Time on Earth

Tu Lan day

Pardon my vulgarity, wasn't a good day for me.

It wasn't work but more of the after work events. I have to go collect my course materials this evening. My course mate called me when he got there while I was still queuing in the taxi stand waiting for a cab to get to school (thinking that I can catch a ride home later with another course mate BUT it was not meant to be). He did not mentioned about the queue building up. When I got there, I saw 2 lines being formed. Seeing the shorter one, I joined the queue then I found out from my course mate that it was not the correct queue to be in. I supposed to register first (for what reasons, only the school admin would know) then re-join another queue to collect my course materials. After queuing for 30mins, my course mates decides go food court for some food and drinks. I told them not to wait for me and carry on with their plans (which also means, my free ride home is gone). By the time they got back, there were still about 30 heads in front of me and the hands on my swatch shows 8.15pm. I am here for more than 1 hour and I am still in a queue!!

While I was in the queue, I realize that there some were queue for their friends or family members, thus, cutting short their waiting time. DAMN! Why can't my course mates did that for me, not that I am expecting them to do that for me though. Just shows that, it does have a edge going for things like this in a group ;) Some were queuing without registering. There was no one going round telling students to register before collecting the materials. There were also no proper indication on what to do, where to queue. The guy at the counter, where I finally got my notes, still have the cheek to tell me that they opened for collection the whole day and it's only in the evening that the crowd builds up. Oh my god!! How dumb can you get? It's a part time course, people who goes to offices signed up for this course, they can only come after office hours! The worst part.... I only managed to collect half of what I supposed to collect because the rest were out of stock! FARK!! Why in the first place you called students to collect materials when you run out of it? The guy asked me to come back next Wednesday for the remaining materials which I refused. Everything was in a mess, only right thing was, they will courier the remaining course materials to me.

Anyway, I have sent an email to the school admin expressing my disappointment with the arrangements.

I got to meet a few persons in the mist of this eventful evening. While queuing, I saw my user who is also attending a course at the same campus. He too was stucked in the queuing process. After that I saw K, an ex-colleague whom I can really click with and...... nevermind it's history :P Chat with her for a short while as I wasn't really in the mood and she was supposed to be in class if not for a phone call. On the bus home, I saw another user and immediately after he alighted, I saw my secondary school classmate with his wife. While waiting for mrt to get home, I saw my brother on the platform. Was wondering who's next :p

It's truly an eventful evening.

posted by Hairy Crab @ 11:23 PM