Rachel's School Performance

Rachel's Childcare centre held their School Kindergarten Graduation cum Family Get-Together last sat, 29 September 2007, at Japanese Garden Rest House.

We were quite worried about Rachel as last year performance, she just stood straight on the stage, scratching her head. She was very nervous and scared at the big crowd then. Luckily, this year was different. Phew!

On Saturday itself, she woke up at 7-ish am and told me that she wanted her milk and changed quickly to go to school as she was having her school performance that day. Told her that school won't be open till later in the afternoon. They were told to reach the school by 1.45pm on that day. She was very excited that day.

Around 12pm, we brought her to school, thinking could change and do her make up in the school. Who knows, none of the teachers were there! I think they reached there only at 1pm. No choice, we brought Rachel back home to change and make up for her. Of cos, her make up was done by my mum. Friends who know me, will know that I don't put on makeup. :P

Before Rachel's performance, we (me and my mum) kept telling her that she has to dance, and not stand on the stage "gong gong' like last year. And we also told her that if she dance on stage, we will bring her to Jurong Point as reward. Hee! Hee! Hee! Even my sister and her boyfriend, Uncle Blackie, came to give her their support. My sister hor, never attended any of her son's performance, yet can apply for leave to watch Rachel perform... So touch man! :P Ha ha ha

About 15 minutes before Rachel's performance, the kids played and push a little and next thing was a kid was crying. That kid happened to be RACHEL.. sigh.. she said her friend, Yi wei, hit her and Yi wei said that she already apologized to Rachel. sigh.. how to control a bunch of kids outdoor?

Luckily for Rachel, she turned her tear tap on and off real fast. So within minutes she stopped crying and some of her make up gone too. When she was onstage, she started looking around the crowd for us. Once the music started, she started dancing. :D Her performance is just slightly more than 2 minutes. After her performance, I think she was too tired. She was the only one sitting at the seats allocated while the rest were running about. My mum went over and passed her a bottle of mineral water and a packet of biscuit, so she just sat there alone, eating her biscuits.

After another 2 performances by the K1 and K2 students, all the students went up on stage for Grand Finale performance - singing of their school song, Que Sera Sera and a chinese song - Wai Po de Pen Hu Wan. After the songs, there was a break of like 15 mins and we went around taking pictures.

After the pictures taking, we went back to the Rest House. Now the teachers were stationed in their own counter - there's a Hand Henna Counter, Nail Painting Counter, Fishing Counter and a Catch the Ball Counter. Well, it's not FOC though. We got to buy tickets for the games - $1 each. My sister's bf bought 3 tickets, 1 ticket was for Rachel to play the games and the other 2 for food. My mum also bought another ticket for food. So, Rachel got her right hand henna by her favourite and form teacher, Teacher Renna, nails painted by Teacher Punna. She got tried the fishing game. At around 5.15pm, there was a lucky draw by the school. We won 3 prizes out of the 4 tickets bought. Ha ha ha! Even the school principal announced.. Oh! So lucky! It's Rachel's mummy again! :D The prizes we won were just a small gestures type. We won a Simplex Build and Play, a box of Rocher and a paper clip stand.

By the time we reached home at 6pm, we were all dead tired. Both Rachel and me took a nap and at 8pm, we were out again out for a dinner with my mum's friends. Here's a video of Rachel's dance performance, but sorry pals.. it's a bit shaky and no music. Blame my brother for buying such a lousy camera. Anyway, have told him, it's time to upgrade our digital camera. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBDewZr19_4