A ride that wasn't crepe.

OHMIGOSH don't cardiac arrest yet. Yes this is an entry. The moon is blue now, so was the cheese at Rémi's house, but I'll not pre-empt myself.

I was hideously late, PinPin was hideously late, but because everyone else was just plain late, so that even us out to be just nicely late. We had along with us a guest from Australia, Simon Wells who would be in Singapore till March 7. The plan was simple; unicycle track 15 and eat at Rémi's house a crepe lunch at the end. People who attended (fie on the rest who didn't come!) were Cek, me, Simon, Kailun, Marvin, PinPin and Rémi of course.

Notable mention: PinPin was practically a hiker this time round.

The initial part was disarming. The road gave a false impression that the rest of the ride was that easy. But nuh-uh. Gradually, after the upslope, there were gravel at first, then there was dirt. Then mud, then tree trunks and dead antelopes in the way. We had to evade killer bees and the Yeti.

See? To all who didn't come. You missed such a great adventure. Now you'll never know what truly happened.

There was the dirt jump area. Obviously, none of us jumped. Kailun did try to hop/jump and kinda succeeded. Which meant that he failed. But it was impressive stuff still. Simon impressed us further with freestyle on grass. Pirouettes on grass? Handwalking on grass? Tricks-I-don't-know-the-names on grass? Insane.

And we all tried the steep slope. Cek almost did half of the steep downslope, and almost half of the upslope. He claims 2 halves make a whole then.

Anyway. Skip to the crepe party. So when we arrived, Theng Huat (who?) and Jeff were already there. Awesome. They came to get to the chips and guacamole dips before us. All of us took a lift to get to the second floor. Typical us. Then, Huifang who was there too probably felt that to draw the main crowd she'd have to break out magic, and set the crepe machine thing out. And abracadabra! Suddenly people started arriving, except for Geoffrey, who got lost, of course, and broke up a nice couple by having them quarrel when he asked for directions.

(possible re-enactment)

Geoff: Er, how do I get to block 154?

Couple (M): It's that way (points)

Couple (F): No it's the other way (points)

Couple (M): No you idiot, it's obviously this way!

Couple (F): No you dumbass, it's that way I LIVE HERE

Couple (M): Like I don't??? Women and their directions, can't be trusted.

Couple (F): Oh yea? And you think you're so great? You chauvinistic pig.

Couple (M): You... woman!

Couple (F): Fine! Let's break up! End of relationship! (storms off)

Couple (M): Fine! (troops off)

(Geoffrey is left behind, still without directions)

Hand me my awards please.

Geoffrey wore very cute socks. They have individual 'compartments' for each toe, each brightly colored. Probably just in case he needed to know how many toes he had left still and wanted to count them with ease.

So the crepes were broken out. By then, Marvin and wife and daughter were there, Siyong was there, Kee was there and for a while, Jiahui came but I shall talk about that later.

Some of the crepes that were created were:

Butter/sugar

Mushroom/cheese

Butter/mushroom/cheese

Peach

Peach/Banana-orange

Bacon/cheese

Walnut/cheese

Lemon/sugar

Blue cheese/cheese

Sunny-side up???

Butter/blue cheese/cheese/bacon/bak kwa/mushroom/walnuts (that one was mine)

Of course I had my special crepes.

Diabetic Crepe
Nutella/Milo Powder/Sugar

Triple coronary bypass Crepe
Butter/Bacon/Bak kwa/Cheese/Blue cheese/Random bits of oily something

Cholestrol Crepe
All the cheese you can find

Crepe à la Grass
Scrambled eggs/a clumsy Jeff armed with herbs/who spills it all over the scrambled eggs

Also, the Ah Peks Bak Kwa Grilling Association reported a sudden appearance of a young(ish) competitor who was grilling bacon without their express permission. 593645023 jobs have been reported to be lost as a result of such reckless action.

Cek was drunk. Haha. And he was rather fascinated by the National Geographic spider soft toy.

Jiahui appeared only to outdo my specials with her special and did

Diarrhoea (spell it, Jiahui) crepe à la Jiahui
Everything weird you can add

And left almost was quickly as she came.

And the highlight of the cooking session was definitely setting the crepes on fire. Rémi can now have a sideline setting crepes on fire, I mean making crepe suzettes. I can so see the headlines now:

"Rémi, crepe arsonist, sets yet another one on fire! Families of related crepes weep"

Yea and we watched some pretty cool unicycling videos, because unicyclist can only watch unicycling videos and nothing else. We're sad people =(

Milking the opportunity.

Kee has posted previously that Jiahui has done the qualifiers. What he hasn't done is to heckle at Jiahui's new moniker.

May I present to you, the Singaporean Tigress

The Article

So. Now that Kee has done his, would his report go up next as the Singaporean Tiger??? We could watch a catfight ensue between Jiahui and Kee.

Kee's report (omgalinktokee'sblog!!he'spartfamousnow!!)

Oops I've yet to do mine. Soon.. soon.

