Saturday, June 16, 2007
hey hey hey, i'm here to talk about
karang guni ytd!!! hahaha, i must say that this time all of us had more fun than the last time because a lot more people was able to make it down for the collection!!! what's more about it was that there was a very good mix of ppl who made it! there were
freshies (
bernice & natalie),
rag&flag ocomm members (
kit geok, pearl, xiao yan, serene, kenneth, bryan, applie, jackson, zac & samantha),
mc members (
reuben, jeremy & caleb) &
seniors (
jing yi, wen hui, jianwu, alvin & yuimin)!!! first & foremost, wld lk to say a very big word of thanks to every single person who came down to help out despite all of us having busy and tight schedules!!! ^-^ it was deeply & greatly & very much appreciated!!! (: also, it is very homely to see everyone of us come together to do something together after such a long time, the feeling is nice beyond words can describe. i think only those who came down to help would understand what i mean.
anyway back to the
karang guni, i've to say we started off on a bad note because it rained!!! oh my, and somemore it was not those drizzle type ok, it is quite heavy eh. in e end i push trolley walk in e rain, got myself so drenched that bernice thought i bath before i left school. cui! anyway, due to the rain, people were late as per usual and expected @
10am. me leaving from school with the
rag people (
bryan, xiao yan, serene & my bro xiao huang) was of cos late as we were all caught in e rain. by e time we reached
jurong east mrt station, we met up with
kit geok just nice on e platform. den we saw
mei ling, bernice, zac, applie & reuben waiting for us patiently. and so e whole grp of us met up then most of e ppl went to buy their breakfast 1st while e rest of us waited at one corner of e interchange where some people is playing a family trail game. haha, den e uncle very funny cos he say we shld get tpt so tt we wont b so xiong. end up we were chatting w tt uncle & his wife plus his friend & his wife also. hah, e aunty keep saying students different thinking, can do things differently no prob one, got generation gap blah blah blah. we took bus to the blk of hdb flats where we met up w
wenhui & den started collecting! (:
e collection went on qt well & successful as all of us helped one another out. even though we have to change our central collection points twice;
1st time is cos e flat not central enuff,
2nd time is cos e flat below got malay wedding. hahaha. den we realise e ppl living at
jurong east very bad!!! cos they kop-ed e trolley from
ntuc & giant!!! we found a lot of trolleys underneath those HDB flats, which is good for us in a way too!!! hahaha, cos in e end as we lack trolleys, we temporarily borrowed for a while also. ;) haha, so it's qt funny to see a grp of students transporting
karang guni stuff on trolleys tt ppl use to buy stuff from supermarkets. hahaha :P after a while, a lot of ppl start arriving one after another, especially e lao laos!!! oh man, it is really very heartening when you see snrs coming back (
alvin & jianwu) & then hugging one another (
jing yi & yuimin), getting excited at seeing one another & started catching up with one another after not seeing each other for a long time. no matter how much was e collection for karang guni, i feel that we hav accomplished more great things other than raising money for charity. we have organised an activity to bring people back tgt & to me tt feeling is awesome. therefore everyone should come down for all rag & flag activities!!!
ragging rocks!!! flagging rocks!!! yea yea yea! ^-^after e 1st half of e day, we had lunch tgt under one of e hdb flats with stacks of newspapers as our temporary dining tables. haha, where else can u get to experience such unique meal times other than by joining us? even though it was only chicken rice with mineral water/pokka green tea drink, it was still an enjoyable time eating with one whole big grp of ppl. eating food & chatting happily about special incidents happening during e collection earlier on, it feels just like home surrounded by ppl who cares & matters to you. after one whole day of knocking on doors, repeating our purpose to e citizens there, collecting stuff, tying newspapers, stacking clothes, moving electrical appliances, pushing trolleys & dealing with noisy barking dogs, we decided to stop work at around
6pm when e
karang guni man came and start collecting e stuff frm us. i must say tt i am very happy with e rate given by e karang guni man but seriously disappointed with e rate given by e karang guni man for electrical appliances. there was actually another so-called fake karang guni man who came earlier on to exchange newspapers and buy from us some of the electrical appliances. i really regret at e end of e day at not selling some of e stuff to him earlier on as i felt tt e characer is shady. never mind la, it is over alr, we shall learn a lesson from this
karang guni & make e next & last one e best
karang guni we can ever do!!! (:
at e end,
me, mei ling & my bro went w e lorry to bring all e newspapers to e factory in lorry & we collected over
2 tonnes of newspwpers!!! which is one time more than e last karang guni! kudos to everyone who helped out! we owe e success of our collection to every single one of u, nth can b done if it is only
me & mei ling doing it. all in all, with all the
karang guni (2 of them in total), we hit our targetted amount raised!!! haa, yea yea yea! paiseh if i'm taking tis quote frm
Arts Camp Red House but
Rag is more like a project, more like a family. 54 Days to Rag & Flag Day 2007~!
` lets be raggerfied
