Rag & Flag 05/06

Today is the much awaited day... after all the hype, the speculation, anticipation... this is it...
the preview last night wasn't exactly very encouraging, at the first glance... i thought the float was a far cry from last year's. that made me really worried... Luckily the dance was impressive, i thought that will salvage something back... but the float was kinda disappointing... feeling of fear was in the air... plus the fact that Sheares was really strong in Flag this year... Gloom descended upon us, when the preview ended, no one was very confident about Rag and Flag this year. With news that Temasek was copying our idea last year and our dance moves... we were feeling pissed more than anything... and that is not helped by the fact that they came to spy on out preview... and went backshouting yay, feeling confident that they will outdo us.... THOSE GITS!!! *shaking fists*

PUtting up and makeups and body paints took the whole night... dancers were deprived of sleep as usual. We were the first hall to present after all the facs...i would say that our dance looked really impressive... kudos to the hard work by the dancers, but this year... seems like most halls have taken our concept of 2 sides fighting and a messy dance which set us apart from them all these while... except for Sheares who did a carnival, which was really refreshing and i must say that their float looks unique... With the fact that our float was kinda disappointing, i was rooting for Sheares, its better than Temasek anyway, those copycats...!!

for rag, not surprisingly, when the results were out... Sheares won most of the awards minus the least-cost float which went to US and the most environmental friendly float which went to KR. I thought we should have reclaimed our best presentation and dance awards.. dunno wassup with the judges. We lost our Flag as well, it was double whammy, but surprisingly it went to KR instead of Sheares which we thought was our main competitor. The biggest surprise of the day was that we still retained our overall champion despite losing most of our awards from last year... i guess we were high second in most of the categories... thats why... it seems like the most logical reason anyway... It didn't felt like a victory at all actually to me.. losing so much... i suppose next year's rag and flag will be quite stressed to regain whatever we lost... The only topping we had on the ice-cream was that Temasek din win a single shit... I guess copycats dun go very well with the judges eh? i was initially quit worried that they are going to be hoodwinked...