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been wanting to pickup blading again but couldn’t cause of my bad leg…and now that my leg’s finally making some progress, i decided to head down to east coast park for a relaxed blading session.

couldn’t find my old blading kakis to come along so i asked a few random people, victor, an ex-colleague from sun microsystems and his friend as well as an internet friend, hengyu.

bladed from mcdonalds to the safra chalet and back, was going at a rather slow speed cause hengyu couldn’t keep up with the rest of us. the journey back was even slower and to make things worst, hengyu fell down along the way and had a bloody knee. the wound was so bad blood dripped all over his socks and boots. luckily we were already near the place he rented the blades from so got him to take the blades off and go wash off the wound while i returned his blades for him.

i’ve never got the chance to rent one of these chalets but i think they’re huge!

the track used to stop at the chalet but i noticed a new track leading somewhere else, wanted to try the new track but hengyu was quite reluctant to so i decided to leave the exploring to another day when i come with better bladers.

victor and his friend was in a rush to go off somewhere so hengyu and myself went to mcdonalds for a quick bite before going home.

somehow i get a feeling all the exercise was for nothing.

since i had nowhere else to go, i took a rather expensive cab home.

finally the day of the event came…

the charity skate was cancelled last week due to rain but was postponed to today although it’s unofficial.

only 2 of us went, ah hong and myself…colin (chong) couldn’t make it due to some family dinner.

i don’t think the whole event was organised very well thought.

they did not give a detailed briefing on which way we were going by and they started the event with some people still suiting up.

how on earth do they expect the people behind to know which road to take?

i understand that rough terrain is part and parcel of urban blading but there was a stretch of road with no pave way…

they expect us to walk on the grass for that 200 meters or so???

there were insufficient people helping out and they seem to create more problems than solving them.

during the trip, there were quite a number of times where they block up the pave way trying to tell the people behind that there was a step or something…

if you’re trying to alert the people at the back, then DON’T BLOCK THE PAVE WAY…

dickheads, i wonder if they think with their brains or with their dicks.

had high tide after 3/4 of the journey so decided to take a quick stop and pee and guess what!

when we came out, we couldn’t see them anymore…

duh!

gave up looking for them and took a cab to esplanade to look for kat and gang instead.

didn’t take much pictures as i was too busy trying to balance myself on the rough terrain or trying to overtake the people in front of me.

in fact, i only took 1 picture…

oh and someone ran over and killed a snake along old thomson road.

poor snake…

check out our feet after the event

source from skateline’s homepage.

argh!

really disappointed!

was planning for this event weeks before.

i was told it will be postponed to the next week but somehow the information wasn’t really confirmed.

and to think i actually went shopping for stuffs for this marathon…

to top it off, it didn’t rain since after 4pm.

ARGH! stupid fucks!

finally! been waiting for this day since 3 weeks ago.

today’s the day of the 42km charity skate.

collin (koh)’s not going due to some “issues” but managed to find a replacement luckily.

i need to go get my water bag and find a good torch light.

any recommendations?

4 more days to the charity blade, rather looking forward to it.

hope collin koh’s toe nail is healed by then…

still quite nervous everytime i think of the 42km,

must tell myself i can do it !

went blading after work with christina and joe.

just some light exercise, was quite fun thought.

sat in christina’s spanking new toyota collora axio…

damn cool man, the car has a video cam at the back of the car so everytime she puts the car in reverse mode, the lcd panel will light up and show her how she can park.

if that’s not enough, the car can also park by itself if it’s set to auto mode…

way cool!!

how come toyota camry doesn’t have that feature?

finally got an email reply with an attachment from them confirming my participating in the skate challenge.

only weird thing is, i’ve to get my parents to sign a consent form and fax it back to them.

wtf???

——– Original Message ——–
Subject: Charity Night Skate 07
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:46:51 +0800
From: Jon

To: Jack.Tan@Sun.COM

Hi Jek,
Thank you for registering for our Charity Night Skate Challenge. Attached is a Registration Confirmation. Please read through it carefully and confirm your registration by signing the Indemnity and Agreement portion. Your registration will be confirmed once we receive your signed Registration Confirmation slip.
Please note that registration will start at 7.30 pm and the event will be flagged off at 8.00 pm. We expect the skate to take about 5 hours and will reach Esplanade on the 29th morning at about 1 am. Do come prepared for a challenging skate and we are sure you will enjoy yourselves even as you do your part for our little friends supported by the Children’s Cancer Foundation.
Please note that you will on be eligible for the donation by completing the entire journey.

Warmest Regards,
Jon Wong
ICP Instructor

finally submitted my application for the charity skate on the 28th.

christina submitted for herself and an ex-colleague as well.

42km, how far is that?

i shall start training my stamina meanwhile,

blading anyone?

hmmm, wonder if they will reply me or not…

——– Original Message ——–
Subject: July 28th 2007: Charity Night Skate Challenge
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2007 11:44:12 +0800
From: Jack Tan
Organization: Sun Microsystem
To: charity@skateline.com.sg
CC: Jack Tan , kohcollin87@hotmail.com, sworld86@hotmail.com

Hi,

We would like to take part in the charity night skate challenge on 28th July.

Our particulars as follow.

Kindly contact me (Jack Tan 97644886) if anything else is needed.

Jack Tan Heng Jek
976xxx86
S8xxxxxxB
i.am@jacktan.org / jack.tan@sun.com

Collin Koh Wen Hao
948xxx42
S8xxxxxxZ
kohcollin87@hotmail.com

Colin Chong Jia Ching
910xxx07
S8xxxxxxZ
sworld86@hotmail.com

Cheers!

–
Jack Tan
Sun Microsystems
Asia Pacific Region

charity night skate challenge official website

for every person who takes part in the skate challenge, $20 will be donated to the children cancer foundation.

date: 28th july (saturday)
time: 8pm
meeting point: woodlands mrt station
starting: woodlands mrt station
ending: esplanade
distance: 42km (fort road to bedok jetty x 6)

just signed up for the skate challenge together with colin (chong) and collin (koh).

was originally on night shift but was lucky enough to be able to change shifts with another colleague.

thanks malcolm!

i got my colleague, christina, to take part also, she’ll be asking her boyfriend and an ex-colleague to come along as well.

if all 6 of us goes, a total of $120 will be donated…not bad lah, at least i can claim i did some charity work…LOL!

anyone interested kindly email your name, ic number, email, contact number to charity@skateline.com.sg

will be meeting christina and her gang at ecp to practice this saturday and will be blading with colin (chong) and samuel lam (hopefully!) this sunday.

anyone keen to join us?

knocked off early today so headed for ecp to blade.

it’s been sometime since i last bladed alone and it just doesn’t feel right blading alone.

irene (chen lingie lingie) came to join me at 7.30pm and we bladed from the lighthouse to a little bit further then bedok jetty. i think she’s really in love with her new pair of blades, kept looking and talking about it.

yeah we know it’s pink!

didn’t really work out much but my legs feel damn sore, think i might have tighten my boots too tightly.

hope tomorrow’s session will be better.