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i'm exhausted.

The past 3 days at the PC Show have been an utter waste of my time and it was one of the worst shows in my life of selling PC stuff at shows. Which says something. Yet it was a really good social experiment for me, because specimen D (i.e. me) was placed in a social situation which was a stark contrast to what I usually face in school or at work.

1) These people swear like there's no tomorrow. All the expletives you've ever heard of can be used in a single sentence to sum up the day's sales. Some even sounded nice but in Teochew or Hokkien it's as good as cursing whoever's entire family line. An ear-opening experience, definitely.

2) They are funny people. There's a certain camaraderie that we managed to build up. They are nice, especially these sec 5 girls who totally look like ah lians with the brown contacts, dyed golden hair and false eyelashes but they are friendly. If you help them with their customers, they'll reciprocate. Unlike some other people who stare daggers at you when you help them serve their customers because they think you're trying to steal their sales and who brush you aside with a hard push and grunt.

I think out of all the shows this one had the worse showing, but I am glad I met these people whom I'll probably never meet again in my life. Complaining about customers, going over to the Canon booth to get our photos printed for free, throwing CDs as if they were frisbees and just talking nonsense. That's what I will walk away remembering most fondly, and I've learnt that it is easy to earn other people's respect/trust by giving them the same amount of respect regardless of where they come from. I'm learning and trying to stop myself from letting first impressions cloud my mind because outer appearances are precisely just that; a facade.