Sunday, October 19, 2008

Birthday party, tree planting

Today has been a relatively eventful day compared to the last few weeks, which feels to have been nothing but tests, averaging one test per week. So it's nice to have a change.

At exactly 12 am this morning, we celebrated one of my friends' birthday. It was more of a last minute arrangement, and we went out to buy the things just before midnight. Then after some.. arrangements, we managed to get her friends to bring her to the bridge/terrace overlooking the swimming pool, where our attempts at making it a surprise ended up with amusing attempts to cover it up. Everything went smoothly once it started running though. We spent over an hour there playing games and having fun. We ended and packed everything up at around 2 am. Anyway, happy birthday Mik Xin!



After a short sleep, I followed 2 other friends to Kota Damansara for the Canon Goes Green event. It's a volunteer event where any volunteers can join, and the main activity was tree planting. We were all supposed to plant a total of 2500 trees in the area around Padang Kota Damansara. 2500 sounded like a lot but there were several hundred volunteers present, resulting in a surprisingly fast conclusion to the tree-planting. With all the volunteers divided into 14 groups, and each group tasked with planting one species of tree, the whole tree-planting part only took about 40 minutes. Besides tree-planting, Canon also had organized many other things, including some singer to perform at the main tent. Canon really went all out at this event.


The main tent

The resting tent

Homemade instrument orchestra


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