Rag: Passion, Friendship, Triumph

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Heyo Raggers, how's sch been? feeling weird gg to sch w so many cars & ppl ard? feeling queer seeing fellow Raggers in non-cui clothes? starting to feel post-rag depression (PRD)? wanting deep in ur heart to have a gathering w fellow Raggers once again after Rag Day has ended? not to worry! e 1st post rag event is coming up! do buy ur tix for e upcoming arts bash on 18th aug @ DXO!!! let us all go down & support our fellow Rag dancer Guo Yao who is a pageant contestant!!! tix gg only at $14 w 2 drinks included!!! u can buy from any MC members or bash ocomm members~! let's all go man! i'll b dere!

Xin Yu

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Sunday, August 12, 2007

rag has ended.. school has started.. lt11, the carpark, as3 has been cleared of the rag stuffs..yet memories live on.. i woke up this morning from our rag room, came out of the room and stopped outside the door.. coz i saw nothing outside the room.. not what i would expect everyday for the last one month when i woke up... we (me, serene, applie, kenneth, guanjie) walked to lt11.. it's crowded with people.. but they are just students queueing up for coursepack.. no longer raggers who sat down and did soft tech.. and last night after coming back from dinner.. we walked past the carpark to go back to rag room.. what should be our yellow submarine is now left only with the frame.. our pathenon and palace dismantled.. i couldnt said enough of everything which i'm feeling right now.. as i read applie's msg on the yahoo group, i cried yet again..

for the past 8 months of planning, last 3 months of starting working from scratch.. last 1 month for chionging together.. it has been filled with so much memories.. the pain, the hardship, the few hours of sleep.. the jokes, the scandals, the suppers, the rollercoaster rides in lionel's car, the cans collection, the cans washing, all the birthday celebrations, all the pastries baked by our dearest juniors and jasmine.. all the origami which drove everyone crazy.. the cans bottoms which made me, kit geok and geraldine so pissed off.. the periscope box with card marche which me and serene kept doing.. nick climbing up and down the submarine and us telling him to be careful.. meichen telling us that we need to keep what we are putting up on the submarine very straight.. and us re-doing it over and over again when we think that it's not nice.. the mounting of the float for the first time.. the combined rehearsals.. the energetic dancers who always keep us motivated to finish the float as nicely as possible to match up to their dance.. kenneth nagging at us.. all the late nights talking to each other.. all the people who came down to help us.. all the seniors who came back.. all the freshies who are willing to come back.. our regular freshies (sarah, hanjing, alvin, sabrina, bernice).. the gossip gang, the 160 club, reuben's shortie song, joshua who are on the exchange programme yet came down everyday to help us... the singing at night when we wanted to chiong out the back of the palace but it ended up like us screaming lyrics out and jeremy being so gian to join us (me, michelle and serene)...

there's so much to be said.. so much in our memories.. so much we felt for.. even when the judges denied us.. even if the results failed us.. we know deep in our hearts that we have not failed ourselves.. the friendship which was forged between us.. the bond that was shared among us.. the family we had for these 3 months.. it's beyond words to express everything that i want to say about rag.. i dont know how to describe the love i have for rag, for this family who has been with me throughout this 1 month.. i'll never forget this experience.. i'll never forget everyone who has been there giving us their support.. i'll never forget the yellow submarine.. the palace, the pathenon, the clam, the treasure chest, the rocks... everything that makes up the entire arts rag..

i love rag!!! i love rag ocomm!! i love all raggers =)

Love Love,

Shu Ping

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Thursday, August 2, 2007

rag day is approaching!! everyone involved in arts rag has been working very hard these few days to complete everything in the way that we want to finish. what makes all raggers happy is food!! =)

our lovely juniors have been super nice to us. they bake muffins, cupcakes and cookies for us to eat. we love all freshies so much!! (including hanjing.. so hanjing, u shud be nicer to all of us. =P)

and guanjie just baked cheesecake for us to eat... so sweet of him..

and on 31st july, FASS had orientation talks for the freshies and they had reception for the freshies in the morning. usually, schools will order too much food for the freshies, and hence, that's when raggers come in to help! =P

serene, samuel and I went down to LT12 and started to pack the food for raggers.

see this!! so much food.. just like picnic!! we ate all these for breakfast, lunch and teatime.. hahaa.. the cheesecake, chocolate fudge cake and fruit tarts are the nicest among all.. and so, raggers are super happy when all of them woke up. the three of us had a lot of fun packing the food back to as3 as well..

