Wednesday, August 09, 2006

NDP ride (Updated pictures)

It's the earliest ride this year so far, starting off from 6.15am from home. Playground of the morning: the place where I spent many-a-days sleeping, eating, slapping mozzies, catching fireflies and digging up mud and crushing innocent plants and insects.... Lim Chu Kang aka Sungei Gedong Training ground.

It was a cool still morning, azure early sky and the smell of burnt paper offerings still lingering in parts of the CCK cemetery/ Lim Chu Kang air.... shiok ah I love the early morning air! Just that I'm always too lazy to wake up in time to enjoy this luxury hehe....

Man we got a rude shock when we saw a platoon of BMT recruits road-marching in the grounds.... poor guys though to suffer this on a PH.... managed to siam detection though heehee....

Easy riding, just that the long continuous climbs are there to torture quadriceps.... There's still a beautiful mist in the scenary, some of the valleys look like photos of China or Thailand! Fantastic man! Probably the most beautiful natural scenary in S'pore now....
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Breakfast was taken on a cliff overlooking the Straits of Johore, despite a slight drizzle.... And much curiosity took us to the Live Firing area for tanks....

We kept seeing signs leading to Mathilda Hill, seemingly All Roads Lead to Mathilda heh!
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Went on several trails where I used to lay down metal track prints in the mud.... but the hills took out our energy.... even PowerBars and PowerGels did my riding friend no help.... and we gave the place back to the wild boars and dogs and smelly recruits.... while we replenished our engines with Ba Chor Mee and chicken cutlets and iced-kopi at SunShine Place....

Can compare Nokia and Sony-Ericsson cameras here too hehe. My pictures are taken with a SE 2MP-camera phone, while BengChuan's are taken with his 2MP Nokia phone....
Pics taken by BengChuan below....

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Straits of Johore behind us.... my army friends should know this place when we came here to fire the Primus's smoke launchers....

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Look like some valley in China....?

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'Area contaminated with unexploded bombs'.... wow

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