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Death
Squad
23 JUN 07
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Kuo Chuan Secondary have a notorious bunch of gangsters in school.
They come in packs, just like hyenas… You can see the mark
of these gangsters by the way they buy food during recess. I gotta
add that recess at KCPSS was madness. There is no queue and the
crowd was this one pile of bodies all mashed up to buy food all
screaming to get their hands on a plate of Nasi Lemak, as if the
canteen Makcik sold her dishes to the highest bidder. It reminded
me of some Hitler-style concentration camp, or the guys I see
in stock markets, or a mosh pit at a Suede concert.. (yes, they
body surfed to Suede! I was there!) . It got so bad that some
kids would go through the back door and enter through the kitchen
but of course all the Makcik and Ah Soh will shoo them away like
some rats. I learned to be aggressive, clawed and bite my way
in, cause hey, a bunny gotta eat right?
So
where was I, yeah the gangsters… A gangster in school does
not have to queue up at all. The minute he rear his gangster head,
the crowd of mashed up bodies would miraculously split up like
the Red sea. It was as if Jennifer Lopez was in town and the canteen
suddenly became one red carpet event.
Now Kuo Chuan Secondary have a notorious bunch of gangsters in
school. They come in packs, just like hyenas… You can see
the mark of these gangsters by the way they buy food during recess.
I gotta add that recess at KCPSS was madness. There is no queue
and the crowd was this one pile of bodies all mashed up to buy
food all screaming to get their hands on a plate of Nasi Lemak,
as if the canteen Makcik sold her dishes to the highest bidder.
It reminded me of some Hitler-style concentration camp, or the
guys I see in stock markets, or a mosh pit at a Suede concert..
(yes, they body surfed to Suede! I was there!) . It got so bad
that some kids would go through the back door and enter through
the kitchen but of course all the Makcik and Ah Soh will shoo
them away like some rats. I learned to be aggressive, clawed and
bite my way in, cause hey, a bunny gotta eat right?
So
where was I, yeah the gangsters… A gangster in school does
not have to queue up at all. The minute he rear his gangster head,
the crowd of mashed up bodies would miraculously split up like
the Red sea. It was as if Jennifer Lopez was in town and the canteen
suddenly became one red carpet event.
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It's
a dog eat dog world during recess at KCPSS. |
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| We common
KCPSS students would avoid these guys like the plague not because
of what how they look like because most of them are pretty scrawny
(but I must say the long sideburns does look pretty intimidating.)
Trust me, Los Angeles gangsters with the Skulls and Cribs, ghetto
living in the hellhole of South Central would laugh at our school
gangsters but like Shakespeare would say; beware of the serpent
beneath the flower.. but in this case, beware of the Pai Kiah beneath
the Ah Beng. I have seen these gangsters beat some guy up and they
were ruthless. We usually hanged out in the school basketball court
and suddenly there was this loud exchange of hokkien expletives
then Boom! 2 guys were on the grass. It seemed to be a 2 vs 1 WWE
Royal Rumble, no holds barred action with no referree. A
guy got another guy headlocked and his head was already red because
of the restriction of blood flow to his brain but he was hanging
on. The ghastly part was another boy, a skinnier type, which reminded
me of Star Scream from the transformers, kept kicking the guy’s
head (which by now looks like a red tomato) like a football. This
type of kick is not those passing a ball to a friend kinda kick..
this kick is like those penalty shoot out.. You make a light jog,
wind up the your quad leg muscle and release one good solid leg
swing. Now replace the ball with a tomato human head and imagine
like 8 or more good kick swings.. yeah.. I think you get the picture. |
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Yup.
I saw this near the basketball court, LIVE. |
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Ok
where does Death Squad, the title of this article comes into play.
We’ll you see, since Secret Societies was the rave back
then and since Me, Dan, the thai kid and another guy named Jason
always spend so much time together cycling, skating and coffeeshop
hopping, we realize that we are some sort of a gang too. But instead
of getting a name like Sak Lak Kau (369) we decided to get a much
cooler name. So we made some interesting options and we voted
on the coolest.. this is democracy at its finest. "Blood
Brothers" was the first choice but it's common and boring,
another rejected name was "Piranhas" (cause we are just
4 not 40 so that was out) the "Pussy Cat Boys" was booted
out for obvious reasons.
Dragon Phoenix sounds
like a B grade Hong Kong movie starring Stephen Chow and Amy
Yip.. mmm Yum! So, after a couple of voting forgery, scare tactics,
redrawing of the Bishan Map 3 times, and complicated forms to
fill in, we finally agreed on the "Death Squad". Everybody
hates death and we are a squad of Death. Haahaha Perfect! The
main agenda for this formation of the Deathly Squadron of 4
is to have a sense of belonging and to “look out for each
other’s back”. If the gangsters wanna kick a human
head, they have kick all four human heads… 1 myopic geek
is easy to bully but 4 is just a hassle.. So hassle acts out
as our main deterrent!
