My Good Friday weekend

It was an interesting weekend with friends from out of town here. I remember 2 years back where we went to Philippines and we were all out. And 2 years on, they are all here to meet up and chill out! We all met at Yan Bin's shop for dinner. Then after dinner we sat around, chilled out after the wives and children had gone back to the respective hotels to shower and pack. 3 families were leaving on the 9am flight, leaving only 1 family in Singapore. Then after sitting around for an hour or so, we split into 2 groups. Maurice and Jamie left to pick up some of the wives and children to go to Mustafa to do some last minute shopping, while Pic, myself brought Hansen, Edwin and Jos to Luna. It has been 4 months since i last went to this night sp0t and 4 mths can really make a huge difference. The Zzzz Monster came knocking at about 2am. And the best part was i fell asleep while the band was playing! Don't get me wrong, the band was fine. Music was great. I guess it was mainly due to the fact that by then, Yan Bin and Jamie had come to join us and i was no longer needed to play host any more. And so, while i was sitting there listening to the music, i became more and more tired.



(Clockwise from top left hand corner: 1) The families at Yan Bin's shop after dinner, 2) Jos, Me, Hansen and Edwin at Luna, 3) Two years back at Philippines with our friends and 4) The same gang but in Singapore this time.

Needless to say, i didn't manage to wake up to get to longhouse by 5.30am for the morning ride as i got home at like 4am. I had a short debate as to whether i should just stay awake and head out in 1/2 hr time. But i suppose my bed won out in the end! =) Didn't do beach swim as well coz by the time i woke up, it was 2pm. Maybe that's one of the reasons i don't party as hard anymore. I suppose something has to give. Spent the rest of the Saturday in a blur. Didn't help that it kept raining and thus stopping me from going out. But managed to clear up the room a little and put up the mirrors in my room! I now have mirrors which means i have no more excuse not to comb my hair before i head out!
Sunday came mighty early for me. Because i had slept way too much on Saturday, i woke up by 5am. Riding was supposed to be at 7.30am. Was worried if i go back to sleep, i would oversleep and miss training once again. And i wasn't ready to do so, coz i haven't been cycling much this week. So, got my ass out of bed, cleaned up, changed and decided to head to East Coast early. Went for an 8km run before meeting the guys to cycle. Pace of the run was much slower then i would have liked, but i guess i've never really been a morning person. At the same time, it was an slow easy run, which made sure i still had fresh legs for the biking part. Did about 70km, which is by far the longest biking trip i've done and although the slopes were a killer for me, i really did enjoy the rest of it. Coming downhill was great fun and damn 'shiok'.
Met some other athletes at F2 carpark and i'm very impressed by a lot of them. I think it takes a lot of dedication and commitment to stay in a sport that takes up a lot of your time. That's the difference between picking stamp collection as a hobby as compared to collecting finisher t-shirts as a hobby =P Went for lunch after that and finally head home for a nap before getting some work done! So all in all, it was a great Easter weekend for me.