Every time I go to school or pass by the school, I will always see the 131m-banner which our class painted during Victorian Challenge 2007. I can still remember our class doing it on that day itself. Because the banner was in 3 pieces, we splitted the locations of painting the banner into 3 areas. After painting, we sewed the 3 pieces of banner together (in black thread) using the sewing machine, then we folded the top of the banner and inserted a thick, super long nylon rope through it before sewing the top, so that the banner now contains a rope on top. After that, we brought the whole banner down and hung it up using fasteners every 1 metre. This is to ensure that the fasteners only hold the weight of the nylon rope (which in turn supports the banner), rather than the fasteners themselves holding the weight of the banner at 1m intervals so as to prevent the banner from tearing at those places.
Ok so that's wonderful. It wasn't thought by just one person alone. A perfect piece of idea of how to paint and hang up a banner, right? So here's the thing. Apparently the workers from our school were told to hang up some other banner at exactly the same place as where our banner was being hung. So what did they do? They remove all the fasteners, cut away the nylon rope and cut the banner into a few sections. All these just to hang up some other at-most-5-metre-long banner which was obviously printed rather than painted (note the difference).
And they got even smarter than they tried to hang our banner up again. Firstly, they sewed white threads on our black banner. What the heck! Did they run out of black threads or what?! Or are they worse than colour-blind?
Secondly, they got the order of the banner wrong, that is, that sewed it in the wrong order. Come on, OM Goh even sent Shi Wei down to help give instructions. Like what Shi Wei said on his blog, "Despite my best efforts to direct OM Goh on where the pieces fit together, they still managed to screw it up." Now it has the back in the front!
Thirdly, they didn't know how to sew it properly, or rather, the damage done while cutting the banner was too great. Now you see the letter 'd' near the school entrance out of shape, and you see white dotted lines manifested along it. And also, some parts of the white thread in which they used to sew don't seem to be quite effective in connecting the cut banner together, as I could see some parts detached halfway.
Lastly, guess what they used to hang up the banner? No wrong, guess again. Strings! They used normal strings to hang up the banner. The banner is so heavy and they used strings at every 1m to hang up the banner. Oh man. I mean, the banner is going to lean its weight on the strings and the banner is going to tear. Also, you can see the banner sagging at every midpoint between 2 of those strings. Come on, with the nylon rope, you should see how straight the banner was. Furthermore, they didn't even compansate us with the nylon rope which they happily cut.
Now it's in such an unsightly state, I'll rather that they don't actually hang it up at all...
Ok so that's wonderful. It wasn't thought by just one person alone. A perfect piece of idea of how to paint and hang up a banner, right? So here's the thing. Apparently the workers from our school were told to hang up some other banner at exactly the same place as where our banner was being hung. So what did they do? They remove all the fasteners, cut away the nylon rope and cut the banner into a few sections. All these just to hang up some other at-most-5-metre-long banner which was obviously printed rather than painted (note the difference).
And they got even smarter than they tried to hang our banner up again. Firstly, they sewed white threads on our black banner. What the heck! Did they run out of black threads or what?! Or are they worse than colour-blind?
Secondly, they got the order of the banner wrong, that is, that sewed it in the wrong order. Come on, OM Goh even sent Shi Wei down to help give instructions. Like what Shi Wei said on his blog, "Despite my best efforts to direct OM Goh on where the pieces fit together, they still managed to screw it up." Now it has the back in the front!
Thirdly, they didn't know how to sew it properly, or rather, the damage done while cutting the banner was too great. Now you see the letter 'd' near the school entrance out of shape, and you see white dotted lines manifested along it. And also, some parts of the white thread in which they used to sew don't seem to be quite effective in connecting the cut banner together, as I could see some parts detached halfway.
Lastly, guess what they used to hang up the banner? No wrong, guess again. Strings! They used normal strings to hang up the banner. The banner is so heavy and they used strings at every 1m to hang up the banner. Oh man. I mean, the banner is going to lean its weight on the strings and the banner is going to tear. Also, you can see the banner sagging at every midpoint between 2 of those strings. Come on, with the nylon rope, you should see how straight the banner was. Furthermore, they didn't even compansate us with the nylon rope which they happily cut.
Now it's in such an unsightly state, I'll rather that they don't actually hang it up at all...
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