incident at NUS co-op

i just had quite a bad experience at the NUS co-op this afternoon. we were buying textbooks and some stationary there. as my friends HY and YX didn't bring enough cash to pay for the books, i volunteered to pay for them using my NETS card.

so i proceeded on with the payment and flashed the NUS Co-op member card. everything was fine till YT who was behind me wanna buy another textbook and she wanna pay herself. i passed her the NUS co-op card at the counter and the cashier immediately went a little crazy.

" no sharing of the member card ! " she exclaimed. 

ok. some places don't allow such things so i stepped in and volunteer to pay for her and still use my card and had all under my bill.

" no. cannot. ur bill is already settled. no sharing of member card. she is a student of NUS and she can enjoy 5 % off." cashier continued to uphold her stand

" but members are entitled to 10 %" i argued.

"it wont make a difference" she uphold her stand.

i was thinking since it didn't make a difference, y not let us proceed with using the card?  YT didn't really wanna argue further and decided to make her payment. it turned out that she could have saved her 2 more bucks at least.

as her bill was processed, i passed her the nets machine so that she keyed in her PIN. 

then the cashier said, " don't pull too far"

when did nets machine become so fragile ? the distance i pulled was the most the width of a laptop. 

to conclude, the services were really bad, like shit. so what she is serving the students only... ? not a single word of thank you or sorry throughout the whole argument. she is just a cashier and not the owner. it is not as if even she would get a 5 dollars pay rise for helping the company save 2 dollars. moreover, the uniform that she was wearing made her seem like a senior staff at the store.

a thumb up for her for upholding company policies and a big zero for her lousy service.

bike quest

gloomy weather throughout the whole day almost denied me of my chance of cycling for the ninth time last night. it was also my third time hitting the road. still considering myself as a novice for this sort of activity, i was still really looking forward to it and hoping that i could improve on controlling of the bike. embarking on this trip with me were hong hui, leonard and hui ying. the cool and wet weather dampened our spirits a little at the start. 

last night trip started off at east coast park at around 930 pm. the early timing posed some problems for us eventually. in the end, we ended up cycling for up to like 8 hours which was rather physically demanding especially for me as i was not having enough rest for the past few days. beside the physical challenge, the early timing also implied that we would be facing the traffic problem. this forced us to move onto the pavement and at times they could be longer and narrower.

this time round, the route that we took were rather from the past few times which i had. this is good for me at least so that i could get to see new things. anyway, this time round we travelled to zouk, botantic garden, bukit timah, newton food centre, orchard, boat quay and then lau pa sa. 

we did photo whore a little at start. but towards in the end, i think everyone got tired and just could n't wait for it to end. we managed to get our supper at newton food centre. the food wasn't bad. i was too full and starting to feel jaded. really lazy to move my bum and moved off to our next station then. we also had our fair share of fun at boat quay when we posed with those bronze statues. at lau pa sa, we decided to take a short a nap. this really showed how tired we were already. by six, we managed to get back to ecp. by then we kinda drained out. for me, i just couldn't wait to get home to wash up and sleep.

in the end, it was really a good night out. =)