It started out horrendous, but ended with a bang. (:

Agenda of the day: Attend ELL symposium at CJC. Attend Rotaract Raffles City Installation.

Woke up early in the morning to prepare for the day. Spent a lot of time deciding on things that I didn't get to use/apply in the end. Just when I was about to leave, the newspaper uncle came to collect money. (Suay #1) There was no money in the house, not enough anyway, and everyone else is sleeping so I didn't want to wake them up. So I gave the uncle all the money in my wallet. ): Fortunately, there was still today's allowance to tide me over for the day. (I had to pay for the entrance fee at the installation and there was lunch to be settled.) Left my house and following the internet's instructions, I boarded the bus. On the bus I realised I had forgotten to bring my hair clip, the eggtarts I prepared for Gail and paper to take notes. (Suay #2) But since I was gonna be late for the symposium if I turned back, I continued travelling. I reached ACS Barker at 9:15am when the symposium starts at 9:30am. Thinking that there is enough time, I started to follow my map and make my way to CJC. Then, I ended up terribly lost. (Suay #3) I was still lost at 9:40am, nowhere near CJC. Got so scared! But thank God I managed to find main road and hailed a taxi almost immediately. Problem is, the taxi driver doesn't know how to go CJC. (Suay #4) AHHHH. So with much panicking and fretting, we finally reached the school. I used the rest of my money to pay for the taxi fare. (Suay #5) Was super late and the usher let me enter the auditorium from an entrance super far from the location where we were seated at. It did not help that we were sitting right in front of the podium, where the speaker is. (Suay #6)

After the symposium, it started raining cats and dogs. (Suay #7) We managed to get out, after the ill-mannered hwachong people squeezed to exit the school before us even though we were exiting half-way. And I wanted to have lunch with Gail. This is when I remembered that I do not have any money on me. ARGH. In addition, the excos were not replying telling me their location and what time they are meeting so I have no idea if I had time for lunch. Decided to go eat due to the lack of response. JUST when I was about to order my food, Foonghui said she left her house on the way to mrt. (Suay #8) After lunch I chiong-ed to the mrt, only to enter a cabin with a seemingly mentally unsound guy waving his hands in the air playing an imaginary drum while hurting people. (Suay #9) Jiaqi and Shermain then replied saying they were already on their way to marina bay. (Suay #10) The excos ended up going together without me. After I reached Marina Bay, there was a fork where I had to decided to turn left or right. I turned left. It was the wrong exit. (Suay #11) After much fumbling, I finally managed to find the place, find my excos, find my way. 

Installation was a new thing for me to attend. So I was quite passive the entire time. Oh did I mention I didn't get to change out of my uniform so I stuck out like a sore thumb because the dress code was black/gold and my blouse was white? (Suay #12) But after a while we started talking to each other and interacting with one another. We made friends with Rotarian Karen and some other big shots hehe. Then when the rotaract club went up to take pictures, Jiaqi Shermain and I followed Jacqueline, Yixin and Agus (new friends!!) up to the roof garden where we flew Yixin's really cute PUB kite. :D This was the first time in my life I saw the whole process of flying a kite and getting it so high into the sky. ^^ We talked a lot and found out Yixin was our senior! He was in the same class as Ms Lim Fen Niu hahaha it was quite extraordinary. (: And I showed Agus his doppelganger, Bertram! Hahaha. It was really funny. Found out Agus was an Chinese Indonesian who knows Malay too. Cool like mad! (:

After that Yixin had to go off to meet his friends at clementi. But as we were walking down, the rotaract club raffles city came down too. Haha. We ended up going up to the roof again (this time by lift) and take pictures. Jump shot, group shot, photobomb shot. Hahaha everyone was so friendly and so warm I felt like we known them for days already. (: We cracked jokes and made everyone laugh. Jiaqi Shermain and I showed them our wushu routine. Hahaha. Soon, Jiaqi had to leave for his grandma house, so we left for the bus stop. While walking, we heard a familiar deafening sound! Looking up, it was the helicopters holding the flag of Singapore and fighter jets zooming past! It was the first time in my life I saw them so up close. (: It was simply, amazing. :D We then proceeded to get one potong ice cream each and Shermain gave me a lift to JE mrt by cab. ^^

I was really happy at the end of the day. :D Met new friends, ate good food, had a blast taking pictures and laughing. So in a way you can say the installation brightened up my horribly suay-day. (:

I just hope those friendships we made today, it will still be there the next time we meet. Which really is God-knows-when. 

Didn't get down to doing any homework or studying, which made me super guilty. Have to mug tomorrow after church before Dom and perhaps after Dom too!! One more month!!