Wearing her shoes, all twenty-four
carat,
To The Prom, she starts to walk.
After a meal, at the Old Market,
The Catfish swims, back to his spot.
This is a riddle. Can you
guess the four landmarks it is referring to? For Anchorvale CC Toastmasters
contestants to the first ever Division A Amazing Race; Norman Tan (Catch Us), Rachel
Heng (The Killer Girl Squad), Roger Yap, Julie Mae, Ken and Rasu (Anchorvale
Avengers), Suresh plus son Liktesh, Deb and Chee Sian (Anchorvale Minions),
beside scratching our head, we had to frantically draw lines on the map linking
Golden Shoe to The Promontory and Merlion to
Lau Pa Sat. Next come the running to
the metal cone sculpture (where the lines crosses) to take picture before
running back to the starting point at UOB Plaza for the next clue.
Interestingly, our
assignment at UOB Plaza was to do a spontaneous group dance for a minute, what
a great workout! The Avengers and Minions (not the super heroes and the cute
playful lots) decided to do a Macarena! You know, the one with folding arms and
head touching movements……. All for the sake of the next clue, which is…..
Dashing off to Haw Par
Villa! Taking the trains, it’s about one of few times we can take a breather.
Phew! But on reaching the car park there, we have to stomach this; literally
two pieces of bread and two biscuits per person from two members in each team
before we can proceed into the villa. There we were treated to a hurried, or
shall I add sweating, educational tour of traditional Chinese values, by taking
picture of statues and information boards (if any) with at least two members
from each group based on the clues given. On correctly identifying and
photographing the five needed, one of which is Confucius (one other is Statue
of Liberty – traditional Chinese values? How confusing!), we were given the
next instruction to……
Scurry down to Vivo City!
To the roof top near the hanging man for our next clue. Running around in an
air-conditioned shopping mall, taking embarrassing pictures with mannequins
(each team member to take one with each) and collecting free samples (at least
one food, one cosmetic and one brochure) is another mad men experience. In
addition to that, remembering at least fifteen words and acting out five of
which from a gymnasium advertising “wall of offerings” is testimony the
organizers (our member, Salma, is one of) believe in both mental and physical
extreme stretch before we are allowed to…….
Enter Sentosa Island by
foot! A great day to burn calories. No, the bread and biscuits cannot make up
for it. We could take train or bus once we are in the island to Palawan Beach
though. Again, no, not the one in sunny beautiful Philippines. But we were helped
by beautiful beach goers in taking photograph of all four of us in a team
jumping up, captured at the precise moment when we are in mid air, with the
beach and the sun as our background. Taking in mind the jump was a challenge in
itself as it was done with weak knees. This is so as we had just built a sand
castle approximately a meter wide and, ahem, knee high! We had fun going back
to our childhood play though. And alas, the moment of truth…..
Crossing the shaky and
crowded hanging bridge with our shaky knees, we made our way to the final pit
stop, which is the Southern Most Point of Continental Asia. Hurray! Anchorvale
Minions emerged third in this inaugural Amazing Race! The magnificent bonding
continues……
Written by: Chee Sian, TM
Groupie!
If it's not a full-stop, what is it?
Macarena!
Rushing to the checkpoint!
@Vivo!
Deb, you look really tired...
So hungry...
Chee Sian...
2nd Runner-up!
Chilling out after a tiring day.
Anchorvale!
Group shot with all the participants!
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