I just thought that I'd better post something before the year ends. I still have so much homework to do though. :S (freaks out for a moment)

Christmas was very satisfying and fulfilling! :D The carnival was just wonderful! This year instead of helping out in the games stalls (oops, sorry uncle simon), I decided to help out in the jumble sale! It was so fun to kinda 'play' 'shopping shopping'. To be honest, I was trying really hard to sell my own donated clothes and my sisters' clothes. But apparently our style isn't their style. HAHA! So embarrassing to hold out one of my sister's tops and have it pushed away cause the women who were there didn't like it. HAHAHA... :P

At first the pile of clothes I was required to sell were going for 1rm per piece. Which was extremely cheap already. But then, not many people were buying. (I think due to the style/fashion of the clothes we were selling. hahaha. i'm just so tickled and embarrassed at the same time about it) Though one lady would look through the clothes, find something nice and ask one of the volunteers (my co-worker ;P) to hold it for her while she walked around else where in the building. Then later she'd come back and look through again.  So, after about two hours of 1rm per piece, we changed it to buy one free one. Which was just like 50 sen one shirt or pants or whatever. But yet, the clothes pile was still kinda big. So I started shouting "lima baju untuk satu ringgit!" hahah!
 Later still, I dropped the price to 'sepuluh baju, satu ringgit'... THEN people started looking at us and coming over to check it out. One lady came and started pulling out t-shirts and draping them on her shoulder. She picked out so many, so an aunty who was helping me sell brought her a box and asked her to put the clothes she wanted in to the box. She was so caught up in looking for clothes that she just threw the shirts into the box and continued digging. When she was done, we found that she picked out twenty two pieces of clothes. I said, 'aiyah, two baju percuma lah! merry christmas ya?' She was smiling and laughing and muttering to herself 'dua ringgit! dua ringgit!'
It really was so unbelievable. Two ringgit for twenty-two pieces of baju. She went off really happy. And I felt even happier to see her so happy.

About half and hour after that, my dad came and said, "the pile is still so big! You -gotta- drop the price even more!" (by the way, the reason, (in case you don't know) is that the christmas carnival is all about giving to the community. we only sold the clothes so it wouldn't look like charity or pity for them. so we SOLD stuff for dirt cheap prices. just to bless the community in kota damansara. it's awesome by the way ;P )

SO anyways, when I heard my dad say that, I started shouting "satu beg untuk satu ringgit!"
A group of three teenage girls came over about that time and looked shocked. One girl said to me, "ha? satu ringgit untuk satu beg? ya ke? wahhh!"
The other girl gave a cheeky smile and said "bukan percuma ke?" I just laughed and before I could answer, the first girl said, "ish, tak boleh lah. kesian dia." (actually i was laughing on the inside and dying to just say, 'aiya, takpe lah. percuma lah' haha :P )

Anyway, the three girls starting digging through the clothes and started stuffing the plastic bags I gave them, giving me sheepish smiles every now and then. I just stood there beaming and saying stuff like "eh, cantik lah baju itu!" They would smile politely at my 'weird' fashion, and put the shirt back. HAHA. sighs, my taste is so different from theirs! seriously! ahah Anyways, they left really happy, with full bags. As they left I heard one girl say to the other "wah! beg saya penuh lah!"

All in all, the carnival was definitely a huge success. Even though there were four big boxes of left over clothes. Even though I didn't get a free food coupon or play any of the games or even see any of the performances, I am really really really satisfied and glad to be a part of this 9th community christmas carnival. God has really blessed us with the success of this wonderful carnival. He made it happen and He was in charge over it all. Thank God.

Can't wait for the 10th year! :D :D :D