22nd August : NIE Director's Race'08 + Post-relay run dinner.

The sky was overcast half an hour before the stipulated flag-off time and most of us believed the Director's Race would be called off at the last minute. Daniel, Marc and Michael attempted rain dances too and it did pour soon after, but the skies eventually cleared before the flag-off time of the relay race at 6.40pm.

Not to be boastful or anything, but I feel the six of us did a pretty good job in completing the race within 90 minutes. At least we weren't the last few of the GESL groups to finish the relay run...of course, Daniel's impressive timing of 9+ minutes helped lots. And in the first place, we still bothered to participate in the race even with rumours circulating around that there wouldn't be any prize money involved. Plus, there were no goodie bags for GESL runners too...>_<



That's Samuel, chiong-ing the final 50m of the relay run.

Team Sapphire runners!

Team Sapphire runners with the team manager, Wilson.
Naturally famished after the 2.4km run, Michael drove us (Ivan, Samuel, Shirley, Wilson and me) to Marina Square for a Japanese feast @ Waraku. Ruth joined us for dinner too!





p.s. Thanks Michael, for kindly offering to drive most of us home after dinner! =D

NIE Director's Race'08

1st runner : Eileen
2nd runner : Shirley
3rd runner : Ivan
4th runner : Daniel
5th runner : Michael
6th runner : Samuel

The five of us who could make it on Wednesday afternoon made the effort to do a practice run, led by Daniel, familiarizing ourselves with the 2.4km route at the same time. We're kinda prepared for the run tomorrow evening, and we'll certainly do our best! 加油, runners!

8th August : Project Runway'08 Fashion Show

Mas was already at work, aiding Shirley with the costume in one of the function rooms at the Students' Hub, when Sheela and I arrived at 1pm. To ensure that the bottom half of the costume would not loosen and fall, we had to resort to 'borrowing' some string from one of the clubs on the sly. (They had coincidentally stored some materials in the room...shhh.)





Daniel popped by a while later and was asked to comment on the henna by Sheela, thus beginning an amusing conversation :

Sheela : So how's the henna?
Daniel : (peers at the henna) Hmm...can lah!
Sheela : (looks questioningly at Daniel) Hmm? Nono...it's pronounced as hen...na.
Daniel : ??

LOL.


After the costume was settled, there was still much to be done. Mas and Sheela then proceeded to touch up Shirley's hair while Phey Ying and Ruth began the task of painting Shirley's nails with the five Olympic colours.


The touching up of Shirley's hair was a little tricky though. Several hair pins were needed and Phey Ying had to use lots of hair spray to make Shirley's ponytail sufficiently stiff. Still, the end-result was awesome!


Mission accomplished! Many thanks to the modeling team for the conscientious effort - Ann, Mas, Phey Ying, Ruth and Sheela!


Team Sapphire girls! (Gasp! Sorry Ruth, I blocked you from the camera!)

Team Sapphire guys with Shirley!

And finally, everyone together!
Thanks to the guys who chiong-ed to the venue quickly, we managed to occupy almost the entire row of seats at the back, with a rather good view of the T-stage.


Check out the following video clip for Shirley's graceful catwalk, not forgetting Wilson's brief cameo appearance!



It was an intense competition with creative masterpieces from the various GESL groups. Though Team Sapphire did not make it into the semi-finals, all of us truly did our best and I'm certain we enjoyed the competition process. And to Shirley, you were a wonderful and courageous model! Thanks! =D

Project Runway'08 : The headdress + The costume

The first sketch of the headdress was completed within the Orientation Week. Inspired by movies such as 'Troy', we decided to have it made of leaves.


Intially, we used glittering gold and silver leaves for the headdress, spending a considerable amount of time poking tiny holes through the leaves and inserting a wire through them. We believed it would work, but unfortunately, it self-terminated shortly after. =(

Michael then proceeded to make another headdress from scratch, much less 'bling-bling' this time, yet with an added realistic touch.



As for the costume itself, which is the most essential component of all, here are the detailed sketches by Costume I/C, Mas :



More pictures of the fully completed Project Runway'08 Show costume to come tomorrow! Watch this space!

*picture credit goes to Michael and Mas*

Upcoming...

Project Runway'08 Show...in just three days time.

We can do it, Team Sapphire!

Project Runway'08 : The poster

After hours of holing up in one of the cosy, air-conditioned (thank God!) meeting rooms at the Students' Hub, we managed to complete our beautiful and 3-dimensional poster for Project Runway'08 two days before the stipulated deadline! A round of applause for all our efforts to make this possible! =D






Special thanks to : (NOT in any order of importance)
1) Weiming, for the very prompt and creative poster design.
2) David, Robin and Weiming, for their D&T brains and craftsmanship.
3) Ann, Phey Ying and Ruth, for their swift sewing of the curtains.
4) Mas and Sheela, for their delicate makeover of the Barbie doll.
and last but not the least...
5) Samuel and Wilson, for their overall supervision.

Great job, people! =)

*picture credit goes to Samuel*