Another day has passed. This week is CommunicAsia week, and as with every year, it's alot of trips to the expo, booth duty and checking out the handphone babes instead of the competition. Well, it was a tiring day for me as I had to stand on duty. Imagine that. Being in the business for so long and being responsible for several countries in the region, I find myself still ending up with booth duty. Well, it's kinda helping out the folks and I kinda volunteered so I can't really complain.
Anyway, this year's event was abit slower than the past. I guess it's mainly due to the slowdown in telecommunications business in the region. This year, we did not have that many booth girls running around. Guess, it's a corporate image thing. We did find ourselves ending up in front of another which opted for the visual effect. That is, skimply dressed girls showcasing a whole range of the latest mp3, digicam, video, online GPRS/3G, what-have-yous phones. I can't say I'm complaining. It beats staring at the usual monotaneous crowd. As always, I find that it's easy to succumb to lust when looking at these girls. I can't deny that I'm not much of a saint so these visual aesthetics delight me.
After the day event, we had a customer networking event at velvet underground. I think I made the mistake of not changing and went with what I wore for booth duty. Not I sorta stuck out like a sore thumb there. The geeky look with the uninteresting, unimportant profile. Needless to say, no one gave two hoots about making idle chatter with me. It wasn't until I got semi- (now this is an interesting word which I thinks sounds so different when we pronounce it, it could be sem-mi or sem-mai, with the later sounding so much more atas. Haa… ok meaningless sidetrack) now where was I, oh yeah, semi-snubbed by some ladies at the party. Now, I think I have quite an ego and when I get snubbed I get upset. Not visibly but still upset. Some of these people probably are below me in designation and some probably don't even earn half as much but just cause I don't look important they think I'm not. I hate it when this happens.
I've always thought of how to make them realise who I am. I know this sounds lame but hey, that's ego playing with you. Should I say loudly, "hey, I should ask my guys to buck up in their sales, these ppl don't know how to work" or should I rub shoulders with the important people and thus they'll realise I am important by association. Oh wells, I never did end up doing any of that and will probably not do it in the future anyway. These thoughts tend to be a flash and I am also too lazy to bother sometimes. Contradicting sometimes. Hey, the human being is probably the only creature on earth to always contradict themselves.
Ok, it's late and I have booth duty again tomorrow. Better stop here and let's hope I've more interesting things to talk about tomorrow. Good night Singapore.
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