Psst~~~

hey hey long time no see ya~ haa because of the IA and exams... fastforward is alittle on the slow motion.. keke but never fear, cause it's all ending and FastForward will be rite back!

for now,
i shall let u in on a preview of our up and coming programmes~

•Freshmen Orientation Camp (Faculty and Halls)=>30th July to 3rd Aug 2007
----- we will be organising events so that NTU freshies can get to know each other better!
•NTU Recruitment Booth => Week 1
----- come one come all!
•Inter University Sudoku/ Blockus competition (July/ August)
•Annual General Meeting => To be determined

more to come. stay tuned~

Bwahahaha

ok.. i had nothing better to do in the office and was surfing pitstop.. so i added a new addition to the website. haaa have fun with it! (applicable to ppl who is member and have joined our forum)

p/s.. in case u dunno wat i have added, a new twitter! just type in wat are u doing now!(oh along with ur name. i.e. Kester:going to fall asleep.

haaa

FastForward - Kester

Behind-the-scenes of open house 2007

A very very late post.. (i was busy ok...) but definitely worth the wait.

Revealing to all of you what goes on behind the scene for open house day (10th march if u forgotten)ok.. all i can say is.. we really did worked very hard... we even only ate junk food for dinner so tat we could prepare for the best... 9 people to 1 bag of chachos~ (sobz..)

no prize for guessing who's "beauty legs" these belongs to...

i think i look DAMN good with the flower loh.

we really kept ourselves busy during the nite...

and during the day. be it preparing for the booth and games area,

Chatting away...

smsing our girlfriends...(maybe boyfriends too?)

or taking photos of pretty gers. (ok who's the wise guy...)

others prefer to keep themselves busy by

gorging themselves with food,

or indulge themselves in ballon sculpting (and linus' picture looks abit wierd hoh.. haaa).

let's not forget those who took a liking into modeling.

The classic "Ni zai pai wo ma?" pose

The very manly "deep in thought" pose(oi.. weishiong wake up leh..)

and how can we forget about the "Kawaii ne~~~ peace" pose.

it's a long day and im sure everyone was tired. the ever so kind hearted weishiong decided to be kind to all and volunteered to be the rubbish man.

turns out, he only wanted to "ka-pok" the goodie bags.

haa oh well.. good memories made i have to say. :)

stay tune to our holidays programmes k?

FastForward - Kester

games session 22/03/07 (sobz.. last of this sem...)

Hello everybody,
Thoroughly enjoyed the game session yesterday, tried out 2 wonderful games, Rat a-Tat-Cat and Niagara.

Rat-a-Tat-Cat is a simple card game that involves swopping of cards until your hand score the lowest point. Very boring?? The multiple rules imposed during gameplay enhanced the playability of it. Such as, not permitted to look at your hand in the course of the game increases the challenge of the game. But the biggest draw of the game must be its multi player interaction, trying to deduce the opponents hand by observing his action is a daunting task especially in a scenario of at least six players. Perhaps the only drawback of the game is its limited library. So why did I chose to write this review because I am the winner yesterday, score was 5, 9, 7 over 3 rounds. Woohoo.

Niagara is a fun game, a bit complex in gameplay, so explaining the game is extremely tedious for me, especially with my limited vocabulary. Basicallly you jus try to get the jewel on the board by means of moving your boat along the edge of Niagara which is actually discs. The game completes when a player collects either one of each color, 4 of the same color or 7 of any color. The unique part of the game is that it allows disc to be slotted in at the end of each round which will displace your boat down the waterfall. Another interesting mechanism of the game is the actions of the players. If everybody tries to be greedy and moves a lot then the number of discs to be inserted will get more, so somebody will have to sacrifice and move lesser. But who will and when will he makes the move to make it strategically advantageous to him. Unreusable paddles card also makes hand management essential. A little hard to pick up, but once the game starts rolling, the 3-d gameplay will get you mesmerized by it. Oh… and the winners yesterday are heng and linus. They both pick up 4 of the same crystal, perhaps is a game bug? Haha, I am such a sore loser. Oh and is wonderful to welcome new friends to our gaming session.

Lets welcome Junxiang, I haven’t got the chance to mingle with anothe group though. And well I thanked Jan for coming back and showing his support to us, is always nice to see old friends around.

Quote of the session (including the car ride home): Captain big f*** ah!!! You think you captain planet?!?!
P.S.: Everybody plays saboteur like pro liao.
P.S.: p.s.: Brian don’t make sense in the game and off the game

Enjoy the weekend and work hard for exam everyone.

FastForward - WeiJian

LATE LATE update for OPENHOUSE 2007

hello everyone, sorry for the late update for NTU open house! it's been one week already, omg, i'm slow!

SO, the day began at 8am, the time we were told to reach to help set up the booth.

here's a picture of the booth and some members

and at the quad, the SAC, there's a boardgame session for people who are interested to try out some of the games!






SOME of the games we played that day :)




OH and that day we had so many goodies to give people. pitstop vouchers, walletshop voucher, post-its, etc, and how can we forget about our beloved balloons??!?

