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Alright! Now to talk about the main event! Racial Harmony Day was yesterday and so all of us donned our costumes and had loads of fun taking pictures! The night before I wasn't really able to fall asleep, as I was quite excited about seeing all my friends in their traditional costumes. We have never done this sort of thing before, that is, to wear our traditional costumes so faithfully, and yet we are doing it this year, and that in itself is pretty special.
So, because I was too excited to sleep, and ended up sleeping rather late, I woke up late as a result as well, and it wasn't till Fatin called me that I managed to wake up, heh. Since I was the chairperson, I really needed to open the classroom door so that they could get changed and leave their things inside the class. So I got changed hurriedly and went to school. Turns out, most of my classmates weren't really at school yet because the LRT train broke down, (yes! hurray for me muahahaha!) and so I wasn't really late in opening up the class door. Soon, all of us were ready and we headed to the Indoor Sports Hall for morning assembly. We saw alot of people wearing the ethnic costumes and we got worried that we might not get first after all. Finally, after a check, our class was the only class that had all its students in traditional costumes, woohoo! Hopefully we'd get the prize because of this, but the votes still need to count before the decision can be made, and there were classes competing since they had passed the criteria of 90%.
After assembly, those with their costumes were told to stay back and take pictures, and so my entire class remained behind with alot of other students and we took many pictures. It was really fun and the chinese guys including myself really got into it, and whichever picture we took, we couldn't help but to pose with the chinese kung-fu sort of pose, heh! I really got into the mood too with the posing, muahaha! But sian ah, somehow the pictures I took, some of them made my head look really big, but I realized that my face becomes chubby in the morning and then slims down by the afternoon, it's really weird and I can't explain why it's like that, freaky! Anyway! We began taking pictures even after the photo-taking session was over and lessons resumed. Our first period teachers really had difficulty trying to make us get focused in our work.
I had difficulty concentrating not because I didn't want to, but because the chinese sleeves were really getting in the way, and I hadn't brought any school uniform to change back into, so throughout the day I had to keep pulling back the sleeves just so that it didn't obstruct me. But throughout it all, it was a really fun experience, and all of my friends looked fantastic in their traditional costumes. Now it's just trying to get my hands on all the pictures, which up till now, graaaaaaaaaaaaa, are still missing! >:(
Pictures (At present!):
We're still waiting for our turn to take pictures... HURRY UP LAH!
Class photo!
So we begin with three...
...Then four! Yeah man, I wasn't kidding about the chinese kung-fu poses! (From left: Mr Chui, Zhengyu, Xian Zhe, Myself)
Heh heh heh. Remember what I said about Kian Peng's shirt fitting him just nicely? I GOT HIM TWO SIZES BIGGER, MUAHAHAAHAHAH!!! (Kian Peng & Eric)
Damn, lookin' good ah! (From left: Fatin, Fara, Aisyah, Billiana, Shafiq)
Dear ladies, the camera is infront of you lah! (From left: Eileen, Laura, and Zi Qian)
Muahaha, anybody to take us both on? JUST KIDDING! (Faris & Myself)
Eh Linsay, they said to wear your own traditional costume leh, what happened eh?
Woohoo! I got to take a picture with Ye Yoon in her Korean outfit!
Heh, racial harmony seh! (From left: Ari, Myself and Ganesh)
Hoohah! One more picture for myself, heh! Sorry about the facial expression, I really wasn't prepared!
Alright that's all for this post, I guess there'd only be one more event which is my school's musical which is coming up which I might blog about, but other than that, it's back to studying for the O's! Let's go for it!
Woohoo! I am online to blog again, it's been a week plus since I last touched my keyboard, and how I missed it! Alright, I am going to take up on Nadzirah's comment and start to paragraph my posts, heh.
Ok, so first up is my trip to Chinatown with my classmates. Basically, since Racial Harmony Day was coming, my friends and I went there to get our chinese costumes. Our form teacher Mrs Tan actually managed to convince the entire class to wear and I think she was right, that it was worth it. I am sure she's right about us cherishing these memories that we make as well, with this being one of our very last few events with the school. Heh, and even if she didn't manage to convince us, my class is a greedy lot, and we all want the prize, muahaha. The criteria was for the 90% of the class to wear their traditional costumes and then try to get teachers to wear their traditional costumes as well and vote for us. So Mrs Tan and most of my classmates went about getting teachers to vote for us, which I think did vote for us in the end, heh! Ok wait, back to the main point first. So basically the group of us who went were Huan Min, Ching Wee, Zhengyu, Xian Zhe and myself. We were also there to buy for the shirts for Eric and Kian Peng (for Kian Peng, I decided to be reaaaallly irritating, heh heh, you'll see what happened later).
