Thursday, June 30, 2005
POS 2005!!
yEP.. I just noticed that the pictures for Parade Of Schools 2005, held on 7 june as part of City Harvest Church's youth conference, are now out.. here are some of them..
plus some other cool pics!!
The north sec school cluster!
East sec school cluster! (my old cluster.. includes schools like Anglican High, St Hilda's and Temasek)
The JC cluster in all their glory!
The SIM/SMU cluster! Those uniforms are custom made. Complete with the word 'REVIVAL' in front.. Expensive lor..
SINGAPORE POLY!! Woohoo! This pic only shows one tower on the floor though =/
NUS i believe, back in the holding room..
The coloured drums! Love them....
That's confetti streaming across our heads after being shot out..
Fire spouts! Finally, a pic of them in full blast. Heheh. Awesome sight.
jOhn thought at 1:30 PM
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
T.J.L.U.
Lol.. Sorry peeps for the long hiatus. Too busy to spend my time typing in front of a com. Hope ya'all understand =)
jOhn thought at 2:10 PM
Friday, June 24, 2005
S.P.A.
No, not Science Practical Assesment. But Singapore Poly Adventurers! Whoohoo. Wont be in singapore till sunday night.. heading off to Berkelah (pahang, msia) waterfalls with S.P.A.. Till next time, bye! =)
jOhn thought at 3:54 PM
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Primer 2! (yawn!)
Oh man.. I've been sleeping during lecture.. for a short time of about 20 mins during lecture my head would just go into 'standby mode' and I wud just sway side to side, nodding off. and my fingers would just lose energy and instead of writing notes I end up scribbling on my papaer. Heh can see exactly the point in time when I fell asleep by looking at my notes. Haha.. this EVEN though each day I only have ONE 1 hr long lecture (supposed to be 2 hrs long, but often ends as early as 1hr before time). The rest is tutorial.
ANYway. School as usual today. Cher briefed us for our next proejct, called Primer 2- I feel, therefore I am. It lasts for a whopping 6 weeks!
This is what my group and I are supposed to do..
Humans have 5 senses. Smell, taste, touch, sight and hearing.
We want you to create an installation (to be named "De' Pod". Don't ask why.) to be set up anywhere on campus, not exceeding 1.8m in dimension on any axis. It should hold one human being, and by impacting the senses, make the occupant experience a phenomena, which is, something that can be felt, but does not happen naturally. The installation must be made of permanent or semi-permanent materials (like wood or metal or bamboo), and protect the occupant from weather.
Heh, in other words, create something that can make the occupant feel the sensation anything from fear, to flight, to speed, to floating, or even maybe claustrophobia.
The 'Pod' shall be made of recycled materials, but must look like new when presented. Bought materials cannot exceed $100. Lecturers grading the project will step inside to try out the 'phenomena' that the Pod provides.
Lol. Cheem hor? Its a loong 6 weeks ahead.. haha. one of my group's original concepts is to create a big wooden coffin complete with nice white cushion lining. It will be situated at a dark location at night, and the occupant will lie inside n we will abandon them for 15 mins =pp. Lol. sadistic. And another of our ideas was to get laughing gas n make the occupant laugh. Haha. We also toyed with the suggestion of pumping helium, make the lecturer's voice all squeaky, tape it down, and then replay it to them. HaHa lol. Anyway we already settled on a final concept. Shh secret. Can't tell. bUt it involves the lecturer's blood flowing to his/her head. Wahahaha.
jOhn thought at 1:33 PM
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Schoolwork and Mr Phua
Whoa.. today marks the conclusion of two weeks in a nonstop rollercoaster, where we had to do a project called Primer 1, with new processes and tasks heaped upon us even before we barely completed the task before...
Sleeping at 2am everyday, sketching, making models, has taxed me physically, but still, its been a fun ride.. much more enjoyable than staying up till 2am for a grubby chemistry tutorial or big chunks of text fighting for a space in your little brain that seems already cramped full of oTher chunks of text, if u ask me =)
The night before deadline was really crazy man..I shut myself inside my air-con room n wrote n wrote n wrote, because the primer required me to explain and rationalise why i did this and that, and my observations..
