Many thanks all around to everyone involved in RP SYF 2011

The full euphoria has yet to sink in. Just just now I was in my room and I looked in the mirror and said to myself. We made it, and I started jumping around. Where we are at right now, is utter insanity.

I think what we have all achieved over the past few weeks has been nothing short of pure awesomeness incarnate. Shrey, Jonathan and Jovi, you all can be absolute bomb actors on your day. Any one of you are good enough to star in a play by yourself and pull the entire thing. It has been an absolute honour co-acting with the three of you. It was really really fantastic that we all managed to put in great performances on thursday.

Shrey, our dear chairman, many thanks for shouldering the burden. Its a responsibility that frankly, I wouldn't really want to take up. Thank you for doing your duty with enthusiasm and with kindness and consideration. Thank you for always putting yourself in the middle, and trying to be the ultimate pacifist. And though you don't always succeed, I see your effort, and it is very much appreciated.

Jonathan oh Jonathan, my poor burdened friend of old. How your back has been bent. I thank you for being able to be here for us, despite all your other commitments. I thank you for your passion. I thank you for being there. I thank you for not giving up. I thank you for taking on a role that you weren't exactly comfortable in and it was fantasticulous that you managed to pull it off so well. Keep fighting bro. Keep fighting.

Jovi, our little ball of energy. You are obnoxious, loud and shameless. Obnoxiously shamelessly loud, obnoxiously shameless and loudly obnoxious. You are the living embodiment of all of my guilty pleasures. Don't ever change to be something else. You are sunshine.

Don't give a damn bout your bad reputation.

Shadman, you have been another genuine ray of sunshine. Your soft enthusiasm and touch has been very much appreciated and noticed in the mind of this social deviant. Your graciousness in going from holding a starting role to one of an eventual understudy has been understated. You have done so much nonsense, like painting the chairs and helping us do the lights and sounds also! Its ridiculous. Your presence would definitely have been missed.

Thank you.

Bradley, I thank you for your efforts. All the effort that you put into Red, a character that drained the hell out of me in the beginning. I thank you for doing so despite your relative inexperience really. I thank you for supporting us in the end when you were dropped and sticking through it all.

Naowed. You have been a constant pain in the ass and a timely one at that. You proved your worth when you kept on defusing tension over and over and over again at stressful periods. Your stone faced self-deprecating and weird actions and remarks were so stupid that we all laughed.

Thank you!

Gary, our dear super sm. You have put up with so much shit it is unbelievable. Although you didn't really have THAT much to do within your role of SM. You did so much more. And all the stupid things like hanging up our clothes for us and all of that. really, just Unbelievable with a freaking capital U. I just violated the rules of english for you. thank you.

Soham. You popped up just when we needed you. Thanks to you and to Rafi, for both coordinating the sounds and lights flawlessly. Thank you for your conceptualization and help with the lighting. Thank you for being there, when I needed someone gullible to poke at. I feel guilty for doing so somehow, most possibly because people do that to me a lot. I can see why now, its fun.

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Ms Ng, thank you for your help with the dance thingum! And for adding your own special being to this production. Thank you for trying your best despite your own inexperience and for doing well at it. Your experience in dance and insistence of stretching and stuff has helped. I think. Well what else can I say, welcome to Raffles Players.

Ms Sara. There has been so much stress that you have been shouldering as the overall Teacher in charge. As the director your vision and ideas as to where the play was going was essential and needless to say we couldn't have done it without you. Without your insight and hard work, we wouldn't be anywhere. Perhaps you have no formal theatre credentials but you have definitely taught us all so much and helped all of us to take our characters and the play to a whole new level. There is so much more to thank you for, but this shall have to do!

Thanks also to Mr Chow, who helped us a lot in terms of direction of the play and characterization as well, Zhi Yuan, for coming back and helping us to steer us through the final few weeks and getting the RJ RP to watch and support us. Aliff Amirul Shawn Terry and Zaki for coming back and helping and giving comments. The rest of the RJ players who watched and gave suggestions. The teachers who gave us suggestions and anyone else who made this not so shiny Gold With Honours certificate possible.

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THANK YOU ALL.