you pay more to go faster...

centerstage@acsi today, good to see my previous schoolmates. had a good time disturbing mong.inc (malcom ong) while he was doing the mobile fone thing on stage!

rode about 220km this week, i guess i reached the week's target. next week's target: DO EE!!

climbed the 3 hills today and a few breakaways. HOWEVER, got dropped at mandai this time round. nevermind, im improving... slowly but surely!

hadi: 70.3? are we on??? i'll race u the 90k bike. but i'll go easy on the run! hehehe.

fraser, taken a while back...

for $250 or so, just to increase your current speed by 1kph...

italian adrenaline...

dropped by cycleworx this arvo after a visit to CMPB to release our bonds. and finally i managed to wash my bike after a long time this evening.

degreased the chain, a simple spray of water on the bike (as it was already cleaned earlier on)... and add a layer of wax over the frame to remove some stains and give it a little shine! dang man!

anyway:

'09 pinarello prince in the making...

presenting: the first '09 pinarello prince in singapore!

gotta go now, bike ride tmr at 6.30 with cw. must get up at 5.15!!! ciao!

fly or die...

cycleworx ride last evening was great!! people were attacking at one stage and we had to chase them down. i found out that im terribly weak at climbs. therefore plan for this week is to ride all the climbing bits with those guys.

i rest the whole of today, as my legs felt as if they were made from jello. however, i think i overate a little too much and didn't do much work as i woke up at 12pm this noon. shitter im lazy.

currently listening to U2's the best of 1980-1990's album

i'll settle for an early(ier) night! goodnight!

le tour fever!!!

cadel is now 8seconds off frank schleck!!! as long as he hangs in there in the mountains the ITT on the 20th stage will be the one to watch. cadel being a very strong timetrialist should be able to fight for yellow easily from schleck. however he will need to be on the look out for christian vv from garmin chiptole.

anyway we averaged 36.8kph for 30km today! great ride as i managed to stirr them abit, however i need to hang in longer and recover faster next time!! the 2nd loop was noticably slower than the first. it could have been a much faster ride! sighhh!

plans for tmr:

1) wake up early to start on some work...

2) wash bike

3) possible trip to CMPB to clear some documents

4) lunch and movie with jon

5) evening ride with cycleworx...

ride more, talk less!!! goodnight!

101th post..

we're officially moving today at 2pm. new address: 11a jalan lebat daun off yio chu kang road (seletar hills estate)

i've started certain bits of my extended essay, hopefully i can start writing by the end of the week and complete it a week before school starts!

bike ride tonight at coastals... 8pm with ENR gang.

tmr: start writing my title for EE. hopefully can go out for a bit!

twitter

for those of you that may not know why i'm always checking my mobile phone from time to time, its because im using twitter...

so what in this world is twitter? twitter is a microblog that allows you to enter 140 characters (similar to a text message) and it will post it on the web or on ur twitter page. people may choose to follow you and likewise you may choose to follow someone just for the fun of it (sounds like stalking someone, but trust me its not and its great fun)!

what is so good about it?? twitter allows you to stay connected with your family and friends who use them as well. twitter also allows you to keep up to date on latest news be it business, home, or sports so long as u follow them and enable your mobile phone to receive updates via text. another thing that most of us didnt know about it was that during the recent sichuan earthquake in china, some twitterers based in china were able to send tweets and post it on their page and spread the news before big news co. such as BBC and CNN.

just an interesting note: singapore's famous blogger/podcaster mr brown is also a twitterer as well. you will be able to follow him and laugh at his funny postings!!

what are you waiting for? www.twitter.com and start following someone!!

weekend

fraser, jim and i met up with dear o' nette wong zhi min on friday after school at holland village.

before that i managed to catch up with a few old friends back in acs(i) for a bit. it was great seeing them around still looking so happy. malcom ong's still the same. which is... haha afterwhich, fray peh and i broke away from jim and nette as we head down to bikehaus to collect his pedals which were missing. one thing i love about bike stores are that u get to play around with the stuff's in there. be it tampering with the bike's brakes, aerobars, lifting up bikes to see how damn light they are or even wearing the helmets on display, its still quite fun to a certain extend. i got mr peh to wear an aero helmet. and even took a picture of it (will upload soon once i get this picture thing sorted)...

saturday cycleworx ride was great yet again (but of course eh???)... we did 80km from the store to mt faber, tuas (which was fast... hehe it rhymes!), then to LCK, neo tiew and back to upp thomson via mandai. pace was abit slower this time round but i did manage to climb using the bigger mashing gears up mandai. total distance for the day including travelling to cw and back is about 101km. very good but not enuf for the week's 200km target (short of 40km)!!

