Last 8 of 2008

Hello everybody. I'm still alive. Hurhur.

Just came back from a supeerrrrrrrrrr long day. My brain's only semi-working now. Hmm yea details below.

And, cool,  the past week was more canoeing, catching up, reading and more.

Hmm, ok guess the discipline to canoe daily kinda paid off. Able to draft with coach easily now. Canoe marathon's in freakin 19 days.

Naysayers would probably go: "OH YOU NO LIFER", but hey, I decided this was all part of being extraordinary, unlike a severely bored person wasting life away on the computer or TV at home, or working aimlessly at work for the money.

And if you think extraordinary just meant being fit and spending hours under the sun, think deeper, or ask me (:

OH about work, i kinda settled the relief-teaching stuffs. 

Be back at sec sch to teach Bio and Chem, got classes from secondary 2 to 4. Whoosh, looking forward to it,

XMAS is coming in 3 days

As each year passes, there's less and less things to buy. Dont need much things at all. Shopping isn't really meaningful anymore. It's gonna be 2 years in NS anw. Heh was talking to ceyong saying, at 18 years old, we're kinda too old for the teenage stuff, and also too young for the adult stuff. 

Gifts for people would never fall out though. Can't possibly visit someone or someplace empty-handed isn it. Gifts are genuinely from the heart (:   [from me, at least]

OH 2 people's birthdays are coming soon, 26th and 30th december. uh oh

OH yes, and my dad's birthday gift too, he's a 31st December baby btw. Haha.

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Mmmmm hmmm. They say, "Treat yourself with your head, treat others with your heart."

Towards a particular someone, guess I've been having a Heart and Head conflict, 

My different purposes, my different intentions, my different faces and my awkward image. Bleah. 

(And because this blog is like that, i wont express this in any other way.

You see, this is in itself part of the heart and head conflict, the heart wants to say something but the head makes it so weird. Completely wth.)

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WHACK.

Monday:

OK, i never knew i was even gonna do this but now it seems pretty cool. Swam and run in the morning, almost a biathlon distance. Cooked pasta for lunch, which I eventually brought to the chalet (like mentioned above, cant go anywhr empty handed =x). Went to sec sch for relief teaching stuffs. And to J1's chalet for night cycling! (Thank you J1s for having us at the chalet :D )

Tuesday:

An hour's of sleep, breakfast, and off to bedok for paddling with coach.

Like a diver-style hell week thing, with tons of fun though (:

NIGHT  CYCLING!

Really fun to cycle in such a LARGE group! 14 bicycles -> 13 B1s and 1 B2 (b1 - single; b2-double). Hahah we were practically jamming up every traffic junction when we crossed roads.

Renting the bikes were quite a hassle and thanks Aaron and hilary for helping with the booking and stuff. Appreciate it much man.

The Route:

50km on Mountain bikes. Man, very respectable for those who don't really cycle. 

Some of em thought of making a finisher shirt?! NAH. Nothing was really intended in the first place wasn it. Hahah

The route was just impromptu-ed along the whole way by Daryl and I anyway, oh and of cos my trusty phone maps. Thanks to us, most people's butts and thighs are somehow strained now. Ooops. Haha. We had a great time anw didn we (:

START!:

The Chalet - Costa Sands Pasir Ris. 

{The block of houses which are surrounding a pool)

Right out from the chalet, on the Phosphorus Cyanide. PCN, i mean, park connector. 

(Ceyong's Joke). Hurhur

A little clip of everyone (:

All the way down to...

Tampines MRT! Ok you can see we turned in here to go the Cheers at the MRT station to get drinks. 

Further down the MRT track, reached the Holy Trinity church, right turn and all the way down to...

Bedok Reservoir! We went to Jernan's house area. Tried calling her to come down but guess she was asleep alrd. So, we went on to....

To our shed! It was too dark and hence, we took a pic at the toilet, haha:

Johnny's arm looks... eee. 

FAST-FORWARD. OK so from here we took the PCN that brings us to ECP:

Passing by Kembangan MRT. Oh yes the PCN route actually cuts into the pavement for MRT commuters. Weird. Hilary's bike started to get cranky, screwed up chain, but lucky it could be fixed.

