Jensen

It has been so long since my last entry. All these time I have been keeping everything to myself, so much so that I am now constipated and exploding with ideas.

And I feel obliged to blog today because of a particular incident. This was what happened...

So today we volleyball guys met up to catch (supposedly) Slumdog Millionaire at GV Vivo. I booked the tickets the day before and got some really good seats for the 8 of us. I was pretty excited about the movie because of the high ratings and all the Oscars blah blah and stuffs.

So we met and proceeded to the cinema. When we walked pass the person-tearing-the-stub, she requested to see our ICs because the movie was rated NC16. Some of us took our IC out but she was obviously too busy serving the incoming movie-goers, so we just walked away.

We entered the cinema. Sat down on the top 2 rows of seats which had such great view. Less than a minute, I haven't even settled myself down, a guy in the GV uniform came in and waved our ticket stubs at us.

Jensen.

The theatre was so noisy and we couldn't make out what he wanted so I left my seat and figured he wanted us to "get out" of the theatre. He wanted to check our ICs.

So one by one we took out our 11Bs, until it was minkai's turn, and it turned out he did not bring his 11B out. Jensen said any other forms of printed identification was possible, but he happened to have lost his wallet the day before and simply had no forms of identification to indicate that he was 16 and above. Sternly, Jensen declared "then we cannot let you in".

We tried some forms of persuasion, proposing calling his camp, convincing him that it was so obvious all of us are NSFs etc but none was accepted. Zhenwei even tried 'lending' his EZ-link to mk while Jensen wasn't looking, but he was smart enough to gather and check the ic numbers. MK suprisingly managed to memorise the NRIC, but zw recited the same nric. =/ Basically, dear Jensen accepted nothing else other than mk to magically produce some form of identification.

He then proposed that the 7 of us watch the movie, supposedly leaving mk to sit outside and wait for us or catch Ponyo on the Cliff by himself; or for the 8 of us to change to another movie, which was equally ridiculous considering all the couples in Singapore have coincidentally decided to date today, causing all the tickets for most movies to be sold out till almost midnight. (He had the cheek to tell us Valkryie had 1 seat left)

In the end, we managed to get a refund. And went for a short meal at the foodcourt, then went to Dhoby Ghaut desperately trying to find LAN shops with slots, which was not surprisingly, impossible, because there are countless other pathetic bachelors like us who decided to spend the whole Valentine's killing zombies. Basically, the outing was screwed up and a total disaster and a waste of our time and money, other than a chance for us to meetup.

So back to Jensen. I was really tempted to write about what a stubborn, inflexible, rude, fat, disgusting, a-hole attendant he was. I wanted to curse and swear at him and hope he will never get a Valentine's date in his lifetime. Because I reasoned how he could have just closed-one-eye and let us go, considering that he had nothing to lose by doing that. I wanted to blame everything on him.

But then I thought otherwise. He might be a sad, overweight, underpaid movie attendant who was just jealous at us for at least having a bunch of other singles to catch a movie with on Valentine's, but he was just doing his job. He wasn't exactly polite, but we weren't exactly the perfect customers either, considering we ignored the person-tearing-the-stub's request and even attempted to trick Jensen.

What I am thinking was that everything might have been resolved if we had tried to talk to him nicely.

If only one of us had attempted to convince him that it was Valentine's and it wasn't easy for us to book the tickets and go all the way down to meet at Vivo and catch a movie.
That it was obvious mk was older than 16 and we had no reason to lie to him. We just wanted to watch the movie and definitely get no kick in bringing a 15.99 year old mk into the cinema to spite him.
That we didn't know about the 'house rules' and mk just happened to have lost his wallet and forgotten to bring his 11B. Some sympathy?
That it wouldn't make a difference to him whether we get to watch the movie (unless he was trying to sell our much-sought after tickets to others), but it would make a BIG difference to the 8 of us if we could just spend the 2 hours watching Slumdog Millionaire.

I believe anyone human enough with a heart wouldn't mind giving in to us and let us go. Even if he still doesn't allow us to enter, it wouldn't be too late for us to call him a FREAKING STUCK-UP BASTARD. At least we would have known that we tried.

What I think is that sometimes we are so rash and impatient that we try to solve our problems with anger and a bad temper, when things might have turned out the other way round if we could just try to talk things out harmoniously... =/

Phew, it feels good to get things off my mind... And anw, I still want to catch Slumdog Millionaire. :)