6am

One fine day, Zhaoxiu, Doris, Kenneth, HengHong, Junxian, Regina and Eileen decided to sign up as NUS Biathlon volunteers. Kind Kenneth offered to let us stay over at his place the night before the event as we were to report at 6am on Sunday.

So we met at 1130pm to play mahjong till we got hungry..

Kind Kenneth drove us to a nearby PRATA shop!

Note the time we left the shop -->

Arrived at East Coast Park at 615am (we were tired but the NUM shirts kept us happy!)

Doris, Kenneth and Junxian were looking after participant's belongings (also the place where the participants changed into their swimming costumes! Lucky boys!)

Zhaoxiu and I were GIVING OUT EVENT SHIRTS :D

After the event but before the clearing up, already 10times tanner

THESE leftovers event tees motivated us to help clear up the area

Had to shift these heavy mats into the tent ten miles away and pick up litter under the scorching sun, another 10times tanner

I thought we were supposed to look exhausted?

This is the saddest part. We took our packed lunch without checking if spoons were provided. Click on the picture to see where our spoons came from. Oh! And we had lunch only at 1.30pm? Our stomachs were growling from 6am to 1.30pm.

All in all, it was the most enjoyable volunteering event all of us have ever participated in. Esp when we were thieves (smuggling countless event tees) and beggars (eating with makeshift spoons, very sad). The team should participate in more of such events!

PS: Don't blame us if the 7 of us don't perform during PT tmr, we only had 2hours of sleep.