FlaG DaY...

Flagging... that's what I did today in Orchard area. Got a call from Sheena asking me where I was and I got a shock that I am still at home at 8:00 am. We were supposed to meet at 7:15 am. Anyway quickly bathed and changed and got out of the house, took the train down to Somerset MRT.

Reached there at 10:00 am then went to collect my tins and filled in some forms. Later on headed to the walkway just next to Glutton Square. Quite ulu I must say and no flaggers were around. So it means I get most of the donations. Even then, wasn't very successful as my tin was only 1/4 full when it hit lunch time @ 2 pm. Can't blame, the people walking there are too little. Besides, halfway while flagging, 3 other flaggers took the same walkway as me, although they headed for the street across the traffic light. But still, that did a lot of filtering in addition to those coming from the MRT station itself. (There were flaggers there too).

Didn't earn a lot after lunch. But there were several interesting encounters though.

1. An ah-ma approached me and keep saying that she lost the sticker and wanted to donate to get another sticker so that they (other flaggers) would stop asking her to donate.

2. I notice that (no offence to any race) generally our darker skin citizens are more polite when it comes to rejecting people. They'll smile and make hand gestures when declining. For our fairer counterparts, most did use hand gestures to decline but there were a few outstanding one who would walk past you, turn their head to look at your tin then continue walking without stopping.

This is blardy rude lor. When people approach you, at least have the decency to REPLY or acknowledge their presence. Don't act like f**king big shot and walk past the fellow talking to you. Your parents never teach you f**king manners is it.

3. Some people would put in coins after coins after coins without stopping. Makes me wonder whether are they trying to be generous or are they just emptying their wallets of coins.

4. I observed that middle-age ladies tend to look away when they walk past you but if you ask them to donate, they would most of the time.

5. Working class people tend to use one of the following tactics to siam flaggers.

1. Using their handphones while walking past you. Flaggers, at least for me, usually do not interrupt their conversation. (Most common)
2. Pretend to slow down and make a U-turn and try to find some detour.
3. If Tactic 2 fails, they'll lower their head and try to walk past you quickly.
4. A variation of Tactic 3 is running past you quickly, giving the impression that they are in a rush and hopefully you won't stop them.
5. Keeping a distance of 100m away from you when walking past you, hoping that you would be too lazy to walk up to them and ask for donations.

Whatever the case is, flagging is done for good cause and donations should be voluntary. No point forcing people to donate. The money collected then isn't really collected because people wanted to do good, but rather they are forced to do good.

I ended the day at 5.00 pm and rushed home to shift some furniture around. Apparently my dad went to see a fengshui master and was told that the current furniture arrangement would not bring luck. So there was some massive manoeuvre of furniture around. After that, went to rest for a while before logging in to CORS to check the bidding situation.

Decided to drop IT 1001 for SSA 2215 as it cost less and are of equal interest to me. I think I'll try IT 1001 again next semester. That's about all, I guess its time to sleep. Was really exhausted today. Think its snowballed from last sunday or saturday. Sigh! Luckily tomolo rag dance practice is push to 10:30 pm.