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Monday, February 20, 2006____*

Mood: in pain
Song stuck in head today: Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand

The 18th ACJC Fun-O-Rama on the 18th of February 2006. I actually woke up early on Saturday, thinking I would be a great deal of help to my class in the final and extremely last minute preparations for our stall. It turns out that no one is coming before 7.30am. At least no one that I rudely awokened at the break of dawn. So... I took an extra-long shower, inclusive of shampoo, conditioner AND mask. Heh. And I took more time than usual to put on my uniform. In the end, instead of catching the 6.40am train like I usually do, I ended up taking the 7-something train and I arrived in school at approximately 8am. And everyone was already there doing something associated with stall decorations. Whoops. So I was stuck with the job of collecting the coupon tins from the General Office during which I managed to get my image permanently imprinted in the archive video for the 18th Fun-O-Rama. Great. My totally bleary, in-need-of-concealer, red-rimmed eyes were publicly shown to the whole school this morning. I knew I should have waved. I should have put on a cheery and perky facade to mask the otherwise tired and sleep-deprived face I plastered on while waiting in line. Oh well... It was all for the fun of Fun-O-Rama. And it truly was fun. I had a blast!!!

All that walking around looking for good food
the tearing off of coupons
the slotting of coupons into tins
the dart-throwing
the badly-disfigured picture of Mao courtesy of the three Barker boys who didn't have anything better to do with their coupons
the dunking (and the cheering after Miss/Mr/Mrs _______ got dunked)
the splashing
the stickers
the walking sandwich boards
the ice drinks
the hot dogs
the face-painting
the gossiping and catching up with friends
the elation after you've won a prize
the greatly overprized wares (seriously, an Oreo tin selling for $12??!)
the long queues for the haunted houses
the screams emitting from the haunted houses
the throngs of girls giggling and squealing after they've emerged from the dark unknown of the various haunted houses into the bright daylight reality of the funfair
the endless trips to the coupon booths to get more coupons after what seemed like your hundredth one have run out
the desperate dash to shelter once the thunderstorm started
the mushy boyband songs we sang while waiting for the rain to stop
the taking down of banners and decorations
the clean up
the loooooong ride home

And that's not it.

Today we counted our coupon collections and it turns out our Happy Three Friends stall earned $700+!! Congrats 1AD1!!

Yeah. Anyhoo.. I'm in pain now from all the typing. We took our vaccination injections for South Africa today. Yeah, my left arm is numb. The whole vaccination before travelling thing is pretty new to me considering I lived in South Africa for like 2 whole years and never fell ill or went to the doctor even once. But prevention's better than cure right? Well except for the case of this sleepiness disease you catch from this flying insect. It's curable, but there's no current available vaccine. Heh.

*scribbled 6:21 pm(:

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