2 hours 30 minutes

They serve dinner at 6. WTF? I eat at 8!

I've walked around looking at what some other people are doing in the early stages.

A few people are writing/taking notes by hand
Someone's watching anime (and other stuff, judging by some people's expressions)
There're a group of four guys who've been gossiping for about an hour in a corner
A woman 's telling two other girls that actually we can request to go outside the competition venue... eat laksa, go 7-eleven...
Spamming free muffins into themselves
A dude across me is reading a thick book called "Empress Orchid"
drinking tea

Some funny things I can remember from last year:
One woman was playing MapleStory
A guy snored... really fucking loudly
A teenaged guy putting his head on a girl's lap (think they know each other?)
rampant toilet sodomy (finally an event where I did more than just watch)



Still waiting for second stimulus. Meanwhile, I've compiled a list of possible storylines:

Partition – In an uncompromising society that is defined formally by ‘levels’, and has locked down its children for fear that they be drafted into revolutionary groups, Syrene and Teja bond in a regimental tuition centre despite their social outcast status and relationships being prohibited at their age. They work to overcome their past crimes, though their memories of it have been purged from them. Josh, Teja’s rival, begins to understand the flaws behind the system, though his parents share a very different view. Samesh, the tuition teacher, is an outspoken critic of the current system, though he abides by it dutifully. Swee Chin is Teja’s legal guardian, committed to ensuring his ‘safe’ development. A natural disaster comes along, forcing everyone to make choices.

Protection Group – In a rough neighbourhood of people oppressed by gangs, a group bands together, determined to fix the situation. Though somewhat successful, they begin to be tainted by their harsh experiences and slowly become what they once stood against.

Peak Oil – A middle-class Singaporean family receives a nasty shock to their complacency and struggles not to lose its luxuries and each other as the world economy spirals into oblivion as world oil supplies dip and dip.

Car - A man gives up his life to start a new one aventuring in a car (or doing some other wacky adventurous thing)

Credits to Panzer for the car idea.