More pictures!!!

Toldya we were there at 6.20am :)
 

This is how we booked our area.
 

How did we managed to “tell” everyone “we are from RE FC”? By sticking them to the barricades! :D
 

I think the older singers appreciated us. We waved our boards and swayed to their music even though we didn’t understand. They smiled, waved back and walked towards our side, Calvin Soh even gave us a thumbs-up, praising us: “你们, 好!”.

YL & Shir were made to squat down while the RUDE fans of the Pig pushed us against the barricades. Show was so close to us (2m away) that Shir had eye contact with him, he was probably puzzled to see 2 pairs of eyes “behind the bars”.

That’s all for the event I suppose? No wish to dirty this blog with the ugly behavior of the outsiders.

 

In case you didn’t hear clearly, we shouted: “瑞恩, 你的关怀是阳光!”

Amazing how loud we could be when we only had 15 of us.

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Pictures!!!

The start of the 16hours Mathematical and Craft work challenge.
 

Working out the sums.
 

Thank goodness we didn’t fail Math!
 

This is what happens when we don’t have stencils or projection. Potential O-levels E-Math question?
 

The complete set of L RE Boards (We kept the R set because there’s insufficient space)
 

The group of us who were there.

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Here’s us at work (Note: There’s a classic pic at the end):

I look so siwen with my specs hor? But this isn’t the classic pic I’m referring to.. *drum rolls* Look down for the classic pic!
 

Disclaimer: That’s not me in photo :)

 

(3 more photos of the boards to be uploaded later)

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I lost count on the number of times people called us “RUI EN FAN CLUB” last night. We stuck our RBKD RE boards on the barricades so that no one will mistook us as pig’s fans (in black too). 

The best thing was, we occupied such a prime spot that everyone knew where to find “RE FC”.

2 girls: “RE FC right? We saw her, she has arrived.” *walks off* (Eh?). 

Ken Lim: “You are from RE FC? blah blah blah. Where’s Jeanette’s?” 

Crew: “RE FC? We have rice for you.”
Us: “HUH??? O.O??? Why don’t you give half to Jeanette’s FC instead?”
Crew: “Oh ok. Where are they?“

9Kong uncle: “你们是瑞恩的啊? 欧萱的嘞? 为什么不叫他们站在你们的旁边? 可以打架..”

Pig’s fans on phone: “我们在 RE FC 后面”, “我们在 RE FC 旁边”, “我们6点来，还在REçš„FC后面..”, “RE FC吗? 等一下可不可以..”

We took pics of our super AA boards at the bus interchange after the event, passerbys exclaimed: “Wah, RUI EN!”. Some were so taken aback they literally moved a step backwards when they saw our boards.

Mission Super-AA-ness, accomplished with distinctions :D

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1. The Malay Security Guard kept telling us, “he is a fan, but we are fanatic”. And he calls her “Ru En”. But he was real nice, he asked if we wanted drinking water and next, he returned with 7 cups of those sealed drinking water. Thank you!

2. And there’s this comchest uncle who was disapproving of us chasing idols I think. However at the end, he praised us and said something like “You all support Rui En, I support you all support her“. Why? Because he saw us picking up litter left behind by us and the pig’s fans after the event. Most ran off to the backstage but the group of us stayed on to help clear the mess. I guess we did impress him so much that he was all smiles when he saw us at the bus interchange later on, so different from his sceptical look all night :D

3. And there’s this uncle whom we first “knew” from the Vivo Countdown, who was so so so so so so so so nice. Not only did he chats with us, he also got our boards shown on national TV! Our spot was good but not camera friendly and we refused to move. But thanks to the cameraman uncle aka 九孔uncle, who walked down specially to film our boards when RE sang because we requested him to, we managed to get ourselves seen+heard (16hours spent on boards and another 13 on queueing was not wasted after all). Thanks uncle!!!

But isn’t it interesting that we are actually “befriending” uncles? Haha.

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I must be mad. They must be mad. I just reached home 28minutes ago, 10minutes journey back so I spent a total of 11hours (12nn-11:10pm) today, and 5hours yesterday (16hours in total???); Collen and Shirley are still on their train back. And not forgetting Grace, Yanling and Candice who wasted at least 10hours with us too. And Xaby and Phyllis who came down for the 2hours. Sorry I can’t take more people because too many cooks spoil the soup.

