Tuesday, February 5, 2008 . 2:31 AM

wow sunday was super! took me kinda long to post bout sunday.

well i was too tired on sunday itself to post anything and went to bed very early. on monday i was too busy watching 'lucky star'. to be precise, i watched it till now. oh by the way, the time zone for my blog is wrong. its actually 3:40 a.m now.

before i begin, i want to tell you that this is an extremely long post so if you're not very interested in reading about my adventure i'd suggest you give this post a miss. thanks.

sunday, i spent the whole day riding with edward and kun. had a horrible breakfast. after meeting them at dover i felt like throwing up and had to go for a shit before heading on. so from dover we went to bukit timah where they had lunch and i had a drink (cos i still felt like throwing up) after that, we headed for bukit timah hill. i was pretty freaked out at first when i saw the sky. so when we reached bukit timah hill, it was drizzling a little. along the way we saw a rifle range, and checked it out for a while. then the rain got heavier so we decided to head on in search of shelter. oh but it was too late. it started storming as we peddled all the way uphill till we found a tiny little shack that could barely fit the 3 of us. but it wasn't much of use anyway since we were already drenched as if we were swimming before. but man the feeling was so horrible. uphill... uphill and my eyes were dying to see the road even out. worst of all my gears were giving problems that i couldn't shift down to gear 1. climbing a hill at gear 2 is just... painful.

so we hid under that pathetic little shack till the rain let up a little. actually it was still rather heavy. riding in heavy rain can get pretty painful. after the shack was mostly downhill. and it sure hurts when the rain hits you when you're going at about 50 to 60 kmph.. especially when it hits your eyes! stupid of me to remove my glasses. so we followed the direction from a ranger we met earlier and... it led us to a dead end. well not exactly a dead end, just a sealed off path. but that path leads to our intended next destination, macritchie reservoir. so we went over the barrier and went into the forest terrain. YES it was forest terrain! from there on, it was rocky, muddy forest trails that were overflowing with rain water. sadly it started raining like mad after we entered the forest terrain.

it was just hardcore. riding through huge pools of water, some which hid ditches. yea i hit one and almost got thrown off my bike. then riding over bumps that were so slippery that it almost sent me eating mud. lots of rocks that shifted as i rode over them, also nearly gave me a mud facial... worst, uphill in this sort of condition!! lots of roots on an incline. i rode over one and lost a lot of momentum which sent me sliding back downhill. but i gotta hand it to you all, that was the definition of real mountain biking. that is what i call FUN! yes! heavy punishments to the bike and the body! we rode like mad through the forest seeing signs that said "macritchie 6.5km" but we never got there i guess. we were kinda lost in the forest due to the inaccuracy of those stupid pointers. so for over an hour we were just riding blindly through the forest until we came out onto tarmac road. after getting our bearings, we headed back into the forest, but we had our directions now of course.

in the end we emerged from the forest and... we we overshot by 2 reservoirs! we came out way over macritchie, even past lower pearce, pierce however you spell it reservoir. i cant remember if it was upper or lower. we popped out somewhere near thomson road. and it was back to civilization and we hit the main road. then we stopped by at a coffeeshop for something hot cos we were freezing cold. and thanks to edward i had iced milo instead of hot milo. thanks for cooling me down. hehe. anyway, after warming up, or getting further chilled... we headed back toward macritchie reservoir via ang mo kio, which was quite a long ride. upon reaching, we headed to the toilet where we tried to warm ourselves up with hand driers. yes we were that cold. then we rode in to the reservoir and sadly, it started raining heavily again. so we turned around and went for shelter. we had a little chat then the rain resided. and so we decided to head home. and we were a LONG way from home.

so we left the reservoir and started riding back and... more rain! this was the heaviest throughout the day. felt like a pinch every time a raindrop hits you. then it got too heavy that we had to stop at a bus stop. then when the rain loosened, we continued. we had a lot of road crossing to do. and the traffic was heavy. not to mention how cold it got on that part. then it was just riding and riding till we reached adam road. kun's bike gave way. mechanical problems lol. his breaks came loose and the chain came out. so we stopped at a hawker center to fix the problem. after that was more riding all the way until we reached kun's area. lucky him. it would take me over an hour more to get home. after kun left, i and edward stopped by another coffeeshop for eats. that was some good popiah we had. then more riding till we reached edward's place. then from there on was just me alone all the way home.

was the best ride of my life and i'd do it again anytime. better still if it storms. in total according to kun, we covered 24km. but i strongly doubt thats our total distance covered. i think we covered more than 50km. whatever it was, it was still the greatest ride. danger? we don't know it. haha. so that wraps this post. if you have read all the way till here, then you're incredible. i wouldn't if i were given such a long post to read. so thanks whoever read this till here. thanks a lot. ^^ cheers to you!