Race against time!!!

the long wait is finally over.. *phew*... the long awaited RAT race finally commenced today!!! after all tt preparation, we could finally see the REAL event take place. at last i heave a sigh of relief. (tee hee..knowing tt i can start my true holiday after this event). But putting the sweet ending aside, I must admit it was more of a nerve wrecking experience than one tt we had anticipated to run smoothly without a glitch. First of all, we made a major error in the beginning of the race..which somehow dampened the spirits of the programmers including I. But somehow i felt tt the best we could do was to lessen the carried on effects by making sure that the same mistakes were not committed at the subsequent stations. That was the best we could do to remedy the situation.

So after the first station, I was sent to Bedok to unload the kayaks as well to settle the other logistics. Yet again another panic-ridden experience as we met with some other crop ups like a delay in the arrival of teams due to heavy rain..and even our lorry breaking down in the midst of transportation of kayaks. Sigh..the waits were long..and accusations and mistakes were rampant... But then again, I agree that the strength and organisation of a team is only truly revealed in the face of unexpected events. Its the ability to face up to these challenges and stand together that defines a good and capable team.

But despite the chaos churning in the heads of the many organisers, the reservoir retained its peaceful nature...

Following this, I went to my station in charge which was at toa payoh safra. Challenge was simple, 2 pple from each team to climb 2 seperate walls. the straight wall, if you are unable to scale to the top would result in your team incurring a time addition of 30mins and the other wall, if you are able to scale to the middle and touch the grip (above the overhang) would result in a time deduction of 20mins and further scaling it to the top will allow another 10mins deduction on top of that. EASY huh..wait till u see the wall!!! haha..kudos to all those participants tt managed to scale the wall. YOU'RE GOOD!!! heh. and many thanks to my wall crew from pumpfest for helping out with the setting up of the wall and the belaying of contestants. Munir, Kelvin, Aaron and Zhenhan..xie xie ni men. Had loads of fun goofing around wit u guys.

Though the whole race was mistake-laden mostly due to the miscommunication btw the logistics and the programmers side. I felt that the race was a mini- success..and the efforts from everybody was commendable considering the short amount of time we were given to pull this race together and the appearance of the exams right smack in the middle of all our preparation. As they say, what doesn't kill us is only gonna make us stronger. Lets have faith that all our mistakes we make now will serve to be our lessons learnt and tt we may not commit them once again in the REAL race..ATC! ~jiayou everybody

favourite pic of the day... Zhenhan and Smelly Ben-Ben

goodnite everybody...

the princess needs her beauty sleep (which she seriously lacks now..) *Yawnz*..