I arrive at the hotel about 12.30pm and realize the room was locked so I can’t put my bags in it. Gen asked me to call Jimmy but he was not in the hotel either (gone out to fetch people). Luckily Samuel was in the hotel to help me carry my stuff and put them in the Secretariat room. Then I made my way to Vivo City to meet the rest of my group and the Indian delegates.
The Indian DelegatesThey wanted to go to Sentosa by cable car and it cost S$23 per person. So expensive!!! So we drop them off at the cable car station and the four of us (Sam, Ben, Monil and I) took the monorail instead. Gen was bringing another two Indian delegates who didn’t want to take cable car. Unfortunately, we stop at the wrong station so we have to take the monorail again back to the previous station. And the cable car station is quite a distance from the monorail stop too. So we had to run all the way back to the cable car stop and that’s super tiring.
Finally manage to find them and then made our way to Underwater World. That’s where they wanted to go and because it’s also quite expensive to go in, we decided to wait for them outside as they plan to go for 30mins only. The queue for tickets was very long too and there’s discount for Singapore students and citizens. So we use our cards to buy for them. Ha-ha...Since I have not been there before, maybe I should go too while the offer is still valid :P
Peacock we saw outside Underwater WorldAfter they exited from Underwater World, they wanted to go to Dolphin Lagoon but the queue for the shuttle bus was just too long so we decided to give it a miss and go to the beach instead. Played at the beach till about 6+pm when we decided to make our way back to Vivo City. One of them didn’t have either monorail or cable car ticket so I pass mine to them and took the bus together with Sam.
My Bed!Day 2 
On our way to Pulau Ubin
Outward Bound Singapore. It’s raining the whole morning and they told us to bring along our sweater cum raincoat before we depart to Pulau Ubin. It was freezing cold. It was still raining when we arrive so they decided to come up with indoor activities instead. There are obstacles like rock climbing and ropes. Quite fun but I didn’t join them coz I don’t like indoors. I was looking forward to play the things outside. Sad sad.
We had our lunch after trying all the different obstacles. Lunch was not bad. After lunch we had a few games for us to accumulate points to purchase enough equipment for the building of raft. Started to build our raft around 4pm and we only have 20mins to complete it. Super rush. We didn’t manage to finish within the time limit. Actually we didn’t have enough points so we had to combine with another team, Group 4. Oh yea, my group is Group 8. We set off the raft at 5pm, though it was still drizzling, we go on with the plans.
Xin Ying and I
Barbeque for dinner followed by campfire. I really enjoyed the campfire. Super fun dancing and singing. This reminds me of the time we had in secondary school. Return to main island at about 9pm. Since we are group 8, we are like one of the last to leave the place. Ha-ha...and all of our group members were in the previous boat while we had to take a later one as they can’t accommodate all of us. So Zhang Quan and I took a different boat with the Aces and instructors.
Reached RELC at about 10pm. Showered and went down for rehearsal. Slept quite late again.
Day 3
Assembled in the auditorium at about 7.30am. We will be visiting NIE-NTU. Khairi asked John if we can be excused from the talks to work on the videos and he allowed us to do so. We walked over to NTU to use the internet connections there to search for pictures that we can use for the video.
Before we leave NIE, we manage to get Suhaimi and Ben to do the Singapore Town song for us to record. Quite funny.
Set off to Science Centre Singapore and watched the IMAX movie as soon as we reached there. They were screening The Alps. It was really amazing but I fell asleep for a few minutes. Not that the movie is boring but rather I need lots of sleep. Ha-ha...make up for my lost sleep.
After the movie, we were ushered to another Auditorium for a welcome note. We then made our way to the i-Space exhibition. Oh yea, they also assigned buddy for us when we were in the bus so that we can take note of each other and not get lost. My buddy’s Adren Sim. He’s a fun guy. Yup so we were going around the exhibits before they asked us to watch another show on electric current and how the electric can be transmitted to burst the Hydrogen filled balloons. After that show, we move to the auditorium again to watch a magic show, mostly related to science. Lastly, we went to view the Magic exhibits. Fun to know some of the magician secrets and many of them actually related to science. So cool.