SERIOUSLY, the STARS of the day are really the balloons, a new skill we've all learnt!

here's a picture of some of the stars.




one my favourite ones are the pitstop vouchers! they're really worth it la, FREE 1 hour with free drink! they're so nice. oh and the vouchers are stamped with weishiong's ANCIENT chop also. i don't know what you call it la, the one with a lion on top, and carve your chinese name one. but he represents the club la, so it's considered the club stamp too. heh heh.

anyway another freebie i like
(COME ON TILT YOUR HEAD!)




our first 'customers' of the day!



the girl was so cute, she caught the gist of the game really quickly, and emerged winner in every round! haha.

shortly after that we have 2 more people to join us. they stayed for a really long time i believe, and tried most of the games. they even went off for awhile and came back after lunch. really nice people who helped bring up the atmosphere well :)




and at lunch time, weishiong and linus went to buy chicken rice for us. everything is yummy when one is hungry! anyway during lunch time it was still pretty quiet. it's after lunch time when we start to get really busy! people streamed in to play, and sometimes there weren't enough places to sit, so they can't play :(

oh, and some pictures of the gamers that day,



see how they concentrate! bet they had lotsa fun. :D


the girls were so cute!! halli galli is obviously a hit with all the young girls!

BLOKUS is another popular game which most people will love. some people even come to us and asked for blokus first. NOT BAD!


and this picture says A LOT of things.
1.people rather buy small snacks to eat and play, than leave the place to eat proper meals!
2. all the tables and seats were taken up by game enthusiasts, and this is not even the busiest period!
3. we all just love making balloons! heh.

so anyway, throughout the whole event, our members alternated between staying in the SAC and going up to the booth. some of us went out to distribute flyers so that they'll know about the game session. overall everybody has done a great job! we're all happy, because we pretty much achieved what we set out to do. created much publicity among NTU people and showed the prospective future members that a club like that actually exists in NTU and that we actually HAVE FUN TOGETHER!

everyone go home as a happy man, 3 CHEERS TO FAST FORWARD!



fastforward - chloe

Game Review Time~~~

Like no new posts lately leh.. Shall review a game.. I'm the Boss!



Ok, this game consists of a game board similar to Monopoly jus that instead of title deeds, there are deals to be closed. The objective of this game is to close as many deals as possible. Each deal is worth a certain amount of shares and the value of the shares get higher as the game progresses and more deals are being closed.

So how do u close a deal? To close a deal u will need the right people required to close it. For, example a deal requires George and Watts to close, and suppose u only have George, U can den propose to any other players who have Watts to close the deal with u....of cos at a price...u will have to cut a portion of the deal to the other person la....how much to cut or to get ppl to close deals with u depends on ur 'persuasive' powers....

There are certain power cards which a player can play, which ranges from sending a person off on a holiday so he can't close a deal or buying a particular person over dats required to close the deal or play the most powerful card – I'm the Boss! To take control of the deal!

Because it's basically a negotiating game, it is noisy and interactive. The sabo-ing or psycho-ing aspect of this game makes the game very enjoyable. Watch wad everybody does when someone is close to closing a huge deal.. There will be lots of psycho-ing asking everyone not to co-operate with the boss or the person holding a card that the boss requires asking for a huge cut of the deal.

The game ends when some huge deal deals are closed and a particular dice roll that corresponds to the end game requirements. Den the scores/money are calculated and the real Boss is born!

Fun value: 5/5
Replay value: 4/5 ( negotiating can be tiring...haha..)
Learning curve: Easy
FastFoward Rates.... : Must Play!

FastForward's Recruitment booth --- 07/03/2007

flyers anyone...

Okies, so we had our second recruitment booth today at Canteen B and i kena arrowed (ouch) by Mr Ang to share our day with u guys, here it goes...

Met up at 10.30 at Canteen A, Today's strength: Linus, Chloe , and me. Linus drove so we sit car happy happy go draw key at the student academic centre, only to find out keys already drawn by someone else..ok, so no keys, and we set out to find our key holder. Found him at Canteen B, got the keys and got our booth set up after some serious table and chair work out =P

Linus and i hung our banner( yes! For the first time) behind our booth. At first we thot the length of the banner was too long, but after we hung it, we felt the length was jus nice. Our professional photographer for the day Chloe took pictures of that glorious moment.. haha..

drum roll, the glorious moment...

Linus and i decided to exercise some marketing strategy (beauty trick), so we sent our Chloe to distribute flyers, as it was near lunch time already, traffic started getting heavier, so i went to help Chloe distribute as well. We had to print more flyers as we gave them all out within 15 minutes wow... beauty tricks sure works well..

By now, we were bo liao and were practising balloon sculpturing, decorating our booth with balloons making our booth stood our from the rest, den a lecturer approached us and asked Linus how to make a flower, so he got to show off..haha maybe we should start charging for these kind of misc services as well..

the busy balloon sculptors @ work.

Linus and Chloe left for class at 1230, leaving me alone at the booth..sianz.. sit dere stone, gif flyers, stone, gif flyers, stone, ya i think u get it.. dere were a few students who approached to ask questions and they seemed really genuine to know more, so i asked them to come down for our games session on thursday. Dere were still people asking if we sell games, maybe we shud look into dat? Anyways, Linus and Chloe came back ( and saved me from potentially dying from thirst). I had to rush for class so i left..

take your pick @ the games!

Came back at ard 4, saw a few more names on our nominal roll.. the traffic is really very little now.. so we sat down and do wad we do best, game! Played Carcassone.. The guys did pretty well, getting scores over 100, but our dear Chloe was zoned out for most part of the game, beauty trick mus be too exhausting liao... so we decided to close shop. Again the table and chair work out.. -_-''

play play play~

Yeps, a lot of people seemed interested, see see look look but didn't stop and ask. although traffic at Canteen B not as heavy as Canteen A, we did manage to attract some interested peeps. so we're hoping to see at least some of them turn up for our games session tmr. For now ciao!

FastForward - Javern