Buzz My Day

The event was jointly organized by SBS Transit and SPH. There were some hitches before J, PS, S and I finally formed a team to join. The day started with the registration from before 10am, then the briefing at 1030 before finally the flag off at 11am. There were 250 teams participating in the event, coming up to about 1000 people. As there were still time after we registered, we went to Long John Silver for breakfast as PS didn't have his.

The Team

At the briefing, the hosts was Wenhong (from 100.3) and Hubert Tang (from 91.3).

There was 5 different checkpoints but there were different sets of question booklets in which the checkpoints were in different order. Bonus point will be given when teams visit the first checkpoint in their booklet. This is to ensure that all teams can be dispersed when the game starts.

Our order of checkpoints were as follows:

1. Toa Payoh

Our first stop, took the NEL to Potong Pasir then tranfer to bus 142 to TPY Interchange. Spent quite a while before we found the Buzz Kiosk and complete the task.

2. Paya Lebar

Wide swamp when translated to Malay becomes Paya Lebar. The clues took us to the Malay Village and the Singapore Post Center.

Horn-roof Minangkabau structure

Need to solve some riddles here as well. And J still managed to find time to grab a drink from Coffee Bean... :D

3. The Heeren

As we spent too much time at the last check point, we gotta touch and go at this checkpoint. Linzhi and Suzanne Walker were here, whom I almost couldn't identify... :P. However one of the bus drivers won't let us board the bus without paying. Seems like he didn't know about this event. Had to wait quite some time for the next bus to take us to PS.

4. Chinatown

Time was running out by this time (only less than half an hour left). We ran from the MRT station to the Heritage Center to Sri Mariamman Temple and then Smith Street to take pictures. All this within 15 minutes.

5. Vivo City

No time to do anything here as we just managed to get back in time. But PS managed to spot one of the answers to the questions as we ran back to submit our booklet.

After a gruelling (not really lah) 4-hour rush, we were all given a complimentary sandwich and goodie bags. Free floss candy and pop-corns were being given out as well. We took a rest before going back for the announcement of the result.

Our team number was the first to be announced, much to my surprise... hehe... That means we got the 10th prize; not bad considering we didn't prepare for it. Maybe the last answer spotted by PS made the difference... :P

Of course, credits must also be given to all those who have helped us throughout the race, i.e. Hellspawn, Strike and J's friends etc... and Sotong.