The Yellow Ribbon Prison Run 2012 held @ Changi Prison on 16september. They are having this run for the 3rd year already and this is my 2nd run. It was a totally different experience compared to the Metta Charity run. Its a bigger scale with much more people.
Ok, let's start the day. I woke up at about 5.50am and we left home at 6.15am you walk to tampines JC and took bus 9 to our destination in about 15mins. We actually missed the bus or we could have reached earlier. We took some photos before putting our bags in the baggage truck which will be sent to the ending point. We took a short walk to the starting point. The 10km run started first which commenced slightly ealier( about 7.35am instead of 7.45am). We waited for quite a while before our 6km run start at 8.15am.
I got a little irritated at the front because there's a lot of people. (From what i heard, there's a total of 10k+ people in total ) However, at ths later part where all the slope are, i started to slow down. Those slope were much harder than i thought. My legs were really tired then. I was exhausted. Toward the end, i kinda gave up and walked a little before running again. And soon realised, i finish the race! Here's my result [ yes, these are screen shot, sorry about ]
Then we went to take our bags, food, drinks and goodies.
Muffins made by offenders.
Sponsored drinks
Goodies
Love the medals
Then i and mum went to look around the exhibition and bought some handmade items made by the offenders.
Just some thoughts here...
Hmmm you might be thinking Why help these people? I mean, after all they are prisoners, offenders, people who do wrong things. They might be theifs, loan sharks, murders or who ever that breaks the law. Why help them? They harm and cause so much through to the people, they ought to receive such punishment! Honestly, i never though of this question about Why help them? Because, all i know is that im doing charity work. Probably im too kind heart *thick-skin* such that i don't mind helping people thus never thought of such question. But these was what my mum said regarding that question: "if you don't help them, they would not be able find a job or a source of income, they might end up looking for their gang again and start doing bad stuff to earn money etc " In my opinion, everyone makes mistake due to various reason which may not know and i believe in giving people a second chance. And if i do get to open my own business(which is unlikely though) i would make half my employees be ex-offenders.
And i guess the purpose of this whole event is to also convey the messgae of "The road to acceptance"
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