Final, full-dress rehearsal for Band[Age] today. It went rather well, considering we're "budget rip-offs" of Battle of the Bands. Yes, that brings us to the main point of today's blogpost: Finding Michelle.
If this were one of Ms. Chuah's English lessons (and thank goodness it isn't- its midnight right now) you could say that the thesis statement for this blogpost is "Finding Michelle are Homos."
For those of you who are blissfully unaware of their existence (take it as a blessing) Finding Michelle is one of the finalist bands in Band[Age]. They're from ACS (I) and were 2nd for Battle of the Bands last year. And, they're homos. They're arrogant, rude, obnoxious nincompoops.
They've picked a fight with almost EVERYONE involved in Band[Age] and that includes the teachers.
When Ivfen had to speak to them about something, they criticised the running of things, then said "Oh wait, I forgot that this is just a budget rip-off of BoB."
[ZOMFG! DON'T READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED PROJECT RUNWAY 4! (You can watch the entire season on youtube)
AAAAAARGHHHH! CHRISTIAN WON! CHRISTIAN WON! CHRISTIAN WON!
Ferosha Coutura in the house, bitches!!!!! AAAAAAH! I'm so HAPPY! :DDDDDDD Can you believe it??? I can! Though I thought Jilllian should have been in 2nd place. Whatever!!!
Christian won! Lalalalalalalala. Fierce. Fierce. Fierce. I'm crying tears of joy right now! Like WOOOHOOO!!! He SO deserved to win, okay. And he actually started CRYING when he won? He was crying worse than that annoying Ricky!!!! Well, I'm sure this isn't the last you'll see of Christian Siriano. He is SO my favourite gay fashion designer!! LALALALALALALLALALA!!!]
Back to the twits.
When I called the band leader to tell them about the profile they had to write for themselves, this is what happened:
Me: Hello, can I speak to Benjamin please?
Domestic Helper: Who is this plis?
Me: I'm calling from the Band[Age] concert, MGS.
DH: Ben? Be-enny!!! You is coming to the phone now! You is phone call!
[no answer]
DH: BE-ENNEEEEE!!! (can hear her banging frantically on his room door) Ben! What is this you going... Huh? Yes! You is phone call! What is this ballet concert? BENNY!
[FIVE minutes later]
Ben: (in a bored, emo voice) Hello-o?
Me: Hi, I'm calling from Band-
Ben: I know.
Me: And I was just calling to ask whether you have received the email-
Ben: I have.
Me: Okay, so you have to write a 300-word pro-
Ben: I knooooow.
Me: ER.... And you have to submit it by-
Ben: Yeeeeeees.
Me: ERM, okay-
Ben: BYE. (puts down the phone and goes back to his room to- hmmm.. what exactly WAS he doing in there? And why did it take so long for him to answer the phone? I dint say nothing :D)
Moving on (clears throat), we had to get them a SEPARATE changing room today, because they kept on picking fights with the band they were sharing a room with. They were rude to innocent darlings like Xiao Hui and even the teachers began to hate them...
Speaking of teachers, Ms. Tham rocks! Hahahahaha. She's damn cool okay! Even Mrs. Chen. Actually all the teachers there. Because me, Meera and Su-lyn were acting as the judges for tonight's rehearsal, so were sitting right in front of the teachers (Mrs. Chen, Ms. Tham, Ms. Lau, and Ms. Yang)....
Finding Michelle Lead Singer: Why is this not working.. F*CK lah... (right into the mike)
Mrs. Chen: You're not supposed to use those kind of words..
Ms. Tham: (to us) Tell them that we'll minus marks off their 'cool' factor! Haha!
Later..
FMLS: (uses some other vulgarity)
Everyone: OIIIIIII.....
Ms. Tham: Please be reminded that you're all representing your schools...
Mrs. Chen: Girls, please bear in mind that we all have to be polite to Finding Michelle even though they're a bit..... obnoxious...
Ms. Tham: Obnoxious is an understatement...
Us: woot!
Emcees (Kat and Grace Lee): And now, let us welcome... Livebox!
Everyone: WOOOOOOOO! (maniacal screaming)
Emcees: Finding Michelle!
Everyone: [silence. A few contented sniggers are heard from everyone]
Emcees: Tolstoy!
Everyone: [Loudest. Screaming. Ever. And there were only about 30 of us there.]
And it carried on like that. Finding Michelle looked pissed off.
Oh, and since we were the 'judges', we decided to give our own...er.. comments on the bands. Me, Meera and Su-lyn were all saying things like 'Faaaabulous' and 'Marvellous!!' and, in Su-lyn's case "Absolutely spiffing!" in a fake British accent. For Tolstoy, we just started cheering and screaming things like "Y'all rock!" So much for impartiality.
But for Finding Michelle's turn, they were taking SO MUCH time to set things up and adjust the amps, that everyone was getting quite pissed off. Even Ms. Tham was like "Eh, are any of you going to be in the audi during the actual performance?' So, Meera and Su-lyn were the Front of House crew, but I wasn't so I said so. Then Ms. Tham said "Okay.. I give you permission to lead the jeering tomorrow... if they take too much time." Hahah! But she warned us repeatedly not to overdo it and said that we should remember we were representing our school.
Emcees: Finding Michelle, please step forward for your comments from the judges..
Three of us: (silence)
Su-lyn: Er... Use of vulgarities! Minus marks for.. coolness factor!
Meera: Passable....
Me: (muttering) My dog could sing better...
Finding Michelle Lead Singer: Are these the real judges for tomorrow?
Us: No...
FMLS: Thank God.
And when we have to give comments for Hwa Chong, Meera and Su-lyn started saying stuff in Chinese. They did NOT look happy.
UPDATE: REDEEMING THE RIOT WON!
I WAS HOPING IT WOULD BE HWA CHONG OR TOLSTOY, BUT I GUESS RTR DESERVED IT TOO! TOLSTOY, YOU GUYS ROCK! ZOMBIE! ZOMBIE!
But apart from all that, I really had a fun time. I got to know lots of new people, realised how fun some of my classmates really were (YOU ROCK KAS!) and gained some fresh insights (and none were that great) about old friends. It may sound corny, but I emerged from BAND[AGE] with some idea about how events like these are organised, and it was really really helpful.
So, anyway, yesterday was also the cross-country run and our visit to St. Lukes. In a wonderful display of class unity, almost everyone in 4E finished... close to dead last. Pfffft. We were strolling, and skipping and playing the Animal game. I finished a little earlier than most of 4E, with Deanna and Ding, because we ran the last 5 minutes or so. I'll post photos of it later, k? And more details of St. Lukes...
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