Let me out!
Hi guys!
Hello!
Are you an active person?
No!
Not really.
I try to exercise, but I always give up.
My whole life I've been inactive.
I can vouch for that.
Will you be able to sit still for a long period of time?
No!
When I'm in between both of my desk buddies,
then I'll just like...
*Chair squeaking noises*
Yah. I feel like I'll also put my leg up,
put my leg down, put my leg on the table.
Do you take note of your diet?
Oh my God. No.
I was watching my diet.
Like I literally just watch.
But I eat, still.
If I see Mala, or if I see fried chicken,
I'm like bring it man!
More salt, yes!
So on today's episode of Singaporeans Try,
you'll be doing a 12 hour sit-a-thon challange.
The 5 minutes right, cannot eat other food?
Cup noodles take 3 minutes to boil.
Can you even hold your pee for 4 hours?
I cannot. Duh!
Wah, I really need to pee.
Let me pee.
Let.
Me.
Pee.
At every round, we will give you more rules to follow.
Wah! Sian!
Wait...
It gets difficult.
This one, the main rule is already difficult.
Oh my God!
Hello! Hello!
Eh! I want the side.
Everybody, please face here.
Not bad sia.
We can even put our leg on the wall.
Face there!
Any of you have your phones with you?
No.
Any food?
No.
And your challenge starts now!
When she says that, I suddenly feel very fidgety.
Rainier...
What is that on your fingers?
It's the chip crumbs.
Sorry.
So, how's life guys?
We should play. Survivor.
We try and see who can hold their hands up the longest.
Ok.
Nice.
I think we just made ourselves look even more ridiculous.
For no reason.
I say James will lose first.
Why?
I want to put down my hand.
James confirm give up first.
Eh, what?
You know why or not? Because I...
Because I...
Phone!
Eh relax, relax.
Just lose!
No!
Oh shit.
Yay!
This taste bomb with milo.
Yah!
I cannot sleep like that.
There were plastic sounds in your pocket.
Don't have!
See.
She's eating it now!
Grab it from her before she eats it!
PD: Jon!
She got 2 mentos!
PD: Oi!
PD: Jon...
No, I swear. Nothing already.
Legit, legit.
Yah.
Damn disgusting sia, put the mentos in my mouth.
From under her ass, onto the floor, then into my mouth.
We have reach a new level of closeness.
If you give me food, I can sit for very long.
No, that's why we need something to do.
We play game.
Eh no. I said already, we should do that later when we're uncomfortable.
Now it's...
Sleep.
Ok.
Ok, goodnight!
Goodnight.
You all got 10 minutes to the end of this.
So, how do you all feel so far?
It's just very restrictive.
There's no real position that I can get into, where I'm fully comfortable.
I feel like my tailbone got swollen.
My here a bit pain.
I'm damn hungry.
I want beef, and spaghetti, and cheese.
You all count to 5 right,
and then you all can come out.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5!
Toilet time.
Pika, do you want to sit with me for the next 8 hours?
I want 1 now, but cannot.
1, 2, 3, go!
Oh my God!
What's this?
Oh shit!
You see the red thing.
It's the feet.
Next 4 hours,
you have to leave your feet on the marking.
Oh my God.
Now we'll start.
So, guys.
What should we do for the next 4 hours?
Ok Jon, time for you to sing.
Ok!
♪ Backbeat, the word was on the street ♪
♪ That the fire in your heart is out ♪
Breakdown!
You know like...
Stomp the...
As you can tell, we are clearly losing it.
Go to sleep!
Now! Baby!
Go to sleep now!
Finish already ah?
No.
Just now I sleep right, then for a moment I like that.
Because I cannot feel the floor.
I'm like eh, where's my leg?
Yah! It's getting weird, right?
The feeling.
Let me out!
Let me out! Let me out!
Your 5 minutes starts now!
Eee! Very weird!
Oh my God.
Wah, it's like very long never use the muscle.
Wah. I'm not wasting anymore time, man.
Why?
My leg feel damn weird sia.
Oh my God.
It's so numb.
It's really the square lor.
Stretching my legs to the max.
