over the weekend

So much was happening over the weekend. Yesterday:

Went to Comex yesterday. Went to Simei by car, before taking a train ride to Expo. Well, there was a lot competition going on among the various computer companies... found many great deals for Portable eternal hard disk drives. There was even a S$99 deal for a Sumsung 80 GB HDD, which was sold out by the time we reached there. Eventually, bought one that costed S$128.My brother also got to buy a 1GB thumbdrive at S$41.We came across many innovative gadgets too. Take for example a solar battery charger, the world's smallest thumb drive,USB fan and a 8mB MP3 player,priced at just $3! Found a booth that sold a basic desktop computer for less than S$1000. We were sooooooooo close to getting a powerful,reliable laptop with excellent graphics too, but since its price was a few hundred above the budget, decided to check on it a few years later.

Today:

Just returned from St. John Ambulance Brigade Annual Brigade General Inspection. I never expected myself to be among those selected for a short quiz for this year. I was drinking water, when suddenly the Mcee came beside me, asking for my name and all... at first I had the thought that he was actually checking whether I was the person he was looking for. But, it seemed so, and I was asked something which I was going to ask him. Question: what is the zone's colour? Well, I checked with Darren, and answered it...

Parade segment, well, not many people were really listening to the speeches. I noticed many people, including myslef, counting the number of contingent members sho fainted. There were "good scenes" and bad ones too, with the most dramatic being with one who walked a few steps and fell. A total of 68 fainted, of which 25 were from the supporting contingents and 15 were from the Guard of Honour contingent. 9 stretchers were called in.

March-past. Just look at those gaps! Well, here were not many gaps, although some were very obvious. Overall, great experience, and I hope to bring a stopwatch next year, to see the time intervals between the falls, and the total lengh of the parade. In fact, we were seeing which flag bearer would be the first, for that would never happen, since officers had a much higher stamina than the cadets.