Thursday, April 8, 2010

[[Cycling and then some.]]

Went out with Darren, Perry, Gabriel, Howard, Chris and his girlfriend today. The plan was to cycle the usual route from East Coast to Changi Village, have lunch, cycle back and head home from there. For the greater part it was pretty normal. The seats sucked because they were as soft as a couch, the bikes were as much as you could expect from rentals, but I think the best part is just the company. I mean I haven't seen the guys in a pretty long time, I'm guessing somewhere in the range of 2 months... since well, the shit happened. And I need not explain. It was fun because Howard finally went on a trip with us. New faces on the route are always welcomed, and if you can keep up you'll have no problems with us.

We rushed the first leg of the trip, hitting about 27 plus km/h before slowing down to a more leisurely 20. After about an hour and a half, we arrived at Changi Village. Chris and his new girlfriend were already there eating something in the shade. We just parked up next to their tandem and went to find a seat. Down went 2 packets of sugarcane juice (3 for Howard) and then we had lunch. At about 1 something we set off back to East Coast.

The trip back was a lot easier because I was chatting Darren all the way back while Howard, Perry and Gab were talking amongst themselves. The pace that we were at was really really slow. It took us about 45 mins just to get back to East coast. But it was worth the slowness.

Returned our bikes at around 3.30pm. We actually thought the time limit was 3.40, but the uncle actually wrote our return time at 4pm. So that bought us more time to take it slow.

And then a sudden decision happened. After cycling for about 40km, we decided to go ahead and play an hour of futsal. Indoor football on a fake pitch with 5v5 teams, for those who don't know. Originally it was just going to be us fooling around for an hour, but then a group of malay kids asked if they could join us for that hour, and split the cost with us. Why not? half the cost and some competition would be fun. So we let them in, and started out with a standard 5 team line up. Darren was the keeper, Gabriel and I were the strikers, Perry was the defender and Howard played mid/striking. We had a good mind that we were going to lose from the start, seeing that they were Malay, which meant that they would be naturally good at football. So we played with almost no confidence. But after the first 4 goals put in by both Gab and I, we were riding on a major high. So the relentless attacking continued, but after 40km of cycling our bodies started giving up. One by one we fell out due to cramps, till the point that the other team subbed one of their own for our players. The final score was somewhere in the range of 8-3 I think. But it was fun in the spirit of good football.

Cabbed home with Howard, Perry and Darren after. The ride costs $20.80 of which I owe Howard $5 plus. We discussed about Darren's driving license all the way to his bus stop.

All in all, after the super sunburns, the ultra-tiring cycle and the intense futsal, I had a really great time with the guys. Guess I just needed time alone to get myself back to normal again. :)

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Name:Graeme Ching
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