Sunday, February 21, 2010
@ 2:19 PM
A long tiring 3 days
Thursday
The night before, had DotA marathon with Kang Wei, Leonard, Wen Hau and Edmund. Played about 4-5 matches. Slept at 5am.
Went to meet Amol, Christina, Vicki and Myron at 313 Somerset. Had our dinner at Food Republic. After that, we went over to Ben & Jerry's at Orchard Central. Forgot what we ordered. Made our way down to F1 Pit for the Technical Run. All performers were there. Wasn't a very bad run. Some changes made. End of the day, went for supper with Christina, Q, Gordon, Seth and another 2 participants at Makan Sutra. Left at around 1.30am. Slept at 4am.
Friday
Met with the usual group of people at McDonald for breakfast. Made our way down to Anderson and waited for the rest to arrive. Changed out, put on make-up, had our lunch. Left the place at 5.30pm. Once there, we went to our waiting area and had our dinner. Went over to find the Wufang people. Had our own practice before the actual thing starts. Parade started 8pm+ and we wait on for our turn to enter. Once it was our turn, we got ourselves prepared. The music was played. We ran into our position. Did our dance, ladder stunts. It all went well during the first run. Second run we were a bit slow. Overall the performance put up was great. Head back to Anderson to change out of our costume. Once done, everyone left the school. Me, Seth and Kelvin went to Tan Tock Seng Hospital to see Benny who had a high fever. Had some snacks while waiting. After fetching Benny out, went over to Vicki's house where Jessica and Gordon were already there. Washed up before we got some sleep at 3am.
Saturday
Woke up at 6am but dillydally till about 7.30am before we all got ourselves ready to eat breakfast at McDonald again. Reached there at 9.30am. A lot of people reached at like 12pm+, as everyone was very tired from the preview performance. Changed out, put on the costume, did make up. Once everyone was done we proceeded on to take the bus.to F1 pit. Like usual, we got our dinner once seated down. Waited for our turn to perform. The first run was pretty good, even with the same problem that we had, we managed to pull through the performance. Second run was okay also. We managed to get in on time. After our performance at the second run, we quickly made our way to clear out. Sadly, we had a number of casualties. One of them fainted, one of them was dehydrated, two over-strained their hand, one had her head knocked by the ladder, one had her hands ran over by the boom lift.
After the whole thing, we made our way back to school and changed out. Cleared up the hall before we proceeded on to get ready for City Alive!. Took the bus to F1 Pit and tried to bring in Jessica but she was underage so couldn't get in. So some of us took turns to go in and some waited outside with her. While waiting, we went over to our float to take photos. Wanted to find some place to eat but almost everywhere was closed. So we made our way back to the F1 Pit as some of the other Chingay people came out so we split ourselves to take cab home.