Beautiful, haunting, touching

Days with my father by Philip Toledano.

Just for you Mike. Merry Christmas!

Just because you like SFW-porn so much.


Diesel's SFW XXX Party Clip - Watch more free videos

The Bird is the Word! Part Deux.

It's way fucking awesome. I need to get me a chicken to try this.

The following conversation also defies logic:

(13:53:02) ME: that is fucking amazing!
(13:53:08) ME: i got to get me a chicken to try
(13:53:27) JH: cool right
(13:54:22) ME: i want a chicken!
(13:54:29) ME: damm why are all the chickens in my home dead..
(13:57:12) JH: uh
(13:58:26) ME: if i eat enough chickens will i gain that ability?
(13:58:58) JH: yes you will
(13:59:01) JH: oh yes you will
(13:59:01) JH: eat more
(13:59:04) JH: please
(13:59:29) ME: are chickens region free?
(13:59:49) JH: no
(13:59:51) ME: i'm afraid the chickens in melbourne are not ability compatiable with the chickens from us
(13:59:52) JH: argh
(13:59:52) JH: i mean yes
(13:59:53) ME: *US
(14:00:11) ME: mmm okie
(14:00:56) JH: eat more
(14:01:29) ME: i will
(14:01:38) ME: then you will see my awesome ability!
(14:01:45) ME: but i've been eating chicken for 26 year
(14:02:08) ME: how many more do i need to eat?
(14:02:13) ME: got wiki entry or not?

Know any mathematicians?

"An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar." The first one orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third, a quarter of a beer. The bartender says "You're all idiots", and pours two beers.

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Weird dream

Had the freaking weird dream last night where I was dreaming about googling for the word that means to refine/dilute a substance to it's purest form of water (homeopathy) and to my horror, all the links on google were to SFW porn pictures.

And somewhere in there were a trio of soldiers on a jury rigged cabinet with a machine gun zooming about in the ocean.

This was on the front page of Digg

It's surprising how people don't believe that this was possible and that there are actually quite a few people who can do it. The misconceptions about unicycling out there are enormous.

When will they ever learn

After the SPORE fiasco, you would think that companies would learn something.

Apparently not.

I have just bought a copy of Football Manager 2009 and guess what? Due to the DRM whereby I have to autheticate with the servers online, I can't play the game I spent good money on. The authentication servers are down. And while I'm stuck here with an expensive coaster, people who have downloaded the game are happily playing it.

DRM rarely work. It's Murphy's law, sod's law. Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

I am just so pissed right now.

Use protection

That day I learnt a valuable lesson.

Always use protection.

You might thing that you're good and skillful, quick and agile. You think that you can adjust in time. But let me tell you, when you feel that need to go faster, in the throes of passion for what you are doing, you might make a mistake.

And by then it would be too late.

Always use protection or you could end up like me.

 

Result of not using protection.

Story: I was riding too fast and didn't see a hump on the road thus crashing and burning. If I has used protection like knee pads, I wouldn't be in this state.

HEY!

Have you heard?

Crap! Gotta run. Need to take a dump

It's just sinking in, I'm going to run a marathon in 31 days. This is scary. I haven't actually been training as diligently as I like. It's so boring, just running for hours to an end.

That being said, I did go for a run 2 days back, only to meet the most unfortunate of circumstances. You see, I was faced with a need to take a dump while on a run.

The thing is, it was in the middle of no where, with nary a toilet in sight. So I had to soldier on. Unfortunately, the more I wanted to run, the more I felt I was losing control of my bowels.

And thus a dilemma: Do I run faster so I can get back home to take a dump and risk shitting in my pants? Or do I try to take it slow and try to control my bowels but walk as fast as possible home.

I chose the later option and made it home safe and clean.

On a side note, was reading Terry Pratchet's latest book: Nation, and it gave a rather interesting explanation of my previous predicament. Namely, when you are scared, your first instinct is to run. When running away, you want to be as light as possible, and that means letting go off everything that you don't need, and that includes Merde.

Should have done this

YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS MIKE!

For Neil Gaiman fans. *you know who you are*

 Scene from Coraline

Coraline and more.

