Friday, March 02, 2007
Woot Hoooooooooo~~~
Exams are finally overShan't worry about results nowBecause my well-deserved holidays are here!!!Shall blog about Chingay first...First Full Dress Rehearsal 10 February 2007: 

It's that headgear that caused internal blue black on my forehead
And that feathery thing i'm carrying caused me my shoulder-ache
Preview 23 February 2007:


Me and Xing Yi got a shock on the day when we reached the office because our customes had change to something else
What a surprise!!!I thought the ones that me and Carine was wearing initially was already so bad enoughBut...the new one was worstLuckily Carine wasn't there to witness the shockHahaXing Yi's princess dress was also changed to something like mine...We had no choice but to try it outWe had no choice but to wear it for performanceAfter walking around with the new costumes i got used to it lah...But Xing Yi still prefer her yellow princess dressMy new costumes were way way so so much lighter...So after make-up and after dinner we went to meet Julie, who was responsible for usAt the box-office, we meet The Pink OneI'm The Green OneXing Yi was The Yellow OneSo Shanyi was The Pink OneThat's what Julie called usHahaWe chatted while waiting for the bus to OrchardSo when the bus came...We got up together with the GUY helpersNot one or two or three but about 10 to 20 of themThe four of us felt weird at first...wearing such costumes and getting up to a bus with all the guys seating at the backHaaThen...The road was so jammedSo we had to alight and WALKI don't mind walkingBut we had to walk past the passengers on the bus-stop...Walk past the road with all the vehicles stuck on the traffic...Walk past those passengers who started to take out their camera-phones...What to do...And AND AND!!!I saw that irksome guy!Luckily he did stop me or anythingThe thought of that incident still irks me...=(When Mr Lim saw Xing Yi...he became so fed-up again and he started asking her, "ni3 wei4 shen3 me4 chuan1 zhe4 jian4?! Ni3 ying1 gai1 chuan1 yi3 qian2 na4 jian4!"Like as if we know...He always get so work upSo he called the officeOnce it got through...he immediately shouted, "ni3 men2 wei4 shen3 me4 gei3 ta1 chuan1 na1 jian4?!"Wah...it's like bu4 fen1 qing1 hong2 zao4 bai2 de ma4 ren2 lo...if i'm the one picking up the phone i would have gotten a shock...TSK...some miscommunications...So Xing Yi got to wear her yellow princess dress the next dayThat night was the first time we saw the Russian dancers who were in the same float as usThey are SO tall and SO pretty!Unlike us...Shanyi said that their legs looked like barbie dolls' legsHahaAnd it's the first time i witnessed the fire-crackers liveOur float was the opening item so it was so super loud!After we went back to PA and return our costumesMe, Xing Yi, Charlotte and her two friends were Geylang3 girls and 2 guys go Geylang of course to do what youngsters normally do thereSUPPER la...What were you people thinking?HahaWe had dim sum!The whole table was full of dim sum!Dim sum dim sum yummy dim dum!Because i was asking so much questions, curious you see...so Charlotte's friends drove us around to see see look look...since we were already there...HahahaThen they drove us back home and sent us all the way to our liftsCHINGAY 24 February 2007:It was ren2 ri4 alsoAnd i got two sms wishing me Happy BirthdayHahaThis day seem to very rush...In the end I had a few stylists attending to meFeels like some big shotHahaAnd the same go for the other threeAnd yes...the fourth one is called The Blue OneHahaI've took pictures with LOTS LOTS of people!!!Alot of people took picture with us too!Made us feel more like big shotsHaha
There's this aunty from the crowd behind the barrier...she shouted at me and Shanyi to turn towards them for them to take pictures...I was like -.-"If we were to collect $5 for each picture...we would have earned hundreds and hundreds and probably reaching thousandsHaha
Our float was a cruise ship and she was the captain/sailor
See! Like i said...they are sooo tall. Not that i'm short...
Colourful lions...
Rehearsals. They had been going up and down up and down for don't know how many times...
Dragon made out of colourful windmills
Solid proof of illegal gambling. On the streets somemore...haha

Me and Charlotte!
Shanyi and me!
Me and Beng Long. One of the guy helpers. He and Longjie took very great care of us. Longjie was like our bodygaurd getting us out of the crowd. Me and Shanyi was supposed to stand around our float for the public to take picture with us. The crowd came. And they took pictures with us non-stop. If not for Longjie, both of us will be stuck there. Even when we were walking our there will be people stopping us to take picture with them.
Prosperity.Health.Longevity
The Indian dancers!
The kids are sooooo cute!


Overall, we had fun!We get to meet different people from different countries and the whole event was a great eye-opener for us

The reunion! The four of us were split to two different during the parade...and we managed to meet up!The Green One.
The Yellow One.
The Pink One.
The Blue One.There are pictures of the floats as well...
I will upload after Xing Yi send me more of our photos
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