Here goes one of them:

Yeah, nice shirt eh?

Off off we went. TADA. From vjc, we made a left turn, running towards the bedok bus interchange. IT WAS AN ENDLESS ROAD I SWEAR. A test of your running abilities, I should say. The fast were seperated from the slow by alot. The fast ones Brandon, Cheryl, Jie Hui and Yin Wang were the first few. And many teams began overtaking Rong Choon and me, RP, SMU... Yes, it's my fault, cause I really can't run. Before I know it, I turn around, seeing a cold, empty slab of concrete that leads back to vjc. We were the pathetic number 10. So run run run.

Reach interchange. Saw Brandon and Cheryl on the way there. They have already completed CP1 and we haven't even reach CP1. Best. hahas. We met Jie Hui and Yin Wang at the interchange. Had a hard time doing the checkpoints. SMART JC students. DUMB poly students. We were asked sum up all the bus numbers and on the paper, it was written, that there is only 2 chances. It's a pity that Jie Hui and Yin Wang was stuck there. There are really awesome at running. Alas, the CP master said that we can try as many times to get it right. Alas, after countless attempts, Yin Wang managed to calculate it, which saved Rong Choon and me too. I just realise the reason for our mistakes. The board only includes the SBS buses, we might add the Tibs buses in too.

So off we run to another place. We ran to bedok swimming complex. We were supposed to swim 25m, to the middle of the pool, dive and get the ping pong balls, to exchange for an egg. If we managed to keep it intact to the end of the race, we'll be given bonus time. . Next up was kayaking, at bedok reservoir. Luckily, the kayak was very close to the water, unlike the safra race. Paddled a pretty short distance before heading off to CP4.

CP4 was fantastic. GOT BIKES. I bet everyone was elated to see them! At last. Cycled on the pavements, towards tampines bike trail... Luckily, we only spent a short time there. Or else i think with the kind of slopes they have there, we'll die. Most of the cycling is done on the pavements. So it's pretty easy, just that it's very tiring, to maintain your speed, to prevent from being overtaken by your competitors.

CP5 was at the tampines park connector. We were supposed to find a quote admist all the rocks, memorise them and tell them. More or less based on luck. If you are lucky enough to find them. Off we go again on our bikes ( they are the ones we used in safra!) We cycled to pasir ris park to paddle board, where there was a bottle neck. Thankfully, in vjc, they do have a stop time. It was there,that we once again met Jie Hui and Yin Wang. The marshalls were not there to direct them to CP 4 and 5, which was, i'd admit, very anger inducing.

The paddle boarding was a tad irritating. No matter how much u so-called "paddle",you'll only move inches. hahas. Cycled to some ulu area to you know what! COUNT CLOTHS. This time it was stated that only one try is given. But how would we know if they are for real or not! I mean, c'mon, the first station, it was stated 2 chances only, IN THE END?, unlimited. A station where alot failed at, which resulted in poor positions, even with good timings. We counted wrongly, no chances given, was give DNF.

CYCLE CYCLE to do SODOKU. nice. best. ahhas. sit there and do. Aww. We're on to CP 9 alr, at ecp, orienteering. Pretty easy. Then run back to vjc. CP10 was to climb rockwall and absail. MAJOR bottleneck. Those whom are not in the first 3 teams for their categories, have to wait for a couple of hours before having the chance to try out the climbing and absailing.

SHOWER, APPEAL, MAKAN.

hahahahs. PRIZE GIVING TIME. NO PRIZES to those who guessed who won. (:

drum rolls*

MAY WE WELCOME CHERYL AND BRANDON!

Actually, there was a pretty close call btw 1st place and 2nd place. The other team being TAS senior (Norman and some girl) Yeah, so yah. WE ARE ALL SO GLAD YOU WON! (:

LOTS OF HUGS,

Wen Li

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HELLO dearest racers! :D



The blog has been dead for quite long already! So, i'm here to as the publicity to revive it. *wen li does cpr ( i learnt that during first aid!) Okay, it's revived! :D



For us racers, there was a major competition on 11 January 2009, in conjunction with hairi's birthday. Our dearest logistics head. It's the first adventure race for the year and it is Safra Rough Ramble! There are 3 categories! The open, novice and youths. The youths criteria being under 21 years old. Although, in scientific term, my iac teacher told me youths refer up to the age of 40. Yah, queer right? In this 3 categories, it's further divided into women's, men's and mixed. The teams are as follows...



OPEN - HAHAHHAHAS, noone entered. Those people in these category are so zai. Dam scary.

NOVICE

WOMEN'S
Jamie and Joanne

MEN'S
Wei Yang and Jacky

MIXED
Brandon and Jie Hui- THEY WON 2nd runner up!

Ai Zhen and Hong Bin (:



YOUTHS

WOMEN'S
Serene and Roxanne (oreos, yummy!)

MEN'S
Rong Chun And Hon Tek (DAM TALL PPL)

Xavier and Jun Jie (Aww, poor xavier cut his finger while using swiss army knife to cut the wirres from the bicycle pump away. Poor thing. Jun Jie accompanied him through the whole night of injections. Let's pray our that our president will heal quickly!)

Chiat and Fadzli (They are so funny ppl!) :D

MIXED
Cheryl and Hairi ( Poor hairi, had cramps every 10 mins while running, so cheryl ran for the biathlon and Hairi cycled.)

Wen Li (Yes, that's me) and Gregory

On the night before the race, we stayed and the cosy little loft.We have our reasons for doing so! The start point of the race was at dairy farm! MOE adventure centre, just beside bukit timah hill, the hell of all hills. I swear it was hell!

To be updated tmr! :D nights.

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Sunday, November 16, 2008

AGM 2008

Please note that we will be having our Annual General Meeting on the 20th December 2008, this saturday.

Time: 2-4pm
Venue: LT 5A or B

Please pay your $5 to the respective people in charge, Cheryl for the racers and Hui Miang for the climbers.

Thank you!

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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

CLIMB ON! 2008

itching to climb? want to volunteer?

climb on 2008 is here!

organised by the People's Association Water-Venture Section and Youth Movement, supported by Climb Asia, this climbing extravaganza will be held at Pasir Ris Park on the 1st and 2nd of November 08. More details will be posted at a later stage.

Please let Juer know if you want to join as a competitor or volunteer at 91513927.

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NOTICE:

X-VENTURES WILL BE HAVING THEIR ANNUAL BONDING CAMP FROM THE 5TH - 7TH OF SEPTEMBER 2008. PLEASE RSVP TO JUER AT 91513927. THANK YOU (:

PLEASE KEEP REFERING TO THE BLOG FOR UPDATES AND DETAILS.

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

The Pinnacle in npTribune!!!

Go check out the july-september 2008 issue of npTribune, pg4

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Thursday, August 7, 2008

Colours Award

PUT YOUR HANDS UP IN THE AIR!!

PUT YOUR HANDS UP IN THE AIR!!

PUT YOUR HANDS UP IN THE AIR!!
PUT YOUR HANDS UP IN THE AIR!!

PUT YOUR HANDS UP IN THE AIR!! xD

Congratulation to jie hui and xavier!! they have won the half Colours award!!! YEAH x 3!!!

thank you for those who came down to support!! =)

Pictures tells a thousand words, happy browsing......

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Friday, July 4, 2008

Pinnacle 08 pre-race pictures

Reccee pictures

oh look at what jk doing!

Sorry i'm busy!!

Meeting

**highlight**

The loft@94

wah!!! nice toilet...

At logistic room

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