Putting First Letters in Caps, Make Them Seem Important: National Day Observance Ceremony 2008

This was held on Saturday... Actually Desiree and I were supposed to get down to End-of-Season BBQ but zzz we had to go for this instead, because it was a COMMITMENT (as quoted from our dear friend xuyaoru)

Had to report at 1400 at Commonwealth MRT. Thankfully Minlu called me earlier, if not she would be late, since she thought it started at 1430! But well, I was the earliest to report (SHOCKING), followed by Desiree, then Huiwei, then Joycelyn, Zuiqiu then Minlu. HAHAHAHA Zuiqiu was hilarious in his TRANSCULCENT coffeeshop uncle white shirt. I was laughing my head off.

We went to gather with the rest of the NJ people... and basically stoned for most of the time, before we got assigned duties. Meanwhile, we were chatting and talking about school stuff, and I decided to crack this SUPER FUNNY JOKE that Zichao thought of. Some Econs thingy, maybe I will post it up someday. Oh and all of us went down to the icecream uncle to get some icecream. I think the favouritist things that I enjoyed about this CIP were the times we went to get food :)

Anyway, I felt like our presence at the CIP was a bit unnecessary. Besides making sure people don't sit in the wrong places and opening gates for people, there wasn't anything significant for us to do T_T I spent most of the time walking up and down and around the place with Minlu, because we couldn't find the place we were supposed to be... We didn't stay there for long though, by the time we found it, we were dispatched somewhere else.

Minlu and I had to make sure people don't sit at where the performers were supposed to be. It was VERY DIFFICULT and HIGHLY ILLOGICAL because the place where the performers were supposed to sit was SHADY, and the place where the audience had to be was UNSHADED! And it was a super hot day!! I felt a little bad for shooing the public away, but some of them were very cooperative so it made my job a whole lot easier. I tried to find some places where the public could sit, but erm.. that meant sitting on the grass...

I have to admit that the NDP atmosphere was really in the air then. It was not the cynical skeptical feeling that I get all the time in school when singing National anthem, but the passionate enthusiasm that I felt then in P1. And I laughed when I saw this ahma dancing to the National Anthem. Haha, how cute.

Joycelyn invited Minlu and I to Shengsiong to get some food stuff. Yay, my favourite. We were greeted with crazy Huiwei and Desiree who seemed to have contracted the NDP disease, because they were singing passe NDP songs. After their craziness, we went down to Shengsiong to get our wonderful food. Minlu and I decided to get a carton of Fruit Tree Fresh YAY! Its the best and most worthwhile purchase ever, I will stop buying tiny bottles from now on. Desiree got 10 cherries, and in 5 mins, all the stalks of the cherries were GONE because we were trying to see who could tie a knot with the cherry stalk with our tongues!!! The ones who could do it were good kissers! :D

... And ZUIQIU OWNED THE COMPETITION BY TYING IT IN RECORD TIME! Okay I didn't really time him, but he was really very fast! Hidden ability in Zuiqiu eh. and next in line was... DESIREE!! She could tie it too! And next in line... (after 1h...) was MINLU!!! yay she deserves the most hardworking competitor award because she had been going on at it for almost an hr.. Huiwei withdrew from competition because she couldn't get the end of the knot to get through the loop, supposedly the most tricky part of tying. AND WELLLLL, I was DISQUALIFIED!!!! XDDDDDDDDDDDDD

because I spat the cherry stalk out while looking at Zuiqiu's conceited face because he tied two stalks faster than us. As quoted by Desiree. LOL I REALLY PPPPPPPPPPPTTTTTTT-ed THE ENTIRE THING OUT MAN.

and that was the highlight of the day! I have some pictures of the event :D