reversehaven

Stairs...stairs.. In case of stairs use fire...
:Thursday, April 21, 2005:

Well, I din't take pics today. Basically bcoz nothing much to take.. besides, if I go around taking pictures... People might think I'm from a Chinese terror cell..

Well, while I was going around with the deliveries today, a lot of things infuriated me....

Stairs...
The saying goes... in case of stairs use fire (the other way ard la bodoh..) I just realised how useful stairs are.. The typicality of high rise buildings is that.... whenever you wanna go to the higher floors (like esp in UOB plaza 1) you have to go to a certain floor and transfer lifts. some lifts, you wanna go to a certain range of floors, you have to take different lifts at ground floors. But what's most infuriating is that the sign posting is NOT CLEAR ENUF!! well, I went to capital tower, and I wanted to go to the 16th floor.. But I looked all around, and ofund no lift to the 16th floor... damn.. Well, worst came to worst.. I went to 20th floor via one of the FOUR lifts in the front and walked down the stairs to the 16trh floor. mendoksen....(troublesome in jap) Then right there and then... I saw a lift.. I used that lift on my way down.. Then ended up, had to transfer floors and all that crap.. and I ended up in some ulu spot in capital tower, and after some effort, then I finally managed to get out.. all this trouble just to deliver a stupid mail. A pity they can't get the post to do it, because it's urgent.. damn.. ok.. whatever.. next time I should just use the stairs instead.. the lifts are a whole damn lot more troublesome..

Security..
After the infamous 9/11 incident... all corps started getting scared... and ended up putting heavier security to their buildings.. harrumph.. the security was so tight that I had to get screened 3 times through before they realised i'm delivering a harmless mail to an insignificant nobody that no terrorist would dream of bombing.. oh wat the heck. Then after that three screenings, I ended up (with much effort because of lifts again...) at the 17th floor. But wat the heck.. they told me the mail room was down on the 16th floor.. ok.. wat the heck...!! STAIRS!! NO MORE LIFTS PLEASE!!!...

----one min later... after laboriously climbing another flight of steps...---
I reached the mail room.. but what the heck... the security counter was empty. I saw this guy on the phone behind the counter.. the phone was about 4m behind the counter.. I din't know he was that 'security guard' I was looking around, feeling stupid.. mail roomm... wat the heck .... where the heck is the mail room? then as I was looking, that guy embarrassed me even more. he asked.."what are you doing here?" "er.. i'm here to deliver this mail... er... where's the mail room?" I stammered... I was acting of course.. hoping to poke some fun out of him.. then this guy put down his phone... opened the door which was another 3 m behind where he was previously.. and he brought me through. ok.. thats the mail room.. er... now where's the recep? bleh.... I charged off to the left thinking that the recep would be there, only to be called back by that guy again to the right.. wat the heck.. Then at the recep, the same painful question-"yes can I help you?" OF COURSE YOU CAN HELP ME!!! TAKE THIS DAMN MAIL AND I WANNA GET OUTTA HERE!!! BLEH!!

Man! all these stupid thing.. altho it makes these companies look posh and stuff.. but instead of guarding against terrorism.. It ends up making the company ineffective and inefficient.. Sending in ONE TINY MAIL like this takes me about half an hour to find my way aroudn that stupid building and FINALLY get outta there.. bleh.. after so much effort. when I coulda taken less than five mins to walk to the building, another five mins to get up, deliver, get down.. and five mins to go on to the next one.

swtt.... but who cares.. I'm being paid really well for it.. I'm gonna get access to my very own bank account from now on.. In fact, i'm getting my ATM card tml.. hee...

The reversehaven spoke at 9:12 PM