CityChase - Team Slackers Reports

Airani reporting on behalf of Team Slackers

We registered. Got our t-shirts, which is this really nice bright lime green dri-fit (yay!). THen we went over to get our teddy banks. (We're supposed to raise funds, min $50, for the Assisi Hospice along the way)

Then we went to the painting corner to paint our teddy banks. My team mate, Swee Heng, painted ours an Indian chief, with our bib number 1081 on the front and our team name 'slackers' on the back. Ling painted hers nice panda colours, I guess from the panda joke earlier I told her last weekend.

Then the organiser gave some clues, which is really hard to catch cos he was speaking double quick time! And the countdown started. We all shouted together and when we were flagged off, everyone ran like headless chickens cos we have no idea where to get the clue sheets! haha! Turned out the clue sheets people were outside by the road. haiya!

OK, then strategy time. We have no specific strategy so we did what we thought was the easiest.

1. Bussorah street behind the Sultan Mosque - wear sarong and play chap teh. This one quite easy lah. Both of us did quite fast.

2. Then we ran to Little India (thanks to Min Yee for confirming where Jothi's flowers is located). There, swee heng had to convince stranger to paint henna on her and she on the stranger. Apparently her stranger ran away but the organisers were kind enough to let it go. I had to string a garland of jasmine flowers. The demo was so easy but when I did it, I kept decapitating the flowers! Anyway, I finally got the hang of it, strung 12 sets of flowers and off we go to the next stop

3. OUB building (again thanks, to Min Yee for getting the info from the 5th Jul ST Prime page 3) - We played Sudoku. There were clues to shops where we could locate numbers to fill up the blanks but it was taking too much time. Luckily both Swee Heng and I had played it before, so we finished it in no time.

We had wanted to look for the stella artois stop. I was fixated on the 'gold standard dealers' that I misread the clue. We spent some time looking for the place. Swee Heng suggested it could be at Clarke Quay, so we gave up for the moment looking for this place and...

4. Went to China Town Pagoda Street. had to find some museum. We walked past it! Luckily, we asked a shopkeeper just a couple of shops down and she was really helpful. "See the red banner, it's just there!' So we got to the museum, then we were given a picture of some edge of roof. Must find the place. Aiyoh, so difficult. So we asked the guy sitting outside the museum. This guy was trying to be funny. 'Err.. it won't be fair if I helped you.." stupid guy. But luckily the marshall convinced him that it was ok for him to help us, so he told us.

Swee Heng got us to the temple. We had to ride a trishaw while distributing brochures of the temple! Swee Heng can't cycle. So when they did toss up of the coin and SH had to do it, we acted blur 'huh that one tail meh?' and we got our desired result. heh heh

The giving out of pamphlets was easy. SH was persuasive enough. Maneuvering the trishaw was quite tough. It kept wanting to go to one side. I crashed, I think a couple of time. haha! SH was rocking forward and back to make the trishaw go faster. We managed to do it quite fast. Yay!

5. Went to Clarke Quay. had to touch 5 water points of the fountain. Then carry the stella artois barrel to the 1 night stand club down the street. There was a queue, so I took the chance to raise funds for the assissi hospice. Raised $12. Alamak, still short of $38. There, one of us had to pour a glass of stella artois according to the 9 special steps and then recite a chinese poem! The other one had to convince a stranger to drink the glass of beer. If you can't recite the poem or convince a stranger, then you had to drink the beer. Luckily SH could read chinese and I convinced an old Australian tourist to drink (thanks to his wife for helping me to persuade him)! Phew

6. Went to Faber House. Submitted our teddy banks. We both donated $20 each to make it at least $50. Well, it was for a good cause. (Siva asked me why I never donated more. I should have, haiya,... I guess I blame it on the heat of the race, never think lor! heh heh)

7. Went to the STB booth next to Faber house. One of us had to sieve through worms to get a pair of mahjong tiles. The other had to eat either a chilli or a worm. SH ate the chilli. The worms were really smelly!

8. Went to Vigilante Drive. Walked up the stupid hill. Panting and cursing all the way. Then had to cycle at the patch next to Carpak A.

9. Went up to Carpark B. Climbed the tree using ropes. Quite fun but super super tiring. I was cramping left right and centre. Luckily they had deep heat! I should have made SH do it. See lah, again never think!

10. Complimentary point for completing 8 and 9.

Then we headed back to Pan Pacific, 20 minutes before the closing time, thanks to SH for egging me to run from the MRT station to the finish line. Yay!!!! Tired and super super smelly. Was hungry but couldn't wolf donw more than one small serving. But had lots and lots of fruits cos was feeling super dehydrated.

Went home. Bathed. Slept. Next day, woke up, aching all over!!!

Nonetheless, it was so so so much fun! Must do it again next year, only this time, we must do all the expensive and super-fun activities, rather than try to finish the race first. haha!

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My Canon camera went MIA at the Pagoda Street Checkpoint! Sigh!!!! Had great photos in there! If anyone picks up a camera with odd-lookin' photos, would be great to have a reunion of camera and its owner....just email me : lingemerciless@pacific.net.sg. Mucho gracias!