Happy Birthday to Me!!

This birthday, I only enjoyed it on the lunar one. I was literally em0ing my day away though I had mini "celebration".

Auntie Peng brought me to buy two tiny slice of cakes from Polar at AMK Hub. The trip was a little frustrating. I was literally frustrated with how paranoid Auntie peng can get.

I took lots of pictures of the cakes at home. I got my birthday present from Auntie Mui. It was a very interesting present. Haha. I was frustrated again when Auntie Peng leaked a little on what the present was about when I was opening it and have not got to know what was inside at that time. Great.

Heading home, Dad brought me to Bishan Street 22 to buy me a slice of cake. I was frustrated when he keep asking me to choose a bigger cake so that I can share it with Brother. What's more fuming was he said that "I buy you another slice then you invite Brother to eat". I did my best to control my temper. I lose a little by replying, "it's my birthday". The rest of the trip revolves around getting things that Brother needs.

Reaching home, I carefully open the present Nicholas gave me, I like it because of his efforts. Was hoping the colour to be brighter though. It was a nicely laminated picture of dark clouds with a silver lining.

Friends that I thought would remember my birthday basically forgotten. Oh well. Jiewei asked me on MSN for my birthday. What a coincident.

I had a happy day on my lunar birthday not because there was a celebration. It was that I went out with Pei Fen and Officer Lee. We went to watch Gulliver Travels and had an awesome time together. I then headed over to Sentosa to meet Auntie Mui for Song of the Sea. It was a really happy day.

I really appreciate those that remembered and took the effort to send me their well wishes. Thank you people. =)

长虹有约

The soloist for this event sang some nice songs though I thought there is still room for improvement. This was the first time that I heard hong lou meng being sang.

This event was held some time ago and I can't really remembered what had happened. If I am not wrong, the people were still rehearsing for a song while we went in to do teh routine house checks and briefing. Though there were still room for improvement, I can see that they are giving their best for the performance.

As special instructions were given, three ushers including me stood at door four for standby. YuRi seemed excited to first time having four ushers at one door. I listened to the encore of the hong lou meng again. Choir is definitely still not something I know how to fully appreciate yet. Still need some time I guess. The hong lou meng was sang with the accompaniment of a Chinese Orchestra. What I can say about the orchestra is that there is really a big room for improvement.

Hokkien Classics

The sales of the tickets was so overwhelming that extra seats were added on the first day of the event.

As I do not really understand the Hokkien language, the concert seems too "ge tai" for me. Many of the things spoken sounded alien to me. The female singer from Taiwan have a nice voice. Her gestures was so unique that I have never seen before. I think that her makeup is a little too thick and she will look neater with her hair tied up if she wants her big gestures while singing.

The person that played the drum with his legs placed on top of the drum to create the variation in note is quite hilarious. It was his gestures that brought the entertainment. The whole crowd laughed their fill when he forgot to take his shoes after the performance, running back to retrieve the shoes he left at the side.

I have to report early on the second day for the pre-event talk. It was fun with all the craps communicated through the walkie talkie. There was a moment when Reuben played music on his handphone and blasted it through the walkie talkie. PeiShan was very quiet and YuRi started disturbing her through the walkie talkie after he reached the loading bay and was testing his walkie talkie.

Posted outside door three with Reuben for the start of the event, there were times when we "talked gangster". He stared at me and later asked me not to slash him. It really amusing to see his expression when he "pleaded" me with the fact that he got a gangster look. Haha!

There was a small change in the performance on the second day. The drum soloist did not wear his shoes out this time round. The female solo singer did not put on a make-up too thick and she had her hair half-tied. I prefer the neater her.

After the event, I took cab home with YuYue and YuRi in their Dad's car.

Dayspring Kindergarden Graduation N Concert 2010

The graduation show was simple and nice. The parents however gave us lots of problem. So much for being educated. This was the first time that I shouted at the patrons because they were too much. My toes were stepped on for countless times. How nice. It was a crucial point at stage front and the parents are squeezing to fetch their child in a very not orderly manner. This was made worse when parents squeezed there when it was not even their child that was released.

I asked the parents to stay behind the white line which was drawn according to the seats instead of the ground. They kept shifting forward and tell me that they are behind the white line. Squeezing to take pictures and screaming for their precious child. Don't they know that their actions is actually causing harm to their child? It will be smooth if they cooperated. Civilised huh? I really do not know how their child is going to survive in future if they pamper them these much.

Honestly, with one parent sent to collect the child is enough. Having the rest of the family waiting at their seats with orderly manner will really helps. Widespread of hysteria I guess. It really slows down the work when all the people crowd around the staircase where the kids were released. I really don't see the point of squeezing at the staircase when the class of the kids were not announced. This is way too 'kiasu'.

I think that something can be done by the hirer too but it was not done. It would be really great if ushers' effort are recognised and have our presence known.

Informatics Graduation 2010

It was only known to be a two session event after the ushers report to the loading bay. All of us were shocked.

Arrangements have to be made so that I could stay for the whole event. Honestly, I had kind of predicted that it will be a two session event due to my past experience with their graduation ceremony.

It was just another normal event I guess. Can't really remember what really happened as the event took place too long ago for me to recall.

Mozart @ Singapore

I was totally amazed by the performance of the MozART Group! They were simply awesome! They just brought the appreciation of classical music to a whole new level! Amazing!

Not being there on the first day of their event, I have heard a lot of good reviews about them. I was told that I am going to like their performance.

Anticipating a great show, I was really excited. I was glad to have my placement at door three. Not a bad angle, just a little busy. My eyes lit up when the musicians started to make their way onto the stage.

Having heard what may happen, I stood aside so that the musician that was "late" can run in. He really knows his moves well; it is not easy to run so fast in such tight suit and with a cello held in one hand.

Having the manager of my department helping out in the house was rather stressful. I really do not like the feeling of being "monitored".

I didn't fully enjoy the performance as I had to keep a lookout for people that breach the house rules. Furthermore, being at door 3 means that there is a higher amount of workload. There were times that I missed a few details here and there. I really love their performance. How I wish that I can watch it live again.

Instead of just playing their instruments with some playful geeks, they totally made good use of their bows and other parts of the instruments. Other things of the daily life were also made good used in their performance. Actions with minimal words spoke were the part that made this music appreciation session more amusing. I guess I am in love with this group's way of delivering their music.

Due to the high response and liking, BT asked for permission for just this once that ushers be allowed to take photographs and autographs from the musician officially without having the jacket be taken off. I was overjoyed!

It was however a pity that I did not managed to get their autographs as they needed to rush off. I saw SCO staffs queueing up to take while no one helped me. Ushers, always have to be the last. Sad. On the brighter note, I managed to take a picture with two of the musicians as the other two had already went off. Thanks Jeanie for being the photographer.

Their performance may be over. But I will surely remember how awesome the MozART group is.

ilight Marina Bay

Pei Fen and I didn't manage to finish walking the whole stretch of the map where all the displays were located. Guess I am too tired from work and it was already quite late. Not bad that we managed to finish taking pictures for most the displays.

My event ended way earleir than expected so I ate the buffet for the guests while I waited for Pei Fen. Nice chat with Jeanie and ShiHui.

I walked over to Raffles City MRT to wait for Pei Fen. What a coincident that she took the right escalator up while I was about to go down. Fate.

Walking towards the first point of ilight, we had a good chat. She gave me a surprise present; banana. Asked her to eat in the end as she had not eaten much.

Our crazy picture taking session begins after we reached the point. It wasn't a smooth trip as we kept walking the wrong way. We got to have nice picture of us with Marina Bay Sands as the background.

We did not really understand the first point though as it was a giant egg-like structure. We slowly understood after reading the description and have a better expectation of the pattern of the artworks displayed around the whole of Marina Bay.

We spent quite some time on an interactive artwork. It was cool! It was like a giant kaleidoscope but not really one. The patterns on the screen change as we change our positions. Cool!

We then went to the next point where there were three big fans. The lights went off when we we there. I found the way to activate the fan but could not activate the light no matter how I tried. Oh well. Honestly, we do not know whether it was one ofthe display or not because there was no description. We then proceeded to the next point.

Strolling on, what I coincident that I saw HongQuan at one of the point. I did not recognise him initially till I walked closer. It was the display of the "doves" with some eerie sounds that I could not understand.

Singapore has a very beautiful skyline. Sitting by the river side to enjoy the sea breeze and staring at the awesome skyline is very relaxing. Yes, it's sea breeze instead of land breeze. I have no idea why. It's the relaxation that matters anyway.

We had another interactive display on the helix bridge. Wattfish. There's no fish but a fishing rod that will light up when the motor was spun. It really can train arm muscles.

Our trip stopped at one display below the bridge near esplanade. My legs cannot take it anymore. Furthermore, it was late and I have school the next day. I rocks.

It was a fun trip. How I wish I can spend more time there with Pei Fen. We have got so much to talk about and so many pictures to take. The exhibition is innovative. It can be improved with maps placed at certain locations. The descriptions are really helpful to aid in our understanding of the artworks.

ICAS 2010

I was so glad that I got the chance to be the in-charge finally after so long. It was a good thing for that day too as it was a short event. Being the in-charge allowed me to earn a little more.

