Insights into a Bimbo's Mind

B to B

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Some people say, “There is a Scarlett O’Hara in every girl". In my interpretation, it means that there is a bit of evil in every girl, no matter how nice or how innocent they appear to be on the outside. And honestly, Scarlett O’Hara is my heroine of all times. So watch the extreme bright light FLASH in front of Miki-C, and *poof* she transforms from B to B, from Bimbo, to Bitch!

Some people just can’t take the hint. Here’s an update on Ms Private Parts for those who’s been missing her. Since I’ve moved on from the team 5 whole months ago, I actually felt relieved that I didn’t have to invite Ms Private Parts to my wedding. She is now an EX team member, somebody from my past that I’d like to quickly forget by shifting my thoughts every time to flowers and rainbows and little puppies.

Yet she messaged me a while ago out of the blue under the pretense of asking me about my wedding arrangements. I quickly told her that I’ve been really busy making wedding preparations and my main problem was that my invitation list was too BIG and I was going to have to CUT DOWN on my invitation list. To that, she happily replied and gave me suggestions on who and who to slash off my list and ended it by saying that she assumes she’s invited and I’m NOT allowed to strike her from my list. Great! I’m sure my BUFFET wedding dinner must have sounded greatly attractive to her. Now I have to assign Lady Luthien to stop her from eating the trays! I was just talking to Lady Luthien today and I thought, wouldn’t it be great if I can take Ms Private Part’s car and run over Narrrling’s ex? If I do the task well, I kill 2 birds with 1 stone. What a lovely thought…

Then there are the wedding piranhas. When you are organizing a wedding, BEWARE! Because once you’ve paid a downpayment (keyword here is 'downpayment'), you’ve fallen trapped in their ongoing incremental profit plan..

The bridal studio.. “Oh sorry ah, your package entitles you to choose dresses only from this section. Not nice? Well, you can upgrade your package and choose dresses from the VIP section upstairs. But you will have to top up another 2k for that.”

So what do I do? Close my eyes and pick an ugly dress or pay more money to get one of those beautiful dresses upstairs?

The musicians we hired for our wedding… “Oh, sorry ah, for the pianist, we only have a small keyboard. I must tell you first that the quality of the sound is compromised. If you want us to bring a real piano, it’s extra charges. And usually the sound system provided by the hotel is not good. Well, we can bring our mixer, monitor and amplifier to set up the sound system for the band but this will be another 3k.”

What the..!! Do we spend a few thousand to hire a bunch of musicians that no one can hear because the hotel’s sound system is unreliable, or do we top up a couple of thousand more on top of the initial few thousand to get perfect presentation of sound? And even more frustrating, why didn’t they tell us all these from the very beginning?

Then the biggest open-mouthed piranha of all. The wedding venue management, namely CYBERVIEW LODGE RESORT.

“Sorry ah, the oysters are actually frozen oysters and not fresh oysters. You want fresh ones? Add money.”

“Sorry ah, the ice carving we’re giving you is actually this low quality ice that has air bubbles all over the carving. Usually we let our couples upgrade to Crystal Ice. So if you want, add money.”

“ Sorry ah, we don’t include playing background music in the room where you are doing your tea ceremony. If you want background music, add money.”

“ Sorry ah, I know the hotel has 2 projector screens but if you want to use both of them, add money.”

“ Sorry ah, the hotel is going to provide you ice roman pillars as decoration but these roman pillars need flowers on top. If you want the flowers, add money…”

Dealing with these people is like doing boxing with your mother while she is still breastfeeding you. Blow by blow, they hit you and yet you can’t hit them back because they KNOW you need them more than they need you. Downpayment is made. What can you do? Just pray hard that mommy doesn’t get angry at me and spit in my food. In my case, my wedding guest’s food.

There are certainly ups and downs in organizing a wedding. Today, since I’ve done the B to B transformation, I’m letting you in on the darker side. Maybe another day when I’m back to being the starry eyed bride-to-be, I’ll have doubts about Ms Private Parts. Maybe she’s not after the food after all…. but after the men. Gosh.. that’s even worse…

posted by Miki-C @ 1:49 PM