another dumb day.

sometimes things can get really ironic isnt it? its one of those bad days with service at home. we'll catch up on this point.

i half-promised bernadette (my haising tuba junior) that i'll attend sectionals at 10am to guide them with this tonguing part she said the juniors really cant make it for one of their competition pieces for the genting competition next wednesday. so since they seem to need help and i havent gone down to say hello since my exams ended i also want to visit. i woke up at 9am. however i fell asleep and so woke up only at 1146. i even had to rush for mj band pract at 1pm. oh man. so didnt manage to go for hscband at all, and reached almost on the dot for the mj band pract. siGh. i keep oversleeping.

due to the fact that i overslept i only ate this cheese and ham bun i got from a bakery at tampines mart and a mug of HL milk and went for band pract that would last likely from 1pm-7pm. so in the end no energy. today cant really play loud again and im like panting more easily nowadays. somehow luckily ms sia gave us a 5 min toilet break but hongwei and i decided to go to the vending machine since the both of us were complaining to each other about hunger pangs. but really, one must eat more before a band practice. took coins from hongwei since i left my wallet in the band room. and i havent returned him the money i just realised haha. bought chocolate hello panda. didnt really help la, just those small packet kinda thing.

after band pract we were deciding where to eat then xinhui they all said they wanna go airport for dinner. at subway. i havent tasted subway before in my whole life. i find it too expensive lo. cant afford. i didnt really wanna go airport actually..the journey there..oh my god. and really, i should have stood on my stand and not go cos im regretting!

why?

1. while we were on bus no. 53 already on the expressway my dad called and told me that there's dinner at home when he told me to settle myself last night. cos dad and mum had to go to toa payoh to my uncle's place..there's this 超度 ritual going on for my granddad who had passed on. i dont really understand what it is. yea and so i could actually saved hours of time and money for dinner.
   
2. we alighted from bus no. 53 at T1 thinking that subway was there. haha sadly i think it closed down and became this joint called Upper Crust. sth like that la. and so like somehow a wasted trip there. moreover i really dont feel like eating fast food. partly cos its fattening and unhealthy, the other more important part is i dont wanna get sick! there's prom on sunday and a trip to genting next week. now with world epidemics so rife, it can get very troublesome if you have flu and the like.
   
3. then they wanted to go popeye's, its like ok lo, lets go eat. in the end the queue was super long. like reallllllllllllllllllllllllly long. the food court next to it sold expensive food that is unaffordable for me. so we changed places again.
   
4. hongwei wanted to go to this staff canteen at T2, so we took the skytrain there. i wanted to get a wonka bar those 198g type at the Candy Empire in the end no more liao and i had to get this 48g one which is more not value for money. i also wanted to get this box of lollies as christmas gifts (though stingy i may be, but its the thought that counts right =) ). then melissa was starving already and she wasnt quite interested in anything there at all, so xinhui left with her to the staff canteen first. alas. wrong direction. they went to the wrong carpark so they couldnt get to the staff canteen. they entered the carpark at starbucks there when the correct one is at the other end. coffee bean there. see, 2 coffee joints selling differentiated products do make a difference yea. so when we went to the carpark nearer to coffee bean, we see no sign of melissa or xinhui. calls were exchanged but to no avail. since xh called to tell me that they're on the lift up to the canteen, we decided to meet there. when hongwei, felix, kaiyan and i reached there, omg. the canteen was close and closing. no need to eat the cheaper canteen food le. go food court? come on. some dumpling mee for $6 odd? i rather starve. so i called xh and told her to meet us around the terminal. wtH.
5. since the prices at the food court were really unaffordable we decided to eat at marrybrown which was adjacent to it. if you dunno yet it sells things like KFC. but the amounts were really out of the world. as in. minute amounts for so high prices? goodness! and the service sucks. this guy called kenneth who was at the cashier, so called the server. things were served slowly and the kenneth has got no manners. i think the manager too. like, they are too fake la. i cant sense their service coming from the heart. what the hell. its really enough that the things there are expensive. this kenneth also couldnt remember what we ordered. as in the fries have to come late since they need to fry more, and we're short of 2 large fries and 2 regular. it came 1 and 3 respectively. then i went to the counter and told that kenneth. he came back and then still cannot get things done properly. so irritating. felix took a feedback form which was available there. and since they allowed feedback forms there, obviously they will be obliged to do something about it right? arGh. xinhui filled up the form. she ticked excellent for cleanliness and environment all that, which i dont think so cos i found oil stains on the seats. but service all that she put poor. the other comments part she said "Could have been more pleasant if the server was more alert and prompt in his service. Would appreciate if the comments are taken seriously." i think this is a good enough comment. like she didnt offend but is really that kenneth got sth wrong. guess what? just now that kenneth msged xh and told her to call him back. for what?? also like how come is not the management like write a mail or anything to xh but is the server like do things in a private manner and sms her? how come the server gets access to her number? this should be left to the management to do sth about the kenneth and not to tell him the number to call and maybe repent on himself or apologise or trying to speak up for himself! you can go see xinhui's blog and you will see why she dont wanna call back. its like, this is singapore lo. changi airport is well commended and well known all over the world for its service, cleanliness etc! like its near perfect yet we have 人渣 (dregs) like this to spoil our reputation? i really really despise such things. and i can see that the manager at marrybrown is quite incompetent. i got no evidence la, but this is what i see. i think changi airport really has to be ashamed of itself as T2 is where the major airlines, especially SIA resides in. this airport is where most of the visitors to singapore will step in first. what will become of singapore if the service at the airport is already like that, even if we have first class service in jurong? become a service hub? get rid of such people first. xh said she'll write to the straits times about this. i support her! that kenneth also posed his questions in a weird way. its like when you are standing there and obviously looking at the menu looking at what you want, i think the best thing he can do is to smile and look. or ask 'good evening, can i take your order?' he was like, 'hi.' i can just 'hello' back and ignore him. after telling him i want whatever meal, but i didnt know i get to choose the 16oz drinks, so he had to ask of cos. he was like, 'drinks?' i felt like, 'yes please, its in the meal.' but of cos i had a bit more brains and said i wanted root beer. i can see that he's around my age, or somewhere around 16 like those just finish a levels kind. marrybrown should do sth to make themselves more popular when at that hour popeye is filled and marrybrown is oh so empty.