Olivia San/Carlos Pueblo

Olivia San/Carlos Pueblo

The cruise ship set up a table at the waiting room to provide reservation

of restaurants before guests boarding. In charge person in hostess uniform

was Olivia San. My respectful greeting of her as a San, a Japanese language,

due to her ability to command such language. Her three years training on

board for serving Japanese customers is better than my 15 years on and off

studying of this language. I call her my Sensei, or teacher, even though she

is my adopted daughter. Confucian analects, I must be able to find teachers

among three person passing by me. I was glad to make up my absence of

Japanese classes while on board of the ship because that I did bring my text

book with me to continue my learning. She is very unique and as usual, very

attractive.

Her younger brother was a Ph.D. in chemistry from a famous Christian University

in the northern part of Taiwan, Chung Yuan Christian University of Science and

Technology. She was very pleased that I could quickly identified the university than

my fellow Taiwanese magician on board. Once I learn her language background,

I always attempt to impress her with my fondness of Japanese language and even

visit her at her home restaurant, Los Lobos on Deck 12 next to the Garden Café.

One day at the O’Sheehan’s, she told me an unpleasant matter occurred at the

restaurant. It was a sea day on the ocean and the restaurant was full. She was

struggled to seat everyone coming in at the front. She asked one solo lady guest

if she would share table with a blind couple. She refused flatly and was not willing

to negotiate and the husband of the couple was not helping at all. The matter went

up to her direct supervisor. She reminded me that she saw me helping this couple

and another blind couple to enter the Venetian’s for breakfast. I was very proud of

my good deed that morning to hold a hand of the wife with all five of us from Deck

8 Mid-ship elevator down to the Atrium and across Deck 7 to the rear of the ship

and down one more deck to the restaurant. All my daughters were witness such a

big project. Imelda, the Matrie D. was very appreciated. I was very proud of myself

when Olivia San said that she saw it. I quickly identified the woman involved because

we had had a brief conversation at the Cellar where I was writing my note in Kanji

and review my textbook. She is also my fellow Taiwanese who lives in Los Angeles

and is in travel agency business. We have had a different thought of cruise travelling

, i.e. my adopting daughters on board. She has some peculiar thought of girls working

on board. I am not surprised that incident occurred. Olivia San told me on the next

day, this Taiwanese woman wrote a complaint on a compliment card to the ship. I

offered my help to prove her as a good hostess and my daughter, she declined my

involvement.