So when we reached there, the first thing we saw as we walked out of the station was the marketplace itself already. There were many people walking around and most of them were simply viewing the things that were being sold. However, we were there for a purpose, and so we set to finding shops that sold the chinese costumes. In less than ten minutes we came to our first shop. Already we saw many chinese costumes that caught our liking (at least for some of us), but the pricing wasn't exactly wallet-friendly so we decided to scout around some more. We went to the next shop which also sold rather nice chinese clothings, and there was even one mannequin outside the shop with a really nice long chinese coat the one those chinese martial artists wore in the past. I couldn't take my eyes off that coat for awhile... Until I saw the price tag hanging from its sleeves.
So going inside the shop, we saw more chinese costumes. A family I think, owned the shop, and there was the father, a rather plump man with spectacles, the wife, and perhaps the son, who looked like the father, not just the features but even in terms of age. We started feeling the clothes' materials when the father suddenly said, "Hey, no need to look over there lah, those over there too expensive, you want to try make sure you have enough first." Damn, I was so pissed off and so were the others. Like what Ching Wee said, Gou Yan Kan Ren Di, that man had no right to think of us as being unable to afford what his shop owns, and that's definitely not the way you speak to customers. So after hearing his irritating comment, we left in a huff to another shop. Turns out, there were actually many shops with different varieties, it was almost like half the streets were full of these clothes.
Finally, after almost two hours of walking about and scouting, I was the first to come to a decision to buy a suit from the perhaps, 7th shop we were visiting. After I bought my costume, all of us went back to the first few shops to take a look once more. We headed back to the shop with the haughty father, but Xian Zhe and Zhengyu decided to go to another shop which had caught their eye to buy their costumes. I stayed behind with Ching Wee and Huan Min as they looked at the clothes once more. Ching Wee decided to try out a few and finally wanted to buy one, however the costume she wanted, had a button which was about to fall off, but she said it was alright, and that she could sew it back herself. After this, she asked the father if he could sell it cheaper since the quality wasn't as good, and all that jerk could say was, "Hey, it's a fixed price, no point trying to bargain one, I know you guys are just students... *says this in a very condescending manner*" I was so pissed I wanted to leave the shop already, but all Ching Wee and I did was roll our eyes and stare at each other while the man busied himself in packing up the clothes, so Ching Wee bought it in the end, dammit lah!!!
Xian Zhe and Zhengyu had finished buying their clothes as well when we met them, and I saw a shirt that would fit Kian Peng (yeah RIGHT, MUAHAHAHA), and Zhengyu had already bought for Eric. Huan Min and Ching Wee saw clothes that'd fit the girls in our class so they bought for them as well. Before long, we were on the train home again, and one last incident (which Huan Min has already blogged about) which happened was that this little girl tripped and kinda er... basically I wasn't standing at a very good position and it was crowded so it was really sensitive.
Yeap, so that's the Chinatown trip, whew, alright since just a trip had taken so much of this post, I am going to post about the Racial Harmony Day on the next one as part II, be sure to read it!
Just some pictures:
The temple!
Heh, Chinatown!
