TDF

No more late nights due to watching Tour de France. It’s really an amazing 3 weeks watching all 20 stages + 1 prologue, and after 3000+km of racing, the difference between Contador and Schleck was only about 400m!

It was really a pity that Schleck couldn’t win (he was THIS CLOSE), but I believe that soon he will! Just hope he won’t be another Jan Ulrich. And it wasn’t a fairy tale ending for Armstrong, but the end of his cycling journey may be the start of his ironman victories for all we know!

To be honest, most parts of the stages were boring, especially on flat stages. However, the final few km of every stage more than makes up for it! Many times I would just be lying on my sofa watching the peloton go under the Flamme Rouge (1 KM to go) and my heart would be beating pretty quickly. The power of television…Watching the HTC train lead the way for Mark Cavendish, imagining I am Schleck attacking Contador on Col du Tourmalet, cringing when Schleck’s chain came out right after he attacked! At times I even laughed at how easy the riders make it, trying to mimic them on my very own cycling expeditions on Sunday mornings and mostly failing terribly.

Enough words! Let the pictures do the talking.

Just look at those eyes…

Ouch on the cobblestones!

Postcard-worthy photos!

Look at the pain in his face!

Yet another stage win in the bag to make it 5!

Friendly competition

Finally, the man who has made it to the ranks of other greats

Via Ferreta

Got back all my CT results.

Chem - B

Econs - S

GP - D

Bio - D

Maths - A

GP and Bio was unexpected, but overall I'm glad. Could've done better for sure though.

Today was my PE elective. Pretty cool to be able to do sports climbing for PE right! And best of all its free =) There was the via feretta climbing, as well as abseiling. Via feretta is actually meant for outdoors, mountain climbing. But since Singapore doesn't have any mountains (as much as Mt Faber seems like one, it isnt!), we have an indoors one at Orchard Central!

"Get high on the world's tallest indoor via feretta" This is the BorderX tagline, and I find it super ironic. Its like saying "Run on this hottest marathon route you can ever find!" Its obviously subpar, yet they make it seem so great. But I've got nothing against them! It was really interesting, and the aircon is always welcomed.

A few people abseiling down.

A few more random pictures

Dude sawing our poles. Super fast!

Joel and my bike. =)

Subway staff can't think

Never thought of it, but its so true!

Goal setting

http://rwdaily.runnersworld.com/2010/06/my-training-doth-hereby-commence.html

Imagine the looks on their faces, when they learn you're no longer training! And
what they'll whisper about you behind your back! (e.g., "He was training for a
race. Now he isn't. What a weak, weak person.")

So so true!

So heres mine: I'm Training (with a capital T) to qualify for Boston in 2014! And complete a half iron by then too!

Life's good

Last day of exams today!

The week started with Econs, and the case study was a gone case. But thankfully the essay was much easier, just had to regurgitate everything that I remembered. And surprisingly there was enough time for this paper, well somewhat. At least it wasn't as bad as the lecture test (which I still haven't gotten back...)

Next was Chem. 100 marks, 135min. I think I did pretty well for MCQ, and I hope I did okay for the rest. Can't remember much about the paper now, haha.

Followed by Maths. I was pretty confident for this, maybe cos it was the one I practiced most for during the holidays. Immediately after the paper I felt pretty good, then as the day went on and I compared my answers with others...oh well.

And today was Bio. Absolutely the worse paper, along with super bad conditions to do the exam. For a start I didn't bring my calculator, and somehow there was like 3 maths related questions inside. And after the main paper there was MCQ. As I tried to shade the first answer...the lead went into the mechanical pencil. Usually this would mean that the current lead is too short and I have to switch to another one. So I took the old one out and...lo and behold, the rest of the MCQ I had to shade while (trying to) hold onto the thin thin lead.

[zhi] says:
wtf
someone up there hates you

Totally agree. The worst thing is right after the paper, when I had time to try and fix the stupid thing, it become alright immediately. As for the paper itself, I think I'm quite screwed. Should just spend all the time mugging how to identify cell structures from the stupid black printing.

After exam is really fantastic. Spent quite a while just chilling with Joel and Nic Eu. Really nice to just chill there with nothing worrying me.