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Here i am to record my life events in case i should forget, which i hope i do not.

Yesterday was the Japanese Summer Festival once again! I missed it last year because i went to watch fireworks instead, but I went before the year before last. This year was different though, we all marched down decked out in our yukata of various colours! Cor bought the yukata from uniqlo while he was doing on Japan immersion. Naturally mine is yellow [i always seem to be in yellow nowadays, it breaks me out of my all dark self.], chair's is purple [naturally also], nu's is black [not very natural, but the pink and rabbit prints on it suit her] and cor's is blue, as natural as a guy's can get.

Wearing the yukata is a confusing and complex affair. You have to put your arms through the sleeves first so its like a loongg loong magnificent robe that trails of thick material behind you, and then you take each edge of the cloth and wrap it around left over right[dont get it wrong! the other way round is for dead people!] so that you pull up all the extra material and fold it over a white band tied around your waist. [my sis might have done this as an extra step cuz there was so much extra material on mine], anyway after this is the tying of the bow, just follow the steps on the instruction sheet and tying the bow in front of you, around yourself, then get someone to hold the bow while you do a 360 degree turn so the bow ends up behind you! We took quite long to get everyone into their yukata and it was steaming hot wearing it.

Anyway after that we pranced out of the house and made our way to expo for the shuttle bus. A few minutes later we were there! Looong LOOong queue there was, winding around many pillars, but the queue moved fast and soon enough, we were inside! Headed for food first cuz it was about dinnertime. There wasnt much left. Me and cor got sausages for everyone while chair and nu got curry rice and pork rice for everyone too. We ate and then went to see the other halls with the other stuff. Mr. Curry had super cute MANGO NYAN bags and we were all hypnotized by it and ended up buying THREE of them. Chair also got a giant domo bag to give away to someone and we got some fortune cat pouches at the same place. Water was scarce but we managed to get some drinks.
After eating was playing. The usual water balloon yoyo fishing, whee. They give you these hooks attached to a strip of paper that you have to use to dip in water to fish out balloons. It may be hard if you don't know the technique because the paper will get wet and break and you'll lose the hook. But i managed to get the one i wanted, yellow, of course, with a radar like grid print. I was contemplating a black one but decided it was too ominous. Chair also played a bowling game and knocked all the pins down so she got a prize of cute erasers and a tiny tiny tiny zip pouch with i chose. The prizes were wrapped in paper so you couldnt tell what they were until you opened it.

There were lots and lots of people there, and various people in yukata too. The little kids still look the best and the cutest. It's fun stuff that should be experienced at least once in the lifetime C:

Colours:
The awards ceremony itself was nothing much to talk about. But things are always fun as long as you're with shiny happy people.

AFTER the ceremony was the funner part. DINNER. Akshay and Gerald were trying to convince everyone to go to Bedok for dinner cuz they live near, and so do i, so i gladly agreed. Akshay kept saying its a FRIDAY NIGHT!! IT'S A FRIDAY NIGHT!! Exclaiming till his voice was going shrill and it was so super funny the way he seemed so desperate. In our LOUD discussion, even Mr. Melon overheard and pranced over to tell us that he would strip us of our awards if we didnt eat the buffet dinner! [which had only 5 measly dishes by the way and almost all of it gone by the time we went to eat] He was kidding of course, but we ate some of the buffet anyway cuz we were starving human beings. Eventually though, we decided to be nice and go somewhere near school, but further from home! To make other people happy. We went to this place opposite bukit timah plaza, which i dunno what its called, with my rifle girls and the rifle boys and sam the pistol girl. We had hot stuff for dinner, really really hot, thank goodness the drink helped.

The guys really have interesting stuff to talk about man. They can talk about anything and everything cept that i think their links fly even futher than when girls talk. One moment they're talking about art people and the next moment they're talking about rich people and its quite hilarious, the way they talk.

Oh, how can i bear to leave this place with people that make me feel so at home! sigh. the dilemma of the century.

goodbye world! It is about time to immerse myself in math homework....

Things left to do:
1. Testimonial writing
2. Math Paper 1n2 ACJC
3. Math Paper 1n2 AJC