Ride the Lobster qualifying ride.

Congratulations to Jia Hui for completing her qualifying ride for the Ride the Lobster event.

Check out her report here.

In case you were blind, dumb, deaf or all of the above...

There's going to be a big event coming soon. Like really soon. Like next-week-soon-kind-of-soon. And just for the rare possibility that people visit this blog before our website, that is, not directed to here from there, then I find it my onus to inform you that,

There's going to be a big event coming soon.

Oh wait I've already said that, haven't I?

Here's a poster, ostensibly stolen from Jiahui. Give kudos to her, because she's a shameless attention-seeking whore. Go Jiahui!



Incidentally, has anyone seen the logo, as featured in the poster, of APUC?



To make this blog have more value than it's worth, so as to somewhat justify you, the imaginary reader's time, I shall state the history of how APUC, or Asia-Pacific Unicycle Convention came about.

The History textbooks said so...

Originally conceived as something rather unpronounceable, APAHC, or in its correct caps form, APacHC (to pronounce 'cHC', you sound like you're choking and go 'k-huhk!!') standing for Asia-Pacific Unicycle Hockey Convention, which means APacHC is a misnomer because it should have been APacUHC, making it even more unpronounceable (I didn't think up of this name! I extricate myself of blame!), was initially just a vague idea formed up in the back of people's heads after the previous years of the Sino-Hong Kong Unicycling exchange, which thankfully didn't bear any horrendous, unpronounceable abbreviations.

Ah yes, an aside, one thing that very defines Singaporeans are their morbid fascinations with abbreviations and acronyms and acrostics. NUS, PIE, AYE, MOE whatever.

So, slowly but surely with minute nudges, plans were made for APacHC to existentialize, but with must of the flurry and concrete action taking place just months prior to the event, maybe say 5 or so? Teams to be invited, venue, sponsors, Milo vans, the whole works. Fleeting rumors of Oakley sponsors and that the President of the United States will preside were rampant. Sort of. Ok the latter would have been spread by me but you get the idea. Rumors.

Then, suddenly, POOF! It became from a possibility to a reality that was to happen, though the date had yet to be fixed. Eventually it was set to 3rd November 2007, a regrettable date because I'm not able to make it, but that's just personal. Of course it's a great day as any to hold the APacHC.

And the rest were subliminal histories not really worth mentioning.

About a month or so, some complains and a few throat cancers at being unable to pronounce the name of the event, had the Singapore Unicyclists rethink the name of APac(U)HC, which also looks aesthetically unpleasing because of its part-alternate-caps, making it look like some primary school kid tYpiNg LykE tHIs. And after much procrastination and no-suggestions, its name magically got changed to APUC, mysteriously. Maybe the wizards did it. His name should have been Maxim, if my memory serve me right. I can't be bothered to check the boards for cross-reference.

So APac(U)HC is now APUC, doesn't sound very nice either but at least it's pronounceable. Jiahui pronounces it as "A-puck". As in "This is a puck,". Some dissidents pronounces it "AH-Pook". The anal would call it "Ay-Pee-You-See". The mute cannot pronounce it.

So, attend this event, because it's the first of its kind, in South-East Asia, and in lurrvely Singapore. Bring you camera, kids, dogs, whatever, batteries not included. There will be a Tae-kwon-do demonstration by the Korean unicycling team! Though whether they do it on unicycles I have absolutely no idea.

OMGWTFBBQNUSPIE!

Seriously dredging through old files I can't believe I once made something like...

THIS



Am I appalled? Not as much as I am humored. But for people who've never seen them, and wonder who they are on this poster (was done around the time the similar move was released), they are, and can be found/described/researched/stalked further on our web, from left to right,

Siyodayong - Siyong

Um. Because he's short and green?

PRINCESS Kee - Kee

I think why so was because of some long-lost vested history between him and a long-forgotten sith.

Joseph Skywalker - Joseph

No particular reason why. Maybe just that his face was in the correct angle and hence easiest to superimpose. I am lazy.

Someone wise(???) - Kailun

I must admit, I am not a Star Wars fan. So I don't know who the original character was. Probably someone wise. Which must mean this was a miscast character.

Orange Light-hockeystick wielder - Jasmine

Because she's Alice's sister and my cousin.

All-consuming evil black guy sith - Sid

Because black is the new black. It's not just a color; it's BLACK.


I <3 Photoshop.

Yes we know we have a new site.

This post is redundant, really. Because nobody ever comes here. Nor update. You can call me Mr. Nobody.

But, you know our 'recent' (with the previous recent being in the Cretaceous age) posts showing up on the sparkling new website, it'll be a shame not to post one.

Seriously. Just ignore this post and go ahead to the new website (It's under the links. Duh.). If you need me (doubt it), I'll be just there crying in the corner, ok?

Does this mean... the blog will live again??

Nah. In all probability, probably not.

But probability has a nasty habit of being wrong. No promises, but something might happen. Might.

It might involve a certain Remi, but I'm not naming names.