Being a "three plus one" attendance, I really have to work very hard. I ran up and down to carry the queue poles and place the signages. I do not want to throw jobs to Shihui and Jeanie because I am a nice in-charge. I was panting away when I finally enter the house.

As I was not briefed much on what was going to happen, I approached the hirer for more information. She was a very nice lady who explained what she wanted with patience.

We had quite some time to rest till doors open. As this was my next event after the incident, the lazy colleague pretended to be a righteous person and did her best to crawl over my head. Throwing her at the even doors, I sorted out the door 3 deployment with Shihui and Jeanie, letting them choose where they want to be. My mind was rather blank at that moment, not knowing how I should deploy.

I was really glad that Shihui was with me as her brain really works very fast. Facing some miscommunication of instructions from the hirer, things only went smooth after a while. Warm-up warm-up.

It was a rather relaxing event as there were ushers for the prize recipients. All Shihui and Jeanie have to do was to guide them to the right doors and ask the guests to take the elevated seats.

Upon commencement of the event, I sat outside door three and update Jeanie on what happened. Jeanie told me a Chinese proverb, "害人之心不可有，防人之心不可无".

After the event, I quickly get hold of the hirer to get her signature and the programmes for the office records. Promoting University of New South Wales, she gave me some of the leftover goodie bags and pens.

After the event, it was time to debrief as usual. Asking whether there was any feedback and had no particular big issues, we left the house for the loading bay. After submitting all the required documents to EeYin and finish the administrative works, Shihui, Jeanie and I went to have our meal with the buffet provided for the guests.

There was not much left when we reched there. We took a little of everything to try. I aimed for the desserts. I tried to eat as much as possible as I was going out with Pei Fen later on. I left my stuffs in the locker as well in order to lighten my weight.

The chitchat session with Shihui and Jeanie was great. I love it totally. It was the last week of work for Shihui. How I wish that she can stays on so that we can have more of this session.

Accompanying them to the MRT station, I walked around while I waited to meet Pei Fen. She came rather late as I was told that the event would end late. The event however suprisingly ended way earlier, giving me lots of time to spend before meeting Pei Fen.

Gracefields Kindergarden Graduation 2010

This my third year working for their gradduation. It was another round of kiddy performances with the jubilant parents as their strong supporters.

Doing the deployment, BT told me beforehand that hs is placing me with someone I do not like. Being confident, I said it was alright, thinking that I'll just have to be a little more hardworking. I was however wrong when the event started.

There were three new colleagues and I was not in the mood to talk. I forgot to bring my phone with me. The conflict was sparked off by an idiotic patron who insist on consuming starbucks coffe inside the house. Not bringing it out after being approached by me, I asked that lazy colleague to approach for a different effect. Disppearing as usual to skive, I can't believe that she actually shouted across the block of seats, asking whether the new girl and I had approached the patron. The mic of the walkie-talkie was hanging down the buttons in a very unglam manner. Saying that we have approached, which the new girl in fact did not, she laughed aloud in a mocking manner, saying that it was hilarious that two of us could not settle a cup of coffee.

Angered by that, I asked whether she was trying to buy time. At this point of time, she said ridiculous stuffs and went to complain to EeYin for a very long period of time, and not settle the idiotic patron. Ridiculous.

Coming over to listen to my part of the story, EeYin and I was shocked by how that lazy colleague sneaked up to eavesdrop. My story was interrupted by that lazy colleague, who kept spouting ridiculous words out of her mouth, trying to create a scenario where she is the holy and righteous one. Disgusting. If she was confident that she was right, she wouldn't be stopping and trying control what people say. I am sure that she felt guilty and attempted to make me her scapegoat.

Asking the new colleague to take over my position, BT asked me to the foyer, listening to what happened after I warned him that something is going to happen during debrief. I wasn't given the chance to finish the whole story though, only spoke the main parts. That lazy colleague was then called out to say her part of the story next. I do not know what she would say, but I am confident that the rest of my colleagues would be on my side despite of her lies.

While the event went on, that lazy colleague pretend to work, giving me instructions and sounded as if the patron with a restless baby was not attended by me. Despicable acts by her as usual. The atmosphere was tense and quiet till the end of the event.

Expecting something to happen during debrief, BT just asked the rest of the colleagues to keep our walkie-talkies and torchlights and brought us down. I was puzzled by what was going on but was expecting a talk in the office.

I was right, the issue is to be settled in the office. Having the feeling that I may lose control of myself, I did not talk much. So much lies from her with the despicable righteous tone, I was on the verge of crying. Yes, it was tears of anger.

I did not have the chance to talk as well. My mind was overwhelmed by anger. I aws dissapointed with myself. I thought I would settle this calmly. It was this session that I knew why I always have the feeling that she was expecting me to be exceptionally nice to her. It was all because of a small bag that she gave me when we first knew each other. She must be insane that a small bag could bribe me to tolerate and condone her mistakes and laziness.

It was concluded that BT have to write an incident report. I was afraid to lose my job when I heard that there was this report. The conclusion was that we quarrelled infront of the patrons which did not actually happened. I did not have a chance to say a word to this wrong conclusion made and I was doing my best to control my tears then.

Going out to finish off the administrative stuffs that is to be done after every event, I asked BT whether I'll be in trouble. He said no but I am still doubtful. That lazy colleague stayed inside the office to continue ranting. I was out when BT saw me rubbing my eyes and asked me leave the office first.

BT told me that the extra timings could be claimed. Weird. I just punch out my card as usual and record accordingly. I am alright with extra pay, I have no wrong in accepting extra pay for attending to this trouble.

I then went home with Jane who waited for me at the usher desk. Thanks to her that I was not so lonely when I left the place.

Share Investor Seminar

It was my first time being late for work. Late for three minutes. I ran like a mad women from the MRT station to my reporting place. The haze was giving me breathing difficulty, causing my speed of running to be really slow. The bright side was that I was still able to pay back the time that I was late for.

Quickly got myself changed and equipped, I went up to join my colleagues, starting the day with the routine house checks.

I am deployed to Door six. I stood near Door four in the end as no patron was allowed to take the seats at the second half of the house. It was really tiring to persuade difficult patrons to take the seats infront. Getting really sick and tired of it, YuRi set up queue poles during the intermission to block the whole of the elevated seats. The layout was really drama. But it really helps a lot.

There was mainly speakers for five companies. The partner of the speaker's for the Australian win company was really tall! I stood on the blue platform of the elevated seats and the guy was same height as me when he walked pass me on the ground.

He went to stand beside YuRi, I was laughing at the big height difference. I asked YuRi whether he felt short and he replied "yes I do" with pause and emphasis. What a funny moment.

After the event, we quickly went for our lunch at Amoy Street before the next event commences. It was a marathon day.

101010!

This is quite a beautiful number and date. Hope the many couples that are getting married today will have a blessed marriage.

According to what I heard, this October has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. It will only happen in 823 years. Cool!

Wishing everybody a great October! =)

Mid-Autumn Festival By The River 2010

My first time attending such big public event. I met up with PeiFen after attachment to enjoy this picture taking session. Thanks to Uncle Jimmy who told me about this.

We took pictures of the displays of the twelve zodiac signs and the additional displays of dragon and the famous classical Chinese stories and sayings.

After the camera-snapping session, we went to take a look at the quiz section. Staring at it for some time, I managed to make out some answers but those words does not seems to exist. One participant went up to give the answer I thought of, and he was right! PeiFen and I was shocked.

After much pondering, thinking and checking my answer for a hundred times, I finally took up the courage to give it a try. I was still shy to do so. Thanks to PeiFen for accompanying me to queue up for the microphone. Giving my answer, I was right! I won a voucher for free Mr Bean soya milk and pancake set. Happy!

As I do not know how to pronounce the word I thought of, I was allowed to write down. I was asked to explain by the "drummer" but he interupted me while I was talking. I was thinking, he might as well do the explanation.

I was really over the moon for first time for participating in a public quiz and won something! I really need to work on my courage.

PeiFen and I then strolled around the shops at Central. I was searching for a bear shop I heard from my senior of my secondary school. As we were about to give up and head home, we found the shop! Nice! The logo sure is very adorable and attention-catching. Simple and nice. The varieties of bears available sure is a lot!

After photo-taking, we chatted at the bus-stop where I waited for my bus before we left. I was looking forward to upload the pictures taken as I made successful candid shot of PeiFen finally.

aLife Charity Concert 2010

It was a rather chaotic event. Reaching the loading bay, YuRi showed me the ticket for the night. It looked "awesome"! It was some kiddy drawings.

When the commences, the ticket did not turn out to what was shown to me. It was a bookmark with an additional piece of paper tied to it. I just have to tear out that piece of paper. Nice bookmarks.

As I was posted outside, I could watch the show from the TV. Nice ballet. How I wish I could watch it inside. Their splits are just so perfect. The music was nice too.

Looking around at the merchandises sold at the glass table, I like some of the creative items. The hirer was nice enough to give us the very cute horses and cows that were handmade. As it was on sale that day, she can only give it to us the next time she drop by.

