A chop chop update before school starts for me. I hate school. I am dying, dying, dying! I hardly have time for my own entertainment this holiday. Damn! It is all thanks to the time spent on canvassing at oktoberfest.
Jonathan have left for egypt again. After staying in singapore for so long, he has left. That is so sad! He will be back in november. Poor anna have to take care of the kids alone again.
My dear beloved drew drew is going ns on tuesday. Sadded! I will miss him so much. For 2 weeks, there will not be anyone at home spamming music. When I am home from school, no more dota sound. No one to zhi high with. So sad! He is going soooooonnnn!!
Everyone is leaving =(
During my recess week, I am supposed to be studying. In the end, I have too many things to do.
On sunday, I went out with my family for a farewell lunch. Jonathan is leaving that evening and we had a farewell lunch. =)
Food!
On monday, I was busy doing my brochure for effective communication. I have to research for so many things and research for the backgrounds. It is just so tiring to research for suitable backgrounds.
On tuesday, I started studying. I studied chemistry and yes, finally I know how to do tutorial 1. Hello! I have 5 tutorials and I only know how to do tutorial 1. How dumb of me. This shows that my chemistry sucks! And I really study from the first page of the lecture notes all the way to the end. I am no where near one quarter of it.
On wednesday, in the morning, I went to help my sister to take care of the kids. It is children’s day celebration in their school. I met up with sister and went to send the kids to school. Then we went for breakfast. We had yakun tea from j8 and it is seriously disgusting! Feel like vomiting after drinking. After picking the kids, I went to sis’s place to wait for time to pass.
Then I went to toa payoh central to get a pair of black shoes and get my lunch. I bought lunch, came home and went to bathe. I am damn lazy! I don’t feel like going canvassing at all. At 3 plus pm, I left home and headed down to clementi to meet up with others. I am on time.
We took 154 down to somewhere and took a van into swiss club. We were TOLD that transportation is provided. Yes, it is provided. And that provided transportation is the stupid small van which brought us up to swiss club. After bringing us up, we went to change and waited for time to pass.
We had our dinner and then head for duty. There are so little people today. We are to clean the tables, help take orders, serve them beer and beverages. There are girls in german attire, also known as the beer girls. Most of them are from TP and they are there working part time. Casually, I asked one of the girl how much she is paid. She said that for her, she is paid $10/hr and for waitress is $8/hr. Hmm! Cheated!
We did not work OT. OT is until 2am and nobody told us. So we just left and headed home. The damn bloody idiotic thing is, we are to WALK from swiss club down to the main road. The whole journey is pitch dark and there isn’t any taxi which want to pick us. Another thing is, it took us about 30 minutes to figure our way down to the main road. Damn it! Luckily I am not alone.
We got to the main road and took cab home. Gidman, georgina and I shared a cab. I reach home at 12 plus am. I am damn tired! My legs are aching and so is my arm.
On thursday, we went down for canvassing. Actually all of us didn’t want to go. In the end, we still went down because we are under chian shieh’s group. If not for that, we would have stayed home and do whatever we want. We are all unwilling to go down.
Instead of reaching clementi by 4pm, I reach toa payoh interchange at 4pm. I met up with geor geor and we took train down to raffles place to meet wanjing. By the time we reach clementi, it is already 5 plus pm. Then we got some food and travel down to the place where we supposed to take the van.
We walk up to swiss club. As usual, we are a little lost. And we are damn tired after walking. Along the way, we were commenting on other people’s house. There are a couple of houses which is damn super nice! I really think we are strolling up the hill. We are damn tired after the walk.
Ok, by the time we reach there is already 6+ pm. We went for duty and start slacking. I was playing with wanjing. As usual, serving and serving. I want to try their sparkling water~~
At 11 plus pm, we left. Thanks to zi rui, we don’t have to spend 30 minutes walking down the damn dark and ulu place. Geor geor, chen yi, da melissa and I shared a cab home. Finally home!
On friday, I stayed home and study! Mugging session! Once again, nothing fruitful. Thanks to canvassing, I have been waking up at 12pm. After canvassing on wednesday, I slept at 1am and KO all the way to 12pm. This happened on thursday night too. I can’t believe it! So half of my friday is gone thanks to sleeping!
Anyways, all of us who went for the first day regretted SO MUCH. It is really a waste of our time to do such canvassing. Seriously, I rather pay the $100 to be a programmer than working this dumb oktoberfest. Let’s do some mathematics.
Without canvassing:Just by doing 3 canvassing, my $100 is covered and I still help the camp earn another $44. However, I still have to cover another 2 canvassing. Theoretically, we are cheated into doing canvassing. Isn’t it dumb?
Amount paid = $100
With canvassing:
Oktoberfest waitress pay = $8/hr
Working hours = 5pm to 11pm = 6 hours
Money earned: $8 x 6 = $48
Working for 3 days = 48 x 3 = $144
Amount due = $100 - $144 = -$44
Number of canvassing left = 2
Besides having to do FREE LABOUR, we aren’t paid for all the other transportation fee. I spend money to go for canvassing. My transportation fee, my attire and my time. Let’s do mathematics again.
Black shoes = $20.00Hmm! Besides not earning a single cent, having to do free labour, we have to spend money. We provide service and give the money. So it is not worth it. I think I am too free. I actually went to do all these calculations.
Travelling to swiss club = $0.69 + $1.60 + $0.91 = $3.20
Cabbing from main road to toa payoh = $9.00
Total = $9.00 + $3.20 + $20.00 = $32.20
Oh well! School is starting but everything is NOT done! Damn damn damn it! I still got lab report, brochure and studying yet to be done =( Can I finish by sunday?