise versa.
14, Most pastry chefs/cooks are skinny or not fat at all because we already stuffed ourselves with pastries we want no more. we are around it so much we just dont feel like eating any.
15. you dont like leftovers? well dont eat at restaurants because even at the finest restaurants some of the meat/pastries left over from dinner service is wrapped up and served the next day... perfectly normal in the restaurant business.
16. Almost everything on your plate was just heated up.. most of the stuff is made/pre cooked by the prep cooks then the line cooks finish cooking the dish when you order it and then send it out.
17. If you are vegan, please research the pastry menu before going... we bend backwards to please you and if you order something that we have that is completely vegan... and we are not a vegan friendly restaurant, that vegan option isnt that great so if we tell you your options and you order something anyway and send it back when you get it, we are not happy with you and you just wasted our time.... and yours.
18. Most of our cooks are hispanic so spanish is almost a must when you work in a kitchen... in american at least.
19.If you dont know spanish and you start working in a restaurant... you will learn spanish for sure. I promise. LOL
20.you drink only filtered water?? the water we serve you is tap water and the water we made/cooked your food with is all tap water... everything from sauces to stocks and soups... all made with tap water. :)

Just an extra... at some places we've worked in... when we have a very busy night and have stayed strong... the manager usually gives everybody a glass of wine or beer from the restaurant at the end of the night as a thank you for working hard.

well that's my rant for tonight/today ok it's 2:38am here in L.A. I need my sleep.

GO BRUINS!!!!!!!!

This friday is a football game between long time rivals UCLA (university of california los angeles) bruins and USC(university of southern california) trojans. Who am i rooting for? UCLA of course!! i am a bruin to the core baby!!!! so I'll try to head out to UCLA's campus friday morning for the game and celebration when UCLA kicks USC's ass LOL grrrrrrr i hate USC! Anyway I know i should say may the best win but nope!! i love me my UCLA and I will stand by what i said ha ha ha ha UCLA FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT GO BRUINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!