Death Squad
23 JUN 07

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.
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.


It's a dog eat dog world during recess at KCPSS.
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.


Yup. I saw this near the basketball court, LIVE.
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!


The Death Squad rules!
1991-1992

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.


The handshake is so complex that you need to
practice to remember its sequence.
Okay 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..

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….


The Thai kid always had difficulty with the English Language.
Back then, Bishan Junction 8 is still undergoing construction.

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.


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.

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.

A typical bully's organiser
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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