What did we do? You will know after 6pm tomorrow. We must be mad. And please, we will be extremely irritable tomorrow, don’t test us. Thanks. I will blog more with PICTURES (1st time on seemenot?) and details tomorrow (or Monday).

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Am always so tired after an IPC activity. Today was quite interesting, even if it was kinda difficult to communicate or know each other better while cycling. There were a few scares when people fell and “Road Hazard Candice” caused quite a few near-accidents. Still, most of us returned in 1 full piece, but with painful butts and lotsa mozzie bites (<< eee yucks!). Anyone for night cycling next week? Haha.

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I don’t feel a thing, but I’m worried. There’s only 12 dramas this year and none of the top10 would be hers. Tell us how to survive the rest of the year without news. Where’s that great year ahead? Wonderful wonderful, and I don’t mean it.

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Age is a numeral assigned to assumptions, at least in this post.

We assume kids under three regard everything in the world as edible, hence we have the label “Not for kids under 3”.

We assume kids start to use their brain only after 6, hence we have toys labelled “Only for kids 6 and above”.

And next we assume that anyone who is younger than 16 is still a child, therefore we have “NC-16” (No Children under 16).

We also assume that the age of 18 symbolises adulthood (legally?) yet certain matters such as marriage and contractual agreements still require guardian consent if you are below 21.

Think that you are as free as a bird when you hit 21? Not quite. There’s still a list of numerals which would certainly bores everyone should I type them out.

We live in an age defined by our age, it’s probably the most convenient gauge for most issues, but at times there might just be exceptions.

Honestly I’m not sure what exactly should be the “bearable” minimum age. If you ask for my take, then perhaps anyone without their NRIC would be just too young; then again, it’s their life, not mine. I’m nobody to decide and I’m certainly not interested to do so either.

So just how young is not too young for us; that I still have no answer to.

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It was fun! Honest. I’m beginning to think that IPC can be real fun.. afterall, fun is not in what we do, but who we do it with. It’s healthy to be outdoor.. who knows? IPC Sentosa could just well be a regular IPC item.. :D

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(Someone’s gonna say she’s shy.. haha..)

Secretary Kek’s working on 7June la.. That means she would have to pass me the banner + the boards beforehand.. 书包太重 sia.. Haha.

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They say that a coin has 2 sides, obviously. Let’s further illustrate it with a coin whose 1 face is held against the light, the other in the shadow of the coin. And so we have this, with every negative (dark) side to the issue, there’s always the positive (bright) opposite, how true is that? It depends on how we choose to see it.

While there are indeed people who dislike the PJs idea, some of these are really spontaneous enough. Those who do not have PJs are scouting for one, those who have them have persuaded themselves to wear them; who knows? there might be some who are wearing PJs for the first time in their life? Haha.

Gamely people are our source of light, and I await the day our coin will have both faces brightly shined. (Actually we can make both sides to a coin shined by holding it parallel to the light source rather than perpendicularly? haha)

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You know how people say “Sian 1/2”? So when I sian “totally”, it’s “Sian 2/2”.. You know.. fractions.. Able to understand? Ok, never mind if you can’t.

What made me “Sian 2/2”? Chalet lo.

Forfeits. Do I like them? I think its idiotic.

Compulsory? I never believed in that. Everything is relative, there’s nothing compulsory if you are willing to bear with the sacrifices. 

I know and I understand that many of you dislike the PJs idea. Do I like it? I don’t dislike it. Why do I insist then? Actually I didn’t, but it’s an important step if you see it from this POV. Most people are shy to let others see themselves in PJs, but if you cross that barrier, you won’t be so mindful of your appearance, I believe that’s when ice-breakers will be most effective.

I can be frank that we don’t have a single forfeit in plan yet, and I’m not even interested to think of one. Really, whether or not you have fun and we have fun is not with what you wear, but rather, if you are game enough to PLAY.

Why do I want to kill my brain cells over these. Fun is for people who embraces it. Think about it.

