solitous diaspora: AMAZING RACE!

hahahahas. amazing race yesterday was great and i totally enjoyed it despite the fact that part of it screwed up and my group was being insulted by some shitty girl. anyway, gonna typed one detailed post on it since it was a memorable day for me. hahahaha.

we left classes at 12 for lunch. then we took all those stuff needed and stuffed them into ain's bag. :D then met at the library for the briefing. a lot of time were wasted there since there were some problems faced. then we were introduced to our faciliator, i cant remember her name and photos were taken. until like ages later, they start to announce your group names and ours was 'kite', which we thought sounded so gay. :X next, we were told that the race was about to start and we have to find the first clue from the book shelves. had a hard time finding it and the books were in a mess thanks to all of us in a rush to find it. in the end, timothy found it. it was something like a crossword puzzle which i dont think it was but they claimed it is, it's more like a word search, where we had to find the answers to the questions given. we have to have at least 10 questions correct. then we were done and got the clue from the incharge.

first stop was civilian war memorial and thankfully, ain drawn a map the day before and therefore we knew our way there. when we ran to the mrt station, we saw the other 3c group. turns out we are heading towards the same place. thus we were happily chatting while on the train. :) when we reached city hall, we were like dont know where to head. so i asked around. then we ran here and there. :O then we finally found the way there, while running in the rain. it was a very nice feeling though. it was my first time seeing the chopsticks-like war memorial and i have to admit i was amazed. okay, i know i very suaku, because following later, where we went to even more historical sites, i wasnt feeling really proud to be in singapore for 15 years and there are still many places i have never seen before. imagine if i were to live in russia, the biggest country on earth! okay, when we reached there, we were being told by the stationmasters to make a stable and tall structure using straws and masking tapes. so we split up the work and our so-called stable structure was done. our group got 35 points while aisyah's got 30. yay-ness! :DD

we were given the clue later and our next station was the esplanade. we ran in the rain again and fortunately esplanade was quite near the civilian war memorial. had a hard time finding where the main lobby of the esplanade was and i swear people thought we were crazy as it was quite quiet there and we were like breaking the silence. anyway, both our groups found the stationmasters finally and we were told to read up on the history and stuff related to the esplanade at one of the information booth or something for 10 mins as questions are going to be asked later. during these 10minutes, all of us were using our brain cells and trying hard to get much of it into our brains. time was up soon and we were given a worksheet and were told that we only have to get 12 correct to complete our stations. again, we, the 2 groups from 3c helped each other, and the stationmaster told us that this is going to be the last time we helped one another although we are from the same class and it doesnt matter who win. so we were all giving the ): face.

anyway, our next stop was the victoria memorial hall, and we started off by going to the wrong place. aisyah's group had already split up with us. )): so when we finally reached the station, they were already about to start on what they are doing already. we had to play a game called 'charades' where one had to read from the paper and make actions (we are not supposed to talk) while the other three guessed. i was the one doing the actions. and yeah, it was quite hard, for example, we have got one 'question' which was Lee Kuan Yew, and i was like huh? how to show it out? faggot. but i dont know why, timothy managed to say his name. haha. then (okay, i hate this part), the 'question' was 'The King & I' and i was like doing the crown thing. the groups members managed to figure out the 'king' and the 'i' part so what was left was the 'the' and the '&'. i was like counting the alphabets so that they know what it was, they got it but the word order was wrong and the stationmaster said something like, 'Looks like i am not the most stupid one here.' @$^(*^%(^(#&(^#! faggot her lah. you so clever you come do lah, screw you. i dont want to scold you lohr, but you kind of spoil the day. hate you. you know the answer, obviously you can guess right. i think you are the stupid one. :/

anyway, our next station was asian civilisation museum, another part where our group wasnt really happy at. we met aisyah's group there anyway. so we were told that the clue is hidden somewhere in the museum and two group members have to go and find it. the hint was 'Southeast Asia, China'. timothy and ain went for this. and they took a long time there, and in the end, when they came back, with roger and ivy too, it turned out that that timothy had found the clue for roger's group and ours wasnt there. faggot. and then they checked and then it was confirmed that our clue wasnt even there in the first place. and by the time plans were made, calls were made, half an hour just said byebye to us. faggot. they just told us to go to the sir stamford raffles statue. which we have adsolutely no idea.

