and then the week was over and closure couldn't have come on a better note.

it was an eventful past seven days where we were understaffed throughout the week till thursday, whereupon the dishwasher's son was hired and came and learnt amazingly quickly; it was lovely and heartwarming to see the dynamics of a mother and son relationship on the job when he pushed the plates of food towards her when most of the service just left it at the edge; a birthday beer party in the restaurant at 12 midnight to celebrate the assistant manager's 30th birthday (the old fart) and today, one customer patted me on the shoulder for my service and another insisted on buying me an 18 chf bottle of sake before tipping an additional 17 and thanking me for my services. and this is what i work for i guess, to put a smile on people's faces knowing that they've received a service proportional to the amount of money that they've spent and that i had successfully delivered a service which i would have tipped if i were the customer and i guess for all the hecticness of the initial part of the week all is well.

this week also marked me being able to talk to min min for the first time in centuries of days on friday morning, and in the same night running 400m to the nearest phone booth to make a call.

spring is coming, and its colours are green and yellow.