I've been wanting to blog about this for the past few days but could not find the time to do so till today. Yup I went for the USR with three other friends over the weekend. For those who do not know, USR actually stands for Uniquely Singapore Race and it was a 2 day 1 night affair aka the Amazing Race. Well, it turned out to be more of a race than amazing as groups just need to run through the checkpoints most of the time. Ok, the other groups ran, we just walked most of the time, especially on the second day.
We went to quite a lot of places, such as Labrador Park, Qian Hu and Sembawang hot springs to name a few. But I guess we (or maybe it's only me) were kind of disappointed that we didn't really get to eat much during the race and on the few occasions when we did, we had to pay for the food ourselves.
On the first day, we went to mostly well-known places like the three ethnic areas and Suntec city. The clues were quite alright though it was nothing like the Food and Heritage Challenge last year. The ending point for the first day was East Coast Park. Initially I'd thought that they would be nice enough to actually give us beds but perhaps I was too optimistic. Everyone ended up sleeping on the floor. Oh well, at least there was shelter.
The second day we went to MacRitchie Reservoir for the first stop. It was my second time there after the LRT project on the tree-top walk but somehow the feeling was rather different this time round. Anyway we made a mistake and ended up spending quite a long time there. From there we went to Chua Chu Kang and then to Qian Hu farm, where we need to catch fishes as our task. That was one of the more enjoyable tasks (though I only managed to catch 1 fish but thanks to my other group members we managed to complete the task). The next stop was Sembawang satay club where we had to grill our own satay (only 5 sticks) and finish the "Yu Sheng". As we were eating, we could see the other groups gobbling down the food yet we simply sat down and took our own sweet time to eat. In fact, the station master even came over and asked if we're enjoying the food. Haha... I can't really remember the stops after that but I remembered going to Upper Seletar Reservoir (ya, 2 reservoirs in 1 day) for one of the stops. It was almost evening by then so the view there was really nice. Anlian commented that it was like God showering his love on us and I couldn't agree more.
Other than these, there were also other places that we went but I guess I shall not put everything in here, lest it gets too boring. Yupz, really thankful for my three friends namely Anlian, Jo and Ting. Thanks for enduring my whining throughout the two days. Though we did not win anything in the end, I guess we're not in this for the prizes anyway.
We went to quite a lot of places, such as Labrador Park, Qian Hu and Sembawang hot springs to name a few. But I guess we (or maybe it's only me) were kind of disappointed that we didn't really get to eat much during the race and on the few occasions when we did, we had to pay for the food ourselves.
On the first day, we went to mostly well-known places like the three ethnic areas and Suntec city. The clues were quite alright though it was nothing like the Food and Heritage Challenge last year. The ending point for the first day was East Coast Park. Initially I'd thought that they would be nice enough to actually give us beds but perhaps I was too optimistic. Everyone ended up sleeping on the floor. Oh well, at least there was shelter.
The second day we went to MacRitchie Reservoir for the first stop. It was my second time there after the LRT project on the tree-top walk but somehow the feeling was rather different this time round. Anyway we made a mistake and ended up spending quite a long time there. From there we went to Chua Chu Kang and then to Qian Hu farm, where we need to catch fishes as our task. That was one of the more enjoyable tasks (though I only managed to catch 1 fish but thanks to my other group members we managed to complete the task). The next stop was Sembawang satay club where we had to grill our own satay (only 5 sticks) and finish the "Yu Sheng". As we were eating, we could see the other groups gobbling down the food yet we simply sat down and took our own sweet time to eat. In fact, the station master even came over and asked if we're enjoying the food. Haha... I can't really remember the stops after that but I remembered going to Upper Seletar Reservoir (ya, 2 reservoirs in 1 day) for one of the stops. It was almost evening by then so the view there was really nice. Anlian commented that it was like God showering his love on us and I couldn't agree more.
Other than these, there were also other places that we went but I guess I shall not put everything in here, lest it gets too boring. Yupz, really thankful for my three friends namely Anlian, Jo and Ting. Thanks for enduring my whining throughout the two days. Though we did not win anything in the end, I guess we're not in this for the prizes anyway.
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