Love/Hate relationship

I've got this love/hate relationship with Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia at the moment. It's fun. But it's also really difficult. Not Megaman difficult, but still enough to make you try quite a few times before you figure out how to beat a boss.

That being said, even the normal monsters are quite a handful.

Wouldn't you say

that is very ironic for someone doing a "Preventing Sleep deprivation in Singapore" to burn the midnight oil so that he can rush it out?

Word of the moment

Dichotomy

The Bird is the Word!

This has got to be one irritating song.

Fun maze game

Try to complete it.

???

The problem with company wide emails is

that the tables literally shake from all the blackberrys on vibrating mode. Not to mention the symphony of ringtones to notify new mail.

You know when someone has been watching too much wrestling

Recent conversation:

A: Hey, heard about the new movie, Max Payne?

B: Sounds familiar...

A: It's a movie based on the game.

B: Oh?! You mean it's about Triple H?

Cluesless in Singapore

Standing in the MRT this morning to work, a sudden commotion startled me.

Like any good Singaporean, I ignored it, since it wasn't my business.

However, things became more interesting when the words "fei li" (Mandarin for molest) came up.

Long story short, it was a woman who was claiming that some guy was molesting her my touching her.
My sympathies are with the woman, it's difficult in a crowded train not to get taken advantage off. But sympathies also go to the guy. In a crowded train, you might accidentally touch some over-reacting woman and get scolded for nothing.

So the pair started arguing, with the woman claiming that the guy touched her and was trying to molest her, while the guy was refuting that it was cause it was crowded that.
But things took a turn for the cringe-worthy when the woman started throwing claims that this is Singapore and there are laws here and that this isn't China. She then further claimed that the guy shouldn't try to take advantage of her because she can't speak Chinese.

It was so xenophobic and racist and not to mention shallow, I couldn't help but side with the guy when I heard that drivel being spouted. I wonder if she would not have reacted as such if it was some Chinese immigrant but rather a Singaporean.

*Disclaimer* I'm not siding with the woman or man with regards to the molesting incident, but rather the arguments that were used to justify their side of the story. I will officially state that I do not condone molesting women in crowded areas.

Choices choices

 

Mmmmm which one to keep?

Atheist or Agnostic

Interesting Read

I think there are ninjas in my office

Despite me sitting facing the water dispenser, I always fail to see who changes the water tank when the water runs out.



There are 3213 ninjas in this picture.

Goodnight and goodbye

“We must not confuse dissent from disloyalty. We must remember always, that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another, we will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.”

- Edward R. Murrow

Plutus

"Plutus is envisaged by Aristophanes^[2] as blinded by Zeus, so that he would be able to dispense his gifts without prejudice; he is also lame, as he takes his time arriving, and winged, so he leaves faster than he came."

Weirdly, I found this beautiful.

Source: Wikiepedia

Dr Horrible's Sing-along-blog

Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.

Let me iterate this. Those who have not seen this, should find some means to watch it. It's legend-wait for it-dary!

Almost got me for a moment

LHC Webcams

Hotel Pic

 

Picture of the nice hotel (Crowne Plaza) I was in while in KL. 

Growing fat

I miss Ride the Lobster. It was fun in a "kill myself riding up insanely steep hills" sort of way. But what it did do was that it improved my fitness and muscles to a huge degree.

Nothing was so evident as when I just came back from RTL and could ride up "hills" (there are no true hills in Singapore) that I previously couldn't.

Imagine my chagrin when I tried the same hill yesterday and could actually feel my thighs starting to burn. I'm growing fat.

Nothing would ever be able to replicate the sheer amount of exercise that I got in RTL. 5 days of pretty much non-stop cardio. I miss that.

Things can't get any better/worse then this part deux.

Apparently, before me, there were only Man U supporters in the office. Wonder if I can convert them.

Things can't get any worse/better then this

In honor of our victory this weekend, I've deigned to wear my Liverpool jersey to work today. Seating down at my usual seat, I go about my daily work.

I turn to my left.

THERE IS A MAN U SWEATER HANGING ON THE CHAIR.

Wondering if I should change seats just in case the person comes in for work later.

