I felt a pair of evil eyes staring at me. It was that of a
monster which entered my paradise. He let out a thunderous roar,
which pierced my ears and started the transition of my dream into a
nightmare. I was suddenly jostled awake by my classmate. My teacher
was staring at me, his eyes gleaming with fury. He had caught me
sleeping during his lesson again.
Indeed, I was tired. I was lacking sleep for the past few days of
that week. I worked the night shift from sunset till dawn in
McDonalds, a famous fast food restaurant. The section which I was
assigned to did not have enough crew. They called me back to help.
I felt reluctant - it was going to be overtime work! Nevertheless,
I chose to help my manager, hoping that my hard work would pay off
some day.
Having not slept for the night, I went straight to school after
work. Some teachers noticed that I had been dozing off in lessons,
and asked me for a reason. My academic results have also worsen
since then. I told the teachers that I had to work throughout the
midnight, as I had to earn my own money to pay for my handphone and
internet bills, as my family was very poor. They advised me to quit
the job.
However, there were some teachers who despise students who sleep in
their lessons. Unintentionally, I often fell asleep in lessons as I
would be seriously too tired after a whole night of work. However,
whenever the teacher saw me dozing off in class, he would roar at
me, snapping me out of my dreamland.
It was torturous battling my heavy eyelids in order to keep my
bloodshot eyes open. I was only allowed a two hours of peaceful
sleep each day. After that precious two hours, I had to start my
work at McDonalds again. My manager was nasty. He refused in any
way to increase my pay even though I worked overtime. I felt very
unappreciated. It was like I did all these, helping them in time of
crew shortage, and all came to a nought.
I felt that I really could not take it anymore. I was working with
my eyes half-closed, trying to serve all the customers with their
unreasonable requests, but no one appreciated me, apart from a few
'thank-you's from the customers. The crew members scolded me for
being slow as I often exceed the 'sixty-second-target', that is to
finish serving each customer within a minute. I was tired, very
tired.
But luckily, things turned out to be better as the restaurant
employed more workers. But I would never forget the toughest battle
I ever fought in my life - to juggle between studies and work. It
was really more tiring than any physical training I ever went
through.
Till this day, I still feel very unappreciated. My workplace seemed
to not notice the efforts I had made to assist them in the time of
a staff shortage. They seemed to take my efforts for granted. If
not for me, I bet that particular restaurant would have closed down
long ago. I was not asking for much but more 'thank-you's would
have been nice instead of the incessant scoldings I received.
Indeed, humans often reprimand people for bad things they
did.
When things goes the way they think it should, they would not be
praising the people who made that possible, but instead, take it
for granted.[/b]
pro........ 
