Saturday, April 02, 2005
BBAQ... First For Boys...??? @ 10:04 PM
din sleep in sch much... lights out at 10+pm, i onli slept at 1am. woke up at 2.45. Wat the mother... how to go AQ? so i took power bar. sian la! i was damn sleepy... den took taxi to NTU at 3.15. the uncle blasted S.H.E music. damn nice! songs like superstar. realli into the mood of AQ. then i went there. the toilet allocated for us no toilet paper! i was damn urgent! so illegally went to hostel toilet. YES! the facilities damn song. came out satisfied... XD. when i registered, i saw the coordinates and clues... i nearly fainted. we were supposed to use the firing range for the whole of AQ leg 1! ARGH!!!! siao sia! i was panicking... kept consulting chong keat on where to go. den warm up, kept going toilet, etc. Boys teams were flagged off first. Seeing the way they started, i began to get veh nervous. my tiredness was killed by powergel liao...
anyway, at 6.14, my heart was pumping up like duno wat... the atmosphere was almost too much for me... kept coughing until my team-mates asked if i needed a last minute reserve. I'M SER. XD COUNTDOWN: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 (shyt.... startin!),5, 4, 3, 2, 1... FLAG OFF!!!! (horn blares and flag is waved) CHIONG AH!!!! at tt pt, i wuz contemplating whether to navi my way out anot. but then everyone went the same way. west. so i juz follow. we were nearing the back mid of the pack, but everyone decided to "bash" thru the chalets (creating a bottle neck) while i took the road, where no one took. although it was juz a mini diversion, we overtook tens of teams! then juz followed them out to the west of NTU. i muz say, by that time, i was shagged liao. i couldnt believe it. i was actually pushing mentally to get my way out of NTU! SHYT! i still have 28km! but heck. i know now that a semi conscious mind is excellent for bashing. we went past the bike transition pt and straight towards the tip of singapore. i got my team to bash again twice and overtake teams. i was realli pushing. my team kept pushing me. the strain was killing me... budden thru many sorts of encouragement, from other teams, from ACS (sorry... i was half dead, juz heard the words "ACS" so i juz say wat i said out... pai seh)
anyway, we were 5th overall team to reach 1st checkpt! 3rd in relay! not bad! continue! den suddenly i felt betta. i felt easy to run. powergel and powerbar were acting up. budden... somehow, japheth cramped... den the hills were quite steep. had to support him all the way. had great help frm other competing teams, esp 909! u guys rox! (dunno wat team it is) by the time we reached bike transition, many teams had overtaken us... so we chionged thru it. low wall, support each other and push each other up. monkey swing, zach do. bing long cannot, i juz say "get down" and do it. low rope bing long cannot do again. he say "i cannot", i say "get up" and juz hoist him up to the tape line. rappelling, juz drop. den we went to get bikes. by this time, our log card was half dead. it was raining sia.
biking: please note: we lost our compass and map. so we went ahead without them. we juz started using the bikes den zach's and mine's gears came off. WAT THE MOTHER... then all went smoothly. we followed the other teams all the way till the last one b4 sarimbun. the terrain was tough! gravel, steep upslopers, etc. it was like we were chionging on high gear den suddenly the upslope. den we had to come down and push them up... wah lau. i learnt my lesson. i cycled on plane road on low gear. den by the time i got upslope, it was much easier. XD den came the bombshell. Arjun Singh and his team went off without us. no compass, no map. then, it was still ok. we made it to VERY NEAR SARIMBUN. there was this road in front and a road to the right. the one to the right had a white tape (meaning cannot go in) and the one in front had its gates open. ah duh, we take the front one. we circled in there for 35min and came out dead. bing long jap couldnt even continue. low morale and weak bodies were setting in. we had overshot cut off time... DISASTER. after 1 hr, we finally found out tt the white tape road to e right LEAD TO SARIMBUN! MOTHER FUCK! (i said b4 i onli use this word on my blog when i'm blardy pissed) dat was when we followed 923. we heard that cut off time was extended to 12.30. then we CHIONGED all the way! we saw the "sand pack" we were supposed to see. we shouted SARIMBUN!!! and fucking chionged our way in. i cramped. BADLY. but heck. i hopped my way in, passed all neccessary stuff to leg 2 before i finally couldnt take it and juz dropped, screaming and crying in pain. crying in anger. crying in agony. we made it at 12.15. 6hrs... wat's more, Boys team got DQ coz they came in at 12.40...
now i'll skip everything till when we returned to sch. (btw, val smsed me at 4am exactly so encourage the AQ team. THANX A LOT VAL! haha) i received a call from lamzy that relay team was DISQUALIFIED. from the last checkpoint, leg 2 hadnt come in to petir road. total nuclear bomb. by that time, 80% of the teams had been DQ. onli like 2 teams competing in relay for 3 prizes? i was worried for leg 2's safety, totally devastated by the news, totally furious with AQ 2005. where's the spirit of AQ? by DQing teams, are u telling us we're not fit for AQ? wat FIRST FOR BOYS? all the AQ teams were helping each other to compete against time and the officers!!! for that one time, i was not proud to wear my BB polo. i was not proud to tell others i was a BB boy. on the way later, i pointed my middle finger at all the BB banners i saw. we all did. we were all PISSED OFF. we even went to eat KFC 3 piece meal to show our anti-AQ. in the end, yeah, leg 2 came in at 6.30. phew! we were therefore, ranked 4th. they told us they spent 1.5hrs replacing punctured tyres with spares, to find out all the spares were punctured oso... thanx to the other AQ team which gave leg 2 a spare tyre to allow them to complete the race! (see wat i mean?) primers' team came in 4th oso. not bad, our best result so far. but it was definately nt fair competition. many teams made it to the transition pts 1min after cut off pt. if they had continued, i dunno wat'd hv happened. all i know is my first AQ experience has been a hell lot of one. realli wanna thank leg ACSJ for everythin! u guys rox!!! yeah! haha. admit it. we're fast. juz mishaps. :P . anyway, BB HQ had betta watch out. SIXTIETH IS GONNA RETURN TO AQ 2006.
WITH A VENGEANCE...
he left a mark
