Journal Entry 10

Saturday, October 31^th 2009

Today, I woke up early to go around town taking photos of food-related signage. After that, I headed to school to work on my ‘Typography and Layout’ assignment. On the way to school, I fell asleep and missed my stop. When I woke up, I looked around me and found myself in an unfamiliar area. I panicked and rushed down the bus at its next stop. A young lady stared at me as I turned around and took a good hard look at my surroundings. She was probably thinking that I was an idiot who took the wrong bus and found myself lost. I crossed the road and took the bus back to Temasek Polytechnic.

After I was done with my assignment, I went out with the usual bunch to Sentosa for a Halloween event. We were supposed to meet at the Harbour front MRT station at 5.45 pm, however, as expected, some of them arrived late and by the time we finally arrived at Sentosa, it was already 8.15 pm. When we arrived at the location, the sheer number of people there took me aback. It seemed as though the whole youth population in Singapore was there. We rushed to collect our tickets, which were sold to us at a student price of $16, fearing that we were going to have to queen for an extremely long time.

Indeed, we had to queue up to enter the ‘haunted house’. We made the dreaded walk down the queue, our sense of horror increasing with each step we took; the queue was just terribly long. It seemed like ages by the time we reached the end of the queue.

In the end, we queued for 3 hours straight. Expecting the ‘night walk’ to be good due to the large amount of time spent queuing, we entered the ‘haunted house’ in an excited mood. However, it was a major letdown; even the Design Orientation Camp’s night walk was better than it! It was my first time celebrating Halloween and it turned out to be a major disappointment… just great.