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Haha, ok, I shall update the blog now. Since Brent and Michael did the pasting stuff, and Joshua and I only spent a few minutes doing that, Brent please post sth about it :) Ok, so anyway, last week, we were busy packaging and mailing Substation monthly brochures to various people and schools. Instead of mailing, Joshua and I were supposed to manually deliever stacks of these brochures to places of the arts in the vicinity.

There were, if I'm not wrong, 8 places that we were supposed to go to, and went (in order of visitation):
1. National Library
2. YMS
3. Sculpture Square
4. TTHP
5. Arts House
6. Victoria Theatre
7. MITA Building.
8. National Museum

It was a tiring, arduous job, which took about 2 hours to complete, so basically, I shall describe the process (?) :)

Haha ok, so. Coming out of substation, Joshua and I walked along Victoria St all the way to Carlton Hotel, where I told Joshua that I would run to the library from there, while he stayed at Carlton Hotel, in a bid to save time. Instead of "saving time", I ended up wasting at least 20 minutes trying to get he brochures delivered. This was because on arrival, I went up all the way to the 5th floor, only to find the drama center locked. Little did I know that I was supposed to pass the brochures to some person in the stage door, which is in some obscure location which I did not know about. :( Anyway, at the stage door, the security guard called some person working at the drama center down to pick up the brochures, and he took 10 minutes to come down, which was stupid.

Anyway, after that, we walked on the narrow pathway across Chijmes, past the Art Museum, where we bumped into some gansterish softballers, who jokingly threatened to bash us up since we were from RI. Like... what is your problems??? We igonored them and continued walking, all the way until Catholic Welfare society, which was 54 Waterloo St. We were supposed to deliver some brochures to YMS at 55 Waterloo St, and we were frantically looking up and down the road wondering whether the building on the left or right of CWS was the right place. The thing was, YMS was across the street, staring at our face. :)

We continued our journey down Waterloo St, and easily found sculpture square. Joshua went in alone, so I'm not really sure what happened. We went all the way to the end of Waterloo St and found a Stamford Arts House, at the same address as the supposed TTPH, which, we found out, was on the 2nd floor of the eerie, deserted, crumbling old building.

After that, we were too lazy to walk all the way to Arts House, so we took 166 from the nearby Bencoolen St all the way to Funan Centre, where we walked in to Arts House, and dumped the brochures. A bit further down the road was Victoria Theatre and VCH. Unfortunately, VCH rejected our Substation brochures, as "they weren't from Sistic", which was a little depressing.

Walking tiredly along Singapore River, we plodded all the way to the MITA building, the one with the colourful windows. I almost died of shock when I caught a glimpse of the words "Hill Street Police Station" on the front of where I thought was MITA building. (bear in mind that I was leading Joshua around to places which I knew how to get to, but purely by instinct; no map :P) Luckily, MITA building WAS formely the Hill Street Police Station. Haha. Joshua exchanged his ezlink card for a visitor pass and went up to the 3rd floor to deliver brochures to Nac, and we had fun slotting brochures on the numerous pillars in the MITA lobby.

Finally, we jogged back to the Subsation area, towards our final desination, National Museum. In our haste to get there, we even used some of our OBS skills and bashed across this big grassy hill instead of taking the long, windy main road. (In a slight error, I had wanted to go there first, since it was the closest, but I forgot about it and we went off to the Library instead.) It proved to be a blessing in disguise, as the Museum was fitted with HUGE airconditioning pipes, which, as the name suggests, pipes in cool air dierectly, instead of coming through a vent. We spend a good couple of minutes cooling ourselves in front of it, before we briskwalked through the museum to the front desk.

Getting back was a small problem, and required us to get over a couple of road dividers etc, but we finally made it through and reached Substation at about 4.15. To our slight dismay, Brent and Michael had conveniently NOT finished their jobs, and Joshua and I had to finish up. After that, we walked to the Philatelic museum to post these letters, and we were done for the day.

In an effort to make up for Michael's possible absence during the holidays, we are thinking of roping in a purely volunteer member, Shao Zhongren from 3L, who has agreed to help us during holidays. However, this move has not been approved yet, so we shall wait in anxiety with every hope that this will be allowed. :)