@ bRiAn's : Taiwan Tour Saga

Yes!!! Finally I'm signing off to taipei after the long wait. Am I excited about it? Basically "Yes" I do because this time it's truly a chance for us to learn living under the same roof and accomplishing things together oversea. Falling in love is easy so as in dating in singapore is also easy, but while couple goes oversea, the true challenges come!

You must learn to get along to each other ways of handling things and their expectations in lifestyle. From the way you placed your shoes in the hotel room, & all the way to how you should keep the the bathing time to a limit, it just call for alot of giving and accepting~ That's once a upon a time a good friend of mine xwg told me how a couple ended up picking on one another just on small issue on how one should squeeze his/her toothpaste! Things often turn up in the worst manner when people do not learn how to accept and give at the same time~

Being a gentleman, you should understand the "just walk abit" mindset is really often tough for ladies, while on another hand, being a considering lady should understand "just walk abit" is to better enjoy the trip...... If both cannot learnt the way of walking together, how is one couple going to live their life together forever?

HAHAHA folks, so much for the thoughs. As what I've mentioned, I'll be away from 29th May to 3rd June. Even if Singapore in war will not pull me from enjoying the trip! Blehhhh~

@ bRiAn's : Taiwan Drama Saga

Presenting as per below~

;p The newest taiwan tv drama series I got, the rating is pretty high for this show coupling of course our well-known cute princess 杨丞琳 as the main lead! The plot is kind of coolz with all the colleage love affairs flying and falling in love in one of the most funniest way.... & also the determination in finding TRUE love~

Attach another interesting clips for all (especially BOYz):

Click below boyz!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfWMXcOqoFw

@ bRiAn's : Rainie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQW_vRYRbMY

@ bRiAn's : The coolest job on earth !!!

Something to ponder on if you, and that's you alright! Are you really feeling bored at this moment while the earth itself keep spinning & you don't feel like part of it? Or perhaps you are now facing the monitor reading 'my blog' and wondering how stupid to even get started here? Well, basically I post some interesting topics for hmmm, boring people in this world to look & maybe think about~ Ohhh from time to time, and today's topic especially for those who are currently lost in the vast galaxy (right now, although you might be physically standing on earth itself).....

" Now what do you think is the coolest job/occupation a man can have? Something that when he present his namecard, it will always charm the ladies off their chairs & sending the other boys pulling their hairs and whinning all away~

Let's make it difficult one, says no matter which field or background you may born from... Name me a job that truly amazed those around them when they got to know!!! Example: 'I think soccer players are the best' BUT while non soccer fans really don't see it the coolest.... All right now, so name me the coolest job one MAN can have that will simply stun you! "



My example

A fashion magazine chief-editor for Elle or Style kind of titles, & better if he is a regional guy that overlooks asia markets. One of the coolest job that will simply stun the ladies!!!

@ bRiAn's : Over the hedge

People.... Meet RJ (the raccoon), Verne (the turtle) & Hammy (the squirrel), which are some of the main leads in the story.

I watched the show today and felt really good after that. Geezzz, what a cool life they lead!!! Besides mentioning about the good animated works, what really drew me into it was the "Kind of LifeStyle" those creatures had~

Motto of life is termed "RESTAHOLIC" They also promote another version of smart living which I believed that all Humans can always feel free to learn. It especially funny to see them observing us from their side, and more than often Humans looks more stupid in a way~


Humans: "Live to Eat"

Over the hedge: "Eat to Live"


Please kindly enjoy the comical strip I gotton for your pleasure! Besides my fav. character is Hammy~

@ bRiAn's : News Saga

(Being bored at home, I decided to too show abit of my concern on some news issues..... :p)

The 'Home'

New NKF seeks over S$12m in damages from Durai,
four others By Rita Zahara, Channel NewsAsia

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/209654/1/.html

The case had finally come to a closure on how much that dude got to repay back to those who really needed the money. Now being fined such a big amount and he just maybe agreed to pay meant he really got a deep deep pocket. Some of the others in the organization are yet to be finalized on their share of the FINEs. Anyway, any idea where these large amount of money goes after that??? Naaahhhhh, it will be good if we can split it up among various charities.

The 'Funny'

"Problems remembering wives' names?
Then you have too many: Malaysian cleric"

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/209444/1/.html

Hahaha, this is the darmz funny one! Cannot believe that they might even go for a Guinness World Record with such 'concept'....... ;p See the quote below for a brief~

"KUALA LUMPUR : A prominent Malaysian cleric has warned Muslims against repeatedly marrying and divorcing for fun after reports of a man who married 30 times and has scores of children and grand-children."

