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Sunday, 13 May 2007

ORA!

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AC did a haunted house.

And I was a ghost. I didn't hafta paint my face (: Because all I needed to do was let my hair cover it. And I was kneeling and doing this begging thing. Which people apparently found freaky. Mostly they reacted with something along the lines of a moan/whimper/scream, "Don't touch me!" or "I haven't got any money!" Someone passed me her friend's camera though (: And I nearly kept it. Gave it back in the end though.

Darrell recognized me! I don't know how she saw me though all that hair. She went "Is that Grace?" And I just had to hit her. xD

I didn't think we were that scary (well, except for the part with the psychotic murderer - Muni would've loved it! - and her hammer) , but apparently we were. People are really violent when scared ): I don't know how many times my hand got slapped when I stuck it through a hole in the cloth to grab people, or how many times I got smacked/punched/pushed/stepped on by frightened girls. The boys didn't get frightened -.- Look, if you're not going to scream or at least get scared, don't go into a haunted house. What you SHOULD do: scream and get scared. What you should NOT do: laugh (unless you're doing it out of hysteria), make comments about how it's not scary, attack the poor ghosts who, by the time they have done their best to scare people 200+ times, are exhausted and aching.

Anyway: back to violence in fear. There was this group that was so utterly terrified they messed up all our partitions! And dropped a cloth on me. I got tangled up in it ): We were desperately trying to repair the damage int me for the next group.

But it was pretty fun, sometimes, when we sent groups screaming and practically tripping over themselves in their haste to get out of the art room. After a particularly good round, we always applauded and laughed, and then Litying would scream at us to get ready. : I think she was really stressed.

We might have overdone it some. There was this group who, when they got to the part with the fake organs in coke, begged us - really begged us - not to scare them any more (we did stop). Another group started singing Dedication. Some of them screamed almost continuously, even when there was nothing happening.

Oh, yes - there was this little boy, maybe four or five years old. Kinda dumb to bring a kid into a haunted house. But he wasn't scared at all! He kept going "crazy woman" and "siao". And when we started spraying water from above, his mother told him it was just "special effects". -.- Maybe he wasn't scared because we were all so shocked to see a kid in there that we weren't scary.

Random quotes:

"Why am I in front?"/"I don't want to go first!" - We heard endless variations of this.

"I don't want to continue...let's just stay here until the lights come on..." - I really felt sorry for them.

"I'm from artclub! My name is...is...Tinkerbell!" - she probably thought we'd go easier on our own club people. I don't know if she really was from AC, but we didn't go easier on our own people anyway.

"Must always respect a ghost!" - Linlin, the senior being the guide. LOL.

"Are you going to crawl under the cloth at them?"
"No, I'd look dumb from behind."
- Yingxi and I

"Why is everyone looking at the fake organs!?"
"They look cute!"
"Well...they're fun to make."
- Yingxi and I, again

"I so glad I couldn't see the floor where I was sitting."
"Oh..." - looks at floor- "...gross."
- Me and Crystal

"You look really scary! And you have sharp teeth."
"...I know."
- Me and Huining

There was this weird person who was going around calling every single person Dorcas but didn't recognize the REAL Dorcas. "Hey, nice one, Dorcas!" "Ahh! Dorcas, stop it!" "Don't touch me, Dorcas!"

But - even if my knees were bruised from kneeling, I was deadbeat and aching from being assaulted by visitors, and my shorts and socks and shoes and (new) t-shirt were stained with red paint...it was a wonderful experience. I don't know how to explain. There is a certain sense of satisfaction from knowing your efforts have paid off (we earned $422 profit, but that's only part of it), and it is magnified by the knowledge that the whole of AC shares the feeling. It really helped bonding too! :D I for one got to know a lot of juniors and seniors better. And I got two new nicknames: Smiley and Sunshine Monkey. Don't ask.

Oh, yes - we're leaving the psychotic murderer's room as a display in the window because we couldn't bear to take it down. Muni can go and stare at it (: You wouldn't believe the weapons we found in the art room. Hammers, pliers, saws, wire scrubbing brushes and other items whose purposes we're not very sure of (but can guess at). Seriously. It's scary.

