Christmas @ Orchard

This is a late post > <

Yeah well, Christmas @ Orchard turned out to be fun after all. The few weeks of sculpting balloons and carolling was a good experience, and well at least I managed to learn a new skill.

Started off with us meeting at expo hall 9 for some briefing and a service. Huiwei and I aren't Christians but well we just attended service anyway. Of all the services that I went, this was by far the most... animated. It was Pastor Khong who ...entertained us with his funny antics and flamboyant hand gestures. Particularly, this service was about Christmas Spirit and about love... Zzz...

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. (John 4:18)

Now, isn't that inspirational. A little too inspirational. Zzzz...

thinkthinkthinkthinkthink.

Went off the orchard after the long service. Unfortunately for us it was raining when we reached Orchard Road, so we took shelter at Singapore Power for the time being. Realised that there were not many people there after all... But it was all pretty organised. Ate our dinner there and it looked pathetic. Huiwei couldn't finish hers! I think she has a stomach of a rat man. And she says she doesn't want to be fat!! I think I'm a sumo wrestler compared to her.

Rahh, I can't survive on this from 7-12

We tried sculpting some balloons while waiting for the rain to stop. Kianying and Huiwei learnt how to sculpt this bear during the last session (when I was overseas) and they taught me how to sculpt the flower. Made some hats for our team too: Kianying, Huiwei, Haiting and I.

Dangerous Balloon Hats

Departed for Orchard after the rain finally stopped and went to the Paragon for our sculpting! The crowd didn't look as bad as the last dry-run, and since there were more people around, I was more confident too. Heh, strength comes in numbers. Teamed up with Kianying to sculpt flowers for people, while the remaining two made hats instead. Lol... I pity those people who had to pump balloons. Demand was much higher than supply...

It was quite fun sculpting the balloons (since we didn't have to pump them) Some of the requests were a bit too much though -_- Like there was this lady who wanted a flower from us, and she requested purple petals with yellow stalk. Zzz.. We don't have time to search for purples and yellows for you dear girl...

Yup, and there was the carolling. All the previous rehearsals that we had didn't help at all lah -_- Lol, we just impromptu'ed all the way from the start. Didn't remember any of the lyrics too, so thankfully there was the song sheet. In the end just resorted to blablabla-ing the words out lah heck.

Jolly people

The Christmas crowd was enthusiastic, but some of them were tooo enthusiastic. Wahhh, the foam was horrible!! It was literally snowing at Paragon man, with all the spraying and all. What's worse was that some of the children and their parents were doing it too O_O Some of the people got sprayed pretty badly, like a whole hair of white. And there was this toddler who got attacked when he was sitting on his father's shoulders.

POISON SNOW!!!

Huiwei and Zichao. Huiwei is giving a demonstration of what you do when POISON SNOW!!! gets onto you. (:

Merry Christmas. (overtimed)