Team 'Fendi'. don't question me about the team name -.- it was the Student Council who gave us those names anyway. My team consists of (from left) Ashrina, Me, Corey and Philip (our amazing Class Rep who resembles the likes of Fed-Ex or DHL courier services. why, u asked? well he's way darn swift and efficient of course!) hahaha. the picture was taken early in the morning, right before flag-off of the race.

The Amazing G-Race adapted the concept from the popular reality show, ' The Amazing Race '. Although it might have no connection to it at all, but the activities and task were close enough to the real thing. We have the G-Block instead of Road Block and G-tour instead of Detour. Both have the same function like the actual Amazing Race.

So yea, you could say i tasted a small portion of what its like to be racing around the world, only this only occured around the area of Sunway. lolz.

This is Ying Xiao, or Xiao Xiao as we would prefer to call her (well actually i sorta got that name from Ee Leen and Jian Wei, heard them mentioning the name several times during the past few weeks). She's our 'shadow' for the day. Yea, each team were followed by a Student Council crew member, just to make sure well .... the sad reality was hopefully we don't cheat. So if the team was running towards the wrong direction, they will have no choice but to run around like some headless chickens as well.

Ee Leen was one of them who followed out on the race. too bad she didn't got our team XD. but then again, it wouldn't make any difference, its not like she will be much help. They weren't suppose to tell us anything =/ haha. Xiao Xiao, on the other hand enjoyed seeing us suffer throughout the whole race, argh! she's one tough nut to crack! lmao. It would seem she would die with the advices rather than sharing them with us! LOL. anyway, she wasn't that bad at the end of the day, as a matter of fact, i have known another friend!

one of the task we had to perform. It involved a great amount of logic and teamwork as teams were suppose to get 2 set of keys to the other side of the angle. So Philip and Corey worked on the one of the sides, while me and Rina managed the other end. We were suppose to complete the task within 2 minutes. It wasn't a very difficult task but as time was running out, this could proved to be nervebreaking. Fortunately, my team managed to finish it with 4secs to spare.

We started off the day with questions involving the physical surroundings of Sunway University College, some of them i was lucky to have spotted the answer while i was walking boringly around the college. haha lucky us! Anyway, it was a normal route info later on leading us to the football field where 2 members of the team were suppose to carry ping pong balls on a spoon with their mouth, with one condition though. keep the wasabi on ur tougue. aikz XD. whereas the other two act as a passer of the pingpong balls and the receiver of the balls. Corey and Rina were brave enough to take on the challege of the wasabi, while Philip was the passer and I was the receiver.

Oh yeah, before the race starts, each team were given a biscuit to protect. think about thoe watikah's we used to have during Prefect Camps. haha. After the pingpong event, it was immediately a G-block route info for us. We proceeded to the side gates for the unknown. Upon reaching the gates, i saw guys freakin out. yes, guys -.- LOL. I immediately volunteered for the G-block, the whole thing has got someting to do with worms LOL. forget earthworms, they don't look abit LIKE earthworms anyway. It was those big, fat .. juicy? yellow worms. and with some crickets to spice up the whole pail. the task? well it was easy of course, dip ur hand into the pail and search for a white ball with marker pen ink. I WENT AT IT LIKE SOME MAD FELLA. i kinda wonder if i killed any of the worms tho? LOL i was basically doing it 'fry noodles style' rofl.

It stinked. holy shiet, it did alright! smelled like some rotten food left alone for a few days, with added aroma on it. well you get the idea lol.

we were onto a G-tour after that, it was a task between Seek or Wash. We decided to do Wash without much thinking as time was of the essence, we only had 3 hours to complete the race. this was the part we screwed up, pretty badly =/. i should have trusted the taxi driver, argh! thinking i was smart, we went around asking shop owners for direction, and all of them pointed to different directions. oh yea, we were suppose to visit some house to wash a car within 15minutes. so instead of venturing into the housing area right infront of us, we went around the industrial area like some blind freaks. took us a whole damn circle to get us back to the stated housing area. i think we had burned around 45mins there =/

but god was blessing us all the time, other teams got bigger cars like BMW or simply some Proton Waja and stuff. we were lucky enough to get a Kancil! so the washing was swift and we were asked to claim RM5 from the owner of the car. Well, asking the owners to wash their car for RM5 wasn't THAT ALL EASY at all though. Malaysians -.-"

anyway, there were a few good samaritans, however as we were late to arrive, most of them already had their cars washed =/.

