Okay so the time now is 11:39.
1 more hour before the athletes step in, and I've finally got the time to settle down to write something about the crazy journey so far.

I'm seated at the revamped Bishan sports hall and it looks really impressive. They brushed up the entire competition area and made the whole place seem brand new. Fresh, like the pungent smell of paint.

So basically the entire YOG journey started a week before the opening, where the 4 of us gathered at SPH for a simple interview with Jiahui-jie. The smooth-going interview then ended with an extremely tedious photo-shoot (which I never thought was a problem since we're all so darn good at camwhoring HAHA)... The photographer pursued an artistically impossible approach which none of us could comprehend. But in the end the photo turned out to be fine. So I guess we're all happy. :)

Then came the entire week of agony anticipation for the games. It was exciting to see people getting hyped up for the games (be it genuinely or not). On Tuesday, I then received a mail from the main media release, saying that there are yellow sector tickets for media personnel to collect. I was late for the submission, but due to good charm (hee) and luck (though I don't really believe in it), I managed to grasp hold of a precious preview ticket with a pretty good view. I attended the event with YY, Tania and 一步.

Frankly speaking, I empathize with those who caught the opening ceremony at home. The stage effects and dynamics were probably 3 million times stronger while you're at the floating platform itself. Watching it on kinda spoils it all. So yeah, don't be too harsh on it. BUT ONE THING I wanna comment on is Sean Kingston's last minute pang-seh. It's COMPLETELY BBY. Besides the reason is out of the monkey's world dumb. Apparently money is more important than the Olympics spirit and pride.

We then had our first official briefing with 主任 on Friday, received our schedules for the next 2 days. I was kind of shocked to see my name next to SOCCER. 1) I don't watch soccer, and I think all my friends know that. 2) I've never even HEARD of 3/4 of the countries that were playing that night. Trinidad & Tobago, Equatorial Guinea and Papua New Guinea. Like where on earth is that? Haha but nevertheless I tried my best to pick up as much as I could (with the help of Roy who happened to have tickets to the first match) and I think I churned out something pretty decent? Hahaha you can read the edited and shortened article here or here.

Oh and I went to visit the Olympic Village on Saturday with YY. We caught June at her UNICEF booth trying to act holy and kind and all. HAHA. The atmosphere was pretty good with athletes having fun everywhere. Impressed.

*Okay the hosts are out rehearsing their lines now and it's getting super noisy zzzzz nevermind I shall try to concentrate on this hahaha.

This morning I woke up really early to meet my Mom at her hotel to have breakfast together. All I ate yesterday was a bowl of ramen during lunch so I was kind of famished. And staying at Swissotel Merchant sure has its perks. The breakfast selection was crazy. Smoked salmon, roasted beef, all kinds of exotic cheeses, pancakes, dim sum and like a whole lot of crap. But I didn't eat much, or I would have puked and I am very sure of it.

Then I travelled to the Main Accreditation Centre @ MBS to collect today's start list and 顺便 take the shuttle bus to Bishan from there.

OH and on a completely random note, they did not use the "Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah HEY" nonsense at ALL (at least not at any of the venues I've visited so far...) and that is like the smartest decision ever. If not I'll run out of the the stadium. Seriously.

Okay so now I'm just waiting for the competition to start. I'm definitely clearer of what I wanna write about today and I'm feeling good about it.

WAY TO GO AHHHHHHHHHH AZAZA FIGHTING!

PS: I ordered an Macbook Pro last night (with the generous help from Pei Tze)! Will get it soon woo I can't wait. AND I JUST WANNA SAY I LOVE YOU JIEMEIS! :) Tania thanks for lending me your laptop for these few days and YY: thanks for driving all the way to the airport to jie my mom with me and Lucas: thanks for gou-yin-ing the rich person but failed but nevertheless it made me laugh. HAHAHA! <3

xoxo

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