It is really nice to work with nice hirers. This kind of situation however does not seems to occur very often.

UOB Kay Hian Seminar

This event was pratically full of weirdos! Interesting! I was positioned at Door 3 inside with YuYue outside. Standing outside Dorr 3 while the patrons entered, I notified the rest of the colleagues inside that there were a lot of weirdo for the day. Weird questions were asked and lots of people queried for the location of the toilets. YuYue said that their face had the expression why isn't the toilet built inside the house.

The one patron that I remember the most is an old lady who wanted to consume her medication inside the house. Telling her nicely, she actually gave me a case scenario to solve. Wow. It was an easy one though. She laughed in a very funny manner and left the house to consume her medication. Coming back, she took her purse from her bag and shook it infront of YuYue and me, saying, "see, almost lost my purse". YuYue and I were literally shocked. After she left, we bursted out laughing.

It was good that they are just weird and not nasty. I really dislike those nasty people who thinks so highly of themselves.

Staying outside, YuYue, BT, Jane and I chatted. Gossips. We talked about the steamboat too. I went to the toilet halfway due to diahrrea. Going the second time before the intermission just for some "small business", BT asked me to rest at the loading bay and shut the door. Shocked. He said he had already asked Jane to cover my post. In any case, I quickly screw back the earpiece that dropped out from my walkie-talkie and went out after BT left the door.

Searching for "my" pregnant lady, I was not able to find her. Most probably she had left for a break. Waiting at the door while catching food and drinks, I caught hold of her when she came back. I offered seats at the front row for her so that it's easier. She declined as it was "too front".

I was shocked that no body actually bothered to shift towards the side and she had to squeeze into the seat deep inside. Her tummy was already rather big. While looking for a better seat for her, BT cracked a joke saying that her frequency of going to the toilet will be as high as mine. YuYue say I can just go to the toilet together with the lady. Funny. It was however a good learning point that I have never experienced. If this is to happen again in future, I would be able to solve it instantly.

After the intermission, it was time to relax. I drank water and "soaked" my lips into the water, attempting to hydrate myself. Lots of dried skin was torn off while I "soaked" my lips. That showed how dry my lips were. Some weird man came to chat with YuYue and me while I was "soaking" my lips.

The hirer was nice enough to pack two big bags of the leftover packets of food for us. Armomatic dry Mee Siam from Old Chang Kee. I can hear my stomach growling when I smell the food. They were kind enough to give a big pack to the cleaners too. Nice.

We distributed the food at the loading bay after the event ended. Asked people to take first so that I can take the rest home. My big appetite can accomodate to large amount of food. I took two boxes only in the end as someone wanted the other eight boxes. Whatever.

I made my trip to Grandma house for lunch and took a rest before the next event commences at night.

志摩的诗，我们的歌

The choir was not bad. This is my first choir event ever since I started my work here.

There was once when the female soloist have to wear a mask and the rubber broke. Her fast wits solved the problem on the spot. That is really commendable. Her way of presenting the songs seemed kind of fresh to me. There were parts that were so "chim" that I do no understand.

The event ended and we did the routine checks. I was puzzled why there was a file placed inside the storeroom. Thinking that it's lost-and-found, I just took it out. Placing it on my lap and sat at the seat waiting for the debrief, someone rude pulled the file from my lap and said it was hers. How nice. Ignoring her, things went on as usual.

As there was a change in the form, we were required to sign on the new form. WX saw some forms kept inside the rude person's locker and said that those should be thrown away as it was outdated. What I next heard from that rude person made my eyes popped out. She actually said it was Julie who kept the forms! Wow! Lying without a blink of the eye!

I left with the others to return the pass and headed home. Thinking about what happened on the bus, I made a call to WX to tell her the truth. I remembered clearly that I saw scores of the songs performed in the black file. How can it belong to the rude person when she don't even know how to appreciate music? Besides from that, I told WX about the forms. It was really not fair to Julie. How moral and civilised it is to have a newcomer as a scapegoat.

The Dream of Chang'an: Music of Zhao Ji Ping

Mrs Goh was one of the guest-of-honour for this event. This concert basically showcases the music pieces wrote by Mr Zhao Ji Ping. One of which includes a piece from one of the good show that I had watched, "大宅门".

Work for the day was kind of routine. I was Door 3 inside so I had to give the late comer queue. Due to last minute information, I was asked to be the second flowergirl. Due to the "special" request from GM, it has to be flowergirl instead of flowerboy because girls are more sweet. Rubbish. This is gender discrimination.

Jason took over my post while I went to the backstage. There were two times that I need to go to the backstage. It was then that I realise there was a miscommunication in requests as the second flowergirl was only needed at the end of the whole performance. It was three flowergirls that was needed officially. It washowever not able to be done due to the lack of manpower. I had to make two trips.

I was posted to do crowd control for the autograph session. Thanks to Jason for taking over me so that I am able to grab the autographs. I wanted to take picture with the composer but there was no chance for me to do so. Furthermore, that "great" GM was standing near the autograph table. Being able to grab the autograph is good enough.

Going back into the house for debrief, I heard some "great" news! That "professional" GM commented about my gesture of a flowergirl again. "Brilliant"!

BT say I am banned from being the flowergirl. I am alright with it as it was not something that I am looking forward to. According to what was said before the start of the event, I came up with a conclusion - I am a guy. This is the best explanation ever.

As the event ended late. Girls were allowed to claim taxi fare. I offered to share a cab with YuRi as he lives in the North, which is rather near to the central of Singapore. Sms-ing me the details of the trip, I was shocked that the fare went over $20. Hope that the claim can be done smoothly.

SCH Ushers Steamboat Outing 2010

Reaching Bugis MRT station early, I went to walk around Bugis Junction before proceeding to look for the rest. While heading back to the MRT station to look for the rest, BT saw me and brought me to the fountain at the soup spoon where the rest had already gathered.

On the way there, YuYue called me to tell me of their new location and what a coincident that I saw NDP08 F2's leader again after YOG. I think he has already forgotten me.

We waited for Uncle Jimmy and Junying before setting off to the steamboat shop. It was then confirmed that Uncle Jimmy was not attending after Junying arrived. Great. He was actually one of the reasons why I chose to attend.

We walked towards the shophouses and stopped by a steamboat shop. It looks a little old though. We were directed to the second floor for our meal. It was air-conditioned at the second floor. I however did not find the ventilation very good.

Settling down, we started to take orders. I am the only person there who is unable to consume beef. Thanks to BT, YuRi and Reuben for accomdating.

Tasting the soup before the fire was turned on, I find the soup kind of salty. Soup ordered were duck and chicken soup, one kind on each half of the "pot".

After submitting the order form, we got our drinks and dishes shortly. There were some dishes that we ordered but were not sent to us. Great.

My side of people was not as happening as those on the other side. They were fighting and searching for their glutinous cake. My table only became happening when Reuben tried to put the whole chunk of noodles into my plate. The other table commented our table is finally having some happening event.

Chatted and ate. I ate more than I talked. I kept eating till the rest stopped eating and I was still hungry. I was a little shocked with my appetite though. The rest ordered one more bottle of green tea while I ordered a little more food to eat. The lotus root is nice.

I started to feel a little full after the third round. Guess it was due to the halt while waiting for my third round of food to be served.

BT went down to settle the bills first so we took a group photo without him before we left. Reaching the first floor to meet up with him, he didn't accept any money from us. He said it's alright as it is once in a blue moon.

The food was generally alright. I however still prefer the fish from the steamboat shop at Ang Mo Kio.

Walking towards ilumna, we then bid farewell to each other. Took the train back together with YuYue and YuRi as usual. YuYue hit my stomach and I felt my stomach was kind of protruding a little and it was kind of stiff. Guess I really ate a lot.

SYCO Chamber Recital: Elegant Music Series 2010

This event was so short till I was shocked. The music was really nice and my passion of music that I pressed down seems to come up again. "大理情风" was really nice though it was a little different from what MF performed.

Before the event commence, I saw Benjamin Boo practicing his percussion. Nice melody. I was expecting some nice pieces for the night. One sanxian musician came up to practice as well. YuYue was telling YuRi that the sanxian musician is their senior and is a gay. I was shocked to hear that gossip.

The sight of that GM irks me. During the performance, he was talking non-stop to the music director (MD), Tsung Yeh. Does that mean that it's alright not to show any respect just because the musicians are not from SCO? Or is it that they are just simply youths? He should be banished from all concert halls! I really wondered why the MD talked too. Music should always be respected and especially by people who practice it.

I thought the presentation of music should improve. Some musicians seemed so stiff and some did not sit with a good posture. Overall, they are still good.

Many patrons were shocked that this SCO concert was so short. I had to answer many of their query. There was no intermission at all. Short session with quality music is cool.

I took a trainride home with YuYue and YuRi. Tried to talk to YuYue but there does't seems to have much things to talk about. I am not very good at finding topics for conversation. YuRi was dozing away throughout the ride though.

Catholic High School Chinese Orchestra Concert 2010

Catholic High School has a strong Chinese Orchestra. I still however prefer Hwa Chong's Institution's Chinese Orchestra.

