Managed to rush my board half way done but still rather presentable. As my printer at home ran out of ink, I printed the pictures of all the SKE48 members that would be performing (refer to my
previous post for the member list) in school yesterday. The school printer have not had a maintenance for some time already I guess, there were some minor color distortions at certain areas and there were blue dots here and there at certain areas. They are not very too obvious though luckily.
I stapled black paper on a wooden-framed cork-board, and pasted the photos onto the black paper. This way I can actually not only no need to worry too much of the board being badly damaged by bumping here and there while traveling as wood is stronger than those paper boards, cardboard or corrugated boards, I can also reduce waste if I reuse the cork-board by simply taking down the black paper pasted with photos and staple up a new layer of black paper!
Positioned and not pasted yet. Some of the photos are repositioned later on and the gray cardboard actually only act like a template as to where I would be placing the 'SKE48' sign and how big it would be.
Went to school today morning, and I did not bring my board along as I intended to go home after school to get it and go down to Changi Airport late in the night to camp over night. Initially, it was assumed that the SKE48 members would arrive on Wednesday morning so I did not expect the sudden news that they would be touching down after 5pm today. The announcement of a private event by AKB48 Singapore on their Facebook page was one of the tip-off.
Rushed back home (yes, I ran out of the classroom when my 'Power Distribution & Electric Servies' Tutorial ended, even though I still have 'Distributed Generation & Grid Interfacing' Tutorial which would start soon) to get the board and as I have not even started on the LEDs and there is not enough time already, I pasted a black piece of paper over the gray cardboard and along with it and the board, I grabbed double-sided tape (the foam type), some stationery, and a gold paint marker. On the way to the airport, I wrote 'SKE48' and drew a few hearts on the black-paper-covered-cardboard. I pasted it on the board in the place of where the LED panel should have been.
Most of the people, in fact I think almost all of the fans thought that only three of the members would arrive first for the special visit at the official cafe and the remaining would arrive tomorrow morning. To our surprise, all of them came in one shot.
Did not have much photos and the shots are of real poor quality as I was mainly waving to the SKE48 members, waving my board and calling out to them
Went down to *Scape straight after that to attempt to catch them there before the private event. Met with some friends just outside the cafe and I decided to start with my LED panel while waiting for the members to arrive. Surprise surprise, they were already in the cafe for some time while we were pre-occupied outside. o_o I guess they entered the cafe through the cafe back door again.
After some random waving of my board, and finished with positioning the LEDs on a black-painted foam board (spray-painted it on Monday), I decided to go home before the private event end and I was caught in a epic situation. I went to the toilet before going home, which is located just outside the *Scape Warehouse - the venue of the stage for the concert - and the moment I came out, the girls just came down and were starting to enter the warehouse. Can say in other words almost walking towards my direction right in front of me and past me at very close range!
As usual, as an airhead, I got stunned and went blank for a moment, managed to wave and call out to Haruka when I saw her. Sadly only a few waved back and Haruka did not turn her head to even look at me! T_T Can't blame her though, she was busy talking to other members. I wonder if I shouted loud enough as I was still in a stun state. The best thing is, I DID NOT TAKE OUT MY CAMERA!! T_T OMG...
