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Thursday, November 15, 2007

remastered; | 6:30 AM

SPH NEWSPAPER COMPETITION 2007 CHECK OUT HO

Definition:

The National Schools Newspaper Competition started its inaugural year in 2005. Although 20 schools qualified for the semi-finals based on their school newsletters, only 10 schools made it to the finals. These 10 secondary schools then participated in the finals, a 24-hour challenge held at the SPH News Centre on 12-13 December 2005. The aim was to produce a 4 page, A3 sized newsletter within that time.
Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road) beat 9 other schools to emerge as the "Gold" (1st) prize winner, taking home S$5,000 cash and a trophy. The team consisted of Timothy Fang, 15, Whang Yihang, 15, Michael Davies, 15, Mervyn Lau, 14, and Ian Yap, 14. Raffles Institution and CHIJ (St. Nicholas) came in "Silver" (2nd) and "Bronze" (3rd) winners respectively.
In 2006- the second year of the competition, Victoria School defeated the other 9 schools emerging as champions ("Gold" prize winner) taking home S$3000 cash and a Thinkpad x41 tablet PC. CHIJ (St. Nicholas) and Raffles Institution came in "Silver" (2nd) and "Bronze" (3rd) winners respectively.

According to Wikipedia.

So, yesterday, it heralded the start of 2007's Competition. Was feeling preeeeetty excited about it, and i was determined to not let my toe get in the way of this year's newspaper gathering/photography.

PS: Stubbed toe's situation is aggravated, my socks has blood on it due to some of them oozing out after walking the entire day.

Turns out Daniel and Sampson (SAMPHY!) were late, 2 hours and 15 minutes respectively. We were basically briefed by Bryan Van De Breek, a Straits Time Photographer about what photos we should take, etc, while another editor was also there to clarify questions.

For the Photo essay, we went to Charcoal, a SHATEC-ran restaurant to teach students enrolling in their culinary/skills/serving courses. There, students basically undertake differnet roles such as the Waitress, cook, etc ; while the personell from SHATEC supervise the place. Pretty cool altogether, though the lighting there was darn too low. Environment was pretty nice; too.

2nd event was a PUB Mock conference. Mr Yap Kheng Guan said that the "student's questions showed 'depth and maturity'", haha. Too bad i wasn't there to take photos because we (our team) had to split up to go different venues. Hongfei took the essay, where Mr Peter Khoo said it was well-written. kool.

Waited like 2 friggin hours down there waiting for them to get back. I set a 13 second record for minesweeper! mind you, this is like my 30th try only. Hongfei/Daniel bu shuang. hoho.

Selecting photos was fine, yet I reckon next time should bring a flashgun along as well. Victoria School had 2 photographers - each of them having a flashgun + Luxury Lenses. Zomgut. That must've cost more then 4k altogether i think. Every school also brought along a DSLR such as 400Ds and D70s/D40s, etc.

PhotoEssay was edited and compiled by Daniel and me, so there's my credit on it! Along with Gulshan's, who did the brief write-up. Captions were by meee.

I have a B/W shot of it. wooooooooooooh.

After editing Samphy's essay (which grammar and spelling was probably as bad as Patrick's) me/Gulshan/Hongfei went to J8. As we needed a photo for the Microsoft Advertisment, I went to best Denkii while the other 2 went to do a poll about whether Teenagers were really concerned about saving the environment. If you received a call yesterday about it, sorry we were THAT desperate.

Yoshi for Dinner! :O Cabbed back to SPH due to my leg hurting like hell.

Started doing the Microsoft Advert and the Photo Essay, and it was near settled by 12am. Yes, we are slackers. Samphy's Essay took like 4 hours to complete =.= since Gulshan kept disturbing him. Or rather, he chose to get distracted.

Took off the plaster on my toe to find out it was bleeeeeeeeeeding.

12-1.30 was basically slacking around waiting for the poll to be finished by Gulshan and Hongfei. My part was already mostly done, so I was just watching Daniel work his magic on Photoshop.

2 to 3.30 was sleeping time for me. Nothing for me to do since i'd done all of mine in the day which included editing essays. Woke up to find most of the essays fit into Microsoft Publisher and the Coverpage fitted in with the poll.

4-7 was basically on the whole editing. Reviewed it with Mr Peter Khoo who gave comments and changed them. Done by 8.

Pretty much done about there, the boring parts.

9 other schools were competing with us. ACS people were undoubtly good with Halo, one of them told me how to kill some giant enemy with a pistol. nice. I still don't understand how people can wear shorts at night as it was FRIGGIN COLD INSIDE. Vest was a life-saver, while I saw others walking around in shorts.

Gosh, they must be hot-blooded or sth.

Samphy suanned Victoria by challenging one of them. Turns out Daniel was the one that brought Rubik's Cube craze to RI and eventually the other schools. He's still pretty imba, ftw.

Print job was pretty okay, though the colour was screwed somewhat. Better then last year's by a large extent. I'm betting SPH's losing funds due to the ink wasted.

Quote of the Day:"Thanks for the memories, because that's all i've got now."

&i think that's enough.