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Thursday, August 25, 2005

Hiya.. I'm in school now. My class starts at 2 and I reached school at 11! Cos I thought there was CRS tutorial. :( Didn't go online for quite some time... As in, didn't go to the Ole website to check for updates so didn't know there wasn't CRS today. Oh well.. I could have slept in. But nvm. Let's see what i can do in the com lab now. Hee.

Wednesday (yesterday)
Yesterday was the last day of my deployment at the Merlion. *yippee-ya-ya-yippee-yippee-yay!* Hahas.. Finally... DEPLOYMENT HAS COME TO AN END!!! :D :D :D

Hahas.. As most people can tell, I hate deployement. Deployment sucks, I tell you. Heh. Ok, maybe it's not exactly THAT bad. But it's not good. Hahas. Deployment is from 9.15 am till 6.45 pm, which means that we have to clock in 8.5 hours for deployment per week. Minus-ing 1-hr lunch break, we have to work for 7.5 hours... UNPAID!!! Let me explain the different things that we do during deployment. (For those who do not understand, and I have like another 2 hours to blog anyway. Hahaha.. :P)

The following are the 4 positions available during deployment:

1. Greeter
This is the most boliao of the boliao-est job everyone and anyone can ever have. Your job scope? Stand somewhere in front of your attraction and what do you do? Yeps, you GREET. :D Surprise surpise! Hahas. Ok, basically you stand somewhere near the entrance and you say your standard greeting - "Hi good morning/afternoon! Welcome to the Merlion!" and then you try to look as cheerful as you can even though the sun is blazing overhead. And you know how fierce the sun is at Sentosa. Oh, and you try to provide directions to lost tourists. They will ask you how to get to Underwater World and stuff. Ya. Well, apparently.

Yeah.. Imagine greeting tourists for 7.5 hours. What do you learn? Customer service? Ha.

2. Ticketing
Yeps, as the title suggest, you stand at the entrance booth and scan tickets with a scanner, tear the ticket stubs and offer a "lucky gold coin" to each tourist. The script requires you to say(Yes, there's a script for us to follow. Hahas.), "Good morning/afternoon. Welcome to the Merlion. Here's a lucky coin for you. Please hold on to it till after the show. There will be a surprise for you!"

I bet you guys are itching to know what the surprise is. I mean, it's the Merlion and what kinda surprise can it give? A mini Merlion fountain for you to bring home? Hahahas. K I'll tell you. After this 5 minute Merlion projector show, you'll exit to this area with figurines of the Mercub (a.k.a. the baby Merlion) and you'll slot in the coin a.k.a. the lucky gold coin through the mouth of the Mercub and a card will come out. This card indicates whether you got the mystery gift A, B or C. Ta-daah! You pay $8 to come into the Merlion roof to take photos, watch a 5-mins show and you get a mystery gift, all included in your $8 entrance fee! Cool huh. :P Ok, enough of the surprise. Hahas. (Gosh, I'm sounding so evil. *witch's evil high-pitched cackle*)

3. Operations
This title sounds like it has an interesting job scope right? Hahas. Operations is basically a nicer word for internal greeting. You stand at the Mercub area. When the visitors exit the 5-min show and comes to the Mercub area, you say your standard greeting - "Hi good morning/good afternoon! Hope you've enjoyed your show. Now, please take out your lucky gold coin and slot it into the mouth of the Merlion." Er.. Something like that. I can't remember the exact script. Hahas. And after thta, you press the lift for them to go to the rooftop. Ta-daah! Cool huh.

In case you are wondering what the mystery gift is... Erm, I don't know either. It's supposed to be a MYSTERY gift, see? Hahas. ;P

4. Private Eye
This is the slackest job among all. You take this designated route... Can take bus. Ya.. Then you go round hunting for good shows and bad shows. What is a good show and bad show? A good show is something that's good like, the bus driver greeting people when they board and smiling. Bad show is something like, an overturned plant pot. Ya.. Something which makes the picture imperfect. Slack it may seem... You have to come up with a report at the end of the day. But the good thing is that the report has no minimum number of words required. :D

What I did was operations and ticketing. Each person supposed to rotate between 2 positions so I did not get my dream job - the slacking private eye. Hahas... But it's over! Officially over! Oh, deployment is every Wednesday for 4 weeks. But I only went twice cos I took MC for the other 2 weeks. Muahaha. *evil*

Monday
I went out with Mich after school to FEP. She wanted to buy her belt. I bought my M.A.C. lipglass in Prr cos I lost it at work I think. Not sure where I lost it but it was my baobei and I felt kinda weird without it. Hahas. Bimbo~~ Oh I also bought a pair of ethnic-y earring for 2 @ $9. Quite cheap for such nice designs. :) Mich had an impulse buy on this bangle for $5. Impulse buy but it's super nice and it's only $5. It looks like a $19.90 bangle. K make that $25.90. Hahas.
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Ah. I want my phone I want my phone I want my phone I want my phone!!!

*sobs* I don't think I'll be getting it today cos my Dad will have to get my phone from me so that he can trade in for my baobei E680i right? By right, right?

I. want. my. phone. I. want. my. phone. I. want. my. phone!!!!

I'm such a brat can? Ha.

Nah. I'm not. Really.

Sigh.


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