Haven't blogged in awhile due to many stuffs.. thus here it is!
As expected, quite a lot of the tandem pairings were guy/girl, and a total of i think 80 couples went =) Supposed to leave at 1045 that day though.. but due to some screw up we left at close to 1220.
And ta-dah! my partner for the night was blub.. hehe benjy can't cycle so I have a chance to T-loan his girlfriend for the next 10hrs haha.. K la we were looking forward to the cycling since we've hadn't chatted in quite a while.
So, here we go! First comes the selection of the bike who'll be supporting our asses for the next 10hrs. The final winner of our stringent selection was a bike with a baby seat to place our helmets and drinks etc etc. And here we go for a test run! Managed to go for like 5m before wobbling to a stop. Bad start. Tried again by going upslope, which was even worse because even though I changed the gear all the way it was still too damn hard to pedal up, not to mention balancing it.
Of cuz, Blub became pretty worried.. haha but encouraging though.
But after going down the slope fully, we were all set and well.. haha it was quite fun, with me pedalling and Blub behind entertaining me by singing. Chatting proved to be quite hard cuz I need to turn back to speak to her else she can't hear a thing. Speeding down the roads and slopes were pretty fun though.. and she would stand on the pedals and enjoy the breeze. (now, figure out what's wrong with the prev sentence.)
We went to Labrador park, had a break, took some photos, did a small night walk in groups of 15.. zzz then off we went to Esplanade for another photo taking, but there were quite a few nice downslopes to speed down. Wendy suggested we take a night scene photo with his camera.. and we did.. haha but Blub commented we looked wrong in the photo. Like a couple in a tour group to HK and even wearing the same shirt given by the tour group lol.
Along the way, Cheryl from a neighbouring bike with Aloysius commented that her butt hurt.. and Blub helpfully told her that she could stand on the pedals for a moment to relax the butt.
Guess what? Cheryl can't because for their bike the pedals are in-sync.. so Cheryl's pedal will continue moving on its own as long as Aloy's pedalling. In fact, Blub was the only person I knew who could do that.. because our bike's pedals aren't linked. OMG. Now that explains why going upslope was horrendous. So its either I'm pulling both of us up, or Blub is pulling us up at any one time. No wonder when going upslope everyone's breezing past us while we were pedalling like dogs.
Reached Geylang, had dim sum for supper.. shiok shiok, then backtracked a bit to Indoor stadium for yet another phototaking and long break and wait.. while teckwee pretended to be an Energizer battery by bouncing all over and getting all high. Final stretch to ECP, last journey was pretty relaxing, and we returned our bikes, had breakfast at macs, I was drenched, took chartered bus back to hall.
Showered at hall, so sleepy i slept for 15mins while waiting for Cheryl, then dragged my dead body along with my laundry and the two parrots into a cab. Got home. Ate a bit. Slept for 7hrs.
That's the end! And here I am now webcasting in central library on a thursday afternoon while its pouring outside. (my pants are half wet)
And check out my new msn pic done in the wee hrs of the night when i was so bored.
