Nutrilite Double X Challenge

this is a little outdated.


last week, i competed in the finals of the nutrilite double x challenge.

here is sandra's post of the event, and here is my previous post from the preliminaries.

this competition comprised of 4 main challenges, with an additional 3-6 mini challenges within each main challenge.

this was no easy task. i would elaborate more on what was in each challenge, but i seem to be too addicted to watching the history channel about rome. it is really cool to watch. they had documentaries of the great architectural structures of rome, and who built them. you guys should watch it some time, its really good to know.

anyway back to the challenges. what i will tell you is that the challenges involved a lot of running, pulling, team work and brains. the last challenge was an obstacle course.

so we headed over to the saujana, for our 2 night complimentary stay. when we arrived at the hotel, there was this banner to greet us.

after settling in, we sat in for the briefing of the challenges that we were about to undertake the next day. it was real long, full of questions and quite boring actually, because everyone wanted to be absolutely sure about what was supposed to happen. if the main prize wasn't 20k, i probably would have just nodded off.

next up was some welcome dinner. as there were people from all around malaysia, namely KL, kuantan, penang, johor, and miri, they had to make us all feel comfortable. so there were loads of food, games and lucky draws.

one this irritating about the dinner, was that the MC was this real emo lady. i mean i wouldn't really mind if she was hot, but she was quite fat and shitty looking. the jokes she came up with were also really dumb and lame.

one example of a really emo moment was when they had this game, which each table competes with another. the challenge was to blow up a balloon until it bursts. once all the balloons on the table bursts, the table wins. thing is, she said that we have to use team work! so what we did was we blew it a little and just used our hands to burst the balloons. when we did this, she got so red like a tomato and really emo. so our table got disqualified for doing that. but i mean WTH?! she said use team work. how can it be team work if everyone blows their own balloon?

after all that drama, had some lucky draws and i won a bum watch which i gave to my brother. next we drew lots to see which team would go first etc. our team was number 9. so out of 10 teams, we were the last group to compete. the 10th team was the other team from KL. good for us, as we can watch other teams perform the tasks.

so anyway, after dinner we went back, planned our strategy. on our way back, we stumbled upon this huge poster in the next room.

i find it really cool, cuase its actually a 60th birthday party poster from this family to their dad. seems that their dad used to be a pilot. its all in those little pictures around that big picture. its like a big poster that tells the life story of the birthday boy.

after all that, we planned out strategy and went to bed as we would need our strength.

so anyway, our team name was elite 4, and the team comprised of me, dhayang, jonathan, and primo.

the next day we were transported to padang timur, which was the field opposite amcorp mall, by bus. there, we were joined by our supporters megan, sandra, sheyna, kristy, shery mae. these girls braved the hot burning sun and stayed practically the whole day from morning till evening to support us. thanks girls. oh, chee seng was there too.

so we had to wait super long for our turn to come up, as we were the last group. in the mean time, we had some warm up session by some dance instructor lady, there were the dynamites from DJ which were there to perform and liven up the event.

here are a few pictures of the event. the camera was mostly with sandra, so there was loads of cam whoring. be warned!

a cool morning shot of the skyline at the field.

a big TV!!

sheyna and sandra

sandra and megan

mae posing. well no idea if she is actually. could be some random candid shot.

picture of the field from ground level.

picture of field on paper. F1, F2, F3, F4 represents the different areas each challenges are taking place. the whole length of the field is about 200m

all the teams lined up.

the dancing/warm up part.

primo and jonathan after we finished all the challenges.

me with my retarded hair.

me and primo. we were not so in love that we were walking around like that. i had an injured foot. more on that later.

a picture with all the participants. spot me!

the winners of the competition. i've got a retarded look here.

so here are a 2 videos of one of the challenges.






i'm kinda lazy to explain whats going on in the videos. but one thing is for certain, the girls were cheering really loudly!


so yeah, we came in second and won 12k. so thats 3k each. really depressing tho. second place is so close to first place. first place prize was 20k. that would equal to 5k a person!

now here is the story for the last challenge. in all the previous challenges, we ran and ran so much that my legs couldn't take it anymore that they started cramping up. it was so bad that i totally couldn't walk. if i straightened my legs, it would just lock up, stiff and straight. so the remedy was to use loads and loads of deep heat. i think i probably finished up like 2 whole tubes of deep heat.

so anyway, i had to push myself and actually wanted to die from the cramps. but still, had to push on man!

so on the last obstacle in the obstacle course, we had this 2 meter high vertical wall with a platform at the top. we had to get everyone on it by pushing, pulling or throwing. after we got on it, we had to swing from a trapeze and land on freaking lousy mattresses. when i swung, i didn't land properly and hurt my ankle. had to crawl to the finishing line so they could stop the timer.

bear in mind, that i did the obstacle course while i had real bad cramps. that means i could hardly walk at all. thanks to the team, i made it through.


all in all it was not bad. we only paid 20 ringgit and we got repaid back like 2000 X more that what we paid. the 20 ringgit paid for all the free buffet food in the hotel, 2 night stay in a 5 star hotel, transportation costs, and some other stuff which i can't remember.

ok this post is getting too long.

over and out.