unemployed

minggu lalu banyaaaak banget yang terjadi sama gue... hari senen abis marketing meeting, manager gw bilang: sorry, gue udah usahain supaya loe bisa dihire, tapi ga bisa, on friday we're gonna have cocktails to send you out. trus hari selasa pagi di manager's meeting, dia bilang ke orang2: welcome to join our little cocktail party on friday for cindy's farewell. trus tau2nya gm gw bilang ke manager gw kalo dia nawarin 1 bulan internship lagi dengan stipend lebih besar. wedew. i really didnt expect that. tapi gue diminta untuk langsung kerja, padahal bonyok gw mo dateng.pokoknya akhirnya, gue ga ambil itu tawaran. sorry, TRM.
and until the very end, admin assistant di kantor gue masih nawarin 1 position yang gw ga gitu suka: sales assistant. dan terpaksa gue tolak juga.

lalu banyak drama dah. roommate gue yang udah check out tiba2 nongol n akhirnya gue harus berantem lagi sama manager dorm gw si jamur. males lah cerita soal ini.

gue menggendut gila neh. 1 minggu ini gue 4x pergi minum2. 2x ke sanlitun. slain itu gue juga jatuh miskin sekarang. hahahaha... udah unemployed, boros pula. emang ga tau diri gue.

trus ya intinya gue lagi cari kerja lagi. n gue 'jual diri' di FB. dan ada 1 temennya cc gw nanya: tertarik ga kerja di kantor dia yang di beijing. hehe.. ternyata ada gunanya juga jual diri di FB. yah asal gue jangan terkesan terlalu desperate aja. btw my manager wrote me a very good recommendation letter. moga2 berguna.

2 hari lagi bonyok gw dateng. yay!

segini dulu

Cindy

PS: dengan ini saya deklarasikan: saya tutup 'the intern diary' sampe waktu yang tidak ditentukan. :D

hariku terbalik-balik

weekend kemaren sungguh spesial buat gue. hari jumat gue pulang pagian dari kantor dan langsung pergi PD di jinsong. hari itu PDnya mengena banget deh firmannya. temanya soal iman, pengharapan dan kasih. trus yang gue suka banget itu adalah pembawa firmannya bilang: kenapa kita harus mencintai Allah/sesama? karena Allah udah mencintai kita duluan. gue udah tau soal ayat ini, tapi ga pernah bener2 menyadari maknanya.

trus abis itu biasalah, kita ngobrol2 di rumah trus abis itu cabut ke tempat bubur (yang ga enak banget menurut gue) dan abis itu sesuai rencana, kita pergi ke karaoke! yay... ada gue, astrid, santy, dede, juvena, fabian, stella, suwandi, dan william. 3 nama yang gue sebutkan terakhir gugur duluan, trus fabian menyusul tepar di sofa. hehehe... karoke sama anak2 pd emang pengalaman tersendiri... si dede selera lagunya mirip2 sama gue. juvena yang RnB-ish and japanese songs.

dan kita ga tahan sampe jem 7 pagi kali ini... jem 6 udah tepar abis dan pulang ke rumah masing2. gue tidur dan baru bangun jem 2 siang. trus makan karena kelaperan dan abis itu tidur lagi sampe jem stgh 7. pas makan siang itu gue dikasih tau sama mike oliver kalo mreka mau main mahjong n ngasih surprise ke si pang. yaudah karna gw ga ngapa2in, jadinya gue nyusul.

sesampenya di sana, masih pada sepi. gue belajar gimana cara maen mahjong sambil makan kao dajiang zhurou yang enak banget itu n planning surprise buat si pangky. hoho ternyata maen mahjong itu seru juga deh... ampe ketagihan banget. orang2 yang hadir antara lain: tri, retna (landladies), fabian, mike, minny, maisty, tata, adi, gue, dan of course pangky.

jadilahhhh kita maen mahjong sampe pagi jem 5!!! gue begadang lagi! trus tadinya yang rencana mau ke greja ga jadi deh.. jem stgh 6an gue naik kereta yang pagi2 balik ke asrama (kesannya gue tinggal di luar kota gitu ye) sambil menahan ngantuk di subway. sesampainya di sini, tidur lagi deh sampe jem 12.

