i-Love to Run 2013 Couple Challenge @ Jurong Point

Derp and I participated in the i-Love to Run 2013 Couple challenge last Sunday! Fun but yet tiring! 

It was organized by Jurong Point and I-weekly. The prize is really attractive. Just by participating in the qualifying round, participants will get a goodie bag and also a event t-shirt by Denizen :) Not forgetting, there will be running man fan-meet tickets up for grab in the lucky draw. 

Participant were asked to complete 8 stations within 90 minutes. At the different stations, there's different tasks and it was mainly adapted from Running Man variety show. 

Game stations were mainly at the different sponsors shop/outside the shop. That was a big hint given by the host. 

Our race start at 5pm and we were to report at 4pm for registration. Derp and I were early, and that's because I stay so near to Jurong Point. I was feeling kind of kan cheong so I told him let's go there early. Who knows we were way too early, they only start the registration from 4pm onwards, we went to had some desserts first. 

Once 4pm reached, we were the first couple! After getting the t-shirt and also our so call team 'bib', we went to change, deposit our bag and got back to JP1 centre stage to gather. 

All the mission clues were in the picture form, and everyone starting station was different. We were given the new Sony Xperia Z1. Our mission was all given to us on this phone, really kind of running man style eh? The countdown timer started and we dashed off. I'll elaborate more on the various stations below..In the mean while, pictures time!

Our team number..

Our couple photo taken by the event staff, she didn't press focus before taking our photo, hence the blurness! Oh this was takenafter the race, really shag max. It's worse than running a marathon. Because we were sprinting all the way, not leisure jog. 

Our team 'bib' at the back of our shirt. And it was falling off very badly because of our sweat! 

Before we left, we took a photo with Yes 933 dj, Jia Fa :). He was the one giving all the instructions and hint before the race starts. 

Our total score! I come to find out the highest score for the couple challenge was 77/80. I've no idea how the hell they do it, and having to say that, we did not make it to the finals. It's the process that's more important :)

When we were submitting our scores to the organizer after we return, there's these 2 girls who saw our scores, and muttered to themsevles that they think Derp and I will enter the finals. Derp overheard it and I went like O.O.  They think too highly of us liao. Because I'm very sure there's many teams who did even better during the qualifying race. Afterall, there's more than 50 teams in total participating for the couple challenge.

Now I shall talk about the running man type of games played during this race..

Station A - It was at Denizen. The task were to fold 10 T-shirts within 1 minute, they must be in the order of the largest shirt at the bottom of the stack, and smallest shirt at the top of the stack. They allowed us to sort out the clothes first before they time us. We failed at the first attempt hence we only scored 9 points. If you get it right on the first time, your points would not be deducted. That goes the same for every stations.

We concluded that if 1 person do the sorting while the other just concentrate on folding, it will be done faster. For example if 1 shout XL, the person will dig the XL out for him/her to fold. Derp and I fold the clothes at the same time, but we weren't fast enough and the space given to us were darn small.

We spent unwanted time sorting out the t-shirts before we start folding. Time is really precious during this race. We almost could not make it back and we will be disqualified if we didn't report back by 90 minutes. Phew..we managed to make it.

Station B - 1 person is to be blindfolded, and holding on to a stop watch, he/she have to start and stop the timer at exactly 60 seconds. It's really very hard because even if it's 59.98, you will still be deem as failing the mission. It's probably the hardest station among the 8 stations.

 Derp and I took turns to try and eventually we choose to give up. We were awarded 0 point. There's others who tried 10 times and didn't get through the stage, they also get 0 point. Derp and I don't really wish to waste time on this almost-impossible mission.

Station C - It was at John Little! We were suppose to find a person in John Little to get the i-Love to run event sticker within 1 minute. It's like those in running man, the R sticker. And mind you, John Little @ Jurong Point has 2 levels. -_-'.

Eventually, Derp found the person with a little help of the sales personnel at John Little. They were all similing at us actually, whenever I run pass them. I really want to beg them for help lor! The person were hiding among the clothes at the clothes rack. -_-".We scored 7 points, which means we took around 4 minutes. 1 points were deducted for every minute pass after the first 1 minute.

Station D - It was at this tea shop at the basement of JP1. Till date, I've no idea what the shop name is, but anyway, the mission was to taste 3 different types of tea while being blind folded, and we have to guess which tea it was among the 5 options givren.

We got it right on the first try because of my good tastebud. Or should I say normal tastebud? Derp can't even tell 1 of the tea we tasted was lemon tea, to me it was 100% guaranteed chop lemon flavoured tea. lol!

Station E -  The dance machine station. It was probably the 2nd hardest station among all the 8 stations. Okay probably to us, it was.We have to be blindfolded, and wore a counter on our wrist/leg, we have to so call dance to the music. The counts on our wrists/leg were to add up to the number which was hand-picked by us from their box.

We could have done it at our 4th try but we were lack of 1 count! gosh. It was really not easy, some other team which came by and got it right on the first try! I've seen couples which only need to reach 6-10 on their counter.

In the end, I asked Derp to shake his wrists all the way till the required number, and I shall not move my legs! It's okay for 1 of us to have 0 on our counter. We should have done it this way from the start and not waste so much time on the station. Probably, the longest spending time station.

Station F - Find the correct nail polish on your partner's fingers @ Etude House. Derp was the one getting his thumb paint, and I cheong-ed in to find the correct color on his finger. Got it right on the first time :) It's not hard for a person who do manicure quite often lol. Plus the color he chose was the easiest, the other colors were too close to each other.

Station G - Our second last station, at Zinc. Our task was to find 2 stickers being hidden in the shop's bag within 1 minute. We failed at our first attempt and got it right on our 2nd chance. That's with the kind and great help from the game station IC. They really hid the stickers inside the zip of those small tiny sling ball.

Derp was saying they see me ransacking the shop, almost tear the whole Zinc shop down liao. Hence, the game station master faster help me! LOL! Oh but I must admit, I created a mess in the shop. Btw. there were customers in the shop at the same time.

Station H - Piang, finally reached the last station! Feel like dying and we were running out of time. Anyway, we were suppose to assemble this plane shape lego, following the instruction booklet. All the legos are super tiny small, and once you fix them together,.it's not easy to take it out. FML! The time allowance is 10 minutes. We manage to make it though. Derp has the patience and I'm feeling pek cek. lol!

The game station master even praise us after she know it's our last station, she told us that there's still many who had not came to their station. O.O. By then, we have only like less than 10 minutes to report back before the 90 minutes are up!

At the last 100 metre to the main station, I told Derp to go ahead because I really can't dash anymore. I asked him to go first. I foresee that happening at our upcoming marathons. lol! Super drama~ but anyway the organizer have to see me report back also before they take in our scores.

The final results are base on your sources and also if you have the same score as other team, they will take the team which report back at the fastest time.

The pretty bag sponsored by Zinc. They gave it to us after we complete their station :)

My only #OOTD that day :)

Thanks Derp for joining this 'race' with me. haha! Though I know you were not that into it, but eventually you also take this race seriously. We gave in our best shot even though we never think of getting into finals. Just doing our best, and we had fun and the goodiebag vouchers were really good :) Oh, we did piss many shoppers at Jurong Point off during the race, because we were dashing pass by or saying excuse me! Opps!

It's our first race as fiance and fiancee. More to come! We successfully create some memories at Jurong Point before we move out of jurong island in time to come.

Good luck to those who got in the finals which is happening tml! All the best and fighting!