then we crossed the cavenagh bridge and i got excited because i have never been on this bridge before. hahahah. and i saw the statue i dont know how to describe but i got a picture of it but it cant be uploaded. ohwell. then asked a i-forgot-what-you-call, i think a porter or something standing outside fullerton hotel and he told us the way there. (unfairness arriving soon huh, i got loads to complain) when we finally reached there, we were told to get 3 different songs, one is the national anthem, the other the school song and the last one, a song of our choice. and through this, i realised that the angmohs are friendlier than the singaporeans loh, not to be country-ist or what, no offence. yeah. the last song, we sang twinkle twinkle little star, laugh laugh laugh. then later, we found out that, we were being treated unfairly again, other group only had to sing 2 songs, the national anthem and the school song, but we had to sing 3, which i think wasted 5mins more of our precious time! screw the faciliators man.

next station was the old parliament house or the supreme court, we had no idea where to go. so we went back to the asian civilisation museum and i asked the friendly old lady where it was. she was kind enough to go out of the museum and showed me the directions. without further ado, we ran there all the way. saw roger's group there 3/4 done. and they left later, leaving us. 2 members were chosen for this, and jiazhi and i were the ones. we were supposed to look at the pictures and guessed what the places were. i remembered one where they showed a picture of some villages on fire, and roger telling me the last picture, the clue was swee heng. so i said swee heng all the way, and the stationmaster asked me if i was hungry or something. turned out that the answer was bukit ho swee fire. i was like saying the chinese one, 'he shui shan'. until like finally we got the answer and was given the last clue for the last station.

FORT CANNING PARK. had thought of taking a taxi but couldnt with the facilitator, which means 5 of us. so we were walking aimlessly around. then we finally found the place after passing by the central fire station. and i so hate the person who create/build the park. we had to climb so high, so many steps and by then, we were all tired already, my legs were sore! POO! ): the park was like a maze! when we nearly reached the destination, jared/gerard or however you spell it, dropped something he thought wasnt important. timothy picked it up and turns out was some points. 20 points to be exact. so we earnt 20points effortlessly. hahaha! :D climbed up flights of stairs again. the last task for us before going back to school was to make a singapore flag using straws and then later answer 5 questions given. instructions were not given properly and we didnt know we had to make a flag the size of the table there. ours was smaller in size and when the stationmaster pointed that out, we were complaining to them our misfortunes so we dont have to redo the flag. haha. when we were done, questions given were answered and we were running all the way down already. decided on taking bus 190 since the mrt was quite far away. the flag was already broken then.

when 190 finally reached the cck interchange, we ran like mad. when we reached the school, we were told we were the 4th to come back. :D and i was like thinking if we didnt have so many misfortunes on the way, would we still be 4th? hur. anyway, found out that 3c might have a chance of getting first. since roger's group came back together with one of the groups from 3d. so at least there's still something to be happy about. but i seriously hope jard/gerard do something about the misfortunes we faced lah, cos it's really like so screwed. i hope we were given back a gong dao. hahahah. we chatted while waiting for the other groups to come back. and yeah, waited till 7 and ate pizzas.

then the 8 3c-ians went to Mac to spend away the 12 bucks given for each group and had lots of fun yesterday in Mac laughing like crazyea clowns and weeweeing white stuff. (inside joke) reached home at 8 plus that day. (:

THE THANKS:

Thanks to my group members for being such good team-mates, i hope to work again with you guys if there's something like this again! (: I LOVE YOU GUYS LOADS OKAY! :DD

Thanks to Ain for sacrificing your bag to let us store our stuff inside despite the heavy weight. and also for drawing the map which i can understand because i can never read maps that were printed for the intellectual people although i am one myself. hahaha.

Thanks to JiaZhi for the M&M and helping me carry the heavy bag which i had to run with and lending me your handphone to call home. hahahaha.

Thanks to Timothy for trying to form the structure while we were connecting the straws and erm, taking the flag running down the flight of stairs? hahahaha.

Thanks to the facilitator, i dont know the name for running with us. hahahah.

Thanks to the stationmasters except for the one who insulted us for the fun we had.

Thanks to the organisers plus mrs ram for organising this whole thing so that our classmates can bond better and the suaku me can see more of what is like in singapore instead of frequently going round and round in cck estate. and also letting me run a lot and sweat. shiok!

Thanks to all those who in a way helped us during the game. Your help is greatly appreciated.