Lantern Festival was FUN! [WARNING: this is a super long post]
Yvonne was very excited so she came over to my house as early as 2 or 3. i cant exactly remember, but the point is, we were very looking forward to going downstairs to play.then we decided to go down at 5.30, after doing our hw. we were very guai, we actually managed to do our homework! :D but then the sky was so dark, as if it were going to rain!! however we didnt care at first, so we went ahead and went down at 5.30.there, we saw only 2 other guys, called xiao b (?lets just call him that) and another guy we recognised but didnt know, we called the black monkey guy. and then we had no lighter. we called leanne to come down 'NOW!' and she did. and regina came soon after. but we all had NO LIGHTER. i tried persuading leanne to ask xiao b for a lighter or some fire but she said 'NOOO!' so we had to wait until this guy who was joining us called roy came down. leanne told hime to 'bring all the lighters in ur house'. and his reply over the phone was 'siao ah! i hv 50 over u know?! i bring 5 lah' O.Odont ask me. i know weird people in my neighbourhood ever since leanne started her tuition and we played block catching together.so we finally had fire, but our fire wouldnt keep burning. it would always go out, no matter how much leaves and twigs and newspaper we threw into the flame. at one point, roy threw in loads of newspaper, un-crushed, and the flame ate it up, causing a huge fire for moments. then black monkey guy also came to 'help' us and he also threw in tons of paper. suddenly xiao b came to tell us that this crazy lady was scolding cos there were lots of smoke. so black monkey guy started putting out the fire and saying the fire wouldnt burn well with all the ashes anyway, and started stamping his foot on the now small fire which was reduced to embers.we changed location. but that didnt work as well. it was too windy. lets skip this part. we changed location again, this time to underneath this tiny little bridge. we found 2 coconuts under the bridge, and we tried setting up another fire near the opening of the bridge. but then God didnt let us, as it started to rain.a fire would definitely go out with rain. so we went to leanne's block's void deck. there, it was very homely and fun, rather unexpectedly. roy tried to make a fire but leanne mom, who was present, stopped him, as there were lots of ashes flying around. then we settled with just candles behind a pillar, so that the wind wouldnt blow them out. we then took out our sparlers and started playing with them. we were initially scared of the whistling ones, as they spat and shot out sparks. so we would warn each other before we lit one. then i realised the non whistling ones that i had were coloured!! it was pretty, i tell you. then me and yvonne went totally crazy. we lit the red coloured ones, and started dancing in the rain, one sparkler in each hand. LOLz.after that, roy went home. that was a relief, as he was kinda dangerous at times. then me and leanne and yvonne and regina started playing with candles. we tried to make formations like our initials and patterns. we started talking about how we felt hungry, and that led me to remember that yvonne and me hadnt had dinner. so we went upstairs to eat first.
when we went downstairs again after dinner, the rain had stopped and we went back to the park to make another fire. but it was very wet.. this time, though, there weremuch more people than earlier, and the people beside us were this family who me and yvonne recognised from the playground as the badminton people. they had seen us sweeping leaves at the badminton court to burn before, so they also knew us. we gave them some leaves and they gave us their fire when ours went out. talk about neighbourliness :Dthen we began throwing all the whistling sparklers into the fire and they exploded so scarily. BOOM! and the uncle beside said 'must careful hor, ur sparklers very dangerous..' hahas. yeah then after that we just tried to keep the fire going and my dad came to help us :) LOL. thankyouverymuch daddy!well i guess thats the end. and leanne u didnt finish ur orange juice. :X