No Comex for me

After work, went down to Comex at Suntec. I had the intention of scouting for a digital camera for the office. Can you believe that the office camera actually uses a DISKETTE to save photos? Amazing.

I was hoping to check out the price for the one I have at home - Casio EXlim 5 Mega Pixels. And of course see what else there are.

My journey began from a relatively usual MRT ride to City Hall. Walked through city link and tried to pick up some clothes to no avail, and landed up at the end of the underground shopping centre where 7-11 is. A huge crowd was gathering. I didn't know what seemed to be the problem. Since I had to get out from that exit to Suntec, I just joined the crowd.

And thus became part of a large lump of homosapiens trying to inch their way out to ground level.

It was surprisingly friendly. I didn't get any pushes or shoves, but everyone guarded their place in the "queue" by closing up any gaps to disallow anyone else to cut in.

We finally saw sunlight. That's where the crowd seemed to grow even larger. I have no idea why. We'd inch a little and stop for a while. Then suddenly inch some more, and wait another while. Hmm.. odd. It was as if this human traffic jam had a traffic light up front to guide people when to move and stop.

This whole episode happened at the area outside Citibank (from the exit of City Link to the overhead bridge of Suntec City. Luckily got beautiful swimming koi in the pond to watch. Check out the "queue" to climb up the escalator ('cos it was not working).


How orderly... 

I didn't keep track of how long I was stuck there but it really felt like a long time. I half-expected to see a traffic policeman to be guiding us. When I finally got my foot up on the steps, movement was much faster.

But the new fear set in - would the overhead bridge be able to tahan all of our weight???

Mind you there was construction works for the circle line going on just right beside the bridge. They were banging and who knows, maybe drilling into the ground. I just didn't feel safe up there. Maybe that's why people moved faster too. Some more the bridge is a make-shift king, not built with concrete but metal.

THe crowd moving in the opposite direction (from Suntec to City Link) was not so lucky. They seemed to be inching like I was when waiting to go up the overhead bridge. Poor fellas. There was still a long queue to go up the bridge when I finally got to the other side.

I tried calling Bladey and Dearie but "No Network Coverage". What the hell.. I tried many times and finally got through. After that ordeal to come over, I just wanted to have dinner. Gave up on the digicam thingy. Blech. Too many people. I had no idea that Comex was THAT good. Somehow it was already 7pm. Took me an entire hour to reach there. I really must have been stuck in the queue for one VERRRRY long time.

Headed up to look for Dearie on 6h floor. I walked into a food fair by mistake, and decided that there was where dinner was. Near and not overcrowded. I moved on next door where he was sitting there at the redemption booth - doing nothing. How cool is that? You get paid to just about do nothing, oh, and watch girls in skimpy outfits strut around, selling stuff from their booths.

His colleague went for dinner so we had to wait an hour before his turn. I sat around and saw him help a few people with their lucky dip redemptions and lucky draw soupon submissions.

Soon after, Bladey and his darling made their way over too. No, his darling is not his girlfriend. It's just some freaky name calling thing they have with each other. Best part is the girl's bf doesn't seem to mind one bit. It's almost as if "darling" were a name. hahahahaha...

Well, she was waiting for her bf to knock off from the fair before they had dinner, so when Dearie's colleague got back, we went off first. Ah Chang joined us there too, where we found out that the ktv outing we had been trying to plan was not to be, 'cos Dearie had to work on the day we picked. Like I say in my shoutbox: I give up. I'll probably just go on my own.

We got back to the the redemption booth where Dearie had to pack up, and I got to see how some of the exhibitors had to chop-chop hurry-hurry pack up once all the visitors were gone. THey had 45min to pack up and leave before the lights get shut off completely. Interesting.

We were out of there by 9:30 and looked for Bladey, his darling and his darling's dear. Set off to accompany them for dinner.
[On the way met secondary school friends Gracia and Weilin, Weihong, & Wendy.]

By the time we reached the food court, Dearie, bladey, darling and her dear were busy discusing about bikes. Oh, and the whole night through Dearie was constantly trying to psycho both CHang and Bladey to get World of Warcraft (hereinafter known as WOW).

I figure his salary is all going to WOW, which requires you to pay monthly just to play it.

If he wasn't talking about bikes, it was WOW, otherwise he was looking at his beloved mobile, sms-ing away.... Funny how he doesn't even sms ME that much. He got the whole day to sms me but when I receive his replies, they're either slow, or if they're quick, they're very short.

In fact, when we were walking to his bike from the taxi stand all the way there he was chatting on his mobile.
So although technically I was with him the whole night, I felt as if I wasn't even there to him. Ah well. The perils of letting ur bf stare at too many better looking girls (selling IT stuff, no less), and having a game he wants so badly it's all he can ever think about (or talk about).

Needless to say I was pissed (actually I still am), and showed it. Bah. He says he's busy. Of course he is. Here's the newsflash: so am I.

Aiyaz. I picked the wrong day to go find him at Comex. Shouldn't even have gone down. Not like he didn't tell me that, but heck, I made the effort. I tried.
I was looking for some attention after a long week. Something/someone to lighten up my ridiculous and irritating mood swing. I looked for it on the wrong day.

Guess I'll just have to wait till next week to get a hug from him. Boohoo for me.
I hate my mood-swings. They make me see everything in a negative light.