The great singapore sale has started over the weekend... singaporeans and tourists have gone crazy with their shopping... crowds are starting to flood into shopping malls and grabbing the best buys... a friend shared with me this quote that she found online.
"Shopping is a woman thing. It’s a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase."
And I totally agree with it... cos I'm a woman and also a shopaholic woman... heheh... *i bet meow meow is a shopaholic too... she likes going outside waayyyy too much!*
So this long weekend, I spent time doing a temp job, trying to earn myself some money for my upcoming korea trip.. yes again! Flyer distribution they call it... you basically hang around for 6 hours each day under the hot hot non-aircon area to give flyers to the man on the street... this is inconjunction with a local bank who is promoting their newly launched product for the kids...
It's been like 2 yrs since i did this job... especially when you have moved into the office and started doing a lot more other types of jobs, you tend to forget the sweat and hard work that goes into such jobs.. the very basic part of any event... giving out flyers...
During the course of it, we gave out balloons, flyers.. had to do sales talk to drag people into the bank for them to speak to our bankers.. be it you entice them with the sure win lucky dip or tell them that there's balloons and candy floss for their kids, you literally cheat them to go into the bank...
This job gave me the opportunity to mingle with the crowds.. be it uncles, aunties, kids, maids.. anybody... of cos, there were the bankers too...some of them nice, some of them not really... some refused to even lay a finger to help us, thinking that they are high up there, some were very humble who thanked us a whole lot for bringing in customers for them under the sweltering hot sun...
I got to know one of the bank branch manager who stood by me when I gave out flyers and dripping sweat away... the only thing that was different was that he was eating his pink candy floss while I was giving out flyers... seeing him eat his candy floss reminds me of how sometimes we forget the simple things that makes us happy...the bank manager was obviously happy eating the candy floss but yet, he was conscious of how he was perceived by the public as a grown up man eating pink candy floss...
similarly, as we passed out balloons to the children who ran up to us, I overheard this conversation:
Girl A: " Eh, let's go get a balloon leh!"
Girl B: " Siao ah, so old already still take for what?"
Does it not sound familiar? The ladies were not old.. probably in their mid twenties... but this conversation made me wonder why as we grow older, we cannot seem to enjoy the simple things that we used to enjoy when we were much younger? What has changed? Our values or society notions on us or simply because we can afford to buy more expensive things that will keep us happy?
Personally, I still enjoy candy floss and balloons... cos they have a happy notion about them and they are inexpensive... good enough for me who is always looking for cheap thrills... hehe...
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