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Shag Day

Bitched on: Sunday, August 13, 2006
Time: 8/13/2006 11:52:00 PM

Some pictures uploaded. See here.

Wah...

Have you ever slept for more than 12 hours?

I slept for 16 hours (that's my personal record)...
In fact, I just woke up.

Wah...

Why the 'shagness'?

After close to a month of dance practice and helping out with my faculty's (School of Design and Environment, SDE) float, yesterday was our Rag Day.

They should have renamed it to Shag Day.
Seriously, it was really draining.
I have never felt so sleep-deprived since Army.

At least in Army you can 'steal' naps here and there.

What's Rag? You might ask.

Its something like Chingay or like some kind of festival with float processions and festive colourful performers (think Mardi Gras).

Sounds gay, huh?

Well, I don't know how I got myself into it, but I did.

So we had been practising for roughly a month (me juggling with work for the first two weeks).

And I had to change dance partners here and there. At first, in my absence.
And then, because I couldn't carry my partner.

Yes, it was more embarrassing for me than it was for her, apparently.
I couldn't do some lifts with her.

Yah yah...
In my defence, she was only lighter than me by 5 kg.
Even she said it herself.

All my gyming gone to waste...
lol.

I had helped out with the float too.
I even slept over last Friday.
And got a fever the following day.

The float for your information, was just a truck (or lorry) decorated with (supposedly) recycled used materials.

We won the Cheapest Float award as most of our decorations were 'recycled' from last year's float.
And we also bagged the Best Float for Faculty award.
Which, to us, was a great relief.

Cause we were under a lot of pressure to win big.
BIG.
Last year we (and I mean SDE) had swept a record-setting 4 out 5 of the awards for float, only losing the Best Float Presentation Award (ie. dance).

And we wanted to repeat history again. And maybe win the last award too.
But alas, our hopes were dashed when we saw how great our competitors were, especially Medical Faculty (which surprisingly, to me, had a lot of HOT CHICKS) which eventually won the Best Float Presentation.

Also, we were under intense pressure from our 'dance instructors' during every single rehearsals to improve. I have to admit, we were a really childish and playful bunch (uncharacteristic for 20-year-olds), and we did deserve all the'scoldings'...
Unfortunately, not only do we have the playful streak of a 5 year old, we also have the memory of one too.

We have the memory capacity equivalent to that of a goldfish.
All the stern warnings to buck up and scoldings to be serious fall on deaf ears.
One ear in, one ear out.

Sigh...

In the end, everyone had put in 100% effort for the actual performance and it showed (I hope).

Even after a night of being awake.
No SLEEP at all!!!

Not only did we practise the day before, we had to put on our make-up (yes, face paint and body paint!!!) that night too (around midnight).
(The body paint made really weird but nicely-shaped sunburnt marks the following day.)
And we had to continue with our technical rehearsals into the early morning...
Only getting less than an hour to catch forty winks before the show kicks off in the morning.

And I, being the 'blur' one, didn't even know that the event was going to be graced by the President (OF SINGAPORE!) until the morning itself.
I had initially thought it was just the president of the university!!!

Wah...
Glad to have won something and gotten the prizes from the MAN himself.

Cheers to all the Raggers; floaters (doing the float) and dancers alike.

A great day for all of SDE.

Thanks, especially to the dancers for making my past one month a really wonderful time (not to mention a smooth transition into school again).
I honestly feel 'lost' now that Rag Day is over.
I miss the rehearsals (mostly the-fooling-around-part), the stupid 'retarded' games we created ourselves and the late night dinners with all of you.

Kudos to Pek and Lloyd for spending every single waking hour doing the float, even sacrificing many many hours of sleep. We wouldn't have won anything if not for you guys and the rest of the dedicated floaters.

Thanks to the costume designers for also spending every single waking hour doing the costumes (yes, thanks, even if my costume was pink, lol)

And last but not least, a HUGE 'THANK YOU' to Wailing and Reina (the-everyday-so-pretty-Reina) for all your patience and dedication to us dancers, the mentally-stunted dancers...
And for all the physically strenuous stretching exercises (thanks to you, 'No-Bones' Wailing, I can finally touch my toes)

I'm trying to gather all the pictures we took during Rag and the rehearsals.
See here for some.

Here are just some of the many many pictures we took during Rag.