Sunday, February 29, 2004
how do you guys write so beautifully? i have no idea how to write so much and so eloquently. but i really agree with what sulynn wrote. funorama was great. sure there were some disagreements and lots of problems, and setting up the lt was a big chaotic mess, but it was loads of fun and i'm glad we did the haunted house and not something non-descript like mr. ngoei said. i think its better coz the entire class was actually involved in one big project rather than getting divided between the games stall and food stall. kinda separates people. basically its been great, and the memory will stay with me for years to come. never dressed up as a ghost before anyway, and doubt i would in the future d: i'm glad i came to ac. the spirit is there, the passion, the fun, the people... well... i don't know what else to say. i'm just glad i made the choice to stay here, and in AH. hmm i can't put things across very well... so i think i'll stop now. rock on! :)
Monday, February 23, 2004
ello all.
well, for those who don't know yet, now you know. we've lost to sc4 in terms of haunted house takings. but we've beaten sc1. i found this out from my fellow canoeist jas (aka 'gimli').
strangely enough, i don't feel disappointed. while we (ie. me, yina, jas) had hi-fives all round at the downfall of the scones (not to mention non subtle jibes from jas at our narrow miss), i realised that i didn't care. it didn't matter that we'd lost in terms of earnings. nothing could relax my facial muscles to take away the frown. nothing could touch me. no sc4 victory dance, no difference in heaps of little yellow paper coupons, no guilty thoughts of the undone term essays, could take away the feeling of euphoria we all felt that night.
2AH 2004. to each and everyone of us: the lovers, the dreamers, the chao muggers, the alcoholics, the art goddesses, the crazed musicians, the sexy boys, the dancers and the people with no labels. thank you.
i think we will always remember the 21st of feb 2004. no matter what we did, how much, how long, how often, we were there. we were more than a blue (and red and gold) demonstration. its a funny thing, that somehow, being together in a pitch black freezing lt2 with crumbling makeup and matted hair; inciting laughter/ terror in various bipedal forms (including mr lynn); rushing around in a panic trying to find duct tape to hold our ramshackle structure together; pleading with suspicious people to buy tickets; repeating the same damn thing over and over a billion times; trying to restore order in a queue, we've bonded more than any happy class gathering or whatever half-baked unity scheme could have done. i made a complete fool of myself, screaming at people until i lost my voice, with people screaming back at me. i got stepped on, pushed, hit, insulted. i still have bruises from lying on the lt floor. the makeup wouldn't come off for hours. people (read: our wonderful form teacher, my dear captain, etc.) thought i was funny instead of scary. but i don't care. we all united to create a truly unique AH experience that will forever be ours. it can never be taken away. i don't even know how to describe it. words fail me.
to my class, 2AH 2004. thank you for making me believe at last that we were something more than a bunch of itinerent selfish people preoccupied with our own agendas who just happened to score an l1r5 of below 10. thank you for resurrecting the class spirit from its busy-schedule-ego created grave.
thank you.
Sunday, February 22, 2004
i really hope that future generations of ah persevere to do haunted house.
they should all call it the ah haunted house.
(which is more ego/unoriginal ah? scone cafe or ah haunted house?)
at least AHHHHH haunted house works both ways.
haha.
well, yes. so they shall all do the ah haunted house.
that way we can recycle the banners
and save the environment!!!
haha.
(sigh. or alternatively, they could paint 10 more banners and we could litter our banners all over the school)
fyi most of the materials i got were recycled. from where? er..u guys don't really wanna know. really.
AHHH!!! Fun-O-Rama is over. I don't know whether to be happy or sad. It's been a long 2 months for most of us but the weird part is i've had so much fun...sigh.. now i seem to have lost my purpose in life. oh wait. not yet. there's still the POST FUN-O-RAMA PARTY!!!!!!! after that then i will lose my purpose in life, that is until i think of something else to motivate me to attend come to school again. Well, since this is a class blog, i would like to share some of my sentiments that have been evoked and thankfully evolved during the course of the preparations until yesterday.
