A looong weekend of an Outrace, countless steps all over Singapore and unforgetable experience of lorry-hitching..leaves a very tired Amine..and me wishing that Im gonna get my very own transport one day. And I can't feel my legs.
Saturday
Morning gathered at school for the race to start. Too much of waiting got me over agitated to start Outrace. Phibert, CC, Weisheng and me named ourself Tetrala, don't ask how we derive at that. I thought this would be a much interesting experience as to waste my weekends, when I could be revising for my common test at least. Even so, spend quality time on my guitar. When the race finally starts, I
was so wrong. Haha.
First clue leads us thinking very deeply at first. A golden pagoda to be search, and riddles of Sun Mu Tong (Sun Wu Kong). That actually was just to mislead people, I think. So that only leaves us one place. Chinese garden. So the thing about this special race organised by tas, no usage of our ezlinks and handphones. Meaning to say no excess help of whatsoever. Meaning we are to do whatever it takes to go the the destination. Meaning..we have to hitch rides. Well our first hitch was rather okay. There's this guy in pickup pulled over at the entrance and we took our chance. Turns out he was going to Jurong, so we got our ride. And as we reached Jurong shopping centre, I could have really really wished Mr Tiew was hanging somewhere around there. This is the best moment where I think his lorry would be the MOST useful! We were really in desperate of help, figuring out how the hell are we gonna get around all day. We soon found out ourself. So, another hitch to
our destination, this time a red lorry. Oh, we were all given red Outrace Ts.
Soon, turns out the driver didn't know were Chinese garden is when we found where it was during the ride. So he stopped at a rather familiar place. The same place I went with the Ninjas along with Mr Tiew who brought us urban exploring of course, the Hang Dynasty which was quite a bit further of Japanese Garden and Chinese garden. Well, we rush there out of enthusiasm. Yeap, we ran a kilometre and a half. More running and we finally reached the pagoda. To get another clue, pick up black beans from a bowl of mixed up beans using chopsticks. Guess what? I picked up the most and the fastest lah! Hah..You Chinese guys who have been using chopsticks all your life..You just got owned ^_^
Next stop, Woodlands. Yes, Woodlands. No kidding. Woodlands.
AFTER long minutes of waiting, probably about an hour of hitching attempt, finally a good Samaritan decided to give us a ride all the way to the destination. Phew. Next task, gather 4 kg of old newspapers from around the neighbourhood. We could have hastened this one except that Weisheng and CC took quite a long time, when me and Phil got more than 4kg from our first knock at a door. Oh wells. If you think things aren't getting any worse, you wrong. 3rd and our final stop, Bishan!
The most hesitating and mentally torturing destination of our race;
Because we failed to get a hitch from the neighbourhood itself..
Because we were clever and went to the main road..
Because we got a free taxi ride out of pity to Woodlands interchange..
Because we choose to to hitch a ride again along the main road and fail..
And because..we WALKED all the way to Ang Mo Kio!
I so cant believe it -.-"
Oh wells, at least the last part to Bishan park, we got a nice driver who drove us. But if you think it ends there, wrong again. Cause it seems like the dawn has break, there were nobody there to great us for the race. Turns out we were cut-off. Cause of our lateness. Oh don't blame us, we spent 6 hours of walking!! So CC got pissed upon the news, ripped open the emergency pack that contains his handphone and called the f*#$%ing organiser. Sorry I exaggerated abit. Hahah.
And the Dejavu's just keeps coming. Our rest stop, Pulau Ubin. WTF.
With no preparation of safety and mosquito bites, we told that our dinner will be waiting for us there. So will be our 'beds'. Fresh memories and flashbacks of Njd camp played in my mind on the boat. Realising that this is my first time to Ubin without the Ninjas. Haha. Sleeping area was where we had the sparring game during camp. At least we don't have to walk. But cooking was the fun thing we had all day. Wasn't that bad at all. Sleeping was. Screw the fact that we weren't even told we were going to sleep at Ubin..without mosquito coils! Despite the fact that all of us got bites, when some got up and made a campfire, we eventually slept. And while the others were discussing how unorganised race was and most were telling their stories, I watch the stars, cause I just learnt how to look for the North Star.
Sunday
Teams were sent off at different timings according to the race the day before. Next task was an SOS game. And..to find the secret garden! Piece of cake. Flashbacks : Assassins & anti-Assassins, Miss Xinyu's bad fall, scarecrows and lots exploration. What we had to do? Complete the names of the plants located there. So much for rushing there.. Then we depart from Ubin. (I've a feeling I'll be there again soon)
Okay well from this point of the race onwards, things get smooter, just a bit. The following stops leads us to Sun Plaza Park, which then I never knew it was the park at Tampines. And we there to a rather simple tasks, follow Tachi from a guy who know Taichi. Thats like me going all the way to skool for training. Haha! Just kidding..
2nd stop of the day : Kallang stadium
Hey, I didnt include the details of our hitch rides doesn't mean we didn't do that. Everybody has to do that, I figured out. It's all about luck. Kallang staduim was a mere stop to really make us tired. Really. But the task was to reassemble words that was about the Stadium itself. Ok fair. Next stop was a "Detour", watch Amazaing Race if you don't know what it is. Luckily, we choose correctly. Singapore River it was. Else we had to pick our luck at Little India. Hell no am I going to Little India.
Task : Play 5 stones. See how simple the tasks are. Its just the trips there that are so
ever freaking difficult.
Next! The Cathay.This part also sucks so Im not gonna elaborate.
And so to our most FINALE destination..West Coast Park. Yeap. They wanted us to go there from Douby Ghout.. -.-"
Well the thing is, we were told the race would end at 1 pm on the following Sunday, which I told the rest to might as well gather back at the starting point, Lt 51c, but someone wanted to persue the adventure and continue the race, so we went there. And the task..was to dig the sand and locate our next clue. So ended up that someone owes me a 100 plus drink, when I finally pulled out the envolope clue, took out the folded paper..and it reads with a bold font like this, LT 51C.
>.<"
And so it finally ended! Which leaves me with jelly legs and aching body!
Which reminds me of grading today! How sia..
Oh well, just have to try my best. Im rather worried about the rest really.
Wish me luck..
P.s. Appreciate ur ezlinks and handphones now!
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