It’s finally over! After 8 days and 21 sessions later, after dealing with orcs, undead and night elves, after eating almost the same reception food over and over again.. we are finally done with commencment 2005.. Stood until my entire legs were numb, especially my left thigh where i’m very prone to nerve-pinching…shoulders ache… headache.. this is really one of the ultimate test of being a UCC usher, and i’m glad that i went thru this period smoothly most of the time. Actually now that it has ended, i’m starting to miss it.. no more packing guests, no more telling guests to rise b4 the academic procession…no more cheering for graduating seniors…no more telling guests to shut the fuck up n sit down to let the graduands leave 1st.. no more bursting of countless numbers of balloons.. no more squeezing in pantry with 20 over ppl..less chance to see chuhua going crazy..less chance to see kimberly high on panadol extra..less chance to see anu and yifang performing incredible eating feats…

I woud never forget some of the patrons whom i’ve met in the past 8 days…who can ever forget the lady in pinkish red..she was sitting in back stalls and requested to shift to row X/Z which are closed off.. me deciding to be nice to her decided to bring her to a single seat in row 4..tot that’s end of case.. no lor, she brought her husband from behind to a single seat in front of her.. just nice there got seat.. n 2 of them…very funny…hubby started by sitting @ edge of his seat holding camera high up…wife behind had to take video, sitting EVEN further out, holding videocam EVEN higher… halfway thru the ceremony, she went outside n tried to admit her daughter in who doesnt even have an invitation or the yellow pass.. her reason being that there is so many seats left.. and her daughter took cab for 25 bucks to come nus for this..we discussed wanna let them in or not..decided not to as she has been causing problems [See, u want some extra perks @ performance venues, ask nicely and u may get them..behave like asshole, u get shit] So she started to talk loudly in venue and complained complained…until we had to get her out… n she let her daughter in for her seat…

This family of 6 came with only 5 invites and a 5 yr old kid..by rite we should not have admitted them, no invite and underaged.. but they were nice enuff to talk to us properly, and said if really no choice then it’s ok..half of them can go in..the other half can go viewing gallery…but we still decided to let them in eventually cos they were nice customers…an angmoh guy wanted to reserve 2 seats, by rite is cannot..i still let him, but told him that i would allow him to hold for 10 mins only due to large crowd and hoped that he would understand.. no he didn’t get pissed or anything, he replied cheerfully,“absolutely, i understand the rule…thanks for accomodating me” Anyway his guests didn’t arrive after 10 mins but i didnt bother him, and eventually they came after 20 mins… another satisfied patron, another happy usher…

some guests are also plain weird, this granny came with her 2 grand-daugters aged ard 7-8 i think n wanted to reserve 5 more seats…then she wanted to go out to look for the remainder of her family, so she left 1 gal @ the 1st seat, and the other gal @ the 8th seat…

This old man wanted to sit on 2nd row, he was walking very very slowly..took me 3 mins to walk him that 20 metres..sat down within 5 mins say wanna go toilet… repeated the walk…after which he was damn shagged and we let him sit our wheelchair n view the ceremony from the gallery..

To all ucc ushers who have been camera trigger-happy..pls send me all the links to the fotos that u ppl took!