Comments on ANGLES finals

Thursday, March 5, 2009

*sigh...ANGLES. One of the world's most hotly debated topic after the economic crisis and how Obama's face would change the Earth's. Well, unlike most of the other posts, I am going to give constructive comments on ANGLES.

Firstly, like some others, I feel that ANGLES was not well organized. The two emcees were delivering and humorous, but I felt that their punning was over-excessively used. Yes, over-excessive. That means it is excessive already, but is even more excessive to the extent of over-excessive. I know I confused some of you. :P

Lame jokes aside, the whole thing was not actually well rehersed. It was evident that the emcees and the speakers were not 'collaborative' in the sense that they were not 配合 if you know what I mean. Some of the speakers came up too early, and some too late! The names on the PowerPoint were sometimes unsynchronised with the speakers' speeches. I am quite sure many of you have noticed that.

It would be helpful if they had arranged a rehersal-like session so that the speakers would be able to be more 'on-time' and not have this misorganisation. About the PowerPoint...the only thing that can be done is that the emcees be a little more attentive!!!

Secondly, I feel that the emcees did not control the audience well. In fact, they did not even try to control the audience. In the beginning, during the prepared speeches, the judges noticed that there was quite a good amount of silence. (Doesn't this bring your mind back to the topic "Speech is silver, silence is golden"?...)

In actual fact, this was just because everyone was desparately trying to copy down the main points of the speakers' speeches to clinch that optimum two ACE points for the LA. I find this rather disturbing, because it means that the silence, no matter how golden or "diamondish" it is, is all a big fab! It shows that Hwa Chong boys are not respectful and are, like Gui An said, kiasu!! Let me repeat, let me re-emphasize this point: Hwa Chong boys are not respectful. They only bother keeping quiet when it would be beneficial to themselves, but chatter endlessly otherwise.

Like I said, I find this rather disturbing. Only during a 'real' thing like level assembly or consortium assembly would these dudes even think of keeping quiet. I mean, wouldn't it be dissapointing to find out that HCI isn't the model school we all think it is??

I sincerely hope that these Sec 1s would reconsider their decision of adopting the vice of irrespect. Perhaps if everybody played a small part by not responding to their friends' constant chatting, would they learn proper etiquette. Because, after all, we talk because we expect to hear a reply. Deciding not to give one would probably effectively eliminate this chatter.

Also, the emcees should have tried to say like, "Can the audience please quiten down?" or "Please listen to the speaker and not hold your own private conversation." or to the extent of "Would you shut your damn big fat mouth up you pigz???". Okay, perhaps they should not go that far.

On a lighter note, I feel that most of the speakers were awesome. Their prepared speeches were really prepared. They were persuasive and convincing and well-structured and demostrative and had excellent examples and thoroughly elaborated and...well, you get the idea. I feel that the speakers had really done a great job for their speeches. A big round of applause to them!! :P

Like some other bloggerers (N.B.: Blogger: website. Bloggerer: somedude who uses Blogger.), I personally feel that Gui An should not have the first position. He used a tremendous amount of Singlish, inserting it wherever he deemed fit, but actually none of them were fitting at all. Only the word kiasu should have been used! That was his topic, not "Speaking Singlish lah~"! He also spoke with this weird, highly Singaporean accent (i.e. with a 口腔 for those of you cina people [no offense] + I am also using Singlish here <)) that would not be fitting to this competition. I mean, it is loquacious speakers, not all the lahs here, the lees there and the lays everywhere.

Perhaps Chun Jie would have made a better first prize winner than Gui An. His speech was well organised and structured. He projected his voice well, and his voice had a bright tone to it. He has created a grand, lasting impression in my mind.

All in all, I think that the ANGLES organising committee did quite a good job. It certainly did bring out its name: A New Generation of Loquacious English Speakers!!

(By the way, Zhen Hui also commented that the word loquacious sounded phoney, like they had to force some fancy-pantsy word into this spot just for the acronym!!)

If you have really read all the way to the end, congratulations! It takes one good reader to read such a long post like mine. :P

Labels: Skool

8:42 PM

profile

i'm alvin.
i come from hwa chong institution in singapore.
i'm in class 2i2. yes, i'm a sparkie.
i'm 14+ years old; celebrated my bdae on feb 12.
my hobbies r simple: reading, piano, com games.
i like animals, especially cats mudkipz.
enjoy my blog.
thx.

archives

By post:

Set pwnage!!!

By month:

March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 January 2010 February 2010 March 2010 April 2010 June 2010 July 2010 August 2010

links

no links for you.
you cant run away nao.

tag

gifts

gifts....nawt nao i guess. soon. i promise.