hello world. my christmas was spent caring for my gran while my parents were out of town. hohum.

training camp was fun.

1. it is good to bring a frying pan
2. camp near other people who dont have gas stoves and they will give you free food
3. dont expect anything from changi wet market
4. bring army mosquito repellant and wear long sleeves at night or get attacked by sandflies
5. start a fire! funn.
6. tie complicated knots for fun.
7. organize camp first or have everything in unhygenic clutter
8. build proper bashas
9. ALWAYS CHECK THAT TENTS ARE IN WORKING CONDITION LOL
10. tell scenarios stories from 10pm to 11pm at night and talk about roald dahl's adult stories to scare the wits out of you

chuckles everyone play miniclip! its damm fun

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fwalala. i am bored, therefore i shall talk about ketam bike park.

me, the bangla and eli went cycling at ubin on tuesday, after our disappointing trip to changi sea sports club. first, we found out that it was not possible to do round ubin because of a new ruling by mpa. so the guy there recommended that we do a coastal hug all the way up to pasir ris. which was fine, until yichao couldn't go becuase of the two star ruling so well. we just hopped over to ubin as usual. why do i get a feeling of deja vu hurr.

so we went off to ubin. after the morning of checking out chek jawa and reccing the two campsites - maman beach and noordin beach, we headed off to the extreme end called KETAM BIKE PARK. which is essentially all these trails for mountain biking. which was fun to begin with.

tried the dirt skills park - damm fun. it looks something like this.



it looks simple, but its full of adrenaline rushes. the hillocks are approximately like 2-3 metres high, and well, angled at 60 degrees. so, grins, you get the picture.

after which yichao and i took off for the trails. in rising difficulty of blue squares, black diamond, and double black diamonds. the blue squares are pretty okay, considering that we were noobs, to use the term. the second difficulty level, the black diamonds were gasp. had to get down and push the bike on many times - up mud slopes, past huge ass rocks etc. we went down crazy slopes, did 70 to 90 degree bends, screeched our way down while spamming the brakes. lol. not to mention that the trails had killer names like black cobra, bird ridge, down roller. the only trail which i did not disembark to push the darn bike was on the razorback trail, where i just let the downhill momentum carry me up the next hill and blah. damm fun. plus, it had just rained. so by the time we finally got out of the trails we were well, heavily splattered in mud. woots.

but it was uber fun, considering the whole thing all together. by the time i finished my legs were burning. as well as my butt, and my hands from clutching the darn handlebars too tightly. the next time i get there means a cushion and some gloves.

yichao the madman went on the skills park, where he demo-ed the teeter totter, by which me and eli just watched and laughed while he well, continued to try the rest and risk his family line. amused look.

after the whole hoohah, changi village. the best hawker centre in the world. hurrah.

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