Labels: artclub, friends, ora, quotes

wings to the wind! at 5:03 pm

Sunday, 6 May 2007

I haven't blogged for ages (: Been too busy, what with exams and pts and math worksheets (I swear, I spend half my homework time on them) and all. So here are some anonymous quotes - things which people have said to me. Guess all you like, you probably won't guess who. Unless you're one of them xD

"You are just like a conscience!"
Yes. Yes, I am. I won't deny that I do have a conscience (who would? other than Yingyue, that is), and I do listen to it and judge right and wrong actions - my own, and others'. This was said in jest, after I commented on some act which made me uneasy - copying homework, or something. Well. I was brought up to be nice, to be considerate, to be helpful, to be honest, to say 'please' and 'thank you' and not to go beyond society's beliefs or the Bible's teachings. I don't see anything bad about that, in itself. Unless, of course, my own ideas of right and wrong are flawed. Are they? It disturbs me to know that my friends find nothing wrong with yaoi (japanese slash), spouting profanity (not that I'm saying a lot of people do this!), copying homework (the eternal evil), breaking school rules (not the ones like low socks which are impossible to enforce, but the reasonable ones) and other things which I don't think are right. But I'm no longer very sure what's right. The Bible says homosexuality is wrong, but homosexuals don't do any wrong and there is a lot of unfair discrimination against them. So. What is right and wrong?

"...I always thought you were a friend of the world."
Thank you, for the compliment. I do try to be nice and friendly - but don't be blinded to my faults. There are people I don't like. I get annoyed easily - I just don't show it or complain about it to others. (If I'm annoyed and know it, I'll go very quiet and smile a lot. If I'm annoyed and don't know it yet, I'll frown, talk very fast and fiddle with my fringe. Yeah.) I'm not perfect, I'm not the perfect friend. I just try not to make my dislike and disgust public, sometimes. I wish I could like everybody, but it's impossible. Don't be fooled by my sunny exterior.
(...oh dear. That sounded scary. Okay, maybe I'm not as deep-down nasty as all that sounds. But I do have my flaws, you know.)

"You think you know someone.
But we're all human, so they're all just parallels of yourself."
I agree, and disagree.The idea here's true - that sometimes you don't know what a person is like, inside. Sometimes you think everything's fine, and it's not, and you only find out until it's too late. It's one of the saddest things that can happen in a relationship - not knowing what the other person really wants or really feels. Human nature is like an onion (so are ogres, says Shrek. Never mind.), with many, many layers. What lies at the heart? I've learnt, painfully, that I'm not even sure what lies at my own, and I can't profess to understand others either.
But are all humans really parallels of each other? I say no. Maybe we are in the sense that we all have feelings and a conscience and that we can think and make decisions and act on them. But everyone's made special. I think everyone has a different personality and character, deep down inside. Differences cause conflict. The world would be a better place if we were all the same - but not necessarily a happier place.
Oh, and this quote is somewhat of a paradox - if everyone's a parallel of yourself, they're definitely not unknown.

“But everyone hates bad guys 'cuz bad guys don't get their side of the story told...I don't mind that as well - No one is born evil, everyone will have their causes for action. I'd rather be the bad guy and have everyone hate me as opposed to the good guy whom everyone sympathises with.”
This...is a little confusing. It is true about bad guys - none of them is simply, basically evil and commits crimes because his or her nature is just plain bad. Even in fairytales - like the 'evil' queen in Snow White, who poisons the pretty protagonist just because she wants to be the 'most beautiful of them all'. She didn't do it out of sheer evilness. She had a motive - jealousy, a human fault which everyone shares. But unlike everyone else (well, most of everyone else), she acted on it.
Fine. Not a good example. She's fictional. Well, let's take a real example - Cho Seung Hui, the Korean who committed the massacre in Virginia Tech. He ahd motives, too - complicated ones. He felt left out and snobbed by richer kids. He was a misfit, neither Korean like his parents nor American like his friends. And he was more than a little insane, thinking the world was pitted against him. He wanted to get his own back and commit suicide in the process. So he gunned his fellow students down.
I'm not advocating bad guys. Not me. In no way am I saying we should support them and sympathise with them! (Anyway, if we did, they wouldn't be bad guys any longer.) I just think...the world is not painted in black and white. We are surrounded by shades of grey. It's hard to make decisions. Choosing between right and wrong is easy for most people, but how about choosing between two wrongs? Like choosing between deforestation, which promotes economic development, or preserving the forest, which makes it harder for poor countries to get revenue? If you choose either, does that make you a bad guy?
Still, I don't get why the person who told me this wanted to be a bad guy. Perhaps she meant she'd rather be a 'bad guy' of her own choice for her own clear reasons instead of a 'good guy' who is just pressured into doing what others think is good. That is very commendable.

I just wasted...twenty minutes of mugging time with this extra-long post. Off to do more important things now! And If I offended you by quoting you, tell me and I'll delete it.

I am so going to change my blogskin as soon as I get time to make a new one ): it's ugly.

Labels: friends, God, quotes

wings to the wind! at 5:12 pm