Strangely Numb

I don't know why, or when, or how, or...anyways, I know it's happened.

Suddenly, Literature...no longer means anything to me. I no longer feel anything in poetry. Only in prose, and very little of that too. I haven't written a good fic since I don't know when. Anyway, on with the subject of CAMP REACT.

My team is, was and will be screwed.

Me - Stupid idiot of the lot.

Bianche - YAY! RG GIRLS UNITE!

Eddy - There's talk that he's gay...we'll see. He apparently knows Min Chih. Hmm... HCI guys...

Celine - Dancer/Really funny NYGH girl.

Angelica - Nice name hmm? Anyways, MGS girl whose sister is the camp Co'ord. Reminds me of my sis this year in Buckle...Sigh...Poor girl.

Grace (Ng) - MGS girl. She's got...viral...somethingohsomething. Something about having a fever I think.

Yu Xin/Xian - There's some dispute about her name. She's the real worker in our group. Too bad she came late today, allowing us to digress hopelessly into gossiping.

The first day was basically talks and...MISS SERGEANT! Yay! We love her! We all screamed madly when we realised she was coming. She taught us about MIME. which is really cool, but only when taught by her. She's marvelous at this acting stuff.

The second day...Oh HO. The second day.

First of all we had something called, Go to a Scenic Place and Write Some Poetry. AKA Force some inspiration and crap out SOMETHING.

Not working for me. Sometime during that, I realised I don't feel the same for poetry anymore. It used to be expression, now it's...childish fancy? Cynicism seems to have caught up with me.

Oh yes, then then then, we had a MAJOR amazing race round the island of sunny/rainy singapore! Brilliant! =note sarcasm=

So we get a clue that goes like "_____ I am" after a quote from Green Eggs and Ham. DUHH! SAM! singapore arts museum?!

Exactly. At the place (after some time on a bus trying not to go to sleep), we did 4 things for each module.

Drama: This was pure silliness on our part. We go into a room that's just FILLED with graffiti. Till it's spilling out from the room. And there are some other paintings of garish/blinding blues and pinks and oranges and yellows. Ouch my eyes.

Then we picked a single focal point and had to base a skit on it. This is what happened.

1st 3 minutes: SILENCE REIGNS

Then: Talk about Fish. Goldfish have 5 second memories.

Then: Talk about suffocating normalcies and the pressure of the society. Profound? Yeah sure.

Then: Facil - "OI I'M NOT GIVING YOU ANYMORE TIME!"

Then: We improv a scene of a girl (me) and her parents (Celine and Eddy) screaming about marks. The utopic scene would have been that I burst away from them and go and (of all things) smash a fishbowl in anger. Bianche (the fish) is acting in JUXTAPOSITION (cool word) with Angelica and Yu Xin/Xian happily being fishbowl-walls.

But alas, alack, it was not to be. I ended up laughing when Celine said something like "NO BUTS! Even though mine's really fat, but NO BUTS!" Everything went downhill and I laughed like an idiot.

One piece of shockingly evident evidence that Anne is idiotic.

Film: This was strange and spooky. Imagine this. A room, darkened and foreboding, with a ghastly, unexplained stench. A crowd of cupboards stare at each other. You shuffle in and into the haunting circle of cupboards. On each, there are boxes stacked neatly, scarily neat, and a doll's picture corresponds to it. Then you hear a crash. What do you do? Scream lah.

It turns out it was a (DEMONIC DOLL!!!) facil. Man those people are trying to kill us.

So we had a task of coming up with a 2 minute "film" with us as actors. We had to include:

Prop: Watch

Line: I am a Time-traveller's Wife

Person/Character: Joey the Plumber. (?!?!?!?!?!)

So, our film scene. Which we concluded, was so profound and utterly abstract, none of the facils understood it.

We have Joey the Plumber go plumb at a lady's house. The housewife (Angelica) lets him in, with passers-by (Bianche/Me) and servants (Celine/Yu Xian/Xin) watching. He finds a watch which he goes to ask the wife about. She says that she is a time-traveller's wife. And he fiddles with the watch. She screams, with cliches abounding, "NOOO!! WAIT!!"

He transports us into the future. We freeze.

He transports us further into the future. We DIE. ie. flop to the ground and try not to laugh at Eddy's utterly faked shocked expression.

He goes out of the house.

SCENE CHANGE

We all get up and sit in a line. He comes out, onto a street, where we're sitting. He walks past and our eyes (only the eyes) follow him. And he walks back. Then as if he recognises Angelica (for some reason), he puts down the watch. The watch is the last thing that keeps him alive in...100 years time. So he dies. And we smile sadistically...

And burst out laughing.

FAILURE TAKE TWO!

Debate: This was utterly silly. First of all, we were the PROPOSITION! And then we picked the motion, "Schools should abolish Flag-Raising Ceremonies". Get this...

WE WON! With no real points and simply WAFFLING our way through with a single point (THERE'S NO POINT IN IT!), we did better... Strange way the world works.

ALL HAIL EDDY! who single-handedly defined the only point we had, so the rest of us could simply just...talk randomly and still hit something somewhere. And to BIANCHE! Who hit the right thing right at the end.

Literature: Against Ashlynna's team, we played LITERATURE TABOO! Have I said before how addicted I am to that game? I've played it 2 hours straight okAAYYY. Anyway...

I got my team...6-8 cards out of 17 which rules to me.

One point to the Anne ISN'T an idiot team. yay.

THEN

We got back to SALT centre. And had a WARCRY game! Our team won with a scream/bellow/shriek of "PALIN SUCKS!" Yay us.

Then we were enclosed in the BLACK BOX to do our closing ceremony drama thingum.

Nothing happened except that we went out of the BLACK BOX to decide on something to do.

We decided on a world if Sarah Palin had her way with things. AKA. The world Nukes itself in a gigantic WWIII. Yay.

And that was it!

Wooooooooooooooffffffff......that was long. Gotta go and do the script now. Seeya!

Anne/Moira/Maple