Rewind a few months and a year back. It is morning, I am panicking because two members suddenly bail.
Shit.
Urgent and panic calling ensued, with reinforcements arriving in the most unlikeliest of forms - two chronic smokers who are almost perpetually late to class.
That was last year's edition of Sunway University College's (SYUC) Amazing G-Race.
We got 4th.
Good enough?
No, not really.
Fast forward to 25/4/2009.
The timing this year was perfect, the Saturday just after our Finals.
The team this year was chosen, not grabbed from bed.
Together Me, Josh, Omer, and Kok Seong formed "We Are Not Americans But We're Going There"! (kinda catchy right? :P)
Fancy our chances? Definitely.
*running around, so pardon the nonexistent pictures
The team with the fastest time, including bonuses and penalties would be declared the winner!
Again, the starting and ending point was SYUC.
There would be five intervals, each colour coded, where five to six teams would be flagged off each time, with 5 minutes separating each.
We were pooled in the Green interval, which was third.
Was basically tons of running around Bandar Sunway, completing miscellaneous tasks that challenged us, both physically and mentally! Props to Omer and his long long legs! :P
Stupid sinus killed my stamina early on. How, oh how do i get rid of thee in the morning!
At one point during the Sunway Pyramid length of the race...
We had to watch a CK advert twice, and with lyrics in hand, perform the same ad with as much energy and spunk as possible :)
Singing CK's "We Are One" ad in Parkson, Sunway Pyramid!
Josh was the lead, the rest of us were backup singers.
And yes, we keep time with one free hand.
You know how at the end of many product ads there's this deep voice resonating saying out the product's tagline. I was that too. And an awful backup singer.
I think.
Later on, we arrived at Rock Cafe (aka Medan) where we received instructions to go to the padang. We sensed the end was near!
There, we were faced with a roadblock, a task that only one member can perform. Choose to stick your hand into a box of either i) grasshoppers, ii) sludge, or iii) mud mix and find the pingpong ball with your coloured interval! I bravely took up the challenge, and into the grasshoppers we go!
After that we raced back to the cafeteria. This was the end, we knew it! But first, we had to devour a whole plate of extremely dry biscuits. Josh, was starving by now. Be my guest, hah! A hungry person does not think straight. Half-way through the plate he was a little sick, because it was so dry, and no water is allowed during this process!
PITSTOP! 2nd team to arrive! Where the hell did those other guys come from?
First thoughts, "Damn, they look like the only exercise they've been getting is from DOTA, and shouts of "DABLE KILL, I KILL YOU!"
We were in limbo. How would we place?!
The prizes that awaited the top 5 teams!
1st place: 2 CKin2U men's and 2 CKin2U women's fragrances worth RM250 each + RM200
2nd: 2 CKin2U men's and 2 CKin2U women's fragrances worth RM250 each + RM150
3rd: 2 CKin2U men's and 2 CKin2U women's fragrances worth RM250 each + RM100
4 & 5th: RM50 each
In 5th place... not us?
In 4th place... not us?!
In 3rd place... NOT us?!
In 2nd place... NOT US?!
WTF?!
Champions of The Amazing G-Race 2009 are...
!!"We Are Not Americans But We're Going There"!!
[L-R] Omer, Josh, Me, Kok Seong
"We Are Not Americans But We're Going There" with Veron (SYUC Student Council...accountant?)