udah gitu gue rada merasa bersalah neh kalo ga ke greja karna maen2. jadinya gue pergi yang jem 4. eh ternyata ada si stella and si su-su-suwandi. yaudah, abis misa, kita jalan deh ke xidan. shopping n makan burger king. hahaha.. senang. gue beli 1 jaket jins di mingzhu (total damage: 50kuai), sepatu yang lucu dan enak (30 kuai), dan 2 potong baju HM. Tapi yang HM mau gue refund lagi hari ini karena ukurannya ga cocok (kemaren ini ga sempet nyoba soalnya antriannya panjang).

dan hari ini udah senen lagi! gue pagi2 udah harus ngeliat roommate gue yang ga tau diri bin menyebalkan... moga2 ga yin xiang ke minggu ini yang bakal amazing.

tonight: reunion with hadi wijaya. sama sekalian ngenalin dia ke anak2 baru. pasti bakal tambah semangat deh ngerjain cabenya.

segini dulu. mo brangkat kerja. jiayou!!!

Cindy

Selesai sidangggg!!!!!!

Kuliah di sini emang beda. dari sistem kuliahnya udah beda, trus skripsinya juga rada beda. skripsinya kaga dalem2 amat kayak di indo (katanya skripsi di indo bisa ratusan halaman yah??? skripsi gue cuma 30an halaman. hueheuhue), trus sidangnya juga pasti beda deh.

tadi sidang gue justru berjalan terlalu lancar bo. ga gitu ditanyain apa2... cuma disuruh ganti2 dikit. dan menurut sekretaris sidang yang adalah ade2 kelas gue, gue dapet nilai paling tinggi. 29 dari 30. yeay! tapi nilai2 yang laen ga tau. mudah2an tutor gue bisa kasih nilai cukup tinggi dan guru laen yang berhak ngasih nilai juga bisa ngasih nilai tinggi.

setidaknya satu beban udah hilang deh dari pundak gue...

trus gue dengan gembira juga announce kalo hari ini cabe rawit juga udah masuk cetak dan mudah2an distribusi minggu depan bisa lancar deh.

besok pagi kalo interview udah lewat juga gue udah coret 1 lagi to do list gue.
sneng banget deh gue... tadi sms nyokap gue n dia bales gini: makasih Tuhan n Bunda Maria. Ih mamiku sweet banget.

sebelom sidang juga bos gw sms jiayouin gue. terharu deh ah. dan juga banyak lain lagi yang jiayouin gue lewat sms n msn n fb. thanks ya guys...

bener2 kali ini sidang gue sadar banget ini bukan kekuatan gue sendiri, melainkan ada yang bantu gue dari atas. gue jadi inget tadi pagi pas baru bangun n stengah sadar, gue berdoa rosario pelan-pelan banget sampe akhirnya ketiduran lagi n pas bangun gue lanjutin lagi. hehe...

malem ini gue mo tidur tempat stella biar besok pergi ke tempat interviewnya gampang. :)

will update again tomorrow kalo ga cape.

xoxo

Love u God, for your blessings, and friends and people beside me who love me and pray for me. :)

rumpi-rumpi karyawati bag II + what's going on with me

bener2 deh kehidupan gue setelah bar and club awards itu kontras banget sama yang sebelomnya. sekarang tiap hari di kantor bener2 nyantai to the max and gue sering pulang pagian gituh.

trus waktu senen ketika waktu hampir menunjukkan pukul 18:00 dan gue udah beres2, tiba2 masuklah sebuah telpon dari "Stella PD". wuihh... dia bilang: cin, udah pulang ya lu? trus gue dengan semangat: belom!!! dan jadilah kita janjian makan. tadinya mau ajak si dhana bareng tapi dia lagi ga bisa. fiuh jadilah kita berdua ngedate.

padahal hari itu gue udah ngebayangin pulang pagi. eh tapi dapet ajakan kek gini, mana bisa nolak... pasti si stella lagi stress n butuh temen ngobrol. and i always need that, mau gue lagi stress ato ngga. kebeneran deh...

untungnya stella baik dan dia mau nyamperin gue ke dawanglu. tadinya kita mo makan annie's, tapi setelah sampe di daerah situ, koq kayaknya annie's itu terlalu pricey yah (maklum udah akhir bulan dan bulan ini pengeluarannya ajib banyak banget). jadilah kita makan di yoshinoya. hahaha...

