One fine day on the 19th of December at 6pm, members of the frontier YEC was supposed to assemble at Zone 12 Blk 673A to help out for The Event of The Year aka Zone 12 XMAS PARTY! (Unfortunately, due to my innate lack of direction sense, maybe I arrived a tad later than 6pm.)



By then, everyone had already begun eating their dinner: Nasi Lemak/ chicken rice. Honestly, we were quite amazed by Zhiwang’s voracious appetite. (We think he can finish up till 3 packets of chicken rice in 1 go.) His stomach must be really big. But I guess that’s forgivable, since the real work begins after dinner!

The people present were: Zhiwang, Zhiwang’s friend, Wani, Alex, Daniel, Sandy, Yufei. After dinner, Wani taught us some basic balloon sculpturing skills like how to make a balloon dog, sword and flower. It was really scary twisting the balloon at first for first-timers like me – so scared that it’ll burst!!!! But luckily it didn’t. Alex was worse; he kept giving out small high-pitched screams every time he twists the balloon, and these random screams carried on for many minutes later until he was sure that the balloon meant no harm to him -_-

So we managed to complete our first balloon sculpture which was a DOG! I guess it wasn’t too bad for first-timers, even though my dog’s nose was too long and Alex’s dog looked more like a giraffe. Nevertheless, we got better and better at this balloon sculpturing thing and moved on to make swords and flowers. Some of the neighbourhood kids even joined us in making balloon sculptures!:D




As more and more people started flowing in, we distributed the balloon swords, flowers, and dogs amongst the children. They were hugely popular among the kids! Nothing beats seeing a smile creep up on a 5 year old’s face when you hand him a balloon sword you made yourself. Aww, so cute. *melts*

The balloon sculpturing event lasted up till 730pm. By then, the game that they were playing (guess-the-xmas-song) was nearing to the end and the first round of lucky draw was about to begin. The adults were more concerned than the kids though, the kids were quite nonchalant about the lucky draw and we had quite a hard time trying to help them settle down.

The next highlight of the evening was snake- charming cum magic performance. Both adults and children were very excited to see and touch real pythons and cobras! As the snake charmer blew through his instrument, the snake came out of the basket. Many ‘ooohhs’ and ‘aaahhhs’ were heard from the crowd as everyone was in awe. Cameras were instantly whipped out to capture the moments. The snake charmer invited many residents, including children to interact with the snakes by touching and letting the snakes hang around their neck. So brave of them! Overall, the show was really entertaining and won the applause of many.

Carolling sessions were interspersed in the event and the YEC as well as members from the RC were invited to lead the crowd in singing X’mas songs such as ‘Jingle Bells’, ‘We wish you a merry X’mas’ and ‘Santa Claus is coming to town’. It was really heartwarming when the crowd joined in the singing, and moved along with the music (: Music is a universal language, and no doubt everyone felt closer and more bonded afterwards.

(Pssst, it was my first time singing into a mike too!)

The X’mas party culminated in the final lucky draw where the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes, which were all bicycles were drawn. Winners were overjoyed as they went up to receive their prizes. Those who didn’t win any prizes in the lucky draw didn’t go home empty handed either, everyone had their goody bags, door gifts, popcorns and ice-cream. Most importantly, friendships and ties were forged and strengthened as we spent Xmas with our loved ones.

Merry X’mas and good tidings to all (:

Yufei,
Asst General Secretary