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The Prime Minister visits Fernvale
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 The PM in the crowd.
Shot with my crappy T630.
His presence was definitely GREATLY appreciated by the Fernvale residents as it brought about a good handful of improvements. A week before the event, the landscape contractor for the estate started (finally) replacing dried plants with new ones, making sure that trees are pruned, dead grass patches were replaced and 'beautified' with rocky slabs, etc.
The estate cleaning contractor also got into the act. The cleaners seem to be put on a double-shift schedule - with more sweeping, washing and cleaning of the lifts and vicinity. Ha, they even painted some of the walls and pipes!
I would say most of the involved parties did a great job except maybe the organizing committee. To many of the residents (myself included), they were not organized in their way of allocating the event tickets. You see, each family was supposedly issued with 2 tickets which consisted of a lucky draw coupon, a food redemption coupon, as well as a goodie bag redemption coupon. By the second day of issue, those who went to collect their tickets were told that it has been given out. WTF! We were told to come back on the third and final night for collection at the given time (1930hrs-2130hrs).
On the last collection day, it turns out that they started giving out the tickets at around 1800hrs. Bloody hell! If I had not happened to pass by the area, I would have missed the ticket issue completely! But that's not the interesting part.
When collecting the tickets, I requested for 4 tickets - one each for Valerie, Lucas, Janet and myself. The man in charge shot me a look I didn't like and said bluntly, "Each unit only allowed 2 tickets!"
Ok, I get the rules and I can play by them, but what happened yesterday really pissed me off completely. I saw with my own eyes, families of 6-8 people holding event tickets EACH!! Fuck the bloody '2 tickets per unit' quota! How did these people get theirs then? There was angry chatter amongst the 'aunties' and 'uncles' when some of them saw the group(s) with stacks of tickets. I nearly couldn't control myself from joining in the discussion! Ha!
Anyway, after a short speech, the PM went for a short 'tour' of the event location. Walking from the stage to the open void deck beside the carpark and round back to the stage area again before bailing out. Short and sweet. All this while, he was followed by a group of at least 20 people, most of whom are probably grassroots leaders and volunteers.
Lucas and Valerie succeeded, after repeated attempts at squeezing through the crowd and body guards, to shake the hand of the PM. They were (especially Lucas) extremely pleased with that! Hee hee! How I wished I had brought my camera along! Sucks!
 Seen at Carrefour Singapore
Went to Carrefour on Friday and noticed that (ok, I'm suah ku) they are using digital price indicators nowadays leh! Interesting, but, I noticed some kids pressing hard at the displays and laughing and one of them said to the others...
"Hey, press like dat, the black water will go all over the screen one!"
Good luck on maintenance, Carrefour!
Blogger keeps 'chomping' my blog template! Shit! Luckily I have backups of it... hmm, so if you come to my blog and it looks funny, blame blogger.com!
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moe at 3/20/2006 09:29:00 AM