dan disitulah kita ngbrl ngalor ngidul.. yang pasti ngga jauh dari soal kehidupan kerja dan info2 seputar PDKB. dan gue sedih dehh... baru aja bisa ada temen makan pulang kerja, eh gue udah harus cabut dari perusahaan itu. huhu.. moga2 ntar di tempat baru bisa dapet temen yang sama asiknya deh. bisa curhat2an suka dan duka dalam meniti karir :D

a little update about me,

hari ini dianter tiket konser jay chou dengan tempat yang super okay. yay! excited!

besok gue off karena ada sidang. untung sidangnya jem 13.30 jadinya gue pagi masih bisa siap2 (BANYAK BGT yg harus disiapin). paperworknya sungguh2 mafan pol to the max.

lusa, gue ada interview di salah satu perusahaan yang cukup gede dan bergengsi dan gue cukup berharap bisa diterima di sana. udah ngebayang2in sich gue gimana... haha tapi ga mau terlalu muluk2 dulu.

gue disuruh nyari intern baru, still. pengen rekomen beberapa temen gue tapi kayaknya koq KKN banget yak... gue terharu deh waktu temen kerja gue bilang gue the best intern they've ever had. n gue kira dia cuma basa basi doank tapi dia bilang kalo dia serius. dia juga bilang gue penuh inisiatif. wakaka... lucu deh. kadang2 gue penuh inisiatif tapi kadang2 gue bener2 males banget n ga bisa kerja sedikitpun.

my parents' coming is very very near and i have to start preparing

gue juga menawarkan diri untuk bikin kenang2an buat anak2 PDKB yang udah mo for good. excited juga, tapi masih ada 1 hal yang belon selesai dan gue ga bisa mulai kalo belon nyelesaiin ini:

cabe rawit! kali ini bakal AWESOME. mudah2an smuanya berjalan mulus. the last push!!!

dan... banyak berita bahagia di facebook. people change their relationship status, some of my friends talk about their pregnancies. it's awesome. one friend of mine that's considered expert in 'matchmaking' and relationship-related stuffs recommended me to go back to Indonesia to get a boyfriend. haha. but he said: you are still very, very young. but you have to start thinking about it. time goes very fast!

amen to that. doain aja!!! =)

xoxo

Cindy
nervous about tomorrow's dabian

Job hunting

Setelah Bar and Club Awards, rasanya gue nganggur banget di kantor. Masuk kantor jem 10 lewat, trus jem 5an dah cabut. Itu aja di antaranya gue bengong2... becanda sama temen2... chatting... trus pergi lunch 1 jem lebih. Hehehe...

Masa internship gue bentar lagi udah mo abis dan gue udah harus cari kerjaan2 lain. Ada tawaran, tapi I dont know if I want it. Trus gue juga udah mulai cari2 di situs2 headhunter, and gue ga tau deh prospeknya gimana. Let's hope for the best!

Rasanya sedih mo ninggalin True Run Media. Gue udah PW banget sama kantornya, sama jam kerjanya, sama kebebasan pake bajunya (GM gw aja ngantor pake kemeja lusuh dan celana pendek dan sendal gunung), PW juga sama orang2nya: manager gw yg galak tapi kadang2 lucu, HK guniang yang cheerful dan ekspresif, dan inner-mongolian xiaohuozi yang selalu penuh dengan gossip dan lawakan. begitu juga dengan youzicha, delivery yang tiap hari dimakan sampe muak... semuanya deh...

Ini belon note perpisahan, tapi gue mo ngomong dulu kalo magang di True Run itu salah satu pengalaman terbaik gue selama gue hidup, dan tempat kerja yang paling gue suka dibanding tempat2 magang/kerja lainnya.

Will continue reading TRM's magazines!

xoxo

How can you not love Beijing???

Get stuck in morning traffic for 1 hour, deal with some seriously very difficult people, get stressed out and exhausted and overheated, run back and forth in the ocean of people to give the MCs beers.

Then eat gummy candies, drink coffee, beers, French liquor Grand Marnier, and a cocktail.

Then it leads to:
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Take a niubi (that's awesome in Chinese) and silly pictures with TOTAL STRANGERS and get them uploaded on the city's most popular website!!!!!!!!

And please tell me, how can you not love Beijing????

