YJ and I decided to report to work at 9am today because we wanted to clock in more OT hours.

All we did the whole morning was more arrival calling. We were quite free because there weren’t much to call so we surfed the net :P

Ehui asked us to report at 2pm because there was going to be a roll-call for Singapore Evening but Nancy didn’t let us go. She had already planned to give Patrick, YJ and I training in the afternoon.

The training started at around 2pm where Lily taught us how to key in reservations, change and cancellation from the GDS booking system. This meant that we had to use more of Opera.

We ended at around 4.30pm but Angeline still asked us to check emails and go downstairs to print reports. Thank goodness there wasn’t anyone at level 1 so Nancy said we could go off first.

We bumped into Ehui outside China Hall and everyone was super busy. There were so many Singaporean’s there!!

We were tasked to be drink servers again and were assigned to different areas in the hall.

Before the event, there was registration and a cocktail reception. We hanged around the foyer and met so many Singaporeans. A lot of the ushers were exchange students and we started chatting with them. I swear the world is so small; one of the usher’s is Jun Wei’s friend.

We also saw quite a few famous Singaporeans. Tay Ping Hui and Dong Su Hua were the emcees of the day and the GOH was Mr. Goh Cheok Tong.

Sun Ho was also performing but almost every Singaporean that we met wasn’t interested in her. Hahahaha.

Soon enough Mr. Goh arrived (with so many body guards surrounding him) and so many reporters were interviewing him outside the Bridal Room so the whole area was sort of blocked. YJ and I wanted to walk past to get to the cocktail reception so we just cut across and we stepped into the body guards’ boundary and so many people were staring at us.

The bell rang to indicate that it was time to go inside the ballroom to be seated and everyone started making their way inside slowly. Goh (our manager) asked YJ and I to stand outside the main door (a.k.a hostesses) while the other 2 actual hostesses stood inside the ballroom. We were supposed to stand there until Mr. Goh went into the ball room. And yes, both he and his wife walked past us!

The gala dinner started and somehow the area I was assigned to already had many drink servers so I didn’t have to pour a lot of drinks. The wine bottles were easier to pour as compared to Opera Night though.

In between courses there were performances. The dances were really great and the drum performance was super cool. There was also a fashion show where all the clothes were designed by this famous Singaporean designer, Ashley Isham. Iskandar Ismal was also playing the keyboard throughout the whole fashion show.

We took a lot of photos but they are all still in YH’s camera! The event ended off with Sun Ho singing 2 songs.

After the whole event, there was a lot of photo taking going on. At first, we didn’t dare to take photos with all the people because we were still working and we were in our uniform. All the BQT staff was already clearing the tables and we didn’t help at all.

In the end, we took photos with Tay Ping Hui, Dong Su Hua, Iskandar Ismal, the organizer of this whole event, the florist guy and a few more people. Haha.

We then went to the bar area to look for Ehui and found a lot of water chestnut drinks and yeo’s soyabean. We took a few cans to drink and started chatting with the Singaporean ushers.

They brought us to the bridal room to take goodie bags! In return, we gave them a lot of cans of water chestnut drink.

Since we had no business there already, we walked to the backstage to find Ehui to tell him we were going off first. Instead, we found Goh and he asked us over to take more cans of drinks home!

Kelvin also asked YJ and I to deliver 6 bottles of wine to in-room dining before we left.

Overall, the whole event was super grand and we felt so at home with so many Singaporeans around us (:

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YJ and I then walked home with 9 cans of water chestnut drink and 2 bottles of Yeo’s Soya Bean drink.

Thank goodness we’re not working tomorrow and we clocked in 5 hours of OT today! :D

Ehui asked us back on Sunday at 7am because there’s another event (: More OT means more off days we can get next time on weekdays!

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