29/07/06 SNS

It's 3.30am and i've just had a shower that's so refreshing!I just serviced my super dirty skates. ANd i mean really DIRTY. With all the mud and grass and sand and water all combine to form "dog shit". Anyway, took about an hour to take out the frame and wheels and do a thorough cleaning through the whole thing. Fingers are hurting quite a bit because of the constant rubbing when i clean. Ah well, i love my skates too much!
I just came home from Skateline Saturday Night Skate(SNS). It's this night skate organized by Skateline at the last Saturday of every month. It's my first time going to a SNS. I can say i've actually gained some experience from really NICE terrains that caused my skates to be SUPER dirty.Picture this, the rain had stopped not long, with the ground still wet, and the soil and sand and everything on pavements and we skate through mud, water, sand. Incredible incredients to make your skates superman!~

Anyway, i rushed down to Woodlands MRT with Brian. Our route was from Woodlands MRT to Bishan Park. The total skate time we took was 4 hours to reach. It could have been much shorter, but because of the wet terrain that makes it really slippery and we had some minor casulties along the way so there were many times where we had to stop to allow the slower ones to catch up. We skated through forests, yes, i mean forest! lol. Well, you see, it just rained and the weather is really cooling. Plus the countless number of trees in the forest we went past. It was misty and very cooling. As if the whole place was air-conditioned. It's my first time seeing mist in Singapore. Yeah, it was very shoik to skate through such weather. We went up and down gentle slopes. Some of the slopes were really long which were nice. I think the urban skate would have been very successful IF the ground wasn't THAT wet. After the forest and all, we travelled on streets. It was deserted throughout the entire route. The highlight of the whole skate was where we went into Old Upp. Thomson Rd. It was REALLY deserted. And both sides were all trees and more trees. The road had 1 lane each only. We went through bends and slopes up and down. It was really "initial d" environment. Where the guys were racing through the roads. It was exactly the same. When i went through that whole stretch of road, it was unbelievably quiet in there. Lucky thing was that we were skating in a very large group. If i'm not wrong there should be about 50 people or more. but i still felt the creeps. GOsh... xD Some parts of that stretch had roads that were very STONY. Like they were made up of stones. SO super bumpy!! When i went through a really long part of it, it's as if i'm having a leg massage that's vibrating really hard. It vibrated my foot until they were really numb from the feeling. I kept chiong-ing through the whole part of the road. The feeling and atmostphere wasn't really exactly what you would call feeling comfortable in there. So i just kept urging myself to complete the whole thing as fast as i can and get outta that creepy place. In fact, the entire journey, i had this very funny feeling as if something kept looking and following me. Perhaps i think too much, and the place wasn't well lighted and that caused my thoughts to drift away.... Haha..

It was the first time i sweated so much! I can say first time my entire back was really really wet. Maybe i didn't know i was perspiring that much because of the cooling weather. It was really a good stamina training. The total distance should be about 20km. After really long, we finally reached Bishan Park.Had supper with Brian at Junction 8. Though i didn't eat anything.. but yeah. It was a good night. A good tiring urban skate trip. :)