"When you have so many wives, keep divorcing them and you can't even remember their names or your children from these marriages, and worse still, your children do not even know each other, that is morally not right and forbidden in Islam," he was quoted as saying in the New Straits Times.

"For all you know, these children, who do not know each other, may end up marrying each other. If this happens, who should be blamed?"

Errrrrhhh~ So whatz the risk of marrying the own brothers or sisters? Kind of weirdo. Anyway, just for some thinking through the long day in life.



IMPORTANT NOTICE: Tomorrow is the big-day for over the hedge show!!! Yiiiipeee!!!



@ bRiAn

@ bRiAn's : Movie Saga ( e report)

(Been kind of BoRed nowadays, I decided to pick up the role of sumarizing a few of the top box-office movies, :p)

Now now, with the many new movies releases in May and perhaps more for the June when the 'start of the local school term break'. People are just getting more and more exicted over it!!! If you are wondering which show score the best this far, & I do have the answer.

Tom Cruise's MI(III) swept the S'Isle with almost an over total gross sales amounting to US$85,100,142 in pocket since it's release! And next on the chart is also a pretty new film 'Posoidon' ranking second so far with a wide gap in their earnings compared to Mr Tom's. (ref:http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/charts/boxoffice/top_ten.jsp) And while the MOST anticipated Mr DaVinci's making seems like going to be the leader of all. Sorry since it's the new-newest release, no earning info on it..... But anything that challenges history always seems to ROCK the house. Well, being our life boring of course which allow these films to spur up some emotions~ HahAhaha!

Come on baby~ SUPERMAN is in town, and for many out there I hoped, very little people is un-aware of this age-old superhero in blue & red outfit, coupled with its famous underwear outside his tights, is making its appearance in my S'Isle! Hmmm, 'storywise' never mind, 'plot' I dun even care abit..... "Huh? Already repeated so MANY times in history" Now whats the matter...... IT'S SUPERMAN you know !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See this picture, Cooooolzzz~

The problem now is whether I should catch it with the boyz or with my darling? Something girls don't really realize why there's Superman, batman, captain america, spiderman so on? Hmmm, maybe so far most girls prefer spidey, geeezzz beats me dude, just a general view of mine~

More of SUPERMAN ;p


And for more Kore@n fanz out there, the famous Male lead aka 池珍熙 (Ji Jin-Hee) starring in <大长今> will be having his new film on the Isle.... Perhap you might need a few second to adjust to his ' modern image', and that means taking away the mostuche~~~ Here's a little for your eyes~




The only shitting part of this K movie is it's (R-21) so little boyz & girlz are unable to watch...

Hohohoho..... Life's hard, makez it Sofer~




@ bRiaN

@ bRiAn's : Spooky link~~~~

Hi fellows,

Check out this link for some interesting paranormal activities happening in Sing@pore & some neighbouring asian lands....... Pretty spooky for some~

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http://www.spi.com.sg/main/index.htm

bRianC's TaLe: An ice mountain please?

" Anything you need?" my mom shouted way from the doorstep as she left for the mart.

" Just get me a HUGE ice mountain that's good enough to chill the room down!!!" I cried back, with only one towel wrapping around my belly. Sounded desparate? Well, the weather here is really making a killing, and for me living right on the top-est apartment in the block, I'm the most nearest to the MIGHTY sun!

The fan is doing itz best to deliver wind yet only hot gasp of hot air that's being pumped out~ Orange curtains in my room turned my pit into a temporary desert of middle east look-alike~ And me blogging half-naked was indeed the best way to spend a restless warmy noon away~

Gosssh.... Anyone wish to make a switch of stay? Say someone from Alaska or even the some cold countries people who experienced enough coldness, seeking for a tropical 100% darm hot + warm place? Come here and I go there~

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bRianC's TaLe: Movie saga~

Anyone watched Da Vinci Codiie? Post me some comments on it please bcos I'm really contemplating whether to watch it a'not. The month of May is really a whole hell of movie saga, having for us are Da Vinci Codiie, X-men, Over e Hedge, Posoidon, MI (III) and the yet to release Pirates of the Carr~~~

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With the on-going price peak in the movie tickets and myself being currently low onz cash, hand-picking the few best out of them is REQUIRED!!! else I'll be crunching on the grass for my breakfast/lunch/dinner during the taipei tour. MI(III) is really a fantastic! From its (I) to (II) my mission to catch it never once fail, hahaha~ But (III) was indeed the making of the BEST... Urrrhhhhh....... So how? Whats next on the chart? Okie, let see well I can only pick 2 more to cure my desire OVER the new shows! Posoiden seems like typical titanic except having more newer-edge equipments inside the ship like those falling air-con pipes, flying computers and dropping lifts.... :P X-men is still loitering around Humans vs Mutants relationship, which maybe drags on to to X-men (IV) hohohoho~

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Oh goshhhhhh~ Da Vinci oh Da Vinci, I'm worried that the show is all wild-goose chase down from France to England + stupid dark forcese behind scenes to cover the secrets UP!!! Hmmm, murder scene leading to the disclosure of "truth" hidden that threatening faith?????