So i stayed up still 2+, with my pen flying across the paper, writing some truly crappy stuff, by the time i finished, my head was swirling and my vision was kinda blur. so i penned my final word, and sunk straight into my inviting bed for well deserved sleep =))
Man, the life of an architect (or rather architect to-be..) rOx.. haha..
"The paper model is a medley of two contrasting forms, circles and triangles, representing a merging of polar opposites, like black or white, dark and light, yin and yang etc etc.."
Get what i mean? cRap! lol.. i just wrote what came to mind.. betcha laughing ur head off now. But i think my explanations are not all bad.. lol.
Also went out with a great person during the week.. had a very, very special time.. You know who you are, B.C. =)))
ANyway, movIng on, last saturday i went for... PCK Musical!! Had complimentary $85 tickets, thanks to Kelvin, my cousin's friend, both from church. (once again thanks Kelvin.. 'ppreciate it.) :)
To sum it up, the musical was quite mediocre. It felt more like an average TV episode, instead of the multi-million dollar spectacle it was touted to be. Sure, the sets are really grand and nice, but the content is so cliched and boring.
This is the scene where he consults a fortune teller... quite cool backdrop..
Surprise birthday parties? Bah. Setting up a trap for your rival to sign away all his possessions to you? Bah. I must say the acting is funny and presentable, but the content is so half-baked and childish.. E.G. the script was like, Rosie: "wah u think i sexy ar?" PCK: "EEEee of course not la u siao ar!". In fact the words 'sexy', 'backside' and actions like slapping butts occurred so many times that i got sick of it. TOTALLY. Like, EEEEeeeWwww...
I would give it about 2-3 out of 5 stars.. Think Phantom Of The Opera's still better =) well DUH...
Conclusion is, it's good and light humour for a night's entertainment, but it is not worthy for Singapore to use as a national showcase of our country's 'great' musical-writing skills. -___-
Heheh.. that's his big mOle im tugging at 0_0... Whee..
Had a lousy National Education talk on wed afternoon. The brigadier-general in charge of the tsunami relief team came to give a super-etailed talk about how wonderful and great his team is, and how they performed without mistake perfectly blah blah blah. Every class had to send 10 ppl to go, and i was amongst the lucky 10. At least i got 2 CCA points from it lol.
The video of the destruction and carnage they showed at the start was quite moving, but once he started rambling about the teeny weeny details of how his team operated, 70% the auditorium went into deep, deep slumber.. Er, so did i. Lol. Must thank SP for outfitting the audi with such comfy seats. lOl.
Wahaa. That's all folks! Till next time, Byeee. And by the way Primer 2 starts on monday. Groupwork this time. i am sO looking forward to it lA....... Haha.
jOhn thought at 11:46 AM
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
EMERGE 2005 Day Three! (Thursday)
Today morning was the Extreme ADventure, Biathlon and Cluster Telematch events, all held at Sentosa. I didnt attend, so I went for lessons in school in the morning, leaving during lunch to go to church to qUeue. Haha.
I reached at 2pm, and joined the queue for the grand finale, the last and final session of Emerge. What time does it start? sEvEn pm =)) Once again, kiasu-im has taken over the youth. But then, anyone who arrived later than 4.30pm could dREAM of getting a seat in the auditorium.
By 3pm this was the queue (at the queueing area, church carpark, level 3.). Its a very... er, tHick queue. lol:
We were allowed out of the queue to buy stuff and go to toilet, as long as we wrote down our names with the ushers standing around (to prevent queue cutting). So my group sent people down to the coffeeshop to get chicken rice for all of us.
How did we pass about 4 hours? Haha.. by doing lame stuff of course. The people around me told lame jokes (which helped to bring down the temperature -_-), chatted, and played the usual zhong ji mi ma. Haha.. the loser had to stand up, in full view of everyone, and do the dance for the Emerge theme song!! Funnie. But lucky thing i never kena. In fact i have never lost at zhong ji mi ma before =))
At about 6 the ushers let the people down to the auditorium, and the place was totally packed.
