Monday, December 14, 2009
28.12.09 Extreme Challenge
Team Name: 3 and a half guys
Team Members: Pei yu, Sarah, Kevin and Clarence
Met Kevin and Sarah early to hitch a ride from Sarah's Dad to the starting point at Pasir Ris. Was quite astounded by how fit all the teams were when we arrived and all thoughts of winning any of the 1st 3 positions instantly evaporated and we settled promptly on enjoying ourselves while making the best of the situation. Pei yu, Eric, Jason, Wan Ping, Hui San, Kamarul, Michelle and Iris arrived soon after....
It was quite a challenging course I must say, considering that I cant run for nuts... Well anyway the events were lined up as follows:
1. Around 8km run to the first check point on top of a steep hill
2. Collection of 2 tyres (bike tokens) and proceeded to cross several hurdles
3. Dragging of 2 tyres across a river whereby the moment u step in you sink almost knee deep into the river bed...
4. Cycling a dirt path(Whereby I flew off the bike and suffered several injuries) to the canoeing launching area
5. Canoe to another "island" check point whereby we had to rem 12 colour tags (which seriously i dun see any and i doubt many did)
6. When we reach the next check point, there was a 50m swim in the open sea while the rest of the team had to drag a string of 4 tyres across the sand for a distance(dependent on whether you got the colour codes). After that, leopard crawl for 3 cycles under team mates push up position.
7. Canoe back to land and supposed to cycle to next check point. But, Sarah's bike suffered from a punctured tyre and the officials were rather adamant on us not being able to change the bike and having to carry on with the bike for the whole race... Well, considering that we overtook quite a number of teams during the canoeing leg, it was rather disheartening to have to slowly walk the rest of the leg
8. Reached the next check point after a super duper long walk, and we were tasked to pull a lorry and to leopard crawl up a slope, move 3 logs and move a plank we were standing on to another destination.
9. Cycled( or in our case, walk) to the Bik return point which was rather far. Got lost along the way and ran into a helpful ODAC official who kindly volunteered his bike in exchange for our ruined bike.
10. After returning the bikes, headed down to MJ for rock wall climbing( which i think I'm falling in love with although its only my 2nd attempt up a wall).
11. After that, it was to the ending point... whereby my leg cramped up again... haz... the exact same replicia of the situation during the Nike run.... Oh well...
As expected, came in as almost the last team due to the ruin bike... but it was fun... Kinda like the whole exp other than the running part of course... Maybe will take part in next year's extreme challenge again... Well, will see about it...
29.12.09 Victor Victoria
Met Eric, Jason and Vincent at city hall before heading to the floating platform to collect our Stan Chart Marathon race pack.. Was rather disappointed by the goodies this year as there was only a singlet in the race pack and an energy bar... I was expecting at least a sports bag... Oh well... Rushed down to MS to meet deary for Cafe Cartel for dinner before heading to the Esplanade to catch the play Victor Victoria. This is my 2nd time watching a play, but the first sitting in the first few rows... The experience is really different and I would say a real eye opener!! I would definitely love to go for another play and maybe next time round a concert... Haven exactly been to a concert before but I would love to see how would it play out... Haha but really surprised that deary invited me to watch a play.. ( Ha i guess its because she doesnt want the FREE tickets to go to waste!!)...
04.12.09 Canoe Grad Party
A fabulous night of fun and yes, we grads are very thankful to you guys who made this happened and who invested so much time and effort to ensure that everyone had a good time.. Good job guys!! Simply loving it... Good food, good company and best of all good times!!
Once a family.. Always a family....