All the way down Jalan Eunos, cross the underpass and here we are at East Coast Macs. Stomachs started to growl a little. Aaron wanted stuff like hokkien mee. Haha. This security guard told us that the Bedok Jetty Food Centre will actually be open till late, and when we went there...

IT WAS FREAKIN CLOSED. GOSH. And we lost Daryl here. He 'dissappeared' into the food centre. And found him waiting outside the toilet later cos he thought the B2, which louis and gideon was on, sped up ahead of him. 

Occasionally, the B2 partners were switched. Here, Lohboon went on a single while Gideon helped qianwen out by taking the double tgt. Much less taxing on the legs. After which, we went back to Macs area again.. yawn.

There was 7 eleven here. 

Bought some food and drinks and hung around the kid's rides area when there was actually proper seats for us. Maybe cos it was the brightest area. Jack switched off the electrical supply to some of the kid's rides and those "put-in-1-dollar-to-use-a-pincer-to-try-to-get-a-cute-toy-but-get-conned" machines, cos they were making hell a lot of noise. Hahaa.

Daryl fell when he was dismounting his bike, tripped on the pedal and went over.

And someone's bicycle wheel hit Biao's toe and he shouted damn freaking loud that we thought it was his knee or something again. Haha scary shit, crazy biao.

Qianwen and Nelson were all half-dead and want to take a cab back to the chalet alrd. Haha. We were only halfway through. Oops. Hahaha

B2 was now ceyong and qianwen.

After about a 20 minutes of break. And back on track again, towards Changi. As you can see, we travelled the same route 3 freakin times  =x 

OK, right here, ceyong let gideon get back on the B2 and suddenly Ceyong dissappeared. Literally. Turned back to find him only to know that his whole right leg cramped up. Man, kinda bad. So we had to go slow for a while. He was trying to use more body to cycle, and resulted in his head shaking on every step of the pedal, just like how he paddles. Hahahaa, funny as hell.

Everyone was waiting up ahead at this bridge for the rest to catch up. This is just pass the Sailing and Windsurfing club. Leon and Johnny were gassing out too.

Passed by the National Service Resort Country Club. And through the horrible MOE campsite. Leon's leg was bust here. Says it was damn sore. Just this moment, someone made the Jing-Ma-Jiang tune, only to realise his soreness was not a joke. Haha.

And on the B2 leon went with Ceyong.

From the pic you can see we're heading up Changi Coast Road, which is the road that surrounds the airport. Freaking long road with a dark path. It's the route for the Team Category in Adidas Sundown Marathon anw. Aaron lost control a little I almost slammed into him. Damaged the brakes of his bike. Lucky Jack our repairmen knew how to fix it. heh

Turned into Changi Beach Park. The most retarded park ever without any lights. Complete pitch dark. Just lasted for awhile only tho.

This is the SAF Ferry Terminal! Where most of us are gonna have to go to. Brings em to Tekong for BMT. OH Jonny is already done and over with it. Heh. 

Further up to the end of the park...

We are at Water Venture Changi. Where all the 1-star course takes place. Hur

CHANGI VILLAGE! Finally. But the food stalls were close. It was about 5am already anw. Luckily there was a 24-hour coffee shop there. Had drinks and pau.

AND GUESS WHAT? A pair of transvestites actually confronted Nelson cos he was the most approachable, pushing his bike while we were all cycling. He immediately called Johnny damn loudly. And for some reason, Johnny suddenly had a godlike burst of energy and cycled away super fast, with this hilariously flabbergasted expression. Hahahha

They had very manly voice. Heh

Down Loyang avenue all the way and back to downtown east (:

Slept an hour. Breakfast, then left the place. 

Bike shop only opened at 10am!

Freakin wasted 1.5 hours waiting for it to open while the rest already checked out and left for 

home.

Was supposed to be down at Bedok at 930 to row with coach. LATE.

But luckily he was just getting ready to paddle when i reached at 11 odd. 

Dunno how and why, he knew that we went night cycling the night before and actually didn mind joining us but had a meeting so he cldn come. Rowed about 16,17km. 

What a day. Whooosh. 

Merry Christmas everyone!