Praise and worship was once again a blast =) Dancers, rappers, confetti launchers all took our breath away during the P & W. What i loved most were 4 big spouts installed in front of the stage. During one of the songs, they would each blow one big fireball up at LEAST 6m into the air at different intervals, creating an awesome visual spectacle. Whoa, I could even smell the burning smell of fire, and also felt the heat. But the auditorium's ventilation system quickly got rid of that. Yep. But MAN that it awesome. This is how the spouts look like, in red. The things in the yellow circle are 'flashlights' (dunno real name) often found at rock concerts, and they would flash brightly often after a fast songs ends, almost blinding me. lol. Pretty cool too =):
Woo~! Service ended with the praise leader jumping off a stack of around 7 chairs while playing his guitar. Twice. LOL. And also the chruch dancers rapping the tune of Emerge 2004's theme rap. Cant remember the lyrics. Haha. And so ends Emerge 2005.. Can't wait for next year, where it will be held at the Expo. No more long queues! YippEEeeeeee.
EXTRAORDINARY (Emerge 2005 theme song)
I'm walking on a new road
Livin' a brand new life
I've found myself a better way
Walkin' with Jesus every day
Lord you've taken me as I am
But I'm never gonna stay the same
In the power of your glory
I know I'll be forever and ever changed
(chorus)
Extraordinary, take my breath away
Extraordinary, make a brighter day
Extraordinary, way beyond the ordinary
Extraordinary
Nobody like you in all of the earth,
Nobody like you
Nobody like you in all the universe,
Nobody like you
(chorus)
God rocks! =))))
jOhn thought at 2:33 PM
EMERGE 2005 Day Two! (Wednesday)
Haha.. at the request of camEl I shall take some time off from my schoolwork to finish the Emerge posts.. School's really busy these days.. this time its not mugging nonstop, but sketching and shading and making models nonstop -_-. Which still beats mugging actually =))
Today i dragged myself out of bed at 6 am, changed and rushed breathlessly into a cab to fly to church to start queueing for the 10am service (yes, TEN am service.). I reached there at 7.15, and, youths being youths, and kiasu Singaporean youths at that, there were already one big bunch of people waiting patiently at the long staircase that lead from ground floor straight to b4.
OOooh.. noticed the intimidating security guards patrolling the church grounds with their black submachine guns.. Haha..
Took this pic once i was comfortably seated in the auditorium.. Haha.
These are the church dancers practicing onstage before the session..
And the morning session came and went. And then it was time for the afternoon's main event: Word Power! (For the day before the event was Talentime. So sad I had to miss it to practice for POS. I heard it was wonderful.. with competitors putting up items like dance, song, drama, and songwriting. =(. My cell group member was in a dance group called Urban Synergy. They won dance category i think. Congrats =). Pity i couldnt see ya'all perform. Nvm. Gonna catch it next year =))
For this year, 6 teams got into the finals: NTU, NUS, CHC-KL, East sec school cluster, JC/CI cluster, and SIM/SMU. Its a very tough competition, requiring participants to memorise FORTY Bible PARAGRAPHS from various verses, taking tests just to get past the prelim rounds. Once they pass the final stage, they need to cram in TWENTY more paragraphs, bringing the grand total to 60. Furthermore they need to have general Bible knowledge, such as, who was from what city, who had how many sons, etc etc. Really amazing, the teams. Wonder how they can find the sheer amount of time needed for it.
The challenge included games like Wheel of Bible Knowledge, and the Pyramid game... here's a pic:
These were the judges.. haha.. can see the scoreboard at the screen's bottom.
Soon, the SIM/SMU group emerged the winner, making a stunning comeback from trailing even the sec school cluster (which was the lowest-scorer =/) to clinching first prize. Which was a swEet HP pda. 2nd prize was a $600 digicam, and 3rd was a Zen Micro. I think.