Some thoughts

I'll be the first to admit that I have a short attention span. My mind tends to wander around quite a bit, especially in a lesson, of which I have been in for the past 2 days.

So while my mind was skipping around in weird places, you can only expect weird things to pop in my mind like:

Searching techniques.
This was partly the lecturers fault where he asked us to flip to a page in the lecture notes and then asked us how we actually searched for it.

I used binary search, while others used sequential search. It doesn't matter if you know how the searches work, it's pretty intuitive actually. But what's interesting is what does this say about your character?

Would me using a binary search show that I'm more left brained? Lazy? Loathe to waste time?

What about a person who uses a linear search? More right brained? Hardworking, doesn't leave anything to chance? (Which brings to mind, DID ANYONE use random search? Holistic view of searching for something?)

Surnames
The Chinese have their surnames in front while the Westerners have theirs behind? Could you view this as the Chinese placing family above (before?) self? While the Westerners view the individual as very important?

International Colleagues

Add in Thai, French and Australian. It's getting really interesting.

Kuala Lumpur

I'm going to KL for a week! What's there to do in KL?

Drinks glorious drinks

I love the pantry at work. On the first day, I wondered why no one bought anything to drink during lunch. It was only when we got back to the office and the glorious and obviously well venerated fridge was opened was I exposed to The Secret.

It was a very well stocked fridge. Green tea, Iced tea, coffee, milo, juice.

Sadly it was lacking in coke.

Well you can't please everyone.

First day at work!

So far so good.

Got a new laptop (Lenovo T61 which is an insane 2.5kg)
Got a new handphone (Blackberry which I have no idea how to use. I can't even figure out how to keylock it easily)
New colleagues (who all seem friendly enough and not to mention very international, at last count, there was a Chilean, a German, an Indonesian)
Lots of new things to learn (literally a 100+ pdfs to read)

We'll see how this goes. Should be interesting.

Still awaiting:

My email account
Who the hell is my supervisor

I'm alive

Post

Run

Just about to embark on a 21km run. Wish me luck.

If I don't post again, you know I didn't make it.

Biggest Revelation EVA!

From here

This is priceless

There is something very wrong here

 

Taken from here and here 

I would say that there is something fundamentally wrong when a social media website advertises their services by showing how insanely fun setting your friend on fire and then posting it online can be. I am so not joining them cause I don't want to be set on fire.

Somehow resigning wasn't as dramatic as I thought it would be

I know I'm not very good at this comic lark. But resigning wasn't as dramatic as I thought it would be.

This is insanely cool

Good to check first

Stupid SBJ

I really can't jump if $100 depends on it.

HOLY SHIT! Never take anything at face value.

Transformation!

RTL reflections

RTL was tough. Real tough.

Could we have been better prepared for it? It's kind of subjective. The hills were the like we had never seen, but if I can recall correctly, Malaysian terrain is similar. We could have tried to train in Malaysia except we would probably be run over by a speeding truck before we got past the first turn.

Which was one thing I rather liked about RTL. There is a very clear campaign for them to share the road with cyclist of all varieties. They gave you a wide berth. Even when you were riding in the middle of the road, they made a point to overtake you carefully.

However, some of them were a bit too friendly. I know they mean well and were trying to show their support, but when you're riding along and a car blares it's horn at you from behind, it's scary.

Anyway, back to RTL.

Day 1 was tough. I think it was partly due to us not being conditioned for it, partly because we have never rode hills like those and partly because we just did not know what to expect. Our strategy for changing riders was totally off. We were planning to ride 1 hour stretches, roughly 18km per rider. But we got tired too quickly and the hills didn't help.

Day 2 was better in the sense that we were more conditioned to cold, except that it had to rain. Riding in the rain was no fun. Riding in the rain at about 10 degrees Celsius is worse. Riding in the rain at about 10 degrees Celsius wearing only a t-shirt and pants is the stuff of nightmares. But we were more accustomed the the hills and had a better strategy and we got much closer to finishing on day 2.

More to come when I have additional writers juice.

Gah

Haven't posted in a while. Been really lazy lately.

I'll try to post a bit on my trip, but I really should be starting off by basically complaining about China Eastern.

