Sunday, December 20, 2009
This is Felicia. This is Hui Ling. This is one of the many wishing spheres. =)
Yesterday went to help out at CDAC "Ready for School" event.
Have not been back there for 2 years. Last time , I was also there for the "Ready for School "event because I was there for workshadowing.
This time round, went back with 2 of my workshadowing peeps. Felicia and Hui Ling. Long long long time never contact them , very happy to see them again. =)
Last time, we are in the "Distribution school bags" corner.
This time round, I am in the "Wishing Spheres" corner with 2 other people One is a stranger called Jessica and one is Hui Ling.
If you have no idea of what a wishing sphere is... It is just a white inflated ball that are for all people to pen down their wishes and hopes for next year 2010. It will be floating on the waters of Marina Bay during the countdown to 2010.
The job was actually much more difficult then I thought. I thought it will be a relaxed job where we just need to stand there and lend markers for them to write.
But it was more than that... we need to ask them to write and many of them initially did not want to write because they are shy to write on it.
Luckily at the end of the day, there are quite many wishes on the balls.
Then because the balls are hang along the corridor. Many children walked past and they will use all their might to swing the ball. Like very fun like that..
Initially, I still got stop them but after some time I gave up because it's like there are magnets in the balls that attract the childrens' hands to swing them..
In the end, it was a big problem to untie the ball strings as it was all tangled together.
Another problem was that it rained heavily yesterday in early afternoon to mid afternoon. Then all the balls are wet. It became a problem to write as the ink does not go on. And many people said the markers no ink.. In the end, we need to ask them to go and write on some other dry balls hanged in another corner. It was very messy and chaotic.
At last, it was 3 pm. Can go home! But still need to deflate the balls. SO many balls and there is only one machine to deflate them. In the end, the uncles in the first aid section help us deflate. They are really very nice people.. thanks to them that we are able to go home at 4pm.
So that was all the things to was happening yesterday.
Oh ya.. And I was super super surprised that I saw Daniel helping out at the event too.. Daniel from 07S18.. haha.. So Qiao.. It was like one of the least possible place that I thought would meet someone from 07S18. Somemore he is so an english person so it was really very surprising.. haha
Ok lah.. He is still a very kind and caring person to help out there.. haha.
Oh ya... and I watched The Princess and the Frog with my sis 2 days ago..
I really like the disney type movies leh..
And I really like this one because it brought back the memories of watching Snow White and Little Mermaid. It did not use really great animations like "UP" and some other recent animation movies. However, I think that was the attracting point of that movie.
So many animation movies now have super great animations. It is very difficult to find back to the feelings we have when watching disney movies in our childhood.. So I felt that this one really helps to find back the feelings.
And the part where the evil wizard is going to do evil deed to the prince, there was the scary music and scary animations that brought back exactly the feeling that I felt when I was watching the parts where the queen was turning into an ugly witch(in Snow White) and the little mermaid losing her voice to the witch(in the Little Mermaid).
So it was really fun watching it.. haha
Till next time...byebye
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
If you all still rmb 2 years ago, Marina Bay got these hundreds of white balls floating in its waters. So I'll be in the team to gather the people to write their wishes for 2010 on the white balls.