Flaggellah... sweet success~

Yoz~ was sleeping like a log the bulk of the day, so didn't have the chance to blog the BIG event on Saturday. But here it goes~

Flaggellah: An ICSS Guiness Record Breaking Event.

In short, we are to produce 16,750 pieces of agar agar and piece together, a mosaic of the Singapore Flag on Imperial College Grounds.

The cooking and all started at 7am. By 8am, we were in full swing. Everyone doing their part for the flag. ~Kaileng

The process went like this:
- the 'kitchen people' mix in the agar powder, water and ingredients into the huge boilers
- a line of people come in with trayfuls of empty tupperware, which are then filled with the liquid agar
- they place the tupperware boxes onto tables
- the 'cold water' people pour in cold water to make it set faster
- when the agar sets, the 'transport people' load them onto trays... load the trays onto carts... and bring them outside to the steps of the Queen's Lawn
- the 'tray people' carry the trays and dumps the tupperware onto the tables that support the agar flag on the Lawn
- the 'agar flippers' flip the agar out of the tupperware and place them onto the flag
- the tupperware boxes get brought back into the dining hall and the whole cycle repeats ~Jacquelin

It felt like foot drill, arms drill, parade rehearsal. Numerous mindless repetitions and monotonous sequences. but just as parade rehearsals lead to proud moments of commissioning, the repeated action (of moving agar-agar from the tables to the trays and then onto the trolleys which were to be brought out to the queen�s lawn) was all worth it when we completed it in about 10 hours. ~Weichuen

We've managed to create our national flag using 16000 blocks of agar on the Queen's Lawn @ IC after 10 hours of manual labour. It was so cool looking at the national flag from the top of the queen's tower, with the crescent and the five stars standing out in a sea of red and white. ~Naiyan

Yup, these were the extracts by my precious freshers, my reason for the success of the major event. All my committee did was to guide them and coordinate with the union and the alumni. They did the planning and execution, and more. Its a success, and a success solely credited to the "ICSS Freshers of 2003/04". Well done people, I am really bursting with pride to be vice chairing you guys.