The Subaru Team Challenge

These two guys I happened to know signed up for the Subaru Team Challenge. A few of us went down to Ngee Ann City on the first night to show our support. There were still a lot of challengers then who were still going strong. It really was an eye-opener, particularly if you have friends who were also part of the competition. Jo, one of those whom we're supporting was still dancing mildly to the rthym of the music when we got there. Tim, seemed rather restless, as he kept fidgeting while he squatted or spread his legs or juz standing.

Anyway, after an hour of standing there to support them, Gabby and I felt tired and thirsty and we decided to visit the nearby 7-11 to get some sinful ice-cream. Some evil thoughts entered our mind (it muz be due to heat) and we thought we could assist Tim and Jo by slurpping very icy and delicious slurppy in front of other contestants. So we purchase our cold drinks (we didn't get slurppy in the end) and proceeded towards the rest of the contestants. But I guess we were afraid that we might get beaten up by other contestants' supporters so we didn't proceed as planned. (Wuss, I know).

The next day, in an attempt to show our support, Wen came over to my place and we drew up a "poster" to motivate both Tim and Jo. Details of the poster are as follows:

C A R

= > $59K cash
= OUR Europe trip (Wen wanted the word, "OUR", becos he obviously wanted Tim to sponsor him for the trip if the latter won)
= long term solution to all your parking fines (Tim had been getting quite a number of parking fines recently. One word - SUAY)
= wedding package (both of them had to get married some day. Might as well earn the $$ now)
= many visits to Old Trafford (for the Man Utd supporter) and St. James Park (for the Newcastle supporter)
= Wen's GTO and Tim's Lexus in Houston (obviously, Wen was listing his own incentive if Tim had won. Yeah, he's not that good a friend actually)
= 700 days of No Pay Leave

There were some more but I can't really remember. Apparently, our poster did catch some attention and I think it sort of went on national TV (with Wen hiding behind it).

On the last day, however, the guys were eliminated cos Jo was struck by heatstroke and fainted. But we were all still very proud of the boyz cos they made it to Top 10.

After the challenge ended, a few of us discussed the event and thought of the different ways to eliminate your competitor if you decide to take part next year:

1. Eat lots of onions / durians before the challenge start
So that you can proceed to release foul gas to stink the hell out of your neighbours to force them to quit

2. Pretend to be a lunatic
You can pretend to chew your own arm or stare at your neighbour all the time or juz keep laughing non-stop.

Actually we've only thought of the above two ways. (yeah, we're not that productive).

I've heard quite a number of interesting stories of people who started hallucinating after two days of standing in the sun / pouring rain / without sleep. But, will leave that for next time.

Tim, if you're reading this, post an entry of the whole event in your blog, eh? Would love to read. Take care, by the way, and keep warm.