The 2nd Annual Squad Night Cycling Event deserves an entry here!

My definition of a successful and good night cycling session, is primarily based on the company and the distance covered. Both were great!

After our first Squad Night Cycling last year, Part 2 continued this year with a much more challenging route. All the moans and groans; all the curses and swears, especially along Clementi Road near NUS. But I'm sure everyone felt very accomplished--the bigger thigh muscles; firmer butt and back, and the record ~55km distance we covered.

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Phase #1: Warming-up

Major Landmarks: East Coast Park--Dunman High School--Tanjong Rhu--Indoor Stadium--Lavender Food Centre.

Distance covered: 12.5km.

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Phase #2: On the way to Marina Barrage

Major Landmarks: Lavender Food Centre--Singapore Flyer--Esplanade--CBD--Marina Bay--Marina Barrage

Distance covered: 9km.

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Phase #3: Journey to the West!

Major Landmarks: Marina Barrage--Shenton Way--Keppel Harbour--Vivocity--West Coast Highway/Telok Blangah Road--Pasir Panjang Wholesale Centre--West Coast Park--National University of Singapore (Kent Ridge)--Clementi Road--SIM/Ngee Ann Poly--Al-Ameen Supper Place(Beauty World)

Distance covered: 19.6km
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Phase #4: Return to the East.

Major Landmarks: Dunearn Road (National JC/NYGH/SCGS/ACS)--Newton Circus--KK Hospital--Little India--Kallang Basin--Mountbatten Road--Fort Road--East Coast Park

Distance covered: 13.2km

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I'm sure all of us had great fun! To those who couldn't make it, let's hope for another one next year!

CNY REUNION DINNER!

Tentative date: 31st January 2009

Location: Please Suggest!

how's the exams for for everyone?

this blog is quite dead for a god knows period of time!!

so when does the exams end for everyone?

squad outing?anyone??

~zuberix~

原来，在民歌餐厅喝喝饮料，听听歌曲，也是蛮享受的。今天的squad聚会，的确有别于往日的节目。总觉得，大家约出来，听听歌曲，聊些有的没的，似乎是个蛮成熟的聚会方式。时间一晃，想不到，大家也已认识9年半，快10年了!

只听中文歌曲的我，当然对于同样喜欢听中文歌曲的朋友，有比较亲切的感觉。

最近这一两个月以来，认识新的大学同学，似乎不常找得到钟爱中文歌曲的人。有的连华语都不是很灵光。。。对于一个以中文为主要用语的我，用英语与他们沟通，虽然不成问题，但是，就会有一种莫名的隔阂，感觉不亲切。

其实，在赴squad outing约之前，就有同学正在策划下课后的节目。当我告诉他们我要去民歌餐厅，他们竟然问我那是什么。在一点轻描淡写地解释后，他们更以异样的眼光问我，‘那就是说只有中文歌咯？’。

其实我想说的是，squadmates是一群特别的朋友。是一群，我在别的group里找不到的。

可能就是因为有所谓的亲切感吧。

Down with a bad flu today, and hence unable to mug. haha. anw, was randomly looking through the photos and decided to post a short entry.

it isnt really a random post. all the 21st bdays, with party or not, reminded me that all of us have officially stepped into adulthood, though in my case it was supposed to be two years earlier. haha.

anw, what does that signify? It means we will going through uni, graduating with a degree and working. It means the paths we take are diverging even further. It means, because of family and work commitments, personal and public commitments, we will be seeing each other less, understanding each other less and remembering each other less.

People from schs such as raffles are, in my opinion, generally more jaded about life, abt common memories, as compared to many dhs ppl - at least i feel so. Perhaps it's the influence of 4/6 yrs of uniform grp life as well.

As I was looking at the photo, a few thoughts occurred to me. One of them was the value of common experience and common memory to all the faces in the photo. I have to admit, I feel closer to some than others. Everyone feels the same: some faces are less familiar than others.
And time and distance are going to widen the gap, and sharpen the divide. The less familiar faces are probably going to fade away and disappear from each other's photo years later.

Then I questioned myself: what then is the value of photos such as this? Take this blog for example, it's probably not really a squad blog, but a group blog - visited and valued by a small fraction of the large group who shared a common paths a few years ago. Does valuing such things as grp photo and sqd blog make one too sentimental and hence too naive and too un-20+-year-old?

I think not. Looking back, I feel it's unavoidable that I feel sth towards these faces and this grp. Not only because of the 6 years of time and efforts, but also because how it had unknowingly shaped the way i think and the way i view the idealism of friendship. Coming overseas and interacting with some of the so-called future elites and the rich of sg, makes me more pragmatic and realistic, if not jaded, than before. Time and again, I thank npcc and those faces in the photo - even if it means not all 30+ of the sqd - for helping me hold onto some idealism.

haha i better stop typing, before this turns into a pop-style msg. nothing sentimental actually. just penning down some random thoughts.

jf

模仿19男星翻唱《青花瓷》