Singaporeans way of saying no...

to leaflets...

Spent the whole of last weekend working... got a new temp position for the weekends.. gonna piang like mad cos I wouldn't be able to go for the US trip if I can't earn enough money and I would get whacked big time by Cubix....

so thanks to shirlyn, i found this temp job which pays relatively well for a weekend job... this temp job is actually for an exhibition that is happening and we will be giving out balloons and leaflets to people to create awareness of the exhibition... great exposure for me as we got to know the event organisers and thanks to shirlyn again, i managed to know of some position opening in the event company.

We spent the two whole days giving leaflets to the public by the escalators.... Being bored, I started to take note of the way Singaporeans say no to leaflets...

Imagine this: leaflet is at my waist level...

Singaporeans would say no to leaflets in the following manner:

1. Say "no" to your face
2. Shake their hands in your face to say no
3. Say "thank you, I have it" to the person in front of them
4. Move their index and middle finger paraell to the escalator to indicate no
5. Smile embarrassingly and then look at the floor(for what reason I dunno)
6. Reach out their hand to take the leaflet but change their mind and quickly take their hand back
7. Parents would get their kids to say no
8. Parents would say to their kids to be environmentally friendly and ask them not to take it
9. Take it and then conveniently drop it on the floor space next to you.
10. Walk past you without even a smile and as if you were not there(some would purposely knock into you)

Well, Tingyi, my new colleague tells me mostly Indians would take the leaflets but I guess not in my case. Mine mostly old aunties and uncles took them and some of them wanted more from me. I wondered if they collected these leaflets and then sell them to the karang guni(rag & bone man) and prob get ten cents more because each day there were so many leaflets to be given out...

Speaking of the number of leaflets given out, Shirlyn and I felt that leaflets are the traditional method of creating awareness but also the most ineffective one as people would just throw it in the next bin they see. But what the event organizer said was also true, some of the more traditional organisations had their image to uphold and they couldnt do anything fanciful even if they wanted to.

I wandered, if we want to be environmentally friendly, do we not take the leaflets and it would eventually end up as a signal to the organisers that leaflets do not reach the crowd as there's a whole lot left or do we take them since they have already been printed and we, as consumers, throw them in a recycle bin by ourselves?

Anyway, I took some pics of Shirlyn and me... shall put them up soon... also of the ones which i took at heartstrings walk...