Round Island #2 Trip Log, 29 Dec 08

Hmm... yeah, I forgot to log this down. And time really flies... the trip took place in December!!! And now its already almost May.

See photos of the trip here. The photos are arranged in chronological order, for ease of reading and viewing.

This trip wasn't planned thoroughly, though we had thought of having this ride for quite some weeks before it happened. The setup for the ride was simple: Because Dean and I live near each other, I rode to his place and we proceeded down to town, where we will meet Ivan. As Ivan live in Tampines, he rode down to town alone to meet us.

I really have to apologise to my fellow brothers for losing the trip log... I really couldn't find it. Luckily we still have photos haha... next time somebody else should do the logging... everything I do meh? Log, blog... tedious leh! (Hmm... I shouldn't KB so much for now, after losing the thing.)

Dean and I reached Dhoby Ghaut MRT on time, at noon. We had to wait an hour before Ivan reached... hmm nothing new haha. Then Dean and I decided to go wait for him at our favourite Parklane Zha Yun Tun Mee shop. We had our noodles after Ivan arrived.

Next, we cycled up the hill and reached Mount Emily park. A small park, but lots of shade from the huge trees there. Goofed around a bit before we descended the hill, and went to the Rochor beancurd shop, our favourite Dao Hwae shop. It was here that we made our impromptu decision to ride into Sentosa.

After finishing our Dao Hwae, we then proceeded on through the Chinatown area, and reached Capitol Tower. Took some interesting photos there, and one with Dean trying to swim in the drain... hehe... Next we went on Keppel Road and carried on to Sentosa.

We stopped at the gateway just before the admission toll gates, and took some photos. We were thinking... will we actually get to enter Sentosa FOC since we were on bikes? Yeah right! Like there is ever a free lunch. We cycled past the toll booths, but there was still a booth at the side of the road further down the road, and the guy inside was like waving us to stop. I at one point felt like making a run for it... but then thought, nah... we were on bikes, too easy to catch us on the way in. So we paid our entrance fees dutily.

We made our way to Siloso beach, and took some photos at the rocky shore near the car park. It was near sunset time then, and I must say, it felt really good to enjoy such a wonderful day, riding with my buddies again. We proceeded in-land to find a trail, but failed... any trails we found were only fit for walking. We then proceeded out of Sentosa. Took some more photos on the gateway bridge, then stopped again at Vivocity as it started to rain. After doing the necessary water proofing, we simply headed to Seah Imm Road FC to have our dinner.

After a sumptous meal, we then headed back to Dean's place by taking the long West Coast Highway route, but taking a shortcut by cutting in hong leong gardens and crossing the AYE overhead bridge to clementi side. This is where I split from the two of them, heading home for a comfortable hot shower before joining them at Dean's again. That night was really great, Dean drove us out to have supper at Boon Lay place FC, just next to Boon Lay shopping centre. We had the famous nasi lemak. I was surprised because the stall attracted long queues even though it was a weekday night! We then went back to Dean's and watched Tropic Thunder before crashing into deep sleep...

Always great to ride along side my fellow musketeers, looking forward to our next one!