Written on Saturday, November 01, 2008 at 9:55 PM

The Green Race | Written by 【 Uniquely XC™ 】

Participated in the green race today, made so many stupid mistakes and in the end causing our group to be disqualified as we were late into the finish point by 13 minutes

Mistake 1) Complete failure of our team's communication at the first pit stop....Hongde became separated from our group and was not to be found for another 15 mins, again wasting precious time. roamed around Plaza Singapura to find out something that we could crap out in just a few minutes... More precious time wasted

Mistake 2) Failed to plan our route properly, resulting in a waste of time travelling. My Fault. Period

Mistake 3) at the Macpherson CC pit stop, a seemingly impossible task is taking us a long time to finish, but apparently to my group members stuck in their childhood years, it was fun to throw an odd trash ball down 2 storeys, again wasting precious time before I blew up (figuratively) and forced everyone to change to another task. as in turns out, it is much easier

Mistake 4) My limited vocab killed me here, I believed all words ending with 'al' have to end with 'cal', leading to everyone thinking of words such as 'ecological', 'economical'. Only with Hongde's dictionary did we found out the eventual word 'external'. Hmm, at least I learnt something new today, there ARE words ending with 'nal' lol. My fault again

after recounting these mistakes, I have finally realised that with all of them put together, it just completely screwed up our race. This is a completely different experience from 'Finding NEBO", where we made only a few small errors

Haiz, never mind la, at least it was fun :)

its the experience that counts, not the results

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P.S: after comparing the green race and 'finding NEBO' race, I have found out that choosing the right teammates with complementing personalities plays a great part in the outcome of the race, you definitely dont want to be arguing and shouting at your teammates throughout the race....you should get what I mean