16th May
Yay just to add on to Brent's earlier post in case it isn't too comprehensible :) But give him due credit, at least he's updating unlike ahem ahem Michael who hasn't even joined this blog. Ok, so when we reached Substation, the first thing we did was to move a marble table into the office. Strange? Yeah, apparently the table can come apart into two pieces as well. Haha.
Ok, anyway, Brent and I went off to a cute Singapore Arts Festival booth with green broomsticks on the roof (somewhere outside Raffles City), and we delivered a few stacks of Substation brochures there. After that, we went back to substation, where we saw Michael deliberating whether he should go to Orchard Road with Chris and Belle from the box office. To be honest, it was quite irritating, and frankly I think Chris and Belle were a bit irritated with Michael, since he wasted their time coming up with lame excuses not to go. Of course, a piano lesson at 4 is not much of a lame excuse, but taking into account that he can't reach home by 4 even if he leaves substation at the normal 3.15 school dismissal time, it IS quite annoying to us, since he keeps leaving early and hence "excusing" himself from doing SL.
Even after we decided that Michael should go to Orchard, Michael wasted even more time upstairs in the office begging for one of us to replace him, but we would not simply because #1 it was his job and we had other jobs upstairs, which #2 he would leave undone since he was leaving early, and #3 he was always coming up with excuses to not do work, and we were quite annoyed at that point in time. It's an accumalated thing. :S
Ok, anyway, Brent and I got to work with sorting this huge, huge pile of old documents, sorting them into various piles for letters, programme details etc. Since Joshua was leaving, he showed me how to make the calls to schools to inform them of the change of price in the Reel Revolution Seminar, and then Joshua sorted paper with Brent for a while before he went back to school for his new CCA, BB.
Calling schools was quite a hard job. In 3 hours, I only managed to call about 50 schools, up to schools beginning with G. I mostly had fun with the school's automated answering machine system, and pressing 0 or 5 or 1 for the general office was one of the fun perks in the otherwise boring job. I had a really bad time calling ACSI and ACS BR, because the office staff were just rude and irritating.
For example, when I called ACSI. I was going in my politetess-sounding voice: Hi, I'm calling from the substation and... and the ACSI general office lady would scream into the phone in this malay accent "CALLING FROM WHERE? I CANNOT HEAR YOU SAY AGAIN?" After repeating a few times, I finally got to my next line, "Last week we sent a fax to your school about the Reel Revolution Seminar, could I ask if you have received that fax?" The ACSI lady promply barked back in this caustic voice: "YOU ASK ME LIKE THAT I CAN TELL YOU HONESTLY.... I DON'T KNOW. BYE." --
The call to ACS barker was more or less the same, but I was also quite impressed with some of the general office staff in the less prominent schools such as Bowen, where the office lady patiently explained to me how the staff was busy because they had just finished the exams, and if I'm not wrong, St Nicholas, where the general office lady spent 10 or more minutes searching for the relevant staff for film-related activities.
I also learnt quite a lot about faxes through this long, arduous process. The most common question I faced was "Attention to who?" I found out that in faxes to organisations, you have to write "attention: person's name", or it will probably get thrashed. Heh, maybe that will be relevant in the future, but I guess not. Faxes are outdated. :)
After that reaching the Great G milestone, I helped Brent finish sorting the huge pile of documents, and Brent found $20. Someone from substation (forgot the name!) gave us $10 to buy something and they kept the other half, so Brent and I rewarded ourself with sickeningly sweet Milo freezy from Cheers :D
Cheers!
Ok, anyway, Brent and I went off to a cute Singapore Arts Festival booth with green broomsticks on the roof (somewhere outside Raffles City), and we delivered a few stacks of Substation brochures there. After that, we went back to substation, where we saw Michael deliberating whether he should go to Orchard Road with Chris and Belle from the box office. To be honest, it was quite irritating, and frankly I think Chris and Belle were a bit irritated with Michael, since he wasted their time coming up with lame excuses not to go. Of course, a piano lesson at 4 is not much of a lame excuse, but taking into account that he can't reach home by 4 even if he leaves substation at the normal 3.15 school dismissal time, it IS quite annoying to us, since he keeps leaving early and hence "excusing" himself from doing SL.
Even after we decided that Michael should go to Orchard, Michael wasted even more time upstairs in the office begging for one of us to replace him, but we would not simply because #1 it was his job and we had other jobs upstairs, which #2 he would leave undone since he was leaving early, and #3 he was always coming up with excuses to not do work, and we were quite annoyed at that point in time. It's an accumalated thing. :S
Ok, anyway, Brent and I got to work with sorting this huge, huge pile of old documents, sorting them into various piles for letters, programme details etc. Since Joshua was leaving, he showed me how to make the calls to schools to inform them of the change of price in the Reel Revolution Seminar, and then Joshua sorted paper with Brent for a while before he went back to school for his new CCA, BB.
Calling schools was quite a hard job. In 3 hours, I only managed to call about 50 schools, up to schools beginning with G. I mostly had fun with the school's automated answering machine system, and pressing 0 or 5 or 1 for the general office was one of the fun perks in the otherwise boring job. I had a really bad time calling ACSI and ACS BR, because the office staff were just rude and irritating.
For example, when I called ACSI. I was going in my politetess-sounding voice: Hi, I'm calling from the substation and... and the ACSI general office lady would scream into the phone in this malay accent "CALLING FROM WHERE? I CANNOT HEAR YOU SAY AGAIN?" After repeating a few times, I finally got to my next line, "Last week we sent a fax to your school about the Reel Revolution Seminar, could I ask if you have received that fax?" The ACSI lady promply barked back in this caustic voice: "YOU ASK ME LIKE THAT I CAN TELL YOU HONESTLY.... I DON'T KNOW. BYE." --
The call to ACS barker was more or less the same, but I was also quite impressed with some of the general office staff in the less prominent schools such as Bowen, where the office lady patiently explained to me how the staff was busy because they had just finished the exams, and if I'm not wrong, St Nicholas, where the general office lady spent 10 or more minutes searching for the relevant staff for film-related activities.
I also learnt quite a lot about faxes through this long, arduous process. The most common question I faced was "Attention to who?" I found out that in faxes to organisations, you have to write "attention: person's name", or it will probably get thrashed. Heh, maybe that will be relevant in the future, but I guess not. Faxes are outdated. :)
After that reaching the Great G milestone, I helped Brent finish sorting the huge pile of documents, and Brent found $20. Someone from substation (forgot the name!) gave us $10 to buy something and they kept the other half, so Brent and I rewarded ourself with sickeningly sweet Milo freezy from Cheers :D
Cheers!
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