Ok! To start off, twas my first day at work yesterday, together with Chong Boon, Lian Rui and Sheau Yun! We were all really excited upon going to the Hotel, Swiss Hotel or Rccc (Raffles City Conventional Centre) to earn some money, hehehe. However, the most “sia suay” things start to unfold; well… not in the beginning of the work for me… but it happened when I’m happily knocking off from work… you’ll know when you continue reading this post… :)
Signed into the hotel with Cb and Sy (Lian the latecomer who eventually arrived half hr later than us but was lucky enough to enter on time) and collected our uniform. Haha, it was pretty nice though :s grey in color, long sleeve with some Chinese attire-like collar… awkward but unique… followed a colleague (damn, I always forget China ppl’s name -.-) to the dining hall, and yes, the food tasted great, just because I’m famished hahaha v(-.-v) … Sheau Yun is the “best”, made friend with so many people like almost instantly…haha… but I think I made more... being an outcast…
Why am I an outcast? Lol, really… I got the job earlier than Sheau Yun and guess what… I was placed into a ballroom, different from the 3 of them… and I was like, cannot be… First day of work and this is what the Hotel did to me… But it was a good experience after all… doing things independently…
So work starts, was assigned to guard the door and arrange the chairs… then smile at the guests… then serve the food… twas buffet… but a different kind… the guests inside were having some sort of Bio meeting about the heart as they are promoting some crap thing for the heart… so the food were packaged in a box… and then slacked for an hour., cuz we had nothing to do as we wait for the buffet to end, so did the Indian Team Leader… chatting with his fellow Indians while I’m almost bored to death somehow… After which, we had to clear the whole ball room… man… it was tiring okay… 6 people clearing everything, the cups, food packages, and the tables and chairs… and then re-arranging the set-up again for the next day’s event, but yes hhaha, finally got to move my arms and legs again… so after 3/4 of the year not exercising, you know how much pain I had to go through hahaha… but I appreciated it… … … and hell begins…
After I signed out or knock out… I have to go to the Basement 2 to change and return the uniform… but I forgot to return the name tag… so took the lift up again and returned -.- and again… took the lift down… to B2 and the most bizarre thing happened… being a newbie… I’m not familiar with the place at all and I thought, yeah B2… this should be right… and all I remembered was to enter the door on the left once I come out of the lift… so I did… I opened the door and entered and the inside was like a long and narrow alley, about 1m width… I felt weird but I guess it’s the correct place… then I really felt something was wrong when suddenly, the door shut with a loud slam which freaked me out… I realized I was in the wrong place and decided to return to the lift when the door from which I entered was locked… … I was trapped… In a long and narrow alley which was really eerie… with white lights that would die out anytime soon…
I panicked… really… so I ran further down the alley when I saw another door… so I opened… the door was able to open from the outside but, not from the inside, too… so I put a brick which I found there to stop the door from closing and what I saw was stairs… which led to another entrance that had no lights… I was like, “ Am I gonna die here… …” sounded stupid but in that situation that I’m in, being helpless and what more when the fear that overwhelms you got even stronger, any normal human being would say the most ridiculous things.
All drenched with cold sweat, I ran back to the first door… forced and kicked the door to open, but they’re all futile… I called Cb and Lian… they didn’t pick up…crap and my battery left 10%... when I tried dialing again… it dropped to 9%... suayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy… then I prayed, earnestly… and u know what? This may seem unbelievable… God hears my prayers… God really does… he sent an Indian staff down and opened the door for me… I wasn’t yelling or knocking at that point of time… but that staff knew I was inside… another bizarre? No, miracle and I thank God for that. Amen. After I was ‘rescued’… yes, I rushed to the toilet and changed… my uniform stink like mad ah I tell u -.-...
Met the guys and told them my Door experiences… well, they had their nightmares, too… but I’m sure mines extraordinary, or kuku cuz its not an honor going through something so horrifying…
Still, I thank God.
As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.
-Joshua 1:5b