“Worst organisers”

Honestly the first time I have seen Mr Ho use such strong words and appear so agitated.

I was there by 1030am and sweating like a pig. Surrounded by concrete buildings and their refusal to turn on the fans for us wasn’t making the clear sunny day any better for us. Had a soundcheck through all the pieces, with some random families walking in and some angmohs educating their kids on the different instruments (how cool, I don’t even think my parents knew what the heck a clarinet was before I took it up). Then we ended by 130pm and went to Carl’s Jr to slack in the conducive (for what?) aircon environment.

That was one of the memorable and happy moments of the entire day I suppose. First time I had a meal with the section (cos I always ended up skipping all the section outings  acks) and sitting opposite Khee Nguen who is a perpetual source of laughter made it good. Had trouble finishing my only burger, but I didn’t want to offload it to someone else (i.e. abnormal pig cheng huat who helped 3 ppl finish their burgers) so I persevered on. haha. Our picnic was unanimously cancelled due to the heat and we ended up folding roses backstage. Point to note, it’s so damn difficult to do that, I gave up after two. Then we just ate some of the picnic food backstage and sweated it out again.

Oh and we were promised changing rooms backstage. But as KN replied to XY’s questioning about it, “can, open-air one. You dare to change here? I’m a shy boy, so I will go to the toilet”

After we changed into the black polo tee, it was TEN times worse. DAMN hot. I’m serious.

Finally we got upstage, in front of crying babies and incessant chattering. Think the weird screams at CFA by some unknown woman was bad during InTempo, this was worse. No silence at all. And the GOH, who had been at Eng Kong Garden 11am earlier on in the morning, was late as usual. My mum said she’s growing fatter. How to help it when she won’t even carry her own bouquet and walk down the stage?! I heard someone has to carry her handbag when she goes for meetings, perhaps that’s why she didn’t carry anything when I saw her seated downstage. So we started the entire thing late. And they had the guts to cancel Fantillusion and Hey Jude 2 mins before FFX ended.

Which reminds me about the pathetic cosplayer duo they sent up during FFX. It’s not FFVII, so I have NO idea why it’s Cloud and Sephiroth. And Sephiroth was clearly suffering the economic recession, which explains why he didn’t have money to buy conditioner. How pathetic. Even if they mixed up the characters, try to have a better fighting scene. But no… And shouldn’t they be fighting when we play the battle theme? Not when we’re playing Suteki da ne and all the lovey dovey stuff. Horrible. An insult. Thank goodness not many gamers were there or we’ll be drenched in rotten eggs.

So…apart from the sectionmates and the very filling long break, this was quite a flop.  I kind of agee with Mr Ho though it was a little blunt to be saying it in public. “Now we know, the way to work with them is not to work with them at all.”