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The
Death Squad rules!
1991-1992
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Death
Squad has no leader because EVERYBODY wants to be the leader.
So before everyone back stabs each other like a bad episode of
Survivor, we proclaimed that the squad remained leaderless. We
even come up with roles for each member. I can’t remember
what the rest roles were but I remember mine clearly… I
am in-charge of buying drinks. It may be a menial role but I was
proud to serve the Death Squad.
A group without a handshake was like
a house without a roof, so the next thing was to come up with
a cool handshake. But we went overboard and our handshake was
this super long, finger acrobatic, armpit fart sound thing…
It took like a whole 2 minutes to complete a handshake and since
we have to shake everybody.. 8 minutes would just pass us, be
busy entangled in a madness of palm slaps and fingers twitch,
which left everybody exhausted. But nonetheless, everybody felt
satisfied and happy because they belong to an exclusive club
and for once everybody felt wanted and loved.
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The
handshake is so complex that you need to
practice to remember its sequence. |
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now we have a name, some DS money fund, a handshake… with
the brains of yours truly, we made ourselves a Death Squad name
card! Daniel thought it was awesome but Jason thought it was going
to the verge of geekery.. but he still wanted one though. So I made
this super cool, Death Squad card with neon vanguard sheet. And
together with a magic maker, I drew a flaming skull with lightning
bolts! What a logo! We even went to get the 4 cards laminated and
place the cards in our wallet. Yes, DS is about to take over KCPSS
and no more shoving to get a hotdog- the red carpet treatment awaits
us! Sweet! I can so see it now.. |
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I almost forgot, we did have
a Headquarters. Bishan Junction 8 was still on construction and
behind it was a hill. We cycled up the hill and got a bunch of
huge white rocks so that it would spell HQ from a distance. Just
like the Hollywood sign but this was done with rocks on grass.
But due to some unforeseen oversight the huge sign actually said
something else….
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The Thai kid always had difficulty with the English Language.
Back then, Bishan Junction 8 is still undergoing construction.
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Yeah
but the thing that top it all was when we actually made ourselves
a secret code! Those archaic Math symbols did come to use after
all. The code is so complex, I bet even the CIA can’t crack
it.. but unfortunately, a girl from our class did. See if you
can crack the Death Squad code. Get your pen and paper. If you
can manage to crack the code and reveal the hidden message, do
email me. The first reader to crack the code flawlessly and get
the hidden message will get the Enjet-enjet semut CD! I’m
not kiding! Email me with the subject header: “Crack the
Death Squad Code!” If you manage to decipher the code, feel
free to use it among your friends to send secret messages during
class. That way, you can never be caught cause on first look the
code looked like some scribbles but after the 5th and 6th look
its will still not make sense. Hahaha.
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I created the Death Squad code when I was
13 years old. Don't play-play! See if you can crack it! The first
guy/girl to email me with the correct message wins the Enjet-Enjet
Semut CD! Yeah!
This contest is over. The code
has been deciphered by mat_spawn.
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But
unfortunately Death Squad quickly fizzled fast because of one
incident. It appears that some school crap bully was riding his
bicycle with his girlfriend on it and Daniel almost made him lose
control. ALMOST. The jerk did not even fall.. he ALMOST fell and
that is enough for him to make a ruckus. So he gave Daniel a warning
saying that he was gonna beat him up on Monday. Wah, beat people
up also have appointment. |
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A typical
bully's organiser |
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Monday
came and Dan was already having a nervous breakdown. Death Squad
was a mess.. Jason was paranoid and I seem to have lost my bladder
control. Reporting to teachers would be suicide because they can
only “protect” you during school hours.. after school
would be a blood bath. We did brainstormed on how to get out of
the mess and I suggested an all out war, … the minute he stopped
his crying and me putting on an adult diaper of course. Can’t
be peeing while I fight can I? But Jason said we are all doomed
cause this guy belongs to a more notorious club.. no, not the Bookworm
club.. that one got no testosterone whatsoever..
He’s talking about the group with the tall leader with a face
only a blind mother could love. Then it dawned upon us that we can’t
really DIE for each other. The handshake now looks gay and the card
is just a stupid card with even a stoopider logo. But fortunately
the thai kid decided to get his Sec 5 brother deal with the mess
because Secret Society or not, nobody wanna mess with a kid who
knows Muay Thai :P
Email me if you can crack the code!
Evil Bunny!
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