Hey guys, how’s it been going?
It’s roughly one month since the start of school and I hope you’ve been settling in just fine. Anyway, last week, NP held our very first ever Community Day on May 12 and 13. It was pretty cool, ‘cause there were quite a couple of exhibitions (five, if I’m not wrong!) showcasing different activities.
Although normally I wouldn’t have an interest in these kinds of exhibitions or activities, I somehow found the time (during my lunch break) to check it out while buying Aglio Olio from The Zesty Tomato at the Atrium. I walked around a little and checked out the different exhibits, and yep.
There was the Kampong Spirit, Kampong Fun exhibition which had those fun kampong games like hopscotch, five stones, congkak and a couple others like gasing (top-spinning), goli (marbles) and kuti kuti that are more old school.
Some people playing goli, also known as marbles
Hehe... One of my favourite games back when I was in primary school - the Five Stones!
The captek game hehe - I'm not very balanced so I can't do this for long!
I’ve got pretty good memories of playing hopscotch with my friends back when I was in primary school. I used to rush to the courtyard to play hopscotch with the boys during recess and the only reason why I played with them was because they were less whiny.
They were also much more gracious when it came to losing as compared to the girls. I used to win every single game in hopscotch I played in – all that jumping apparently didn’t do much for my height though! Heh. I was really quite a tomboy back then.
There was also another cool exhibition on weddings called “Romance, Hopes & Dreams”, and it showed the different types of wedding ceremonies for Chinese, Malays, Indians and Eurasians.
One of the wedding ceremony exhibitions
It was a pretty good trip down memory lane, remembering all those Moral Education and Social Studies lessons, plus all the Racial Harmony days we had back in school.
So yup! I hope you managed to check out the exhibits during the short time it was there at the Atrium!