Family. Friends. Love.: #tsdayout Amazing Race Edition

First #tsdayout with Tourism Selangor at FRIM.

It was a bright sunny day on 30th March 2013. Woke up very early as I was a bit nervous for my first #tsdayout. :S

Arrived at the picnic area at approx 8.10am but only a few have arrived. I walked about enjoying the view of FRIM. The surroundings were beautiful and breathtaking. The place was filled up with such tall greenery.
It was really amazing to have such beautiful place in the middle of the city just to escape from the hectic city life for awhile.

My first #tsdayout nametag :)

The crowd started coming in at almost 9am, with registration need to be made & all. We quickly changed into our #tsdayout outfit and gathered for a short briefing. We were divided into groups of 3 and a quick photo session afterwards.

The contestants getting ready to warm up.

The #tsdayout Krabi trip members looked all pumped up!

And the #tsdayout Amazing Race at FRIM starts now!

We were given a map & an egg (which we have to hold in our hand & other groups were allowed to steal the egg from us!) So along the way you can cheat and trick other teams to steal their egg. (but we didn't coz we were too nice. :p) No egg & map at the end of the race, will cause points to be deducted. It was a 3km race in total, where everyone in the group needs to participate. My team is called Sampat (Crazy) with Fie & Ding as my team mates.

Fie & Ding on the way to see the art treasure ~~

So yeah, the first checkpoint was already horrifying! The instructor goes "you need to find 3 marbles in this pond". And then i thought, ok that's easy - (except for the part that we really had to go in the cold, shivering waters). After 30 mins in the pond, and none of us three found a single marble! This is going to be forever i thought. And then...... at the very last two teams, we managed to get out from the pond and rushed to our next checkpoint. Phew!

Look at us. Mcm relax je masuk pond ni kan. Tp sebenarnya tgh menggigil kesejukan. Brrr...
(photo credits to Rasyidi Awaludin)

So after we get out of the pond we have to come up with a cheer before we proceed to next checkpoint. Each checkpoint needs to end with a chant baru boleh move on~ So our first team chant goes like this~

Sampat, sampat hey!
Sampat, sampat hey!
Sampat, sampat hey!
Gooooooooo Sampat!

**ok, so not creative right.

Checkpoint 2 is the "Orang Asli" Dressup. We made ourselves a skirt using tree leaves and painted our faces with colors.

Muka lepas kena cat. :D

On the way to CP3. It's called the Rover Track

Checkpoint 3: The coconut walk~
The trick is to 'jengket' tip toe when u walk. And you shall complete it with fabulousness!! (ok that word does not exist, oh well!)

Let the coconut do all the walking for you~~
(photo credits to Rasyidi Awaludin)

Checkpoint 4: The Treasure Art

We had to solve a puzzle and look for a treasure art along our way to CP5.

Your royal highness, The Crown Shyness of FRIM

We were looking and looking for the treasure around us. And there it was, the most beautiful treasure nature has ever seen....

The Crown Shyness shining right through our eyes~ :)) Only in FRIM.

Can you imagine the sun shining in between the leaves creating crystal-lite rays of sun. (T_T) It's just too beautiful to not go all mesmerized~

Checkpoint 5: The mud crawl... The one i never anticipated and most not looking forward to!
The 'abang' was like 'your body must go in! All the way down in the mud! If not you'll do it again!! Oh, the horror :S

That's not me but I still can't believe i let myself in that muddy pool. :S
Btw, a leach got on my neck that day and I think it was during this mud crawl thingy. (-___-)
(photo credits to Rasyidi Awaludin)

Checkpoint no 6: Blind men -> The blind men will need to find 5 yellow and 5 blue papers, and non blinded one will give instructions and cannot call us by our own names. So I was called "Amoi" and Ding was called "Apek". Fie became the one giving instructions. This is not easy ok.. Looks easy but seriously tiring! Yg kelakar tu dah penat2 kumpul, and when returning back i tercicir one paper. Then go cari lagi. Lols.

This is Team Teh Tarik~
(photo credits to Rasyidi Awaludin)

Checkpoint 7: The Paku Test.
I've done this before during a seminar thingy. So i had the rough idea. Only that i forgot one paku needs to be on top for support. Heh.