Sunday, February 22, 2009
Had a mentally exhausting night for B2B. All our rovers activities are bound to have hiccups (as they put it..."mei you chuo zhe jiu bu shi rovers le")but yesterday's was a big OMG! Everything just all happened at once and everyone was like.... "bu hui zhe me qiao ba". And the groupings had some last minute changes for some reason blah blah blah. But fortunately, after some chaos and a lot of running around, we still managed to get started (though we were way way way off time).
WJ and i were super worried so we decided to flag the participants asap which means only KM and i were left with 16 comm bags, some of the participant's barang, all the logistics(banners + loudhailer etc), 8 bikes and all the last min discrepancies to settle. Eventually we managed to shift everything onto the van but the bikes were a big problem. Due to some last minute problems, we were left with more bikes than we could handle cos the van could only carry a limited number. managed to squeeze 4 into the back of the van. Den we had to think of how to secure the rest at kitrunners. After a lot of calling around to qiu jiu and stuff Witono decided to fly back frm Geylang to lend us his bikechain and help us secure the bikes. I can only say that all of us were sweaty and breathless after squeezing 4 bikes into a not very long chain. Physically taxing sia. After Witono left we had to settle a mountain of paperwork and Km was like complaining about some grouping stuff he was pissed with and i sort of agreed with him. k lah i wasn't pisssed, just a little frustrated. Haha. But oh wells there was nothing we could do about it alr anyways.
Finally we could get on the van and enjoy the aircon, and we were like saying that being on the van was definitely as tiring (or worse than)as cycling the whole night. We had to go around changing bikes, lending slippers to ppl, fixing bikes and bike lights, entertaining people and liasing with the facilitators. And we were quite emo-ed cos we each had our own personal stuff to settle and etc. And so much for counselling him when i myself had some issued i was caught up with.Haha. Ironic. had quite some time while waiting for groups to arrive so we had a long long talk/debate.
Den finally after a night which stretched us to our limits it was finally over. Yupp. We were all super emotional when participants came over to thank us and shake hands etc. Felt so appreciated all of a sudden. Then there were pats on the back and hugs from the seniors which left us teary-eyed. Den some of the 29th who voiced that "KM WJ and TW all xing ku le, we know u all very stressed cos of the last min stuff but u did well. and we were impressed". Haha. That was the last straw man. It was like everything overwhelmed us and some of us went to ine side to sniffle for a while. Lol. Much to the amusement of shiyao. All in all i must really express my gratitude to all the 29th, the seniors (shiyao and laiyee), Witono (for trying to de-stress us with his disgusting laugh) and the participants for being so understanding and peng chang; for giving up seats to us when we arrived, for making space for us, for letting us kop their food, for sharing leng xiao hua, for talking to us etc etc etc
And finally i think i should thank leongjinghao. sorry love for neglecting u for so long.
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