one of the greatest day out ever!
hees, a really memorable and eventful day,
that will be etched in my memories for a long time.
took part in the a competition held by National Youth Environment Council.
the envirolympics, en-mazing race 2009.
haha, alr took part last year.
thought it was fun, so joined again this year.
going to have a lot to blog about :D
rv had many teams that took part,
in which 2 teams were in top 10.
imba.
i was in the team consisting of bryce, boon chong, janice, ting xiang and myself.
our facilitator was jessica.
the other 4A team was ethel, hui shan, pearlyn, peng fei and veron.
their facilitator was feng rong, i think.
pearlyn say he v cute. lols, ok luh.
because there were many pretty girls there too.
ahha, penfei and i were spying for them ._.
like some tikos. haha.
i saw domenico from fmss.
haha, with his team, they won medals.
their facil was the pretty one, lols.
alright, enough of talking about pretty girls.
i woke up at 5.30 and arrived at vivo at 7.
lols. made friends with one nus guy.
who looked as lost as me in the morning.
he went to the wrong escalator ._.
nvm, we parted soon and i met up with my group.
see bryce, pf and boon chong eat breakfast.
and we were off after registering our names.
and getting our goodie bags.
there were loads of food in the goodie bags.
milo, newater, rly seasoned chicken biscuits, 100-plus and some cereal thing.
everyone had bottles loaded in their bag.
i brought home all the food after the competition ._.
monday i bring to school share with everyone haha.
we all wore our yellow event tee and set off from vivo.
we had to complete 5 stations and come back to vivocity.
the fastest team wins.
we were given a clue to start with.
then upon reaching the first station, we could then recieve all other clues.
and then plan our route. the shortest one. haha.
different groups of teams had different routes.
must say our route quite long.
from simei, our first station,
to ngee ann poly,
to woodlands town garden,
to hougang,
to plaza singapura,
to central,
and at last vivo.
at simei the task is to complete a matching game.
with questions and answers.
match questions and answers tgt.
like those memory card game.
then must get ppl to sign, according to the number of tries.
haha. then boon chong and bryce was fast in the sudoku.
which is good. haha, because it solves a clue.
tingxiang, janice and i were figuring out the other clues.
our facil, jessica, helped us with the clues, because she had friends as the gamemasters of the station.
we decided to go according to the route i wrote above.
because we would go clockwise from simei back to vivo.
went to ngee ann poly.
high element stuff!
to begin with, i was pretty scared of the thought about high elements.
haha, but in the end must still complete the station.
and the thought of it being safe comforts me. lol.
we had to do 3 low element things.
those activities that did not require a harness.
then the high element.
we had 3 options.
1. the flying fox
2. the abseiling
3. the jumping thing, parafox or smt, forgot the name.
all these happened from 50 metres above ground.
lols, when you look down, i assure you that you won't feel like doing any of them.
we chose to do the jumping thing since the queue is the shortest.
here's how it goes.
one at a time, we hold on to the rope.
and from the platform, jump down vertically,
holding the rope.
a bit like you being the load and the string carrying you.
bryce, boon chong and janice brave.
tingxiang and i were quite scared.
lols, when it was my turn the facil ask me whether i scared.
i said "a bit."
he said "imagine in front got pretty girl and just walk towards her".
and off i went.
lols, almost closed my eyes but someone shouted "don't close your eyes."
i forced them open for the picture i think. lols.
it wasn't as scary as it looked from above.
actually quite fun, could have done a few more times. haha.
i think this station was the most fun le.
at woodlands we had to hook cans and bottles with rods.
not worth the transport time i think.
lols.
at hougang we had to collect newspaper.
like last year.
but other groups took the newspaper le. and we had little to collect.
i must comment that the trip from woodlands bus interchange to hougang took super long!
not because of the bus speed.
but because it was from the start of the route to the end of the route.
we thought bus was faster than mrt at first.
but i still think mrt can beat bus time.
1 hour on the bus! lols.
sleeping. jessica was quietly sleeping because she slept 1 hour the night before.
imba luh, from 5 to 5.50 called sleep leh.
it's like a nap to me.
and she can still help us with so many stuff.
proness.
then at plaza sing we had to rearrange the mrt stations in the right format.
which we were puzzled with.
but luckily bryce took photos of some parts of the mrt line,
because jessica say got use later.
we went to central to collect a sticker without the need to do anything.
lols.
we were really rushed for time.
but we made it at vivocity. 4.15 i think.
20th to reach, out of 90 teams.
haha, peng fei's team 18th.
sad that only top 10 got prize.
haha nvm because jessica even bought us some sweets from candy empire ltr.
so cool.
must really thank our facilitator for helping out so much
even though she was tired.
thank you jessica.
haha.
had loads of fun in this year's en-mazing race.
improved from last year. haha.
besides having fun also learnt new things along the way.
being green. planning properly.
and also about working as a team to achieve smt.
that's what makes tday so meaningful.
anyways, we had dinner at subway after the event.
shared subway meltz with pf.
lols, we felt it was a little too dry and bland.
i think it's because we only put sweet onion sauce and honey mustard as sauces.
next time must put mayo haha.
and put pickles in haha.
the chocolate chip with m&m's nice leh haha.
2 days never eat dinner at home le.
getting used to it alr. haha.
wow, super long post for tday :D
good to type everything out. haha.
gtg le, good nights.
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