To sum it all up, it was a blast. Although it felt more like a pig-out. We stuffed our faces with so much junk food. But this fabulous fun fair only happens once a year, so must as well buy and eat as much as we can!
For food and drinks, there was Island Cremery ice cream, roti prata, sausages on sticks (yuck, but the little primary peeps liked it), candy floss (in generous servings about the size of your head), pastamania, drinks, pastries, milo, Old Chang Kee, Breeks brownies, Japanese soba with tempura, satay, nachos (Keet's fave), and some other stuff. I can always find negative aspects about the food and drinks at most school events, but the annual fun fair never fails to satisfy.
It was rather disappointing that the gladiator battle wasn't here this year. I guess it was replaced by those animal go-carts and the Harley Davidson motorcycle rides. We wanted to take a spin on a Harley, but the ride was too expensive, about $12.
Which reminds me, wasn't it hilarious when the principal came riding on one of the motorcycles into the quadrangle during the fun fair opening? And the MC was desperately trying to make us 'hip hip hooray', but we were too busy laughing. Even the primary school, usually full of enthusiasm, didn't really respond to the MC. I couldn't even hear them screaming or cheering very much. It was almost like they were in shock, that their dignified, sophisticated principal was riding on a motorbike and waving at them like some Hollywood celeb.
Hehee, we didn't ride a motorbike but did take the animal go-carts. Ru and I squeezed inside the dog one, Keets got the giraffe all to herself, and Fi and Alicia took the cat. That was really fun, especially using the wheel to swerve to the right and left. Keets faced a lot of obstacles in her path around the Bamboo Courtyard, such as an old man and a couple.
Ah yes, the bouncy castle was great as usual! The exhilaration and adrenaline rush as you jump up and down on airy, bouncy ground, bump down the slide and fall against cushiony walls while music and screams blare in the background...
Another major event: the haunted house. I've never ever planned to go into one, mostly because I'm quite easily scared by gruesome objects. However, I was feeling adventurous today and summoned the courage to give it a go. I will now give a vivid description of what exactly happened in the haunted house, which was called "The Asylum":
When I entered, along with Sammie, Fi, Alicia and others, the room was relatively dark. Stacks and stacks of chairs snaked along the room, making it seem a bit more like a haunted corn maze. Creepy, sinister music played in the background the entire time. There were shredded newspapers all over the floor, and sheets of newspapers covering all the windows so that the blessed light of day couldn't enter.
A girl in a 'bloodied' lab coat was leading us around the room with a bright yellow glow stick. Almost immediately, girls in all-black clothing start grabbing at our arms and legs and feet, screaming. Others wandered about us like zombies. Some were writhing on the floor in 'pain', and grasped onto our legs, yelling "No! Don't leave me! Noooo!" Everyone around me kept screaming, but I didn't scream much. In fact, I patted the girls on the floor on the head, and gave those following me hi-fives so that they wouldn't touch me. I have to say, though, the whole time I felt rather panicked and those were my emergency measures. We were led to a computer, where we watched a rather scary video, created by the class managing the haunted house. Then, when we turned around, there was a girl wearing a huuuge freaky tribal-like mask. She didn't attack us, though. She just stood there, good as gold. We were eager to get to the exit but there were even more 'asylum patients' grabbing at us and holding onto our legs, determined not to let us out, shrieking "DON'T LEAVE ME!". One even grabbed me round the tummy. We kept struggling against them and finally, made it out. For some reason, I came out laughing my head off. I really have to give it to them though, they did a wonderful job in making it seem like a haunted asylum.
After that, we felt drained from all the frights and screaming, so we went back up to class. Then Mrs Chen came to give us a debrief before dismissing us.
She also held that little 'prize presentation'... Ru asked if I felt 'victorious' when I went up and received the 'prize' but I think that I felt too surprised and shocked to have any other emotions. I've always thought of myself as plain old Qweeb the Dweeb, with no high expectations of myself.
Moreover, I felt somewhat awkward and scared because I've never been presented with a prize individually in front of a group of people. And I made that quite obvious by being totally blur up there. I stood in the wrong position, then almost forgot to do the hand-shake! Thank you for the cheering though, and thank you Ru for the congratulatory hug. I'd like to congratulate Fi, who also received a prize!
One more thing I haven't mentioned: today is the last day of school. Doesn't feel like it one bit. Feels like there's going to be school tomorrow, and next week too. I'll miss you guys during the holidays. :'( At least we'll be seeing one another this Sunday, at the Methodist Heritage walk. Well, see you then!
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