Sunday, August 8, 2010

National Day

Today, which is the 9th of August, is National Day! This year is Singapore's 45th birthday. As National Day falls on a Monday, we are on holiday today as well as tomorrow. We had our National Day celebration in school on Friday and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The celebration included performances by Wushu, NCC and also Gymnastics. The Wushu team performed their routines and also " fought " with each other. The NCC squad performed a precision drill. I enjoyed this performance the most as it was really very impressive. After they threw their guns up, all of them caught their guns at the same time and their hand positions were also the same. Suck accuracy would definitely needed constant practice and also teamwork. The gymnastics team performed somersaults and cartwheels. At the end of their performance, they out a trampoline in front of two people, after that, another guy would jump over them by using the trampoline. He will stand behind them after the jump. The number of people obstacles just keep increasing until eight people are standing in a row and someone jumps over them.
Other than the performances, we also had contests such as the SMS contest and the Singapore History contest. The Singapore History contest was for a four pairs of teachers and students. They were given questions about Singapore's History. In the end, everyone who participated got a prize. Next was the SMS contest. The SMS contest was open to everyone in the school. About six questions were asked and we were supposed to key in the six answers and send it to a number. After that, there was a lucky draw for students who got all the answers correct. Not only were these the only contests, there was also a " Don't Forget The Lyrics" for three teachers and students. The songs that were given to the participants were the previous years' national day songs. All except one of the participants walked away with a bag of lollipops and sweets.
In conclusion, I enjoyed the national day celebration very much and hope to celebrate it again next year.

2 comments:

  1. On that they, I tried to tattoo myself but all of them were accidentally scratch off. I performed for the concert for the gymnastics segment. It was not as fun as the moves I was asked to do moves that were too easy for me. The performance did not really show what kind of skills we really had, such an embarrassment. Although, I liked the part that Miss Leong was singing. We could see her from backstage. But the sad thing is that I missed out on more than three quarters of the performance.

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  2. Hi! I also placed a tattoo on my face I felt so patriotic. It was the first time I placed a tattoo on my face. I felt so happy. I was a buddy of my Primary school juniors on that day. The juniors were all amazed by the performances and almost all aspired to come to Hwa Chong! I also loved the National Day Parade as it was awesome and there was a wide display of tanks and a brilliant dog fight movement put up by the air force.

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