the end of an era

v day seems so long ago. those feelings of crazy happiness have now but subsided, but not before a very entertaining weekend which followed...

the culmination of 5 weeks (not months!) of blood, sweat and tears literally unfolded on saturday evening: The Malaysian Odyssey. aww i must say i'm so proud of mich and all her actors/dancers/cheorographers. they put up one amazing play; it succeeded in making this chronic plays/musicals-napper sit up and hang onto the characters' every word and action, laughing till i almost cried at certain parts. it doesn't hurt that i knew almost all the people acting in or involved in the play, and it touched me to see how much effort went into the whole thing. I was praying the whole time that it would go without a hitch, and it pretty much did just that, minus the forgetting of lines ("karaoke! karaoke!") and the slip during the dance that went totally unnoticed - nic only told me after the show back in our rooms.

special mention has to go out to:
alex teo, who threw caution to the wind, together with all shreds of respectibility for a single dance item which will be forever more cemented into facebook folklore. ohh i have never laughed so hard in my life!
also: nicole tay and alicia goh, who also threw caution to the wind with those excuses of a dress which barely covered anything. i was crossing my fingers the whole time, but it all turned out fine in the end. the pontianaks even managed to scare a certain malaysian into avoiding dark toilets out of conditioned fear from the dance.
kenrick ng, acting genius. the one most likely to win an oscar for his performance - something to add the the booklet!
voonkiat lai: a singlet-bearing padi boy whose dedication to the role include certain crucial decisions and drastic shaves
and last but not least, the three main actors wuileng heng, even pan and daniel tay aka the cool, the poser and the hamsuplou. roles so defined and apt for each personality that i can't help but worship the queen of all directors, michelle yeo.

so malaysia night came and went with a bang. the next day, i had to wake up to my last official day as CUMSA sports secretary. the agm was boring as expected, but i felt slightly depressed at the end of it when the eager smiles on the faces of the new committee members seemed to mock our quiet stepping-down. watching them convene for their very first cumsa meeting made me reminisent of the past year; it was such a good year i couldn't really ask for anything more to be honest. maybe that's why i was feeling reluctant to hand my post over; it had been just too perfect.

sorry for the emo post. another sun-soaked season has faded away...