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Put four teenage boys in the sun for too long and they'll go a wee bit crazy.

That theory has been proven by my team plus myself in the 4 years in St. John. Enjie, ChuaH, Alon and I proved it again today... Heheh..

While kicking around in town yesterday we conceived the idea of cycling in ECP, the details of which were quickly thrashed out and the SMSes flew etcetc, although a combination of forgetfulness and lack of sleep led to several CBDs (just like in St. John).

So 10.30 to 11.00 found us at VJ, albeit in mufti, the above mentioned 4 people plus Liling and Christl. It was a huge tactical error on my part to decide to blade rather than take a bicycle (for the novelty of it), but who was to know then anyway?! I even managed not to fall down until I had almost reached Costa Sands Resort! Of course, it was an even huge-r tactical error to decide NOT to bring at least one of my two bottles on the trip, but since every one was travelling light I decided "ah whatever" (which proved to be near fatal).

Bladed and stumbled all the way to the end of the trail at Tampines Safra, then committed tactical error 3, which was tripping and falling along the road, trying to catch the chicken wire to break fall, and ending up turning my ankle, which put me kinda far behind the rest... Happily the structure of the roller blade was so much like a boot that it prevented any sprain or serious twist so....

At the end of the road Enjie got this sudden RUSH OF BLOOD to the brain and wanted to go Changi Village to eat... On the other hand, Christl and Liling had to turn for another rendevous... So at approximately 12.30, with the sun just past its zenith, we were making our way along the side of the airport. Unfortunately the path was littered with the husks of dispersed seeds which made blading a pain in the backside, and even more unfortunately, later on the path kind of terminated, so we had to either ride on the road and get mown down by monster trucks... or walk. But walking in rollerblades over tree roots and with my foot steadily becoming sore was hardly an ideal situation. In the end Enjie kindly offered to scout ahead for Changi Village (cos he was the only one who was good enough with the thing he had rented to ride on the road) while the three of us made an ardous walk... In the end it was just off with the roller blades and I walked on the grass with my socks...

Then we had another brainwave and decided to walk next to the fence where there were no trees = no shade = no obstructions. And we were like -_-"' why didn't we think of that before.. So we did

Oh sorry that no pictures appeared before... Before, I was too far from the group, or trying to catch up. By this time everyone was more or less dying in the sun =D

My two travelling companions. The grass still wasn't very conducive for riding though. And some of it was poky. Blah.

It was not long till we turned back (The sun is now shining on their faces rather than on their backs) after ChuaH and Alon made some enquiries and found out that changi village was a light year away or something... Anyway we started our turn back.

ChuaH and a funny mushroom like thing on the ground which he poked with a stick before declaring that it "looked alive". Happily it didn't manifest its alive-ness by biting us or sending forth a swarm of stinging insects or something. Don't know how we managed to slog our way back when we only had one bottle of water - ChuaH's, which he happily donated to us.

Happily also, there was a water point a few kilometers down set up by an enterprising couple with a truck and an icebox.

We happily hydrated ourselves there before eating at the food court... Sigh, but couldn't really taste the sambal kang kong... Dunno why usually its so nice but this time our receptors seemed blocked... The people selling drinks there really made a lot of money from us that day...

Well, we made it in the end, and we wound up sitting in front of the rental place trying to catch our collective breaths... Quite fun.. heheh

Here's the map of our route... We travelled 20 km or so (the scale reads less, cos I cut some corners while plotting the route).. It must have done some good to the NS related muscles =D... So here's to our next outing before we have to go back to mugging for the REAL THING!

And the next blade I'm touching is gonna be my epee period

Oh thanks everyone who went on the outing, and for accomodating my incredible inability to keep my balance for long periods of time =)