The five days flew pass in a whirlwind... Had been waking up at pre-dawn hours four out of five days cuz I wanna be in the main hall.. (and I don't have any special privilege to enable me fast access).. but had the luxury to queue in air-conditioning while waiting to be busk into the main hall..( was in the main hall 80% of the time, with the exception of the fri am sessions and sat's session) I chose to be in hall 10 cuz of C3 band!) In short, it was an eventul, fruitful 5 days, awed & impacted by some of my favourite o'seas speakers - Dr Phil Pringle, Dr AR Bernard. And heard Dr Cho shared for the first time ever.. and managed to catch up with old friends - jac, ziv and amelia on the last day.. [and thanks to wl's desire to witness "NDP" in the main hall for the last day.. we managed to :) ]
the volunteers who helped out was great.. and all except one encounter with a rare species of usher that ask weird questions when j went to the ladies (which was a huge long queue and by the nature of the differences of female and male's anatomy, female will in general take a longer time to get rid of its bodily toxic compared to guys - not to mention that females have the 'luxury' of discharging something additional monthly). This middle-aged usher M decided to try his means and way to fill that empty seat (which wasn't empty) cuz J went to the ladies just a minute or so before he posed his first silly question "who is sitting here?" (He won't know who even we let him know the identity rite?") Then 15 minutes later (we were sitting at the other side of the hall which would take about 3-4 minute to move through the throngs of humans), usher M came and asked - where was that person? Why wasn't she back yet? Can you give her a call so I can speak to her and I can account my i/c?- even when I told the very dense-in-head M that she didn't have her phone with her - and do i need to spell out why females take longer time in the loo?- He insisted that we called her (she didn't have her phone, how to call??) and out of irritation - told him plain in the face - she had menses, do you expect her to be done so soon? (I was short of telling him that females don't pee standing up!). Irritated and peeved, I got his name with half the intention to complain about him.. (which I decided not to cuz it was too much of a hassle).. and he added he would come back again to check on the truth of our words - and he insisted he didn't implied that we were lying.. - And out of irritation, I beckoned that tweet to SEE for himself once J was back.. Duh... (Imagine if I was the foreign delegate, won't I be super pissed off) Gosh.. maybe I should have talked to him in my PRC accented mandarin.
Oh well, weird characters everywhere...
still it was a great 5 days! :)
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