Weird instructions from the hirer. I was asked to follow the LCQ on the paper given yet the hirer kept doing things that she felt like it. Great. It was said that kids under the age of six was not allowed into the concert hall. I do not like this rule. While checking with hirer, the hirer allowed them in. Conflicts in instructions. I was glad that the parents were nice to us, remaining calm while waiting for the issue to be resolved.

The concert was alright. Not much of an issue for that night. Thanks to WanRong, I got to have the nicely designed program. It was like a wedding invitation card with lots of "postcards" inside. Initially, I thought it was some nice landscape pictures. I then realised that it was pictures of the musicians after I opened it. Oh well.

I feel so smart for being able to guess the pattern of the conductor. I have correctly predicted an encore piece. Anyway, the first song was kind of weird. Birthday song and a mix of another cartoon music. I understand the birthday part as it was their anniversary, but cartoon? Furthermore, I find the musicians rather robotic in their performance.

The concert ended and we quickly do the routine house-checks. I am still pissed off that someone is roaming around and doesn't work.

Ushers' Briefing 2010

The briefing was held at the exhibition hall instead of the sectional practice hall. It was a very big room with a lot of chairs. I wondered why there were so many chairs when it was known that only twenty-two people will turn up.

Anyway, the chairs were separated into two blocks just like the previous briefing. BT refused to sit with the other two "old timer" and sit with us the "young timer".

Jason was a "star". He was famous over a night as he walked past the guest-of-honour some time ago. I was scared that what I did will be revealed too but glad that it did not.

After some discussions of the rules and some scenarios, we were brought to walk around to see the fire safty exit route. We were split into two groups. WX led my group. The funny thing was that she actually brought us to where the fire engine will park and told us that that is the placce that we will have to assemble. Shocked. We then see Mr Tai's group walking towards the other end of the place and we followed, getting to the correct place for assembly.

Mr Tai explained quite a number of stuffs. Justin suddenly asked whether we were listening. We replied no and he tell BT that we will not be able to survive if he is not the IC. Nice joke.

We then proceeded together to the main entrance of the building. Mr Tai mentioned that patrons that escape the fire from this side will just automatically run away. I wonder which patron will assemble at the carpark with us.

It was time for food after that. The time to punch our card was right after the walk. Time to eat the buffet was not counted. I ate with Peishan. We didn't talk much. I took three chocolate eclairs. There wasn't anymore when I went for a second round. Lin gave me her last eclair seeing that I was eating my last chocolate eclair. So sweet.

Punching out, I left the place after realising that my hope to pack some food home was not feasible. I was the last one to leave though as I ate kind of slow. My appetite for that day wasn't that big.

Walking alone to the MRT station, I was glad that I met some of them in the train. Reuben called me as I did not see them initially. Too focused on rushing into the train that was about to close it's doors. Had some nice chats with YuRi and YiTian's brother who both live in the North.

KPMG Seminar

What a boring event. I was given a chance to choose which post I wanted. Door three outside. I was hoping to slack a little. It was a pity that the chair outside the door was removed sometime ago.

The seminar was so boring that many patrons fell asleep. Standing outside was boring. I kept walking around. Went into the concert hall for a while and out. Bored. Really bored.

I crapped through walkie-talkie till the battery went low. It has been a very long time since I last saw Justin. He slacked so much. I kept calling him and said chocolate eclairs as I saw plates of chocolate eclairs at the reception for the patrons.

YuRi asked whether WX can help us to pack some food. It can't be carried out as there was no green light given by the hirer. I saw some of the hirers packing the food up and I can smell it from where I stood.

YuRi warned me about the survillence camera. Great, I actually sat right in front of the cacmera and use my phone. It was really boring. YuRi have been adjusting the signboards with regards to no food and drinks and the arrow to the toilet. The reason was that the patrons kept asking for the location of the toilets. It was kind of entertaining playing with the signboards at that boring moment.

The event ended and I quickly make my way back to Grandma house for my yummy lunch. The walk to the MRT station with YuRi and Jason seemed kind of awkward as we don't really have anything to chat about. I really hope that we will be chatting noisily with anything on earth soon. Nice conversations are just great.

Intermezzo 2010

This is a charity show organised by cristofori. Since it's a music school, I was expecting some nice music. To my disappointment, there wasn't much nice performance. I don't deny that there were some good performances too.

I was posted to Door Six. Rare. It was not very lucky for me to met with some nasty patrons. They ought to be banished from all concert halls. There was totally no respect for music at all.

Beisdes from some idiotic people, my work for the day generally was alright though I had to run up and down at times.

There was a moment when I was asked to help out at Door Four. There was this particular guy that bowed to me. Shocked. I knew that he bowed to people leaving the house but I was too shocked to react to his actions.

From his accent, I thought that he was a Japanese. I later heard from BT that he is an Indonesian Chinese. Nice and well-mannered.

The concert finally ended without any intermission. I went out with some of the ushers to The Soup Spoon for their dinner. Played with BT's doraemon on the way there and took YuRi's car home. He just got his license. Rounds and rounds on his car but I enjoy the ride; I love rides. It heartening to see that there is a good bonding between the brother and sister. How I wish I have an elder brother that dotes on me too.

Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra

I thought I reached early but I was not the first. BT, Jason and YuRi were the first. Heard that they went to eat earlier on that's why they were early.

YuRi was the in-charge for the day as BT say he wanted to train him. How I wish I can be trained too. I want to be a good in-charge. I do not know why but I do not have a good feeling about what's going on.

The placement was alright as the people know that I do not want to be posted together with someone. As there were not any ushers from Bradell Heights Community Club, recognising the VIPs were a little difficult. I was very lucky that the guests that night were nice people. I stopped them and ensured that they were the guests before allowing them to pass through. None of them gave me trouble or scolded me.

The music pieces played were nice! Guess this is the first symphony orcheatra that I have watched performing live. Their presentation of music was good except for one violinist who looked lerthargic. The orchestra was small but they were good. I was rather surprised to see one of my classmate performing. For a moment I worried whether some undesirable people were present. I was really glad that there was no trouble created.

The event ended and I rushed to get the programme booklet and helped with the routine house checks. There was an interesting news during debrief. There was actually written ticket. This will happen when a patron requests for replacement of a lost ticket and teh sistic counter was not able to generate the ticket in time. Cool.

Furthermore, sistic made a mistake by selling row BB tickets when the BB row was removed. I wonder why tickets for that row were sold when the crowd were of so little people. There were a lot of other empty seats around. I don't think patrons get to choose where they get to sit.

After punching out, I then made my way home. I wonder why my lower back hurt so much. My right legs was kind of shivering while the concert was going on. I really hope I will be alright and can survive more events to come.

NAFA Convocation 2010

BT was shocked when I reached there. I was shocked after he told me that it was full strength. Things were finally settled after Eeyin appears; I was replacing another usher. I really do not want to go home after making an effort to wake up so early in the morning.

I was so tired that I actually signed at the wrong row while I withdraw the security pass. Great. There were 4 new ushers. It took me some time to remember their names. Hope I will still remember the next time I see them.

I was kind of not happy with the NAFA staffs as they kept crowding around the walkway. They even crowded around door three, the place where I was deployed to. Their decision to place to cameras were werid too, blocking the walkway. It was a better job done last year.

Things were way more easy after the presenting of certificate commenced. BT suddenly called me outside. I thought I was needed to do something important. It was actually some chats. It was regarding the steamboat outing and the upcoming annual meeting.

I slacked outside as it was rather boring inside. Rare of me slacking during work. Chatted with a new girl as she was my door three partner for the day. According to BT and YuRi, many things happened while I was not around. I just said I did not come back for a month due to YOG which in fact was 2 months to be exact.

Lunch together with the ushers at Amoy Street again. We did the hosue check before going out. I found a phone. The owner came after a while to claim it. To verify that he is the ownner, I used my phone to call the number he gave. Silly me. Too nice of me to help BT as he was rather slow in retrieving his phone. I shall not do that again unless I am the in-charge. I do not want to leak out my number unnecessarily.

At Amoy Street, I ate char kway tiao and I was kind of disappointed with Uncle's standard. His speed was however very fast. I got my plate in about 2 minutes and I was rather stunned for a moment. We then took BT's car back. Four girls squeezed at the back seat. We managed to finished squeezing as Jason and Faith were to stay behind to look after the guest reception.

The second shift commenced and on graduate came to ask me for help. She wanted me to pass two tickets to her parents. I agreed to help but her parents did not turn up. Quite nice of her to thank me after the whole event when she took her leave. Guess she is disappointedd that her parents could not make it in time. For such a big event of a lifetime, I would really want my loved ones to be there to witness my achievements.

I had more chats outside than the previous session. Slack. I know it's bad and not professional. Too bored I guess. The shoes was making my heels hurt too. BT kinf of brought up YOG a few times. Eeyin asked me about the food that I ate. Guess it was kind of a big issue as that is the first thing that people would ask me with regards to my involvement.

The event finally ended and we got to have some rest before punching out as the same two ushers were required to guard the guest reception again.

I went to take a drink at the graduate reception before setting off to meet PeiFen. I wanted to grab some desserts too but there wasn't any. Wanted to have a meal at the buffet with Jane but I only remember after I reached there. I set off immediately after that cup of cordial drink. At least some thirst quenched.

