i typed out an email for the countdown comm, and i thought i would post it here too. just for memory's sake
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hey darlings (:
(yes you there. most of yall are girls/bimbs/sluts/bitches anyway :D)
(hahaha you know i mean that in the most affectionate way possible.)
i think before we thank the volunteers, yall are the ones that deserve the biggest and loudest applause. if not for yall, countdown would never have been the success that it was. i dont think i can express how *insert synonym for grateful/thankful/appreciative here* i am to you guys.
thankyou friends, for listening to me rant for half and hour straight. i really appreciate it. i havent really got a chance to rant that much in a really really really long time.
thankyou for making the countdown experience so memorable for me, and making the non-exco people feel included and a part of this BEEG BEEG event (:
im really sorry if what i said tonight made any of you uncomfortable/ upset/ sad, and im really thankful that all of you took it in the most objective way possible. i hope i didnt offend anyone by accident! >< (and if i did, i completely didnt mean it)
and because each and everyone of you made countdown so special for me, ive got a little something to say to each of you.
ADRIAN: YOU ARE THE MOST AWESOME GRASSROOT LEADER EVER. haha seriously. thankyou for putting up with all the whining, screaming, bitchfights, rants and every other thing that was thrown at you. thankyou so much for being so infinitely patient and there for us all the time. thankyou so much for being one of us (: boon lay will be very very sad that you decided to go )):
ANGIE: hey dear (: youre like my closest friend in the entire countdown comm. thanks for sticking by me when i felt lost and had no one to talk to. youve been really understanding and helpful and honestly i dont know if i would have joined BLYC if it werent for you. im glad we're both in countdown together, coz even though we dont have time to go out together but we can still meet and talk nonsense xD love you (: (oops. did i just make someone angry?)
CHESTER: hahaha i still cant believe youre chaslyn's brother. you two are like WAAAAY different. i never got to work with your sister as much as i worked with you though. you've been really patient when ive been really busy and im really really really thankful for that, because i think i would just have died if you chased me for anything else haha. you're awesome with your security people too. idk how you handle them the way you do, but i think its really cool that you can get a bunch of jocks to listen to you xD
DESIREE: i think youre amazing the way you can somehow settle all the guest relations stuff so fast. haha its like youve been doing this for like i dont know how many years. i think we would have had a really really difficult time if it werent for you! hahaha and on a side note, you help speed up the approval process by like twenty thousand times (:
DINGJUN: haha dingjun. youre a really really strong bitch. metaphorically. i take my hats of to you. seriously. i have no idea how you managed to handle the stage so well single-handedly, and even manage to push through all the rehearsals when nothing was working your way. i dont think you'll ever get the recognition you deserve, but i want you to know that everything youve done is simply amazing and was not a very easy thing to do. so cheerups (: i think the stage programme went great. hahahaha in fact it went so great i think God is playing a joke on you and giving you another stagehand job to do xD
GIFFORD: thankyou for securing the sponsorships for us hahaha. without it, the goody bags would have been really empty and SAD. haha. all the work you did behind the scenes is definitely appreciated (:
HONGEN: i dont know where to start. haha. you came and appeared at the right time! YOU ARE SUCH A SAVIOUR OKAY. i think i would have foamed and died (physically/ mentally & emotionally) if not for you. i know ive been a really solo worker this whole time, and i dont really like that fact. so thankyou, for accepting me as i am, and putting up with all my mood swings and all that. thankyou for being so supportive and there behind me always. knowing that i could always rely on you to help made my life so much better and easier. thankyou for being my co-ic, and i wouldnt have had it any other way (:
HUAIJUN: HA! chingay is the only thing i didnt touch. hahaha i guess you didnt need much logs for it? >< as a last minute addition to this family, youve been really great and awesome! hahaha i have no idea how you manage to get into the loop about everything and take control of everything so fast and so smoothly. its really quite amazing. im in awe (: i wish we'd have the opportunity to work together sometime (:
KENNETH: YOU. have a beeg beeg ego. BUT. youve been really supportive and helpful in helping me to organise my thoughts. haha i really need to thank you for helping to take some of the stuff off my hands. i think other than hongen, youre the one that has to put up with my mood swings the most >< i admit, there were times were i was kinda annoyed, but haha on hindsight, i think i was just pms-y (like literally) and being stupid. so well, thankyou for tolerating me and helping me make the best out of my job (:
MIRANDA: haha its strange how we only get to talk to each other during jc despite sort of knowing each other existed in rgs xD you never fail to make me laugh and brighten up my day when im feeling down and abit emo. somehow hearing your retarded jokes and whining and like complaining is really quite funny (: and even though i think no one else will admit it, im sure somewhere DEEP DEEP DEEP down inside they all think the same xD AND I FORBID YOU TO CRY OKAY.
ROYSTON: ZOMGOSH. i have absolutely no idea how you manage to make yourself free to come down and help all the time. your support and help during the decor period is seriously invaluable. haha i dont think i would have managed to transport everything from school to boonlay in a bus xD and before you say youre kaypoh or something, its a really good thing okay! im really glad that youre so interested in helping out and all that. seriously. you did alot of sai kang for logs :D
SAMANTHA: haha you were really funny when you asked for caution tape to decorate the plants at the post-reception area xD thankyou for always being there and trying your best to help us out where ever you can (:
SHIHARN: you are another amazing one. you can run the whole carnival and can still survive in one piece (even though you looked abit dishevelled after that xD) i know i always bug you for lists of logistics when youre really busy with attachment, and somehow you still manage to make time to send them to me. im really really thankful coz you helped me in my job ALOT and made it that much more bearable (: thankyou.
SYAKIR: my-og-mate-that-keeps-forgetting-im-in-his-og! seriously. youre lousy yknow. BUT. youre awesome at taking minutes. haha even if you complain that your minutes arent read, im really sure they'll come into handy someday (: thankyou so much for managing and covering the ops centre when i couldnt be there and was elsewhere tearing my hair out. you have no idea how comforted i was to hear you being there all the time. really :D and you shimmy really well too xD
WAICHOONG: sms spammer lah you. thankyou for being so accommodating and flexible (: i am really amazed about how you can sustain on so little sleep and still manage to do everything so well. im really surprised that you didnt burn out and still managed to push through to countdown day. its really an impressive feat. remember kay. you arent superman. try to get more sleep yeah? (:
YINGYAO: MY DANCE BUDDY FOR LEARNING THE BEFRIENDER'S DANCE :D haha even though you dance like a monkey (and maybe look like one too) you know that we all love you xD thankyou so much for all the hard work you put in behind the scenes. you really made the carnival and everything else we do look oh so very much pretty (: and im glad you didnt quit your job and do logs instead because everything will end up looking like that tree i made >< haha. thankyou so much for putting in all that effort and hardwork selflessly.
i think thats all i have to say. im quite sure i had more to type when i was thinking of this email in the car on the way home.
adrian is right. i could have easily gone on for another hour more if yall had just let me talk.
thankyou all, for putting up with me during the last two weeks of december. i know that i might have been a bitch to some of you, but thankyou for sticking with me and not yelling back at me or anything. (it was stress + lack of sleep + pms) like literally by the way.
maybe im a perfectionist and countdown didnt exactly go the way i would have liked it, but i wouldnt have it any other way.
thanks guys.
<3renci
p.s. im posting this email on my blog also.
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i think despite all the bitching and angsting, im really going to miss countdown once im done with all the post-event logs.