I saw a competition form last weekend. The winners would be presented with a token, if I'm not mistaken, which would allow them to redeem 4 tickets to a prestigious event. You can buy the tickets, but that would normally set you back a few hundred dollars. It is that pricey, unless you have trees growing money. Since I did not notice any age limit, I assumed that it is a competition opened to all members of the public, regardless of age. So, of course, being in this state of trying everything, I had thought, why not I give it a try. Furthermore, all I had to do was to share an original thought on the topic given in 20 words or less. That should not be of a problem. It would also be a way to measure my standard of writing, acceptable and interesting or plain boring.
As usual, although the mind is set, the heart got the better of things. One would assume, I would have grabbed that form immediately, and wasted no time to milk my brains to come up with the best ideas. But old habits die hard, sometimes. Instead, I took to telling myself, later, a while later and it would be done. Let her finish reading the whole paper first. After, it was kind of refreshing to to get to read the papers in hardcopy instead of scanning the e-news.
A while later became a few days later. Today. I had thought, couple days gone wouldn't give that much impact. The form is still there. My grand plan was to get the form, fill up the necessary details and prepare the tools needed to have it posted. Once all that has been prepared, the brainstorming session will take place, to complete the form. Looking through the piles of old newspapers, I found the form and immediately set out to execute the tasks as I had laid out.
I was filling up the form, when my eyes strayed to the rules and regulations of the contest. Blah..Blah..blah... this form has to reach blah..blah..blah..latest by 5.00pm (date in place) Wham! Isn't that tomorrow? Blink! Blink! I reread the sentence again, just to confirm that I was not dreaming. No, I read correctly the first time around. I looked up, searching the date of the paper. Less than 5 working days from the date the contest form was advertised to the closing date! What the heck?!
I can't believe it! Who would create to have a contest duration run for less than 5 working days in this country? It's just a preposterous idea! It really felt so insincere for the part of the organizer of the contest. This is the country where mails within the same state is not guaranteed to arrive within 24 hours or where parcels maybe pried opened and their insides stolen. There had been just so many incidents highlighted by the public but so little action taken, that it is just quite impossible that the organizers fail to note this. They can't be expecting all interested contestants to hand-carry their entries right to their doorstep now, eh?
I am disappointed. Chiefly at the organizers, for their (unintentional?) oversight. A little blame is has to be borne by myself as well, for giving in procrastination. Nothing much can be done. I left the form, not bothering to complete it. My original thought would have been "Don't just be generous when flashing megawatt-smiles, but make sure your eyes smile each time as well". I wouldn't know if it's good enough, now.
As usual, although the mind is set, the heart got the better of things. One would assume, I would have grabbed that form immediately, and wasted no time to milk my brains to come up with the best ideas. But old habits die hard, sometimes. Instead, I took to telling myself, later, a while later and it would be done. Let her finish reading the whole paper first. After, it was kind of refreshing to to get to read the papers in hardcopy instead of scanning the e-news.
A while later became a few days later. Today. I had thought, couple days gone wouldn't give that much impact. The form is still there. My grand plan was to get the form, fill up the necessary details and prepare the tools needed to have it posted. Once all that has been prepared, the brainstorming session will take place, to complete the form. Looking through the piles of old newspapers, I found the form and immediately set out to execute the tasks as I had laid out.
I was filling up the form, when my eyes strayed to the rules and regulations of the contest. Blah..Blah..blah... this form has to reach blah..blah..blah..latest by 5.00pm (date in place) Wham! Isn't that tomorrow? Blink! Blink! I reread the sentence again, just to confirm that I was not dreaming. No, I read correctly the first time around. I looked up, searching the date of the paper. Less than 5 working days from the date the contest form was advertised to the closing date! What the heck?!
I can't believe it! Who would create to have a contest duration run for less than 5 working days in this country? It's just a preposterous idea! It really felt so insincere for the part of the organizer of the contest. This is the country where mails within the same state is not guaranteed to arrive within 24 hours or where parcels maybe pried opened and their insides stolen. There had been just so many incidents highlighted by the public but so little action taken, that it is just quite impossible that the organizers fail to note this. They can't be expecting all interested contestants to hand-carry their entries right to their doorstep now, eh?
I am disappointed. Chiefly at the organizers, for their (unintentional?) oversight. A little blame is has to be borne by myself as well, for giving in procrastination. Nothing much can be done. I left the form, not bothering to complete it. My original thought would have been "Don't just be generous when flashing megawatt-smiles, but make sure your eyes smile each time as well". I wouldn't know if it's good enough, now.
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