happy happy vesak!
lost y voice again. i m starting to sound like alvin. that is not a good thing haha

let me start with sat. we had a good time with our games stall. my gals ended up painting nails for each other. but i believe we had fun. even the boys who came to our booth to have the balloons burst on top of their heads.

super wet day. all the water bombs were anyhow zooming in front of me. but it was appropriate during a hot day, despite the tent we had. all the "prizes" LC bought for the different houses ended up in our own stomachs haha. and yes i bought one ice cream from the exco but ended up eating three... fat fat.

and if anyone who reads my blog ever reads the newspapers, you will find that there was a vesak special on friday's Life! papers. front page was teh youth ministry from kong ming shan pks monastery. then if u flip to page 4, you will see a pic with a lot of balloons. that is SBM! SBM made it to the papers! yay! and of cos there is Buddhist Federation with Nick SHen, Mrs Angie Monksield and Ajahn Brahm.

and yes on sat, met some ppl. uncle audrick introduced me to this prof who is teaching law in smu. he taught biz law in the first semester. he was really nice and we started chatting abt profs and abt my biz law grade. oh well. wad to do. biz law is my worst subject thus far.

then we met another sir. another nice person also. well wad to do? buddhists are nice ppl. haha no la everyone is nice, regardless of race and religion. jus a matter of finding the nice part of them :)

then we packed up our stall, tidied up a bit, then went to eat macdonalds at potong pasir with alvin, zf, ernst, weijie, zhen lin, lindy, sel, coburn, denise, shi hui, vic tan. haha can u believe we took close to an hour to walk wad usualy takes only 15 min? and i m prob guilty of it. kept making ernst and weijie say sariputta STAR, mush to the annoyance of their ananda house captain alvin. managed to make vic tan say once also. lucky moGGollana house captain zf too busy to do anything haha. then stupid ernst took my cam and took nonsense pictures la. but must say they are artistic. things i would not have paid attention to, if he hadn't took pics of them.

sun was sbm day! we invited the parents of our youths to come and see wad their children are really doing every saturday in this shophouse. really glad to see coburn's mum. i m glad to know more abt dear darling coburn. and if u r reading this, u r very fortunate to have a great mum. supportive of u.bring her to sbm more! haha btw i have a great mum too :)

so HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! haha i told my mum i din get her a present. really too busy la this weekend. lucky she really very supportive of me. not get jealous kind. as long as we good good, listen to her and my granmother and my dad, can le :)

saw lincoln's mum too. she is really bubbly and nice. and lincoln, if u r reading this, i hope lionel (ur bro, not mine) can come to sariputta house! my house needs more guys! haha. then mb u all end up like lawrence and zhen feng hehe.

must say i spent a very meaningful vesak with sbm! this is the first time i spent a spiritaul vesak, yet at the same time, i had lotsa fun ( think i supposed to do more work han have fun, but anyway) got lots of ppl to thank.

mr lee zhen feng - moggollana and sariputta best frens!
my sariputta gals - 5 of us were present yay!
my sariputtians
car wash ppl led by rock and coburn - thanks for tahan-ing the hot sun, and nice to know u had fun!
house captains and vice captains - alvin for manning the song dedication booth (think i still owe u $1 haha
vic teo for leading the mini moat team
cl2 - raising the most funds
mich - for taking care of our darling house :)
mentors!!!! how can we ever forget you all
mentors and exco - thanks for sponsoring the prizes. really nice. wish i got one of ur wonderful prize hehe
zeyan - for asking me to shut up to conserve my voice haha
aunties and uncles - who made sure we were well fed, kept the otherwise messy place clean, and kept cutting fruits for us
all clean up crew. thanks for staying for yesterday's and today's candle light procession. and today for tearing down al the decoration and moving all the plants, rolling carpet, scraping candle off the table...
all sbmyians, who have made ur way here to sbm to celebrate vesak with sbm. thank you for ur contribution and we really appreciate every effort :)

must thank bhantes also. we had six bhantes with us today. impressive. i respect our resident bhante a lot. he super support our youth group. plus today our youths took quite a while to settle down. he went to open the cupboard, take his mike, start his sound system. then he went to switch on the lights for teh latterns himself. then when we were moving the plants, he din stand aside and looked on using "eye power" (that was wad me and lindy did most of teh time). he also helped us arrange. so me and dee dee felt guilty and went to help him.

then alvin and zhen feng always bullying me and dee dee. i m goign to lodge an official complaint soon. or mb i will apply witchcraft to make all their memebrs sariputta STARS! pour water on both of us. next time we go hide behind bhante and auntie and uncle :P

met auntie laura yest and today. now i know a grand total of ONE auntie! haha no la. hopefully more than that. but somehow, probably because i met her outside sbm that i feel closer to her. i met her on my way home last sunday from vesak@orchard. seeing the shirt i was wearing, she approached me and asked me whetehr i was from sbm. she was with sbm since it started in the 1980s with venerable mahinda! we talked abt buddhism, sbm, her teaching at pks, the nunnery near my place and bikkuni bodhi. very happy to see her yest and today at sbm vesak celebrations. she complimented our youth group! yay! hopefully we get to meet more often.

anyway, hope everyone has a good rest. camp ehi-passiko is coming up. and i believe we will have lots more thigns to prepare. games, and logstics. 200 paper plates. hopefully easier to do than wrapping armour. time sure flies ah... last camp i was GL...

rest well guys. drink more water, if u do not want to have a horrible voice like mine. my mum thinks my voice is horrible too. i m drinking honey water.

P.S. I miss ernst's hai2 di3 long2 xia1 (underwater lobster) hehe