Exhibition Day Two.

After standing for two days, the simple act of standing sends pain up from my feet. Its so bad that when i try and walk, my leg muscles were verging on spasming into cramps. Getting cramps from standing, that's something i never thought could happen.

I was more like a visitor than exhibitor in day one. I went around to other booths also dealing with RFID to look at their demos. Me being kind of new, no one really knew where i was from. And when i revealed my company's name, they would go like, "Wa... your company send u as spy ah...". Of course, they won't say it out exactly, but you get the feeling from the way they react. Competitor Syndrome, as my boss aptly puts it. But such Competitor Syndrome is pretty pointless. It's not like i'm gonna write about them on some online blog right?

So how to i deal with Competitor Syndrome? I just go like, "Oh i'm pretty new to the company (true) and i wanted to find out what RFID is all about (in a way, also true)." And when these people starts to ask me questions that are like company in confidence, imagine, i ask for them to show me their exhibit (public stuff) and they ask me what projects we are doing (private stuff), what the..

Anyway, when they ask about stuff that are confidential, i'll just go like, "I only small fry in the company, tan jiat (just a job to feed myself) only." This seems to subdue them, like talking to ambitious-not people is beneath them. Oh well, whatever works.

I sat in for alot of the seminar thingy that is going on at the exhibition yesterday. There is this cute girl whose job is to scan RFID cards when people enter the area. RFID cards are issued to all people who register for the exhibition. Registration is neccessary for entry to the exhibition. Which kind of means everyone there had a card.

So i went in and out of the seminar area for countless times, each entry requiring the cute girl to scan my card. Okie... i sort of wanted to get her to scan my card... but that's beside the point. Anyway, it went on enough times for her to recognise my face, and me to recognise her face.

Sidenote: The security at the exhibition do not have RFID equipment to check the card to determine if i am actually a visitor or exhibitor. The only way to differentiate is by the cover holding the card. Yellow for visitor, green (or was it blue?) for exhibitors. I actually registered as visitor, but i swap the cover holder with someone else, and abracadabra, suddenly i am an exhibitor. The point of this sidenote is: why use RFID card when it is only going to be used as a normal plastic card?. Too much money is it? I won't be surprised if one of these days they replace toilet rolls with rolls of RFID labels. They need to track shit or something... Now that sounds correct.

And today, early morning, i saw the cute girl waiting outside the exhibition hall. No, not waiting for me, i wished. She was waiting to go in, coz visitors can only enter at 1000. Yes, she works there and she has to use visitor pass. Anyway, she saw me and gave me a rather heart warming smile. Ooooo. Kind of cute, were i any braver, i would have asked for her number or something. But hey, i did manage to say bye to her when i walked past her on my way home. Yay! What a beautiful day.