Biking with Fred

Thursday I went on the most epic bike ride of my life. no joke.

So, i woke up and grabbed some breakfast, then went on facebook for a bit, to catch up with people, and then Uncle Fred asked me if i would enjoy a bike ride with him. I said yes and was psyched since he is a very good biker. Anyway we wheeled out the bikes and gave them a short tune up, and then we were off. we went up on streets to a no car area with a path through the jungle, and we took that path for a long while. after about an hour (All measurements of time are probably very much off b/c we had no way to measure it.) we stopped and he asked me which way i would like to go. I said i had no preference so we biked to the reservoir where Singapore treats its water supply. Then we turned around and started looking for a trail through the jungle that Fred knew of. when we found it, it was blocked off, so naturally we took the bait and bypassed the gates.

Big mistake, the trail was long and very narrow, largely overgrown with roots, vines, etc. The trail also had huge patches of mud which made biking difficult, to say the least. there were a lot of forks in the path, and we would occasionally go down one for a bit and then double back and take the other route. After a while, i asked Fred how far we were from getting out of the jungle, and he said we only had one big uphill and one big downhill left. Turns out it was not that, instead we were only about 1/3 of the way through. we went on some more and just about when we were out of the jungle Fred admitted that for about half of the time we had spent he had been lost.

When we got home, this is what I looked like:

Hey everyone! This is going to be my place where i post small snippets of my life in Singapore. I figured that instead of trying to multi-task and keep up with people on both Facebook and e-mail, i figured that it would be more convenient for everyone (esp me) to make a blog so that i could update whenever i felt like it and whoever wants to see how I'm doing can just log on and see what I've posted.

Also, I'm thinking about taking one post off per month and e-mailing it as "the Singapore snapshot" (or something of that nature), as a more convenient mode of information. Ill prolly email this "Singapore snapshot" to my mom for distribution, since she knows just about half of the total population of the world.

Also ill prolly message all those on Facebook too to get them up to speed on this.

Ill try to post pics as much as possible but I'm not very religious with taking my camera everywhere.

So that's the first post! now to get started on getting the word out...

P.S. It'd be cool if people commented on this post so i know they're on board, and for that matter id be really cool if people commented on lots of other posts too.