PD Anniversary : Dec-08

Joined the Deco comm this year for PDA and cake sub-comm. Our task was to construct a WOW! cake with a splendid white horse Toya, a main character in this year's drama - a white horse who could talk, grant wish and travel back in time.

Our white horsey did not come by easy, but Aunty Vivian, Aunty Nancy, Aunty Mary, Aunty Sharon, Aunty Kristie, Aunty Huili and I had a most enjoyable and memorable time constructing the Pegasus from scratch, and standing it proudly on the cake. The response from the hall when the cake was wheeled in was so tremendous that it definitely made it all worthwhile!



Our second prototype by Mummy Vivian who worked on it alone for many hours at home.. a cute little horsey no taller than Aunty Kristie's altar cabinet. It was from this horsey that gave us the confidence that if our paper is hard enough, horsey can definitely stand juz on its hind legs and tail, with wings spread wide. With this renewed confidence, we proceeded to construct the giant horsey..

Our final horsey as on the cake.. but still work-in-progress..

Finally a joined-together horsey.. although he still couldn't stand on his own, we were thrilled to see a dear horsey at last.. he was huge, we thought.. at least in Kristie's house. We really did not expect to see it so pony-like in the huge ICA hall on the actual day! The equally important CAKE and the VERY challenging wings..

After ensuring that Horsey is able to stand smartly on a neat piece of acrylic, he needed a coat of paint to hide the reinforcement masking tape all over his body..

Horsey shone a pearl white after an entire afternoon's hard work of painting by his mummys - body, hooves, tail. Vivian was still painstakingly pasting Horsey's mane and tail after putting on acrylic paint on his hoofs that very night.. Horsey mummys also put together the birthday cake, an equally important part of the final product. The day was Wednesday, 4 days before the cake was to make its appearance on Anniversary on Sunday. A full day's work continued on Thursday..

You know, Mummy Vivian suffered sleepless nights worrying about Horsey's wings; they were simply too heavy for him to hold for prolonged period. It was only after Mummy Mary reprinted and other Mummys cut, paste, put together a pair of lighter wings for Horsey, that Mummy Vivian managed catch up her sleep before Horsey's big day. Otherwise Horsey would have Panda Vivian as companion going up the stage!

Friday morning saw Mummy Nancy transporting Horsey to kaikan for a second time.. All of us were working on Saturday morning on our Horsey cake once again.. repairing the cake, touch up on Horsey, and put on his wings.. Fortunately Horsey only needed to appear on Sunday. We were able to work on him with lesser time pressure than the rest of the PDA team bustling around the kaikan on Saturday.

After Vivian set out to make Horsey's eyes bigger, there was no turning back.. Horsey's eyes juz became more and more mesmerizing.. with eyelashes & bling-bling.. many of us SAs were simply besotted by his charming eyes! ;)

Up to almost the last minute, the wings were a huge concern. All thanks to shoten zenjin Uncle Philip Poh who showed us how to tie Horsey's wings as an additional means to help him hold them up..

Rehearsing on how to put the cake onto the stage, we realized that nothing short of a grand entrance from the main door would do.. the cake simply could not be sneaked up onto the stage unknowingly! ;) The program was amended to fit the cake rolling down the aisle.. A rare Konica moment with Horsey on the ICA stage!

No matter how prepared we were for the Anniversary, thoughtful and creative Auntys would inevitably come up with ideas too precious to abandon.. juz like this impromptu carton box of scultured balloons for our graduating Auntys..

Proud SAs with the fruits of their labour..

Some touching and inspiring letters from our Hougang graduating lion cubs.. ok, a couple were not from Hougang.

Happy 15th Anniversary, Primary Division!!