Damn...O2 is bloody @#&^&$#@^(& screwed up. My tolerance just snapped todae, partially due to my lack of sleep. After assembly they called us into the indoor gym and told us to change up, I took my bag and walked towards the exit with deng and bong...A tchs guy was "guarding" the entrance, he stopped us and demanded that we leave our bags in the indoor gym. My response "Relax lar, we won't pon" sidenote-as in we'll still be in sch... and tried to walk past him. He then put out his hand and held us back. I was damn pissed.... wanted to shout smth like "Under the constitution for human rights, i demand my exit", but decided not to make a scene as there were quite a lot of ppl around. I stared him in the eye and pushed his hand away, walking off and he had to delibrately amplify his voice "wah piangz....those assholes ponning" yes i shall not censor here. Was not quite happy with his use of language and he certainly did not help in my pre-established impression of tchs guys. Decided to make my point known so I went to change up and went back on the pretext of getting my bridge partner, xl, out of the indoor gym. Went to the same exit to suan tht guy and then pon again once war games started. Sorry O2 ppl, but I'll have to add this. With this kind of ppl around organising O2, it is no wonder tht it turns out as such, you have no one to blame but urselves.

In contrast, ponning O2 and going to RI to play cards became one of my happier times of the day. Walked past Dining hall where there was 3 tables playing, then we went scouts' den to join deng and jloh. Played daidee for a hour i think, b4 they went out for lunch and I went back to join my OG, which in fact ponned the whole war games. Then went to CO room to slack off and cool off, felt much better there though I could not play with the drums coz they were having auditions. CIP was another orgainisational disaster tht i shall elaborate on. Sending 1200 ppl concentrated in a region of sg to sell keychains for 5 bucks is at most a poor imitation of the batch project we did for O1. The best thing was that I didn't even understand the purpose of the fund-raising exercise. So i went on a tour of orchard road and came back with $1.50 i think, courtesy of some kind ppl, who were willing to part with their cash for some small round sticker. Then, they had to make the 1200 of us travel to boon keng MRT in the NEL and then take a bus to the collection centre. What i would say is tht the amt of money spent on bus and mrt fares altogether would be larger than the amt collected. And yes the concert, I was at ultimate cynic mode, pissing deng off i think. But speaking the truth, it was disusting. It was obvious that they did no sound check, much less said rehearsed properly through their items. After their performance, they gave a speech and i added my comments(in brackets) "we are a performing art(u call urself a performing art, u sure?)....Dreams has provided us with a recording studio to rehearse and record(wat? u actually record tht noise? and in a recording studio? Is it worth it?) .." I usually have high respect for ppl who try to bring music into the general public but this is a total turn-off. Boon is the only drummer i've seen so far who has enough energetics to match with the guitars and no, i really mean no, singers so far could hold his or her voice in the band. 1, they do not have a voice that stands out and 2, they have little or no control over their voices. When singing becomes monotonous droning that comes on and off and screaming ending up as only a whimper, i suggest u get an instrument to play the melody. Stop trying so hard to kill off audience with a loud overbearing band with a dwarf voice, as for some songs it really sounded like some chain explosion took place in some factory or something. Either this or all mics in sg has something against RJ singers, if it is the latter, then I really have nothing to say. O2 was a disaster and if the team self-delusionally proclaim it a sucess, I again shall really have nothing to say. A perfect analogy: Mirror A looks into Mirror B and says "Wow, I'm so beautiful".

ps. This article meant no offence. If any was taken, too bad...