BY YEOH KIRK MING
As the semester is coming to an end soon, it is once again time for the last major event of the semester before exam period is here and everybody disappears to become a closet mugger. In contrast to the traditional Angels & Mortals event in years past, our dear S&W portfolio has organised for us a unique Easter themed carnival event – Bunnyval 2018!
The evening started off with registration, where each of us was given a keychain with an attached mini Rubik’s cube, lightbulb or ping pong bat. As we continued into the function hall, we were greeted by egg painting and glass painting booths. Dinner was soon served, and friends gathered to catch up and chat with each other after taking food from the sumptuous buffet line. It was then that my friend decided to scramble and solve his mini Rubik’s cube, using the classic break and rebuild in frustration only to realise it wasn’t that easy to put a mini one back together.
As the food slowly disappeared and the crowd slowly built up at the central painting booths to create some masterpieces, S&W gathered everyone for a short briefing while gamemasters (including myself) went to our respective stations to standby. It was finally time for the carnival!
There were 8 carnival-like game booths for the event, 6 in the function hall itself and 2 in the Cultural Rooms upstairs. Everyone was issued their own carnival card (the event ticket) which entitled us to play the game booths and collect points for our groups – Jack Frost, Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy and Sandman.
It was then free and easy for everyone to visit the game booths to collect points, or just hang around and chill with friends. There was much laughter and a wide range of funny antics at all the different booths, from participants frantically throwing marbles into sloths’ mouths at the Save Our Sloths booth to gamemasters having the workout of the semester running after wild ping pong balls at the ‘water pong’ booth.
Well, most booths at least… My own Bucket Ball booth had a very fast turnover for each attempt which saw many dejected faces and some surprised ones. Many came back even after their 2 tries had been used up, solely to figure out how to get the tennis balls to stay inside the bucket to give their group mates an edge, from analysing the trajectory, impact point and even the spin of the ball in flight – the true CN Yang spirit indeed! I still had my fair share of the workout though; the water pong booth was right beside mine.
S&W soon announced the closure of all the game booths for the mass game – a CN Yang themed quiz trivia hosted on Kahoot. It had a wide range of questions from the date of S&W’s welfare giveaway, to the food Isha (one of the S&W members) has tried (or not) and even the material of my own wallet! Our trivia champion soon emerged – James Ng from Year 2, well done!
The event ended off with the lucky draw and also prize presentations. Congratulations to Tooth Fairy for winning best group, as well as to the Best Egg painters for a job well done! Everyone then gathered in front of the photobooth for a mass photo followed by the long-anticipated EWP distribution before calling it a night. Thank you to our Biz Mags for preparing the EWPs and to our S&W for a fun and memorable event. Job well done to both! ?
