oh, romeo, romeo, wherefore art thou romeo?

luuuurrrrrrrrrrrvvvvvvee has smothering the air in which we breathe for the past few weeks. love with a capital L. and a capital O. and while we're at it, a capital V and E as well. it's simply mind-boggling, the amount of saccharine dripping from the pores of everyone in close proximity to the purported scandalized couples within our OG. i wonder if people get hyPERglycemic from all this *aawww* sweetie-weedie talk and *B's trademark EH-EHHHH* smoochie-woochie acts :D but i AM amused (to no end) by the amazing sporting-ness of sarah and ZS because they simply act like the real thing. it's amazing. when scandals come your way, take it in your stride (like shaun haha) and put on your best shakespearean mask!

let's do a quick recount of the scandals in the OG so far (ahem you may want to tarpow food for the next 3 days if you intend to read this from start to finish haha):

1) our golden couple, sarah and ZS
sarah the beautiful damsel arrives at the second day of camp and stuns the pants off *nearly* all the guys in our OG by her unrivalled beauty and grace. (i'll talk about the nearly later! haha!) ZS the closet HAMSAP but outwardly dashing-delicious-cute-hunky-shuai guy eyes her and makes his move on MSN, broadcast *gleefully* by the OG RADIO, several days later. the wonderous and fairytale-like courtship and eventual virtual proposal is available on request at ONLY S$999.99 from the RADIO! get yours today! it may vastly improve your love life! (or send you into irretrievable despair from watching one too many saccharine courtships between jun-nans and mei-nus haha :D all mental anguish caused from the purchase of this proposal will not be our producer's liability)

2) marc and serena, the penultimate unrequited love story *TEAR JERKER spoiler ahead*
marc the wonderful Godly man, upright, righteous, full of principles and morals and everything nice (think powerpuff girls, the guy version and 3-in-1 somemore) is transfixed by the grace and equally Godly character of serena, our heroine. he finds opportunities to sit next to her, talk to her, establish eye contact with her, engage her in conversations purportedly *ahem* about their common friend in where? MGS issit? and eventually, declare his love (KABISH from marc) *deletes LOVE* *replaces with "preference"* for the perfect, flawless serena *goddess athena to the eye of the beholder, she is none but perfect, free from the tarnishes of the evil world, yadayada* during truth and dare at the idyllic tanjong beach. ahhhh, if only the confession wasn't under duress and in the presence of so many other busybodies. like a certain NANA we know. haha. ah, but the divine love story of compatible fellow Christians ends here, for our heroine's heart is already promised to another man. *pats marc's back as he weeps uncontrollably* sorry, marc.

3) WL and PX
it started with a bedtime confession to GH by WL: "i'm in love! i'm in love!!!". it continued with the disastrously inopportune insertion *also by the prodigious WL* of the following enquiry during the romantic proposal from ZS to sarah: "where's PX?". we at the RADIO department extrapolate with confidence that this epic tale of underground crushing will end happily with something along the lines of: "will you be my hazelnutty eyed one, oh PX?" nevermind that hazelnut eyes are the trademark rights of ZS's gf, nor the fact that PX's breathtaking beauty and charisma has already claimed the hearts of all but ONE guy in the OG. WL will win the hand of the fair lady in due course. *cues sagely nod by RADIO*

4) brian and jess
to quote from the ancient chinese adage: tian1 yi1 wu2 feng4. and also fu1 chang4 fu4 sui2. this couple has been romantically linked in the course of their "professional" duties. which is to disseminate and/or generate scandals of couples in the OG. and lo and behold, we see a SELF-FULFILLING prophecy here. now let's see what the RADIO has to say.
NANA: now brian. come confess. are you in love with the talented and winsome jess?
RADIO: *agitatedly* EH-EHHH, no scandals! i will not be dragged into a scandal! *backs away in fear*
NANA: now don't resist. resistance is futile. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
RADIO: how on earth did this scandal arise? i don't even know what was happening!!
NANA: errr. that's what most of your scandalized pairs say. so that means you and jess really got sparks lah.
RADIO: *in abysmal despair* ..........
*RADIO slinks off to coach biomed quiz instead of continuing further arguments about his scandals*

4) shaun and SH
rather non-descript, this romantic tale has yet to blossom into the highly diseased *ahem scratch that. replace with highly developed* state of the sarah-ZS union, but good things grow, isn't it? (or else we'll sue lipton for misleading little kids) we'll give them some time. so far, james has gladly acted as the moonman (yue4 lao3 for the uninitiated) by sending a msg to SH using shaun's phone, and we have collectively put the 2 fledging lovebirds onto the same kayak. will this beautiful tale sink or swim? we'll see! stay tuned for more.

other odds and ends (mostly weird crushes and even weirder BROKEBACKS):
1) irene and ZS, or irene and martin (following the super-bizarre lesbian in a man's body theory)
2) GH and sarah (errrr. no hope la man. sorry :P)
3) brian and PX, as well as ZS and PX, and all the guys in the OG and PX (with the sole exception of marc) - follows the same argument as #2 haha.
4) shaun and ZS? (been floating around like a truncated, dispirited ghoul without any true substance. but all cute guys attract people from both sexes. so says the Law of The Beautiful Bods.)

wow. see? epic love stories can take place in minuscule settings. Thou shalt not disparage the possibility of a legendary lovetale in a small OG, yes? :D