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Anticipating Rag and Flag 2005

July 30th, 2005 by lynnylchan under Blogroll

By request, the pictures of Rag Day 2004 have been put up, to build anticipation for Rag 2005. Raggers are crazy people who take an absurd amount of pride in their work (haha). The pictures I have of this year’s float are considered classified material, so they’ll only be put up after the main event. I’m hoping to capture better pictures this year, since last year all I had was a camera-phone.

According to a certain mad ragger, the connection between Rag and Flag is as follows: NUS sends its students out to collect donations for charity. This is Flag Day. Rag Day follows later, as a form of appreciation to the public for their donations. I think it’s called Rag Day because the floats are made out of recycled materials. *shrugs* No idea, really. More like the float engineers are being run ragged, hahaha…

This is last year’s float, the main theme being the battle between Good and Evil. Don’t need to elaborate more than that.

Look at the painstaking detailing on the Scorpion! Each scale is a piece of metal, cut by hand, hammered by hand and attached one by one to the main frame. I tell you. The scale of the work done, and the man-hours involved, are staggering. Once more: Raggers are crazy people.

Raggers took a page out of Peter Jackson’s book and made their own chain-mail.

Rag Day 2005 will be at NUS Sports and Recreation Centre on Saturday, the 6th of August. I believe the public is invited, although seats will be limited. Also, be prepared for noisy cheers from overexcited young people. Heh.