The whole fiasco started with my friend JH realizing that China Eastern had actually postponed our flight by 2 days. We had bought really cheap tickets from a travel agency for a Singapore to New York flight via China Eastern. It was supposed to take us from Singapore to Shanghai, switching to a connecting flight from there to New York. China Eastern has apparently postponed the Shanghai-New York flight by 2 days without informing us.

We panicked. We didn't want to spend 2 days in Shanghai. So we called both the travel agency and China Eastern to seek a resolution. They both pushed the blame to each other, neither wanting to admit it was their fault. Well, it had to be someones right?

I had to ask to be let off early from work to make my way down to the travel agency to get an answer from them. China Eastern had actually stopped picking up our calls and taken the phone off the hook, meaning we couldn't call them. The travel agency wasn't much help, so I rushed down to the China Eastern head office. Some how they were closed at 4.30pm. We headed down to the airport in hopes that the counter there would be open. It wasn't, only opening at night. It was so frustrating and worrying since we had a very short deadline to get things done.

To cut a very long story short, it was only on the day that we were supposed to fly that they traced down the fault to China Eastern. China Eastern was claiming that they had sent out notices that the flights were canceled. However, it was finally realized that they had sent out the notices after we had bought the tickets and more importantly, they did not send it out to people who had already bought the tickets for that day, i.e. US.

It ended rather happily as they had to send us on the next available plane to New York which was Singapore Airlines.

Unfortunately, we were going to come back to Singapore via China Eastern.

Comparing the 2, it was really sad. The difference in the quality and quantity and frequency of the food was amazing.

SQ left me feeling very very full. I was perpetually hungry on China Eastern. The China Eastern blanket was too small, only allowing me to either cover my upper body or lower body and not both at the same time.

Summary, I'm not inclined to take China Eastern ever again, no matter how cheap the tickets are.

Bloody China Eastern

I'm never going to fly with them every again no matter how cheap the tickets are.

FUCK!

Will elaborate more when I have the time.

Famous last words

from a person about to go on holiday

I'm sure we got everything prepared!

The Babysitter

The babysitter is a pretty cool short film. Wonder who has tried that before.. Hmmm...

Edit: THIS IS ACTUALLY POST 666!

Mushrooms!

A colleague was offering mushrooms to another guy (let's call him guy B).

Guy B asked, "Where do these come from?"

I had to really resist shouting, "FROM HIS GROIN!"

God is an....

Atheist?



Edit: Just thought of something. Religion is not necessary a belief in a higher power. Rather it can be a belief in God. And I'm pretty certain God can believe in himself.

This in no way reflects my atheist status.

The Female Friends That I Have

Hot French Boys Beware.

(One)der Woman

I'll probably watch this when it comes out. Not sure if it'll get to Singapore though.

Anyway, it's really cool to watch and gives people an inkling of why unicycling and why Ride the Lobster.

I'm getting really really psyched about RTL now. Can't wait. Only 11 more days before I fly!

Haha

Surreal

Went to Geylang to look at prostitutes with my mom and dad cause they say they've never seen it before. Come to think of it, neither had I.

Was a real eye opener.

Just never imagined it was my parents bringing me there.

Internet MEMEs by Weezer

With regards to Ketam

Famous last words from a unicyclist:

This is going to be a piece of cake! None of the bikers are wearing any guards!

Mom!

Firstly, Happy Mothers Day!

Secondly, my mom now thinks that I have herpes due to the ring like paintball bruises on my back.

Now I know

Why Ride the Lobster is called as such.

Nova Scotia, the place I'll be riding is supposed to be shaped like a lobster.


Lobster

Nova Scotia

I've got a face

that screams

I LOVE CHILI!

This is the nth time I have asked for noodles without chili only to receive a bowl of noodles with chili.

Help!

Ok here's the situation. We're homeless once again.

After shifting out from Singapore Polytechnic, we found a new home with the Ngee Ann Unicyclist and settled down there, have the multipurpose court as our home turf.

Unfortunately, the Ngee Ann unicyclist have shut down due to most of the members graduating and the inability to attract new members. As such, we no longer have use of the court and must evict the premises.

Situation is FUBAR.

How can you help?