NDP 2010 Theme Song - Song for Singapore

Enjoy this song written and sang by Corrinne May. The lyrics is kind of meaningful. There is still however, a big room for improvement for the video.

I kind of feel that there can be a switch of theme songs between NDP 2009 and NDP 2010 as that would really be a better match the the respective themes.

Anyway, enjoy the songs and show your love for Singapore!


source of video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGY5ff831B8

YOG 2010 Theme Song - Everyone

This is the theme song for the first youth olympics games. This short and simple song is sang by five artists that represents the five different continents.


Here are the lyrics:

Walls are down
Hopes arise
Rings of the world unite

Every child
Has a wish
To glow like the stars above

Lift our voices as victories blaze
This is the day to win with grace

Chorus
Raise your hand for our generation
Fly the flags of every nation
Reaching out for that moment in our lives
Raise your hand for our generation
Living out your aspiration
Time to fly way beyond the skies
A world that shines for everyone

Be the best
Go all the way
Friends beyond the race

Cheer the joy
Share the tears
The journey remains our pride

Lift our voices as victories blaze
This is the day the world will shine on for everyone


source of video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en-GB&v=hHrnaGJ8ckg
source of lyrics: http://singapore2010.sg/public/sg2010/en/en_multimedia/en_theme_song.html

Bishan Stadium BBQ Get Together Session

Sharon was late so Peggy and I waited for her at the Mosque beside Bishan Stadium. When we reached the reporting area, there were already a lot of people eating away. It was really fast that the coke went out of stock. Being in a state of shock that it was not what we expected, we started on the buffet since there wasn't any queue.

The food were catered by Old Chang Kee. It tasted way better than what I got for my dinner as a performer.

We then gathered at the blue sector near the sports hall for the briefing. It took Sharon and I some time to find where we are supposed to report to as the person holding the signboard was resting his hands. Taking our seat, we listened to the person talking. We went really high as we were told that we will be given two tickets each for the Opening Ceremony combined rehearsal four that will be held the next day.

A girl came to sit beside me. I made friend with her. The tickets were being passed down as we chatted. Everyone got two tickets each. Seeing that the person distributing the tickets still have many left in his hand, some volunteers asked for more. Being kind, he distributed one more ticket each. More were then asked. He finally distributed all the tickets in his hand. Guess how many tickets did I grab? Six!

Sharon and I walked home after we were released; we were released after the tickets distribution. We did not wait for Peggy as she has things to settle. We took numbers of the new friends we made before setting off.

I wanted to grab a few more eclairs before leaving but all were already gone. I gave up the idea on second serving as I was really very full. The food was really nice.

POCC's "Pope Joan" Movie Preview

The movie "Pope Joan" will only be released on 12th August 2010 in Singapore. As a winner of the movie tickets, I get to catch the show first. I was a little reluctant to attend the screening as the show seemed boring to me. My initial plan was to get the tickets first. I can give it to my friends if I am not interested. However, after knowing that I have to be present to collect the tickets on the day that it is being screened, I asked Auntie Mui to accompany me to watch the movie.

I reached there early. The people were late due to a traffic jam. It was kind of the person to message me, reminding me about the screening and that I can contact that person through that number if I have any query.

The booth was finally set up after some time. Almost 6.30pm, the time they indicated the cut-off. I expected a rather grand event but it was obviously not. The people seemed so unprepared. It seemed that there is some miscommunication between nuffnang and POCC.

After grabbing our goodie bags, a lady took a photo of Auntie Mui and I for marketing purposes that the cervical cancer is the only cancer that can be prevented by a vaccine. After taking the photo, she stuck it onto a board, asking me to write down 5 names of the ladies that I would like to protect. Names? I wrote the addresses instead; mother, sister, grandma, auntie, friends.

She was not familiar with the camera. I tried to tell her but she ignored me and kept asking to her people. Great. It kinds of gave me the feeling that "hey, only officers of this event knows". We were kind of jammed there for a while as we were the first to collect the tickets.

Proceeding into the hall, we get to choose our seats. Great! Auntie Mui and I chose the top and middle seat. Good view! The seats were not in good condition I would say. It shakes and there isn't much space in between the roles. My head was almost resting on the legs of the peson sitting behind me.

After some time, the show finally commenced. NC-16. It was my first time watching a movie with this rating. I thought that there were just some additional gross sexual scenes as compared to PG. I was wrong. There were lots of other disturbing scenes too. Violence. The sexual scenes were disturbing too.

The actors were great. Those acting the bad guys, I really felt like walking right up and punch them in the face. I hate male chauvinist to the core. The wits of the female lead was just great. How I wish I can be that smart too.

The story of the show was good. But I really dislike the disturbing scenes. I guess that are the things that make a movie comes to life. This movie is "very literature" I would say. The poster for the movie looks kind of scary. I then understood why after watching the show.

All the people left after watching the movie. I did not really see the significance of the screening of this movie with the POCC campaign. There was no talk to elaborate what's going on. This definitely need improvement. This event, seemed to be rather, cold.

YOG 2010 Water Stage

The third combined rehearsal was over. As it rained earlier in the day, the water on the stage seemed way freezing than the previous rehearsal. Anyway, I strongly believe that the water was pumped from the Singapore river. My skin was irritated by the water. I do not agree with the idea that the water from Singapore river should be used.

I understand that water is precious. Since everyone is going to dirty the water, what's wrong with using water from Singapore river? The fact that using the relatively clean water would protect the performers from infections. There are going to be a few more combined and component rehearsal. What if performers were down on the actual day of performance? I believe that there are way lots of micro-organisms in the Singapore river as compared to water dirty by performers.

Honestly, I felt that YOG performers in many aspects were not sufficiently well taken care of. I seriously wonder if I can survive till the end of this event.

The freezing cold water is causing me to feel pain in my joints. The smell is so awful that it cause my body and clothings to have a really bad stench. Last but not least, the water is an irritant to my skin.

I am not the only person that is facing with all these problems. I really wonder where I can voice out all these issues. Knowing that the issue of coldness hard to be solved, I am just simply hoping to have some clean and odourless water.

It's not a mystery whether those people sitting so high up will even listen to the voice of the "small" and "unsignificant" performers. I really doubt that there will be any actions done to improve the situation since performers for NDP09 chapter 6 were denied of the small request to see and breathe.

Aichi Meiden High School Band

A very tiring day for me so I decided to take on the post of being outside the house though I wanted to watch the performance. Furthermore, I thought it was just another band performance.

Standing outside, I realised that what I thought was wrong. From the TV, I can see that the band was superb! I had the urge to go in. However, work inside the house would be more demanding. I can see how much effort they put in to make the whole story of super mario with both the skit and music. Cool!

The bright side of the things was that I got to sneak in near the end, catching the encore pieces. The band is just so cool! The audience actually was allowed to encore three times.

A pity that there was no extra programme booklets that I can take as souvenir. It was the special perforamnce after the band "competition" that was held a few days ago and the booklets were only available on that day. I saw the same emcee that I do not like. I wonder if it's from the same company again. His presentation on stage was commendable but I still do not like his attitude that all about an event is nothing else but money.

The choreography of the musicians, the dancers, everything was just so great! How I wish that I can watch them perform more pieces. According to the conductor, it was their second trip after so many years. What a pity that I missed the performance. Hope that they will be invited again soon and that I will be ready to work in-house for the event.

Media Preview of our Singapore 2010 YOG Documentary

I took leave from the supervisor and rushed to cineleisure to attend this event with Auntie Mui. As I was told that the event starts at 1pm, I have only 5 minutes to rush there after my quick lunch.

Reaching there, there was no signages to direct me. Glad that there was someone around whom I can ask. Reaching the registration table, the person at the reception looked at me blankly. I felt as though I went to the wrong place and that I am an intruder.

I finally got my tickets after introducing myself. I said something wrongly. I said "media brief" instead of "media preview", a little embarassing I would say.

Auntie Mui and I entered the cinema after getting our free popcorns and drinks. We have got a rather good seat at the back of the hall. It was quite nice of them to provide some refreshments. It was totally like a movie screening. I did not expected this to be held in a cinema. I thought it was going to be some talks given by someone in a room.

We waited for about thirty minutes till the screening begins. The show was quite alright though there were some of the things that I thought can improved on.

The documentary was basically about the journey to the games from the point of views of three athletes of different sports, judo, cycling and fencing. The only female athlete featured is in fencing. The three athletes were at the screening too. What leaves me an impresison about that girl was that she is very tall.

Seeing how the judo athlete trained, I somehow had certain thoughts. I wonder if this has brought me any motivation to push myself further in wushu. Though both may be of different sports, they are both martial arts.

The documentary also included the journey of the production of the mascots. Suana! Those people under the mascot puppets looked as if they just had a swim after they came out from their costume. They spent lots of time practising their dance movements so that the mascots will look genuine and lively. It's really tough on them!

My mystery to whether the person under the amscots were males or females was solved. The funniest part was when the person in the Merly costume said that Merly was part of him. It's kind of a good thing to know that his hard work and effort had made him grew feelings for Merly and fused with her.

