today was my department's retreat and since there were a lot of new comers, my boss thought it would be a great idea to hire professionals for team building exercises.
Schedule for the day:
7.00 a.m - Wake up, shower, brush teeth
7.30 a.m - Meet Angeline below my block
7.35 a.m - Drive out towards destination (Prince George Park in NUS)
8.05 a.m - Arrived at
PGP a tad too early. Went to the food court for some breakfast. No
aircon... almost suffocated
8.20 a.m - Bosses joined us at our table for breakfast
8.25 a.m - Boss #1's phone rang ; it was the people we hired... they were gonna be late.
9.00a.m - Strolled down to the seminar room that we booked and settled down. Wrote my name on the sticker... (
wtf? Everyone knows my name already....I'm the loud one.)
9.05a.m till 12 p.m - I have no idea what happened
12 p.m - I start wondering what the queue's like at
IMM for Mayday concert tickets... complains to colleagues that I should have not come to team building and went to queue for good concert seats instead. *whines*
1 p.m - Played lots of games that involved making
ridiculous motions and noises... was not at all amusing.... especially having it all recorded on video. Dozed off from time to time...
5.30 p.m - Drove colleagues to nearest
MRT and then myself down to
IMM in hopes of getting Mayday concert tickets.
6 p.m - Arrived at
IMM. Happy about the free parking. Went down to level 3 to see a bunch of people waiting for Mayday to arrive. Proceeded to level 1
sistic only to find a long and twisted queue. As I was about to join the queue, I overheard a
sistic staff tell another group of girls that there is no more queueing for Mayday concert (which I then read on
Mayday's Singapore official website that they have restricted to selling about 50% of the $148 tickets today... bloody
sistic staff bluff me... she told me that by today should have sold out all tickets...knn.)
6.15 p.m - Proceeded to
sistic counter and told the people that I'm there to collect my Phantom and Jacky
Cheung tickets. The
indian staff probably thought I was lying... he kept asking "you are sure you picking up phantom tickets ah? not this may,
june whatever day tickets ah"
WTF rite...? what you mean by may,
june whatever day. I guess it's just a really stressful day for them
ba... it's not everyday they have to deal with such crowds.
6.30 p.m - Loitered around to look look see see if Mayday were arriving
6.40 p.m - Adjourned to vehicle and departed home
7.20 p.m - Reached
TPY, decided to go
tapau McDs. The char
bor was mildly... how should I put it... "slow".
7.40 p.m - Reached
carpark. Managed to park at ground level
7.45 p.m - Walked towards home. Neighbour greeted every so warm-
heartedly. Some visitor / stranger came up to me and said "I knew your dad since he was a little boy... " I was so tired I almost replied with an awkward "thank you". I tend to do things like that huh... the condom incident with my mum.. and many others.
8.30 p.m - Showered
8.50 p.m - Here I am blogging away....
My day's been boring, but still I managed to fill up quite a bit. Now I'm just gonna set my alarm to wake up in time to purchase tickets 9 a.m tomorrow.
p.s: I feel like doing something impulsive tomorrow. We'll see.
OH.... DID I MENTION THE PROFESSIONALS MADE US SING "IF WE HOLD ON TOGETHER" AS A GROUP AT THE END OF THE TEAM BUILDING THING???? AS IF I HADN'T ALREADY HAVE A BAD ENOUGH DAY............. SOMEONE SHOULD HAVE THEM ARRESTED!!!!
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