Nathan Hartono's 爱超给电 Official Fan Party | Geylang Serai Bazaar

Following the recent winning of tickets to the CLEO Most Eligible Bachelor party, I actually also won tickets to Nathan Hartono's mini-concert, which they called his 'official fan party' but it was less party and more fan(girling) on a lot of our parts. I went to this with Helena and we were both SUCH HUGE FANS!!!! I'm kidding, we didn't even know who he was until that day itself, which kinda says something. Well, to be fair, I should have been more aware than she since he's Singaporean and I'm Singaporean and Helena's definitely 100% American.

I had alumni duties in the morning, which comprised of selling t-shirts and eating at the VIP table with the vice-principal, so I only got out of school sweaty and gross at about 1-ish pm. We barely made it to Funan before the stipulated time but turns out you still had to queue for about 30 mins in the humid weather before they let anyone in anyway.

This was the part when we found out they were giving out free milo (!!) but they were the bottled kind and tasted weird (think metallic taste) to me. Helena tried hers and liked it but mine's still sitting in the fridge due to abovementioned dislike towards metallic-tasting beverages. The photobooth was pretty empty by the time we got into the venue so this happened:

After these shenanigans, everyone gathered in front of this little stage and Nathan performed a few songs, including his own songs, which we obviously didn't know the lyrics to #fakefansforever!!!!! There was also this quiz that you could win very attractive prizes for but we didn't (and I'm glad we didn't) participate because it would have ended very badly had we entered. That was about it for the mini-concert; after the set he just took pictures with all of us at the photobooth - a really nice gesture!

We walked around the VCH/Esplanade area for a bit before having an unhealthy Macs dinner, during which I made Helena try the curry sauce (she liked it). Then we took the train to Paya Lebar to visit the Ramadan Bazaar! I had only one goal there - to get a henna tattoo because I'd already had most of the hipster food the past few years I was there. There were so many people that it was kind of intimidating to walk into the crowd in the aisles. So we didn't.

Got my henna from one of the larger stalls near the front of the bazaar. It's one week later that I'm writing this and I regret to inform everyone that the henna did not survive my incessant hand-washing. How sad.

The one food item that we got was a shaved ice bowl which was WAY TOO OVERPRICED!!! I know, most of the food at the bazaar were definitely overpriced but this looked nothing like the picture and just tasted... sweet? I've attached expectations vs. reality pictures below and c'mon what a cheat (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

This is my 'I spent too much money on this to not get a photo opp out of it' smile 🙂

FYI, I went to both events on the same day, it's just that the tulle on the skirt got a bit too itchy and uncomfortable that I decided to change back into sweaty school attire HAHAHA