A better tmr

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Bah! I know it's kind of lag, but this post is really for last Saturday (21st July). Erm. Ya. Erm. Did CIP for Guzheng. Haha. We did flagday for Lionsbefrienders. Oh dammit! My mouth was like so dry! And there the Caucasians were, staring at me as though I were mental when I asked, "Would you like to donate?" , brushing past me with such a hurry that for a moment I believed, too, that I had gotten the plague of black death.

Of course there was a very kind Caucasian girl (black hair - looked half chinese) who informed me rather enthusiastically that they were giving out free Harry Potter somethings as well as donated about a two dollar note. Then there was a Chinese woman who asked me, "Is it a Christian organization?" I was rather hesitant because I thought she was an atheist. I answered "It's just an old folks' home." sounding rather dopey. Oh and anyway, I did CIP with my sec4 senior and sec2 senior (I donno if they want me to post their names :P). They were like really nice! :( One of them's leaving soon. haiix :'(( Anyway, someone handed her a whole envelope and asked her to open it later and put the coins into the donation can.

We sat in Starbucks about 1 3/4 h later, having run out of stickers, my seniors drinking coffee while I pushed my nose into a book again. What?! I had nothing else to do! My hi-card was running out of money. Nobody SMSed me anyway. Then the envelope of coins was opened and the coins put into the donation can one by one. As the coins plonked steadily into the can, the long chain of "chinka-chinka-chink" drew me out of the book and I stared, quite dumbfoundedly, at the torrent of coins. There had to be at least twenty coins. And they weren't just small coins either. They were either 20-cent coins or bigger. My Sec2 senior was staring too, quite awestruck. I realised Singaporeans weren't really as selfish as other countries made us out to be. Anyway I'm quite sure that we were the first group to finish.

We went into the shopping centre just outside City Hall MRT (I THINK it was a plaza that started with an 's'). Anyway, we went to buy cookies, or rather my Sec2 senior bought cookies - from Subway. She let us have a pinch of both cookies (Chocolate and Double-Chocolate). It was really nice. And so was my senior :P. We sat at the edge of this really cool fountain. There were six holes where the fountains came out of. The fountains bounced high up in the air, 'a competition', as my slightly bonkers seniors said. Then when the fountains stopped, my Sec4 senior who was really the cause of all this absurdity remarked that they were having a discussion as to who jumped the highest. Water gushed out of holes underneath the platform and varying the strength of which they came out, the water surrounding the platform were pushed back and forth like a screaming, wild public. We sat at the edge and watched as the fountains leaped as joyously as captive dolphins set free, sparkling like little diamonds in the air, performing graceful arcs like swallows. Then my Sec4 senior remarked, "We shouldn't be praising the competing water so much or the water surrounding will get angry." I laughed and both my Sec2 senior and I said that the water took turns to compete. Just then someone dipped her hand inside the water to clean her hands - she had been eating ice cream. My Sec4 senior commented that it was water abuse. Then my two seniors started into a deep discussion about how we actually abuse water in our everyday lives. I looked at the arcs of water which showed joy in every movement, splashing like killer whales, listening to them chatter on. This was the first time I really felt I belonged in Guzheng.

We looked around at meaningless stuff. My bimboistic Sec2 senior looked at necklaces and pink bags. We saw this really cute store with springy toys.

I stood on the MRT looking at the scenery whizzing past. It was a meaningful day.