Sunday, November 30, 2008

INTURAC challenge [28-29th November]

INTURAC - Intergrated Urban Adventure Challenge

This is a national level competition for all the UG (uniform groups) in Singapore. For this competition, SP Rovers have sent two teams, the team 1 which consider of the Seniors and team 2 which consider of the Juniors. The challenge will be last for 2 days 1 night and different set of skills will be testing us. Oh yea, this competition is mainly open for the post-secondary institution students, so mainly the participants are teenagers like us. =)


The challenge begins...let the PHOTOS do the speak up !


Water parade from the both team before the race start - YUM SENG !

JIAYOU for all of us ~!!


Everyone is reeeeeeeeeeeeeeady ?


Get set.... GO !!


The Arena 1

At this stage, we have to completed 5 different principles before we can proceed to the next arena. The 5 principles will be the MENTAL STRESS, ABSEILING, ROCK CLIMBING, KAYAKING and RAFTING.



During the MENTAL STRESS (in the end we fail all the test, perhaps we have NO BRAIN? =p )

Me and Xinwei planning for the route and strategy...


while Stanley and MinYang are doing the ROCK CLIMBING


JIAYOU for both of them !

Next we go for KAYAKING

For the KAYAKING, we have to kayak to the given point of destination and travel back to the land, against the WAVES of the sea


After that, here comes the ABSEILING - like those S.W.A.T team jump from the building like that?



Wokay, here we done 4 disciplines already, still left the last one - RAFTING. This station is very crowded. We have to queue for quite a long time, waiting for the previous teams to finish theirs.
Meanwhile, we take a rest and capture a photo of ours too ! ^^


In the same time, we plan our raft design while looking the other teams building it. Then our turn has come.


Here it is, our very OWN raft !

We have to put our raft into the sea and prove them that it can works well

For the bonus points, we try to ride on the raft and travel to the specific place.

Finally we cleared the Arena 1. With some dissapointment from the RAFTING and , the other teams have already move ahead to Arena 2 for quite a long time ago. We left behind many teams and we have to catch up with them. TIME is crucious for us now.



The Arena 2 - Biathlon.

2 people have to ride on bicycles and another 2 have to run to the next checkpoint- all of us have to reach there IN THE SAME TIME.



We are absolutely the FLYING PEOPLE. We run our best speed and eventually overtake 3-4 teams before our DINNER STATION. ( Energy Gel really rox man ! XD ) Well, other teams may feel that we are a bunch of crazy people, but who cares ? =p

The DINNER for us - mainly are carbohydrates...oh yea, we got MILO too =)
Besides EATING, we have to clean our shoes because inside got plenty of SANDS...(the souvenirs from the sea ! )


The journey continues...we have to walk / run to the next checkpoint towards the city. This time, our techie - Sharon join us for this stage, with her laptop...

We overtake 2 teams again without a problem...When come near to the Suntec City, we saw a team infront. AS USUAL we try to overtake them. This time they choose to compete with us. The both teams race among each other...From Suntec City we run through Citylink Mall and Esplanade to the next checkpoint. (imagine TWO bunches of people running in the shopping centre ? )

Haha, along the way i can see the other people stunned at there and some people do encourage us too. =) Finally we overtaked that team ! Poor Sharon is having difficult time during the "race".
"( i feel very sam tong when see her gasping for air and nearly collapse, i really feel like want let go my hand, let her walk slowly instead of running with us )"


We have to complete either 2 or 3 disciplines in Arena 2, which is Navigation, Herritage and First Aid. We managed to complete 3 of them. For us this really not a big deal for us, especially for the Herritage ! ( FRIENDS are very important to us at that moment, when you need information about the history, just PHONE CALL your friends to help you search ONLINE =p)


The group photo of us infront of one of the herritage (as the question requested us to do so)


After that, we go to our camping site...and we gonna sleep there before the next day start...the time is around 12 am.

Day 1 ended







DAY 2
The Arena 3
We wake up on 4am, and the journey starts on 5 am. After everything is ready, the teams have do to depart in a seperate time (based on the Day 1, depends on which team reach the camp site earlier ) The buffer time between the previous and next team is 5 minutes. We managed to depart at the 4th position.



Come to this stage, we have to plan our route and strategy properly as we cant afford to waste any single of minutes. In this arena, we have to complete 2 disciplines.

The 1st discipline is Herritage - around the Chinatown
"For the 1st discipline, i did admit that i really pissed off. Maybe i am aiming too much for the points. I didn't realised that everyone is tired physically and mentally. The sleeping time for us is really kinda short, and we have not sleep well too. At this moment my emotion really is not steady as i think."

Another group photo - as the question requested again >.<


Anyway, after that everything seems going alright. We are moving to the 2nd discipline. ( i managed to chill up on the way ^^ )

Here we reach the last discipline. We are kinda shocked when we know about the things we gonna to do.

Look at the photos below, make a guess what we are doing :
Get the whole idea of what are we doing already?

How long is the distance? Not that much, is just around 1 or 2 km ONLY ma.... =.=

Here we come to the FINAL checkpoint of the competition...

