Thursday, June 22
I stepped into the gym for the first time in 5 months, i think... My last gym time was during CNY coz I needed to look good. So when I stepped into the gym again, I was quite stunned... As in, I never been to this gym before and also, I forgot how to operate some of the machines. I tried to be cool and not embarress myself in the gym. Imagine all the *KLANG* *BOMP* and everyone's eyes...
And I decided, I need a gym membership... Heard from my bro that Cali currently has a promotion for their lifetime at $2488, which is the lowest I have heard (normally is $2888 liddat). But I still cannot forget the horrific marketing experience I had in Cali a year ago...
Well I was supposed to have a week's free trial and I brought along my friend. But the first thing when I was there was to have their staff marketing to me their policies. He seemed so desperate to sell us plans and I really think we got one of the lowest prices then.
Me & frd: But we only students...
He: There's this student rate...
Me: Still quite exp...
He: Ok can lower price... But can only come at these timing and cannot go all branches...
Eh that was only "Me" in the latter part of the dialouge. My friend had already indicated he wasn't that interested and me, as usual, was hesistating although my heart and pockets said "No!" while the body said "Yes!".
And then he showed his tactic: He told us to use fake names and addresses! He even printed out our fake names and addresses and showed us, saying that with this, we could terminate our contracts after 3 months coz the prices he offered us were for one or 2 years. *Stunned dio* Me and friend were going "wow... desperate sia... and a bit scary sia..."
So in the end we didn't sign up for any plans, leaving a pek chek sales officer and 2 pek chek customers who entered and left the gym with their gym attire dry and clean. And without the 1-week membership too. My friend later kpkb that I should say dun want if I dun want earlier, then we won't have wasted so much time there... but it's me mah...
Aaaaah that was one year plus ago. Today, Cali has a branch in Bugis which is more convenient for me and it has many interesting classes too like kickboxing. But the problem is, I have no money now for any gym memberships lor... Should have requested to start work earlier to save me the trouble of looking for temp jobs now... Coz... "Freedom without money is prison."
