::New Moon Big Walk 2010::
Monday, August 02, 2010 @ 3:03 PM
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::1st August 2010::It was a rather unexpected decision that Audrey, Daphne, Lisa, Puikwan and me have made; to participate in the New Moon Big Walk 2010 - One Nation. One Walk. One Cause. I was a little reluctant at first to join this event; b'cos I have to pay $25 for a 5km walk (@.@) But in the end, I still went ahead with it; as my friends were joining and it's for charity.
Some background information on the Big Walk Project:-
The New Moon Big Walk is a community project, started by New Moon. This community project which involves 17 constituencies in the north east district will benefit the needy families.
For every registrant, New Moon will donate 100 bowls of rice to the needy families in the North East District. The target is 500,000 bowls of rice.
Besides the food donation, New Moon will also contribute $100, 000 cash towards the North East - New Moon Senior Healthcare Fund for needy seniors. This amount will be matched by North East CDC, bringing the total to $200, 000. The fund is specially dedicated to help needy seniors living in the North East district who are unable to cope with their healthcare needs.
And so,
Some background information on the Big Walk Project:-
The New Moon Big Walk is a community project, started by New Moon. This community project which involves 17 constituencies in the north east district will benefit the needy families.
For every registrant, New Moon will donate 100 bowls of rice to the needy families in the North East District. The target is 500,000 bowls of rice.
Besides the food donation, New Moon will also contribute $100, 000 cash towards the North East - New Moon Senior Healthcare Fund for needy seniors. This amount will be matched by North East CDC, bringing the total to $200, 000. The fund is specially dedicated to help needy seniors living in the North East district who are unable to cope with their healthcare needs.
=quoted from the main site=
And so,
Here's a bit of a flash back before the event day itself :P
It's the first of August and also the Big Walk event day itself! We have to reach Pasir Ris by 7.30am; and the flag-off time for the walk was at 8am! So far x2. Anyway, I'm supposed to meet Lisa and Puikwan at Outram MRT station @6.30am. But due to the very good sleeping weather (yep! it actually rained heavily!), I overslept... As a result, I have to quickly bathe, change and go out of the house! And I finally reached the MRT station @6.50am; by then Lisa and Puikwan have went ahead without me, to meet Audrey and Daphne.
It was raining still when I've reached Pasir Ris and met up with the rest of them who were standing outside White Sands shopping mall. And was told by an announcer that the Big Walk would be delayed by one hour. However if the rain still persists, the event will be canceled and no refunds will be made; as it is for charity.
With lots of time at hand, we went to McDonald's to have our breakfast! :D
@McDonald's; White Sands.
25/07/10 - Goodie Bag Collection
@1pm, we met up at central© for the collection. There were booths already set up on the first level of central© for people to make last minute registration and for collection of the goodie bags. So we presented our identification cards and received our wrist tags and goodie bags :)
Wrist tags with our details :D
Goodie bags!!!
With lots of items inside (@.@)
A tin can of Milo?! You must be kiddin' me D:
A group picture with our goodie bags :)
Wrist tags with our details :D
Goodie bags!!!
With lots of items inside (@.@)
A tin can of Milo?! You must be kiddin' me D:
A group picture with our goodie bags :)
With that over and done, I went off to Marina Square (dragging the heavy goodie bag along) for my date with WenJie; while the rest to Katong for their Karaoke session.
And now back to the point!!
And now back to the point!!
It was raining still when I've reached Pasir Ris and met up with the rest of them who were standing outside White Sands shopping mall. And was told by an announcer that the Big Walk would be delayed by one hour. However if the rain still persists, the event will be canceled and no refunds will be made; as it is for charity.
With lots of time at hand, we went to McDonald's to have our breakfast! :D
@McDonald's; White Sands.
Some moments later, an announcer came into McDonald's telling us that the event was not canceled as there's a slight improvement in the weather :D Yay, the rain became a light drizzle and our purpose of going to Pasir Ris can be fulfilled!
*ahem* First... to the toilet!
& we have reached our first 200m!!
Very first kilometer~
Four more to go! :D
And of course, the food rewards :P
*ahem* First... to the toilet!
And then,
We proceeded to the event area by following the crowds of New Moon Big Walk (NMBW) shirts. And we noticed that most of the people were holding the NMBW umbrellas to shelter themselves from the drizzle. Of course, us being typical Singaporeans; wanted one too! And when we saw some NMBW helpers distributing the umbrellas by the side of the road. We made a beeline straight to them to get our FREE umbrellas :P (Actually this umbrella is pretty limited; not everyone will have it... and it was in fact, an OCBC exclusive item - only payment made by OCBC credit card will receive the umbrella)
Ominous looking clouds covering the glorious sun! D:
NMBW brella! :3
Now strutting with our new NMBW umbrellas, we walked through the starting point and began our big walk around Pasir Ris Park :)
@8.45am, start point!~♪
Look at all these people participating the big walk!
Ominous looking clouds covering the glorious sun! D:
NMBW brella! :3
@8.45am, start point!~♪
Look at all these people participating the big walk!
& we have reached our first 200m!!
So many white shirted walkers in the distance!!
Very first kilometer~
Four more to go! :D
The atmosphere was kinda humid; caused by the earlier downpour. Ground still wet; filled with puddles that we painstaking tried to avoid stepping in them. Wouldn't want to have wet shoes + socks + feet; you see...
I guess time past pretty fast when you're having fun :) That went the same for us. Ignoring the time and distance gained, we chatted and joked while blindly following the crowd straight on. And we have reached four kilometers checkpoint - Hydration Point!! Yay.