Surely dude... I made it here, I can make it anywhere!!!

The Intern Diary: dijemput 3 cowo ganteng sekaligus!

Udah tradisinya (tradisi dari mana yak???) kalo gue kerja di 1 tempat baru, 3 cowo ganteng bernama Bobby Patrick dan Taufik (mulai sekarang disebut BPT) akan sok2 kasih surprise dan jemput gue dan kita dinner bareng. Hehehe.. emang tradisi ini gue yang bikin sendiri dan saya canangkan sebagai tradisi.

Yaudah hari ini akhirnya mereka jemput gue... sok2 ngebohong dulu, tapi gue udah tau kalo mreka mau jemput. Yang bikin gue kaget adalah: mereka pake kemeja batik semua! Ya elahhh.. kayak jemput ibu pejabat aje.. padahal muka gue udah kecapean jelek banget n awut2an... jadi jiper deh...

Trus kita makan JinDingXuan di Huamao Zhongxin. Bleagh... ternyata ga seoke jindingxuan di ditian gongyuan... pilihannya lebih dikit, trus tempatnya kurang oke.. tapi enaknya tuh dia cepet banget servenya...

Guys, sering2 yaaa jemput guee...

My 1st company outing

Jadi hari ini kita ngga kerja, melainkan pergi ke 1 tempat rekreasi gitu buat gathering kantor. Setiap department harus ngasih laporan pertanggungjawaban n goal for the next quarter, n karyawan2 baru harus memperkenalkan diri... n gue tanpa persiapan apa2 harus maju donk... n harus dalam 2 bahasa, dimana 2 bahasa itu bukan bahasa ibu gue.. jadi ah eh ah eh deh ngaco2 ngomongnya... grogi banget...
udah gitu kita dibagi jadi 8 tim, 5 orang per tim. n kita dikasih duit 300 kuai per tim buat lunch. 7 dari 8 tim makan di resto yang sama n resto itu kewalahan. alhasil banyak makanan yang ga kluar and bahkan ada 1 tim yang udah makan tapi ga bayar langsung cabut. parah! haha...
abis lunch kita maen blocks and tim gue ga menang. abis itu kita maen sepakbola n kalah lagi. jadi rata2 tiap tim ada aja menang apa gitu... n hadiahnya cash.. rasanya hari ini gue kurang beruntung... n maen bola itu sungguh2 bukan keahlian saya...
besok gue day off, tapi ada 1 hal yang ngegantung and i dont know if i should go to the office or not.. besok mestinya gue ketemu dosen n ngomongin skripsi n ke bank n do laundry.
im feeling much much better now, dibanding kemaren

looking forward to the long weekend!

Pecah juga

First of all, today is my dad's birthday. Happy bday dad!

Hari ini gue baru mengalami hari terberat gue selama gue magang. Gue hari ini sedih banget karena harus ngebatalin dinner yang gue tunggu2 sama classmates gue, padahal mreka udah nunggu di restoran n gue udah ngebayang2in ketawa2 sama mreka. hiks... sorry guys.. its just that gue ga bisa ninggalin kerja tepat waktu. akhirnya gue pulang kerjanya molor 2 jem dari waktu biasa.

yah begitulah, bos gue uring2an lagi. dia bikin kesalahan n pissed off of herself dan suruh gue yang clean the mess but I made another mess dan dia kesel sama gue. Akhirnya ada orang yang harus berkorban juga, dan itu kesannya jadi kesalahan gue dari awal. F!

Trus karena asistennya bos gue kerjaannya super banyak, akhirnya salah 1 kerjaan dia dilempar ke gue. jadi gue asistennya asisten bos. n padahal bukan gue yang nanganin kerjaan itu dari awal, jadi gue ga ngerti. bukannya gue ga mo bantuin dia... dia sendiri udah kebingungan kebanyakan kerja...

