Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Following up on my previous entry: we actually did organize a Origami Workshop on Tuesday, 13th Feb 2007. The theme of the workshop was to teach students how to fold Origami roses. As the event clashed with Week 7 (Midterm week), the turnout, well as expected, wasn't too good.
Here's a pic of our instructor, Mr. Harvey Cheong, who was trying to teach us how to fold the Kawazaki roses.
According to him, he knows how to fold 4 kinds of Origami roses, but due to time constraints, he only taught us two out of the 4.
The easiest (which also is the only rose I learnt):
The slightly difficult (which Harvey had no time to teach):
The most difficult (which I guess, out of all the participants, only Christy managed to master):
And some random pics of the participants and the roses they folded:
Again, I would like to extend my most sincere thanks to Harvey. He kindly offered his time to come down and help conduct the Origami workshop, right after his IE midterm. Really, thank you so much for your time. This workshop would not have been possible without your help. I hope you will get a A+ for your IE midterm! Gambatte!
Here's a pic of our instructor, Mr. Harvey Cheong, who was trying to teach us how to fold the Kawazaki roses.
According to him, he knows how to fold 4 kinds of Origami roses, but due to time constraints, he only taught us two out of the 4.
The easiest (which also is the only rose I learnt):
The slightly difficult (which Harvey had no time to teach):
The most difficult (which I guess, out of all the participants, only Christy managed to master):
And some random pics of the participants and the roses they folded:
Again, I would like to extend my most sincere thanks to Harvey. He kindly offered his time to come down and help conduct the Origami workshop, right after his IE midterm. Really, thank you so much for your time. This workshop would not have been possible without your help. I hope you will get a A+ for your IE midterm! Gambatte!
posted by JCC @ 4:15 PM;
Monday, February 19, 2007
Ima wa kokuhaku no kikai da (This is your chance to confess your love)! This is the theme for our Origami booth for 2007. The booth was set up from 12th Feb to 14th, and the aim was to spread the culture of Origami to the student population. So what exactly happened was that we set up the booth at the heart of the school campus, and we pestered anyone who walked past our booth to fold a origami heart. Haha (*Sinister grins)
Here's a picture of the origami hearts that we made. (top) There were actually 3 kinds of hearts. What you are seeing now is the standing hearts, but we also folded 'heart with wings' and 'heart with attached message'.
The aim of our booth was to filled the two blank black boards up with origami hearts and dedicated messages by the SMU students.Here's a pic of the originally blank black board.
At the start of the first day, 'business' wasn't really fantastic. We were located at the godforsaken T-junction, and many people darted us with supsicious looks as they hurried past our booth via the 7-ll 'sky ladder'. So it wasn't a surprise that our first few customers were all from JCC.
Below are two pic of the people manning the booth and our first few patrons. And please do not like stare too long at the bottom photo, cos your eyes will be like erm blinded by the mushy lovey dovey aura emanated by the erm mushy lovey dovey couple? (Argh, my eyes! I can't see a thing.....)
So as I was saying, the business wasn't too good at the T-junction. Desperate circumstances call for desperate measures. I went around talking to other lucky booths who managed to secure a place in front of the ever-crowded Kopitiam. And I realized that there was actually an empty space right in front of the Kopitiam, facing the OSL. And I sorta decided to kick that ever-useless OFM aside, and shifted our Origami booth to that empty space.
And oh boy, that space did have good fengshui! Business skyrocketed by leaps and bounds, and our black boards were rapidly filled up by the love-sick SMU students. Below are some of the pic of some of our love-smitten patrons:
Even Edmund and Ah Seng were smitten by love (read Brokeback Mountain):
And we also gave away chocolates (kindly sponsored by Miss. Jasmine Koh, clap clap clap)!
And some advertising time: random pics of my YANDAO but SINGLE frenz:
Before I ended off this entry, I would like to express my thanks to all those who have came down and shown your support. Special thanks goes out to Junseng, Edmund and Sam, who forked out their invaluable time to help man the booth in the midst of their midterms and projects. Otsukaresamadeshita!
posted by JCC @ 8:16 PM;
