Pounding of drums heard, / Boats racing to finish race, / With hopes of winning. School: Nanyang Primary School. Teacher & Class: Mdm Magdalene Wee Kim Koon / Primary 5 J Care. Collected from Singaporean children’s submissions to the “12th World Children’s Haiku Contest” organised biennially by the JAL Foundation, with the theme in 2012 being “FESTIVALS.”