HELP Lantern Festial

7th of October 2007 will always be a day to remember, for various reasons.

First of all, it will be an integral part of my record breaking event in which i will be spending 12 straight days in HELP, due complete this coming Friday, hanging out with the same dudes and doing stuffs a little bit more exciting than watching paint dry.

Secondly, dined in the dark, by the drain, with 3 hot chicks and the rain came pouring. (Hope i grabbed the correct fried chicken)

Thirdly, was able to cheat a bed sheet from the guys from Hitz.fm by asking them for the last trading price of HIC.

Fourth, got to run around with Dr. Paul Chan in the rain.

And finally, had a taste of becoming a big time mooncake seller.

All these made true only through HELP Lantern Festival 2007.

It is by far the only charity event that i have mixed feelings. As known, HELP is raising funds to help a particular student, Ms. Chia Leng Yau who suffered from Leukemia. Being at the fore front of charity, AIESEC HELP helped out in the event, by selling mooncakes for HELP Econ department. I reached there bout 5.30p.m., signed my name and worked with Yee Joo to get things going. Commander Tang has for us a truck load of mooncakes from which we should use common sense to squeeze charitable funds out of them. Pretty tall order considered that its dry goods and then mooncake festival has just passed but being who we are, we managed to get a satisfying sum out of the very very short time that we were allowed to paddle in the carpark.

With creativity, we managed to arrange a pretty decent stall out of nothing but 4 rectangular tables. Food were catered to all of us (and AIESECers were beginning to turn up in throngs). There were Digi and its Army and Hitz.FM (where i got THE XL sized shirt). Dr. Paul Chan, Mrs. Chan and Dr. Khong all turned up but what was more satisfying was the appearance of HELP ICT students, students of SEC which was acquired by HELP recently. We are like a one big family now. There was a makeshift stage where varied performances were catered to the euphoric us and we all danced and moved in response to the tunes. There were marshal arts performances, dances, bands, and if I'm not mistaken, an Indian singing Chinese song!

But perhaps, heaven got deeply moved by us that He decided to weep. Light beatings of rain drops and lightnings streaking across the sky signaled the premature end of the event.

Though I must say that it was a little bit of a let down towards the end, it is nevertheless a fun event, held for a good cause. And if I were to turn back time, knowing that it will still rain nonetheless, you will still see me running around like a madman in the rain in the open carpark, with an umbrella perhaps.