SAC Open House!

Finally, after all those preparations and late night flyer distribution, today was our FYP event for the SAC! Named 'When Home Becomes the Last Place You Want to Be', it was a small open house that we planned for SAC.

The new Student Advisory Centre at Clementi!

It all started with me and Bin and nice Mr. Yap making our way to Ubi to collect the bazaar tables and chairs. It was a memorable morning of us being three mad menial workers having to carry heavy stuff and break out into sweat. I wasn't even done doing the shit work when the irritating bazaar stallholders started to mob me with their demands and questions. So the whole morning was basically running here and there to attend to different people, it was freaking busy.
Finally after the bazaar stallholders were more or less settled down, things were less rushed for me. So on went the educational tour, talks, video screening, and the interacting.

An enraptured audience watching the educational video (heng cannot see my Ah Lian role in it)

Our FYP supervisor dropped by for a visit and we were glad that she appreciated our event. Bin was a joke to fall in front of an astonished her, to which she gasped "Get up! Get up!"

I was given the honourable task of welcoming the MP, Mr. Arthur Fong to officiate the re-opening ceremony of SAC. After helping to spray out the SAC new logo to mark the opening, the performances started. It started off with Maqrius's break dance, but me and Khong were happily eating the buffet and chatting in the VIP room. It was only when it was the magician's (thanks to Solid Gold) performance that I went to watch. Soon it followed by juggling acts and lindyhop etc.

Bin and Mr. Fong watching the performances

To our dismay, it started pouring and man, did it look like a cyclone. Even the drains started overflowing and it scared the stallholders. Poor Bin was so frustrated with the late performers, and we had to shift everything indoors because the rain was splashing everyone at the void deck. So the unicycling team did their stunts, and the singers sang inside SAC.

Bin and I had a try on the unicycle, wah lau, it was scary. The team was encouraging though, they hoped to have more unicycling enthusiasts but unfortunately, we weren't very adept with it. Heh.

Finally in the evening, the event came to a close, and man, did I realise that we were grateful to many many people! The first person who deserves the most credit is Mr. Yap, he is ultra ultra resourceful and helpful to us. I am also thankful to the performers, who have voluntarily performed free-of-charge for us, the volunteers who have helped out like the hosts and the ushers, and our friends who took time out to drop by and visit (I was particularly amused by James's interesting research on the relationship between the colour of cupcake wrappers and the number of chocolate chips in them). Hee, thanks to Milo for the rides home and the help he has offered the days before. Bin and I were grateful to Tofu Girl too.

Then it was the family gathering at Fourth Aunt's house, and when I reached, everyone was there. It was the usual, eat and gamble. Wow, the fried prawn ball at the buffet was FANTASTIC! We played with Ah Mao (Fourth Aunt's pet cat) which was so timid and hid behind the sewing machine the whole night! Their pet turtle caused an indignant Ah Sir to fight for its right to be released into the wild. Ah Ping was a mad woman who wanted to feed Bobbi vodka. (At least I was more humane, I gave her some of the fried prawn balls ... No lah, Ah Sir! I was just kidding!) Henglip was a maggot who had nothing better to do than to draw moustaches for me and Ah Sir on our nice photo. Wee couldn't get over the fact that Bin knew what she did last summer. Someone bought a big pack of fortune cookies and man, did I love them! We also feasted on the Haagen Dazs ice-cream Ah Hoon bought.

Sigh, Ah Ping is a spoilsport. Our family gatherings have also come to a close ...