today was a very busy busy day!

i woke up at 0330 in the morning to prepare myself as i needed to reach east coast park by 0500. why do i need to be there so early? cause i had volunteer myself for the aviva ironman challenge. so at 0430, i took a cabby with shawn and wei li and off we went.

at about 0530, people had started to come so our very first job was to use stamp and ink to label the participants' numbers on their arms. the waiting line started to increase so in the end we had to spend like 1 hour to fully labeled everyone. it was so tiring as we kept standing and stamping. oh ya, this was when caleen and trisha finally came too. err, like 1hr 30min late? well, girls were famous for being late anyway so used to it le. lol. kidding.

so at 0700, the race finally began!! that was when we finally had our rest while we enjoyed eating some sandwiches too. at about 0800, we were brought to our new working location which was just behind the main stage. our job this time was to cut the fruits like watermelon and orange. we were still thinking that time that who the hell would dare to eat the cut fruits but soon we were proven wrong. oh ya, we were given a box containing curry puff, apple pie and 3 fish ball as tea break at about 0900.

so at 1100, the first runner reached the finishing line. he was from aussie and he completed the race under 3 hr 55mins!!!! WOW!!! 70.3 miles under 4 hours!!! after that, more and more people came in and soon our fruits stall was flooded with people. caleen and shawn became the orange cutter, wei li and i became the watermelon cutter while trisha was our fruits server. the demands for our fruits just kept increasing till we were unable to keep up with up. we just kept cutting and cutting till about 1500 before the demands die down. cant really blame them for being greedy cause we too were eating the fruits too. it was so refreshing under the hot sun.

at 1600, we secretly went over to the finisher stall to take some finisher shirts and medals. i took 3 shirts and 2 medals, the extra i took was for my brother. we went to collect our pays at 1630 and that was when i realised there was actually alot of cute girls around. all of them were volunteers too but we had different roles so never seen each others. then we proceeded to KFC for our free 2 piece meals and went home after that. oh ya, trisha did a "good" job in leading us to a bus stop cause we walked one whole round just to go there. lol. kidding.




the finisher and volunteer shirt plus medals!!




the finisher medal!!!





the finisher shirt!!!





~~Burned into ur eyes @ 9/07/2008 08:52:00 PM~~