Things to expect when you inquire about membership.

1. FREE GIFT. Yup, upon just inquiring, the salesman said I get a free gift. He walked over to the desk and brought back this:

Seriously?!? Not a free towel. Or free water bottle. Nope, the first step to fitness is clean breath. I took a mint.

2. PERSONAL TRAINER. After the salesman showed me around, as part of my first trip, I got to chat with a personal trainer who gave me an overall health check. Yadah, yadah, yadah, this personal trainer asked where I worked. I said Hong Kong Disneyland. To which he immediately starts talking about how he went there but it's way too small. He and his girlfriend were done with it in an hour and half cause there was nothing else to do there. Yup, nothing quite like insulting the company of your would-be client to, I dunno, convince him join. I just kept nodding my head. Stupid.

Incidentally, I should've passed him my free gift. *whew*

3. A PROMO UPON SIGNING UP. Back to sales person to seal the deal. I asked about cost, cause outside of insulting my breath and my work, the gym looked amazing. He jots down a bunch of numbers, and as there ALWAYS is - trust me, if you came in after their "promo" period, there'd be another promo -knocking out the joining fee, slashing down the monthly fee, etc. So, a bunch of numbers on the paper. I said, well let me think about it and could I have the piece of paper he wrote the figures on. To which he said, No. And turned into madsalesman... (take note, following is a summary, his english was bad... but you get the idea)

He said, "well what's there to think about?" I was polite at first and said, "well my schedule, location of branches, etc". And this is where he started getting rather persistent "If you don't sign up now, you'll lose the promo (whatever?!?) and that there really isn't anything to think about, etc. What's there to think about?" Kinda annoyed at his not allowing me to think about it, I blurted out, "I want to check out other gyms first." and smiled. Then he threw out the, "why don't I give you a free trial." "Sure" "When do you want to use it?" "Well I have to check my schedule, I'll call." "When are you gonna call?" "When I get back to work" "When?" And here his tone was 3rd gear rude... like a man who never got called back the morning after. He said, "Why don't we just set the day you come back... Monday?" "No" "Tuesday?" "Well I might have..." "Wednesday?"

I was getting pissed. So I said, "You know what, you're being WAY too pushy. Forget it. I'm gonna go." To which he retaliated and printed out my free pass and said to just call. Grrrr... I walked out incredibly pissed off. Son of a motherless goat. You can guess where I'm signing up...

Anyhoo.. I've also decided to buy this for my apartment:

And a shot from dinner last night with neighbors Gerwin and Charie, and Pats who is in town with her beau.

and lastly.. I've been watching Ugly Betty season 2. And FINALLY a kilig storyline for the gay character.

and seriously, a little more than I care to relate with. Haha... *sigh*