Cutie's Kibbleloss: THE RED PARADE

hmm yup so it's finally over.

It's ended as quickly as it started. I guess that's nat day for you.

I remember feeling very seperated from the nat day comm. I didn't know many people in the comm when i joined. in fact, i wasn't even supposed to be in nat day comm in the beginning. by the time i joined, they already had 2 meetings, decided on the ICs and allocated everyone (including me) into sub-comms.

well, before we could even get to know each other well, it was time for break and CTs.

Once council break finally ended, we realized that we only had 3 weeks to go and that all that we had prepared so far was all useless due to H1N1.

Since then, it was a mad rush to get everything done. Games Comm was pushed from the carnival to the observance+prometheum ceremony to the splitting of the comm and den finally to interactive games+observance ceremony! It wasn't easy for any of us. We were staying back in school for meetings everyday to rush things out. It was then that I realized I enjoyed the company of nat day comm people and start to appreciate how nice all of them are. Everyday, during school, I'd be looking forward to the Nat Day meetings later on, wondering what exciting things were in store for us.

We spent so much time together designing boards, cutting stars, putting up posters... I've enjoyed every moment of it.

But the best part was still Games Gomm. We spent so much time together doing so many random things.

We spent one night writing numbers from 0000 to 1368 and pasting stars.
We spent one evening counting honey stars.
We spent three days buying all the prizes necessary.

For the past 2+ weeks, I've been seeing Games Gomm nearly everyday (except maybe Sunday) and I guess that's what we call "building memories through shared experiences"!

And I've truly enjoyed myself for the past 3 weeks. All the time spent with Penny and Matty were great. I mean we aren't exactly very similar. In fact, we are the most diverse comm (or gomm) ever. But I guess that's what makes us special! We make up for each other's shortfalls. And that's why we all have different QIAN TUs! HAHA.

Like I have a great qian tu in pasting stars. (:
And Penny has a great qian tu in math (surprisingly heh haha jk)
And Matth has a great qian tu in using big words

The rehearsals too were very fun. All the time spent in AV room with the AV peeps. haha. Although we did miss the fun downstairs, we had our share of joy and laughter upstairs with zhi yu and other stories haha.

And so, before we even knew it, the day came.

It came too suddenly for many of us. But we knew we could do it after all the work put in. Although we hadn't succeeded doing AV without any major screw up (even on the rehearsal on the day itself), we knew we would make it in the end. haha and we did! and we did even more brilliantly than expected. We incorporated a new element to our superlatives with the camera zooming in on the people. HAHA. Super fun! (: And we did the transition so smoothly. Even Zhi Yu was on task for the spotlight. hahaha.

It was a totally awesome feeling when you see your games work out better than you expected. Many people were very skeptical about the SMS Competition at first, for example. There were so many areas for screw ups like if the phone didn't work or if no one participated... But it worked out so well in the end. (: The superlatives too were better than expected. Not only were we on time, we also had so many funny moments. (:

Survivor would have been great if we had played it. But I guess the concert was still great even without it. Although much of our effort went into survivor, stuff didn't work out in the end and I guess that sums up Games Gomm. We keep changing our job scope and getting our proposals rejected but we just keep working on to make The Red Parade a special one. And we do it so well! (:

and before we knew it, it ended as quickly as it came. Comm singing came, the cheers started and the balloons fell. As everyone celebrated in the loud music, we emo-ed outside - probably because of survivor being cancelled and that everything was about to end. We were not going to meet each other as often again and it's kind of sad.

But before everything ends, I'd like to thank the 2 most special people in nat day to me - my fellow gommers! (:

TO MATTY:
Hey Matty! haha. I dunno whether it's yuan2 fen4 or what but I seem to be getting into the same stuff as you this year. There's ISLE, Council campaigning, HouseD and now Nat Day Games Gomm! haha. I'm really thankful cuz I've learnt so much from you and I've enjoyed your company and your jokes. We did a really great job for AV! And you're the IDEAS MAN in games gomm. You're always full of them haha. And your qian tu is so much better than mine! Sigh. Anyway there's still much more for us to do together for HouseD so we'll see each other quite often I guess. woohoo (: GO GOMMER 1!

TO PENNY:
Hey PENNY! hahaha. Firstly, thanks for teaching me a new song...

"I want my money back. I want my money back. I want my money back..."

"I'm just a little bit caught in the middle. Life is a road and love is a riddle. I don't know where to go, (forgot line), I've tried. But I don't know why."

Haha. YAY. now i know more songs than just boulevard of broken dreams heh. Anyway, you're quite a cool person who's funny (hole in the fringe heh) and nice. (: Thanks for volunteering to do backstage even though you had to be seperated from games gomm (sobs) during the concert. You've done a great job there! And of course, I'll never forget all the times we all spent together, making lucky draw tickets, buying prizes, filling honey stars, doing decor... Wouldn't have gotten to know you so well without nat day (:

"I WANT MY PENNY BACK. I WANT MY PENNY BACK" LOL. GO GOMMER 2!