i love rovers. in all honesty, it's inspired me to go out and work harder than anything else in a really long time. not to mention the fact that we get the chance to go out there and do really silly shit like turn this...
into this sparkling thing of beauty...
for absolutely no good reason at all. i think we were probably the only group around who actually worked for more than 10 minutes on the booth design (see: adjacent booths). typically singaporean then, that we'd get berated for it, for the authorities said that our original design (with the banner higher than how it appears in the photo by oh, 20cm) had to be changed because it wouldn't be fair to other societies. because, as we all know, at a fair where we're supposed to promote our club among a whole crowded sweaty orgy of clubs (and it really was sweaty, cos they didn't bother switching on the aircon for half the hall, so the side who didnt get the aircon decided to open their windows, which kinda made the aircon for the whole hall less than effective anyway), it's actually not good to try and stand out *too* much.
so anyway. we lowered the banner by 20cm, the authorities saw it again, and it was good. (we actually had another idea where we'd actually put the banner on a flag pole pulley kinda mechanism, so when the auths came round we'd just lower it, and mari-kita it again after they'd left, just for a laugh.)
to make the whole situation all the funnier, our original design also included a banner facing the other direction, standing high above the barrier behind our booth. problem was that behind us lay the s p o n s o r s... and God forbid that any NUS club be allowed to overshadow any of the sponsors!! i mean, what if people were actually looking at the singtel phone plans, then looked up and went 'hey! there's a really high rovers banner! screw this phone plan, think i'll go there instead.'
for the record, we may actually have gotten more members than singtel sold plans that day, so the auths may have been right all along. sorry singtel.
posted by crapshoot @ 2:20:00 AM
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