I went to a hotel room with 2 complete strangers i had only met 2 hours before......
I must say, had it not been singapore this would not have happened.
Before i elaborate further, please feast your eyes on the view from a 1000 sing dollar per night room at the Ritz Carlton.
Yeah, that's a floating football pitch, yet to see its first match though, lol.
I woke up at around 8.30am despite being up till 2 am , probably cos the past CA week's hellish aura forced me to be up studying at 5.30am.
CA's are basically quizzes which contribute anywhere from 15% till as high as 40% towards your final grade. I had a grand total of 5 CAs last week , one which i screwed up cause i had taken some lung infection medication and half slept during it.
No matter, i nailed the electronics and thermodynamics quizzes :P
So, i woke up at 8.30am. And then i got bored cause i had no mood to study and did not want to meet or go out with anyone, not that i can find anyone to go out with on such short notice. No matter.
So i decided on the spot to cycle a 60km route from NTU to the Central Business District. And so i did....
Partly also cause i wanted to try out the new chain i had put on my bike after the last one snapped as i tried to max the bike. Twas good by the way.
Now i'm not sure whether this is true in general, but whenever i go on these long rides out to the city , any cyclist i see out for a morning ride normally tags along and we ride as a group, despite being complete strangers. The largest and scariest of these rides being one i took with a group of road bikers on their carbon fibre 60km/h capable bikes along one of singapore's so called most haunted roads at night. Cause they're so fast, ur cycling alone most of the time alongside tombstones and funny noises.
Where was I?
ah....right..
And so i found myself on the tail of a chap on a Raleigh hardtail MTB near NUS today and quite naturally we chatted about our bikes, where we have been on it, and then the conversation steered to the topic of where we were headed. The CBD it was and i tagged along to know the route.
Chap was entering the OCBC cycling thingy and he happened to be a service staff head at the Ritz Carlton where he was going to park his bike before the ride the next day. And so we rode and then met his pal, rode some more and ended up inviting me to take a grand tour of the swanky places of the Ritz.
Now i have never been in a 1000 dollar per night hotel room and yeah, his pal and I went wowing at the oak panelling at the jacuzzi in the toilet and the gold lined bathroom fittings. Was tempted to nick the thick cotton bath robes, but apparently they are tagged with RFID chips which embarassingly set off a silent alarm if taken out of the hotel. Talk about the less glamour side of the hotel business....
Anyway, i had fun. Rode through park connectors, saw the more scenic side of singapore, and i now have a new riding buddy.
Cause Ishak lives near Sheng Siong , only a 5 min bike ride from my hall.
Cheers from the,
Matrix
I woke up at around 8.30am despite being up till 2 am , probably cos the past CA week's hellish aura forced me to be up studying at 5.30am.
CA's are basically quizzes which contribute anywhere from 15% till as high as 40% towards your final grade. I had a grand total of 5 CAs last week , one which i screwed up cause i had taken some lung infection medication and half slept during it.
No matter, i nailed the electronics and thermodynamics quizzes :P
So, i woke up at 8.30am. And then i got bored cause i had no mood to study and did not want to meet or go out with anyone, not that i can find anyone to go out with on such short notice. No matter.
So i decided on the spot to cycle a 60km route from NTU to the Central Business District. And so i did....
Partly also cause i wanted to try out the new chain i had put on my bike after the last one snapped as i tried to max the bike. Twas good by the way.
Now i'm not sure whether this is true in general, but whenever i go on these long rides out to the city , any cyclist i see out for a morning ride normally tags along and we ride as a group, despite being complete strangers. The largest and scariest of these rides being one i took with a group of road bikers on their carbon fibre 60km/h capable bikes along one of singapore's so called most haunted roads at night. Cause they're so fast, ur cycling alone most of the time alongside tombstones and funny noises.
Where was I?
ah....right..
And so i found myself on the tail of a chap on a Raleigh hardtail MTB near NUS today and quite naturally we chatted about our bikes, where we have been on it, and then the conversation steered to the topic of where we were headed. The CBD it was and i tagged along to know the route.
Chap was entering the OCBC cycling thingy and he happened to be a service staff head at the Ritz Carlton where he was going to park his bike before the ride the next day. And so we rode and then met his pal, rode some more and ended up inviting me to take a grand tour of the swanky places of the Ritz.
Now i have never been in a 1000 dollar per night hotel room and yeah, his pal and I went wowing at the oak panelling at the jacuzzi in the toilet and the gold lined bathroom fittings. Was tempted to nick the thick cotton bath robes, but apparently they are tagged with RFID chips which embarassingly set off a silent alarm if taken out of the hotel. Talk about the less glamour side of the hotel business....
Anyway, i had fun. Rode through park connectors, saw the more scenic side of singapore, and i now have a new riding buddy.
Cause Ishak lives near Sheng Siong , only a 5 min bike ride from my hall.
Cheers from the,
Matrix
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