Some things I learnt during my reservist period for the IMF season

Officially, the IMF is over today and my reservist duty for the IMF period ends yesterday. It had been a hectic 1 and a half week or so with little rest plus me getting our new house this Monday. But hey, here's some quirky things that I've encountered

1) I've been brainwashed by TV Mobile!!!! Imagine having to sit in a bus escorting delegates with the notorious TV Mobile screening unnecessary stuff eg "Planet's Funniest Animals", "Singapore Idol", trailers of Little Man (urgh) and John Tucker Must Die, etc... Funny thing I noticed is that the foreign delegates were just simply bochap with our new bus technology...

2) Referring to above, I happened to watched an episode of a current Arts scene related program called "Front" on TV Mobile hosted by Eunice Olsen, Kumar and Debbie Wong. There was this segment on the Singapore Biennale 2006 . More specifically, the program has a puppet segment called "Arty Farty" and in that episode, Arty and Farty critised the spate of the mascots of the Singapore Biennale, "Mocmoc and Mermer"... Hmmm wonder who came up with such stupid names and stupid designs which looked like the Teletubbies hah. Anyway, here's an image of those mascots in this blog. Now look closely at the middle of Mermer... and what do you see? Heheh....

3) The notoriously long bus rides which the lengthens a short trip from their hotel to Suntec City made a female delegate from France blew her top. Apparently they were quite late for the meetings but yet the route that the bus was supposed to go is SO long that they insisted to be taken to Suntec City ASAP!!! They said that they don't want to go for sightseeing and just wanted to go there to work pronto... So planners of the IMF for SG please take note of this when doing such plannings...