I remebered and always will remember Mr. Ngoei saying that Fun-O-Rama can make or break a class. I also remember him saying that our JC lives would be one of the most memorable experiences throughout our entire existence. And i agree. That is why i've made the choice to make all of our time at ACJC a fun-filled and really really great one, or at least i've tried. I realised that I wanted and still want to make a mark in ACJC history. I want US to make a mark in ACJC history. We shall become the first AH class (hopefully) to be un-AH like. We have fun. But we get grades. We become popular. But we remain humble (God help me).
Seeing that we were the only classes (1AH and 2AH) to have worn an AH shirt on friday really made me super happy. Like stella has said, everyone seems to dislike SC1 but really in actual fact i think to a certain extent we're all jealous of their strong SC1 alumni and tradition. That, plus the fact that they can sell so much more tickets that us without trying so hard. And i've realised that this is what i want for our class. Of course, it probably translates into plenty of hardwork but hey, isn't it all worth it? Look at the amount of people who came back for a second round in OUR haunted house.(well there was only 1 but that's beside the point.) I really would like to return to ACJC one day( if it still stays) and look at my great great grand juniors and say "you're really fortunate to be in AH" and hear other people tell me how much they would like to have a chance to be in AH. Oh yes, the glory and fame.( i'm only human)
Moving rapidly along ( Liz i see you grinning to yourself), i would really like to thank everyone for their hard work and commitment to make our haunted house such a success. It really was. We didn't even have to cut our prices.( Ha SC1 and SC4, try and beat that.) We had the most fantastic tour guides - Liz, Stella, Eugene, Luke, Caleb and Charmaine.( You guys sure know how to sell a haunted house. wait. come to think of it, it never got sold BUT you guys were great anyway.) Then we also had like the best terrifying little girls.( That's a compliment i assure you.) Mich Teo, Dawn Ash, Mel, Joy and MiCH LEE ( *wink wink*)... you guys look super scary. wait. did i say look? i meant looked. =) Of course how could we ever forget the two old grumps that had to pretend to be interested in chess.( I'm sorry Luke.) To Brandon, you were the best grouch i've ever seen and Justin, i just wanna thank you for remaining awake throughout your shifts. And then there's also my favourite zombie Sulynn who never ever failed to give her 100 percent best in barking away the people. Sulynn you were the best zombie i've ever seen. Really.
Now now, that's not all, there're still all those people who work behind the scenes. I've realised recently how much effort the people who work behind the scenes do but still don't get the recognition deserved. Well, i would like to say that (and i'm sure everyone agrees) Yina has been a great prop mistress. haha. Jon ong, for your finger-clicking good performance i salute you. Sunitha too, who definitely has a career in the hollywood make-up industry. (why do i feel like i'm writing some acceptance speech all of a sudden.) To all those michief makers who had a great time( oh yea i'm sure) groping and grabbing those very very satisfied customers (haha) well done too. And also thanks to those who gave out the fliers and fast passes and whatever not that made the haunted house so successful. Thank You specially Jennifer for helping me out. I'm sure you learnt loads from me. hehe.
I'm glad that even Alvin could be part of our haunted house experience. And by the way, congrats on that GOLD medal. Guess you'll be celebrating with Adeline at some special place huh? *grinz*
Our alumni has to be thanked too, though i don't think that they'll be reading this but THANKS anyway. ARTS rocks.
And how can we forget our beloved and most well-respected Mr Ngoei Wen-Qing (Qing i realised is pronounced in the 4th sound of the hanyu ping yin not the first) as well as his girlfriend and his lawyer friend who kindly came back to help out after getting someone outta jail.
Oh yea. I feel good. I'll see you guys monday, and hopefully there'll be a half day. Because if there isn't Luke is going to get into trouble since he didn't do his history tutorials because he thinks that there will be a half day =)
I Love AH. (most of the times anyway)
and oh before i forget too..MICH LEE I LOVE YOU WILL YOU EVER MARRY ME? =p
(have to hit my quota =p)
Sunday, February 08, 2004
hello 2AH! seems so weird to be calling ourselves 2 already, though the year will probably be over before we know it. i haven't blogged here for ages, partly because i can't see our blog -_- on my comp for some strange reason. perhaps also because i've been busy. how sad... but erm yeah anyway i love you guys, you're all great, and i hope that we can pull through funorama together and have fun in the process. yup! i don't really know what to say actually... kinda just blogging for the sake of blogging d: i definitely can't be as funny as jon and the rest, so maybe i'll just shut up heh :)