Suggestions on places where we can continue our training. Preferbably someplace solid ground about 2 basketball court size big and well lit at night. If that place has goal posts, it'll be a plus.

If it costs money to book the place, we would prefer it to be low as we want to train every week.

So guys? Pass this around and we'll see if there are any suggestions.

White stuff

In reference to this colleague (now known as A) who seemed to be infatuated with a girl.

Colleague B: Eh, A, you seem blurer these days. Can't even answer questions properly.

Colleague C: Yeah, maybe he's infatuated with that girl.

B: Hmmm, could be. Maybe he has lesser and lesser brains these days cause it's getting filled with tadpoles.

C: Tadpoles?

B: Yah, white tadpoles.

C: ORH! Hahaha. You know how people qi kong liu xue (bleed from the seven orifices in the head) ? He's going to have white stuff flowing out those seven orifices.

Me: Eh, it's called BUKAKKE...

Cute GF playing TF2

Her comments are soooo cute!

Good advertising

Was going past the Har Par building the other day and saw this huge poster advertising Tiger Balm ointment. Below it was the catch phrase "It works wherever it hurts"

You might think it's rather corny, but I could only think that it's really good advertising.

It's a really good phrase, very catchy. The phrase really works, cause it's so corny, it hurts.

*I deserve to be bitch slapped for this.*

Justice for the 96. RIP. YNWA.

Learn more about the disaster

Ta Dah!

And now you know

Totally useless fact of the day

SPNS 2008

My team:



We were a bit lucky here and there but it was a really good experience.

Holy Cow Fanboy!

Lalala

Gah I really am bored.

Pun Hell

South Park came up with the worst pun I've seen in quite a well.

Apparently, something is cheesing cause it is fon to due.

GAH! THEY ARE SO GOING TO PUN HELL!

Statistic

Walking up the overhead bridge

I spied a person looking

Click went the counter as I walked past

I'm just a statistic

Of pillars, girls and rabbits

How are the above all linked? Spare me a moment as I ramble on.

I never felt it was a bad thing to have a roving eye, be you attached or not. It's healthy looking at good looking women (or so numerous scientific researches insist). But ogling at girls does have it's down points. The number one danger would be pillars.

I almost walked into a goddamm pillar today ogling at a girl, only to look back in time as she was turning to look in my direction. Unlike a certain friend, who prefers to let the girl know he's looking, I prefer to do it more covertly (could be due to my fascination with ninjas, who are never seen).

Which brings me to my second item. Girls.

Was having this interesting conversation with a female friend. We were talking about ogling girls, which surprising (or not) is something we both indulge in. She's not gay, she just enjoys looking at girls. She claims that guys tend to be not as interesting to look at. Girls have more variations in clothing and looks.

But that is digressing. She was asking me if I would like to know any of the girls that I tend to ogle. Her reasoning being that knowing the girl will allow me to be closer and hence be able to ogle more.

I disagreed. I can safely ogle at a girl know because I can view her as an anonymous sex object (I can hear the feminist sharpening their knives already). But once I know the person, then said person stops just being an object, but rather a friend and I don't think I can treat a friend that way. It's now a living, breathing person and someone that I will judge based on character and not on looks. I don't think I will be able to ogle a friend that I care about deeply.

The third item stretches things a bit, but this turning of faceless objects into things that you are familiar with and that you care about is used as a training lesson in the special forces from certain countries.

When you first join, they give you a month off. They also give you a rabbit. You two are placed in a bunk.

On day one, you look at boredom at the rabbit.

End of the first week, you start to adore the way the rabbit jumps.

End of the second week, you have named it.

End of the third week, you two are inseparable. You play with it, you feed it, you cuddle with it at night.

End of the last and final week, they order you to kill it and eat it.

It's cruel. But it's supposed to be. It's supposed to desensitize you to killing.

It's scary.

Excited!

Hey Jude Cover

Big fan of this song, especially after hearing it in "Across the Universe", but this has got to be one of the cutest covers EVA!

Bimbo Moment

Observation at a certain fast food outlet with huge burgers and free flow of drinks:

Filling a cup with drinks before adding ice is a bad idea.

