Saturday, February 17, 2007
Editing time: Approximately 50 minutesHao Yang reported sick yesterday (get well soon!), and Meiyi replaced him in our team for The Grand Overtake, which eventually comprised Meiyi, Hien, Stacy and me.
Yesterday, we completed three stations of The Grand Overtake with a time of 2 h 23′57″, and incurred a time penalty of 10′00″ for wrong answers and 4 h 30′00″ for uncompleted stations. Our total race time was 7 h 03′07″. But at least we weren't disqualified from the race, as a few other teams that failed to complete the race by 10.45 am were. In the end, the J2 classes swept the top five places for the race.
However, at least whatever I predicted to Wynne didn't come true. Stacy and I are still friends, at least outwardly; we didn't shout or scream at each other, nor did we argue uncivilly, for instance. Slight transformations, however, did occur in some of the other relationships in the group. On one hand, it made it easier for some to lose faith in the relationship, and on the other, it enabled people to work on changing themselves or their mindsets to make the relationship work.
Indeed, the honeymoon period is passing; cracks are starting to appear, and tension starting to surface, in some of our new relationships. This is what we had to deal with yesterday, and will have to deal with in the future, as we accustom ourselves to the fact that the course of events has tied a part of our lives together for two years.
Wei Zhong @ 12:25 am
