Monday, February 20, 2006
hahah... wat a tiring sat nite and sunday morning... haha went nite cycling... the food race with qiang hy and jp... haha... havent seen the latter 2 for quite a while... haha called our team 3-niners... haha initially... qiang was the only one with the motivation to actually try out for something during teh race.. haha the rest of us were more keen on enjoying a relaxing evening eating and cycling tog... haha... but once the race started.. i guess adrenaline got the better of us... haha
our first station and it was a watermelon eating stop... haha...
we cycled from staton to station across eastern and central singapore from food centres to tiny shophouses... haha it was really quite enjoyable... save for the bottleneck at the second station where we wasted 1.5 hours just sitting there waiting... it was terrible... hahaha... so bad in fact.. that when we reached our next station... we bumped into the "pro" team... comprised of RVwq and his frends from cycling club... and they already completed 7 stations... haha from that point on we knew we were sort of out of the competition... haha
low morale when we were made to wait 1.5 hours at the next stop...
by the time we reached our 6th station (out of 10)... it was almost time to call the race off... so we decided... with about 15 mins to spare... not to try and make it for the 7th station wich we reckoned was pretty nearby... cos we were in a rather nice location to have a sumptous breakfast... haha... it was this AIRCON dim sum place in jalan besar... haha the food was quite nice... haha not excellent but it wasnt too ex either... haha... so we sat there chatting and joking about of blunders... haha...
haha deciding to have a good breakfast rather than continue to race...
a weird pose of jp letting yq try a da bao which we had only cut into 2 pieces...
haha our half eaten breakfast... hahaha cost us each less than 5 bucks.. hahaha
when it was time to leave... we referenced our street directory again... and plotted our route... haha... we had to make our way thru a short stretch of geylang b4 we turned into mountbatten road... haha but as we cycled thru geylang... which was not a pleasant experience at 5 in the morning... we just never seemed to find the exit... we went thru so many lorongs... i saw 17 pass by... and i told them... (since i was the rear "guard") that i was quite sure we did not miss it cos i was actually trying to look out for it... hahah... but by the time lor 30 plus came about... i was quite sure we did... hahaha... so i redirected them towards tg katong road for a straight journey back to ecp... haha but we had to cross the ecp highway en route... and because of a detour in doing that... we were the last team to arrive... terrible... so we decided not to head back to the meeting point for the prize pres (we were too embarressed haha)... we went to a nearby breakwater/beach... and sat down again chatting and enjoying the sunrise... haha
haha deciding to laze around waiting for the sun to rise instead of going back to see wq get his prize... hahahaha
and with not much clouds... the sunrise was quite worth the wait afterall...
then after we returned the bikes and chatted with lt... we proceeded to find our way home... haha we boarded 55 (i think) cos it was qiang's direct bus back and the other 3 of us needed to get to eunos mrt... haha somehow... about 100m away i saw the mrt track... and i sed... "oh yeah we're reaching"... then we carried on chatting on the bus and when i looked back.. i saw the track 100m behind us... so i sed "errrm isnt that the mrt?"... but qiang sed it prob was the expressway... hahaha but eventually we realised it was indeed a missed station... hahah so for teh second time today... we missed a stop... haha quite embarressing for a group of army officers who spent alot of time in army doing recee and navigational exercises... haha... but yes we were tired... haha
i caught 151 home opp xj's house (ya somehow we ended up in hougang) and huang yun and i went into deep slumber on board the bus... and before i knew it... i felt a tap on my shoulder and hy telling me that he missed his stop... by the time i got my orientation right... it was just in time to press the bell and alight at the next stop which was oppo my house... hahah... so had iit not been for hy... it would have been the 3rd stop i would have missed yesterday... hahaha...
spent the whole day slacking after that... haha my ass hurts... haha and as yq sez... hahaha no more nite cycling in the near future... hahaha ouch... hahaha
{9:44 AM}
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