And after that, more queueing, and the night session came and went. I took the church shuttle bus back to Tampines. Haha. Good thing for all 3 nights they provide free transport to all major town centres =)) or else i'd be broke from cab fares -_-;.
jOhn thought at 2:05 PM
Saturday, June 11, 2005
EMERGE 2005 Day One! (Tuesday)
1 stuffy SP badminton hall,
1 month of commitment.
24 Judo mats,
30 passionate people,
60 cans of 100-plus drink.
300+ hours of practice,
300 hours of wet sweaty t-shirts,
800 bucks of marche food vouchers, should we win.
1 unbreakable bond uniting us all.
Silver-sprayed hair,
Tons of glitter.
Hours of waiting in eager anticipation..
3 minutes of glory.
3 minutes on one of most awesome stages in the world.
iN one of the most powerful youth conferences in the world.
AttEndEd by different delegates from the US, Australia, India, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Phillipines, South Korea, Singapore, etc. And CHC's own members, of course. =)
POS was during the night session of Day 1, after Praise & Worship. Judging POS were 3 Pastors from CHC, Ho Yeow Sun, a professional dancer from S'porean dance studio Studio Wu, AND the COACH of the Magnum Force. Whoa.
After a short practice in school after my lessons, the whole bunch of us went down to church in the early afternoon to prepare for the big night.
We spent the next few hours getting ourselves ready for the night ahead. We bought several bottles of silver hairspray from 77th street, and tons of glitter. All of us guys were crammed into the toilet, busy doing out hair up, and spraying the silver on.(NOT FAIR,,, my hair's so curly tt gel has no effect on it! Except making it look like an Afro! Ahhh...)
Me! Bwahaha.
Everyone crammed into the lift.. haha...
At around 6, all the teams settled into the fourth floor POS holding rooms, where we applied tons of glitter to our arms, face, hair and neck. We oso sabo-ed those who refUsed to look like a shiny disco ball by grabbing them and pouring as much glitter on them as we could =)).
From the live video feed straight from the main auditorium 8 floors below our feet, we could see what happened down there.
The auditorium went pitch dark. Suddenly, four bright spotlights on stage pierced the darkness. Then, four Strikeforce (CHC drum ministry) members took their positions behind the eight drums, and wood made contact with drumskin, and the pools of water poured on the drums, coloured as if they were liquid neon by the bright spotlights uNder the drums, flew into the air in a multicoloured explosion. After a short but impactful performance, the large flashlights on stage exploded in a riotous array, and the whole stage lit up like a giant fireplace. The band's drummer hit' it', and Praise & Worship started with a bang!
The congregation flew into the air, as if eager to get airborne. Everyone was jumping as if in a rock concert, eager to get a little crazy for God, eager to let authentic, unhindered and unchecked praise escape from within them. Waves upon waves seemed to cascade down the Auditorium's slopes, as the people jumped at different times. It was an awesome sight!
The time for worship soon came, and within minutes, the very same songs that were sung during normal services brought everyone to their knees, and tears filled the eyes of even the hardest of men. People wept, people cried out, in a shockingly stark contrast to the craziness of Praise just minutes ago. Everyone was so moved by God. He was there, so real, so present, that no one present needed science or logic to prove anything. His Presence was so beautiful, so edifying, that we just wanted to stay there forever, rejoicing and thanking Him for what he'd done in our lives, with the stream of tears that flowed from our eyes. A truly awesome sight.
After that the worship leader coaxed us out of that realm with a short prayer, and everyone got back up on their feet, some drying their moist eyes.
And soon it was time for the Parade!!
One by one the teams shuffled down to the auditorium's backstage, where they awaited their turn on stage. They comforted each other, assuring each other that there was nothing to be scared of, soothing each other's nerves.
Soon it came to SP. We rushed out eagerly onto stage, into the direct attention of a few thousand screaming and roaring people, of which some were SP alumni, and the rest were just cheering for the sake of cheering. CHC ma, rmb? =)
S-P, S-P, Singapore, Poly!
