The Crappy Post

This week let's talk about crap.

Last Friday, we had some Very Important Person visit our workplace. He was visiting the our educational institute but decided to drop by our research centre for a look. Yeah, just a 10 minute browse around, nothing much yeah?

Crap.

We had to start "preparations" 2 weeks before. These were the preparations that we and the school had to do for the 10 minute visit.

• Showcase 3-4 products which we have successfully introduced into the market (fair enough)
• Write down exactly what we were going to say in front of the VIP and have it approved (crap)
• Have 2 practice runs with the head of the school's exec committee so they are sure of exactly what you're gonna say (crap).
• Boss asked for 4 more practice runs before the 2 practice runs with the head and the principal (crap)
• Our lab is next to a raised platform and has been there for the last 60 years. Somebody decided it was too dangerous and decided to put permanent railings up in two days. Seems like the VI P's safety from this one single visit is more important than the students or staff walking along it on a daily basis (crap).
• There is a dark walkway along the VI P's path which lead to our lab's backdoor. That was deemed too dark and dingy for the VIP to look at. What did they do? They sealed off the walkway with a wooden board and painted it exactly the same colour as that of its adjacent walls. They did a very good job, I must say. You wouldn't know there was a walk way there. You also wouldn't know there are 300 burning students behind the blocked walkway in the event of a major fire (Ultimate crap!).
• They immobilised the whole of our schools cleaners to clean every spot he should possibly touch on his route to our lab (crap)
• They rented , yes rented! some potted plants and strategically placed them on the path on route to our lab, cumulating into a burst of flourishing colours from 4 different kinds of flowers in a blatant display of specially arranged landscaping hiding the dull walls of my laboratory (crappy waste of taxpayer's money)
• We have pleaded and begged with management to repair our floors which had cracked terribly from the badly applied epoxy for about 3 years now. There were no action taken. Until now. All it took was news that the VIP foot would be resting on these cracked floor surfaces and the coating was hurriedly done over the weekend before he arrived (aristocratic crap).
• The whole thing was over in 10 minutes (holy crap, could have stayed longer to make all the trouble more worth it!)

Friday night, I had a lesson in physiology and chemistry. I learnt that one should not consume too much alcohol on an empty stomach in a hot and humid country. 6 glasses of wine, 2 glasses of vodka orange and 1 glass of long island iced tea emptied into an empty stomach equals stumbling home after you get out of a cab coupled with feelings of regurgitation and endless sweating. Not to mention the heavy head and half wasted day after. Crap!

To carry on with the crappy theme. Watched a real crappy movie on Sunday. Monsters vs Aliens. Forked out $13 to watch a 3D version of it as well! Crappy waste of my hard earned money. Dreamworks have lost it with this one. It was fun at first, the 3D effects, but the novelty worn off after a while. Boring storyline, I had to force myself to laugh on 3 occasions, the other times, I was just counting down the time. It was a short movie, 90 minutes, but felt like it was 3 hours. Its like a B grade animated movie. Those who haven't watched it, don't even bother buying the DVD. It is Crapola!

Other than that, it was quite a nice weekend, except it was fucking hot! Crap weather for the last few days, my air con has been working overtime.......