Wednesday, April 22, 2009

today was satisfying. the smiles, the laughters from both the staff of GWC & Sentosa AND the public were all worth the hard work. it was really, heart-warming that one of the fans queueing for the ice cream queue for a 2nd time just to get an ice cream for me cause i look really tired from directing the queue. people telling you 'the ice cream looks really hard, you need help?' felt really appreciated. its nice just to answer questions like 'the ice cream really free one arh? why arh?' and 'what's this long queue for?'. and you see them queueing up twice, thrice, four times to get more ice cream. it was really exhausting, but i'll be more than happy to work like that again, where all of the gwc staff gathers at the store to scoop ice cream at the same time.

the queue was really, really long this year compared to last year. it went all the way from the side of our store, to the singtel shop, then it made a u-turn to DBS bank all the way back to harris. bringing ice cream to the tenants with deborah was damn fun, although i'm still quite puzzled over the foot reflexology thing. my first shift was to manage the queue, to direct the people where they are supposed to move forward and stop at certain point so they won't affect the business. i think i suck at it casue i always miss the que. i had quite a nice time talking to the people while directing the queue, but funny thing is the conversation never last more than 5 minutes, because it was moving so fast. everyone were surprised by how fast the queue was even it was looooooong. oh and i had fun bringing pregnant women all the way to the front to get their ice cream. ahhahahah! she must be some happy mother.

scooping the ice cream was a real work out. my ice cream scoopes weren't round. they were shapes of all sorts. at the end of the day cleaning up the store was disgusting. i think i flooded the store because the dipwell was choked. oopes. the overall process was damn fast, because there were like 20 people doing closing. 10x the speed i guess.

met up with chermaine for dinner and starbucks. we talked and it made me realise alot of stuff. the good the bad and the ugly. i just feel really lucky to be able to meet people like sarah and chermaine through working, because they make me feel different. they made me see clearly what's right, and what's wrong, and guide me along the way. and then by the time i cabbed over and met qijian, i was like a replica of a zombie. i think i just kept telling him things that didn't go through my mind. i hope i haven't say anything bad.

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