What a hectic yesterday!
I got up at 11.30am, washed up, replied my emails, and rushed to Potong Pasir to collect 2 girls and their advertising equipment and sent them to Haig Road. I was the photographer at a “War against dengue campaign” at Geylang Serai community centre. The event started at 2pm and was supposed to end at 5pm. And I had a lawyer’s birthday party to attend to at Pasir Ris at 5.45pm.
So naturally, I’d assume everything would go according to the schedule the community centre helpers gave me, as a MP would be present. Well, apparently not. I soon found out that at grassroot meetings and events, the actual event would always be behind schedule to give leeway to tardy people, so everyone would be present when the MP arrives.
Well, I took some photographs of the girls for their project portfolio, took some pictures of the surroundings, and just rotted at a corner till 5.40pm, yet the MP still had not arrived! I had no choice but to inform the community centre people to help take some pictures of her when she arrived. I left.
Speeding towards Pasir Ris to fetch my business partner and heading to the terrace estate where they lawyer lived, I learnt the branded wrapping paper used to wrap our present actually costed my company a few hundred dollars! But anyway, and naturally, again, we were late. Well so I mingled around with the guests for a while and ate a bit before excusing myself politely to the lawyer, saying I got to go shoot a MP. And with a shocked look on her face before realising I was going to be armed with a camera rather than a gun, I left.
It had began to rain and the sun had set. It was around 6.50pm.
I sped back to Geylang Serai community centre, thanked the helpers for helping me take pictures of the MP, helped the 2 girls pack up, and drove them to Bedok 85 market to have dinner with some friend who recently returned from Vietnam. Then I drove back to the birthday party with the girls’ paraphernalia and stayed till about 9.45pm, after the cake-cutting. Then I drove my business partner to the MRT station and rushed back to Bedok 85 market to fetch 1 of the girls back to Potong Pasir to unload the advertising stuff. Then at last I headed home.
And by the way, I’m quite pissed at the goody bags given out at the event. Okay, as I was a photographer and they gave me a goody bag at the end of the event after I returned, I thought it wouldn’t be nice to just open it up in front of them. The goody bag was quite heavy and I thought there was good stuff in it. So I actually secretly took 2 more, to compensate my time wasted waiting for the MP. And so, from my car all the way up to my flat, I had to lug 3 goody bags and my already-heavy bag. And when I got home and opened those goody bags, I found out why they were so heavy… The weight was due to the 1.5litres bottles of water inside.
So pissed off.
