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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Hello! Welcome to Mngtalk's Blog Entry on

"Recollections of Activities for the Past 2 weekends"

I'll start off with the latest since the pictures are added according to the latest lolz

Saturday 20 Dec 2008

I was praying hard that the night's weather would turn out fine.
It would not be a great sight and experience having to embark on a night cycling trip in the rain.
Was it raining then? We shall see.. =p

Here's me fiddling with my digicam..
but oh well, I didn't use it throughout the night.. haha.
Left it to Wendy's. =D

And here we are, the 7 of us, preparing to start off on our adventure!

Starting point: SunPlaza Park @ Tampines

Here's how we had travelled:

SunPlaza Park => travel along Tampines Ave 10 towards Bedok Reservoir

=> travel along Bedok North to Siglap Park Connector => Kembangan MRT

=> East Coast Park (ECP) => stopover at Old Airport Rd food centre for supper

=> S'pore National Stadium & Stadium Waterfront

=> back to ECP (cycled along the whole stretch) => Coastal Park Connector (8km)

=> Changi Beach Park => Changi Village for breakfast

=> back to SunPlaza Park via Loyang Park Connector

All in all, we took 12 hours in total, from 9pm to 9am, including the various stopovers and meal breaks. It was definitely quite a feat!

I guess we would definitely remember how 'excruciating' the experience was, especially on the way back.. when our bottoms were already in much pain due to the prolonged sitting down on the narrow bike seat. And.. how our legs struggled to pedal and pedal on the seemingly neverending road. The most 'significant' part of the whole journey was when we were travelling along the Coastal Park Connector (which led us from ECP to Changi Beach Park). The path was really straight and the ending point couldn't be seen for most of the time. Wendy, HongTat and I were cycling together, talking crap (but mostly listening to HT's entertaining talks) so as to propel ourselves, to carry on pedaling.

Despite the 'ultimate endurance test' we had been put through, to me, the overall experience was indeed a unique and splendid one. It was definitely much better to cycle at night, with the cooling weather, quieter surroundings and less traffic. The night scene is also much pleasant. The Coastal PC along the airport runway was my favourite.=)

To end off, thank you those who had joined me for this night cycling! Especially HT.. it has been ages since we met.. =)

Sunday 14 Dec 2008

This was the day of FastCat's first outing after the semester! (my MNO4313 Project Mates)
Proudly organized by Mr Polar Doggie, the only guy (out of 2) who turned up for the day outing.

Our first stop was SEntosa, though on a drizzling morning..

THe food we had brought!

"My name is John" game..

at first, it might sound lame.. but as you play, it's actually quite interesting and ..hilarious

Hah.. juz look at our faces..

Spent the later part of the afternoon at the newly opened Marina Barrage.

A really nice place to be.. for picnicking.. for lazying around.. for family gathering.. etc

Finally, after around 7 hours of outdoor stuff, it's steamboat time!

And we had invited our 'beloved' Dr Song to grace the steamboat dinner..

(hope the results today would reflect well... lolz.. nah.. there's no link between inviting him for dinner and the results okay? hah)

Saturday 13 Dec 2008

I guess this would be my last time organising a Kalta gathering lolzz.. oopss..
Shall hand over to anyone who would like to take over the baton hah..

Anyway, it's JaSon's Birthday Gathering!
Look at the wine in his hand?
That's our bdae gift to him!
Hahah.... nah......
it's complimentary of the Hong Kong Cafe we went for our dinner.. hehe

Okay... so much so of my 2 activity-packed weekends...

kinda look forward to Xmas & New Year now.. though still no confirmed plans as yet!!! Boohoo..

Till then.. cya! And have a joyous festive season!

Cheers!

~~mngtalk~~ ^___~ _{12:27 PM}