I love...

tagging official mail sent by MSN to my hotmail as Junk Mail.

I wonder if they will one day just automatically tag all mail from MSN as junk?

Awesomeness

Bruises

I have so many bruises now I don't know which ones are from paintball and which ones are from floorball.

Passive Investing FTW?

Do passive investing?

Interesting read. I really need to learn more on how to build my portfolio. Someone teach me!

Juno

Juno has been billed as THE sleeper hit of the year, and currently it seems to be shaping up to be one of the more underrated titles released.

Juno tells of a story about a girl who got pregnant after becoming "sexually active". She feels overwhelmed and unready for a child and wants an abortion. A last minute change of heart sees her searching for a pair of adoptive parents. Her own parents on the other hand are surprisingly supportive as well.

Aided by an able but rather unknown cast, Juno really shines with it's witty dialog. Juno McGuff (played by Ellen Page) is both witty, and sarcastic, effervescent and quirky, dorky yet cool. She carried the show along. Ably supported by the other cast members, you'll find yourself laughing and smiling the whole way through.

It's not ghey, it's guy love!

Which is more disturbing?

This:



or this:

Bah, twas difficult

Damm jigsaw puzzle.

Do note that you can rotate the pieces. Took me 10 mins before I realized that.

Movie voiceovers galore

What happens when 5 movie voiceover guys get in a limo

Misconceptions about amazing facts

• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

What about pepperroot, pepperwort, perpetuity, pirouetter, prerequire, pretorture, proprietor, repertoire, repetitory? I’m sure we can think of even more words, and I’m only using the top row of keys on a QWERTY keyboard for those ones.

Taken from here!

Shaolin Soccer ala French

Réinvente ton jeu
Uploaded by ElectronicArts

Definitely CG for most of it, though I wouldn't be surprised if some of it was real.

Paintball

Particularly proud of this post in a paintball forum:

Alternatively, you could do it while walking in the streets. Every time you come to a corner stand behind it, and peek out, pretending to hold your marker.

Several levels to this.

• Noob Level: Everyone coming from the opposite direction gives you weird stares. Practice more.
• Ninja Level: People do not notice you standing there peeking out. You're getting there
• Godlike Level: People fall over every time you peek out and squeeze off a few imaginary rounds. Wow.
• Paintballer Level: People run and dive for the nearest cover and do their own snapshooting at you. You get involved in a fullblown one on one and WIN. After loosing, they don't know why they just did that. On asking, they claim it was something about your posture.

Orgasm

Having a great big orgasm over Ruby on Rails at the moment. Why didn't anyone show me this earlier?!

Ride the Lobster qualifying ride report

Route

The route that I am taking is based on the Eastern Park Connector in Singapore.

The length of the whole route is estimated to be about 42km. This would allow me to achieve my objective of riding 84km on the first day and 89km on the second day by riding 2 rounds around the park connectors.











Day 1

I woke up on day 1 feeling nervous. The longest I had ridden prior to this attempt was 42km when I wanted to see how the route was like. Now I was about to embark on an attempt to ride 171 km over 2 days. Not something that I was particularly looking forward to.

The day started with me checking out the weather forecast.

Humidity 89%
Temp ranging from 26 - 32 degrees Celsius

Not particularly cooling either. Plus the humidity can make things really difficult.

Partaking in a bowl of cereal, I got my gear together in preparation of the ride.


Gear

Bag to carry stuff
Hat for protection against sun and maybe rain
Sponge for groin protection
Shades to look cool
Water bottle for hydration purpose
Handphone + Earpiece for entertainment
Wallet for money





With my gear all set, I set off at 8.30 am with the words "I AM GOING TO DIE" screaming in my head.


Why was I looking so happy?

Siglap Park Connector

The first part of the journey was the Siglap Park Connector. It was relatively short and painless, although the route was a bit winding with numerous ups and downs. There were some pot holes here and there which made for a slightly more difficult ride.


Start point.

Going towards Bedok Reservoir Park

Signpost showing where I was

Photo to show I was there. The signpost was correct!

Does this count as elevation?