Water provided :) Last kilometer to go!
Lots of empty used cups dumped into the litter point...
Yay! 4.8km!
This was probably the last signboard; so we got someone to help us in taking this shot :D
DONUTS AND ICE CREAM, HERE WE COME!
I guess time past pretty fast when you're having fun :) That went the same for us. Ignoring the time and distance gained, we chatted and joked while blindly following the crowd straight on. And we have reached four kilometers checkpoint - Hydration Point!! Yay.
Water provided :) Last kilometer to go!
Lots of empty used cups dumped into the litter point...
Yay! 4.8km!
This was probably the last signboard; so we got someone to help us in taking this shot :D
DONUTS AND ICE CREAM, HERE WE COME!
The last 200m was to cross the road and walk back to the event area beside White Sands shopping mall. Easy-peasy :P No sweat, ya~ With a look at the time, we realized we actually took one hour to complete this five kilometers walk! And the best thing was it didn't feel like it took one hour at all! xD Looks like "Time Passes Faster When Having Fun" (^0^)b
Congratulations to us for making it to the finishing point! :D
Congratulations to us for making it to the finishing point! :D
Time to target those free donuts and ice cream :D The tents were set up at the event area; there was a carnival feel to it :P However, we made the wrong choice by walking straight onto the field... it was extremely muddy. Across the field, received donuts and ice cream and carefully walking out of the field again - the act gave us the reward of extremely muddy pair of shoes D:
And of course, the food rewards :P
After that, we decided not to go back to the event area anymore; in fear of worsening the muddy effect on our poor shoes. So we went to White Sands shopping mall... toilet! To freshen ourselves up with a change of clothes :) It was delightful :D
Woot :P
We sat on the bench outside of the toilet and discussed where to proceed next. With much discussion done, our next destination was Tampines; which is nearest to Pasir Ris. We loitered around Tampines Mall and ended up stuck at the arcade for awhile :P
Train-ing to Tampines!
Priority seats :P
Woot :P
We sat on the bench outside of the toilet and discussed where to proceed next. With much discussion done, our next destination was Tampines; which is nearest to Pasir Ris. We loitered around Tampines Mall and ended up stuck at the arcade for awhile :P
Train-ing to Tampines!
Priority seats :P
Anyway, we decided that the arcade there was really boring... not much of the latest games there. Change of location! Onwards to Bugis, iluma!
Train-ing to Bugis~
Once we were there @twelvish, we began strolling our way up to level7 of the iluma shopping mall for arcade! The arcade at level7 consists more of jackpot games and ticket-earning-dispensing games. While the arcade at level6, UFO catchers, music games and fighting games. I would say that I'm more of a level6 person than a level7. Oh well.
Cash were exchanged for tokens and so let the games began! :D
Mario coin pusher.
Train-ing to Bugis~
Once we were there @twelvish, we began strolling our way up to level7 of the iluma shopping mall for arcade! The arcade at level7 consists more of jackpot games and ticket-earning-dispensing games. While the arcade at level6, UFO catchers, music games and fighting games. I would say that I'm more of a level6 person than a level7. Oh well.
Cash were exchanged for tokens and so let the games began! :D
Mario coin pusher.
We tried out so many games there, Toami-gyo, driving game, basketball-shooting hoops, trivia game, ball throwing game. Yep, you get the drift... so many games... so much money spent?! But I didn't play all those though :P I'm very selective.
Much fun!
Much fun!
Tick-tock and two hours have past! @2pm, we left level7. Lisa joined me for a game of Jubeat at level6, while the rest went off to Bugis street to carry on with their shopping. & afterward, Lisa and I re-partied with them :)
Hmm~ Classy~♪
Hmm~ Classy~♪
After much walking and shopping, we have gotten pretty much tired and hungry. The result of having early breakfast, plus a combination of five kilometers of walking and arcade gaming. We decided to have our late lunch at Nando's. Famous for their Peri-Peri chicken, and thus the long queue.
Queuing for the legendary Peri-Peri chicken!
Queuing for the legendary Peri-Peri chicken!
It was only twenty minutes later then we got our seats in Nando's and that's where we ordered.
Look at the different sauces!
Tomato, Garlic Peri-Peri, Extra Hot Peri-Peri & Hot Peri-Peri
And our orders were served!
Get ready for some tickling of taste buds?!
(my order:- 1/4 chicken with 2 sidelines, Peri potato salad & Peri chips)
Result:- our very wonderful bill of $109.90 in total.
Look at the different sauces!
Tomato, Garlic Peri-Peri, Extra Hot Peri-Peri & Hot Peri-Peri
And our orders were served!
Get ready for some tickling of taste buds?!
(my order:- 1/4 chicken with 2 sidelines, Peri potato salad & Peri chips)
Result:- our very wonderful bill of $109.90 in total.
My, were we stuffed! With that, we strolled around aimlessly for a little while more (to improve digestion :P) before going home... to have more rest! :D
In conclusion, this NMBW is like a training/warm-up session for our incoming run in September :) Yes, all of us decided to sign up for the Yellow Ribbon Prison Run... well, everyone except for Lisa. Get your running shoes on... it's time to get down and run!!!!
In conclusion, this NMBW is like a training/warm-up session for our incoming run in September :) Yes, all of us decided to sign up for the Yellow Ribbon Prison Run... well, everyone except for Lisa. Get your running shoes on... it's time to get down and run!!!!
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