It's Singapore's upcoming Xbox 360 games convention to showcase new and upcoming releases. I may be going on all 3 days if I have the time. haha.
Also, time for a quick update of stuff that happened to me last week.
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Unscrupulous People Asking for Donations
I was at City Hall MRT station on a weekday to sell some of my used games. As I was about to leave, I was approached by a lady who was asking me for a $10 donation for some organization to help low-income families. Since I just sold my games, I was not ready to part with my money so quickly. I was about to refuse when a man (possibly her colleague) approached me and tried to persuade me with all those nice words. Those people are probably trained to soften people up so... I gave in and donated $10.
At this point in time, the guy turned to the girl and said, "You $4, I $6" and he reached into his bag and passed me 3 super-small cards with pictures on them. The lady passed me 2 as well. I looked at them and saw that they each had a Thank You note with the label $2 printed on it.
Holy shit? $2? If they asked for $2, I would've donated it to them without hesitation out of goodwill. But the greedy *toots* only had eyes for $10??? And the guy had to balls to split the loot with the lady in front of me? That's class A entrepreneurship (or conman) skills there.
This ticked me off a lot so I am going to think twice before making any more donations in future.
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Moblization at Tanjong Gul Camp
I was mobilized on Saturday for recall manning. The phonecall came at around 1:10 pm. I had my stuff ready so I left home at around 2:30 pm. My mother gave me a ride to Tanjong Gul camp which is all the way to the west pass Boon Lay. The journey took an hour. *sigh* I arrived at around 3:30 pm and in-processed. My arrival time was tagged as M+2.
I went to the holding area which was just a block designated for us to wait around. I realized that they were releasing people by the hour. So if someone arrive at 3:01 pm, he had to wait till 4:00 pm for the briefing before they can out-process. And those who arrived at 3:59 pm would get a pleasant surprise. haha. I learn something new every time.
That's probably all the army commitments for this year. And how time flies, it's already close to November.
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