* The story on the event itself is coming soon. Patience, young grasshoppers.
Friday, 8 August 2008 - Run and Roll: Silver Streak. To tell you the truth, the night portion of this Run and Roll shindig was (yeah, you guessed it) boring. Not many people actually came, there was only milo & water for beverages and satay, fruits & some white thing for consumption. But the real excitement, fun and thrills for me were hours before the event even started.
So here's how it all began. Arrived in Cheras at 1400. Went to an empty hall, called David Kam, moved over to the Lobby. Hao Zhi, Syazana & David were already in there, David had something to do so I followed Syazana (who was apparently dead hungry) & Hao Zhi to the canteen. There I saw a couple of familiar faces: Aaron Ong & Natalie Wong at the stairs leading up to the lobby when Syazana & Hao Zhi were putting their bags in some place safe. Tyen & Izzwan at the cash register in the canteen. Chong Kien (who hugged the living daylights out of me) at one of the tables. There were a few more, but no contact was made with them. Just so you know, I'm real shy.
Syazana bought chicken rice, Hao Zhi disappeared and I got myself a bottle water for the long day ahead. Sat down with Syazana while she ate. Kept rushing her too. It was fun, really. Then David ran up to us saying "After you eat, go to the Lobby(yes, he punched out this word)." So rushed Syazana, I did. Later on when she was dumping her plate and utensils, I walked toward the swimming pool. Then I suddenly saw Hao Zhi walking beside Syazana. Where'd he come from? Caught up with the two, and we dashed back to the Lobby. Soon the whole Seven-Man-Team was here: David Kam, Steven Chow, Lee Hao Zhi, Syazana, Bernard Sam, Tsara & Rachel.
We dashed over to the hall, apparently there was a prize-giving going on for the runners of the jogathon. Syazana, Momoko and I were the last-minute, impromptu prize-givers (a.k.a. the tray carriers) for the event. There were so many medals to give out (everyone was given one for participation), and everyone was moving so quickly. We had to hold the trays AND get ready the medals to be placed over their heads. The sashes getting tangled almost every time wasn't helping. It was soon over, with everyone glad (participants got their medals and the prize-givers could leave & rest). Soon it was time for the chinese drummers to get our transports arranged to go to the Enstek area. Did I mention we'll be the first "students" there?
I was in Mr. Kang's car, along with David, Hao Zhi and Steven. Basically, only the CPAC Teachers and us would be there. Funtastical. The long journey there (like really long) was quite short for us in Mr. Kang's car. How? David and I told our childhood stories together. He has three brothers, yes three. And all of them have "different personalities", so you can tell how the stories turn out. Man, it's like some friggin' adventure. Though, personally, I think my childhood TWIN stories are much more, interesting. Loads of psychic, weird, cool stuff there. But that's really a story for another day. Still curious? Find me, sit down for awhile. I might just share my little tale. OR I'll post it all in one huge post filled with my baby/childhood pictures. Oh, for a fact I look totally different when I was a kid (Ellya looks pretty much the same), so look real hard. And guess.
After much talking, we arrived in Enstek, Sepang. We stopped at this "roundabout" with one arc having stairs leading up to what appeared to be a square and a hill directly opposite. With much excitement, we got out of the car and dashed right up the stairs. I wanted to make a call to someone who couldn't make it and brag how awesome this place was. But my phone wasn't in my pants. Gee. I ran back down the stairs, much annoyed, to Mr. Kang's car. I managed to get there before he drove off. Lucky me. Opened the door, jumped (literallly) into the back seat, grabbed my phone and uttered a almost indistinguishable "Soh-REYYY" to the drivers seat and slammed the door. Mr. Kang was still in the car, just about to take off. I started my way up the stairs, which formed an arc, split into six sections with immense, looming pillars reaching out into the sky on each of the seven "dividers." There were two pots at the end of each "divider". I was using the middle section. An awesome sight, it truly was.
Make no mistake, this place is breath-taking. As I stood on the edge of the highest step, I could see Banjaran Titiwangsa in the distance, a up-and-coming CILC, the gigantic roundabout, palm trees, and construction vehicles. Behind me was grass so green and like seemingly soft you could just lay down on it (we did later on, and it's like acupuncture; you've been warned). Also there was a few show houses, very nice I might add, a large square, and a playground. Everyone ran for it soon after Syazana shouted, "PLAYGROUND!". Then they stopped, turned around and asked, "Um, can we teacher? Pwease?" Ms. Wan answered, "Hah, yeah sure!" Then they ran off. I just stood there laughing. The place is quite echoey. Then I whipped out my phone, rolled out my Contacts List, pondered whether I should make the call and changed my mind at the last second. I called Tyen. I bragged as hard as I could, but he didn't seem as enthusiastic as I thought he'd be. Still I got the message pretty far across.
Then I ran off to the playground, and like mad children we ran around trying everything out. The monkey bars wasn't much of a challenge; if I tip-toed, I'd be touching the floor. The slide was pretty amazing, though at the top you needed help to actually enter the darn thing and to actually move. It was only much later on that it was really steep that you almost couldn't stop yourself from going down. Everyone was interested in the "animals-on-springs" things, them bouncy critters. So we ran around like we've never seen a playground before, laughing, shouting & screaming our lungs out. Then it we pretty much did all we could there.
Then later, we went back to our bags - which we conveniently dumped on a nice huge patch of grass. We sat down, discussed stuff, relaxed. Then the unimaginable happened - Hao Zhi shouted, "THE GRASS LOOKS TO COMFORTABLE." then he lay down/jumped on it and all I got out of that was "OUCHHH!" or maybe some swear word, I don't know. He told us not to sit on it. Man, that grass is pokey. David asked us to start thinking of designs for our incoming costumes, I wrecked my basic man figure, gah. Then David at one point, when only Steven and I were left, whipped out a container of foooddd! All of us we're getting hungry already. At this point all the trucks were arriving with the food. Durians, satays, fruits, them white stuff, you name it. At this point, was random walking around the square.
Some of us were here, some of us were elsewhere. We also tried to plan how we would perform later, the locations, the patterns, everything. More and more people were beginning to arrive starting with the last batch of CPAC Teachers and soon Julie, Tasha and the bands. We starting playing at the playground more, calling it our "home-base". I smsed a few people. Got back fewer replies. Nyeh, won't complain. Haha. Enjoy the rest of the pictures:
* Don't forget that all the way at the bottom is where I write about the Run and Roll actually beginning.
I'll finish this off tomorrow, expect modifications on the existing post, captions on the photos and additions on the event itself. For now, enjoy the only three photos I have of the night. ;D
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