CIP at metro

today chinks, berge and me went for the metro-syif cip thing that we signed up for damn long ago. it was held at woodlands metro so we decided to meet at woodlands mrt first.
as usual berge was late by 15 minutes, but it was for my sake cos he had to find the nes controller thing that he wanted to give me, so his lateness was perfectly justified.
chinks was late by like 50++ minutes cos he forgot to collect his punch in card and he received much punishment from the manager of the metro store later on(more on that later)

so berge and me collected the vouchers and brought them down to our booth on the first floor in the metro store. for some reason they only provided one chair for 3 ppl and so for the next 4 1/2 hrs we took turns to sit on the chair. or rather me and berge took turns to sit on the chair lol. while chinks was still busy getting here i spent my time chiding berge for staring at the scantily clad women in the vouchers.

chinks then called asking for help cos he couldnt find his way there, and berge went to the security counter to rescue him. soon he came back in fits of laughter as he jovially described how chinks turned up in civvies instead of sch uniform and had to go into the office to get disciplined by the manager.

i then went up to the 2nd floor to the office to ask the manager where in the world the animal magnets we were supposed to give out togetehr wif the vouchers were, but on the way i met chinks who had a sheepish expression on his face closely followed by the grinning manager who was grinning in great satisfaction. she proceeded to tell me "help me scold this boy later ok? he needs to be punished." all the while flashing him that look that you only see on the face of a bonks when he sees a small cute boy.

we then started our work which was basically to sit there and wait for people to come and put money into the donation box and pass them the voucher. unfortunately it seemed like the main attraction of the donation thing was actually the free animal magnets. since the stock for the week had been given out no one gave a shit about our booth. me and berge started counting the number of times people glanced at our booth for longer than 1 second, and i think we din get into single digits. 3 people came up and asked about the magnet but when told that we din have any they said oh and left.

in the end berge felt bad and decided to donate 5 bucks to it. and guess wad? that was the grand total we collected for the day. so in 4 1/2 hrs of donation collecting we collected 5 bucks for charity which equates to 0.37 cents per man hour of work. we felt quite bad that we din do anything but then there wasnt much we could do since we're not supposed to approach people to ask for donations.

so basically we spent the 4 1/2 talking and speculating about how teo could stand going for 7 sessions of this boring thing then we remembered that he had fantastic company and wouldnt feel bored anyway and felt sincere happiness for him.

and when we went back to sign out the manager called chinks "naughty" for signing out early and coming late. lol and i lost count on the number of times she batted her eyelids at him.