Clean & Green 2007!
volunteered to be tour guides for this event.
ok, not really volunteer...because we are paid $6 per hour, and it's good lobang.
i remembered got one time beesim told us all the SGLs about this event, and once she said that we will be paid, so many of us (almost all) raised up our hands and wanted to join.
yes, it's for the money.
anyway, as tour guides, we were supposed to bring the singaporean 'tourists' a tour around the event ground. job scope is seriously simple, but then, the handling of the people is just mentally draining.
3rd Nov (Saturday)
managed to bring only 1 group around the event. the group had a mix of people of different age groups, from children to parents to aunties & uncles. and handling this sort of group is seriously NOT easy at all. why do i say so? it's just so god damn hard to satisfy every single one of them. the children will want to play games, parents would want to bring their children play games, aunties aren't interested in playing and are only coming for the sake of the goodie bags (typical singaporean) and for the uncles, they are just not bothered about anything. anyway, at the beginning, there was a really long drag of time, because apparently, my group actually came together with donald's group. my group arrived first, but then the other took damn long to come. and the IC of the group wanted to wait for the 2nd group to arrive before setting out, which was seriously a waste of time.
so while waiting, there was this mother in my group whom i find seriously dumb. she saw a millipede on the grass and she told her kids that it was a centipede and it was poisonous. and when that 'centipede' came closer to them, her reaction was so retarded. as if the millipede gives a damn about her and wants to bite her. and of course her kids made a hell lot of noise. and not to forget, when she saw a little bug coming towards their direction, she exclaimed to her kids, ' don't go close it, it's a cockroach. later it bite.' and again, the kids made a lot of noise. fucking retarded mum.
ok, back to the tour guide thing, as i was bringing the group for the tour, i had to try very hard to make everyone happy. when i didn't let the kids get the chance to play (because of the lack of time, because of the stupid IC), the parents came up to me saying that i should let them play. and the same mother came up to me and tell me that she want to go free on her own with her kids and play the games...and win the prize. and i kept trying to explain to her that she had to stay with the group and that there would be a chance for them to play. so fustrating! not matter how hard she tried to argue with me, i had to stay firm and she had no choice but to follow. not to forget, the aunties!!! loads of aunties didn't want to play the games, then they also rush me to faster walk through the games area as they weren't interesting. but what about the kids? and they kept telling me that they needed to use the toilets and i had to keep telling them to hold on and wait for the tour to be over then bring them to toilet.
seriously man, i was so relieved after the group boarded their bus and left. had a super long break after that, i was supposed to have another group coming. but they didn't come, so that was something good!
after the entire thing, jeremiah, abe, davin, nikki and me went to swensens for ice cream. steph joined us for ice cream too. i had my frosted chocolate malt...i think it's really not bad. but kinda too sweet and it gets abit sicky after eating for long. rahh! so fast spent $7 plus!
4th Nov (Sunday)
2nd day of the event. supposed to wake up at 6am, because reporting time was at 8am. in the end, i woke up at 645am. all thanks to my biological clock! i forgot to set my alarm and when i opened my eyes and saw the window...it was like so bright already. i literally jumped out of my bed, prepared and rushed off to bishan park.
today was much better. managed to handle 2 groups, both are aunties+uncles.
and after today, i've realised that there are 2 types of aunties, CUTE & UNCUTE!
the 1st group was uncute. denyse and i were handling 2 groups that came together. stupid IC told them that there was free milo and everyone from denyse's group went off for their free milo and never come back. and for mine, alot went toilet. and once again, dragging of time just to wait for them to come back. in the end, we had no choice but to start the tour because apparently, some of them went away and view all the exhibits. stupid move that the IC made...to tell them that got free milo. and the aunties all don't listen to instructions. i don't know why, maybe it's because they think that they shouldn't be listening to people who are younger than them. and they try to agrue with you just to get things their way. that's why i call them uncute.
the 2nd group was much better at first. they are more cute than the 1st. i was so pleased that i got a group that did listen to me...initially. until the part when i tell them to go explore around the games area only and come back 15 minutes later. some of them went to other areas...about half of them. and i had to go search for them and try to find the IC. in the end, i went back, starting to get abit worried, but luckily, a few people were there. but at least the 2nd group listen abit more and they did thank me for bringing them around.
all of us were dismissed at about 320pm, and weisan, huixian, jeremiah, nikki, abe. davin, mingcheng and me went to watch movie.
Superbad. really lame show lah. seriously, not worth spending your $8 on this show.
it's kinda funny and also very crude and sexual. but $8 is just too much to spend on this kind of movie.
had dinner with beesim, and soon, headed home.
lesson learnt from this event: you can NEVER satisfy everyone.
but anyway, it's good that the event is over. at least i can rest more and also enjoy the money that i've earned. it's not alot, but still, it's better than nothing.