anyhow my brother raced his first ever criterium today. he wasn't too used to how criterium works but the junior boys from toshiba bike labz from across the causeway sure did a good display of torture to our home grown passione boy lemel. lemel finished 3rd, after pulling most of the time while a malaysian bike labz cyclist was up front attacking him hard, and the 2 other bike labz rider hide behind lemel's wheels unwilling to work! it was great tactics only if you are able to appreciate and understand it! malvin (my brother) on the other hand, started off slow (last of the entire field to be honest), and made his way to the chase pack of 3 after his legs "woke up"... he's still got a long way to learn and go. hopefully from today's race he'll learn his lesson and also learn how to ride smartly. for me: i just have to train harder and ride more to up my speed endurance and gain back form. i believe i still might have a chance to be a fast racer, just gotta learn how to suffer.

overall the weekend was rather busy. we've been moving all over the area to view houses. yet again none to our liking, but there were one or two very nice apartments we are considering. moving is not fun!!!

i am going to bounce now. tired as hell! been up at 5 for the past few days!

i've been rather lazy this week. only a 60k morning ride around mandai with julian, llyod and my brother. this time while on the return journey, rode fixed gear (without changing gear) on the 4th biggest gear. similar to wot isaac back in taiwan would do. mashing big gears and spinning up using the smallest gear with power makes alot of difference (cuz u wont really move any faster using the latter technique). i've learnt something new :)

anyway, amidst the laziness my family and i managed to view more houses, but unfortunately nothing to our liking.

because i havent been riding much lately this week, i promised shum to ride all the hills this saturday with cycleworx as a form of compensation as i pontang-ed the ride yesterday. hahaha.

seeja

okie so a wrap up with last week's training...

did about 300km for the week after the ride with cycleworx on saturday morning. sunday was a complete rest day.

the ride was overall good. just got to work on the hills as i was suffering like hell. thanks julian for looking out for me in the ride.

my parents are in the midst of looking for houses as we will have to move pretty soon because of our enbloc sale of our apartment in yiochukang road. i shan't disclose any details yet because its not certain and all... but how i really wish buying a damn house is like playing the sims. if you dont particularly like how one place looks like, you just f*cking demolish the walls and re-do again. best of all, there's the extra 50,000 simleons cheats to use. and you can also evict a family out and buy over their property anytime. how wonderful, dont need to haggle over the price etc etc...

okie enough said!

i'm off for an 'easy' swim later at the old NIE with trifam people.

i got my computer fixed and my internet fixed. currently using some vodafone usb modem that will allow me to connect any where i am in singapore. kudos to jon for telling me about it!

i did a few rides from sunday to yesterday:

sunday - 108km 2x selarang loops + return trip from home to ecp

monday - rest

tuesday - 2x coastal roads 32km averaged 36.7kph (would have been faster if i resetted my speedo before my ride)

wednesday - rode from home to tampines L&T bike store and back 30km rolling hills fast (got chased by a double decker bus at 50kph at one point)

thursday - home to ecp and 1 round coastal roads and back. ~50km

so far about 220km. targeting for a 300km ride at the end of sunday!

weather here has been great. with occasional rains in the afternoon.

on monday, i met up with greg and jon at his place in orchard before we head down to sentosa. its been a long time since i've been there so it was great. however, along the way home from harbour front. we saw an acs(i) indian boy (prolly sec 1 or 2 from the looks of it), touching an indian man's ass. (SICK!) jonny videoed it (for personal pleasure...hahahahaha! wtf)!!!

then on wednesday, i met up with hannah and fraser after the school swim nats and had dinner with them. congrats to fpeh for his 200im win!!

its been a great week so far. hopefully more to come! gotta start with my EE research and write up very soon! prolly the start of next week!

later

last day in shanghai...

got a few last minute stuff to get for my mates.

and its the last day to use and abuse the driver muahahaha...

also, gotta get my fizik arione road saddle later.

will update again before i go to bed.

3 more days...

yup! till i'm home! and 3 more days till the start of TOUR DE FRANCE!!!

i was up til 3ish as i was tossing left and right on the bed for over 2 hours. this morning i woke up at 7am and resumed packing until the movers came.

in the end my room fitted well into 2 small boxes (files and documents) and 2 medium boxes (1 being my bike stuff ie spare pumps, saris bone rack, extra bottles, spare parts..., while the other was for my clothes)

i'm feeling rather restless now, need some songs for my 5 hour plus plane ride back. checked out the month's movie selection and it looks rather dull and boring. i'll have to stick to my ipod and hopefully i'll sleep through the flight...

later