Sir. Would You Mind..?

Working as usual in the banquet department and come every weekend, wedding dinners are perpetually always on-going. But this time round it's a tad different. Different in an unusually bad way i would say. It all began with tell-tale signs which was the smell of smoke which I originally thought came from the staff toilet, which happens every now and then but this time round it just smelled heavier.

Never did I know it actually came from within the ballroom and inhaling 2nd hand smoke via air-conditioned ventilated working environment is the last thing ever imagined. Even better, towards the end of a Chinese wedding dinner last night, a few table of drunkards started puffing off their cigarettes.


I got to witness first hand the destruction of human nature in a ballroom of 300-odd people.

The weapon of choice? Alcohol. Add a few complimentary bottles of cordon bleu, cheap wines and free-flow of tiger beer to a bunch of ill-educated people and you'll get an equation of inevitable mayhem. Worse still, if they smoke, and they did.

Not even my managers were able to persuade drunkards into sanity, what more could captains like myself and part-time staff conjure? So there we were, happily sucking in tainted air.

' The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity '

I love banquet.