8 days to rag day, 7 days to end of building of float.. everyone jiayou!!

Love Love,
Shu Ping

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Monday, July 30, 2007

haha, it has been a long time since i last blogged on this blog. been so overwhelmed with all e actions happening at our rag sites aka LT11 carpark 6 & AS3 level 2 walkway. :P time really flies, soon before we know it, Rag Day will be here and Rag history will then close another chapter already. it has been really heartening to see a number of freshies coming down regularly, joining us to make our dreams come into fruition on 11th August 2007. even though it e going gets tough at times, we Raggers stood by one another all e way frm e start til now and we will cont to til e end right? i believe so. :) anyway, to all people out there reading this blog, be it freshies, seniors who've done rag before or nus students who've nvr done rag before, if you have even a tiny urge to join us do not hesitate to do so! there is not much time left for you to hesitate and consider already, before you know it, you would have lost the chance. trust me, Rag is definitely a memorable experience you wont be able to find anywhere else. let us live our passion, build and treasure friendships then bring back the triumph. WHATEVER IT TAKES! ^-^

12 Days to Rag & Flag Day 2007~!

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Friday, July 27, 2007

25 July 2007

geylang + frog leg porridge + dou jiang you tiao + walking along the alley + rollercoaster ride = happy happy day

26 July 2007

supper again. teochew porridge + rollercoaster ride.. =) happy birthday to Sarah!

that's for now. more updates coming up. =) for those who are still thinking if u should come down to join us, make your first move now. make this your own unforgettable experience, and not just reading or listening to ours. =)

Love Love,

Shu Ping

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22 July 2007
who said that rag is all about shit work? we had our own fun as well. we went out to clementi for dinner. before that we were doing rag. kenneth, xiaoyan and serene were busily fixing the taupoline sheet so that we can have a better environment for the hard tech pple.

after a tiring day, we set off to clementi to meet jackson and the rest for dinner. we had dinner at our usual place, the coffee shop which sells gong bao chicken and claypot rice. as usual, we ordered the gong bao chicken, claypot rice, potato leaves and hotplate tofu.

see our pd helping us to scoop the claypot rice!! hahaha.. so nice!! =)

the joke of the day.. nicholas smiling to himself.. =P

after dinner, we went off to partyworld to sing!! and there's so many hidden talents around us. so many of them can sing so well!! even Kenneth sang!!! see how nice our pd is to us.. even when he dont sing often, but he knows his comm loves to sing a lot, hence, he sang with us as well. =)

as usual, the guys were laughing at the girls for being too 'zi high' and standing on the sofa, but what's wrong with being high? haha, so of course we just heck care about their teasing. =P we sang from 9pm till 1am.. after the whole thing, we took turns to take photos with jackson, who's going to US for NOC.. take care of yourself k.. =)

and after k-ing, some of us decided to walk back to sch from clementi. it's a long journey, but as usual, it's the bonding session that matters to all of us..

Love Love,

Shu Ping

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21st July 2007
this is the first garang guni which i joined, though this is the third and also the last one. BUT.. it is still super fun! we did our third garang guni at toh guan rd, which is around the same area as our second garang guni. it was raining that morning. so some of us who stayed over took cab over to the destination to meet the rest. michelle's brother and his friends from srjc came to help us as well. we grouped ourselves into groups of 8 to comb each block.

see us hard at work..

of course there will be the usual cam-whoring.. =P

makan time!! yummy yum yum..

then in the afternoon, michelle's brother and his friends had to leave. so we re-grouped ourselves again and continued with the combing of blocks. this time round, we had lots and lots of fun, at least for my group which consisted of me, serene, jeremy and bryan. we decided to compete and see if it's the girls or the guys who are able to get more stuffs.

and finally at around 5 plus in the evening, we managed to comb all of the blocks that we planned to.

and we went off to balestier to have our bak kut teh!! it's very nice. thank goodness that we dont have to queue for very long. all of u should go and try the bak kut teh. it's often frequented by the overseas idols who came to Singapore. we had lots of fun pointing out the idols in all the photos that were pasted around the shop.

coming to rag is not all about hard tech and soft tech. it's also about the friendship that we share. all the chatting, joking around, meals together have strengthened our friendship and have made us so much closer to each other. it makes me love rag more and more, and willingly come down for rag everyday. =)

some of us after dinner

Love Love,

Shu Ping

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