My random day off and the only person i could get around was Lynette. Result in high tea at Regent Hotel.

There has been a lunch time conversation that has totally overrun-ed the week. Last week's little pizza hut lunch had a small discussion over the T-rex, future of Singapore's transportation and ERP systems and random other stuff.

But one topic that kept coming back the whole week was the poor old T-rex and how millions of years ago, it was the laughing stock of the dinosaur world. We learnt that the poor T-rex is actually pretty poor thing, even wondered if it ever was that great predator it really was.

Plus I learnt today that the T-rex's head is way to heavy for its body to balance. The poor T-rex may have toppled head down many times a day. I think the brontosaurs or the triceratops had a better deal.

The week has been slow. We all agreed, but at least there was a saving grace to the week by a Thursday active hour gathering at East Coast. The recent reorg had some of the old team kena moved to other branches.

Me and Mard started the fire, and boy I have to say I was damn good at it.

Wanted to do this yesterday but I kinda woke up a little too late to beat the sun (and the rest of Singapore in measured in cars and lorries). So decided that dark and early Sunday morning at 530am I will go on my planned ride to Punggol Promenade. Carbon Free traveling on an early Sunday morning.

Total distance today = 33km
Total time (inclusive of stopping for breakfast) = 2 hour 20 minute

This app is cool. First time using and can record my ride and save it.


Love morning rides. If only i had a 8kg road bike instead of my 15kg MTB. Super tempted to go shopping for a secondhand roadie. Maybe at the end of the year when I'm a little richer.

Kena overtaken by at least 6 roadies on the way back along punggol. Damn sian when a bunch of guys on roadies overtake a slow female peddling like crazy on a MTB (even if it was on a flat road)

I WANT A NICE FANCY RED/WHITE ROADIE SO THAT I CAN LOOK COOL ON THE ROAD TOO.

It's pretty rare to see girls on roadies. I wanna be the cool girl.

At least some of them said hi. I actually felt very happy when someone greeted me 'good morning', especially when I am crazily tired and slow.

• Took off today
• Played approx 14+ hours of Skyrim (since 7am)
• Stopped for toilet and food, check walkthrough and to email a school to complain about smoking students
• Shoulders aching from hunching all over sofa in living room
• Upset that my highborn elf true mage character has turned into a Vampire (now I got to go suck people's blood while they are sleeping)
• Leveled up a total of 9 levels
• Calves damn tight from bodystep class yesterday (spent whole day worried that it'll cramp and cannot walk down the stairs on my way to buy some snacks)
• Two hours real steel
• An Awesome day 
• REPEAT TOMORROW

Real Steel. Fucking awesome show I tell you. I really dont know why it took me so long to watch this. D was so totally right when she say that this was an exciting show. Totally feel it man. My heart goes out to the robot.

Spent majority of the 2 hour smiling to myself.

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Last weekend was a short trip with some colleagues to Batam. It has been a trip scheduled a long long time ago coz we bought some Groupon deals back sometime during Christmas. The last time I came to Batam was back in April 2010.

This time around I dint really bring my camera so it was only random shots with my phone. So the following pictures are instagramed random shots of the whole trip. Not in any order coz I'm too lazy to figure out which came first.

Morning shot of out of the resort room window. We were intially given a room facing the pool, but they forgot to give us connecting rooms, so A went to counter and huhhhh-ed the service staff, and then we got promoted up to the highest floor.

After cable-ski, some of us decided to head to the pool and then to the spa's jacuzzi. Since we really were already all wet. This picture perfect moment was taken with me in the jacuzzi alone coz the rest of the girls rather be in the room.

I thought I was bad in bowling. Proven the last time I went bowling with Ron at East Coast. But lord and behold, there are people I know that are way worst then me. Like way way Worse. I actually hold the top score of 86 in our group of 6.

Someone brought kiddy socks to holiday. The same person that struck many zeros on the scoreboard.

Resort bed greated us with bright orange. Everything was orange, the toilet soap, the shampoo, the toothpaste. And I actually hate everything orange.

To keep us through the night, a deck of cards purchased from the convenience store and munchies to last most the night.

Dinner. Since there really wasnt much eating options near by, we had pizza from the dinner place at the resort delivered up to the room, and the guys managed to get some street food outside.

Damage done. There were more than this but the cans where strewed somewhere somewhere. I did 2.5 cans and one bottle through the course of the night. And those bottle things from the supermarket were good.

Local produce store, we bough enough goodies and trashfood to last.

Downtown in Batam

We stopped here to grab rubbish at the convenience store.

Welcome to Harris Resort at the Waterfront. Quite an old building, but we managed a night here, with ferry, free game of bowling and free body massage for $69.

Evening shot from the room

Family resort, nothing much to to do unless you wanna pay Singapore price for them.

Shopping stop at Nagoya Hills and ended up with me and P doing our full classic pedicure for $10 and 40 mins. Fastest pedicure ever done and we were still 5 mins late for the bus, until they announced our name on the shopping centers soundsystem.

Lunch stop for seafood.

Deal of the day, this cost me $1. or might even be less than that.

Some bird at the lunch stop.

Went cable-ski again, and it never failed to work some arm muscles until I feel my shoulders and arms aching like mad for three whole days of work. And all I did was an hour of cable-ski. I can be proud to say that I dint really forgot what I learnt the last trip. So total distance traveled in 1 hour session is more than total distance traveled the last trip in 6 hours.

So want to try until I can get up and do a full round without falling. Anyone game to join me on a weekday trip.