I find the countdown to 99 days celebration familiar because I was there! That was the only thing I felt close to. A little disappointed that I missed out all the other events. Guess the publicity need some improvements.

From the factsheet given to me, this documentary is one of the two that is going to be broadcasted. The broadcasts of this firat documentary will be on 7th August and 14th August on channel 5. After seeing the timing of the broadcasts, I was so glad that I attended the preview as I will be away at the floating platform performing for the world!

After the screening, I had some thoughts while I rushed back to my workplace. The athletes are stars, what about the other volunteers? Though volunteers have roles that are small, they are the ones that make a very big difference. Maybe a documentary of people holding difference posts that make no matter how much contribution to this event can be made. This is one of the things that is going to make them feel like they are part of the first ever inaugural Youth Olympics Games.

Release of YOG 2010 Costumes

The long awaited costumes were finally released. After much guessing of how they are going to look like, we finally get to see the final products!

As expected, my jaws dropped. I hoped that what I saw was wrong. It was however verified on the first combined rehearsal that what I saw is true. I do not like to wear caps or hats. I feel uneasy when there is something on my head. Hairpins would of course be exceptions.

I heard that the costumes were designed by a batch of Lasalles College's students. Final year project?

Anyway, I am going to wear a guy's costume. It's kind of a discrimination that martial arts is solely for guys. Anyway, I find the Silat costume way nicer than what I am going to wear. I wonder how the wushu costume looks like. It was not posted on the web. I am guessing that they are going to be way nicer than mine. I guess the wushu costume is red, a favourite colour of mine.

I like blue too, but not in this manner. Anyway, in my opinion, I think that some of the things doesn't mean that the more sophisticated it is, the nicer it is. Sometimes, simplicity is beautiful too. I do not deny that the costumes are colourful. The combination and design can however be improved.

There is only one costume that I thought it looked alright; the one in red that was rather simple and looked like it's for a gymnast.


Photos of the costumes can be viewed at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=634729208&ref=ts#!/album.php?aid=224914&id=89465677245.

Taiji For All

Dad drove me to HongWen early in the morning to meet the rest take the bus to Jurong Stadium. I never knew that HongWen is so near my house. It was just a 15-minute ride. Since I reached there early, Dad asked me to sleep in the car till the rest of them arrive. Thanks to XinFeng for giving me the information.

Reaching there, I got my shirt from WenYeow coach. We then boarded the bus after some moments of waiting. After getting a "fengshui" seat, I commenced my adventure at lalaland. I was just too tired from attachment.

Shuting and I ran to the toilet to change into the shirt given. Quite glad that we managed to make it in time. As we were the last two to join our group. We stood at the back of row 48.

I do not really like the way that the emcee talked. From what I see, this event is very "RC-styled". Listening to what he said, I encountered the first cheat of the day. It was a Singapore records instead of a World's records. I was wondering how can we be recorded in the world's records when China can do better. Now the mystery is solved.

We rehearsed under the hot sun and waitied for the arrival of the guest-of-honours. My black pants started to heat up during the wait. The guests finally arrived to launch the event. We rehearsed together with the guests once and we did once ourselves for the guests to enjoy. Here's the second cheat of the day.

After we did the thirteen moves routine that we learned, the emcee said that the twenty-four moves routine was next. Shuting and I dropped our jaws. This was the third cheat of the day. Many people have retreated into the shade to watch the rest do the twenty-four moves routine. After much pondering, Shuting and I decided to stay on and try to imitate the moves. The results that we got were not bad, we managed to follow most of the moves. I like the right “金鸡独立” as I was able to do it.

Finishing the last routine, it was the announcement of the offical records of what wehad done. There were 1995 people that took part in the event. Fouth cheat of the day. Anyway, I wondered how they made the count.

Breakfast was distributed as we left. The food was alright. Took one out of the three bags of leftovers home.

I took the bus provided back to HongWen with Shuting and XinFeng. As usual, I dozed during the ride. Some memories came back as the bus passed by YuHua. Walking together with them to Boon Keng MRT station, I bid them goodbye and went to take my sleeping bus ride home.

Metiér VIII

I guess this is the most energy draining event that I had ever worked. This is the first school event that I worked with so many students that do not behave themselves. I see that the teachers were kind of tired too.

The performance was quite good. The principal's talk was so dry and boring that I almost fell asleep. The students that wasn't behaving themselves got to restless and created lots of trouble because it was boring. The speech sounds like some propaganda too. The bright side of the situation was that there were teachers that helped to discipline them, sharing a small portion of my workload.

It was a small relief when the performance commences as it draws the students' attention and made them behave themselves for a moment.

More trouble were created during the intermission. Food and drinks. I had a thought that maybe the house rules should be told to schools that are going to rent the place and the the rules are to be told to the students beforehand. Those irritating stares from students that were informed of the house rules sure is annoying. I really dislike people who do not respect the music and the concert hall.

It was a relief when the event was finally over. One female teacher said that I did a good job. It kinds of brightens up my day. "I think you did a good job. Usually when you nag and nag they won't listen..."

There were three new ushers but there was not enough time to icebreak with each other. Only one of them talked to me. There was another one that I saw who looked quite experienced; it doesn't look like it's her first time doing this job.

It was so long since I last worked with Crystal. Heard that she has been asking for me! So sweet. I never knew that someone is looking forward to work with me. I was so happy when I heard that!

I did not attend the debrief after the event as I found out something after going to the washroom. There was some issues that I wanted to bring up but it was some same old issues as the other events that can never be solved even though it was being brought up. I dropped the idea in the end.

I then took a relaxing bus ride home after settling all the administrative stuffs.

Singapore River Festival - Air

Attended this specular performance with Auntie after getting to know that the performance was still available. The planning was very organised and all the performers performed their part on time and accurately.

It was a pity that I reached rather late, unable to get a good spot to take good pictures. There were a few guys that were very tall that blocked my view. There were people that squeezed in inconsiderately when teh show began. With blocked views and not a very good camera, many of my pictures were not very good.

I kept switching between my handphone and camera, trying to capture pictures and videos at the same time.

There was a surprise component in the performance; fireworks. It was really a very specular performance. It is a rare chance for one to get to "smell" fireworks.

We then proceeded to watch the performance by another group of people. This performance involved the artistic usage of water to dance. Nice. The music is nice too.

I was so glad that the performance delayed so that I could catch it in time after "Air".

Technical Workshop - Understanding Cancer

There were only four people that turned up for work for this last minute event. My attendance was only submitted a day before.

The seminar was like a lecture to me; it's about cancer. I felt so bored and it was merely a repetition of what my lecturers had taught me. I can even add in some extra information to enhance the speech by that doctor.

the talk was mainly about cancer of female reproductive organs. Fair? There were many guys at the talk too. I heard that this talk is to advertise the sales of an insurance. guys don't have to buy insurance?

I was the IC initially but was changed to another guy, a rather blur guy. I was almost saying the things to be done. I was almost having full control of the situation inside the house. Honestly, I should get that pay. Haha.

Some patrons does not seems to understand English at all. I asked them to move all the way to the other end, they replied okay and made their way to the side that was full. Some even tried to take seats on rows that were not "opened" yet. One plump lady tried to get her way and tried to use peer pressure on us. Great. The funniest thing was when a guy replid to me that his legs are very long and he will look for me if there isn't sufficient space after I told him that only the first-half of the house was "open". One venue marketing guy standing beside me tried to hold his laughter after hearing this hilarious remark. Funny!

I was glad that I was able to walk rather properly as I sprained my right ankle while doing the routine house-checks before the event. What a great start.

The event ended a little later than expected and I don't mind. Thanks to the IC that I got to get two sets of the "lecture notes". I can use it for speed revision when needed. It was a rather useful material I would say. The IC was funny, he tried to take everything down alone while we were just walking beside him. Commented on it and he handed one of the stuffs to another guy.

An average and smooth day of work I would say. I hope that I can be the IC again soon.

Power Over Cervical Cancer

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Marina Bay Sands Opening Celebration

Lucky me won two tickets to this occasion and attended it with Auntie Mui.

We reached there rather late as Auntie Mui had to work. It was time when the climbing competition commences when we reached and I managed to take a shot of them climbing. As they just started climbing, there were not at the very high part of the building, allowing my average camera to be able to capture them in action. There were a lot of people who crowded at the opposite building of the competition venue to watch the climbers in action.

After taking that shot, I proceeded in to the event plaza. I don't want to miss out any more performances. The walk from the shopping mall entrance to the event plaza sure is long. There were a lot of barricates set up that Auntie Mui and I had to walk rounds to reach the audience area.

We stood at a corner at the back. We could have been able to be in the middle if we reached earlier. The choice was then justified to be a right choice later on. The climbers in action were broadcasted live on the stage. At the same time, some parachuters just jumped off the plane. Though taking pictures of the climbers from where I stood was impossible due to the trees, I was able to take lots of pictures of the parachuters. What justified my correct position was that the parachuters landed in the water instead of the sky garden. So cool! Numerous boats were already on standby to fetch the parachuters and keep their parachutes. I was so happy that I got to take a shot of them "landing" into the water. I wonder if they rehearsed that before. Hmm.

