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After 12 hours of standing, i finally completed the standard chartered marathon volunteering job. It wasnt easy, in fact, it was super yucky. Not to mention standing under the scorching sun, the volunteer welfare sucks to the core. i dun see why SAAA and sports council could do this to their volunteers. I was the drink station leader at the 36km mark. Runners running pass my station are realie great, having running for at least 3 hours non stop. all they asked for was 100 plus. but sadly, my station don have one. yes i know every station doesnt have 100plus but the thing is my station supposedly have 100 plus de..but when we reached there in the wee hours of sunday, there were only boxes after boxes of ice mountain. and its realie disppointing to tell the runners that sorry, we dun have 100 plus. they haven come blah blah..and its worst to see the look on their face. honestly, i hope these runners complain to sports council if not the organizers conveniently think that this year event is a success again. my foot lo. i was super pissed at their management style and attitude can. i think damiler and jing shun give us better welface than them. Because at the end of the whole race, every volunteer gather back at padang to receive that 20 bucks. and u know how sorching hot the sun is yesterday? it was super super sunny and over at padang, they isnt any shelter at all. unless there are booths, if not the whole padang is exposed to the sun. how stupid rite..imagine all of us(the volunteers) who did not get any sleep the day before had to q up under the hot sun to get that pathetic 20 bucks. i was cursing and swearing at em ok. and im not the only one. worst, we had to stay that way for an hour. why? because there is only one q. i dun understand why cant they have anthr q. and when they finnally decideded to have anthr q, its almost our turn. realie f* up lar, the whole system. lucky damiler and jing shun went ard to collect cardboards and styrofoams around the field and sheild us from the sun. Imagine out udner the sun when u are already so tired and shagged out. The event did not run as smoothly too. Every station leader has a walkie-talkie which we use it to communicate with the chief drink sation leader. At some stations, they were quite under staffed and the manpower deployment was so super slow that by the time enough manpower came, the station has more or less quieten down. actually drink station needs a lot of manpower coz when the runners start coming in, u need to ensure that the table has at least one bottle of mineral water, uncapped and easy for the runners to get em. plus when u uncapped too many bottles, ur hands start to have blisters and feel painful. the gloves they give is not only smelly, but its of no use. coz theres no friction and so when u use it to uncapped the bottles, it becomes more of a hassle than a help can. HAI. im realie disappointed in the whole marathon thingy. The first time i went for the briefing i thought how coool the organizers are and the things they said they have in preparation. its so lousy lar. i think most of our hall events give better welfare than em! and i feel so sorry for my fellow sp mates. coz it was realie sucky and they have to go through all these with us. realie sorry yet realie appreciative too. i know many of us wil rather give the 20 dollars out of our own pocket than to endure the whole event.

Other that the horrible experience of being the marathon volunteer, i must say im impressed with the people who choose to run the full marathon. yesterday weather was bad for running, coz the sun is super bright and there wasnt much wind too. As i was at the 36km mark, the runners who ran passed my station, i can see from their faces that they have almost zero energy to finish up the remaining 7km. i can almost feel their thigh muscles aching like hell, body tired out and their sugar level very low. but many stil pressed on and they are realie realie good. not forgetting those elite runners and the first runner who went pass our station. He went passed our station at bout 745, one hour and 45 mins after the start of the marathon. and he can still ran damn fast lar. realie lightning speed. no kidding. hes a black ba..nigerian perhaps. super good. when those elite runners went passed my station, its almost liek wind u noe, and i was rooted to the grd coz realie amazed at their speed and while they ran pass, they grabbed the drinks and many bottles just spilled over..can u imagine that speed ma chiam knocking down anything that comes in their path.. WOW. haha.

i saw many familar faces in the marathon too. when more people passed by my station, i was expecting edmund to run pass any minute. But before him, i saw kenny, john, jian wei and keng yee. They were very fast in fact. coz i think that time was around 10 plus 11 ba. Jian wei most prob running for the commandos, like edmund. Keng yee mayb run for fun lar. Its funny how me and him never acknowledge each other when i see him along nbs corridors but yesterday, i recognize him and vice versa and say hi jiayou and bye...and poor edmund thought i have 100plus. actually i was supposed to have de lar..and he knows my station will serve 100plus. but realie sorry ed, the stupid chief drink station leader told me the drinks are being deployed to my station from 8am but all the way till nearing 1130 then the drinks come. Have no idea whats the use of a walkie-talkie when the help we needed come so long after we have voiced our problems. Some station leaders even more funny can. Keep asking stupid qns like "eh whats the huge white canvas bag for?" its for throwing rubbish lar..like how duhs to ask these qns lar..one even worst, ask "eh sorry, i have a goup member who needs to pray (muslim). where should he face", "i got a volunteer who needs to have vegetarian meal, how ah?"haiya, reallie a lot of rubbish problems lar..and the chief drink station leader have to deal with these childish problems instead of focusing more on the staff and drinks deployment.

So, i have decided. the nxt time i want to be involved in the marathon is when i want to challenge myself and run the race. Edmund did ask me to run with him nxt year but i dun htink i can make it to the 20km mark, let alone the full 42km race. i will just die halfway. so mayb the half marathon or no, i think 10km ba? hahaa..ed says the runners' welfare is good, as in the goody bag. oh ya speaking of goodie bag, we DUN HAVE any goodie bag lo. except on adidas shirt. not those dry-fit de lar..just normal tee can..what lousy service is this? argh, got myself worked up again talking bout em.. i want to send a complain letter to SAAA!

Tonight ive got another round of vball trg. Got to catch some rest now first. oh ya, haha. saturday was a night of coincidences. Saw yan bing and dexuan on the way back to hall. We talked a while and then i saw shan ru and junwei. Both of em wore so nice. haha. they were out for their 2nd yr anni. junwei looked like hes gg for some wedding dinner..muhahha. he still looked duck-y lar..muhahhaa. yanbing looked so girl lo, nxt to dexuan and dexuan looked the same. speaking of bing and dexuan rminds me of the tao zhe concert tic! that lucky girl ah, dexuan bought 2 100-dollars tao zhe concert tic and kept as a surprise for bing's after-exam celebration lo. and yanbing dino at all. dexuan bought the tickets like one month ago. which means he planned it a month ago. he just love giving her surprises i guess..hahaha.

awwwww. bing, u realie the envy of many girls man =P

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