my chinese new year's eve began as i was making the banner for the heritage week, with pacey, who's in-charge for the whole thing. i was his designated assistant. yeah, the rest are also assistants when they have time, but i'm sort of the first assistant, or perhaps the the associate in-charge, if you will. i mean, the assistant who actually carries the burden of accountability, somehow.
okay, so it was work that spilled over to CNY eve. i met up with pacey 9pm last night, got our paints and pencils from the stock room, bought the lacking materials from georgie's mart across our hall, set up the newspapers for the approximately 15x3m black cloth, and made lines with my 30-cm ruler and pacey's make-shift meter stick: a folded newspaper with dimensions he measured by the stretch of his hand, which reminded me of a game in the philippines i used to play. shatong is a game where a small, thin stick is placed on the soil over a small hole, dug up to allow a longer stick to hit the smaller one, causing it to fly into the air to get it as far away as possible for the base. there are other rules that i have forgotten, but what's interesting is that the neighborhood kids used their stretched hands to measure the "distance".
pacey cooked up a design of a lion and an eagle on both left and right ends of the banner respectively: the "mascots" of the ageing, 87-year-old (but still kicking!) hall, King Edward VII. hmmm... why don't i post the crest of our hall? and no, this isn't the banner yet.
hmmm... i think i'm in the mood for a little digression (who doesn't right? i mean, it's my blog..0=P), so i think i'm gonna post this only photo i have of the hall. it's amateurish.. i took it when i was in a picture-taking mood, and i just stretched my arm out my window, webcam in hand, and took this shot. the lighting isn't perfect, but the photo's not too bad, i think. (hey, it's my only photo!)
anyway, 'nuff of that. where was i?
(ang init dito sa room right now! sun's gonna set in about an hour and a half...at around 7pm, kaya ang init sa side ng window! argh.)
hmmm... oh yeah. the design.
the banner is designed for the heritage week, in celebration of Lolo KE7 Hall's 87 freakin' years! so lemme give you a mental picture: lion mascot on the left, connected to a fluid-like, flowing (redundant?), series of clocks that form the number "8", flowing into a series of digital symbols (u know, the matrix-inspired binary digits to give a high-tech feel) that form the number "7", and finally forming an eagle which is soaring up in the air.
the text reads, "King Edward VII (text on top), 87 years (center text) of striving, seeking, serving and SOARING (text on bottom). you see the motto of the hall is "to strive, to seek, to serve". we just added a little twist. and oh, weikai, my big boss in the pubz (a.k.a. publicity) department of pr comm, emphasized the following text which he said, must be prominent: "ORGANIZED BY PR COMM".
so, pacey and i started working at around 9:30 last night, and it was only till around midnight (CNY eve finally!) that weikai, shijie, prashant and balaji (the last two are indian friends) came to do the emulsion paint.
i, was in fact, in charge of making all the text that i previously mentioned.. something that made me feel a little proud of myself. i mean, i don't have the best handwriting, but somehow, in the confusion that is PR comm, i managed to end up doing the text. pacey's a veteran already, having designed his AB block shirt, and goodness gracious, 3 hallwide designs: the banner for for Inter-Block Games, the banner AND t-shirt for Inter-Hall Games. my simple pride rests in the designing of a "display board" for pr comm, consisting of large, red 3D blocks of the words PR COMM, displayed near the dining hall's entrance, and the bookmark design i mentioned in a previous post. now i was doing the text for the banner. sweeeeet.
it was past midnight when i finished the text, and i left the guys to finish working on the emulsion paint. i was to have a physics class at 8 in the morning, which required me to do a 20-page reading of our favorite giancoli book, and a quick scan of the 54 slides in our lecture notes as we were to have a pre-lecture quiz.
i brought my notes with me as i was working on the banner, but, as always, when i bring notes during an entirely different activity in the hope of studying, i never got to study them. but it was okay, the quiz turned out to be quite simple. it was open book even, and i think i got only one mistake, hopefully.
oops, there goes wayne's second call for dinner. i have to put my shirt on and go down now okay? i'll finish this soon!
