The Dramatic - Still Vain -

Honestly, I've never felt more tired in my life and thanks to The Mad Race, I finally did. The Mad Race is a "spin-off" to the hit reality show, The Amazing Race, organized by Campus Action Ministry and, no, we did not travel around the world for the race. The whole race just took place along the Kelana Jaya LRT station, with the given RM65. In the very beginning, I thought it might be kinda lame or maybe it's just so cliche and it's not gonna be tough, but boy, I was so wrong. It was indeed a MAD thing.

I was wondering how they were gonna determine which team goes first and all. So here's it. In my team of 5 people, we were given a piece of Wordhunt puzzles where you need to find ridiculously long words in the puzzle and that's how the order of the team was determined. Already I had to wake up early to go for an event and now they want me to open my eyes to look for long words? Come'n, the soul in me is not even awake so much so that, yes, my team was the last to leave church. For your information, there were 7 teams. Since we had to wait for the church van to send us to the LRT station, we had all the time as we were the last, so we had to do it.

Finally it was our turn to get up the van to the Wangsa Maju station to begin the race. The energy began to burst out after the camwhore session during our journey to the station. We hyped ourselves up and tell ourselves that the last team to begin doesn't mean the last team to arrive. That's what happens in Amazing Race anyways. Our very first task was to proceed to the nearest end of the Putra LRT station, so there was a debate whether it's terminal or Kelana Jaya. Of course it's the terminal where it's nearest. We are supposed to find a car with the car plate 9507 and the next clue will be in the back seat. The kiasu high-spirited us ran as fast as we could trying to catch up with the other teams. Surprisingly, were ahead of one team already. Now that's pretty simple!

The next task: We had to proceed to the nearest underground station and then find the nearest petrol station. Guess what? We are supposed to assist 10 people in fulling up their tanks and get their signatures as proof. The petrol station is damn far from the station ok? We had to run like crazy. Reaching there, seeing other teams leave. I've have by far done the most ridiculous thing in my life - directing cars into petrol station in hope that they will come in fill their tanks. None! I can't believe why people do not pump petrol on a public holiday. Isn't petrol price like, cheap?(Anyway, I'm not going back to that Caltex ever). We were already quite behind time as other teams have left but more energy was picked up by determination.
As we reached the LRT station we had to do star jumps on our journey to the next station, and it has to be recorded as a pass in our next station. You heard it, in public!


Next station Jelatek! At this juncture, we were already ahead of 3 teams. In the same train as Jolene's team. On the way to Jelatek, we were discussing who's gonna do the Sudoku in the next station. According to what I heard, they said Jolene is very good at Sudoku while me, I normally play halfway and then I'll give up. So I guess I'm gonna die there. We ran across the street to the tennis court opposite the station as if the road belongs to our dads. Things become more interesting when you have to pick up objects and put them in the quantity that represents the numbers in the empty boxes. So I quickly did the Sudoku while the other 4 looked for objects to fill in the blanks after I finished. We had like broken shoes, dirty plastic bags, rotten leaves, etc. Surprisingly, I got it all right in my first attempt. Maybe I should start playing Sudoku nowadays.

Again, we met Jolene's team again on our way to the next station, KLCC. We are now 4th place, not bad huh? We are supposed to go to the park once we reach KLCC and look for them. Do you know how big the park was? I had no idea. And they had to choose a spot where it's the FURTHEST. My leg was already hurting but you gotta persevere, man. Samuel was running like a leopard looking for them. Finally, we found them and we reached before Jolene's team. So, we had to stretch ourselves from our current position using a rubber band to reach the marshmallows in front of us, one by one. That's not exactly difficult but as we finished we were given a "present" - an apron where someone had to wear it throughout the whole journey. Not only that, we had to make sure the person takes 10 pictures with strangers around on our journey to the next station. Since Michelle was the only girl, she didnt mind wearing the apron. Thank God everyone we approached didn't mind becoming our victims. On our way, there were guards that were restricting us from doing any activities but we just couldn't care less.


I'm sure you want know what happens after this station right? Bear with me a little while! Basing on the fact that my arms and feet are dying on me, I should be going to bed now.