Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Reflection on "Fear Factor NP" Part 1
While waiting for Man Ling at the Ngee Ann’s bus stop near the student plaza, my thoughts starts to wonder. Since we have completed all the necessary projects we were supposed to do, I was wondering what we are going to be doing today for LMS. Soon after I was in deep thoughts, Man Ling arrived and I lost my trial of thoughts. On our way to class, we met our tutor at the elevator and we went up together. As we get seated down in class, tutor told us that today we will be doing something really interesting. She also added that it was essential that all of our group members have to be present. When majority of our classmates are present, she said: “Class, today we will be doing fear factor.” There was suddenly a loud commotion. She then listed out 3 criteria that each individual group has do. Not only that, we are given a limit of 40 minutes. The first one is that we have to approach a stranger, ask for him or her name and on the spot, sing a happy birthday song. The second criterion is that we have to approach another person and ask for his or her mobile number. This means that guys have to approach girls while girls have to approach guys. The third criterion is that we have to do something unique that captures every ones attention. All the three criteria mention above have to be videoed down. The main purpose was to capture people’s facial expression. The third criteria we decided to it as a class. We have decided to do a spoof from a Japanese video we saw over the internet. We were unsuccessful at sometimes. Until finally, at the eleventh hour, we have succeeded! Initially I felt rather silly doing it because at the place we were doing was in between block 72 and the convention centre. At the same time, it feels rather awkward that a group of us are just standing there, waiting for a person or two to walk by so that we can start our little “experiment”. Realizing that we actually spent too long on the third criteria, we went on quickly to complete the rest. Since we were near to canteen 1, we approached a girl, asked for a name and then we started singing the happy birthday some at the top of our voice while Yi Mei videoed the whole process. It was embarrassing for that moment as we had invited a lot of stares! For the second criteria, I was shy at first as we had to ask someone of the opposite sex for their mobile number. However, thinking of the time ticking away, I pluck up my courage and approach a guy and asked for his number. The guy was shocked at first but in the end he still gave. After he gave me his number, I explain to him my reasons for doing so as so as not to give him false hope. We ended LMS that day filled with lots of fun, joy and laughter. I cannot wait for the next LMS lesson where I heard from our tutor that it is going to be twice as interesting as today.
