Glamarous

Soon, it will be the night when over a hundred and fifty plus students strap on their best mask and strut their stuff to show the world they are beautiful while enjoying themselves in a pandemonium of rapture.....

Apparently, the beloved College (do you sense the sarcasm? *pretends to bat my eyelids and eyelashes in the most innocent manner possible*) will be having its Prom Night on October, during one of my hellish days of assignments...

So, are you going?

This is it. I am stating this here and now....

I am not going to the prom this year. Not even under the threat of a slow, painful death. Not even if there's anyone generous enough to pay for my prom ticket.

And The People say, "It's once in a lifetime! C'mon, it's your last year in college..."

To which I will swiftly reply by promptly and vehemently telling them that I do not have the time. I got to recuperate from the stampede of my Services Marketing assignment 2 and get ready to face the stampede of Marketing Strategy assignment 2. (Though my Assignment 1s are DEAD, I'm still going to find time to watch the Beijing 2008 Opening Ceremony later, even if it is for three hours. Benchmarking, y'know)

Then They will say, "Yeah, go there and enjoy. It's going to be fun. There'll be live band, prom king and queen, games and etc..De-stress yourself there.."

Prom Queen?? *LOL* I refuse to be one of those poor things up on stage to awaiting votes to be crowned the title of Prom Queen. I am too old for that thirty seconds of fame up on the stage with a bunch of deluded and too-enthusiastic-to-not-be-annoying attention-seekers prom queen candidates. But there again, I doubt I'd be eligible to circumvent that occurrence!!!

Those smackeroonies would counter that statement with a million POIs and a budget list as long as Swan River itself with a great big "Come and socialize..."

Since it's going to be hard to give a diplomatic reason why I'm not attending the intended-to-be-glamarous night, I've decided to simply say, "Because I don't want to go."

Unless the Prom would be as spectacular as tonight's Olympic's opening ceremony;

Unless 29,000 fireworks will be released during the event into the Kuching night sky;

Unless the College gets an Oscar-nominated film director to oversee the event, and not the Film Club or one of the college head honchos;

Unless the event is also due to see Chinese pop star Liu Huan, together with British singer Sarah Brightman, sing a specially commissioned theme song, and NOT some "live band";
Unless the price of the ticket is below MYR40.00 and mine is sponsored;

Unless somebody pays for ALL MY PROM-RELATED EXPENSES too;

PERHAPS I will reconsider my decision....

I'm not being fussy. I'm just using tonight's Beijing Olympics opening ceremony as my benchmark. Is that too much to ask for?? I don't think so. I'm merely applying what I have learned.

Customers demand more and are much less tolerant of failures. As customers, we often compare our experiences against highest expectations (Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony, in this case) and expectations are a moving target. What used to delight customers yesterday may only satisfy them today and mere satisfaction is insufficient for customer satisfaction to achieve customer loyalty since customers will be easily lured away by competitors. Delighting the customer is the key to customer loyalty. So to all those smackeroonies, if you want me to attend the Prom Night and go all out to push your Prom Night ticket which isn't an easy task as I gotta sell a promise, delight me first. See, it's so easy as I have expressed my demands. Thus your job is to fulfill it....

This is my analysis of how much time am I going to waste if I attend the prom:

• HAIR (wash, blow and etc.)= 2 hours plus
• NAILS= 2 hours
• MAKE UP= An hour and a half
• THE RIGHT OUTFIT= It takes days, weeks even...
• MISCELLANEOUS= 2 hours

See, attending the Prom is no laughing matter. It is a matter of grave significance and hard work. And I am not so self-sacrificing as to sacrifice my time and money to pull all the big guns out, the high-heels, manicures, pedicures, lip gloss, everything. Therefore, I wouldn't be a good arm candy during the prom.

But I just received a phone call saying that I got something to do with ticket sales. *exudes profanities* ..hahahahahaha.. Damn, if i knew that the College is capable of doing this to students, I should have spent my entire tenure as a student there being as low-profile as possible, revolving my entire life in the company of books and books alone. No ECA, no anything, only studies.

Interestingly, I do not know how much does the ticket cost. I will only know the answer tomorrow when I meet the smackeroonie who suggested I'd make a brilliant promoter. Eff%&^* you, man... But I bet you it's going to be priced at some over-rated price, using image differentiation (venue as the image differentiator) to position itself. But for your information, smackeroonies, that don't impress me much...... After all, I spent my childhood days at that venue. Well, like all other smackeroonies, their selling strategy for social events remain the same, which is good for me as this enables me to get my strategy all plan out. :)

No offense to all parties but I think that this whole brouhaha's not worth it. A waste of time and effort, not the mention a whole lot of tears involve in the painful squeezing during facial.

G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S yeah
G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S

We are flying first class up in the sky
We are flying first class, livin' the life
In the fast lane and i won't change
By the glamarous, ooh, the flossy, flossy

The glamarous, the glamarous, glamorous,
By the glamarous, ooh, the flossy, flossy,
The glamarous, the glamarous, glamorous,
By the glamarous, ooh, the flossy, flossy

*dances to the Glamarous song by Fergie feat. Ludacris*

Have a great time at the Prom, people!

I'm not a Fergie fan. But this does not make me a Fergie-hater either. Meanwhile KJ is dealing with her work load. At her own pace.

Update 09/08/08: The opening ceremony of the Olympics last night was exhilarating. The SCROLL and the lighting of the Olympic Torch at the end was superb.
The Plom Nite better be as good as that and I mean it. Still got plom plomoson lonching summor, got gif de flee copon for i-dono-wat, wor... so gland, so glamour-less....

And SESCO, what happened to our electricity supply just now?? A massive state-wide 3 hour black out until 9pm+ wasn't very FUN.. Anyways, I'm just thankful it wasn't last night and I'm thankful the electricity is back.....