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Day 10 of Isolation - 22/10/07
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This is going to be a very interesting post...


Today, or rather the day before, I embarked on another ambitious journey. To mug overnight at Delifrance at Changi T1, AND to beat Shawn's recored of mugging 18 hours non-stop. And I'm doing mine without sleep. His was from 7AM to 1AM. And so, my epic journey begins...at 2:48pm on a Sunday afternoon.


After tuition, took the 27 bus to Changi to meet the rest. Oh yeah, this Indian woman cut my queue to board the bus first. The BUS. Like OMG, it's not a cab! It doesn't drive off once you get in! There's like 10 other people waiting to board it! Oh, and as if that's not bad enough, she even tried to cut the queue of a really wrinkled and old lady probably twice her age. What the hell...=.= I was damn surprised she'd try such a stunt in public. And she was only hampered by the metal railing dividing the steps, so she didn't get to cut in front of that old lady. And once she got on she rushed to a seat as quickly as she could and planted her ass on it. You would've thought she was playing musical chairs. Wowee. REAL mature, lady. She's in her 40s, mind you.


Anyway, the bus ride after that was without incident. I reached at about 3 or 4 I think. My original plan was to mug 24 hours non-stop without sleep. Oh, but there were a few problems, namely the fact that we went to have dinner, and then spent some time at the basement NTUC buying snacks. Oh and then Val kept fighting with Yingda. As I put it in the recorded video, this would be perfectly normal if you subtracted 15 years off their ages.


Ben left at 10 or so, yingda left also, and the other Val from my class left too, leaving me and Val. Oh then came 2 MJ guys to study overnight. When we looked around, the only 4 people studying overnight are from MJ and that says a lot, I think. OH YEAH THEN COMES THE COOLEST PART.


So we were mugging along, minding our own business, and I kept hearing screams. I thought it was kids, then Val told me to go see. I looked and saw a crowd. So we decided to kaypo a little. Wandered over, saw girls screaming. Aha! Famous people! So I was trying to get a peek, and the screams intensified, and than I saw a caucasian guy, and some security guy asking people to let the band pass. I think...ZOMGWTFBBQ THE CLICK FIVE LOL. They chose the flight so they'd land at 1140+PM on a Sunday evening, so there wasn't much of a mob, but it was still a pretty big crowd. And all of them were taller than the average height of everyone in the mob lol.


I like their music but I'm not a SUPER fan, but still I went to take photos with them for the sake of taking photos. ^^ I don't even know who I took photos with...lol! But it was still pretty cool and fun lol. The pics are slightly blur but you can still tell who's who. Hmm...If you go http://www.theclickfive.com/index2.php I think I took a picture with the guy on the extreme right and the guy in the middle. =D


Then...back to mugging. The night passes pretty fast in the little corner where Delifrance is situated, its very quiet with little activity. The two MJ guys wander off often and sleep often. =/ They later leave at 7AM. So we mug mug mug all the way till the morning. You may feel a little tired, but then your body realises it's not going to get any sleep tonight, so it just gives up and dives straight into the Just Woken Up mode. You feel alive, refreshed, hyper and on top of the world.


You feel like you could mug for ever and you are happy for some reason. This was me near morning. But it doesn't last. It was from about 5plus to 6 or so. Then the feeling died. You become blur, and a bit out of sync. Thinking slows a little. Impatience and frustration grows and you become more irritable. Every time you are asked to differentiate an already complicated differential equation further, you get closer to losing it and feeling totally pissed off and lashing out at someone.


I forge on through Math, but progress is slow. Sometimes I stop dead at points and I hardly know it for a minute or so until I come to my senses again. some saturation and mild nausea kicks in. I continue doing and doing until I realise I have absolutely NO idea where I am at, what the hell I am trying to do and where I was. I give up and switch to Chem. The switch improves my mood a little. I am reenergised and do chem.


Val leaves with her parents and I mug alone. It is morning already. I keep pushing onward looking forward to the 20 hour mark. Trying so hard...a little past 10AM...then boom. I black out. Never even knew what hit me. When I come to, I realise I have just woken up. I have no recollection of having gone to sleep at all and the past 30 plus minutes of my life are missing. I figure that my body must have hit its limit and ran straight into a brick wall, and totally crashed and burned. It just shut down by itself without warning. No "Your battery is low", just pop! and I wake up 30 mins later.


I get up and am totally disorientated, slightly unsteady on my feet. I start packing up. I wonder what I looked like. Movements were slow and sluggish, it was like someone else was controlling my body and I was wavering in and out of a dreamlike state. vision was kinda blur and I could only judge that I'd packed everything by the emptiness of my table. I couldn't think straight at the moment. Somehow made my way to the bus stop in the basement without killing myself, and waited forever for 27 to come. Dozed on the bus as it made its long way home...


And that is how my journey ended except I did get to rivervale plaza to meet my parents, but that's irrelevant. Um. Damn I can't remember what else I wanted to type. Oh wait.


I think I mugged about 19+ hours. Hope its ok. Did Bio paper 1,2,3, 3 Math papers, 1 chem paper 3 and 1.5 chem paper 2. And I don't advise doing this too often. This is because I am a trained professional and have attempted dangerous stunts like this before. If you try it, make sure to bring a friend along. Several times I thought I was going to fall sick because I sometimes felt cold from the aircon, and yet warm when I put on my jacket, and also die from exhasution, sometimes my mind was so scrambled I didn't know what was going on or maybe die from sleep deprivation because of the constant subtle battle against the urge to sleep. But, I've managed to learn how to suppress it so i don't have to waste energy trying to stay awake. But still, not funny. It really takes a toll on your body.