What a day

It is the 2nd of Jan. Hmm this day isn't entirely good or bad. But rather it is just an ordinary day with some extraordinary experiences. Well for a start,i did token 1 on a buddy system today.Unlike the other buddy experiences which i had where i was the one who was being buddied,this time round,it was my turn to buddy someone else. To be specific,i buddied a new colleague of mine,charlene as she went about doing her token 1 trial. My duty was basically to observe her commentary and give feedback as well as prompt her in places which she may have forgotten.On the whole,her commentary was pretty good,at least by my standards. She was rather sponteneous and used her own words in quite a number of places. This is good as by doing so,she has the freedom to express herself and will not be stuck if she were to forget a particular part of the script.Like myself,i think one of her big problems was smiling as both of us are still pretty nervous so in the midst of concentrating on our scripts,we may have forgotten our smiles.Haha. Anyway,back to the day,everything went on fine until the 1.05pm polar bears feeding today.As it was a public holiday today,the turnout was really huge and the whole polar bear exhibit was jammed packed with people. Not only were all the seats taken up,there were people crowding out the area infront of the viewing panels as well as at the sides. There was literally no space for movement at all. Looking at the situation we had before us,charlene and i decided to make the announcement for all those who were infront of the viewing panels to squat and sit down so others behind could get a view of the feeding. At the same time,i managed to barricade one side of the view panel area so that no one else could come in. Unfortunately for the other side of the barricade,there was far too many people and i could not get them to move away for me to barricade that area as well so in the end,i left that area open. Despite the rowdy crowd,the commentary went on and during parts of it,charlene had to actually pause to get people in the front row who stood up because of the excitement to sit back down to avoid blocking the view of others. All throughout the time,i was also desperately trying to get a couple of people to sit down so that others could enjoy the show. After much trouble,the feeding ended and as we were making our way out,this chinese man approached us looked at our name tags and said "what are your names.....derrick and charlene....i am going to complain against the 2 of you". He went on to talk about how he had waited for 1hr for the show just to be blocked by the people who had gathered in the area of the unbarricaded viewing panels. He then went on to comment on how we could have done better crowd control and could have given out tickets so people were seated according to numbers and at the same time how we could have barricaded up the whole place. All throughout,we smiled at him and charlene went on to explain to him how we had tried several times to get the people in the front to squat down and cooperate with us. He refused to listen to our explaination and commented that we could have used "our pig brains" and to "wait for his e.mail". Well,so much for a day at work..But well,it really wasn't our fault anyway. We had already tried our best. Imagine there was 2 of us and the situation was already like that. What more if it was only one person on his own which was usually the case? After work,i went on to meet JJ,hoping to catch a movie but unfortunately the ones we wanted to watch were already sold out. So in the end,we went to play lan and halfway through,JJ wanted to leave as he had wanted to go and meet his ex-girlfriend as she was alone in the area. This was not the first time that something like that had actually happened and apparently it was the case most of the time. Even when it was me he had decided to meet up with first,if his ex-girlfriend were to ask him for company,he would relent and then choose to say goodbye to me,even when an off day for me right now is so hard to come by. I am not angry with him,just disappointed that as much as he always tells me things like me not being able to make choices resulting in problems for myself,he is facing the same problem as well,infact much more than me. Basically his problem is that on one hand,he keeps saying that he and his ex-girlfriend are through yet the next moment,he would do things like these. I guess he needs to be able to really decide what path he wants to take as well as learn how to prioritise. What i mean is,since a person has already agreed to meet someone,then follow through with it,not leave that someone halfway through to meet up with another person.It just goes to show how much value is put into certain things.Oh well,gonna spend my off day tomorrow by myself. Perhaps just slacking around.