Mon: collected MNE2 tix won from xin.sg and Mitsubishi fan!

Tue: NUS flag day! very excited abt e idea of having flag day. My orientation grp Quillfish was posted to Lavender. after we had our lunch, we split off to collect donations. there's hardly anybody there at all. we walked further to an overhead bridge and stopped there. huiqi and hai stood at one end of the bridge so i crossed over to the other side and went to another bridge.

the human traffic there is nt as many as compared to e mrt station. but maybe its cos of dis and tts y i get to chat wif some pple:

- a retired old man saying he had no $ started telling me abt the past..how those in e education industry gt killed by the Jap during world war, the cost of a plate of noodles etc. he mentioned tt he had 7 children but only spoke of 1 who gave him monthly allowance.

- another old man who claims tt he doesn't donate to pple who carry tin cans but gave money to charities on a monthly basis. thinking tt it may be the NKF/Ren Ci saga tt is bothering him, i mentioned tt these 2 were nt under our list of beneficiaries. he said he knew tt but just tt he doesn't donate and knew tt im nt lying to him.

- a skincare pdt promoter

it's true tt u get to see diff reactions of pple during flag day. some who totally kept an expressionless face acting as if they were deaf, some who politely refused, some who donated upon being asked, some who readily donated without being asked. there were pple whom i see walking past me at least twice, perhaps going to and coming back from lunch at e opposite side and others whom i duno wad they were doing. i asked everyone past caring whether i had asked them before or nt. was very happy when some reacted to my determination and donated!

at 2pm i met up wif huiqi and hai and realised my tin can was much lighter than theirs. huiqi told me e tourists were very much willing to donate. lucky them! i was determined to get more donations so i continued to ask for more. haha huiqi even donated $1+ to me! (i knw u r touched by my perseverance!)

arnd 3pm we walked back to lavendar mrt station and took e train to NUS. we returned our tin cans and went to Mac to munch! so ended up huiqi and i ate and talked crap dere until 6pm.

it was a very fulfilling day!

-pic of flag day-

met up wif mum at the Cathay to watch Journey to the Centre of the Earth. won the tix frm HIP Alliance. there were so many pple at e cinema. we got back row seats! ordered chicken baked rice and fish baked rice. some improvements cld be made to e rice as it was abit uncooked. the movie screening time was short and it was ok to me. i think i expected more adventure from it.