exercise of the year!
2004-04-06 at 11:40 a.m.
im sorry k? for not updating my blog.. =P nth nice to write wat.. ahha, k i will now tell u guys bout my memorable adventure on sat...Stayed over at Queenstown Lutheran Church on fri.. its suppose to be e church tat helps my BB company. yea.. stayed over cuz i was in the 1st batch to start the quest thingy... stuffed ALOT of chocolates and energy bars in my haversack.. and slept around 9.30 cuz we had to wake up at 3.30am and leave at 4am.. so uncomfortable man.. only slept with my fragrant jacket.. =)
woke up every half an hour.. haha. i was tinking why the clock so slow... then at 4.. a officer arrived with his ford focus.. haha. memorise his car somemore. =P then we headed to choa chu kang to eat breakfast.. kaya bread and eGgS.. haha. after tat, went to bukit panjang govt high school to register.. waited for at least an hour plus while plotting the map.. then had to listen to some safety talk and rules.. yea. bout 635am we did warm up and at 7 we started the race!
My team members consisted of one inhuman , one fit and one slacker.. haha. he very poor thing, everytime we run he pancheh somewhere.. haiyo! then the inhuman one always run so fast.. crazy fellow. haha but good la, boost the morale of our team.. yea.. we hiked through tis forested area to go to bukit gombak where our 1st checkpoint was then to bukit batok.. 2nd checkpoint.. after tat jurong east.. wah, down there must walk in the longkang.. haha but fun.. then headed to clementi, ulu pandan down there. almost half the journey must walk along longkang.. wats with it??! haha.. but not so bad la, walk on the runnin track... there was tis incident where we were leading tis team then very hard to lose them man.. run, they also run.. haiyo.. in the end they caught up.. arg! laugh at us somemore.. then the longkang lead us to gimo.. the 6th checkpoint... after gimo, it was buona vista.. ate some chocolates while waiting for the traffic light.. ahha. next was commonwealth .. where we were on fri nite.. we had to cross to the mc'donalds near fairfield.. since we knew a shortcut.. we took it.. and beat alot of teams.. waha. =) even the team tat laughed at us.. haha.. awwz. too bad. after the water break down there. we headed to zion rd.. where our BB HQ is.. we took another shortcut there.. almost there rite, i kana cramp.. ah!! haha, but a few stretches did the job. at HQ, we needed 35 points in archery to carry on the journey.. or else a 12 min penalty.. yea.. we did it with ease.. haha.. =P our bodies were starting to show signs of tiredness.. the legs esp.. then we headed to clarke quay.. to find a bridge.. the marchellers hid themselves well man. haha. dont forget its at sing river.. lots of bridges... yay! it was almost the end.. the penultimate stop was at Esplanade park.. the view there was so beautiful.. the water and the sun.. yea.. it was about 1205 when we were there.. we had to walk under benjamin sheares bridge and tis long path to kallang sea centre.. tis long walk felt lyk The Long March.. *sweat sweat* the feeling was wonderful.. the feeling of finishing.. but my legs were already aching to the max.. ahah.. but who cares! we were almost there.. yeap.. when we were bout 50m away frm the finish line.. guess wat? i kana cramp again! ahhaha.. unlucky man.. but it wasnt so bad.. a small one.. yea.. we came in top 10 i tink for the 1st leg of the race.. the 2nd team went to start kayaking when we came back.. they had to kayak frm kallang to changi..then cycle to east coast.. haha where they will pass the mission to the 3rd team.. we had to complete 100km for the whole team.. yea.... i sat near the beach there.. lying down.. haha.. e-x-h-a-u-s-t-e-d! saw jeronme and glenn there.. haha jeronme was waiting for his 1st team ppl to finish.. then glenn was canoeing.. mark later said he saw me there too.. haha, wat a coincidence! ate macs for lunch then headed home after tat to sLEEP!! *sigh of relief*
On sun, had to go to plaza sing for the closing ceremony of the race.. our team came in 8th! out of 74 teams i suppose.. yupz.. but so sad.. they gave prizes to top 3 only.. haiz.. its alrite.. after all it was a good learning experience! completed 30km in 5 hours and 15 min leh.. =P our officers gave us a treat at Han's later at dinner..
yea. felt great to achieve smthing with my team mates who i dont really see often.. cuz....... i dont always go for parade! haha.. yea. miss the adventure though.. i dont mind joining again ya noe.. haha.. yea.. my aches hav disappeared already.. but still feelin tired.. haiz.. i guess slping early will help.. yea. see i write long long to make up for all the times i didnt update my blog.. haha.. yea okayz.. tink i should go now.. yupz.. wait for my next update!! ahah (wait long long)
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