Together we arise, God's kingdom, and Glory!
United we will band, to reach the lost!
G-O-D's plan, no matter the cost!
J-E-S-U-S, is the way!
C-H-R-I-S-T receive today!!
*sCreAm*
And then the secular Japanese rock song we used blasted through the auditorium, and we started mOviN' iT'!
And so we blasted through our cheer, our dance and our stunts, and quickly rushed offstage. After we reached ground floor, we screamed and congratulated each other for a good, although not perfect run, and slapped high five or ten with each other, our faces registering delightful smiles. It was... all over.
I still remember the JC/CI cheer =)...:
J! for Jesus!
C! for Christ!
JC revival, for Jesus Christ!
Say J..(J..)
Say C..(C..)
OOOOOoohHH..
J! Revival! JC revival!
J! Revival! JC revival!
J! Revival! JC revival!
J! Revival! JC revival!
J! Revival! JC revival!
WWHHoooooOOOaa... JC!!
Haha.
And we went back up to the holding room, just in time for the start of the sermon. CHC's senior pastor, Rev Kong, shared with us how he, as a young teenager studying in RI more than 20 years ago, used to arrive at school a full hour earlier before lessons, at 6.30am. He used to sneak up to the empty science labs, kneel before God, pray and play his guitar. There in his own private space, sheltered form the world, he got to have a quiet, private one-to-one time devoted to a God so worthy of praise, and so real. And most of all, so wonderful.
After RI, he went on to RJC and NUS, where he obtained a cert in computer science. However, he shared with us how he vividly remembers the day he was riding home in a bus along East Coast, and suddenly he heard God's call, a still voice he would never ever forget. Nor would he forget what it said: "You shall raise up a new generation of young believers that will take Asia and the world by storm".. Thus he abandoned a scholarship that would allow him to continue his studies in the UK (at Oxford University I think.), and City Harvest Church was formed. What happened after that is history. =)
Pastor also shared with us a song he wrote himself, a song written a few decades ago, but a song so powerful and perfect that it moved everyone to tears once again, and the whole auditorium, the POS holding room and the overflow room, all fell on bended knee, crying out to God, helped along by the lyrics of this beautiful song that seemed to read their minds, that seemed to know the dark history of some of their lives before they came to chruch, and gently reminding them that God is real and He cares =).. :
Once I have turned my face from Thee
Yet You sought me
You cleansed me,
made me whole again
Jesus, my Saviour,
my beloved and friend
Your praises I bring,
from my heart I sing.
O draw me, o draw me away,
Messiah today,
to your presence to stay.
Lord Jesus now change me,
and mould me,
that I can be,
evermore true to Thee.
The service soon concluded, and the congregation dismissed for the day. The POS teams up in their holding rooms recited their cheers one by one, And did the usual "3 cheers, and 3 cheers" thingy. Haha.. After that at around 11pm, we were dismissed from the holding room.
But sadly SP didn't win =(. On Day 3 it was announced: Top team was NTU, followed by NUS, followed by the JC/CI cluster. Whoa. Like all the top 3 are all the 'intellectual' teams. But we still got the $100 consolation prize. Well.. =/
I can still remember the lyrics of Emerge 2003's theme song:
Da Holy Spirit's got me pumpin'
Flowin with da beat,
Tis whole place is jumpin'!
With da sound,
The demons can't stand it!
Cause' tonight we're gonna rock this PLANeT!
Cause' tonight we're gonna rock this PLANeT!
*sCreaM*
Woo~! I love Emerge! The other 2 days of Emerge 2005 will be described in another post =))
jOhn thought at 2:13 AM
Sunday, June 05, 2005
WriStbAndZ
Got my cool church youth conference wristbands today. They are standard silicone bands n even glow in the dark. They are used to identify members during the sessions of the 3-day long conference. Awesome. Lol. The words "EMERGE (name of the conference) 2005 EXTRAORDINARY (theme of the conference)" are on it. OOooh....
jOhn thought at 2:21 PM
Lamentations of a young adult
Scary isnt it? when we have to face this big scary world, hoping and praying that what you know and possess will be enough to prevent the big jumbled mess out there from swallowing you alive and never spitting you out. Who will be with us, showing us the way, teaching us priceless fragments of knowledge that may make or break our fragile existence..