Yeah all! I saved my favourite for last, so here it is! Today was the Passing Out Parade for the graduating cadets from my CCA, the National Police Cadet Corp! We were finally going to graduate from the Corp, and all of us were really happy about it. It was really sad to actually leave the CCA, but I am sure we all walked away with great memories and fun times which would always be with us always. The parade started and because I was taking the graduating squad for the last time, I managed to get front row seats to the passing of the ceremonial sword from the Head of Departments, and it was pretty good, if not for us having to stand really straight and remaining still for the entire time. So after almost fifteen minutes of trying to make our entire body behave, we went inside the school canteen where we were to receive our awards, ranks and souvenirs (for the graduating cadets muahaha!). At the canteen, the emcees took the lead, and they began meting out the names and one by one we went up to collect our ranks. I was happy to see that all my fellow friends managed to get at least a rank of a sergeant, so guys, you left with something to be proud of! My officer-in-charge, Mr Ho, said that the names would be read out in alphabetical order and my heart sank, being Vashon, it meant V and that's like probably the last bunch of people in the awardees. I tried to recall if anyone came after me in terms of our names, and there were nobody else! So being last I cracked a joke with Jia Hui who was sitting beside me with his new sergeant rank that he can wake me up after all the names are called, heh! So the names were called out, and then... and then... my name was not called out! At first, I went, "eh...?" and then it became, "EHHH?!!?!? WHERE'S MY RANK!?!?" So I kept shifting about in my seat wondering if I should interrupt the ceremony to tell them that, but I decided against it, and began clapping for everyone else, from the secondary twos to secondary threes who went up to get their prize. Finally Zhengyu and Linsay went up to get the Best Unit Cadet awards, I clapped and cheered for them, and then all of a sudden, my name was called out! Woohoo! Denise and I were laughing and we both got up to get our ranks, Station Inspector leh, no joke! I am very happy with the rank, and I could see that Denise was laughing inwardly as well as the rank was placed on her shoulders by the superiors. So after all that, we went to eat all the pretty good food, which was kway teow, a chicken drumstick, an otah, a piece of chocolate cream cake, and a fried prawn roll (good enough lah, no need to eat too much). After that, it was picture-taking time! And we had alot of fun taking pictures of ourselves in our uniforms for the last time for most of us. After it all, we really had a great time, and I am very proud of my CCA and all my friends, so guys, WE DID IT!!!
These are the pictures! (More to come):
Station Inspectors! (Me and Denise)
The Best Unit Cadet and The Station Inspector! (Me and Zhengyu)
SIs again! With a WCI in the middle!
If you think this is informal, check out the next pic!
That's all for now! I know I said we took alot, but it's all spread out in different people's cameras, so I will need to collect them all! (Sounds like some advertisement for a card game)
Alright here's part two! Basically my family went to celebrate my sister's confirmation as a teacher, and we went to this place called Little Bali, and it is somewhere near Alexandra Road, and it's really grand and all when we went there, and the atmosphere there totally didn't feel like Singapore at all! It really felt like we went to Bali all of a sudden and the food there was superb! I really enjoyed the otahs, special fish dishes, and most of all the chicken! It was really good, but I was having so much fun eating the food, I forgot to take pictures of it! It was really enjoyable to eat out with my family and I want us to do that more often, muahaha!
Here are the pictures!
Family photo!
This is one of the cool signboards and the inside of this place is cooler!
Don't worry, I didn't step inside knowing I am not of legal age yet!
Yeah as said before, I WAS TOO BUSY EATING!!!
Hey all, this is a three part blog that I am going to do, and it covers three pretty major events that I have been through these past few weeks, heh, and yeap, the reason why I took so long to blog all these is because I am currently in "cold turkey" and I am not coming online anymore once I am done with these blogs, unless of course another good event that is worth blogging about comes around, but till then I don't think I'd be coming online, because the major exams are drawing near and it's really important that I get focused, which I am proud to say is working! Anyway on to the story, the first event that I had was the mini Fun Fiesta that my school organized. Basically the graduating classes took over the entire event and we had to prepare for it. We were told to set up games and food stalls based on a traditional theme, basically the 60s, 70s, and so forth. It was reallly fun on the actual day, when we all came dressed up as coolies, people with retro outfits, some girls took the "Kampong Girl" look, and some even came dressed up as the Beatles! Being lazy, I simply chose to dress like a coolie, because a white shirt and a pair of black shorts really isn't even difficult to find, heh, all I did was find a stick and I was ready! As the event started we began carrying signs with words like, "Big Sale" in many different languages to promote our food stall, thereafter we went to the games stall where our game was selling out like hot cakes. Our game was "tikam-tikam" and you guessed it, it was a gambling game, and it turns out we had some really itchy hands that day itching to burn their fingers with our game. When all was done, my class managed to sell away all our items and we reaped profits from both our games and food stalls which we celebrated by popping crackers and I thoroughly enjoyed myself.
Here are the pictures!
Three coolies for employment! (From left: Zhengyu, Myself, Xianzhe)
Ethnic costumes and a coolie! (From left: Laura, Zalikha, Myself, Eileen)
More ethnic costumes and still a coolie! (From left: Myself, Ching Wee, Sie Min, Ye Yoon)
Retro and old school! (Me and Nadzirah)
A coolie and a kampong girl! (Me and Esadora)
Another kampong girl! (Billiana)
Me trying out the retro spectacles for the first time! (Wish I had my guitar...)
Alright that's all for now, be sure to read part 2 and 3!
