A "Fool" Print

It was my first urban adventure race or so called "amazing race". The race reporting station located at Dhoby Ghaut Green where me and my partner (Rosaslind) needed to report at 7.45am. When I reached the venue, I saw Steve, Jojo, Gen, June, Mark and Rosa all sitting down, waiting for their turn to wave off. Supposedly, my wave should begin at 8am if not due to the heavy downpour which lasted for 1 and half hour.

Once the rain subsided, we were all ushered to a bus where it brought us to the mysterious point. This year, the start point was at Paya Lebar MRT station. We finally waved off at 11am. The first station was to solve a puzzle. Thanks for my smart partner, we managed to figure it out not too long and ran towards the second check point. The second station was mainly testing your physical strength than your IQ. We had to cross over a few obstacles which including throwing and rolling tyre to the designated point.

While we ran towards the third station, the sky poured heavily again. Me and Rosa were totally wet. The third task for us was to discern the next check point by giving a map. We struggled for a while until realized that the map was a mirror image! Then after, we allowed to proceed to our cycling leg.

It was fun cycling in the heavy downpour where you not often to find anybody at the East Coast Park. I could barely made out the view in front of me and constantly had to wipe the water from my face. The fourth task was given a poem to make out where our next destination was. I could guess it was near car park C but confused by the word "lighthouse". We rode further away from car park C and had to U-Turn back. Then after, the map given led us to Parkway Parade to complete a sequence of tasks. The objective was to fill out the missing words in order for you to reach your next checkpoint aka Katong Park.

At the park, we must balance and stand on the slack line for 1 min. I was not good in this balancing act. In the end, it was Rosa to do it. Subsequently, we walked a bit further to Mountbatten Road where we played a few games. None of the game we played achieved the desired results. : (

The next station was to kayak for a short distance (~500m) at Kallang River. We were given then some numbers in which we were stuck for a very long time. Reason was that we too used to the I-Phone and forgot how to use the traditional keypads to SMS.

With some "bargaining" with and tips from the volunteers, we figured out the words eventually. At the open field near Fraser Street, we had to do "leopard crawl" etc to overcome the obstacles. The next clue given was a map which I made out to be at Marina Bay Sand. The task given over there was to guess the "thing" your partner had moulded. Then, we were given a pictures of "Canon" and a "Fort" to find out our next check point. Fort Canning!! It was easy. ha

By then, it was 5pm which past the cut-off time. Rosa and me decided to take our own sweet time and walked. Taking the opportunity of the beautiful, sunset river scene, we took a few pictures at MBS.

At the Fort Canning, we were supposed to follow the marking on the stairs to perform an arithmetic calculation. Mathematics was no problem for me. We managed to calculate the figure in our first tried. We were given a map to lead us to our final check point. Finally!!!

At the last station, the volunteers told us that we could not proceed as we just passed the 6PM cut-off time. Wait a minute, wasn't the cut-off time was 5pm. After much inquiry, we realized the cut off time was extended but no one told us!! What a disappointment. Anyway, the last station was to do a tree climbing. Nevermind, i had much fun at Krabi doing rock climbing already. LOL

It was 6.30pm when we backed to Dhoby Ghaut Green again. The rest was waiting for us. We had our dinner at Park Mall before riding back. When i reached home, it was 9pm. What a day..