Isn't childhood beautiful? Where everything around us was new and so mind-bogglingly amazing, just seemingly begging to be questioned and discovered. When we channelled our feelings and love towards things which now seem so trivial and unimportant, like maybe a pet or a toy or even a favourite bolster which we hugged to sleep every nightfall.
Our worlds were limitless, and all we needed to do was think, and whatever we thought could come into existence. We could breathe life into a seemingly messy pile of Lego bricks, or imagine the most chaotic wartime scenario with our motley assortment of crude toy tanks. Back then war seemed so fun and harmless, where we merely shrugged off a hit from a rubber bullet from a friend's toy gun. We didn't yet know the horrors of war. Tanks and ships and jets were just so cool that they often begged to be blown or shot up..
And in a flash, everything is gone, and we are on the fast track, through 3 stages of school, and into what? The universal rat race, of course. Of course, not many people seem to give a hoot, and wait till they have wasted away most of their lives before taking time off for a breather, finally realising that their illustrious career is just a mere illusion, tricking them to believe they were going somewhere, and actually doing something, when actually they were running around in circles, not realising we are actually running faster after completing every lap, so as not to become a failure and live life as a beggar who is looked down upon and given a disdainful glance by people who think they are better off.
What do we desire in life? Time's just an illusion.. no? We are always chasing something, studying for some exams, or preparing for something on the distant horizon. Goals are challenging and rewarding to chase, but they are an endless path, with no fullstop, only commas.
Where will we go? Who will we know? What will we do?... 30 years from now, would you still have the dignity to face your secondary school classmates that were all once on a level playing field.? Would we still be able to say we lived a life well led and didn't screw up our 90-or-so years, of which 17 are already gone for good?
Isn't it a joy when you know people? But the sad fact is people come and go, and what are once powerful and strong friendships can simple sublime into thin air, leaving only memories or a memento of a time that's buried deep inside the swirling fallen sands in our life's hourglass.
Won't it be wonderful when we can find an end? When we can meet everyone we've known so far, and those we don't know, but made an impact in our lives, pulling strings for us in the shadows ("Hi, i'm the guy that crashed my car into a tree when i swerved to avoid you standing in the middle of the road, as a clueless little boy. I died on the spot 80 years ago. You, however, survived to a ripe old age. But i love you anyway."...) . Its a place where we can hug and cry and reminisce and repay our debts; where we can be on good terms with everyone, and have no enemies; where we can have people that hang around us with no malicious intent, where we do not need to strive to impress others, and no masks are needed, and we do not need to work our butts off or stress ourselves out.
Well, till that day, lets all keep studying and working hard and hoping for the next paycheck raise and clamouring for the next vacation or holiday where we get a shockingly temporary respite from the madness. Smilez, Life is happy =)
Its a wonderful thing, to be lost in music, oblivious to the insane racket of noise around me, swaying/nodding to the addictive winsome reverie of a soothing tune churned out by a sleek magic piece of blue aluminium (Ipod mini duh..), while everyone else on the train has to worry about their life, and i take a timeout to sit back and relax, savouring the different dimension i am in, before Dover MRT shakes me awake and dumps me back into the river rapids...
