music of the piano
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Something that took place in school
I still remember in primary school when we celebrated our 70th anniversary and we had put in a lot of effort to celebrate it. It also marked a sad occasion that the library had to be renovated as it was very old and so we could not go to the library for about 2 months. L HDB had struck again.
On the day of celebration, we had a lot of crazy events and sports such as a fancy soccer match- with only 1 rule that I shall reveal later-and it was between the teachers and the students. There was no such thing as handball or throw in as we were allowed to touch the ball with our hands and if the ball was out, we were also allowed to kick in the ball out of the borders.
We had a time limit of 67 minutes (the 7 was for the 70th anniversary). So at the end of the match, the organizers announced that the students had won when the score was 3 to the teachers and 2 to the students. The organizers then revealed that actually, the players were supposed to let in as much goals as possible, so that was the only rule!! JJJ
The students then went up to receive the prizes which were "thumb drives" that was actually a picture of a thumb with a paperclip on it. HAHA…….. More funny business followed throughout the day. And like the soccer game, everything was in reverse; I guess that the theme could probably be "reverse".JJ Of course, there were some serious games like musical chairs and etc….We all had a good time with the games galore and talentimes.
At night, all the ex-pupils of my primary school came and at 7.30pm my school played the old recording of the school song and we sang the school song. My friend and I noticed that most of the ex-pupils were not singing and they were just merely moving their lips. We chuckled at their ingenuity and helplessness.
The principal then proceeded to make a speech and invited an ex-pupil up on stage to make his speech. The ex-pupil fumbled a bit and then apologized for not being prepared. He then made a long and boring speech that almost made me doze off. Then it was dinner time. My friends and I helped to serve and we had a good time keeping our ears and mouths open; the ex-pupils were talking about the good ol' days. The dinner ended at about 9.30pm but we ended up going home at 10pm as we had to help clean up the place. It was really something interesting that took place in school.