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Goodness, I wondered if anyone spotted a Snail at the I-Weekly event earlier. I was kinda afraid I would be spotted.. Imagine me blog hopping tonight and blog entries going like this.. “RBKD’s President went to see XXX, YYY, ZZZ!!!” **FAINTS**

Truth is, I was literally PULLED OUT of MRT and escorted to PS. And goodness can you imagine my horror look when I spotted familiar faces on stage??? (MSN :o Emoticon) I should have stayed in the main building as I did for 4/5 the time. Goodness, I was made a “betrayer” for the day.. Oh~ and turnout for the payment drive was below our expectation.. *sad*

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It’s done! FINALLY, the new membership scheme is ready to face the crowd!

No more subway recruitment drives, no more Sundays reserved for RBKD because.. we are going ONLINE. Ok, this sounds backdated but we are doing online real-time application!

Honestly, I’m so in love with Google Docs that I’m basically “addicted” to it. Already I had been using it for club accounts and logistics log, not to mention those voting logs and membership database. Now? We are not just doing these online, we are doing it real-time, which explains how we are able to accept your applications instantly.

Alright, if you have yet to read our new IPC scheme, I’m here to advertise our brainchild: http://rbkd-online.com/join.php

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I’m doing everything except writing anything about the new membership scheme. I’m really dragging on this because it’s kinda boring. The scheme’s interesting enough, it fulfils the objectives I set in an “innovative” manner but the thing with new ideas is that we have to explain. And dreads but I don’t like to explain myself :/

T&C is updated, the form for local fans is ready, and I have started drafting the scheme. Arghs. The FAQ to Big40 is totally not applicable to this new scheme. Everything’s from scratch again :/

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What a tricky question.

I used to choose Quality as my outright answer, however, I’m not that sure these days.

Don’t get me wrong, Quality is still very important to me. Which is why I stood by the magical 40 previously just as someone did with the magical 85.

Now the problem is, I can’t just choose Quality over Quantity because it is Quantity which first defines the club before Quality is even known.

And why do I need anyone to know more about us? Well, because of the need in having a strong FC (I will share more about this next time round). This is why the issue is so tricky, just where is that balance point, no one knows exactly.

I can only give it a try, to design schemes that hopefully, would welcome a good Quantity of Quality fans whom we would be glad to see as our fellow members.

Just done with the new membership application form, FAQ’s up next. Yucks. Haha.

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I know I know, everyone is curious about the NEW membership scheme. Honestly, it’s all up in my head; in fact it had already acquired permanent residency two months back.

Converting to full “citizenship” is troublesome, so many details to run through, new T&C, FAQs and all those tiny winy little fine lines, thank goodness I have enough say to exempt it from any citizenship test.

Why don’t I just accept “bribery” by collecting a nominal membership fee? Well, my answer/question would be: why do we need the money?

“Bribery” got to be the easiest way out, too bad you have a club president who likes to make things difficult, money is nothing.

I will try my best to finalise the scheme asap, meanwhile, here’s a little clue about the new scheme; the focus is on Effort, Participation and Belonging.

;)

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Ideas are flooding in like mad (such a wrong time!) and I’m getting my organizers all excited. Now for exams to end and planning to kick start!

Alright, 1 more week.

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Have you ever managed a web? I guess anyone who tracks the number of hits on their blogs could understand just as well, how much it means to the web team when hits reach 170 000 183 000 and visitors numbered 90 000 96 500.

It is just as important to me that our Youtube Channel has attracted 208 000 221 000 video views and 15 000 17 000 channel views.

All these figures might mean nothing to webs drawing 10 000 or 100 000 hits daily, but to us, even if it’s only an average of 400-800 visitors daily, goodness it just makes sense why we are doing all these.

(Edited: 18:36h, 11/05/2009)

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The paths in our modern and urban world are no longer paved with sand or dust, but rather, laid with tar and cement. How often could we leave footprints behind on these cold hard tracks that we had once walked through?

But each and every step you guys took, to this common destination of ours did not go unnoticed, at least not by me. I am appreciative, for the chance to walk through this “game” with everyone. Thanks for putting in your heart and soul to it no matter how silly we all think it is. Ain’t we all glad our hearts are young and strong enough for this? It was such a sweet win. Real thanks.

 

:)

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