You just gotta ignite the light and let it shine, just own the night like the 5th of November.

Guy Fawkes Night, 5/11/2011

Also known as Bonfire Night or Fireworks Night. November 5^th is the day Guy Fawkes was arrested, and the English (although some countries also observe this day) celebrate this day because well, in history, Guy Fawkes isn’t portrayed as a very nice guy (haha, pun intended). It seems that he and another bunch of people were trying to blow up the Parliament, and he got caught while guarding the explosives underneath the House of Lords. So people celebrate the failure of this plan, and nowadays there’d be fireworks and bonfires and funfairs and people would go to pubs and drink.

Truth is, I barely knew about this until about a week before the thing, when Gasem mentioned it during Bio. In Cambridge, the main celebrations were at this huge field called Midsummer’s Common, and when we got there that day, there was this huge fair with rides and tents. Sachy, Alison, Ng and I got there first, then Jiann Lee and Han Jun, and then Geoffrey and Kok Weng. Later that evening we joined another bunch of Abbey kids, and most of them are from my Bio class. 

Midsummer's Common! :D

There was initially a slight drizzle when we were walking there, but it stopped when we got there. Thank God for that. There was this fire show, which we didn’t get to see cos, well, we were hanging out at the meeting point waiting for the rest we didn’t even realise there was a show. It was a very uh, quiet show too, cos we totally didn't hear anything other than the crowd until the announcer was like, ‘thank you blah blah blah for the fantastic fire show’ and we were like, ‘huh, there was a show?’ Haha.

Soon after that was the fireworks, which was about fifteen minutes long! And like all fireworks are, IT WAS SO PRETTY! Gosh I love fireworks. Then again, WHO DOESN'T? 

Baby, you're a firework. 

C'mon let your colours burst. 

Make em go, "Oh, oh, oh."

You're gonna leave em going "Oh, oh, oh". 

Boom, boom, boom, even brighter than the moon, moon, moon.

It's always been inside of you, and now it's time to let it through. 

Us! :) 

After the fireworks they lit the bonfire, but nothing much there so we went on the rides! Perhaps we should have gone earlier if we were gonna go on the rides though, cos it was so, so crowded. I got separated from my group twice, because everyone was literally squeezing their way past each other. I honestly don’t know how everyone else managed to stay together. It’s not nice getting lost in a huge crowd. L And especially not nice if an angmoh lashes out at you while you’re trying to get past. This crazy woman pushing her baby in a pram scolded me just because I was trying to get past. I mean, geez, all I said was ‘excuse me’. Of course, you’d get pretty frustrated too if everyone’s trying to squeeze between you and some random stranger so I don’t blame her really. She wasn’t exactly ‘scolding’ me anyway, she just wasn’t very nice about it and everyone else was like telling her to chill and all and I just walked away. Probably did it cos she was racist or something. -.-

The bonfire. 

Found my group and off we went to the rides! The first ride was something called "Oblivion", which was, I quote Alison, like ‘a pendulum gone crazy’. Haha. 

You probably understand why she said that by now. 

After that, we went on more rides, most of which were surprisingly quite scary even though they didn't look it! There was one ride where Alison and I were screaming throughout the whole thing while everyone else was just like, ._. after a minute or so.
But yeah, I'm a puss, and I'm not afraid to admit it.

Didn't get to go on this. 1) Too scary looking, 2) No cash. 

Apparently it wasn't as scary as it looks. :/ Hm. 

By the time everyone was done with the rides I think they were on the verge of  throwing the guts up. 

Guess not everyone. Ng might have though. 

Bumper cars! Which we sadly didn't get to go on. :/ 

With Alison and Sachy.

Around 10 pm the fair closed, so we went for dinner! Well, supper actually. The whole bunch of us Abbey kids were famished and decided to go to KFC. We were praying really hard they weren't closed, and turns out they weren't! Ah thank goodness. :)

By the way, no one has a clue on who that girl with the blue hoodie and glove is.  She's just some random stranger who randomly joined the photo. -.-

Well, we were at KFC, and Alison is vegetarian so she bought her dinner from the Tesco next door. Heh. 

With Anthony and, apparently, Jiann Lee as well. -.- 

The Penang besties. I swear, they fight more than a married couple does. -.-

Jiann. :) 

The big baby lol. 

Walked home after dinner and Sachy stayed over during the weekend! She's been staying over at our place almost every weekend now. Earlier that day she was in London, and she thoughtfully bought us fruit tarts, so when we got home Alison, Sachy and I had dessert! :9

And Alison conveniently had ice cream in the freezer.  

Sigh, as if I'm already not fat enough. If I hang out some more with these two Penang kids God knows how much more weight I'd put on. :P 

Fireworks Night - it was original, cannot be replaced. ;) 

Suet Tyng