Pas kantor udah sepi banget, gue ke WC buat pee and gue nangis juga akhirnya. Dan gue tetep dikasih banyak kerjaan, dikasih complain kenapa gue kerja ga bener dll dll... padahal otak gue udah beneran ga bisa mikir lagi. n begitu gue inget teman2 gue yang gue batalin janjinya, n gue inget bokap gue yang lagi ultah, gue langsung mewek. mainly because gue kecewa sama diri gue sendiri. kenapa begini aja udah down, kenapa kerjaan gampang gue ga bisa selesaiin, kenapa gue cengeng, dll dll...

gue belakangan emang sering banget complain, dan ketika gue complain, gue bilang: udah deh stop, pikirin hal yang seneng2 aja. n ketika gue berpikir keras apa yang nyenengin, ga bisa kepikiran. :(

akhirnya bodo deh gue selesein kerjaan gue n gue pulang. dan sepanjang perjalanan pulang gue nangis terus. sampe di skolah udah jem 9, n gue makan n i feel much better.

besok ada stupid company outing. i so dont wanna go. fiuh.. tahan 1 hari lagi n gue bisa tidur puasssss......

makasih Tuhan kamu kasih aku cobaan ini. Aku yakin cobaan ini bakal bikin aku tambah tegar, tambah dewasa, n tambah baik lagi, just like adonan pizza... dibanting2 dulu n dibakar baru bisa jadi pizza yang enak :)

The Intern Diary: Weekend work part three

Setelah udah pernah 2 kali kerja pas weekend: cooking class and expat show, hari ini gue kudu kerja lagi. Gue mesti ke tempat namanya Family Box, semacem Kidzania kalo di Indo. Ya kerjaannya benernya gue cuman ngeliatin anak2 main aja sich, trus ngatur transportasinya.

Trus gue kenal 1 keluarga, namanya Joyce and her son Timmy. Joyce itu guru Korean Literature di Yew Chung Int School. Hebat yeh, padahal bukan sekolah Korea tapi tetep ada Korean Lit. Dari dia gue tau ada sekitar 600.000 orang Korea di China. ckckck... trus dia sendiri doesnt look Korean at all, and speaks perfect English. Gue join percakapan dia n Clarisse di tengah2 (biasalah, gaya kepo gue, tapi kali ini lebih sopan: Can I join u guys?), dan dia cerita dia pengen break off from Korean tradition... when age matters a lot and it's still very very strict. Timmy sendiri anaknya aktif banget dan nakal. We made good friends and we played together. Till the very end I asked him, are you tired?? and he said no.. tapi 10 menit kemudian dia ketiduran di bus. hehe... Timmy.. nuna didnt have the chance to say goodbye to you.. and you'd probably gonna forget me when you woke up... heheh but I have your pic and would love to play with you again some other time. (he didnt actually call me nuna tho)

trus pulang2 taunya ujannnnn n gue kaga bawa payung... jadilah gue naik subway.. i didnt wanna take the risk nunggu taksi sambil ujan2an n its so damn hard to find taxi in beijing on rainy days and macetnya itu loh...

BTW, hari ini baru tgl 25, and I'm broke already. help!!!! :|

breaking my own rules

bikin aturan sendiri, dilanggar sendiri. biasalah...... gue udah ga update2 intern diary gue sejak dari hari ke7. parah ye...
well its been almost 1 month since i first started. and it's getting more exciting and more tiring. they already give me a more difficult responsibility, but im totally fine of it. now we're working on a beijingkids event, beijingkids CLUB event, and the bar and club awards from the Beijinger. although i'm not the project 'captain', but i do participate in the planning and execution of those events. oh, and i have to finish a portofolio of beijingkids (and bjkclub) events in 2009.
there's a new guy in our department as marketing assistant. today was his first day, so i havent got to know him yet.
i received my first stipend. and i didnt feel anything. maybe its because the reason im doing it is not for the money (its not much BTW).

gonna update again if i have the mood

The Intern Diary: Day 6 and 7 work on weekends

Haha finally I break my own rules. I didn't update on the 6th day. It was because I was toooooooooooooooooo exhausted on Friday. As usual, my boss gave me an assignment at around 5pm, right when our office had this happy hour where there were beers in office. my boss and her assistant were missing during that happy hour. and not long after that, she came to my desk with a cold beer and said, why does nobody want beer??? I smiled and she put the beer on my desk and said: drink! this is an order!!! and I had no other choice. hahahhaa
Few minutes after 6pm, I didnt finish my assignment, but I had to go. When I went to the kitchen to put my bottle, my boss and 3 other people were inside and chatting happily. she said: are you leaving or are you here for another drink? and I said: nah, I'm leaving, c u tomorrow. And a guy said as I left: c u tomorrow????
The day after was Saturday. I know. And a terrible sandstorm hit Beijing. When I woke up the sky outside was yellow, literally. I thanked God because my boss let me take taxi to the hotel. The event was for beijing kids club and I enjoyed it sooo much. The kids were soooo adorable. And I got to eat a hotel brunch. It wasnt super good. But yeah u know, I would never have lunch at a 5star hotel unless someone paid for me.
And the rest of the day wasnt so lucky for me. A stupid ATM machine swallowed my money. And I have to wait till monday until the bank takes care of it.
ahhh this is almost the end of one day weekend. and I dont think I would have any weekends next week. just see.

