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Sunday, July 31, 2005

went back to acs for acdc's drama night..a play called "the birds"..dont think it was well done, dont think it was worth $20..

no offense to the current acdc members, but a political satire shoudlnt be turned into a pseudo musical extravaganza, complete with colourful feathered costumes. it insults the play, and it insults the thought-provoking process that the play is supposed to induce. not the first time the acs fun-loving spirit has backfired, but definitely one of the more adverse cases i've seen.

i know im not exactly qualified to criticise the acdc, but as a strictly neutral party i cant help but feel that the play could have been performed in a more satisfactory fashion. breaking into (rather bad) dance and song every few minutes does not cause the audience to contemplate the finer issues that the play intends to put across.

one thing that the play definitely did though, was get me to think abt how ac has changed since i left it..

the kind of humour put up in the play, though largely inappropriate, made me realise that humour in acs has changed since i'd graduated. instead of the slapstick that characterised my year, i found randomness and pointlessness. while changing popular song lyrics in order to fit them into the play might be considered clever by some, i find it rather passe and, truth be told, a desperate attempt to force the show to be entertaining to acsians.

thankfully, ac humour hasnt changed that much. most of the audience still go for slapstick. which meant that there wasnt much audience appreciation through the course of the show.

on a lighter note..

me and jeremy crashed the ncc-sea room! haha..that's what happens when u forget to lock ur windows..jeremy climbed in, he being the smaller of us both, and unlocked the door so i might walk in too. we went thru all the different cupboards, looked at all the different badges and awards, and generally were nostalgic abt our years spent in the unit. even did a little arms drill..really miss that, despite how much i complained abt it when i did it, haha.

we wrote on the whiteboard too! a little note from 2 seniors who happened to be bored enough to come poking around..

"jo0 i5 pW\3d 3y 53\10r5!! ph34r! MSG Jeremy Khoo, SSG Cheong Chee Jun"

lolz, no?

~cackles~


Cheong Chee Jun scribbled at 12:39 AM