Category Archives: gear

Friday, er, overslept

November 26, 2010 – 8:37 am

So the problem about having a crap phone is it dies overnight, and even though you’ve set three alarms for 5am, 5.05am and 5.15am, you can oversleep a morning swim.
And so I did. Damn you HTC Magic.
But, oh well, it was a great opportunity to take some new kicks for a test run. Unboxed a [...]

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Easy does it

January 27, 2010 – 9:25 am

Did my first big-ish run in a while this morn, three hours on the road starting at 5.15am, two Faber loops along the way (one ascent on each side), by the River on the way back and through the lush greenery at Dempsey.
Total moving time on my HTC Magic GPS was 2.54, total distance 33.6k. [...]

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Saddling up

January 19, 2010 – 12:54 pm

Kenneth gave me a Fizik saddle at the weekend. He’s generous like that. Random things lying around the shop that he’s no use for anymore, he gives away to relatively poorer souls like me (in the context of CycleWorx customers). This year marks the 10th year since I first stepped into Kenneth and Yusoff’s bike [...]

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G-strings

January 11, 2010 – 1:32 pm

Back in the day when nylon black Prada backpacks and their imitations were in fashion, when McDonald’s occupied the basement of Far East Plaza, when Parkway Parade had a brilliant arcade/indoor amusement park at the top floor… I played the guitar.
Under influence and tutelage from my elder brother, I jammed till the skin on my [...]

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Sports Solutions

January 9, 2010 – 11:13 am

All that exercise getting you down? Looking for a great, knowledgeable and experienced sports physio?
Check Sports Solutions out. It’s my good friend and former national triathlon team mate Gino Ng’s clinic. He was a former senior sports physio at the Singapore Sports Council and has travelled with Singapore’s biggest sport stars to all major games [...]

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