post-prelims

to push down that post that implied that i was really angsty (at least which some pple told me)

heres a quick update.

the past few days have been a crazy whirlwind :D. going out and out and out and spending so little damn time at home. time at home has been fruitfully spent on the phone or more importantly, dotaing (kding!!).

saturday

met the class which consisted of like 5 pple at cine. basically we spent 1 hr discussing where to go to for dinner, then we had the brilliant brainwave of going to esplanade to eat at some food centre there.

char kway tiao was really really really good :D cept that marcus got confused with the mai hum and my hump thinggy but all still turned out ok. yums

learning point: try the stingray. for $12 its really worth. except that it disappeared so fast when all the guys banzaied it almost instantly.

sunday (crazy day)

went new creation with justinevelyn in afternoon, then biking with ruggers in evening!!! being the punctual ruggers that we all are, we only met at the ecp macs at about 7+?? when the msg said to meet at 6. bike bike bike all the way to lagoon to eat dinner (for the others) then we biked back to meet some latecomers at the same bike shop.

and of course, being the sporty and fit singaporeans that we are, we biked everywhere!!!

1st stop: Dons house
fun begins. dons house where we waited for just and joel to arrive after singapore idol. meanwhile we watched eurotrip (for some pple like the 10000th time) priceless as usual. never ever gets old. club vandersexxxxxxxxx XD

2nd stop: kallang road
fun really begins :D biked to indoor stadium (just says hey i was just here 2 hrs ago!!) then off we went again and again

3rd: esplanade
fun continues. biked to esplanade (i say hey i was here yesterday) via nicoll highway!! where the first major accident occurred. roland drops his cap and brakes to pick it up. ilman is shocked and does series of acrobatics on his bike that he usually would not do. SPLAT!!. and ilman has a few new gashes on his knee. which were expertly patched up due to the efforts of joel and his super tape. en route of course we stopped to pose for pictures on steves camera (phone)

4th: shenton way
fun continues continues. from esplanade, by some sheer chance and luck, we suddenly found ourselves in front of tanjong pagar mrt. so what do 15 hot, handsome and sweaty guys do? pose for more pics of cos. then was bike bike bike again, chionging across roads, pavements, bits of grass, anything in our way, beating the red lights, and 10000 ways to shorten our lifespan.

5th: lau par sat (is this how u spell it??)
fun takes a break. finally our destination --- lau par sat. to rest our aching loins and groins and whatever else that took a severe beating/bruising/rubbing. deserts and more deserts came. then came the rather interesting debate between steven and glen about the post-prom party. nvm bout that btw. after that we were on our way again. to the shopping mecca of singapore -- orchard road!!

6th: boat quay/ann siang hill
fun starts again. before going to orchard we went to boat quay first. (where we were after we lost the finals) from boat quay we hit ann siang hill, where we cycled up the fricking hill due to some navigational error. (supposed to turn right we went up instead)

7th: river valley road
fun is running out. river valley road is seriously one of the worst roads for cycling. it goes uphill and uphill and even more uphill. nvm the quads got a workout.

8th: orchard road
fun decreases a bit. i tried to be wise and jump the curb between the road and the pavement outside wheelock place. accident no 2 occurs. 1st time i got cuts in a very very long time, which were patched up by myself and joels tape. cycled to outside taka where we took photos again.

9th: homeward bound
fun decrease a lot. sore bums and thighs were really taking a toll on us. so we just biked as quickly as we could back to dons house by the bus 14 route. somehow we gained a lot of ground in record time. maybe it was the fact that it was almost 4am><.

10th: finish line!!!
dons house finally. and how far did we cycle? well if someone does the math and calculates how many km we do, we'll be thankful. (estimate-- 20km?? cos we were cycling in circles most of the time)

biking be fun! even thou i fell like countless times, cycled into pillars and lamp-posts, almost decapitated random passer-bys and so on.

funny moment on the way back
ryan: fck i almost collided into the pillar!!! guys careful
arjun: guys look out for pillar!!
mark: guys look out for pillar!!

I collided into the pillar.

and of cos we broke almost every traffic law except for the one involving drunk driving. that one we definitely did NOT break.

at the end of the expedition the bikes were in terrible condition. (at least mine was) got spokes that were torn out, bike stands that fell off, brakes that did not work etcetc. the bike shop owner must be really understanding. like we returned with 13 chunks of mutilated metal and he still beamed and us and said thankyou.

bike again soon :D more on ecp outing later

random quote: Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams