I admit it's been a long hiatus since I last stepped into blogger.
Busy
mah…
Since my return from Denmark, my home internet is now wireless and that's causing a bit of problem whenever I try to blog / upload pictures and the next page returns an error. Despite investigations, the problem on cookies, scripting and expired pages still remain. So now I have to blog on
Word and paste it into blogger when I'm in NUS, hoping that few seconds on uploading gets by safely.
So that explains my procrastination with blogging.
After Commencement ended last Thursday (a paradox it seems), my Korean friend Baek arrived in town to stay with me for 3 days before flying back home. So there I was busying myself with being a tour guide and tourist myself, reason being – even some of the attractions like the Sentosa Luge and Skyride were new and appealed to me. Unlike Su and Hyemi's compact 12-hour tour by car on the 12 th, the tour I took Baek on was mostly by public transport. Given 3 days, he had more than enough time to relax and enjoy, yet yearn to come back for more shopping, eating and more importantly to him, clubbing. Heh.
After his departure on the 17th, I watched
Superman Returns on the 18th, returned to work in UCC on the evening of the 19 th, played tennis with Lewis (a good sparring partner who had to return to the States unfortunately) on the 20th (and attended an FOH meeting thereafter), and worked again on the night of 21st at the Indoor Stadium this time for the
ZPOP Charity Concert. And that's what I figured was worth mentioning next.
Before knowing that there were 4 major artistes singing for the ZPOP concert, I only knew of Jolin Tsai, just the name. Seeing her for the first time live on stage, I must admit her looks (and dance moves) were all that impressed me. Neither her squeaky pop-sy voice and bimbotic appearance wowed me over. At one point, she walked over to one section facing the centre-stage, and said (in Chinese) something like, "I like my Singaporean fans because they will
stand when I sing", to which the (slightly more elderly) crowd seemed to be oblivious to. And her screaming fans were on the adjacent section trying desperately to get her attention.
I also thought Fish Leong was a guy until my friend told me "he" was a "her". Oops.
No wonder Daphne made a smart tactical move of assigning me as East ticket collector as opposed of an insider. Thanks to that position, I met a couple of friends at the doors, including Eva, who commented why she saw me ushering everywhere in Singapore, and Diana (Sports Camp 05). More importantly, I saw Priscilla Chan, looking just as good on TV as she does in person.
But here comes the crux of this entry.
I was quite stunned and saddened by the fact that towards the end of the performance, when the President of the Republic of Singapore was giving away plaques to the top few contributing donors to the 29 charities, the audience started taking their leave, thinking that's the end.
FOR GOODNESS SAKE, can you not show a little respect to the PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE! Wait until he finishes the presentation and photo-taking on stage before you start making your hasty exit! I'm no patriot, but I do know basic courtesy. Do you?
There was also this other guy with his 2 daughters looking no older than 10 years old entering my East entrance. They arrived pretty early, and instead of walking one big round to queue up from the start of the metal barricades, they climbed over the shorter plastic chains towards the door. Before I went forward in an attempt to stop them, I heard the father telling his kids loudly in Chinese cum
Singlish, "why you want to walk one big round when there's nobody in the queue? Our Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong wants us to think out of the box and not be so " stone", you must learn
lah!"
Upon hearing that, I purposely forgot what I had to do, and asked for their tickets, to which the father told his daughters (again in Chinese), "come give your tickets to uncle".
UNCLE.
Even his kids were giggling at the sound of that.
*Big sigh*