Bedok Reservoir - SunPlaza Park

Next part of the journey was to Bedok Reservoir. From here I was to proceed to SunPlaza Park

Bedok Reservoir is just across the road

Bedok Reservoir proper

Bedok Reservoir

Track inside Bedok Reservoir. It was actually closely packed gravel, though there were some parts that were still loose, which did make some of the riding feel very slippery.

Next part of the journey - Towards Pasir Ris Park 6.7km away

Map showing where I was

Part of the riding track to SunPlaza Park

SunPlaza Park

Waiting at a traffic junction

SunPlaza Park - Changi Beach

This was one of the more painful parts of the ride, mainly due to lack of objects of interest and also due to the road seeming like it'll never end. From SunPlaza park, I rode up to Pasir Ris, made a turn and headed up to Changi Beach park.


Signpost showing where I was

Riding across a bridge that spans the canal. This canal leads to Pasir Ris Park.

Reaching Changi Point

Taking a much needed break

Changi Beach Park - East Coast Park - Siglap Park Connector - Home

I was at the North-Eastern end of Singapore. I proceeded to turn South and rode the Coastal
route, which brought me to East Coast Park. Riding along the beach, I would come back to Siglap Park connector and home, thus completing one round.


At Changi Beach Park

Just in case no one knows they are at Changi Beach Park

Coastal Route. The longest, most boring part of the ride. You just can't see the end.

I was lying. I can see the END(of the Coastal Route)

Enjoying a packet of sugar cane juice.

DAY 1 PART 2

After a quick lunch of instant noodles, I had to set of again. I was feeling ok. A bit saddle sore, groin hurting quite a bit. I set off once again at 2.20pm having finished the first round at 1pm. Didn't have the mind to take as many pictures this second round as all I wanted to do was to finish this and get home to get some rest. I finished at about 7pm. Was feeling sore, dehydrated and quite a bit crazy. Total time taken for day 1, 10 1/2 hours.

Rating calculation:
Distance ridden: 84km
Subjective rating: Extreme Temp: 42km

Final Rating	Objective Rating	Subjective Rating	Prev Day Carryover	Next Day Carryover
148	118	30	0	24.5

Starting from home

Start point of Siglap Park Connector

Bedok Resevoir

SunPlaza Park

East Coast Park

Siglap Park Connector

Day 2 Part 1

Start of a brand new day. I decided to start the day much earlier so I woke up at 6am and started off at 7.20am, after a breakfast of bread. Also, I decided to do things differently as I was getting slightly bored with the route. For day 2, I rode the route the otherway. Also, for the first part, I would ride one round around Bedok Reservoir to account for the 5km increase in total distance for me.

Weather forecast for the day:

Humidity 94%
Temp ranging from 24 - 30 degrees Celsius


Starting from home

Reaching East Coast Park

Taking a break

Reaching SunPlaza Park

Reaching Bedok Reservoir

Reaching Siglap Park Connector

Day 2 Part 2

I was pretty much gone in the mind. Wasn't thinking and pretty much zoned out by this point of time. It was all about putting one leg in front of the other. I reached home at around 12.30pm and had a lunch of Wonton noodles. I set off again at 1.30pm. I decided that I was too tired to try to navigate anymore, so I changed the route again. This time I would ride only part of the Siglap Park Connector (2.2km), the East Coast Park (8km), the Coastal Route (7.9km), the Changi Beach Park (3.9km) and then turn back and ride the same route again. This would give me a distance of 44km. The reason I chose to do so was that it was long straight routes most of the time. It would allow me to zone out.

I finished at 6pm.

Rating calculation for day 2:
Rating calculation:
Distance ridden: 91km
Subjective rating: Extreme Temp: 42km

Final Rating	Objective Rating	Subjective Rating	Prev Day Carryover	Next Day Carryover
162	132	30	0	28

Not very happy that I still had so much to ride after riding so much.

At East Coast Park

Sugar Cane Juice to reward myself

Taking a break at one of the shelters along the Coastal Route

Beautiful day.

Aftermath

I was sore and tired but elated. I had complete the ride. I managed to do something I had doubts I could do. I pushed myself to my limit and maybe even beyond. I was so dehydrated, I kept drinking water.

I was also late for a birthday party. Opps.