WaYang @ Branch office

this was taken out of the previous blog to make it more readable. Yes, the most wayang thing I've come acrossed in the week hee

There I leisurely joined a queue at the information centre that was formed by mostly young couples. Seems like 2007 is a good year to settle down? (heard that the most popular date is 7th July 2007 which translate to 070707 wonder how many red bombs u will recieve on this day? haha) After about 3mins, it was my turn to ask the staff what am I suppose to do if i need to sort the loan information out. She promptly referred me to the HDB Branch Office. Good thing they are just located across the pedestrian walkway, if not I may not wanna go ha ha

Again, I leisurely walked over the the branch office and joined the first queue that I saw, got about 6-7 persons in the queue leh, dun want to be spending the entire sat morning sorting it out. Then I realised that I could be in the WRonG queue! ha ha ha. I kept turning my head round and round trying to read whatever signages there were. They kinda confirmed that I was in the wrong queue, since it says "Car Park Payment". I dun think my "issue" was anything remotely related to car park services unless they are referring to the size of our flat is like a small car park lot (which I totally agree) ha ha ha

So I went to another counter in the front that says "CPF" and enquired about the possibilities of increasing the loan amount to be deducted monthly from our accounts. The gentlemen was fast to respond and he punched in our numbers into the system and WaLa the figures were all displayed! Instant!

But he'll need Ad's NRIC to process the loan thing, in addition, i'll have to pay up the difference first before we can proceed with the application. So I had to re-join the earlier queue to pay up first while waiting for Ad to finish his banking matters. MAN the queue has grown to double its size!

Okay, am still quite relaxed about it, just do it first...

After about 10-15mins I'm done. Ad got here quite swiftly after I'm done, I gave him the stack of receipts and notes and he was the 3rd in line at the "CPF" counter. He was there for quite some time, at least 20mins. There was no one behind him for a long time too, so he figured, he could take a seat next to me while keeping an eye at the door for anyone to come in. ha ha

Suddenly, a group came in all wanting to join Ad's queue, he had no choice but to spring up from the comfortable seat and stand in line ha ha

One very frustrated lady walked out of the doorway to make a call to her mum and she was furiously exchanging words with her mother in the lift lobby which was really very close to the branch office. With the echos, we can all hear very clearly the contents of her conversation. It lasted for quite a while.

Then an angry Indian man stormed into the branch office with his hand on his mobile next to his ears yelling:"Where are you now, Where the hell are you now? I am standing In the office." I presume he was on the phone with his wife who was on the other side of the branch office behind a cubicle with one of the officers. All eyes in the room was turned towards his direction. We were all curious to hear what made this man so angry on a sat morning.

He kept yelling at the top of his voice at the HDB officer stating that they have been wasting his time asking him to go to a few different places, he demanded to see an officer immediately. The officer tried to ask him to tone his volume down in-order not to distract the others but the indian man continued to raise his voice, seeking comfort in volume. The officer refused to be abused by him, also started raising his own voice at this man. The indian man asked :"You look down on us because I wear slippers to the office right?" The officer replied:"We treat everyone the same, slippers or shoes."

I wondered if there general sentiments that the lower income group feels "played out" by the system or government and have low self-esteem? I am also wearing slippers that morning along with at least half a dozen others in the room but I wont think that the officers are looking down at us because of slippers leh. Instead, it should be envy since we are so relaxed on a Saturday while they are working ha ha

Finally another officer attended to the couple and they retreated to a "sound proof" room? Because the peace and tranquility was restored after that.