Flag day --- 16/4/09 -- 10th post

16/4/09


Wooooo, it's finally the flag day. (i'am just trying to sound excited about it) Anyway, it is 7.28pm now. My legs are sore and eyes tired. It is a long day. Our designated place was at Khatib MRT station. I guess i was preety lucky to be assigned to this place as i live in Khatib *laughs*. Seems like my classmates are lived quite far away from here and are apparently pretty upset that they have to wake up so early to reach khatib at 7am.


I reached Khatib at 7am and guess who was late? Our facilitator! Sebastian was late for like 10 minutes haha. It was said that whoever was late had to pay a fine of $2 per minute, however that was a joke and brushed aside hahaha.


So in the end we started our collection at about 7.30am. (which was uh.. 30 minutes later than the assigned time, but oh well never mind) We splitted in smaller group. First i was with Rick, Li Khong, Weican near the market square just outside Sheng Siong. I guess Khatib is an relatively small and the whole of khatib was literally flooded with students from SP (Singapore Polytechnic)



After around 45 minutes, Li Khong and I find that there is too much of SP students here and so we walked further till we are near the Community Centre. There, although the crowd was lesser, most of the people haven't donated to others yet, therefore, i think we got a slightly more donation there.


After which, we returned to the square and then we were called to MacDonald's where we had our lunch break. Some of the classmate ate the set meals but i wasn't hungry so i just watch them eat and joke around with my friends hahaha.
(a photo of my assigned tin i took in MacDonald, while nobody was looking? :p)


In MacDonald, i lift Xiao Guang tin and notice that it was so heavy! I am so IMPRESSED haha.
Next, i went to OPSS (Orchid Park Secondary School) --- my formal secondary school to uhh.. visit my teachers, however it was lesson time and i guess they are all not free as i didn't see much teacher. After *wasting* around 30mins there, i went back to find Weican and Li Khong, (in which case, the weight of their tins had already increased by leaps and bounds!) so i decided to *choing* and i stood outside Sheng Siong supermarket again and ask *relentlessly* for donations hahaha.

Finally at about 1pm, Rick called me and our group proceed to the MRT station where we travel back to dover =.= to count the money! <-- so bo liao!


Anyway, we went to to classroom to count how much we collected. Here is the amount i collected today for the president challenge, $31.11 ( ok, it's not a large sum, i think i could have get more if i didn't went to OPSS, but i can't blame that on anybody...) Li Khong, Xin Ying and Weican all got close to $50 ( like 40++) and i was like so *roll eyes* but to comfort myself, i got more than Li Qing, *shhhh...* hahaha






(the amount i collected for President Challenge today)


After all the counting and recounting, we went to buy the notes which is needed on Monday and then took MRT home, as nobody lives in Khatib in my class and Hazel was meeting her SB campers friend, while Jasmine and Esther went to the party, I had to travel home alone for today T_T.


Anyway, i guess school officially starts on Monday, and i hope everything goes on smoothly. ^^


PS: Today flag day was more fun than i had imagined and less boring then i had expected :p