I have never really worked as in real work, and tuesday and wednesday gave me a taste of being a promoter! Well I didn't exactly promote but I helped in the promotion. And all along I thought ang mohs were superior and tall and when they walk past you they won't even know you are there!

My job was to hand out Lotus's Caramelised Biscuits (given in NDP pack 05/06) to passerbys at the fair. And boy, is the fair HUGE. It takes up Halls 1-6 in Singapore Expo. It's the Food & Hospitality Asia Fair 2008. At first I didn't know what I was in for, but when I got there I didn't realise how major an event that was. They have overseas and local companies involved in hospitality and F&B setting up booths in the hope of attracting business deals and potential partners, agents and buyers. I'm going there again tomorrow for a while to walk around with Vithiya and get free food samples and have a free lunch woohoohoo! Anyway I was helping Uncle Peng Cheong & Aunty Siew Choo's company, Asia-Euro Marketing Services. They are a distributor of Lotus biscuits and Malongo coffee machines, capsules and associated products. The machines are really cool, by the way, you might want to find out more if you're interested. Handy, neat and convenient. And the Lotus biscuits are good! 

At first I was rather hesitant to hand out the biscuits, and I mostly target overseas visitors with friendly looking faces HAHAHA. And people from the Philippines, Malaysia etc have never seen this biscuit in their lives and would ask me general questions and I'd say they're caramelised biscuits with a tinge of cinnamon and are from Belgium! Then they'd go, "Oooh, that's interesting, thanks!" And some ang mohs whom I thought were scary actually give me a huge smile and say 'Thank you!' in such a vibrant manner it makes up for the rejections I get from some even when I stretch out my hand and offer them a FREE biscuit. IT'S FREE EH! WHY NOT??? I DON'T UNDERSTAND! And some people are really cute, I'd offer them, they'd say 'No thanks' then backtrack and say, "I'm sorry, could I have one?" then I'd go HAHAHAHAHA to myself. This nice ang moh said 'Why not?' very nicely when I handed a biscuit to him and asked if he wanted to try one. So nice! Not like some annoying people who ask me for 3 biscuits because 'I have 3 children at home you see," Excuse me you can break the biscuit into 3 parts right. And some even more annoying people go up straight to a box full of those biscuits and grab a few and throw them into their bag and pretend they are walking back and take one more from me. WAH their 心计很重. :/

Anyway if you haven't tried the Lotus Caramelised biscuits, do give them a try okay! I have some VERY enthusiastic people who tell me, 'Oh! This biscuit's REALLLLYYY GOOOD!' and keep persuading the people around them to take one. It's good, I'm not kidding you and it goes well with coffee/tea. (:

You know it's weird when distributing cause sometimes I'd be giving it out non-stop and then sometimes the flow of people gets so confusing you don't know who you've given and the place is so cramped it's hard to hand it out to people, and you never know if the person will reject your outstretched hand, cause that feeling sucks. EH IT'S FREE AND IT'S NOT SOME PAMPHLET! IT'S FREE FOOD, and GOOD FOOD! ＷＨＹ REJECT?! But the thing is once you start giving to some people, others will AUTOMATICALLY come to you and stretch out their hands for you to give them one. Haha I like it when that happens because then I won't have to take the initiative! :D 

I did this job on Tuesday and Wednesday, and Vithiya's doing it on Thursday and Friday and you have to stand from 10-5.30 so the feet will ache. :( Ling's feet ache too cause she's also working at some booth in Hall 1.



The booth Vithiya and I am working/worked at. Doesn't it look classy? By Asia-Euro Marketing Services!




The Caramelised biscuits and this is the box where the annoying people grab the biscuits from. So ungracious. :/