Drama Competition

Adrenalin was pumping throughout my whole body…

All sort of thoughts came in and out of my mind…

Rate of breathing increased…

That was me yesterday, the day where weeks of hard work will prove how much we, the Drama Team have learnt. We want to win and we will…

The clock struck 1 a.m., I was still not able to close my eyes. The moment I do that, insane ideas and thoughts will flow into my mind like the tide of the sea. I kept staring at the ceiling until tiredness overcame my fear.

The time was 4.45 a.m. Surprisingly, I’m not sleepy. I can’t even get a wink because of the tension. After the usual preparations are done, I try to recall my lines… What the fuck, I can’t even remember what am I suppose to say and when to say... ‘Never mind, it’ll come back to me in time.’ I told myself.

The first thing I do reach school was I bought chocolates. I don’t know about you guys but I found that choc. has a calming effect on me. The bus came and we realized something, we are missing some important make-up and props… Damn! After all these weeks of hard work… No… we will not let that happen… We will not let these obstacles bring us down… A back-up plan came up… The make-up part, the back-up plan was better than the original plan. The props part, we just use what’s available to us…

We reached the school by 8.30 a.m. as written in the letter. The teams before us had arrived. Then news came… We were actually School 6, fortunately or unfortunately I no longer care, 2 schools before us pulled out which make School 6 but 4th performance. And the 1st team was already acting when we arrived.

We dressed up and have our make-up done as fast as possible. Luckily we have a group of excellent make-up artists, hair stylists. So, it doesn’t take us a very long time to touch up everything. LOLZ

For readers info. , our school’s traditional drama rivals are SAB & SBS. Who are damn excellent + elite. Of course, we are not far behind.

Our turn came. I can’t describe the feelings, the tension and the rush of adrenalin that time. I can just tell you, we are almost as good as the ‘S’s (No offence meant). Our teacher was happy with our performance, the 4 observers gave us good comments and the audience was mesmerized by our performance.

The SBS performance turned out to be the best of the 7 schools competiting. Seriously, the audience including us can’t take our eyes off their performance.
After the performances, the hard part just began. The judges who were 2 Indians and 1 Malay took off to discuss about the results.

15 minutes gone… 30 minutes passed by… 45 minutes is passing by…

The others were taking photos, chit-chatting, laughing at Gabrielle’s jokes, etc.etc. I was sitting in the front, can’t talk or speak… The tension came to me again… The nightmare repeated in my mind again…

At last, almost one hour of waiting, to judges came back… The hall was silence… All of us, waiting, praying, hoping and crossing our fingers.

The judge gave a short speech and the moment of truth came…

‘The best performer goes to……… Miss X from SBS! ’
‘The best script goes to……………Miss Y from SBS! ’
‘Of all the make-up today, the best make-up goes to Mr. Sung’s wife, Mrs. Sung from School 6! ’

We were clapping like crazy because Mrs. Sung was meant to be a bitchy woman and have an inch thick make-up. Mrs. Sung (Nicole) stood up and gave a wave and a bow. The Malay boys of other schools who are behind were like ‘Ya, Allah…’ Too bad, they didn’t prepare a prize for that…

‘In 3rd place……………… SAB! ’
‘In 2nd place……………… SMK……………..Sekolah Menegah…………’

Shit! Get over with the suspense!
We were all crossing our fingers and…

‘In 2nd place……………… Sekolah Menegah Taman Connaught! ’

We were like lunatics, clapping for ourselves and doing our ‘battle-cry’ because we know, all those hard work and time, pay off with a good prize…

The 1st place was won by SBS (as expected).

Since we won the inter-school competition, now we are going to win again in the inter-zone competition because we know that WE CAN DO THIS!
WE WILL WIN AGAIN!
GLORY FOR THE CONNAUGHTIONS…

For more photos, bloopers and other stuff, please click on the name 'Nicole'....