What is the Singapore Amazing Machine Competetion (SAMC) all about? Basically, its a competition for people with too much time to make a machine that goes through a really complicated process to do a simple thing, like squeezing a tube of toothpaste.
Last Friday, my school was supposed to attend it. Simply, it was a total waste of time.
I packed my own lunch, took 198 to science centre and waited for my friend Joelle at the bus stop while eating my lunch. Followed by assembling at the concourse of the science centre, and waited again for half an hour. Then, we entered the hall, looked around, took a seat, and waited again.
An hour later, the emcee announced, "Please switch off all of your beeping devices, our programme is going to start shortly."
Another hour later, the emcee announced, "Please switch off all of your beeping devices, our programme is going to start shortly."
Fortunately cmc brought some preserved guavas to pass the time. We ate and played a guessing game while waiting. (They did not say no eating in the hall)
Guests arrived, made speeches and sat down. One of them mentioned that by doing complicated things to do something simple, we learn to do the other way round. I disagree. Many people do complicated things to do a simple thing but never learn their lesson. I can't think of an example at the moment, but I know its true.
Prize presentation next. Our school did not win a single prize but they still asked us to attend, probably because we were one of the sponsers for the competition, so they had to make it look grand.
That was all. We had some light refreshments and then dismissal. Went home with Joelle and Dion, a year one student at 4pm. What an interesting day at science centre.
Time spent travelling: 3 hours
Time spent waiting: 3 hours
Time spent on the programme: 30 minutes
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