I am now celebrating the long-awaited end of the exams and the semester. Strange, isn’t it? I am writing the week 3 journal…during the June holidays. Well here it goes:
The most eventful event was the bazaar by the lake. We set-up 3 (or 4?) stores: Roll Roll Rawk + Al-Ka-Zapp (both games), Cotton-Mama + fish food (both foods). The games store was located in front of the admin block foyer while the food store was located at the road bend near the lecture hall 1. Business was immensely slow in the morning. The fish food and cotton candy sold like stale pancakes. The games store was slightly faster. Our so-called impenetrable games soon fell and our top 2 prizes (a fan and a MP3!) was won. I certainly got my back up! Nothing could go anymore wrong. There was nothing to attract customers. No prize, no customers. Then came “it”.
The rain fell as if someone poured a bucket of cold water over the school, and our hopes for some good business were extinguished too. Silly bucket of water! This catastrophic rainstorm felt like a sign from heaven. The sun was so bright in the morning. This strange weather “phenomenon” was definitely a sign. Moreover, the game store was severely flooded. Our prizes were almost drowned in the water. The water level was very high. The drain at the front of the admin block turned into a temporary ocean for ants. Such inordinate rain choked the school’s drainage system. I heard the lake almost overflowed (just joking…hehe…). Our candy floss sugar was one of the casualties in the rain. It turned from a fine pink powder into pink slime, straight out from some low-class horror movie (maybe we should have donated it to the haunted house).
However, the rain brought with it a new kind of hope. Bizarre, isn’t it? When the rain fell, I saw more people having fun, especially our classmates. Go see fong sin and pin jun become “r*ta*ds” on our class blog. Some of our classmates had so much fun walking barefooted in the rain. Anyway, for some reason, the rain with it more customers. Every visitor was squeezed into the shelter, so more customers!
The rain was certainly refreshing. Anyway, the morning sun was also too hot. The afternoon was much cooler than normal. We wore black that day, so imagine how thankful I felt. The after noon went on more smoothly. My station was changed to the cotton candy, located at the end of the canteen. I was together with Darren Yap. We had an endless line of customers. The person making the cotton candy, well, after so much problems and troubles, had a face as black as our class tee. Obviously, he was very easily irascible. Well, we had a ridiculous request for 17 cotton candy! I stupidly gave them 17, and soon the lost half the line. I have learnt my lesson and wrote my lines…
Overall, the sales was quite well done, about $800-$900 profit. Not too bad. Kudos to these people: Shi Yun and Kian Hao for the games. Adeline, Jennifer, Darren Wee, Ahani, Shevons, whom I saw was working feverishly from 10-1. I would like to thank all those that satyed on to help. I would like to also thank Eugene and Gang for buying the fish food, and selling it (and buying it to eat for lunch). I would personally thank Eng Kiat and Darren Yap who consistently remained solo at the cotton candy store, dealing with customers and the operator (thank you operator for creating so much cotton candy!). I would want to thank Chen Rui, Chin Wang, Xuan Hao, Dominic for creating that attention grabbing banner. I would also like to thank Jia Xin for her effort in collating the prices of food. Most of all, I would like to thank Mr Lam for helping us through the whole bazaar. Thank for taking over the cotton candy machine business. I doubt I will be able to deal with that tone-less voice you heard over the phone. I would thank everybody in class for helping out one way or another. Sorry I never mention your name!
To end, I will tell you what I overheard from some teachers a few days ago…
“Hey, I heard that we will have another one next year.”
“Have what?”
“The bazaar of course! What else?”
Yes, here we go all over again! ; )
