"Guys, we have a product launch ...", announced Matt during one of our routine practices. "... but here's the catch ...", The Kings lowered their eyebrows everytime they hear Matt muttering those words, knowing all too well that they're in for some joyride or nothing at all. Niggy and Chi Ho were already clenching their fists. But then he said, "... they want us to launch a fridge..."



"A FRIDGE? WTF!?" We all looked at each other for a short moment but in our minds, we were all thinking of the same thing. And that is to show what we've got!



Coming out with a script for a fridge launch is hard enough but when you only get to hear the news 3 weeks before the event is much harder. It came to us as a surprise really. On 20 June, Niggy, Matt and Chi Ho were due to attend a meeting with the teams working on the launch where The Kings were supposed to see the script for the very first time. But Alas!, that was the time when The Kings found out that they had to conjure up their own script. And the three Kings left with a handful of brochures which the Electrolux team believed would "inspire" us but only enough to make our palms "perspire"!. Brochures that read "Where do you keep your market fresh goods in your home? In an Electrolux refrigerator of course." (And now, to know the Electrolux correspondence better, replace "market fresh goods in your home" with "brain".

If that wasn't hard enough, The Kings had to go through so many parties just to get an "OK" for our script. The Talent Factory, JDI, Krakatoa and worst of all Electrolux. Man, their mental capacity to understand a script is pretty much as square as a fridge and to stoop down to their level, The Kings had to revise (its more like a revamp) the script 4 times within the timeframe given and then only having less than 48 hours of practice. But let's do the math, 4 script in 3 weeks and less than 48 hours of practice... that sounds like ComeBackKings capability to me! But to top it all up, all the workload had forced The Kings to succumb to a bulk of virus attack that spread among all the Kings and Chi Ho being the last victim.

The final script was finished on the Monday before the big Thursday and we can't help but stress on the support and belief given to us by the organizing committee. And when the day finally came, The Kings was never been more confident. Maybe except Jon, whom The Kings threw into the deep end and gave him a character that delivered the most lines. Jon, as how The Kings knew him, is a professional mime/ clown. He was jittery in the first few practices but nevertheless perfect for the role. And so were the rest of guys; Matt donned THE dress and pulled off the naggiest Malay mom anyone has ever seen, Niggy as the loud and happy colleague that ... aww, you people should've been there lar, and Chi Ho looks as though we can sell 100 fridges a day in his protrayal of a hardcore Chinese Electrolux salesman.



And like every other show... the wait was gruelling (7.30am to 5pm!), especially to Chi Ho, who was literally struck down with viral fever.






Food was scarce, resting area was limited and boredom was as thick as a chopping block.




However, this time, The Kings had the previlege to share their dressing room with the girls from Funky Socks and what joy was to witness the girls gradually metomorphasize from ordinary city girls to gorgeous fruit bearers (eat your heart out guys of the world!).

And in the end, nothing could equal itself to the sheer sigh of relief in the all the Kings and their WAGs that all the "hardwork" was over ... at least for the time being.

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