12 Jul 2008 - Amazing Race III and Dinner

This is the third year our team WHYT participated in Amazing Race, organized by my company division. Just like last year, we brought Jerlene to my MIL place early in the morning before we set off to the Race starting point.

There were a total of 18 objectives (including 1 roadblock and 1 detour) this year. The roadblock is to finnd a fire hydrant that has the number "1278" (today's date) on it. Once we found it, we had to take a team picture with the hydrant, together with 10 strangers, each showing a different pose.
As for the detour, we had to reach a public carpark near Singapore Island Country Club between 12-1pm. Once there, we were given a choice to do one of the two given activities. One activity is to solve a 16x16 sudoku puzzle while the other is to take a team photo at the "not so nearby" Treetop Walk! As some of us had tried the Treetop Walk before and knew that it's going to be a very very long and tiring walk, we decided to try and solve the sudoku puzzle. However, after trying for 1.5hrs, we gave up because it's simply impossible within the timeframe that we have. So we proceed with the other clues and guess what, in the evening, we came back and complete the Treetop Walk....hahah......
In total, we managed to find 13 places this year and emerged 12th position (total of 23 teams). This is an improvement from the previous years. Before we returned to the landing point at Holiday Inn Hotel, we went to pick up Jerlene and Ronald's wife and baby. There was a buffet dinner at Melting Pot restaurant.

Many of my colleagues had seen Jerlene during last year's dinner and they were all very excited to see how much she had grown. However, she was very "sticky" to me tonight. She dun allow anybody else to carry her initially. Only till half way through the dinner then she started to adapt to the environment. Once she began running around, there's no stopping...... And she caught attention of some by performing her "Wonderful" dance move.

After dinner, we went to Ronald's place for mahjong, which is also our yearly event. However, after 2 rounds, Jerlene showed sign of "stoneness". So we had to stop and Jerlene slept the moment she sat in her car seat. It was a very tiring day for all of us, but it's worth it. Yeah!