SPH Training Day!

Reported to the SPH Auditorium at like 9.20 ; when we were supposed to meet at 10am. So much for punctuality. Why can't I be like that for gym trainings! -whistles-

um, anyway. Checked out some of the cool posters that were hung up that were incidentally the newspapers that were entered in the finals for the previous 2 years. The Victoria School's Photo Essay was brilliant - I'm quite sure they had an experienced photographer in their team because the pictures were really top-notch compared to the other schools in 2006. 2005 was where ACS(I) won. They won mainly based due to their flashy/attractive front page where it was definitely more visually appealing then the other newspapers.

As 10pm ticked closer, 4 other schools trickled in - Victoria School, Deyi Secondary, CHIJ, Fairfield Methodist. Turns out that there are another 5 other schools competing too; so that makes a total of 10 finalists taking part in the SPH competition!

-drum roll-

Meeting the seniors was kinda unexpected though. Our I/C was Hongfei, who seemed to have a mostly all-rounded talent for most of them. Problem was that since most of the Secondary 3s had OIP (currently), they couldn't make it for this competition/training sessions. Hence, they had to downgrade to lowly Secondary 2s. (Haha) The other senior then turned up was Daniel. Though he gave me a rather scruffy appearance at first his talent for Computer was really, undisputable. He made Patrick and Wendi seem like total nubcakes (for me, can't be said) He even memorized colours like Orange (0XX0X HTML values) and all those stuff. Zomgut, his designs were also reaaaaaaally good.

He's also being paid 50 bucks an hour by companies to make websites for them. He's also the one judging the Interhouse Posters. O_O AEP-er. Bad point was he was reaaaaaaaaally perverted. fine, somewhat.

Co-operating with them initally was rather difficult because they weren't those type of nice PSL-like people ; instead it was after the few hours then we got to know them better. They got pretty angry at Gulshan though =/

So basically the team's gonna be structured something like this:

Hongfei: Overall Editing and IC
Daniel: Overall Design/Layout and Editing
Samson (some other senior): Writing
Gulshan: Writing
Me!: Photography. (haha, expected)

It's not really confirmed though.

Anyway, the training session got pretty boring after a while and the seniors started playing Minesweeper since they didn't need Microsoft Publisher to make a newspaper (they're THAT good) and chose to use Adobe Photoshop CS3. When the assignment came out they basically chose to slack off to give off the wrong (intended) image of the strength of the team. When we came out with a 10 minute Photo-Essay (very little, by Daniel's Standard) it was already considered as praiseworthy. We slacked off the rest though ; haha. I think we fooled the other schools.

However, schools to take note of were VS and CHIJ. VS sent only 1 guy (the rest couldn't make it) but he was competent enough to create a very good piece of work (very nicely done). 1 Guy! wow. CHIJ was also rather good.

Well, let's cross our fingers and hope for the best on 14-15 November, where we'll be up 24 hours trying to create a newspaper - with DotA playing included or not.

Quote of the Day:"Handphones are meant for perversion."-Daniel

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