fucked up sinchew

Been slaving for the last 2 weeks getting 4 labs ready for the stupid SinChew Daily quiz thingy. So when today, THE day, came by, I thought that everything would go smooth and I can get home early. Hell, I didn't even wanna be here in office after 1pm on a Saturday. Fuck it.

Anyhow, this organizers came late, the participants came late, everything was messy and so the whole thing started around 10-15mins late. Ordinarily, this wouldn't be a problem, but this time the quiz was supposed to last only for 30mins.

Then SinChew's crappy quiz software fucks up some PCs, and I had to fix them while the students are on. By 3:30pm, quite a few groups (there were 120+) were done, amidst remarks along the line of "Why do the questions look familiar?" "Looks kinda like last year's..."

True enough, a phone call from SinChew HQ in KL confirmed it. They fucking sent last year's quiz questions instead of sending the right one!! Fucking HELL!! How the fuck can these people screw up like this?! It's a fucking national event for christ's sakes!!

Then we had to stop the participants from leaving. Quite a few of them have plans with their families for the weekend, or came from out of town and needed to get back. All this, in chaos, with the sales team trying to salvage the mess, and we still had to wait almost 1/2 hour for the SinChew HQ to give directives on what is to be done next.

We were all like, since the wrong questions had been sent nationwide, either just go ahead and use those questions, or set another date to redo the whole thing. In the end, we had to download the right questions, reinstall them into the PCs (4 LABS!!!) and let the quiz start all over again. By that time, some of the participants already left.

So we got everything done within 1/2 hour after we got the new questions. Soon some of the groups were done, again. And again, another call from SinChew. Seems like they finally think that this is not fair/legit/whatever, and decided to cancel the whole damn thing now, and then set a new date to redo the whole fucking quiz. Great fucking god!!!

SinChew Daily is supposed to be the biggest Chinese daily newspaper in the country and stuff like this can happen!! Dammit. I actually wasted my whole day for nothing and I'll probably have to redo every damn thing again soon.