NUS Rag Day 06/07

Finally the big day is here. Joined the KE7 dancers most of the time and ended up not sleeping for almost 40 hours.

Man, the KE7 float is really promising this year. I really liked the float design, a very simple, obvious, and easy to understand idea with lots of nice details attached to it. Really sad that i'm not dancing this year due to work. Fen, the choreographer, was also not dancing for the 1st time. It's really all pure-student-no-alumni dancers this year. Even the float committee was made up of new blood. Seven wushu people are float dancers this time, the most so far in KE7. Of them included old bird Yuan Yan, the new captain Jeremy and his love bird Sharon, my Aitong wushu junior Yuan Feng, Mauritian wushu athelete Kan Feng (not sure if spelled correctly), and two other female wushu freshies (one from Malaysia and the other from China) of which i forgot their names. Anyway about the KE7 performance, i think it was really the most unique one among the other halls. We had no hip-hop or heavy metal, no cheerleading, gymnastics or swing dancing. All we had was a pure fantasy world of pirates. In fact we had the most acting sequences compared to the other halls, which i think made the KE7 float presentation really stand out. The cast were really well chosen. The pirates are made up of mainly good actors, the storm waves and lightning had their talents from dance and wushu, and the captivating dancers took up their roles as sirens (of which one of them is my dear! =p) Speaking of which, i really liked the lightning costume/bodypaint. It's just so simple and yet so striking. Though at the end KE7 only got the best float design, i really think KE7 should also get the best presentation, or at least the most unique performance.

Other float presentations that i thought were not bad too are the Medicine Faculty and Kent Ridge Hall. Medicine's float was simple, but their presentation was really nice. In fact i wanted to do a performance like theirs for a long time, but i couldnt find the qualified manpower for it. It was really a combination of cheerleading stunts, gymnastics flips and long ribbons, and wushu moves. The whole performance was almost stunt after stunt that fitted pretty nicely together. The best part was their wushu soloist was one of my Aitong juniors, Zheng Hao, whom i was trying to pull to KE7! (Darn!) And quoting from Yie Hui, when is KE7 going to wake up and use wushu for float?? As for Kent Ridge Hall (KR), their train float was really magnificent! Very detailed and impressive. In fact i really thought KR deserved the best float design rather than KE7. As for KR's presentation, well they had their cheerleading stunts and hip hop stuff, which many other presentations also had too. But i guess the train was just too fantastic, and hence KR grabbed most of the awards.

Thankfully, i managed to somehow sneak my way to the VIP area to take videos of the hall float presentations, so do appreciate this video of the KE7 float which i uploaded. It really wasnt easy. i got chased away from time to time, but i know i must film it at a good angle. i know how it feels like to have a lousy video when i was a float dancer during my second year, and i dont wish the current dancers to feel the same way. Anyway i think PVC had three video cameras on stand-by, so they might have better videos for KE7.

KE7 float 06/07 video: