Wednesday, June 11, 2008
today was the first day of the nyec torch relay, and also marks the coming of the nyec event this saturday. woo! i'm kinda excited :D yesterday we were all busy calling each other to confirm stuff like where we were supposed to meet, what time etc... so it was a bit of a confusion.i woke up at 8.45am. ok that's not really important but nevermind... had a giant bowl of fried rice with ketchup for breakfast. that's not important either zzz -.-" changed into that bright green "green virus" shirt. haiz should've taken m size. s is just right for me, but i like big shirts. oh well, i just have to hope that this shirt expands instead of shrinks when i wash it. felt weird when i was on my way to choir cuz i was so bright, LITERALLY! some people were looking when i walked by, plus that giant nyec sign... wow. i'm a walking advertisement.
reached choir, did warmups blah blah... haha at least my... *ahem* ok nevermind :P daryl and i left choir at 2.25pm cuz we had to meet the rest of the people at hougang mall. it's wasn't hard spotting them. everyone looked so bright in the green shirt! i need my shades. me, anne and daryl bought bubbletea. haha mine's green apple ice blended with a green straw. hey i'm "environmentally friendly" with all that green stuff. we separated with the other team at 2.45pm. me, wantian, anne and daryl took bus 80 and changed to 76 afterwards. we called the hwa chong sec person along the way. guess what? he's a guy! all along i thought it's a girl cuz of the name. names are deceiving.
we all met at vjc at around 4pm. got a call from the previous team that they'll be 20mins late. so much for worrying about being late o.o took a few photos and we went on our way. took bus to some place, then trained to somewhere else. i sorta forgot everything, except that the train was so freaking crowded. oh and we travelled with 3 facills - qianyi, jarrett and kane. they're really nice (: so after we trained, we walked really far. daryl was trying to promote the nyec event by screaming. something like "14 JUNE AT HOUGANG MALL! COME AND SUPPORT US! NATIONAL ENVIROLYMPICS CHALLENGE!" haha yep. me, wantian and anne were laughing. ooh i forgot to mention what the torch looks like. it's this silver thing which is decorated with leaves and has a light bulb as a "flame". and it looks like a lamp post from afar. really heavy too. i had to carry it with 2 hands.
i'm too lazy to post all the details about the journey. the main points are:
it's really long [3 hours!]
we walked, bussed and trained for the longest time possible [and hence the 3 hours]
the previous grp was delayed cuz of the stupid media! [everything was delayed from the beginning and the facills kept talking about it]
so that's pretty much it. we reached our final point [boon lay] at 7.30pm or so. the next grp actually delivered the torch quite fast cuz when i called shiq at 8.15pm, she said that they just got the torch. hmm i'm thinking whether it's because they skipped the woodlands bit, but whatever. oh on our way home, those other 3 fellas called shiqi's grp and were very sacarstic. haha it's quite fun listening to their reactions :D
my mum finally bought the suspender shorts!