Monday, March 23, 2009

1/2 ECPCN Cycling

March 21st 2009, 8:45a.m.: (In a deep Rorschach-like voice) It was a dark, gloomy morning. Wait a min.... Back to reality. Rorschach rox lol!

Anyway It was a bright and clear day. VERY GOOD for cycling. I met up with Yaokun, Siying and Peiyi at the Food Centre at ECP. DIAO all the stalls were closed except for a few sellings drinks only. Too bad, no breakfast for me. The rest of them bought breakfast along to eat, luckily. So we proceeded to get their bikes, which was at a rate of $8 for 3 hours. Those normal cheapo mountain bikes without suspension. So then we started out on our trip towards Changi Village. Pretty easy cycling because it was long and straight road towards Coastal Park Connector. This was actually the first time I used the "newly-constructed" ECPCN to cycle from ECP to Changi. The last time I did so was with my cycling gang about 10 years ago. Back then there wasn't any concrete paths for us to cycle smoothly along the Changi Airport runway area. Instead, you either cycle on the road, or I think there was a pavement, or you cycle inside a dirt-track, which would be muddy if it rained previously. Now there is the convenience of going from Changi to ECP or vice versa easily thru the ECPCN. Cool man.

We reached Changi Village after a two-hour cycling trip from ECP. By then the super famous and popular nasi lemak stall was already packed with a long queue of hungry customers. Walau! Since we were so early, we decided to try out the so-called best nasi lemak stall at Changi Village. Took about 40 mins of queueing before we finally got to have our plate of nasi lemak, which was consumed within a fraction of the time spent on queueing. Nothing much really. The chicken wing is much better than the other stalls around, but other than that, nothing fantastic. But still it was quite a nice meal. We then went to relax at the Changi Beach area after a hearty meal.

We decided not to take the actual route but backtrack our way back to ECP because it seems that we did not have enough time to reach ECP before their 6-hour bike renting period is up. So we made our way back the same route and even took a 30 mins break sitting at one of the shelters at the far end of ECP. And then it's all the way back to the bike stall. And now my arms are still aching, butt still hurting, from all that bike-jerking and stuff. But it's nice to do something so strenuous once in a while eh?

Hehe finally carried out my ECPCN Cycling plan. But then, it wasn't the actual whole ECPCN route. NEXT TIME shall conquer the real ECPCN!