Bread Lover
Finally, I slept to my fill for a single day. That means rushing home right after work on a Saturday night, skipping dinner and all other chores, and hit straight to bed at 8pm. I woke up at 12am without the alarm, feeling wide awake, because after all, my body has gotten used to 4-hr sleep cycle. Still, I went to get a sip of water and popped right back into bed to make sure I sleep. Which I did and so today I woke up feeling that wave of fatigue knocking off.
Yay.
I never did think I would say this, but I am such a bread lover. Now it seems I'm sussing out the best places that serve decent sandwiches. You'd be surprised, but I think Coffee Bean's gourmet sandwiches are quite yummy. I had the Chipotle Roast Chicken on Panini bread 2 days ago. Of course you can have a choice of bread, but this is their usual, which is soft and perfect for those who hate the European-type hard-like-rock type of bread.
At Olio Dome, I tried the Salmon Special sandwich on Muti-grain which really doesn't rank very high on my sandwich list because the bread is a little tasteless. When I think multi-grain, I would expect to find more grain in it the way Sunshine's Multi-grain bread looks. If you ask me, Olio Dome probably has a good ambience but they need to buck up in terms of food. For $11.90 I don't know what I'm paying for really!
Then there's my second all-time favourite Cedele Bakery Depot. I never used to think much of this place until the Lavendar Almond Cookie encounter at the airport. I packed a sandwich on board then which was some Roast Chicken with cranberry sauce. It was a huge huge portion, way bigger than Olio, and although I didnt get a choice of bread, the one I had was good. It's the sort you can eat it plain and it doesn't matter. The only thing is, it's the hard type which meant you really have to chew to savour it. Which really doesn't matter to me. Perhaps it's the cranberry sauce, I'm not a fan of jams despite being a cranberry lover, and it tasted quite like a huge dollop of jam, so it got a little too sweet after a while I wished I had asked them to leave the sauce out.
I remembered when I was in Melbourne doing Wish You Were Here, we went to this hotel at Yarra Valley to shoot the rooms. I can't remember the name of that place except that in one of the rooms, there's a huge tree trunk on the outside which looks like the leg of an elephant. We had lunch there and I remembered there was a type of bread (was it Turkish bread?) that was absolutely divine. Now if you ask me, I can't remember how it looked nor how it tasted, but I only remembered it was so good, I had so much of it! I doubt my fellow co-star would recollect since he was way too engrossed in his crossword puzzle to pay attention to the spread in front of us.
Now, my ultimate all-time favourite with zero complaints other than the occasional service issue, is non-other than our humble Subway. Yesss...anything on Parmesan Oregano bread is fine but pls exclude all vegetables except cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce and no dressing except salt and pepper. It's healthy, it's compact (you know how some sandwiches are so huge, you need a knife and fork to eat it? Cedele's a bit like that) and it's gratifying to the very last bite.
Then comes the cookie bit.
Want me to do anything, just bribe me with a cookie.
Or so I told the PA on our drama set.
Filming can be rather frustrating sometimes and the only joy I get is the lunch and dinner breaks. Not because so I can eat, but because it meant we could take a proper 1-hour break from the pains of working. That's why I hate it when it's shortened to half an hour. I want to be able to eat slowly and then rest a bit before heading right back to work. Is that too much to ask? Am I being a diva to expect that?
I just don't think it's productive to rush everyone through their meals and then hurry back to finish off. It's like recharging batteries. Give it a good complete recharge, and you can make them work longer even though it meant having to leave them in the socket for 8 hours. Now because of your impatience, you take them out after 2 hours of charging, and work them so you can maximise your time, you'd soon realise the batteries wear out much quicker. We aren't that much different.
So yes, in situations like that, I get miffed and nobody except probably the PA notices, since everyone else is too caught up in their own work and rushing through the scenes for the day to really care about the feelings of actors. I am not being difficult, but I just believe there are some things that we should be entitled to within reasonable limits, and having a proper 1 hour lunch or dinner break in between a 12-hour (in this case it's usually 14 hours considering the proven track record of overrunning) work schedule is not too much to ask for is it?
When I know that I will not be given the entitlement, I treat myself to something that would make me happy. So yes, a Subway peanut butter cookie would be the answer to my annoyance at a lack of welfare.
