跑吧，孩子！

跑吧，孩子！

Thanks to Xingqi,  I'm not giving up! And what better way to show that but a blog? And on something happier too, not like the last one.

Sometime last Wednesday, I left school with Jia Teck, Tong Wei, Sara and Guang Liang(spelling?). We made our way to City Hall and then Raffles City for dinner. Jia Teck and I thought it'd be better if we sat on seperate tables - don't hold your breath - Sara and Tong Wei's year 2 classmate was coming to meet us for dinner at Raffles City and originally the idea was that only the 3 of them would be eating together but now there's me Jia Teck and Guang Liang(spelling?) and according to one of them (I can't remember who) their classmate Charlene was shy so it would seem weird if we were sitting with them because she wasn't really informed beforehand we would be going with them.

But we ended up on the same table anyway.

Jia Teck and I waited at City Hall to meet Heng Guang and Vanessa first because they didn't know how to get to Victoria Concert Hall. After some less-than-convinving arguements on whether the Victoria Concert Hall was up in the sky or directly below a bridge, we finally found the place.

So the 6 of us who met for dinner suddenly came to a realisation. Well the 5 of them actually. They discovered that we didn't buy a gift for the people performing that we knew. I simple went "Wah, we need to buy gift one ah?"

We went into the mini cafeteria at first, and thought about whether it would seem weird if we bought candy as a gift, since almost everyone else got flowers. I had a different idea though - very 2K. What if we, well, "borrowed" the flowers they so nicely put on the tables? It seemed pretty deserted anyway, I'm sure losing a few plastic flowers wouldn't affect the business.

But I decided against it. So after chatting with alot of other friends who also went to the concert, we entered the Theatre. The perfomances were great actually, and time flew by fast. In between each song, Jia Teck, Sara and I who were
sitting close together were deciding whether we should find some way we could get a gift. Before we knew it, the intermission came. 20 minutes, it was announced.

Why not guess the crazy idea that popped into our minds. I'll give you a clue - it starts with an R, and ends with un-to-raffles-city. Got it? Good guess!

And run we did. Me and Jia Teck didn't stop one step on the way there, and had a little trouble finding the florist at first. After the florist took a excruciatingly long time to wrap up the flowers nicely, we started off running back again, and recieved a call somewhere in the middle of the Padang. I heard Jia Teck shouting "FIVE MINUTES?", before we ran even faster than when we started. When just reached the Concert Hall and heard the bell ring, we thought we missed it.

We were completely breathless when we crawled our way up the short flights of stairs, and surprsingly - we made it! I wanted to laugh, but didn't have enough energy to do so, and probably looked stupid enough walking like 2 zombies to our seat. We both collapsed onto our seats, and kept on panting. But I never doubted what we were doing even for a moment. Like I told Jia Teck when we were running, "These are memories, man. You don't do crazy stuff like this everyday."

We got lost in the voices of the choir once again, and it only got even more entertaining when they did the High School Musical songs. Sara and I were busy trying to tell Jia Teck to stop singing during the songs that he knew, and I was quite afraid the people in front of us might be getting angry.

After the concert ended, and the "pop out of nowhere" flowers were given, Jia Teck made us walk a long way round to get to the MRT, and finally we ended up home. It was really great fun, both before, during, after and in between the concert. Wonder if the CS concert will be any more interesting?

Yes, we definitely don't get to do such crazy stuff everyday.