Ugh. Pointlessness and pointlessness. Today, Daniel, Shaun, Jia Hao, and I went for some Urban Challenge thing. It's sort of like the Amazing Race, only a lot less amazing. Also, today was just a dry run. We were supposed to be station masters, not participants, but for some godforsaken reason, the organisers wanted us to play out the part of a team of participants. That basically resulted in us going around Singapore on what was a very warm, humid morning, which turned later into a horribly wet afternoon.

Oh, did I mention that the whole thing was based on the Chinese culture?

So anyway, at some point, I ended up in the Haw Par Villa(or however you spell that) looking for some sculpture of a pig, running low on energy... I don't know how people can survive without a full breakfast. I had a little bun for my morning meal, and by noon I was literally about to collapse from exhaustion.

It was also about that time that we got to witness first-hand the horrible drainage system over there. During our futile search for the pig thing, it began pouring. By the time we were ready to leave, the staircases had turned into mini rapids and the sloping path was a raging river of rainwater. Needless to say, my shoes got wet, and I spent the rest of the day sloshing around in sodden shoes, having my very hydrated socks do bad things to my feet.


Things took an upturn around lunchtime, when we went to Ikea for Meatballs. We pretty much dilly-dallied around there for a while before unconvincingly telling the organisers that we were lost... And somehow found our way into the Swedish furniture store.

If it weren't for the wet feet and worrying about smelling horrible (after sweating...and sweating...), I think that the day would really have been saved by meatballs and sauce.

Meatballs...mmm...

So anyway, I've just discovered that I have an organic chemistry tutorial to do by tomorrow, and that I have no scheduled breaks before that period. This means that I have to do it now, instead of getting to lvl63. Just 10% away... =(

-Joe