Sunday, September 11, 2005 ♥
Woke up at 1030am today so as to get ready for my 'battle' at Chinatown... Haha... Sounds exaggerated i noe but no harm mahz... Hehe... In the end, i was late lahz... Wake up so early but still late sia... Hehe... Reached Outram MRT at abt 12.20pm... Late for 5min only... But anyway, i am still the earliest lahz... Expected de lahz... My mates all same pattern as me de... Lolz...
Found our way to Kreta Ayer Community Centre... We r street-wise after all... Wahaha... Anyway, we registered ourselves n got the T-shirt tt has to be worn during the game... Kind of regretted getting size L lahz... Cuz the shirt was so big lor... Well, nvm... At least can run freely later... Haha... We were quite shocked when we realised tt we r the only group from a jc competiting in the tertiary category... Others all from NTU or NUS de lor... We r definitely outnumbered... Total got 7 grps but only 1 grp is from JC... Gosh~ Since there's still time, we went out to "see see look look" at the food stalls around Chinatown... There r reli many food stalls in Chinatown lor... Hope we can find the answers according to the clues given later on...
At 3pm, the competition started... The first clue tt was given to us was kind of obvious... It's the famous bbq pork shop Lim Chee Guan... We quickly ran to the shop n got the bbq pork... Then we ran to the checkpoint to show the masters tt we got the ans n oso to get our next clue... We oso have to eat a little of the food before moving on... Things went smoothly for us but we made a mistake in the 3rd clue... We kind of misinterpretated the clue so we were off the track... We r supposed to find a chicken rice stall but yet we tot the clue was telling us to look for a waxed sausage shop... Luckily, we realised it pretty early n went on to look for the chicken rice shop which was located near the junction of south bridge road... So damn hard to find the shop lor... It was hiding in a corner... Gosh~
At abt the 5th clue, it started to rain very heavily... But we still continue our search in the rain... I can hardly see lor as the rain blurred my specs... I was completely drenched... My mates were all drenched too... See how hard we r working? Haha... Luckily the sky was kind to us... It stopped raining... Hee...
During the process of asking the passer-bys for directions, i put my cantonese into use... It reli is very useful cuz Chinatown is full of people who speak cantonese... My mum told me last nite to ask ppl in Cantonese... Maybe cuz they can understand betta in cantonese or it may be more friendly bahz... I did wad she said n it reli proved to be quite effective... Haha... N i think, if nobody in the group knows cantonese, it will be hard to solve one of the clue... I'm so proud of myself... Lolz... Oh ya... Asking for directions in cantonese reminds me of the days in Hong Kong... I missed Hong Kong... It's reli a very nice place... The ppl there r great too... Especially my relatives... Missed them so much... Hehe...
After a long run of abt 2 hrs, we finally completed all the clues... Gosh... Was so afraid tt we wun be able to complete all in time... But luckily we did... Haha... We were the 4th team to be back... Din reli feel good abt tt... But anyway, ate all the food we bought after resting... All the food were from famous stalls in Chinatown n Maxwell... Not tt bad lahz... The ba gua was the best... Lolz... Can understand y ppl r willing to q for sooooo long during the new year period juz to get the ba gua... Hehe...
Soon, the results r released... Gerald n Bash were saying tt we can go home le cuz the results sure no our share de... Slowly, the 5th n 4th were announced... Not us... I felt reli nervous... Reli wanted to win... 3rd not us... 2nd oso not us... We were quite sure tt 1st oso not us de but when the girl announced our name, we shouted lor... OMG~ WE WON!!! We juz cant believe it... We won the top prize of $600... Gosh~ We were all laughing n exclaiming when we made our way up the stage to collect the prize... It was reli unexpected... We were the 4th to come back n yet we won the first prize! Woo hoo~ Most importantly, we won the other grps who r uni students... It's juz so cool! All the running was not wasted... My legs r not aching for nothing... Lolz...
To my Yum, Nova grp mates: Thanx for being such good members... Without u guys, i wun be 150 bucks richer... Esp Gerald... Din see u run so much n fast b4... Lolz...
To my toady partner: Happy Birthday worx... Dun say me unfriendly... Hehe...
listened to the sweet sound @ 2:54 PM