being big... literally...

once, a 'famous' senpai told me, "people fear you not becuase you are 'black' but because you are just too big..." (randy told me that, hehehe he's facing the same problem so i bet he knows...) today chiang shen (my 5th year senior here) let us participate in the donation drive for the chinese earthquake... i dressed as smartly as i could, and made up my hair as least frightening as it could be... we took turns between holding the banner and the collection boxes... the thing is, quite a few people stopped to look at me and donated. a few even shook hands with me. my spirits were about it's soaring height when the worst thing that could happen happened... a small girl (about 4 years old), her mother gave her a few coins and directed her to me... she walked backwards away, like how a sacred animal would, and went to sii lii on the opposite side to give the money... well i didn't take it to heart... but (sob sob) i'm still too big right?
about the design competition, i'm taking part in this years design competition. we have to work on two types of bridges, one is a normal type of bridge, and one is that can support weight at different angles. the angle one we haven't started yet, but the normal one, we already tested them once. we have to decide if we are going to use the truss version or the arch version... so we are currently making both to see which one will be stronger... oh... the catch is... we have to make it out of 1mm and 2mm thick paper (cardboard)... i'm not good with paper, so i'm doing most of the design and planning work that i can...
the arch version
the truss version