"At this moment, we can really get the feeling of being completed the race. The cheers and encouragements from the crowd, and SP Rovers Team 1 which completed earlier than us. Proudly we brought back our "casualty" to the checkpoint SAFELY, with the great efforts from each team members, this prove that WE CAN DO IT ! =)"

We are representing the Singapore Polytechnic Rovers Crew !

me and Sharon auntie XD

the great Smile ~


The awaiting moment...when we see the trophies

The prize giving ceremony starts...after the speech from the minister and some video show, they start to announced the winners...
Guess what ??? Our team has turned up as the First Runner-Up !

me during the prize giving ceremony

SP Rovers Team 2 ROXXX !! (we are the scouts, YES, SCOUT rox too ! )

The another good news we received is the SP Rovers Team 1 (senior team) has become the CHAMPION for this competition ( Inter-Institution category )

The both team have become the biggest winner for the competition !
After the ceremony ends...CELEBRATION ??


Victory photo ~ ( is little bit looks wrong la, but still who cares ? =p)



- End of the two precious days -
" From this competition, i realise that if you believe that you can, you really can do it ! haha...i do gain lots of experience from the challanges i have in this 2 days. A great teamwork really can do something which is seems impossible. Honestly speaking, for a long time i never step up to the prize giving ceromony to receive a prize/award already...since early Form/Sec 4 i think. I almost totally lost confidence to my ownself after my downfall during the painful upper secondary school life. After everything that happened in this two days, i slowly start to believe my ownself, trust my ownself and appreatiate my ownself again..."

Sunday, November 16, 2008

16th November ? =p


The DAY for the PIGGIE uncle and auntie ...




Ok Ok...if don't want Piggie, then Uncle and Auntie lo...




"The Lovely Day"
by
Nick and Sharon

Monday, November 10, 2008

The Discovery Camp [ 7th-9th November]

Theme : DISCOVER your strength
Objective : GRPR

G - Goal
R - Relationship
P - Process
R - Result


CCA : SP Primers
Group : Tek-alicious !!!!
Group Leader : Kelly TEK
Place: Dairy Farm Adventure Centre




About the camp?

7th November
Basically during this day we just get an introduction about this camp and the concept of GRPR . Well, as usual ice-breaking game...(again =.= ) This time, i found that the Tek-alicious family have new members arrived, they are Evelyn, ShiQi, and JunYu ( all are Pei Jing's friends )
What i can describe on today is the STARTER meal...


8th November
Alright! Today is the MAIN DISH of the camp. What we gonna to do all will be high element activities (as they told us before the camp ) After a good night sleep, (YES! finally i can have a PROPER sleep during CAMP, don't need kena chase by people during EARLY MORNING...how pathetic !) we have our breakfast and prepare us for the whole day.

Get set....ready.... GO!




The Challenge Pole

camwhore time ! muahahahaha XD


BEFORE i go for the Challenge Pole

So, get what is the idea of The Challenge Pole?


Lunch time...a good rest only can continue the further journey better, agree?


Now, come to the Flying Fox (as known as Zipline)


Wow ! seriously i do LOVE Flying Fox very much! (actually there is another story behind it)


The Story Behind...

Well, accident almost happened to me when i am on the Zipline... When i get set from the platform, everything seems alright to me. So, i decide to let go my boths hand from holding the string...immediately i lost my balance and eventually i am leaning backward. The people bottom see this and shouted at me. On that moment i feel nothing, but then when the people shouted at me, i get panicked too and immediately i hold back the strings lolz... the others are worrying that i may injured my backbone because of the sudden impact. However, fortunately i am alright after that, and i feel very sorry to the others because i have cause them to worry about my safety... (anyway, this Zipline here is very loose,short and is in the U-shape, instead of a long distance and tight one. It is very fast and heart catching if compared to the normal one =p)





The next high element activities

This afternoon is full of FUN and EXCITEMENT ! Its time for the dinner and rest before the next activity start....
What they hint us on the next activity is, we are going to walk ALOT... (haha...nighwalk AGAIN, hmmm...walk alot? can be how far? 10km? or 20km? =p )

Yeap...we walk as a group in a dark, with a light stick for the people infront. During this time, the teamwork has come in. Everyone is helping each other to make sure everyone can walk through the path carefully. (for Kelly: my shirt !!!! hahahaha =p)

Wokay, now i know the distance we are going to walk already...we are heading to the Marichie Reservoir Park, from the Upper Bukit Timah area...is around 10+ km if i am not mistaken.
For some of us, this distance is consider far for them.
However, in the end, all of us are managed to reach our destination, the power of GRPR...=)



our group photos

wow! i receive a certificate for this camp !


Today is a very tiring day, but all of us have alot of funs from all the activities. Tonight is a raining night, how wonderful this weather for this kind of situation, i really enjoy a great night sleep after the whole tiring day lolz



9th November

This is the last day of the camp. After the breakfast, we are going to leave the campsite and go home. We pack up the our belongings, and together we write a reflection journal for everybody ^^ In the closing ceremony, we have watch a video. I feel that the video is very inspirational for me. I realise, everybody in the world also have their own strength which they may not discover yet. I will try to discover my strenghness and make full use of it, how about you?






The Tek-alicious Family @ Discovery Camp





-end of Discover Camp 2008-