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Hello everyone! I know, i know, long time no update. I doubt anyone's even paying a visit anymore. What the heck, i'll just update anyway...perhaps after a million years or so, it'll be discovered. Anywhoo.... here goes...
HICT Fusion Fiesta 2008

Okay, so it been ages since the event has passed (12th of July 2008), but ill just give you guys an update on what happened and stuff :).

It all started almost 2 weeks before the event was supposed to kick off. To leave a long story short, the Dance Club received a late invitation to the competition, prompting us to quickly form a group in such little time.
Things were indeed hectic. Eventually the group was sorted out. However, actually finding a place to practise proved to be a challenge. You see, HELP Uni doesn't have a studio with full length mirrors, so we resorted to checking out various studios around, dissapointed every so often with extremely high prices. In the end, we ended up practising at Studio Akarkarya, the Tropicana Studio, The HELP hostel multi-purpose hall (with an ever present audience) and finally, towards the end, at the HELP reception area and the hallway!

With such a short time, we decided to take a risk and add various genres to our performance, hoping to be unique by displaying a wide variety of styles. Mixing the music together and adding sound effects was really fun... giving Aris and me a sort of a DJ feel.

Would you believe that we never really got to deciding a name for our group till the very day of competition!?!?. We contemplated and debated on names like SHIFT 1, Energy and even slang names like ISN'T IT and AWESOME LAH. Evenually we settled on Genre. However, later on we decided to change it to ExplosionOST which stuck from then on.

Competition Day was an interesting one to say the least. We left for HICT at around 9am, reaching there at about 935. HICT is all the way in Klang mind you! Angie, me, Jelly rode with Aris in his CLK (Cute Little Kancil). Although situated on top of a mall, the HICT campus is really nice! It gives you this American High school setting kinda vibe. The library in particular was gorgeous. Surrounded with glass, with a glass opening in the center of the ceiling for the sun to shine through. Very classy. Anyway, Sze Yin and Adrian took around 2 and a half hours to get there, getting lost along the way and visiting literallly almost every other part of Klang in the progress!. Our practise session was from 10-10.30, where only a portion of us got to test out.

Ajeet and Rajpal were nice enough to come all the way down to be our sound and lighting engineers. Because it was so last minute, it was more of an impromptu mashing of the buttons for the lighting effects. Think 02 Jam come to life. Sze Yins dad took us out for bahkuhteh for lunch... how 7 of us managed to fit into the car ill never know. Later on, we went on the search for white gloves which we thought would look good on us. Our search was in vain however, resorting us into wearing a glove a hand with the limited supply Angie had. I swear we looked a little bit like MJ then.

Just before the competition began , we finished up our final practise routines, changed and went into the waiting room. We chose a red and white outfit because we thought it would be really bright and eye-cathing :).
Daryl's group, The Sins, from Taylors College were first up, setting the bar for the evening. They were very intimidating as they were clearly the ones to beat. I recall a girl from the 2nd group up going " Oh crap we are screwed" I turned, looked at her and smiled. The next group up was from HICT, followed by us. Although wrought with a few mistakes, we managed to pull off our performance. The feeling when being cheered on by the crowd is seriously like no other. After our performance, the Sri Sedaya team went out, followed by the next HELP team, Cookie Monsters, ending with the final performance from another HICT team.

Later on in the evening was the intercollege Battle of the Bands. Eventhough we didnt win that one, i still thought the band performed really well. Nick's awesome with the drums and Mahadi, wicked with the guitar, not to forget Jo on the bass as well.

Final results :

Razmatazz Dance Competition:

1st: HELP UNI - Cookie Monsters
2nd: HELP UNI - ExplostionOST
3rd:Taylors UNI - The Sins

Battle of the Bands:

1st: International Medical University
2nd:HICT
3rd: International Medical University

Overall:
1st: HELP University College
2nd: HELP International College of Technology
3rd: International Medical University

Videos:

ExplosionOST practise.

ExplosionOST.

The Sins.

Cookie Monsters.

Pictures:

Cookie Monsters

ExplosionOST

The Sins

HICT Group

IMU Band

HICT Band

Other IMU Band

From left, Adrian, Sze Yin, Jelly, Angie, Aris, Me

1/2 ExplosionOST 1/2 The Sins

HELP UNI Band- No Virtues

Our sound engineers! Ajeet and Rajpal!

Guest performances by Army of Three and Free to Fall were great. I almost went deaf during Army of Three's Metal performance. There was also a pretty neat lighting performance as well. All in all it was a great with awesome experiences and new friends made.

Thanks to everyone out there who have helped us out, for being forced to watch us and give your opinions during practse ;) and also thank you to all of the group members, we did good :).

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