Chaos Afternoon and Peaceful Night

Part 1: Chaos Afternoon

Another IT event was held for the past 4 days in Suntec. As usual, Singaporeans will show that recession is not the reason that hold them back from purchasing stuff. Almost everyone in Singapore made their way to the fair, resulting "flood" seen everywhere in the area. I also went to take a look on Sunday, which many believed that is the day when the price is slashed to the lowest possible value.

I met up with Song Guan and Yi Sheng at around 12pm at Tampines, and that is one of the few days when you cannot really see people flooding in Tampines Mall. It is definitely crowded during weekends. Haha. When we reached City Hall, the crowd was still considered acceptable at that moment. We believed the real crowd will come in at late afternoon around 3pm. After Song Guan got his camera, we walked around as I looked for camera too, but I did not get any in the end. We left the fair at around 2pm and made our way to Marina Square for our late lunch at Long John Silvers.

We decided to head back to Tampines at around 3pm and as expected, the crowd began to flood into the area, but the rain started to pour. Bad. Really Bad Timing. The way down to Citylink Mall from Marina Square was blocked because the crowd had invaded the 3 escalators and all the directions had gone upwards! It was damn difficult to push your way down! So we have to find another way down. I thought of the old exit of Citylink Mall that link to a Bridge to Suntec. However, it has now made unsheltered, so it is also impossible to make it to the exit unless you want to be wet. We want to avoid to be wet as Song Guan is holding his camera, so we took the elevator down. Taking it took us around 10 minutes because people were queuing to go down!!! It was the first time in my History that you can actually see people queuing for elevator!!! When we finally got down to the Basement, there was yet another problem. The entrance to the Citylink Mall (where the 7-Eleven is) was closed by the shutter!!! I can't believe I can actually trapped in City Hall.

*Note: On Saturday, the crowd management had to actually stop people from going into the IT Fair for 1 hour!

Having no choice, we had to take bus home to Tampines. We took 518 Express back. When the bus drove up to the ECP from the CBD area, you still can see cars queuing to make their way down to Suntec!!! The IT Fair has totally make people insane!!!

Part 2: Peaceful Night

At night, I met up with my Higher Mother Tongue Studying Group people. Haha. We gathered at Eastpoint to buy drinks and snacks for our Pizza dinner. I was late, but Si Hui came even later. Haha. We then went to our usual gathering spot, Sasha's house... Downstairs and wait for Pizza to deliver to our footsteps. Luckily, we can find seats at the shelter by the poolside (Yes, is a condo). Russell just came down (Yes, he lived in the same condo as Sasha's) just in time when the food arrived, but he was too full after his dinner at home.

We had another round of unstoppable chat and photo taking. Then, suddenly Wilson called Jiunn Kai, we all became silence and listened to their conversation. We then tried to trick Wilson that Jiunn Kai was hanging out with people that he don't know. But then, Jiunn Kai's phone went low batt in the middle of the conversation, so I had to SMS him to convey the message. True enough, he called me. And true enough, he complained about not calling him to come out since I'm with JiunnKai. So I tricked him saying that a friend we know gathered us together, and this friend do not know Wilson at all. Then, as expected, Wilson demanded the name, and I said a person by the name of Qiu Lin (Sasha's name in Chinese). Again, as expected, he answered, "Ok, I really don't know...". But he hung up the phone quickly when Sasha decided to reveal the truth to him. Haha.

We played for another hour to take photos under the different settings that Sasha's camera has. It was pretty late we have done taking pictures. Sasha drove us home this time. Haha. Sweet!