Owing to the fact that my whole family is in the festive mood, I have decided to write about the CNY celebration in school.
Well, in my opinion, it was rather exciting (not too sure about you guys, though). The "Xiang Sheng" performance, the lion dance and, of course, the unforgettable orange-peeling contest were all amazing.
However, I missed out on the first one hour or so of the celebration because I was helping out at the distribution of oranges to the teachers (some insider information). On Friday, councillors had to report at 6.40p.m. to make final preparations. Early, eh? For your info, the whole of the celebration, including the decorations (or should I say, especially the decorations, because in one instance, we had to stay back until 8.00p.m. just to put them up), was planned by the student council, so you had better be appreciative of our efforts, or else. Just joking.
Anyway, we were given a short briefing on what we had to do. Each councillor was assigned to an area to present oranges politely to the teachers, and had to ensure that every teacher gets a bag of oranges, no more or no less. In the past, there were cases of certain teachers getting as many as 4 bags of oranges, while a few others (probably the ones less liked) went home empty-handed. This embarrassing episode generated quite a bit of unhappiness and complaints were made to the student council, who promised that it won't happen again, hopefully.
CJ and I were allocated the SALT centre area and 3 bags of oranges each. The HSC president then went up and told the councillors assigned to the terraces to wait for his cue, which was the second last sentence of his speech (more insider info), before giving out oranges.
To keep a long story short, we went to flag-raising with the rest of the school, then proceeded to our respective venues. After the oranges were distributed, we went to the staffroom to chase the remaining teachers into KKH.
I came back just in time to catch the lion dance but because KKH was so packed I couldn't rejoin the class. I stayed at the back for the rest of the celebrations, and thankfully so, as I could get a much better view of the stage.
I won't be elaborating on the rest of the celebration any further as I believe everyone has seen it for himself, and hope that you enjoyed the celebration (or at least paid attention :P) as much as I did.
-Shilin
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Hi Ziying here,
ReplyDeleteYour blogskin is short, sweet, simple. Though green as a dominate color seems to be TOO simple and dull. Perhaps add a little more twist to the theme? After all, it would not hurt to catch people's attention. Personally, I feel that the Hangman application is a bit useless, after all, I did not come to your blog to play Hangman, then again, each to his own I suppose.
Now, onto the content, since most of us are not Councillors, maybe it will be better for you to elaborate more on the processes or things that happened when you were distributing oranges or putting up the decorations. Really liked the part when you talked about the popular teachers who got buried up to elbow in oranges and the slight-less popular ones having received nothing.
I really liked the your writing style, to the point, yet with a touch of humour, keep it up.
ReplyDeleteHi SL,
ReplyDeleteI understand that the theme is fixed by blogger. But I find it a little dull, so I would suggest downloading an external skin which suits your style from www.blogskins.com ( I'm changing mine too) But there are some limitations to external skins.
(e.g. can't insert certain apps)
You can also download some music from 'mixpod.com' to further personalize your blog (the songs should be reflective of your personality)
Regarding your content, I agree with ZY. And you should also adopt a certain focused scope to your posts to achieve specificality, which attracts readership.
Your writing style is good. You have rather skilfully achieved a balance between formailty and casuality.
btw, you can also consider critiquing the issues faced rather than simply elaborating on it.
Cheers,
Zhu Cheng
sorry specificity, not specificality
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