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after three days of work at ngee ann city civil plaza, im totally shagged. my legs ache so much that i cant walk; ache so much that i go to bed with plaster stick onto the back of my xiao tui; ache so much that i just feel like sitting down and not moving at all. pictures of the subaru challenge will be up later when i gotit from linda but its definitely an eye-opener for me. and i concluded that this challenge is totally unhumane at all!

on the first day, 32o contestants gathered at each of the 8 cars, 40 at each car. the challenge start on 1pm on saturday. A 5 minute break was given every 6 hours interval. that 5 minute break is used for eating, drink, using the loo and massaging. its definitely not enough. that pathetic 5 minute! what can u do? there are contestants who eat while urinating! its that precious!

on the second day when i reached at 8am in the morning, there arent as many contestants le. quite a lot gave up. its definitely not easy to stand there with minimal movement and keeping ur right palm on the car no matter what happens. no lifting is allowed at all. but after a day of no bathing and minimal wash up allowed, the contestants started to smell qutie bad.

on the third day, after like 50 over hours, when im back to work again, the situation worsen. during briefing at mediacorp last wednesday, the mediacorp ple were telling us that as the hours ticked by, the contestants will get very tired and some will start hallucinating. and its true. me and linda got totally freaked out by those hallucinating contestants. they will asked questions like "what am i here for?" this malay guy at this car i was assigned to one my third day asked me what he should do now that it started to rain. m i still going to place my hand on the car? i was totally taken aback by what he was asking and so i keep repeating to him that, no matter what your hand has to be on the car. dun ever let it go. one started counting the number of fingers he has and keep re counting again and again. some will talk nonsense to u, some will be in daze and onli managed to respond to u after like 10 seconds. some eyes will keep shutting and swaying. one of the drop out contestants even best sia. he saw one of the ushers taking out a packet of sweets and started beckoning her to give the sweet to her. of course we werent allowed to do so. in the end, he let go of his right hand and that he himseld dun even know lo. then came the management who stood and talked for quite some time with him, telling him repeatedly that he has let go off his hands and he is out and its time for him to take a rest. u noe what he replied? he said that he has given all the ushers there a packet of sweet and he wanted us to return him back before he leaves! its so common to see the contestants like tt! one incident totally make me wanna cry.

this lady was one of the 20-odd left on monday everning around 5pm. she was already feeling weak. you can easily see it de. many times she was already making many mistakes but then most of us just kept an eye clsoed. coz we were told to be a lil leniant since these contestants have come sucha long way to last till 50 over hours since the challenge start 2 days ago. anw, her husband was rooting outside for her. he already saw how weak his wife was, so everytm when he saw that his wife was about to close her heavy eyelids, he will 'zhu' her or clap loudly to get her attention. but as the time ticked past and he saw how weary and xin ku his wife was doing, he started telling her in hand signs to take a break, lets go home and sleep. but i duno if its coz the wife alr very tired and dizzy le dint see properly or what, she kept pointing to her right hand which was placed on the car. perhaps she was still determined to hang on. but its realie v sad to see that the wife obviously cant make it le yet for some reasons hang on to it. so much so that the husband eyes went teary and red; so much so that he started to feel desperate and went to tell the management to let his wife off the competition. but of course the management cant agree to his pleas. the onli thing they can promise to do was to keep a lookout for his wife just in case she faint and knocked her head.

all these while, theres this contestant fren who was filming down the whole process. he came to me and then told me to feedback to the management that what the crew was doing to the lady wasnt fair to the rest of the contestants. he said that the management was trying to keep the lady awake by talking to her. but apparently, the management wasnt. they were just concerned in case she fell and hurt herself. but apparently this airforce guy (hes wearing the airforce uniform) doesnt get the meaning and think he wanted to tape it down and sent in as a complaint lo. tsk tsk. if i have a fren like tt, i rather give him up lo.

anw, wads saddening is to see the husband feeling the pain for his wife that he teared in public and the extent he went to even ask the management to straight away disqualified his wife. the situation then was reallie xin suan. and worst lo, got this kind of unfeeling freak saying that the management was helping the wife to stay focus.

in the end, the wife kinda semi fainted and just in time got pple around her and helped her onto a wheelchair and wheeled into the first aid tent by the side. by then, her feet was already very swollen le. actually most of the contestants have swollen feet coz they have been standing for too long, and the swell was due to the fact that the salt in the istonic drinks they had during their precious 5 mins break. and apparently according to linda's fren who also worked together with us but on a different shift, he said that the lady the nite before her feet already swell le. so its pretty amazing that she can ta han another 12 hours before she finally collapsed.

the hallucinating part of the contestants was realie scary. u never dream that man could actually reach such a stage whereby they already have no sense of where they are, what they are doing and even what they are thinking. as much as u have family or frens support rooting u on, telling and shouting and doign what they can to catch ur attention and asking u to FOCUS, DUN SLEEP, its realie sooo hard to keep ur mind awake and let urself through the horrible ordeal. its realie not easy. something which i dun think i ever have the capability to do. this kind of challenge is realie mind over body and one must have the ultimate level of endurance to get through it.

and yes by now, the winner should be out already. he was a past year contestant, whom was yet again invited by subaru this year to take up this challenge when he failed to emerge as winner last year. i think this arrangement rather not fair to the contestants who are participating this year leh. coz these past participants (got 40 of em) already have the experience lo. and the funny thing is, there are hallucinating cases which happened to these past contestants lo. its like they have already been through the challenge before, though perhaps they lasted longer than they did in previous challenges, but at least they have a feel of how it was yet they still have trouble coping too, let alone those who tried it first time this year.

sighs. all in all, i feel that this challenge shouldnt continue anymore. its too cruel for man to take up such things. its almost like tortuing urself lo, rather than pushing urself to the limits. dun u guys think so?

a little bit of narcissism won't hurt, and vanity isn't a sin.




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