Rag experience

How long since the Rag end? Its been 1 semester and the fridge i bought last semester during rag still in Sean's room( and that fridge cost me 30 bucks). I remembered that I wanted to write a blog for my rag experience and i have never written any until today. I guess now i wont be able to write a blog that might be as elaborating as it suppose to be. Anyway, lets start:

Still remember that when I first joined rag, my motive was to join Sheares Hall. What the fuck should I care about the Rag if it win or not. I don't care. I remembered i came back for Rag in early June 2008. What astonished me was, the Rag that was described as a production that need a lot of man power has only less than 10 people.

"No mood" was what I always felt. Sienx and no motivation as well. Why should I do all this kind of job. I thought the task that i was doing was meant for those construction workers. At that time i wondered- Am I a bangladesh worker? WTF rite?

I was a noob engineer at that time. No 1 guiding us to do the engineering work. I can still remember very well who were there at that time. Only Matt, Sandra, Jung Seong, Wan Sin, Yong Lin and Shida.(maybe i miss out some but i am certain there were less than 10 people)

Soon, some seniors came back and help out. They taught us how to use drills and other power tools as well as how to build some basic structure. That was when i felt engineers are cool. Seniors that came back include Joseph, Chris, Samson, Jung Seong(who dun look like the chairperson because he look so cock (= and also my master Jung Keat, a very annoying person yet very useful and patient in training me as a refined engineer.(by the way, he is a first class honored chemical engineering student :P)

Few weeks later, my boss came back from China. He is Xue Hai( also well known as Hai ge). What a china guy? But at least he is easy to get along. Nice Pr skill but a bit lazy. Working with him is really hard because he speak mandarin that i cannot understand. But what can I do? Time will solve everything. As time goes, finally we can work as a team together with Jung Seong, Shida, Xuda, Ling Xiao and also Xue Hai.

Not forgetting other engineers. There were stories that entertained the rag that time- Qiu Ping who also known as "Hai Mei" was the highlight at that time. A girl as engineer? Thats not something common. She claimed that she is experienced in engineering work. I would say she has got some basic but not to the extend that she can handle big things. (Anyway, she improved a lot and she is one of my engineers this coming Rag)

Also we got Alvin, namely the slacker among engineers. He has been slacking a lot but he is quite helpful when he has the mood(in other words, he always emomo when he came down to help. Dunno if he think the same when I first came here for rag- If I am a worker in construction site?)
Now we are staying together in block C, a place where everyone live like a family. We are in the same dota team mate and also in sheares soccer team this year. YEAH, he is also known as DH(guess u will have to ask lv 2 people to know what is DH). hahah~

Aiks, i am too busy introducing the characters in Rag. After a month in rag, I can feel the sense of belonging to this Hall. The question why everyone is doing this FUCKED UP Rag was finally clarified. Why everyone was so hardworking in finishing the float that will be dismantled right after the 5 minutes performance at the rag day itself?

Here i can answer u guys:
RAG is the PRIDE of SHEARES HALL. We can be fools, but the name of SHEARES HALL shall not belittle. The FLOAT that we build symbolize the name of SHEARES HALL.

Of course we went through a lot of shits throughout the rag, but that's worth it because we gained something that we cannot acquire by money. Something invaluable- Friendship that built, tears that shed and effort spent that pin in mind. All of these will remain forever~

On the Rag day itself, everyone was so tired because we did not finish the float as scheduled. As the result, we work very intensively 1 day before the Rag day. Everyone was so worn out. Also the day before the Rag day, we see the shearites stand together as 1 to finish the float. Its kinda touching if you can witness the scene yourself. We call that spirit "SHEARES SPIRIT".

The final moment reached- 8th August, the Rag day. Everyone gave their best. Dancers dance with passion, logistic push the float and props with spirit and also all the supporters together with SWOC came down to support.

Until the moment when our Hall was called- The emcee announced "We welcome Sheares Hall".
We proudly presented our item to everyone in NUS, with the brand new and courage idea- the band in the music box namely RHAPSODY~

I didn't know what exactly happened because i was the operator for the main float. What I remembered was my heart beat was beating so hard until the performance ended.

I couldn't elaborate very well for every moment happened in Rag because its been quite a while. There are a lot more that I never mention but its fresh inside my mind, like the coffee break, the nipple biting session, OT to finish the main float with Dean and Y.Lin. Those are really memorable.

So this year with the heavy responsibility on hand as C.Engineer, this coming rag will be more exciting and more fulfilling.

Horace~