*tired, tired, tired ......*

n it was onto the keys event after that. Upon finishing the task, we were off running to Sunway Pyramid. Half way down the road, i had a slight leg cramp but was lucky to be able to continue. and it disappeared after we reached the main entrance of Pyramid. Here, we were asked to gather 3 logos of different fast food outlets! with me knowing the place from inside out, it didn't cost us much time here. Along the way, we even approached a lady on her day out, asking her to give us 5 lipstick marks on a tissue paper. It was one of the 10 items we will have to find throughout the whole race. My teams managed to complete 9/10 stuffs given to us to find.

the fastfood logo's were easy, but the task after that got us abit confused. what on earth were ice-skating pebbles??? anyway, didn't took us long enough to figure that its somewhere located in the ice-skating rink. we went down there in a flash, dashing passed some bizzare customers. ahh well, we didnt have time to stop and look haha. Completed that with the condition we surrender the RM5 we got from the car wash to exchange for two pebbles from one of the shop located there.

and then, off to Sunway Resort Hotel. It was G-tour again. this time it was between 'Pick' and 'Count', we decided on 'Pick' immediately again, and the task was to fill the garbage bag to its maximum capacity within 3 minutes. Honestly i freaked out at first, how on earth are we suppose to fill it up within 3 blardy minutes. but God was on our side again as we were led to the dumpsite, and we basically took whatever cardboards and chlorofoams and stuffed it into the bag. I never thought the idea would work, but we got through it!

we went to the shoplots beside the Pyramid after that. the route info stated for us to get a printed tatoo from the stated Tatoo shop. we were given a map. but .... no names of the shop was given. dang! lol. fortunately we managed to find it, thanks to Philip's observance.

It was the Ming Tien coffeeshop later on. there, my friends Andrea and Edmund were waiting for our arrival. they volunteered to help in the race and were assigned as station masters. We were asked to pick a number between 1-4, being the team captain, the rest looked onto me to decide on the task. I was kinda out of breath already haha. Anyway, i picked the number 2 without hesitation. oh dear, we were asked to pick a partner among the people in the coffee shop to dance waltz. LOL. we turned our attention to Rina, as girls would definitely have the advantage of finishing the task quickly. However, most of the men chickened out =/ but we were able to get a young man to perform the task with her. good lord bless thee soul. haha. ahh well, the young man was abit shy tho haha.

the next route info led us to a playground in the PJS housing area, and from that playground we were given another route info to proceed to a house at the other end of the area. @.@ oh goshh .... lol. my teammates said that i wasn't looking all that well, aikz ... damn haha. yea i admit i haven't been working out since the Chinese New Year starts. haha. but .. i was proud to say that i was much lighter and it was definitely easier as i was basically running all the time. ^^

we reached the house, and were asked to light candles with a box of matches under 2 minutes. the team before us lighted around 47 of them, and being out of breath i seriously doubted that we could repeat their feat. to my surprise, we actually managed to light 80 candles! of course, me being the slowest, but Corey and the others were fast enough to cover my weaknesses haha.

i m t3h dead-ed. LOL.

sadly, our 3 hours time limit was up after that, and we couldn't make it to the next G-block in time. Xiao Xiao asked us to proceed back to the college to wait for the results. yea, we walked back to the college @.@ from what i heard from the other teams, the G-block event wasn't at all easy like the worms. teams were asked to pick two of its members to perform the task. the task? food of course. yay? how about adding large chili pades and onions (a complete whole) to the fray? selected team members were suppose to eat the chili pades and onions without any water. after they finished eating, they were given water alrite, only thing that it wasnt water at all. they were given bittergourd juice! yuckz.

we were close to finishing the race, only missing the G-Block and the last stop back in college. I have no regrets as our team showed a great display of team spirit and high team morale. I really really have to thank my teammates for the wonderful memory and experience. i think if it wasn't for their support, i might have collapse half way through already! it was definitely their passion and support that kept me going towards the end.

Team Fendi looking all tired after a whole long day. we were back in the Students Service Department to wait for the announcement of the 1st and 2nd Runners-up and of course the victorious ones for the day.

we didn't win. haha, it was expected tho. hey, i didnt play to win ok. haha, we all just wanna have some fun together! and it was fun alrite. the friendship between the four of us has definitely gone to greater heights.

Ee Leen told me the results later on. It seemed that although we missed the G-Block and got deducted a massive amount of 5points, (oh yea, we were all judge based on our performances on each task, basically the faster we are, the more points we deserve, so naturally the ones to finish the race first isnt going to be the winner) and yea, with our deducted points, we still managed a 15th placing! not bad, certainly not bad at all! there were a total of 22 teams participating in the event, and to think my team beat a total of 7 teams was satisfying. haha.

the only setback for the day was that we wasted too much time on the 1st G-tour. ahh well, its the fun and experience that counts! We all returned home feeling proud of our achievement and were all physically exhausted as well. time for a good time sleep? haha that was what i have been doing for the whole evening.

we shall be looking forward to the next one, well if there's gonna be anymore this year. haha.

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Name: Nicholas CK Wong.
Age: 18yrs of age.

a teenager enjoying his life in college.

'enjoying life' plan failed because CAT pratically drained every single life outta me LOL.

still, surviving every single exams onslaught to be able to stay alive updating you guys all about me. =D

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