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Post by shayanne on Mar 1, 2007 15:54:18 GMT -5
Hi i couldn't help but read the message about the console games. I thought it was a good idea at first and xtremly fun, but then i thought slightly bettter No offense to the Person who had the idea. but don't think its going to work. U can't ask a person to pay money so they can play one round of Fightnight and then ask them to go to the back of the line. And next this is a major Sri Lankan event, which involves a lot a of guest of honor (MPs mostly) so i think that its just a bad idea, we could use it for the Sport Meet later in the Summer. Plus this is celebration of culture and heritage and game consoles just don't add to our heritage
I think it would be a better idea if we played some traditional New Years Games, like they do in Sri Lanka. It should be only for the children, though. With a standard fee per game and like at an Amusment park, an all round fee to play all the games.
I think that the Console games is a great idea for the sports meet.
tell me what u think Shayanne
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Post by samantha on Mar 2, 2007 18:36:01 GMT -5
You have a good point i think.. what do you guys think about some sort of "sing a long" and games such as Ono and Carrom, Carums, Karom or Karum how ever you spell it we can have some sort of Turnty and charge a small sum to play...
What do u guys think?
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Post by Naomi De Silva on Mar 3, 2007 0:22:24 GMT -5
Hey, Shayanne I also agree with you. I never thought about that until you pointed it out. The traditional games will be more relevant to the event. And plus, we wouldn't want to detract from the shows on stage. Maybe we could make the games stall more like a show on stage where we ask for contestants from the crowd. What do you think?
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Post by damithri on Mar 3, 2007 14:33:22 GMT -5
yep I agree too...we actually briefly touched on this in the pre-first meeting - meeting we had amongst a few of us...and completely forgot about it during the actual meeting. A game stall / or just a designated area for the games should be good...If we have it on a stage it'll be limited to x number of minutes and it'd be weird to ask people to pay up to get on stage. a Carrom game is not necessarily new year centered but it's Sri Lankan enough...and should be easy to set up. If we get a few boards we should be able to set up a tournament... Other things we can have is "Sagawunu Amuththa" aka "hidden guest". For those who are not familiar the way to hold this is that we designate a person to be the 'hidden guest'. The person is just a random person who will be at the party in plain view just like everyone else. Then people buy tickets (say $1 a person) and then throughout the evening they go to people and ask "are you the hidden guest?" ....Also throughout the evening we announce and give little hints about who it may be. We can totally blufff about the person ....in terms of it it's a man or a woman ...what they are wearing which area they are in etc etc. It's all fair game. The person who finds the hidden guest first winds the price. This usually spans the whole evening. Another thing is Drawing the tail on the elephant. You have a drawing of a elephant sans the tail and the you blindfold the contestants and spin em around for good measure and they have to go draw the tail on the correct spot. Closest spot wins. What else.........oh guessing the number of sweets in a sweet jar or the beans in a bean jar or something. It's out in plain view for them to see and they just submit guesses. Closest guess wins. Do we actually count the beans...NO. We just have a initial number set up as the winning number Any other ideas..things like the pillow fight, eating contests can get messy and take up too much space/ set up cost/ time..we don't want that. We could set up a awurudu kumaraya and kumari thing...set an age limit say under 12 or something ...but of course you can't really price it. We'd need people to help out with these..with the money- tickets / announcements / taking down guess / keeping scores / etc.etc. Once we get the games set up then we have to come up with the prices etc. I smell another meeting coming. So if you're interested in helping out with this leave your name here. we can have a small meeting in 2-3 weeks to set everything up. I'm more than willing to help out with this. We'd need to let the parent association know about this. Good idea Shayanne.
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Post by manisha dias on Mar 6, 2007 15:47:25 GMT -5
i like the "hidden guest" idea.. its been done somewhere before and it went pretty well.. and where is the prize for the winner going to be coming from? or will it be in addition to the raffle prizes.. etc? just let me know, i'd love to help
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