To that wonderful friend who bought me some cookies yesterday, thank you very much. It made everything much more bearable even though it meant I had to skip dinner. *LOL*
Yay.
I never did think I would say this, but I am such a bread lover. Now it seems I'm sussing out the best places that serve decent sandwiches. You'd be surprised, but I think Coffee Bean's gourmet sandwiches are quite yummy. I had the Chipotle Roast Chicken on Panini bread 2 days ago. Of course you can have a choice of bread, but this is their usual, which is soft and perfect for those who hate the European-type hard-like-rock type of bread.
At Olio Dome, I tried the Salmon Special sandwich on Muti-grain which really doesn't rank very high on my sandwich list because the bread is a little tasteless. When I think multi-grain, I would expect to find more grain in it the way Sunshine's Multi-grain bread looks. If you ask me, Olio Dome probably has a good ambience but they need to buck up in terms of food. For $11.90 I don't know what I'm paying for really!
Then there's my second all-time favourite Cedele Bakery Depot. I never used to think much of this place until the Lavendar Almond Cookie encounter at the airport. I packed a sandwich on board then which was some Roast Chicken with cranberry sauce. It was a huge huge portion, way bigger than Olio, and although I didnt get a choice of bread, the one I had was good. It's the sort you can eat it plain and it doesn't matter. The only thing is, it's the hard type which meant you really have to chew to savour it. Which really doesn't matter to me. Perhaps it's the cranberry sauce, I'm not a fan of jams despite being a cranberry lover, and it tasted quite like a huge dollop of jam, so it got a little too sweet after a while I wished I had asked them to leave the sauce out.
I remembered when I was in Melbourne doing Wish You Were Here, we went to this hotel at Yarra Valley to shoot the rooms. I can't remember the name of that place except that in one of the rooms, there's a huge tree trunk on the outside which looks like the leg of an elephant. We had lunch there and I remembered there was a type of bread (was it Turkish bread?) that was absolutely divine. Now if you ask me, I can't remember how it looked nor how it tasted, but I only remembered it was so good, I had so much of it! I doubt my fellow co-star would recollect since he was way too engrossed in his crossword puzzle to pay attention to the spread in front of us.
Now, my ultimate all-time favourite with zero complaints other than the occasional service issue, is non-other than our humble Subway. Yesss...anything on Parmesan Oregano bread is fine but pls exclude all vegetables except cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce and no dressing except salt and pepper. It's healthy, it's compact (you know how some sandwiches are so huge, you need a knife and fork to eat it? Cedele's a bit like that) and it's gratifying to the very last bite.
Then comes the cookie bit.
Want me to do anything, just bribe me with a cookie.
Or so I told the PA on our drama set.
Filming can be rather frustrating sometimes and the only joy I get is the lunch and dinner breaks. Not because so I can eat, but because it meant we could take a proper 1-hour break from the pains of working. That's why I hate it when it's shortened to half an hour. I want to be able to eat slowly and then rest a bit before heading right back to work. Is that too much to ask? Am I being a diva to expect that?
I just don't think it's productive to rush everyone through their meals and then hurry back to finish off. It's like recharging batteries. Give it a good complete recharge, and you can make them work longer even though it meant having to leave them in the socket for 8 hours. Now because of your impatience, you take them out after 2 hours of charging, and work them so you can maximise your time, you'd soon realise the batteries wear out much quicker. We aren't that much different.
So yes, in situations like that, I get miffed and nobody except probably the PA notices, since everyone else is too caught up in their own work and rushing through the scenes for the day to really care about the feelings of actors. I am not being difficult, but I just believe there are some things that we should be entitled to within reasonable limits, and having a proper 1 hour lunch or dinner break in between a 12-hour (in this case it's usually 14 hours considering the proven track record of overrunning) work schedule is not too much to ask for is it?
When I know that I will not be given the entitlement, I treat myself to something that would make me happy. So yes, a Subway peanut butter cookie would be the answer to my annoyance at a lack of welfare.
To that wonderful friend who bought me some cookies yesterday, thank you very much. It made everything much more bearable even though it meant I had to skip dinner. *LOL*
posted by Me at 10:05 am
1 Comments:
Wah.. So.. Can I ask Ah Paul to buy you some Subway peanut butter cookies when he shorten your break time? Hmmz.. I'll probably get you some when I visit you guys again! Haha.. Take care ya? -Fyn
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