Ever since the December holidays ended, it was all work and CCA. It has been the same ever since school started and today, I finally get a chance to enjoy myself and release all the stress I have been experiencing the past 2 weeks! My parents were outside working and thanks to the hard work I have been putting in to study and the dedication I put in to my CCA, they allowed me to go out and do something I enjoy as long as I came back home for dinner. Of course, like every teenager would, I chose to go to the arcade at the newly opened shopping mall, NEX.

It was really crowded over there and as I entered the arcade, all those banging and booming sounds were like music to my ears. I hastily went to exchange my coins for tokens and started playing the games. There were just so many that I did not know which one to begin with!

I first went to the area where the basketball games were. I had to throw each basketball into the net within one minute and if I reach a certain number of points, I could continue on to the next stage. It was so tiring! After completing that game, I finished with a total of 514 points! However, the high score there was 625! I really wonder which person was so amazing to finish with so much points.

Then, I went to the play the dancing corner where I had to step on the arrow keys that appeared on a screen. I really messed up with that. I looked at all the people beside me doing it and really felt embarrassed. All of them could do it so smoothly while I had so much difficulty catching up with the speed of the arrows.

Finally, I went to the so-called 'Pick up the sweets' corner where I had to control a machine hand to pick up as many sweets as I could for each token I put in. I spent so many tokens at that and got so little sweets! My mum really nagged a lot at me when I brought those sweet homes and showed it to her. She said she could buy at least 10 packets of mentos with the amount of money I spent catching those sweets! That was really saddening!

This day at the arcade really allowed me to let go of all the pressure I have been dealing with while doing school work. I really hope to have a day like this again, probably in the March holidays!