Saturday, January 29, 2011 Y
Zero90
Last sat and sunday,i attended a leo club's even call Heal the Earth Event.It was originally at the padang,but as they were'nt allowed a permit down there,thus the venue was relocated to marina barrage.At this area,this was the ideal area for a picnic,as there are shops selling kites to fly kites down there,a view of the kallang basin and the sea which was not far away.But the cafe's food were almost twice the price of those you can see in normal foodcourts!
However,Marina barrage was'nt a very convient place to go to,as in order to go there,i need to alight from Marina bay MRT,then take bus 400 to go there(It comes every 30mins,miss it and you need to rot for 30mins at the bus stop).
Along with Jasmine-sp,last sat was simply a briefing.A briefing can take for several hours.wow.we are then sorted into different groups.I was placed in a group which needs to control the oncoming vehicles arriving to the carpark,while jasmine-sp somehow was placed in a group that packs the goodie bags.After the briefing,as we missed the bus,we had to walk all the way back to marina bay mrt along with a number of engineering guys.And that was a 30min walk.
During 23rd Jan,i had to catch the 1st MRT departing for jurong at 6am.and that was damn early.After reaching Marina Barrage,i simply started my job.I have to stop all vehicles to check if no unaurthoised cars have entered the carpark.However,as time goes by,Lon, who was the organiser,one moment telling us the public cant park inside the organiser's area, and the another moment,say they can park anywhere.i was like wtf?it was so damn confusing.in the end,we simply cincai do and by 10am,the carpark was full.My group then went to the rooftop to slack off.However,my group members left the area,one by one untill at the end of the day, only 3 out of 12ppl stayed till 5pm.Lunch was vegetarian food,and there was vegtarian bak kwa.
At the carnival, the stalls were simply selling organic foods,fertilisers,vegetarians.Among the stalls,there is one of them doing a free health check,measuring body fat %,weight and height,some of us actually went to do it.
Just before lunchtime,jasmine-sp and her friend called amanda was free enough to slack around with us for the rest of the afternoon..
Throughout the event,i could see dozens of volunteers slacking around and i soon found out that there was simply too many manpower,having almost 500-600ppl when they only need up to 300ppl.I really wonder why Lon was so kiasu to deploy so many ppl.And the goodie bag issue,tens of thousands were packed.However,about 6000 of them was left unused. At 1st,we were told to form a human chain to try to dispose them,but when we were told that the disposal trucks wont accept garbage which was'nt packed into boxes,the human chain become messed up.In the end, the goodie bags either put back in the warehouse,distribute to public or wasted.aww.what a waste of bags and effort as it took 2hours to pack 10000+ bags...
Many of us grew fustrated about the disposal of the goodies and simply left the area,leaving only a small number of the volunteers to handle them,as disposing or distributing the remaining 6000 goodie bags will take hours to complete...By then,it was 5.15pm when i left the area.