Sunday Cycling

Last Sunday Morning, sent my wife to Changi for a company event.  I brought my Dahon folding bike along and cycled a total of 40km from Changi to ECP Lagoon Hawker Centre and back to Changi.  After the ride, I roamed around the Changi area.  One interesting place is the Kelong boardwalk.

 

the boardwalk itself

the back is the kelong boardwalk

40km ride. Average speed is rather slow at 25km/h

cycling from ECP to Changi

Today, I went cycling with 2 other friends (Seng and Wee). Suppose to be 3 but this other one was having fewer so did not join us. We met at East Coast Park Mcdonald at 8am so I had to leave my place at 7:15am to ride there.

I rode 14km to reach the meeting point. After met up with the other 2, we went to the bike rental kiosk. It was closed. We checked the other and was closed too. Find a nearby bench along the beach and waited. While waiting, we were thinking to go to Pulau Ubin but Seng did not like the idea.

After an hour wait, finally the kiosk open. Seng and Wee got there bike and we headed toward Changi Point. It will be about 20km each way but I believe we all can do it. We were rather slow, doing at a speed of 15km/h and we had rest rather frequently. Reach Changi point at about 10:45am. We get ourselves charge up with food and drink. Actually, I was every hungry. Had only 2 slides of bread before 7am and after a total of 35km ride, how can I be not hungry. haha.

by 11:30am, we were done with our lunch and were fully charged up. This time, we were doing pretty ok, at 20km/h consistently for 10km. All due to the food that we had. By 1pm, we reached back the kiosk and they returned the rental bike. Both of them were complaining butt pain... haha... this is normal if you were not a season cyclist and not wearing those padded short. I had my fair share of butt pain when I first rode with the Suzhou riders.

Overall, a good leisure ride and more to come.

Pictures for your viewing pleasure.
East Coast Park is a very nice place. The path cater for roller blading, cycling and jogging. Only problem is that temperature is always HOT.
A cable skiing training centre nearby the ECP Hawker Centre. It was out of bound long time ago now it is opened to public for viewing.
Toward the east of Hawker Centre just before the Bedok Jetty, there is a newly opened (probably 1 year) extreme sport park cater for BMX, skateboard as well as roller bladder. This is built for those hardcore. It was about 9:45am, thus, it look rather empty.
A nice path with shade for cyclist, jogger, roller blade or just leisure walking.
On the left is Wee and right is me. For those who have not see me for the last 6 months, you will notice that I put on weight. A solid 4kg. Singapore food is too nice that I keep eating it. Excuse...
Seng on the left.
2 tones after a hard day in the Sun.

been some time

Since we were back from China, we have not really went for a good outing. 2 weeks ago, while reading paper, i saw that HI-5 is heading to town for a show. i thought, it may be a good idea to bring my son for the show. so, i went on to book ticket online for a Friday afternoon show.

Friday, i took leave and went to the show with my family. my son and wife love the show but i almost felt asleep (haha, a bit bore for me) but still good for them. as long as they enjoy it.

After the show, it was about 5:30pm and we thought we should head to changi airport for dinner. many in other countries usually will not travel to their airport for meal but in Singapore, it is a norm. many singaporean love to eat, and the changi airport has lots of restaurants as well as food outlets to cater the singaporean. we had the steamboat cum bbq at T2 (terminal 2, Changi Airport has 3 terminals), total damage about S$35, ok for a family of 3. after dinner, we head to T3 as we have not visited the T3 before since it opening 2 years back.

T3 is very well build and nice. there is also a Crowne Plaza Hotel right next to T3. at the same time, as Singapore is hosting the 2nd night F1 race during end of September, there is promotion of the F1 that has free F1 arcade game, complimentary photo. Keith took part in the arcade game competing with 3 other kids similar of his age. the helper mending the game told him to go slow with his accelerator and he did. With some spinning and lost of direction, he was leading the race. The other 3 racers were spinning so hard and their rear wheels were gone. After 3 mins, Keith came in first. We were so proud of him. He received a gift from the promoter, a 3D F1 car puzzle.

Keith, getting ready to race.

Keith holding his winning gift from the race.

Keith winning gift.