It was then followed by singing session by Sylvia and Lin Jun Jie. I like the song "jiang nan" by Lin Jun Jie. Nice melody. It was really a cool thing to be able to listen to Sylvia singing "american Boy" live. Though I can't really see both of them on stage, as I was rather far away, it was a nice experience listening to them singing live.

The next thing was the main show of the day - the significant opening button pushing. Important people were invited up to the stage to push the big button together. I was surprised by the "fire crackers" after they did the significant "push". I like the glitters a lot! A little pity that I was not able to get a shot of it. I however managed to get two shots of the fire released on the top of the "palm".

After the official launch, Kelly Rowland was the next singer. Her voice is superb. Listening to her halfway, I had to leave as it was raining quite heavily. Auntie Mui and I went to take a walk at the basement to take a look at the "boating" service. Cool.

Seeing that some people are taking pictures with a "gong", we went to take a picture as well. HongQuan came just in time to help us took a shot. Nice.

We then proceeded home. I was already very tired then. HongQuan went to have his walk to the MRT station and taking pictures along the way. Auntie Mui and I took bus service 133. Not seeing the sign properly, we actually took the loop service. We then decided to take a train ride home instead. The distance of the train station from Marina Bay Sands was rather far though.

NYP ZhongHua WuShu Orientation Camp 2010

The long-awaited three-day two-night camp was finally over. I am really glad to hear that the year ones have enjoyed themselves. We are very lucky I would say. I want to thank all the people for their effort to make this camp possible.

I hope that this camp had infused me with sufficient experience; it must at least worth the three exam papers that I had sacrificed and my two weeks without a proper sleep.

We started off the camp with icebreaking camp. It was called "the name game". I was the last one of the "queue" so I had to say out everybody's name with their chosen adjectives. As usual, I am "noisy". There were some funny adjectives chosen, quite creative. What I realised was that there were lots of people with names starting with alphabet 'J'.

Before proceeding with the amazing race, it was time for lunch. Lunch was "great". Quite nice I would say as there was my favourite fish fillet. I just do not like the spicy part.

Each of us led a group of people for the amazing race. It took a while for my group to warm up and I am so happy to see that there was teamwork. While completing the tasks for each station, I told them to reflect and see the games from another perspective. Hope they get what I mean. It's the process that matters, not the goal. Hope they can get the underlying meaning of each game.

As there were no VCDs available, we spent time playing some games instead. Human knot! One of the group were superb. They managed to finish untangling themselves within 30 seconds without talking. Cool! There does not seems to be any advancement when all of them combine together. Too complicated.

It was then time for some training. Paddings. We used the small space near the staff center as it was raining and we were not able to use the netball court. The space at block E was taken away by bei quan dao. Think they accidently took my new box of plasters while clearing the "stage". Humph.

With the guidance of paddings, I was able to do my "wai bai" better. I managed to hit my foot with my hands all the way. I stopped halfway through the training as I aimed at the padding wrongly, causing pain in my left foot. Anyway, thanks to HerChuan, Haojun and William for holding the paddings. It's not easy and it's really tiring.

Went to have a night jog with LY and RQ. Ended up running alone because I run very slow. Did some stretching after three rounds to keep my muscles flexible. I wanted to run six rounds but my legs were too tired to take it. We spent time at the playground relaxing just like the last training camp. I stared into the starry sky while lying on the slide. I really hate the fact that the accumulated water made my shorts wet.

We then went to bathe. The most fun part was when "someone" used water to splash me I guess. First time ever. It was so cooling after the bath. I don't like the sticky and smelly me.

Spent time brainstorming for ideas for the games for the second day on the "stage" before sleeping. It kinds of makes me easier to think while lying down and stare into the ceiling. I did not sleep the whole night as the temperature of the girls' room was very cold.

I heard from Serene the next day that she was disturbed by my constant entering ans exiting the room. I felt so sorry about it. I was trying to increase my body temperature by walking around. I wanted to sleep at the "stage" where I brainstormed for ideas but someone took that place while I was in the girls' room. I literally walked in circles outside the room before going back to the cold room again.

I finally managed to start getting the sleepy feeling at around 6am. A good sign I would say. I was however woke up by a phone call. After picking up that call, I can't sleep anymore. Great. I was kind of worried whether I could survive the long day ahead or not.

The second day started with physical training. Stretching and jogging. My muscles were so stiff. Serene and I then served breafast to the people. I took the beehoon tray.

It was then followed by a relaxing game; charades. The chosen person have to act out what is written on the card for people to guess. As I answered to the nature's call, I missed quite a few fun parts. I was kind of glad to see that some of my ideas were used. Anthony was busy setting up the checkers while this game was being held.

After that, it was time for some action games; captain's ball. Sitting around that area sure is dangerous.

The next game is checkers with some special "elements" added by Anthony. Initially, it was just some rolls of tapes. Later on, it was way more cool as signs such as "马步" and "金鸡独立" were stuck onto some "lucky" squares. Creative.

While the juniors were playing the checkers, some of us were preparing for "zero point". I was the first to test the string of rubber bands. I rocks! I was totally shocked by what happened too. I actually managed to make successful jumps upon first attempts. Furthermore, it was a backward swinging rope. I stopped as I was confused by Anthony's instruction to face Serene and my shorts was kind of being loosen due to the vigorous jump. It was only till I stopped that I realised what Anthony was trying to tell me. Guess my brain is not that good enough to do multi-tasks. It was a pity that there wasn't any pictures of videos. That was a very enjoyable moment.

I then continued brainstorming of what to write in the postcards while the rest continued playing. Tried some attempts later on with a front swing but failed. Oh well. Great moments are just rare to come by.

It was then time for lunch. Same food as the previous day, great. I gave my sambal chilli to Jacky just like the previous day. I finished all my rice as the spicy level is still manageable. Furthermore, there was my favourite fish fillet.

It was movie time later on. As I do not like one of the actor of that show, I did not watch. Furthermore, I have so much things to do too. I spent time in the girls' room continue writing the postcards. That seemed to be the most quiet moment of the camp.

After a while, I got news that the block E area is booked and we were not able to use it for training. I quickly ran to SHS to check on the status of the netball court and hope that I can book it. I went to the SA office after getting no results from the portal and found out that the court can not be booked but there won't be anyone using it. What I can do next is just to pray that no one uses the court so that we can train there.

We went there after the movie screening for training and the amoeba game at the netball court. The amoeba game and dog and bone were the warm-up for the training. A rather monstrous training. My legs were so jellified after that. I was glad that I managed to maintain some form of consistency throughout the training.

We had our dinner and it was almost the same as the previous day. The only difference was the eggplants. As it was too spicy for me to eat, I ate the leftover lunch. The rice was hard and cold but at least it was still "swallowable".

It was the drama thing later on. Can see that the juniors put in a lot of effort to make the "drama night" possible. I had a very good laugh at their creativity and it is really destressting. I was glad that I got the chance to give out the "prizes" to each group. Since there were four groups, there were four prizes; "最佳搞笑奖", "最佳篇剧奖", "最佳武打奖", "最佳创意奖".

Debrief was held next as a large group of people were not able to appear on Saturday. Gave out the postcards I prepared and I was glad that I managed to finish writing in time.

It was then time for free and easy activities. Many of them went to bond at Macs. I went to do my jogging alone. Stopped after running one round as my knee could not take it anymore. I then went to find the people at Macs to chit chat.

After bathing, it was time to brainstorm for the programme for the next day. The timetable was a little messy as the debrief was brought forward. I forced myself to be awake thought I was feeling very sleepy.

After the things were done, I went to sleep in the stuffy girls' room. The fan was adjusted to a lower level which made the room a little stuffy. I woke up in the middle of the night after around an hour of sleep as I was shivering. My legs were so cold that I felt a little feverish just like the previous night. Went to the stage to lie down, hoping to gain back my body temperature before returning to the girls' room. I was shocked that I actually fell asleep.

I woke up before my alarm rang at 6am. I set off to collect the cake that I ordered. I really hoped to sleep a little more though.

I walked out of the school together with Haojun and Jiayi. Both of them were heading to Kranji for the YOG training. I kind of strained my knee as I walked but I pushed on. I was glad that I made it back on time to join in the PT. I walked rounds together with XX instead of jogging as my knee was really strained. It was time for breakfast after we did our sets of pull-ups.

Serene and I served the breakfast again. I took the beehoon tray again. I like the finger food as it was the seaweed chicken and fried wanton! Yummy! The seaweed chicken were gone so fast that I did not get to have second serving. So sad.

After most of the people had finished their breakfast, I took out the cake and start the birthday celebration. I felt a little unhappy that there were some people who did not join in. I am really happy with the support given by the juniors. I served the cake after the birthday babies cut the cake as usual.

We went back to the third floor to play the checkers. I was eliminated after the game started for a while. How great was that. I did not survive long even though girls were given three chances. I rocks.

It was time to break camp after the debrief time with the alumni and some notes-writing. I was happy that I got a few. I did not write any as I had already given out what I wanted to write to them the day before.