The Intern Diary: Day 4 - Late Shangban

Early in the morning my boss texted me saying that I may come at lunch or after lunch. But instead I went out at 10 AM and arrived at office at 10.40. Nobody was there yet, so I managed to do some job-unrelated jobs. Hehe... That's not bad.
Today I made a few phone calls and pack a gift box for the Beijing kids club members. It's fun. And right before xiaban, another boss tell me to WRITE the press release of yesterday's event. And I am so confused, an office full of English native speakers, journalists, and she picked me???? She said: It's okay, we're all not native English speakers. I KNOW, in marketing, nobody is white but Clarisse is a native?!? I guess she'll just laugh at it and at the end ask someone else to write.
That's funny though. I hate it when they tell me to write but I voluntarily do other things happily.
Tomorrow I have to take a long lunch, I have 'shir' to do.

Update 2moro

xoxo

Cindy

The Intern Diary: Day 3 - The 7th annual restaurant awards by the Beijinger

I didnt go to office today. But instead I went to the venue at 3.3 sanlitun rightaway. Damn Beijing traffic (and me walking so slowly)! It took me 1,5 hours to reach slt!!! I took bus because I wanted to avoid subway during rush hour. But thankfully I wasn't late.
Then I met an ex teacher of mine who now works for the global times. I saw an old friend to named Colin, but I didnt have the chance to say hi to him. What a shame! I was busy at the back with 2 bitchy award girls who bullied the other one.
So there was a lot of beer, wine and cheese (they were sponsors). but the best best drink ever was iF juice! (www.ifjuice.com)
And I got the goodie bag! It has a Toni and Guy voucher (yay!), a scented candle, a knife for cutting cheese (from the cheese sponsor, they only make huge cheeses.
Everybody was tired but happy so I was granted a day off tomorrow. But I'm still gonna go shangban and save up the day off for another day.

xoxo

Cindy

The Intern Diary: Day 2 - working overtime

My manager told me at the end of my first day: come again Monday, 9.30-ish. Note the ish.
So I left dorm at 9 this morning. and I arrived at my office at 9.30 sharp. That's awfully close! To reach another point in Beijing in less than 30 minutes is super fast! And I was among the first ones to arrive at office.
Today was pretty busy and I left the office at 7.30pm. That means I worked 10 hours today.
Tomorrow I dont have to go to the office but to 3.3 Sanlitun instead. There's an event there. Gonna update more tomorrow.
Cya

The Intern Diary: Day 1 - What interns do

Woohoo... I have a great news, guys... In my last semester of university, there's an expat magazine in Beijing called The Beijinger that recruited interns for marketing. I applied and got accepted and they asked me to start immediately (only 4 days after the interview and 3 days from the day they told me I was accepted, apparently it's obvious that they desperately need people to help).I thought of a friend who once had unpaid internship at Vogue New York and I just pretend that mine is just as cool.

And on my first day, I didnt have my own computer yet and my boss who went out for a meeting let me use hers. She told me to look through 1 folder and I found pretty funny things. Westerners are more humorous and not as strict as the Chinese.

So my office has a kitchen where we can make coffee etc, but I havent figured it out how to use the machine btw. There are also microwaves and fridge so I can bring my own lunch. There are 60ish people in the office. My boss walked me around and introduced me to everybody but I couldnt remember any single name!

Later on that day helped them making cards for the winner announcement of the restaurant awards. I didnt make the best card in the world but anyways they didnt expect the best either.

I will have to work on weekends sometimes and it gets compensated on weekdays. So it's fine. And the events on weekends (usually for kids and families) are kinda fun so I really don't mind (especially it's nice to work like 5 hours in a 5 star hotel venue then have a whole weekday off).