Ali, what's going on here?
I want to stretch my back.
I wore socks.
Because inside very cold.
What's the difference?
Is there more tissue here?
Is it you all put more tissue?
Everybody, put your left hand on the handle.
Wah, it's really uncomfortable to keep your hand at this position.
Oh no! My hiccup is not stopping.
Ok...
Alison!
Your feet lifted.
Never!
Alison!
Never, never!
♪ We are the champions ♪
♪ You feel it too ♪
♪ Didn't have no where to run ♪
♪ I needed to wake up ♪
♪ 'Cause you should know ♪
♪ Life has just begun ♪
Which part do you ache the most?
My tailbone.
My neck and my arm.
You try to turn it back for awhile, then you'll feel damn weird.
I don't know what I'm feeling at the base of my feet anymore.
Because my feet have been on the ground for so long.
And the knee. The knee pain.
Actually time pass faster than I expected.
Fan! Fan that way out!
Just now when he fart right, it smells like the cream crackers. I swear.
The challenge will be ending in 5 minutes!
Yes!
♪ Hallelujah ♪
♪ It is over ♪
♪ Hallelujah ♪
♪ It is o... ♪
Everybody!
♪ Ver... ♪
Over! Over!
Oh my God! Cramping.
Here really like sore.
Wah, I will never sit again.
Good job on completing the challenge!
So, how was the experience?
I was expecting myself to not survive.
I cannot even last 12 minutes on a normal day.
I think it was quite an opening experience.
I think having company helps a lot.
I think the starting,
because we don't know the challenge we cannot eat at all,
then I was a bit taken aback.
I felt like I will give up halfway.
But after awhile, the hunger just became numb.
What was the toughest part?
I think my tailbone area.
And my wrist, when they tied us up.
I feel very constricted that I have to flip my hand around, instead of relaxing like this.
You know what I realised?
My hand has been always like this for the whole thing.
Oh my God.
I don't think sitting was the difficult part.
I think keeping your feet in 1 position,
that was tough.
My right leg is extremely uncomfortable.
I need to like, bend my leg kind.
The hand tied down.
Yah, that was challenging.
For me right, the first 4 hours was the easiest one.
You can move your leg all these, I need to shake and like move.
Oh yah! That's something also.
I just realised how fidgety we really are.
Yah.
I really cannot take not moving.
I think I felt restless.
Like the starting because you just came in, so you a bit like energetic.
But then as soon as time go, I'm just like...
Then I just do this.
So, what you guys just went through,
is to mimic what kidney failure patients have to endure while on dialysis.
They must go for dialysis treatment for the rest of their lives,
and each treatment takes place 3 times a week,
each lasting for 4 hours.
And it involves painful needling.
Oh my God! Oh shit.
I think the mindset towards this challenge was a lot more lighthearted,
because we know it was going to be one off.
So if you end up with kidney failure or whatever right,
and then you have to do this for the rest of your life.
Just thinking about it is like exhausting already.
Kidney failure patients feel fatigue,
which limits the exercise and social activities that they can do.
They have diet restrictions,
where they have to avoid food that are high in sodium and more.
And, their fluid intake is limited to 500ml per day.
Oh my God!
Everyday?!
500ml is crazy.
And the 500ml actually includes fluids from porridge and soup that they consume.
Oh no!
That means cannot drink soup.
Being in a situation where you really need to do this right,
is not easy lor.
It's really a complete lifestyle change.
Actually I'm quite glad we did this challenge.
I think it helps us understand what they go through.
Just like a little glimpse.
I follow my mum to get treatment once in awhile.
She also has to poke the needle, and stay in a position every week.
I can see it's very hard for other patients as well,
because it's a lot of pain and time used just to keep on living.
So, I think it's very important for friends or family to be supportive.
We would like to thank NKF for making this video possible.
NKF is holding a sit-a-thon event which is happening on the 15th of September,
at OCBC Square @ Singapore Sports Hub.
We are happy to create awareness for this cause.
So do sign up,
just grab a few friends and get to experience what patients go through during dialysis.
Yup. For more information, check out the link in the description box below.