how singaporean

You know, I've never been a difficult customer cos I feel sorry for the people we direct our anger at when something goes wrong. But yesterday's incident made me so bloody pissed off that I actually went to give the receptionist a piece of my mind, something I rarely do.

What happened was that I booked an appointment for 2pm at NK Hairworks, a salon recommended by my cousin. They called me around noon to ask if they could change my appointment to 230pm and I was fine with it. I reached Parkway Parade early cos I was afraid they'd give my seat to someone else if I was late. By 310pm, they still hadn't called me so I went to see what was happening. They told me many people are rebonding their hair so I'd have to wait for about 30-45 minutes more. I was like "Are you joking?!" I explained to them that I have to get back to school to get ready for DnD and they told me they'll call when they have a seat. At 350, I was already fuming mad cos I had to reach school by 5pm latest so I have time to dress up. In the end I cancelled my appointment cos there just wasn't time and told them exactly what I thought of them.

The service is unacceptable! They made me come down all the way from Bukit Merah to Parkway Parade which is not exactly near, waited for 2 freaking hours for NOTHING and wasted my money on taking a cab! Of course, my tirade was met with the most standard of PR responses, "We're very busy, I understand how you feel (to which I shot back "No I don't think you do")...blah blah blah."

Seriously I only needed a trim you know! Why can't they find out what customers want to do when they make appointments? And if you're busy, then SAY SO! Don't make me wander around with nothing to do, trying to keep myself busy. I could've gone home to file and paint my nails. Instead I was walking around aimlessly, checking my phone every 5 minutes to see if they called.

Anyway in the end, I was okay with not cutting my hair cos for once, my hair behaved and it looked relatively nice for Dinner and Dance, which was quite fun. Shall post photos up another time.

Implosion

The day before yesterday, I felt like my head was going to explode. I was feeling so stressed out, from choosing a TM to being captain to being Pub I/C. I just feel that I'm an incompetent impostor who's trying to be all these things.

Later in the shower, I asked myself how in the world did I get myself into such a situation. Being captain is stressful enough cos I have a lot to learn and now Pub I/C. *smacks myself on the head*

I always imagine that people have all sorts of high expectations of me and no matter how much they say they don't, the fear of letting them down is always there. Maybe one day I'll just learn not to care so much about things that aren't really important. I've constantly said that I'll do my best in everything I attempt, even if it isn't by choice. I mean, I have to do it anyway so why not give it my all?

Lately though, I'm beginning to feel that if it isn't so important, then I don't have to put in so much effort. I really wanted to slack a bit in hall this sem but looks like I can't. Rag drained out more from me than I expected and I'm just feeling tired. Need to focus more on my studies and less on hall stuff. Not to say that I'll shirk my duties, but that I won't prioritise hall any more. I've given up too much already...

got skin?

Well after a short hiatus, my blog is once again up and running. Seriously, looking for a NICE new skin is not easy. The ones that I wanted looked wrong on Firefox cos they were only tested on IE. Damn those IE elitists. Discrimination, I tell you.

I'm supposed to be studying for an Immunology test now but I keep getting distracted. It's like my attention span has suddenly been shortened to about one to two minutes. Maybe I'm still wallowing in the happiness the Rag video evoked. It was touching and the music was right. Ming Feng did a great job rushing it out and luckily, there weren't too many unglam shots of me :)

On another note, I am now the CMB Pub Co-IC - the post I swore I would never take up after last year's outstanding publicity. I got arm-twisted emotionally into doing it but thank GOD I managed to persuade Efei to join forces with me. Hopefully can get Yen too *prays hard*

Crap. I STILL haven't posted up the rag photos. Shall procrastinate until after Buaya Week. Need all my creative juices for that one.

Breaking news story:

In a daring attempt to prove her driving skills, Dina managed to persuade Shaun to let her drive his dad's Chrysler. Surprisingly he did, and even more astonishing was the fact that he seemed less jittery this time round compared to the time when she was driving his Mazda 3.

When asked the question "Do you feel stressed?", his reply was "Now I know how my parents feel when they sit beside me."

Dina, on the other hand, seemed calm and collected when navigating the vehicle through filter lanes and hazardous road conditions.

End of story.

I made myself sound good, didn't I? Haha, in reality I was quite stressed cos that car, no TANK, was humongous and I had 3 other people placing their lives in my nervous hands. Luckily, nothing happened cos...well, I'm just good :) nah, I had excellent coaching from Shaun who was probably about to pee in his pants. It felt great driving the car though, and the road conditions were actually pretty good so it wasn't too bad.

Compared to that, my weekend was rather uneventful with the second-most exciting thing being that Marcus, Melvyn, Stuart, Enru and I met up at Shaun's place for a night of mahjong and Friends. I won maybe a grand total of less than $2 for Shaun and Melvyn and certainly lost a lot more for them. But hey, I did give fair warning :)

Anyway since everyone's been bugging me for a tagboard, here it is. Knock yourselves out.

(Yes I know it's in a terrible position, but I don't know how to change it! So Arisya, if you see this, please rescue me.)

Tutoring Reese

Stupid Thing #1: Miss South Carolina's (Teen USA) answer to her question. Complete with appropriate comment from judge, brains not included. The contestant's brains I mean, not the judge's.



I guess her brain went into overdrive and short-circuited when it encountered such a "difficult" question.

Stupid Thing #2: The South Korean missionaries who went into Muslim-overrun Afghanistan.
I mean seriously, what were they thinking? Oh wait, were they even thinking? I really don't want to call them stupid cos you know, I might go to hell for this, but they were extremely silly and naive. I'm not the shrewdest person around but even I know I should keep at least 2 countries away from a war-torn nation.

Stupid Thing #3: NUS is planning to implement the option to S/U a module only after the exam results are released and ONLY to the batch matriculating in 07/08 onwards.
What the hell? How much time have we spent agonising over our decision to S/U or not? How many people have regretted S/Uing after they found out they scored an A? Fine it's never happened to me but it has happened to others I know. If the freshmen were graded on a different bell curve from us maybe it wouldn't be so bad but they're not, as far as I know. We're competing on a module-by-module basis and they'll be taking the same modules as us so it's not fair! NUS should extend this option to all seniors as well cos our CAP is so precious to us. I only hope that the S/U forum in IVLE will actually make a difference and it's not just there to show people that NUSSU are pretending to do something when in the end, they'll just say that it can't be changed. The NUSSU people are students too so I really wish they'll fight for this.


It's too bad stupid doesn't hurt.