My its good to get a little crazy sometimes =)
Smilez, Life is happy =)
Good children are bad children who don't get caught. Hmmm..
jOhn thought at 1:37 PM
Friday, June 03, 2005
Penang Wan ChengQi
Skit Day today! You see, my happy school is still busy having orientation and 'bonding' activities while everyone else is already deep in lessons. On tuesday, they told us to put up a performance in the form of a ppt presentation, song, video, dance, musical or anything, as long as its about Singapore's identity. So we spent the whole of tuesday and wednesday slacking around in the studio and preparing for the skit that we chose to put up. It was meant to be the singaporean version of Romeo and Juliet. With names like Romeo Bin Beng Beng and Ju Ah Lian. -_-
Funny technical error happened during performance! Because Ju-Ah-Lian is supposed to lie dead on a table. But two of the table legs actually gave way and COLLAPSED. and she slid off and was left sitting on the floor in a daze. Lol. Then after that we kept replaying the video and having a good laugh =p
Here you see our group trying to set up the flimsy table again. While everyone is watching. So malu sia...
As for little me, i play a dude called Penang. FOrmerly called Paris (back when they havent yet decided to change names like Benvolio to names like Ah Girl). Which is a worse name in my opinion. Lol. Anyway he's supposed to be Ju Ah Lian's fiance, but she runs off to Romeo B.B.B. So my stage time in that one scene is only all of 60 secs, where Ju Ah Lian's parents introduce Penang to her and she refuses to marry Penang. So when i said "Hi.. i am Penang!", i did so in such a comical way that now even my lecturer calls me Penang. U see, she had to inform me there were no lessons tml, so she called my hp, and when i answered, i was greeted with 'PENANG! Hahaha.. jus informin u that u got no lessons tml..'. Gasp. I thought that it was my friend at first lor. -_-. Sad case. Why not.. Uzbekistan? or Jerusalem?? Penang. Hurmph.
And after the performances we all had a satisfying free catered lunch, which was a MacDonald's Cheeseburger, sandwiches, samosas, chicken wings, and packets of green tea. Don't my school just rox? lol..
And so i have become thou-who-shalt-be-called-Penang-for-his-poly-life. Hai..
For the past few days, sp-church group has been going down to practice the routine for Parade next tuesday. And we also had a full dress rehearsal. The Magnum Force, Singapore's premier cheerleading team from Ngee Ann Poly, even came down to perform and coach us. Man they were awesome! Least of all were their striking blue-yellow-white uniforms. 6 of them equals to 50 of us. They had so much energy on stage la!. Heck, even 3 of their girls screaming and flying on stage drowned out the blaring music track at times. By the end of their sizzling 4 minute-long routine and insanely impossible stunts, practically everyone's lower jaws were left resting on the carpet floor =/ Must say I really respect their coordination and skill. Truly an awesome team that deserve their crown as best team in s'pore.
Here are some pics of Magnum Force, and the rest of the rehearsal..
6 of the Professionals. You can see the blue and white skirt that the girl is wearing. Thats part of their uniform. Which i dont think it serves any functional purpose as a skirt.. Eh lol.
And one of their insanely high tosses (it went higher. Girl's still on her way up. Ehheheh...)
All the various groups gathered in the main auditorium waiting for rehearsal to start..
Another pic of the groups waiting in the audi..
The SP group in performance uniform waiting at the main lift lobby to go down to the huge main auditorium, which is 4 stories underground..
SP in full glory on stage! Even the stage decor changed to red in honour of us. nah jk.
The completed SP Parade banner. Nice isn't it?
Normal cheerleaders cheer for basketball teams. We cheer for God =)
And lastly, an uber-cool device that will be used for the church youth conference. Its a giant decibel meter that measures the volume of screams from the auditorium crowd from microphones hung all over the ceiling. Because contests such as talentime will be judged by audience screams. Cool eh? Haha. Here you see the meter being calibrated. Can also see the big church choir stand and stage decorations. Those shiny thingies are hundreds of cds hung from the ceiling, by the way..
Haha. today while walking to school i saw a guy cycling to class in a UNICYCLE, Which is, a bicycle minus one wheel. LOL. And you've thought you seen everything when your friends start driving to school in their own cars. -_-. Whats next, flying pigs?
Whoopee! Parade performance day is inching near. Next tues!!.. WhooooopEEEeee!!!...
jOhn thought at 4:53 PM