Post-rag performance

went to sch on sunday morning, 0900, after having a pretty busy day on saturday trying to work steps out...

practiced a while.. we changed the steps a little due to this accident this flyer from Law had.. she fell while practicing stunts from a height of 3 persons (about 2-3m), impact caused her heart to stop beating for 1 min...

yup since then the admin (nussu) banned stunts ("advised against it") and hence we had to change our steps.. choreographed on sat by jw and we had only one rehearsal.

so we went to ps. had lunch there with heavy makeup and full costumes in a bunch at long john silvers. felt quite weird. lol had a quick lunch before we rushed up to ground level to perform.

first performance wasn't too bad, but because of the changes we made to the positions and all i had to run backstage in about 4 bars of 8 to get to the other side. wasn't easy as backstage composed of narrow paths and lots of cheerleader girls ready to go for the finale item. barely made it there on time...

hanged around and mingled with nuanxin, winnie, winnie's boyfriend, waiseng, edwin and mayi who came to watch the performance.

also saw dentistry and SoC's performance. dentistry's was cute, i think that's how i describe it.. i loved the robots. they had a theme very similar to sheares' rag - the sleeping girl who dreams of
all kinds of stuff from robots to cavemen to cowboys and tin soldiers. but they had so much more people than us..

SoC (School of computing) was much more fantastic. Illustrating the Battle of Good vs Evil (one of those tales again...) it was about man being initially swayed by the leader of the devils than the leader of the angels step in and try to pull him to the good side, then the "pulling" intensifies and they drag in their followers and then a fight ensues, after which only the two leaders survive, fight it out for a final showdown. then the angel strikes the devil down, but then the man in the middle sympathises with the devil, despite repeated attempts by the angel to drag him away, he still clings on to the dying devil, so the angel made the choice and strikes him down as well.

It showed the dual faces of man towards good and evil, and the two small angel-devil figures that pop up occasionally in our thoughts... and man is drawn in between the battle, but the forces of good does not tolerate this sympathy... very touching... i would almost have cried. the music probably helped.

and the thing was, they performed in the afternoon hot sun, all actors barefoot on the scorching marble floor of PS. when some of the angels and devils died they had to lie with skin on the hot floor. omg. *clapclapclap*. as a judgement to how hot it was, the moment i put my palms on the floor (as required during my performance) i immediately had to withdraw it.

well.. it was fun. after that we had one more round of performances at 3, then broke at 4. the main party (wanchee, xinyi, xiuting, yen fang, wingyee, kaixin, 2 x kelvins, ivan and me) went to cuppage to play pool, then went to rice table to eat. sang many songs along the way. ha.