different views

Finally got to ride tonight after a 10 day hiatus!! Well ok 10 days if you don't count humping Bukit Timah trail on Sunday. Was really scared I'd lose some of the ground I've been gaining these past few weeks but thank goodness my fears were unfounded. Actually it looks like the break might have done just the opposite and helped me improve some more. Managed to keep up with the cousin and do a full 44-46 km/h on a flat!!! And for quite a long period of time too!!! Ok at least it SEEMED like a long time to me. The cousin looked as if he didn't even break a sweat. And when he started sprinting, as in REALLY sprinting, close to the end of the stretch, I didn't have a chance in hell of catching up.

But frankly the highlight of the night was a long conversation with one of the guys who came along for the ride. Another Canadian!!! But anyway, over the best millo-peng in Singapore, and the ride back home it was really great getting a view of the Singapore education system and the way things are done here from a third party. Like why he's actually giving serious consideration to sending his kid to the Singapore American School to do Pri 1 instead of a local school even though it would burn an $18000 hole in his pocket every year; how our pragmatic attitude might actually work to our disadvantage and what this place would be like if our GDP weren't always numero uno on our priority lists. Even how Singapore might be the only proudly facist country in the world except we call it something else. And of course how Americans are dumbasses :P

Woo!! Turns our the Just for Laughs festival will be happening during the time I'll be travelling in Canada!! Montreal here I come!!!!!!!!!!!!!