the Under No Roof event was sort of in an amazing race format. u're supposed to complete the tasks given and collect materials for the construction of ur house.(gotta build a house..actually more like a slum.. after completing the tasks)

i thought the tasks would be fun and easy. i was dead wrong. its tiring, painful, and the moral of the tasks doesn't make any sense. well, at least it don't to me.

give u an example.

one of the tasks was to walk all the way from tanjong pagar to some park in chinatown, after which we were blindfolded and made to either squat or kneel down in an open field under the freaking hot sun, without any form of communication with anybody, for full 30 mins. the moral of the task is to make us experienced the boredom felt by the poor, unemployed ppl in the developing countries, stoning at home, not having any thing to do. y squat or kneel? simply because just stoning for 30 mins is nothing as compared to the boredom felt by the ppl stoning for the wHolE day, so squat or kneel is to make the task more painful for us. we were blindfolded coz the poor ppl at night might not have any light in the house(coz they r too poor to afford it).

i couldn't stand up straight after stoning and squat/kneel for 30 mins.

that station was called 'the stoning station'.

another example.

at the next station, we were made to squat down(again!!) and find tiny little green beans seeds in the grass patch area that the station masters indicated. each green bean seed will entitled the team to one piece of cardboard(for the building of the house..slum later). we found 6 green bean seeds in all.

ok. finally the construction of the house after 4 tiring stations. the hse we built was pretty!! if only i had a camera with me! we decorated the roof with little pinky yellow flowers and lined up a little pathway to our hse with pebbles and flowers. so proud of it!!

ok la. after the whole thing i actually had a sense of accomplishment for completing this whole thing. i was pretty pleased with myself. although i was dead tired.

the next day, which is yesterday, i had horrible cramps and my legs felt numb. felt so horribly sick and i can't really do anything much except lying on my bed. so i spent practically the whole day lying on my bed. damn. i was supposed to study alot ytd! -sighx-

i should get back to studying right now.