Girls just want to have fun* - Cyndi Lauper

...and so do guys too!!!

Me church mates stared incredulously at me as i explained the strange pictionary rules they had. TK and i returned to our holding room after another stressful session at the scoring room to find them playing it - they decided to do that instead of watching Friends on me laptop. And somehow, playing chor tai ti at an Islamic University seemed a little disrespectful! Lol!

The rules were simple - you had to draw for the opposing team. So you had to make it as hard as possible so that they find difficulty in guessing the answer but yet at the same time, not impossible that they would complain that they wouldn't be able to guess!!!!!!

It doesn't make sense.

But we joined in anyways.

On top of that, the draw-er get to explain her drawing and use hand gestures and actions to aid the guessing team!!!!!

Here are some of the classics (the theme was movie titles):-

This was supposed to be "The Green Mile" - go figure!!!!

And this is the "Baby" as part of "The Million Dollar Baby"

Special mention must be made to TK's drawing of Breakfast At Tiffany's where she drew a diamond and a plate of bacon and eggs. My best had to be a drawing of a person doing pottery - and he had long hair, unshaven and very hairy hands - Harry (Hairy) Potter, of course! ;-)

Man, we had so much fun! the others were prolly in their holding room thinking and plotting about who next should they lodge a complaint against and discussing conspiracy theories at how they are being denied a fair competition.

Sure, we were sore at the seemingly unfair tactics and the apparently incompetence of certain people, coupled with the pettiness and hypocrisy displayed daily. But that wasn't going to stop us from having fun!

It appeared that nothing would break our spirit - altho they came close. But i was glad we raised ourselves over it - and even a sprained ankle became a source of levity.

It's not that they were not serious about the competition - they worked their socks off. Hardly slept not ate. They gave their all - and then, more!!!! how can i not be proud of them?

But before each session, we'd be laughing and joking away, breaking out into song in the moot courts itself. I think it really got under the skins of our opponents - no wonder they raised so many frivolous complaints against us. But hey, can't we have some fun? Can't we enjoy ourselves?

And i am proud (i get proud easily, dun i?) to start off the practice of punching another on the shoulder in a frenly manner before each moot. Well, it started at the very first moot - a hug din seem so appropriate in an Islamic Uni. A handshake seemed too formal. So i jus resorted to the punch. At the end of the competition, we were doing it to each other! :-D

It was a wonderful learning experience for all of us - moi included. It was nice to not only learn from our mistakes - but to have a good laugh over it too.

Having a good time (the blur pics were stolen from RT's Facebook page)

*This was her first major single - what a hit it turned out to be. What a hit she turned out to be. Love her or hate her, she knew how to stand out!