let me go!

my morning didn't start out too good.. a L plated car brushed against na na this morning. heh. miscalculation of the overconfident L plate gal who tried to filter through the 2nd lane to the 1st at a relatively high speed, cutting the cyclist.

after brushing against my bike that caused her left mirror to be pushed inwards, she hurriedly stopped the car at the side. i just carried on my way, i wonder why did she stop anyway..chum said probably she might have gotten ticked off by the instructor.

funny thing, though i could have been knocked over..there was no adrenaline rush. i just went..oooo..titanium handlebar is good. maybe i've been through much worse accidents to let such a little brush seem to be of anything worth a hoo-haa about.

i was about to sign up for desaru tri until i realise it clashes head on with nl's working sat. what?!!?!?!?! i'm going to miss this 2nd year. last year it was also because of the working sat at nl that's why i had to disappointedly miss it. this year again?!?!!? i cannot believe it. i'm thinking of trying to feign ill, get an mc to cover me through.. coz i really really want to do the desaru tri badly.

race report. we did relatively well. according to the marshalls, we came in the top few teams in mixed open..but how true that is, let's wait for the results to release. we completed it in less than 5hrs 15mins..which is much shorter/faster a race compared to the ntu one.

it's pretty well organised and fun. the only rant i have about the entire race is the passport.. it's by far the WORSE and MOST LORK KORK passport i've ever come across. it's just basically an A5 piece of paper with 3 columns. not laminated.. how is it going to withstand 5hrs of race??? probably the organisers haven't done adventure races themselves.. it's crazy to race with a passport like that.

anyway the entire race had 9 check points and it went like this.

starting point was at bt batok nature reserve.

cp 1: bt timah visitor centre. from there we had to locate 2 huts within bt timah itself. remember the code printed on a sheet of paper, placed at the huts and run back to start. (feels like sac's first station too. but much shorter. sac we had to find 10 chkpts out of 14 given)

cp2: run to macrit. bt being chew's home ground, we took the bike route out to the exit where catchment path leads too. then from there we run/walk to macrit.

cp3: venus link (at exit of macrit, near thomson) ran through macrit in the huge cat 1 downpour. (yes, we heard the siren from the ranger station but we just continued running) the rain was good to cool us off..but abit too heavy though. i was intially worried if my first aid kit would be soaked through..and my ziplock holding cash and cards might not hold. but what the heck..during a race, we just keep going. where got time to find banana leave to use as umbrella? hehe.. venus link turned out to be the road far deep in that can be reached by taking the road beside the country club.

cp4: bike to bishan park. again chew took us through some hdb flat to bishan park. short cut!! unlike the given instructions by the marshalls to take the route within bishan park. justin was stationed at this cp. nice seeing him.. he looks more muscular liao. punching him on his arm left my fist a little sore. =P

cp5: bike to sajc. i like this chkpt. haha..fun!!

cp6: bike to kallang. kayaking chkpt. we had some hiccup here..but ok la..smart chew worked around that.

cp7: bike towards esplanade. dropped bike at marina promenade. another chkpt. this chkpt, xiao niu did it really well. we failed during our 1st attempt..but 2nd attempt, xiao niu got it really fast n good.

cp8: run to keppel towers. it didn't occur to me we were going to climbadventure. if i knew, we could have took a short cut. that long cut let 1 team over take us. shit. chew n xiao niu did the rock climb. i did the super super super short abseil down. (i seriously thought the abseil down was a waste of time.)

cp9: run to chinatown. end point.

well done, team 121, true north!

i'm thirsting for more adventure thrills. more more more!!!!!

i might be giving action asia singapore a miss. will save that us110 for action asia hong kong. if xiao niu can't go, i'll team up with isabel..

i want to experience as much as i can this year, in case i do get into army next year..it'll be very tough to do any races at all.

oh yes..after going through bt timah yest..i told myself i am going to go back there one of these days and explore ALL the possible routes in there.

if i didn't have to work on sat, i probably would drag dw and chum along to bt timah for a walk after run at macrit. u 2 heng ah! i got to work..haehaehae..u r spared! =D

perhentian getaway is cancelled. weijie has to work. nvm la.. i actually felt it coming already. maybe i should try to utilise the leave for desaru..see workable or not.. i desperately want to go desaru!..please let meeeeeeeeeeeeeee... -sad look-