Bus buddy and me
Had our dinner at Science Centre and then make our way back to RELC. There’s going to be rehearsal for 6 countries at night and we have to get prepared. Rehearsal ended after Singapore participants performed at midnight. We stayed up till 2.30pm to do our video. Just manage to do a bit.
Day 4
We visited the NEWater plant at Bedok. We were separated in two groups and one of us will walk around the gallery while the other will listen to the talk first. The participant were given a chance to give their opinion regarding the water recycling in their country or the NEWater method. After sharing their views, we had our lunch before departing to the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). We were given a chance to walk around the gallery before assembling to set off for the Urban Challenge.
Urban Challenge started at 2pm. We had to plan our route to complete the most station in the shortest time. The places we went are Food Centre opposite URA, Sri Mariammam temple, Kuan Yin temple, Sultan Mosque, Liang Seah Street, St. Andrew Cathedral, Raffles Statue, Merlion, Esplanade, Fountain of Wealth, Food Republic@Vivocity and Tekka Market. There are some challenges at the stations which include passing the message at Sultan Mosque, finding a certain shop at the food centre, singing at Esplanade, taking photographs with tourist, solving mathematics questions at Fountain of Wealth and many many more. So we actually visited all 12 stations to unlock the mystery clue which is City Link but we didn’t have enough time to visit that place. Made our way back to RELC and reached 7pm sharp. We were then asked to complete a quiz regarding all the places that we had visited.
They took some time to tally the score before John came over to announce the winner which is GROUP 8!!! My Group!! Super happy super excited. We then had our dinner (Canadian Pizza) and continue with rehearsal plus video editing till 4.30am.
Day 5
I woke up late today. Was up at about 8.30am and breakfast was almost over. I actually woke up at 6am and realize that today’s breakfast is served at 7am instead so I went back to sleep and overslept. When I went out of my room, I met Sunny and Bernice, they were late too. Ha-ha...so when we reach the auditorium, the talk on leadership had already started.
9 Am. We set off to Telok Blangah road, Henderson Wave. We walked across the bridge, taking photos and chatting. Reached our picnic spot at around 11am. Laid the mat and started with games. It was really fun playing but they wanted us to go and eat first before continuing with the games. The food was tasty. Adren and Damien even made a sandwich for me. Ha-ha...they put a lot of filing inside and the sandwich was super thick. Anyway I finished it since I was super hungry. Wei Jie also gave me muffins and lychee juice. I was sitting down at the mat there eating with Zhang Quan and the foreign delegates when suddenly a grasshopper appeared. Ha-ha…and guess what!! Zhang Quan actually ran away super fast. He’s scared of grasshopper. Ibrahim took the grasshopper away in the end and they can’t help laughing after that.
Made our way back to RELC and that was our last bus ride. Each bus ride, there will be people entertaining us either singing or dancing. Reached back RELC and it was time for each country to prepare their exhibits to showcase their own culture. The exhibition was great. It’s like visiting all the ASEAN countries, China, India and Kazakhstan in just one day. I manage to get quite a lot of souvenirs too. We continued with rehearsal at night. Very tiring. We didn’t sleep the whole night hoping to finish the first draft of the video before the rehearsal in the morning.
Day 6
We had rehearsal the whole morning. At 4pm, it’s time for them to showcase their exhibitions again to the guest. The concert started at 5pm sharp but the new DVD was not done yet. So we had to use our backup plan instead. Really very stressful at first but everything went on smoothly. In the end Zhi Zhan and I was dancing in the control room instead. But of course we didn’t abandon our job, obediently on the lights and play the music. And there was a surprise for the scholars where they had presentation of certificate. So we actually went on the stage to collect them. Overall everyone was happy and satisfied with the evening although it did not turn out as we hope it will be.
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