Celest Sim Huey Huey
Work Experiences
These are the jobs that I have worked before and get to learn from it.
Long John Silver
It's an American chain of fast-food restaurants that specialize in seafood.
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Worked there from 2018 to 2020, as a part-time crew.
Soup Restaurant
Served as my first internship restaurant for my Nitec years. It's a Chinese restaurant that specializes in their signature dish, "Samsui Ginger Chicken".
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I continued my work as a part-timer after my internship from 2020 to 2021.
Ginett
Served as my second internship restaurant for my Higher Nitec journey. It's a French bar and restaurant that specialized in their variety of wines.
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Continued my work as a part-timer after my internship ends as a floor crew, from 2021.
buds
Served as my third internship for my Polytechnic course. It's a kids club by Shangri-La Singapore. Specialized for it's amazing services and birthday celebration for the children.
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Long John Silver
As a crew for 2 years, I've learn about the efficiency of working at a fast-food restaurant. However, to me it had a misunderstanding job scope. It is not as easy as we thought. We still need to think and give good services, watch our food quality before presenting the food the customers and the cleanliness.
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Not just a floor crew, I learn how to multi-task while working at the delivery section where I have to prepare and key in food orders for 3 different platforms. Not just that, I did tried to work as an assistant in the kitchen, by helping the cook to display food to the plates. It is challenging as I need to be fast and in one period, it can be overwhelming. I also do the small mise-en-place such as grating gingers, preparing coleslaw, sauces and cutting vegetables. I also helped my manager in stock taking sometimes.
Soup Restaurant
I was there as a floor crew for my internship during my Nitec years. As this was my first work place that I care for making an impression and expanding my knowledge, I was in a very huge responsibility and expectation for myself to do well. For every internship program, there will always be a mentor and mentee and I'm the mentee that strives to be the best mentee that my mentor have ever teached to someone. She was a employee for the company for more than 7 years, so I was always trying to make a good impression for her to notice me that I am the better one.
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During the time of stressing and making myself busy, I did meet a lot of different people. I have this auntie working for Soup Restaurant for more than 10 years and she would always teaches me things whenever I made mistakes. Other colleagues also look out for me and in the end, I realized that having fun and just experience it was more than enough. This uncle that work part-time for extra money told me that he used to work in restaurants that are under hotel corporation and told me tips to better. All these kinds of small experiences and tips are brought forward into my present life.
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No matter what I identity I was when I'm working in Soup Restaurant, there will always be countless mistakes but it will be countless learning lesson for me. Whcih I am grateful for what Soup Restaurant has teaches me.
Ginett
Honestly speaking, Ginett had opened my eyes. I felt that once I stepped into Ginett, the work place just sucked my life soul, in a good way, and made me enjoy working there. There are some ups and down and crying due to stress and misunderstanding between my colleague, but it is quickly solved.
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Every team in any work place have bad situation but ours, we know that having a team in a restaurant is a very important thing, and that makes the services to be smooth is due to good teamwork and communication. They are the reasons why I love Ginett, the people are selfless and would always willing to teach me and correct me whenever I am wrong or whenever I ask questions. They teaches me that work is work and friendships are friendship, no matter what happened between to the friendships, good or bad, we shouldn't use that as an excuse and jeopardize the whole services. I learn a lot too, about wines and services and tricks to even talk to guests or make small conversation or jokes to make them feel comfortable.
buds by SLS
Before starting this internship, I was already dreading and was not excited for my 3rd internship. However, after meeting and working with such an amazing group of people, I was glad and relieved that my 3rd internship workplace is at buds.
I was from the food and beverage industry, you could see that from my past work experiences, but I decided to try something new as I want to widen my knowledge and experience. Therefore, I decided to join an event related company.
The reason I was glad that I joined buds is because it's related to my past skills which is services, and I can bring it forward to my new job. This also allows me to understand the different events activity that they offer, and it was not overwhelming at all.
This team has taught me a lot of values and skills such as being a team player and having good communication between each colleague is important, the patience and the adaptability of being outside of my comfort zone. Lastly, whenever I have made a mistake, the response from my seniors is to never blame for a mistake, instead, take it as a lesson.
School Experiences
When I was young, at the age of 13 to 16, I was not working and just either will be studying or playing my phones or with my friends. But I remember, the very first time that my teachers asked me if I want to volunteer in helping them with community works, especially in arts, I was swoon over and agreed with them.
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However, after secondary school, when I started my Nitec years, I regretted in not joining any CCA or participating in any community services due to work and slight family circumstances. Following years, I did not participate in any CCA that I can commit in long term due to my studies.
Volunteering
Activities
Home Visit to Old Folk Home
It's a class event for our last year in Secondary School. We all planned a series of activities to visit the elderly. To do something that won't be active tiring and activities that they might have fun together. So we have some karaoke session with a guitar and Chinese, Hokkien and Malay songs.
Speech Day 2018
It's my last speech day for my secondary school that I going to attend and I felt that I should just have fun for the last time. So I volunteered myself to help my art teachers in making the art exhibition happen. I get to help my teachers in their artworks with their guidance of course, in the mean time, I could learn new techniques that I wouldn't try for my Final Year Coursework, such as "Scraping Pain Technique".
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It was a memorable memory that I know it's going to be a last art project that I'm going to have fun in before the exams starts and my journey continues to ITE.
Nee Soon East National Day Carnival 2017 Art Jamming
When my teacher asked me if I want to volunteer and join this event, in my mind was thinking: "Why not, I stayed so near, might as well have fun since I'm free." I'm grateful that I say yes as it was so fun and there are activities to play with even though I one of the volunteer to work.
Co-Curriculum Activities
Scrabble
Scrabble was my CCA when I was at primary school. It was fun to learn and experience the game. I'm glad I did because if not, I wouldn't get to know it was very fun even though it looks like it's boring.
Choir
Conclusion was, I love singing. I would listen to music and sing to my hearts out whenever I'm in the shower. I would just jam with the music and have an alone party and then, in a blink of the eye, it's already 1 hour.
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I thought it will be easy since it's just "singing" but nooooo, I am WRONG! It's not that bad but it's not that easy too. At least I enjoyed the process and I get to understand that I'm an Alto, which are more deeper voice compared to soprano.
ART Club
I joined art club during my last 2 years in secondary school due to the merge of both Northview and Northland Secondary School. Due to the lack of member, choir have to stopped it's activity. I was given another chance to try a new CCA and I was thinking "I'm an art student, studying art, doing art coursework, so why not just go to art club as I can focus on my art coursework too."
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However, instead of putting majority of my time doing my coursework during CCA period, instead, I was helping my teachers to facilitate and guide my juniors in their activity while also helping my teachers in the school events too.
Karate
I joined karate for the reason for my friend, she was scared so we accompany her. I didn't want to join for too long as I don't intend to join Karate in the first place. But it was fun actually. During lesson, we practice the techniques for the 1 reason which is protecting ourselves from any danger, we were promised to not use it for any harm accidentally or intentionally, only for self defense.
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I am grateful for meeting my karate sensei (teacher) as he will understand each of us one by one, not by group. So, he will be calling me as Celest instead of my friend's friend. Even I stopped going to the club, he understand instead of pressuring me of joining back and he even keep in contact with us recently, even though it's been 3 to 4 years after skipping his classes. The last time I met him was during Chinese New Year 2023. He's so nice and kind to open his house and welcome us back and tell us all sort of story while brewing Chinese tea for us.
