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Sunday, August 13, 2006

Spectaculars Live

Yes, live. But not so spectacular, leh?

Singapore Idol was kinda fun. There were lotsa screaming people, especially at the camps of Paul Downhill. And Nurul. The Hady people and the Mathilda people were quite loud too. And we were seated somewhere in between all those crazy fans. So my eardrums were a tad rattled after the show.

We were supposed to be put at the mosh pit initially, but 'cos Cheyenne was too small and too short and too underage, we weren't allowed to stand at the pit thingy. And we all got freaking pissed, due to some extremely dumbshit-ticket-misunderstanding and on top of that, we had to endure the extremely bad service attitude exhibited by one really inefficient idol crew member.

Well I had extra tickets for the show, so I brought my sis along, since nobody around really wanted to go that badly. And that was because I had read the clause/small print/details/whatever-you-call-em at the front, as well as at the back of the ticket. I read them twice over. And was clearly sure that it said that no kid under the age of 6 would be admitted at all. So I decided to bring Cheyenne along, who's 8 years old.

So we made our way down there with the rest of my friends. We were a bit early to wait in line and stuff, and when we were about to be admitted, under the "Un-numbered Tickets" line, nobody, not even the inefficient crew member, lets name him Loser for convenience, informed us that a little 8 year old would not be allowed to stand at the mosh pit. So everything went along fine while we waited patiently, and when we were finally let in to the mosh pit area at the stage, this fella, whom I think might be the stage manager, told us firmly that it wasn't possible and we had to go out and wait for seats to be available for us. So the lot of us obeyed lah, and went out.

Then we realised that this wasn't exactly right, because nobody, not even Loser, told us anything about that rule since the start at the queue when he tore my sister's ticket. Besides, it wasn't stated on the ticket at all! The ticket clearly and only said that kiddies under age 6 won't be allowed. Nothing else 'bout any age restrictions!

We had no choice but to wait while this lady, lets call her, urm Fake Smiler ('cos the only thing she could do was to plaster a forced smile on her face while she attended to our shit before we approached Loser) Fake Smiler took quite long to talk to some superior person in-charge, and she avoided us and our piercing gazes. When she first tried to reason with us, our questions seemed to dumbfound her. I mean, yes, we were assertive, because we needed to clarify things, but she didn't answer our questions. I was so fed up with her beating around the bush with us that I told her straight in her face in mock anger (I was actually laughing in my heart) Look, you're not answering our questions?! We want to know what can be done to ensure that we get in there. Well I tink Fake Smiler handed the issue prettay well just by smiling, but we weren't fooled by her pretended kindness okay. She was trying her best to avoid us actually.

Actually, I think we were quite scary. The lot of us. Hidayah was pissed and her facial expressions and gestures told it all. Karen was arguing intensely without any form of letting the issue slip by us. Pei Wen and Annabelle were like that too, showing their displeasure and reasoning incessantly. And I was pretending to be angry initially with Fake Smiler, but when we approached Loser, it made me really fuming mad with him man.

So seeing that Fake Smiler didn't attend to us "because she was busy with other people", we told Loser, thinking that he'd find a quicker solution. But he actually aggravated us even more. We explained to him and he did check with more superior people, but when he came back, he kinda got pissed with us too and this really made my blood boil.

He had this weird reasoning that the ticket stated that we were not confirmed seats anyway, so it made no difference that we were in that situation, waiting for seats to be available 'cos we weren't allowed in the mosh pit. He became so agitated, particularly with argumentative me, that he took the ticket and showed it to me to prove that the print stated so, asking me to take a look for myself. This got me real mad 'cos he was beginning to offend me and he wasn't getting our point, and that was that nothing stated that 8 year olds weren't allowed in the pit anyways. And I was trying to tell him that if that were so, I wouldn't have brought my sis and "demand" her entry anyway.

Things started to get a little heated up and I know I didn't wanna start a row over there, especially since there were so many people from school. And the best moment was when our voices started to soar and I told him bluntly Don't raise your voice in his face and so he backed down. After some pointless discussion, heated argument and him finally "assuring" us entry to get away from us, he went away to check again.

Then I think his superior told him to get some chairs for us to sit while waiting, and he went to take a stack for us. When he got behind us, he put down the chairs with a loud bang and started to unstack the chairs noisily. I could sense his unhappiness and I knew we didn't wanna sit anyway so I just turned around and told him It's really okay you know, thank you very much. So he trudged away unhappily. Loser.

We were finally allowed in after like a 15 minute wait and we were just told to sit on any available place! How dumb! When they went through so much trouble to get us out and argue with us, and then they just let us in to find any seats we want?! Stupid right? I thought we'd get like lousy last row seats or something, but it was quite okay in the end. I still remember, we were trying to rub it in for that Loser fella, when he ushered us in we were like thanking him profusely, appearing kind and nice after all that shit he gave us.

His attitude was like really bad. What with all the chair-banging and rude replies to us. The customer is always right, okay? But we ended up having not too bad centre seats and we didn't have to stand a the pit for almost 2 hours? And we were seated right behind some Idol alums, like Jay!

So much drama, and the show really wasn't that spectacular after all. Boo.
We went back after that, and we didn't go chasing after the idols or asking Jay for autographs/picture. And so Mum drove all of us home and that was it.