20 OCT Friday

Exhausted...

Was 15 mins late today for IS. Initially tot that i should be in sch a little earlier. I woke up punctually at 6 also. But it was juz the traffic jams arh. THough i was sleeping on the bus, i knew that there was traffic jams in amk and macritchie. Maybe i should be wake up at 5.30am for every friday. But... will that help? i wonder. The first IS lesson was basically on self introduction and expectations. We were also asked to form into groups. hmmm... there were 6 2T05 people in the class. haha... juz nice to form one team. So that's good bah. After that was mobile robotics. Tot that the stuffs that were shown were interesting. Different types of robots. Will be excited to program the first robot. hmm... Then after that will be a competition. Think the competition will be sth like the robot will be asked to follow a specific route to a finishing line. That reminded me of the micromouse competition that time. haha... The micromouse was required to go thru a maze till it reaches the middle of the maze and come back out again. haha... THis time will be different i think.

The title of this entry is "exhausted". This is juz wat i am feeling now after going for the event called wild on wheels. We were actually required to go to places ard SG to do different stuffs. Firstly from city hall, we were asked to go to chinatown. Bus was the onli way of transport in my mind. haha... Some of the teams took trains. hmm... to me, i think bus is the fastest way to chinatown from city hall. So took 63 down to chinatown. Was required to look for a place where people play chess and admire scenery. hmm... Our guess was correct. It's near the market actually. so at chinatown, we were given several chinese phrases and we muz approach some people to guess the phrases with the clues given by us. haha... luckily i still remember some 成语 arh. After that ran all the way to the bus stop. Had the stamina at least to run. haha... This time round to bugis. Took bus again. And it's the same bus number. 63.

When we reached bugis, we rushed all the way to the place where there is sth like a fountain? I dunno wat it is called. haha... The cheer we came out wif was so weird arh. This time round, we were tasked to collect some items. Stuffs like hair clip and a receipt that is more than 50 dollars. Was quite interesting though. haha... But realli exhausting. Each group had it's own identity by their shirt. That's why we wore the np shirt to the event today. There was even a group of 5 wearing masks and let me see... soccer socks. haha... Maybe it's becoz of the haze that they come out wif such a weird identity? Dunno. Next up was clarke quay. In each place, we were asked to find the marshal wif a picture given to us. Had a hard time finding the place. Asked for directions but sometimes to no avail. Reached the place and this time round. Asked to answer some questions abt austrailia. There were a lot of tourist there so we tried to ask if there were any people from australia. phew managed to find a couple from australia. haha... SO managed to answer the questions fast and this time round we can take a car to the railway.

At the railway, we muz find a piece of paper wif morse code questions. The marshals actually hid the questions somewhere. I was fast enough to find it. I had the idea that it muz be hiding behind sth. Looked behind the mailbox and i found one. So on the car, we were decoding the morse codes till we reached fort canning, which was the finishing line. Though we didn't win anything at the end, the experience was quite a nice one i think. Took a cab back to hougang wif rp. Had to take a cab becoz i was juz too tired liao.