yesterday alive!

I stayed over in club room on fri nite.. quite rarely will I stayover.. becos it's so troublesome.. especially bathing.. lucky I have a good freshie who is willing to pei me to the mpsh toilet.. but quite pai seh leh.. he has to wait outside for quite long.. I like take my own sweet time.. haha.. but I did tried to do it fast lah.. luckily he brought a book.. why go mpsh? scared of going MD toilet along bah.. quite dark.. mpsh toilet bright enough.. haha.. thank you my friend! hee..

anyway.. never sleep much that night.. tried to sleep at 2 plus.. but couldn't really sleep.. becos slept near a person's legs.. really scared his legs kick me.. haha.. and not very comfortable sleeping at a sitting position.. just try to close my eyes lor.. anyway.. has to wake up at 4 plus mah.. set off to east coast at 5am.. yes.. I volunteered to help becos I don't really want to run.. 4km leh.. for a person who haven't been running for such a long time.. better not do such a strenous exercise.. haha.. sounds like a excuse.. but I did exercise.. walk a lot lor.. anyway.. on the way to east coast on the bus.. seeing th scenery of singapore while the sun is stil not up is still enjoyable.. quite beautiful.. the new ferris wheel has colourful neon lights that change colours now and then..

reached east coast.. it's so dark.. only the street lights giving some light.. organising a morning run is not easy job.. especially for the organising comm.. don't think they have slept or even rested the night before.. preparing all the stuff and moving the stuff from sch to the event venue.. but at least now it is successfully over..

I was one of the marshaller along the route.. and I thought I got a good location with good view of the sea.. but later I found that it's not good at all.. there's no shade at all.. the trees are all so small.. can't even provide shade.. and so I am there standing under the big bright sun.. luckily I did apply some sun block.. if not.. I will be a black liao.. and there's nice tian boon, sky and xin wei.. bringing drinks to me.. don't feel so hot becos of their kindness.. haha..

the nice view of the sea.. it's so relaxing and peaceful for your mind.. it is really not wasting of time to be there.. me facing the bright sunlight. eyes can barely open.. yah.. behind me is the no signboard seafood.. there's a row of seafood restaurants there.. but not open yet lah.. hee.. while I waiting for the race to start.. I went to walk around and saw my long-time-no-see friend.. the snail that I used for my sec sch project.. haha.. it is feasting on the grass.. haha..
quite impressed with some ppl who can really run a lot.. they not only run a round.. they ran many rounds.. if only there's donation of money for every round run.. then more money will be raised le.. but to bad they can't find a sponsor for that..quite disappointed.. it's for a good cause mah.. but I think companies will want to have strong publicity bah.. no publicity so no sponsor..

the event ended at 11 plus.. when I walked back with the others.. every participant is already gone.. so never really know how's the event go..

but saw someone's nick on msn: "ALIVE08: lousy event of e year.. climblingfor 5 mns is >>>>> tiring than running for 50 mins

if the comm ppl see this.. quite hurting bah.. should be more encouraging lor..

these are his reasons.. 10 of them..
1. the last min no donor for each round ran really spoil the mood for this event lor, since it's supposed to b a charity run
2. no waterpoint @ finishin point cos they wan u to buy those can drinks from them @ $1 each. but wat if someone in need of hydration immediately?
3. usually runs are held much earlier one, run @ tat time really hot lor
4. supposed to haf a talent quest performance de
5. it's ok tat e goodie bag dun haf a lot of stuffs but they gif me a bun which expired on the day itself lor.
6. the number tag wasn't waterproof, smear by my sweat. luckily i remember the number, if not no need take my bag le
7. the registration haf 3 rows, namely A-L, M-Z and I-L.
8. one of the marshaller nver do his duty de, i almost gt lost
9th and 10th reason he forgotten le.. haha.. these reasons are quite true lah.. maybe the organising comm can improve on this.. but I think next year will have a very different event liao bah..

Alive! seems to be a difficult event to organise.. especially with no strong support for promoting and publicising.. although it is for a good cause.. but with no publicity.. not many ppl will know about it and join it.. there is also no support in the logistics and organising this event.. with only the small comm covering all the jobs is tough.. I think after attending the alive events over these 4 years.. I feel the most successful one should be the one by Terence.. it was a charity run.. the turn up was not bad.. can feel the festive, carnival atmosphere.. maybe it was a collaboration with the CC.. there were more help.. those less fortunate from the beneficiaries also attended the events.. I was one of the helper.. helping them to go around the route.. can really feel the happiness in them and charity in the air.. creating the awareness of giving and caring for the less fortunate in our society.. that's what is important bah.. better than the money raised.. that's what I felt..

A cute banner of the event.. but it's scale is too small.. I know there are ppl who should turn up did not turn up.. you know who you are... quite disppointing.. since you don't care, why should I? but thinking of the ppl who did their best to run and participant.. I think is worth it to be there..