It was the committee meeting after the juniors had left. I didn't spoke much as I was scolding myself deep inside my heart. I just couldn't stop scolding myself. In any case, I was really glad that the juniors were bonded and had fun during the camp.

After clearing the rooms for lodging and packed the stuffs in the clubroom, Auntie Mui came to fetch me home. I really needed a car ride provided with the amount of things that I have to carry.

The camp is finally over and that was a load off my shoulders. Though I did not feel that I had learned a lot from this event, I would say that this experience does provided me with some knowledge.

I love WuShu~

Music Extravaganza

I did not sign up for this event as I planned to rest. Waking up early in the morning to travel to the west for YOG training can be tiring. As there were not enough ushers and there was a chance for me to be the IC, I signed up. It however turned out to be another guy that became the IC. Oh well.

The music was nice. Missed the erhu performance as I have to prepare drinks for the VIPs. Humph. I was so glad that I managed to get the people's signatures after the show. I however have to be more alert about my actions.

Being the most senior usher there, I helped to solve lots of problems. I was so happy when the IC told me that he was so lucky to have me there for the event as I somehow played a significant role.

The general manager somehow created quite a few troubles for me. I felt so annoyed that he is only concerned about his VIPs. He actually asked me to checked the VIP seats as some people sat the wrong place while it was the surge-in of the patrons. Furthermore, there was not enough ushers. I think the GM shouldn't work in this company as he does not seems to really appreciates music as well.

Workload for ushers seems to be increasing. We were told to do this and that while there is a limit to the number of ushers that they hire for each event. Great.

Thanks to Eeyin, we got to eat food from the reception after our work. So happy. It was never a thing that happened in the past during events that I worked. It seemed to be some segregation between full-time staffs and part-time staffs.

As the event ended late, girls were allowed to claim cab fare. Yes! I quickly hire a cab home as I was very tired and it was almost midnight.

SHS Graduation Nite 2010

I didn't really enjoyed the event as I was rather stressed with the upcoming wushu orientation camp and, I am alone.

Reaching the clubroom right after my exam and I was ordered to do this and that. Felt more of like used as a labour rather than helping out. There's a difference between these two. Stayed in the clubroom to type out the undone stuffs for the camp after most of the things were transferred to the NYP lounge. It was kind of good that at least someone talked to me a little while I was in the clubroom.

I wore a skirt to attend this event, kind of grand yet not that grand. The people again I would say.

It was a nice event I would say. It was totally like clubbing. I wanted to dance too, going crazy with the music to loose up a little. I spent my time sitting at the side and watched people dance. The music was kind of destressing too I would say.

The food was alrights. I like the fruit tarts the most. Yummy. I ate so much till I was so full.

I did have some photos taken. There was one that I tried to smile but yet not able to smile. I was too stressed. I was rather shocked that I felt my skin so tighted-up. My muscles tried to smile yet the tighting up of my skin seems to be pulling my smile down.

I helped to clean up the place after the event. It was rather late already. Doing what I can do, I left before everything was finished. Auntie was already getting worried and I have to wake up very early for the YOG training the next day.

Not bad that I got to have one of the leftover doorgifts. It was a nice thing though I don't really like the colour.

There were times that I thought whether I made the right choice to attend this event and not going to work, giving up the few bucks that I may earn. I chose to attend just simply with the hope that the relationship between them and me will be improved. Hmm.

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EVS Marshal Validation Exercise - Bishan Stadium

Two tiring days are finally over. I switched from the second shift to the first shift as I wanted attend the annual event at Kong Meng San Phor Khak See Monastry. I know how bad the feeling is to miss this annual event.

The venue orientation was held a day before the event and we got to famaliarise ourselves with the place. We got our uniform and accreditation pass. The feeling of getting the long awaited uniform was great!

I was posted to the last zone. Just like Chingay 2010, I have to walk all the way to the first zone to take attendance and walk all the way to the last zone to carry out my duty. Well, it's alright. Good spot I guess. I get to watch the competitions and my position was near the finishing line. Great!

Reaching there at 6.30am sharp on my first day, I was made to walk back and forth a few times due to some conflicting instructions given. A good warm-up I guess. I was brought to walk through the field of play. It was rare chance.

The organisers were a little late. It took them a very long time to open the gate that I was in-charged of. My partners and I waited for quite some time till the event starts. The first race was the 10000m Women brisk-walk. There were only three participants.

As there were not any rules and restricction, I took pictures. It was a rainy day and things were rather slack. I even had time to take a pictures with my partners. It was coincidently that there was a sign board indicating the sponsor of this validation exercise. It was actually meant for the media to take picture for the atheletes with that as the background. It was however not a very good idea to put it near the exit.

Being bored, David went to look for food. He brought back three boxes of breakfast for himself, Yulina and me. I was a little surprised as we were told that lunch was provided instead of lunch. Oh well. Budget.

During our free time, the three of us had lots of chat. Yulina is working in the LTA while David works is a manager for a company that helps people to do checks. Recently, he just got a project to check the structure of airplanes. He uses x-ray and ultrasound to do that. Cool! I never knew that this diagnostic equipments can actually be used in the aerial industry too!

After we got the instructions to step-down, we went for a debrief. Kind of disappointed that there were not chairs prepared for us. The volunteers' spirits?

I accompanied Yulina to wait for her husband to drive her before walking to the roadside to wait for Auntie's Mui car. I was so hungry and was looking forward to a warm and nice lunch at Grandma House.

I reached at six plus on the second day. I think I was the first person to reach as Anthony was sitting lonely at Zone one, waiting for the volunteers to report to him. After taking my attendance, he asked me to hang around there. I chose to proceed to my position first as I felt rather awkward. I gave an excuse that I wanted to see the sunrise.

Anyway, I reached my position and prepare the chairs before my partner arrives. Yulina will be my only partner for the day as David was not able to make it.

We get to have some time to chats. I took more photos than the first day. We however did not have time to take a picture with that sign board.

It was a sunny day. The sun was shining very brightly. It took a while for the sun to rise a little higher to allow some shade to be produced at my position. The first event of the day was 20000m Men brisk-walk. There was a water station that provide water for the atheletes during the long walk. There were only four competitors this round. The girl that won the first place on the first day came to help the guy to warm-up. How nice. Both of them were from the same country.

There was one more person that came to chat with us too. He was a photographer. It was quite nice of him though the chat was not a lot.

The race on the second day was more happening. There were more "fast-paced" races and more events as compared to the first day.

There were more Singapore competitors too. Some people who thinks so highly of themselves are really disgusting. Some atheletes hopes to be served while some people holding some passes expect me to let them pass just because they are "big". Sometimes I really do not understand why is this job that I liked so much is looked down by so many people. Myopic I would say.

Well, my shift concluded with a debrief. Took a ride home on Yulina's husband's car as they were heading towards the expressway. Really thank her a lot so that I would not have to make the 30-min walk home under the scotching sun. That 5-min ride really helped my hungry stomach.

This two-day event has allowed me to see a lot of things. Though there was "nothing much", I have gained some knowledge. One of which would be the advancement of the equipments used for the competitions. The organisation on the field of play was quite good too. Last but not least, the type of people that I interacted with has showed me some new variety.

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I was called to work last minute as there was not enough usher. It was a chaotic event I would say.

Slacked a little and chatted with colleagues that came early. It was good reaching early so that I can take my time to prepare the necessary stuffs.

Upon the opening of doors, I really wish that I can split myself into another few more ushers. The patrons gushed in and I was almost the only person guiding them. There was already a lack of ushers yet the person who was supposed to help me was slacking. As most of the patrons were elderly, I had to bring them all the way to their seats as they do not understand the seating arrangement though their seat was stated on the tickets. I was literally running about.

There were instances when I was so busy directing patrons that I merely looked at their tickets and gave directions. Out of the blue, someone said that I am "sister zhen's" grandchild. Looking up, I saw my grandmother's friend. Shocked to them there and for recognising me. The second friend of grandmother introduced me to her friend.

While guiding the patrons, I was so glad that I can use mandarin to communicate. I felt more comfortable.

One of the guest-of-honour was MP Mr Seng Han Tong. I saw a guy, grandmother's friend, kept walking around and revolve around the MP. Typical.

I got an easy posting. Guess I can't be the VIP usher or flowergirl anymore. Guess it was due to the unreasonable GM.

There was a tough patron that I met. Seeing that he is taking pictures, I went up to him to inform him of the rule set. Instead of keeping his camera, he rebutted that he was just taking pictures of his friend. What an excellent excuse. I was amazed by how I explained myself in a very nice manner and he eventually kept his camera. I really did not expect that I could do that.

The performance was alright. The movie accompanied by live orchestra was superb. It made me cried. I quickly ran to the door behind to wipe away my tears. Glad that no one saw it. Embarassing I would say.

The event ended with a fast dispersal. As everybody was rushing out right after the event, I was worried that people may fall down. Together with the hardworking ushers, we completed the routine house-checks in the quickest time and we were released.

Food were taken out from the staff office for us. BT had given us ten minutes to eat during the second half of the event. I rejected. As I was hungry, the food just came at the right moment. It was some energy boost for me to travel home.

I was glad that there were some leftovers for me to bring home so that I can share some good food.