and then there was me...: World Hunger 2010 Charity Walk

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

World Hunger 2010 Charity Walk

I did my first ever charity walk in my adult life over the weekend. and it was soooooo much fun!!

i stumbled across the reg booth one day while i was out having lunch. i called jj n he gave his nod of approval. then i roped in some buddies who were equally excited and clueless about it.

the evening before the walk, jj had a football friendly with his buddies and twisted his ankle. my first thot was 'oh noooo!! kesian!! r u ok!' winds of change came quickly and concern turned to 'omg!! den u kenot walk tomorrow!! ohh mann!! u kno how long weve been planning for this??' he shushed me n sed he wud be ok to walk by morning. i highly doubted it n offered my late grandmothers wheelchair, the one we use as a racing vehicle around the house. very mature ppl we are.

so come morning he picked me up for breakfast and lo n behold! he was limping! and walking very slowly, dragging his swollen ankle.. shiannn!! i told him not to do the walk, instead he cud just sit by the side and hold our handbags. of course he disagreed. 'tanak lah!!'

so we reached the place n was greeted with a sea of yellow. it was like we went to sleep and woke up in digi man land. was pretty hard trying to spot one another coz evryone looked yellow and similar.

there was a few activities we could partake in while waiting for the walk to start. nenah and i spotted the sumo wrestle thingy and was jumping up n down in xcitement! the suit was like a portable sauna and stank of the sweat of former sumo's. disgusting i kno. bt the wrestling part was soooo fun and uber funny!! at one point nenah fell on her back and cudnt get up. she was like an upside down turtle. the man had to pick her up by her suit. so so so funnn!!!

we (jj n i) ended up walking 5 km instead of our pre agreed 3. it rained earlier so it was cool n breezy. at one point jj picked out an old old man and sed that he would be our benchmark, we had to keep our pace up to his and that he should never be out of our sight. i thot 'sure!! no problem!! he's old how fast can he really go??' 10 minutes down the road we were on the lookout for a new benchmark, we lost our old one (pun not intended).

we ended the walk with the collection of our goodie bag (which i loved) and dinner which we ceremoniously ate by the roadside along with other digi man lookalikes.

all in all it was a marvellous day and i would love to do it again!

they had it last year at padang merbok and there were two thousand ppl in attendance, this year there was six thousand.

i hope there'll be more and more ppl nx year. not only do u get to spend an awesome day with your loved ones, u also get to burn fat and play sumo AND FEED THE POOR!! how wonderful is that!!

here are some photos that i nicked from nenah's fb coz she was the only one taking photos.