Rag Day...

Rag day, as usual, began one night before the actual event. Everyone arrived on Fri, went through the last day of FOW (till 1130), then immediately went for lunch then it was the last session of practice.

We practiced until 6-7pm before breaking off. Some headed back to their hostel rooms to shower, some went back to gather stuff, others simply showered in block S4 (betcha didn't know there was a shower facility there).

I'd really have to thank jielin (my boss) for allowing me to go back and get some sleep from 9pm onwards. Heard the remaining fellas who spent the night in LT20 didn't get much sleep - some slept at midnight, only to be roused awake at 3am-4am for makeup, for the pre-judging which was at 6am.

The backdrop people did not get any rest at all, shifting the backdrop (some background with stars and painted characters) under cover of night. Reminds me of last year when i was doing it for sheares rag, when i and 7 other guys jagaed the @#$% heavy bell down, up, and down the slopes of NUS like a funeral cortege only to be refused entry at the entrance to SRC cos we were too early.

President Nathan must feel proud to see all this - about one thousand people sacrificing so much to put up this show, and this is only the rag segment.

Heh~ i woke up at 0515, then asked dad to fetch me to LT20 where they were gathered. Not too bad. Got makeup and breakfast. Waited for the pre-judging fellas to come back at 0730, then we went to the stadium at SRC at about 0830, full dress. The guys were wearing tin-soldier costumes with FF7 buster-swords (think: cloud strife) whereas the cheerleading gals had tank-tops and skirts (one long one removable, one shorter one for cheerleading) with chinese dance fans and a whole palette of makeup; the chacha girls were dressed in tubes with "skirts that flew in the wind" and wore heels. fabulous.

More warm-up then we joined the backdrop team on the track at about 1000. We then waited for our turn. About 1045, just before Law and then, our performance, the President made his way in. not too bad, seeing him in the flesh. feels like ndp last week. ha.

our performance came in at 1053 hours. well i could safely say, the performance was one of my best, i mean i had much worser performances before; but for this, everything fell like clockwork. may not be impressive, but it was smooth. the intro, the fairy segment, the flirty dance, the cheerleading with stunts (stunts were successful), the chacha segment, the finale - all good.

it was a good five minutes on stage, and pharmacy finally broke its 25-year silence for rag.

good job guys!