14/8 - Monday
Monday, August 14, 2006
one week passed since I last updated again!
==
last week was a busy one, especially from thursday to sunday since the class is busy preparing and running the Haunted House at the CSS Food & Fun Fair.
a big thank you to all who visited the Haunted House! we served a total of 237 groups with about 4 persons per group and collecting over S$4000.
this is a really memorable experience for me and I believe many others as well.
==
for thursday and friday we had to wait for CMB to clear and can only start work at about 4+, where we cleared things and moved tables down. the rest of the friday is spent putting up black cloth to form the "routes".
real decoration work only started on saturday. the amount of things we accomplished within that one day is impressive since all rooms are decorated within that few hours. the final part of the day is spent on dry runs.
==
onto the actual day. for me, I am an usher 3/4 of the time, leaving wenna and mx busy with the counter work. I spent 2pm to 3pm grabbing people legs. pretty boring I would say.
ushering is no easy job. you go to the entrance and bring a group down to the entrance to the room where they will wait while their eyes get used to the darkness and for the next route master to guide them through.
the ushering allowed me to know the seniors better and also allowed me to see many groups of customers arriving.
==
the most popular would have to be the four Sec 1 NCC guys, who act macho at first but moved extremely slowly and even at once point broke the black cloth at one of the sections due to fear. real funny considering they are NCC.
I also saw a group with a small boy who left halfway through the entrance as he started crying after being scared too much. people below 7 shouldnt visit perhaps?
there is also this particular group who wanted to run away already while waiting at the entrance after seeing the route master. n00bs.
alicia, jinyee, jiahui and annanraj's group came after those four NCC guys who broke the cloth and thus had to wait 10 mins for some emergency maintanece.they screamed like mad women (actually annan didnt scream) despite the incident.
I would also like to take this oppurtunity to thank Annanraj for his patron. he came a total of eight times (S$40) to see a particular girl. 3/5 admires his dedication.
there is also one group with a very physical couple who kissed and groped like mad right at the entrance, thinking I cant see it since they cant as they havent got used to the dark yet.
to that couple, hello? it is haunted house, not some seedy underground hotel, even if there is aircon, dark and covered with cloth. okay?
this is about all the interesting people I can remember for now.
==
all we had to worry about now is competition from the henna stall, with their low cost price (paint and people only), good store location (right outside General Office) and practicallity (a nice decoration and takes no more than 10 minutes).
back when 1/3'04 did henna last time, we were the top earner and haunted house by 3/6'04 collected 3.6k. we shall see if the haunted house by 3/5'06 can beat them this time.
if they do, that means I am in the top earning class in both carnivals! w00t!
==
last week was a busy one, especially from thursday to sunday since the class is busy preparing and running the Haunted House at the CSS Food & Fun Fair.
a big thank you to all who visited the Haunted House! we served a total of 237 groups with about 4 persons per group and collecting over S$4000.
this is a really memorable experience for me and I believe many others as well.
==
for thursday and friday we had to wait for CMB to clear and can only start work at about 4+, where we cleared things and moved tables down. the rest of the friday is spent putting up black cloth to form the "routes".
real decoration work only started on saturday. the amount of things we accomplished within that one day is impressive since all rooms are decorated within that few hours. the final part of the day is spent on dry runs.
==
onto the actual day. for me, I am an usher 3/4 of the time, leaving wenna and mx busy with the counter work. I spent 2pm to 3pm grabbing people legs. pretty boring I would say.
ushering is no easy job. you go to the entrance and bring a group down to the entrance to the room where they will wait while their eyes get used to the darkness and for the next route master to guide them through.
the ushering allowed me to know the seniors better and also allowed me to see many groups of customers arriving.
==
the most popular would have to be the four Sec 1 NCC guys, who act macho at first but moved extremely slowly and even at once point broke the black cloth at one of the sections due to fear. real funny considering they are NCC.
I also saw a group with a small boy who left halfway through the entrance as he started crying after being scared too much. people below 7 shouldnt visit perhaps?
there is also this particular group who wanted to run away already while waiting at the entrance after seeing the route master. n00bs.
alicia, jinyee, jiahui and annanraj's group came after those four NCC guys who broke the cloth and thus had to wait 10 mins for some emergency maintanece.they screamed like mad women (actually annan didnt scream) despite the incident.
I would also like to take this oppurtunity to thank Annanraj for his patron. he came a total of eight times (S$40) to see a particular girl. 3/5 admires his dedication.
there is also one group with a very physical couple who kissed and groped like mad right at the entrance, thinking I cant see it since they cant as they havent got used to the dark yet.
to that couple, hello? it is haunted house, not some seedy underground hotel, even if there is aircon, dark and covered with cloth. okay?
this is about all the interesting people I can remember for now.
==
all we had to worry about now is competition from the henna stall, with their low cost price (paint and people only), good store location (right outside General Office) and practicallity (a nice decoration and takes no more than 10 minutes).
back when 1/3'04 did henna last time, we were the top earner and haunted house by 3/6'04 collected 3.6k. we shall see if the haunted house by 3/5'06 can beat them this time.
if they do, that means I am in the top earning class in both carnivals! w00t!