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diao* diao*

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Ahhhhhh, yes yes for (Over The Hedge) baby~ read the comic strips couple of dayz back then & realized its really a enjoyable show! Maybe itz kind of in my blood as I alwayz favor animated productions~ As for now the only C'firm movie is O 'the' Hedge

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Geeeeeeeeeee~ Feedback boyz + Gerz, how how? Anyone watch Da Vinci's? Is it boring or really inject the fear and doubts into one's head and plot-wise-enjoyable OR plot-stupid-boring?

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LET ME KNOW............ Tks!!!

bRianC's TaLe: Comic a day, keeps moody spirit away~

A brianc story - Restaholic

A brianc story - Blogging works better with pic

Hahaha, I'll been around looking at people blogs and discover interesting blogs often includes pictures attached to their posts. Pictorial representations carry off the author's point of view much more stronger than just the usage of words, & it brings more life to the whole blog.....

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Why am I not doing that? Itz because my youngest sister lost the family digital camera couple of months ago~ She's at her young age of just 16 and ok being a 16 in Sing@pore is really still considered as a kiddo & we oso have a Sing@@pore version of chart to catagorize people into their age groups..... Funny is we are always advised not to catagorize people in the same nation so we can achieved harmony among all levels, but how come we still have soooooo many classes like this when we visit a movie theatre:

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G - General

PG- Parental Guidance
NC-16 - No Children below 16 years old
M18 - Mature 18 for persons 18 years and above
R21 - Restricted to persons 21 years and above

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Hmmmm~ why just put it as (RA) and (Non-RA)???? Okie so my point is anything that falls below the NC16 cat. will well be exempted from paying the camera!!!!!

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So WE cannot really pressed her on to buy back a new one, well although we felt that she had the $$$ and the responsiblity to return one to the house.... (BUT mom too protective over her thus there's nothing we can do for the moment)..... Geee~ Maybe I should pressed on for a IOU kinda thingy so when she grows up, she had to buy back!!! HAHAHAHA~

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Hmmmm, maybe I can secretly buy my new camera and keep it wrapped so......... hohohoho (evil grin)

A brianc story - Just a passing day...

I woke up this morning with the sky drawing up a dark blue curtain over my little window. Just for a moment I though to myself it must be one of those sleepless nights where I couldn't fall asleep & waking up in the middle of the sleep-time. But just when I held up my handphone to read the time, it gracefully lighten up '11.30am'..... Yaawwwwn~ and I slowly stood up from my bed, placing all those pillows away from me praying hard my mom will not dashed in my room and starts her nag.

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I walked into the living room, and no one was there, hmmmm... Suddenly came a series thunders and rain drops began to fall hitting onto my window-screens. Ahhhh, its another day in the daze but the cool brezzy weather indeed made a perfect way to be awken to in this small tropical island of Sing@pore. There's been this strange hot and humid weather strolling its way on this small island where I stayed, and well been familiar with all this changes after 25 years of residence here, it never once failed to irritate me.... It just gets from hot to hotter and to even more hotter. This is always the weakest period of me in the year where I easily fall sick~

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Reading the newspaper and pressing the channels on the tv turns out to be the daily routine these few days for me. "Am I turning into a old man?" I though for a second.... Hahaha!!! Isn't it nice to sit back and relax for a moment in this cool wet morning........

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The rain held its ritual of showering all the way to noon, and been kind of laze I decided to just settle my lunch with a delicancy of all man's best instant noodles + a cup of 3-in-1 coffee. Oh yes, an egg was added to the noodles as well...... I almost forgot the way how I spent the noon to night time but while I'm writing this blog post, the tv showed a taiwan reality show featuring sexxy girls (no nudity) dancing~ Another version of " do u think u can dance???" from the states.... Been really distracted by the show, I decided to end the blogging this instant and maybe join my grandma back in the living room. Oldies really appreicate youngs to sit with them and listen ( no matter if u really understand what they are telling u)...

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Signing off~ Briancccccccccccccccccccccccccc

A brianc story - Stingy Univeristy~

My inbox was jammed again by the school debt-hunters. Apparently I still owned the school's library some overdue charges for 3 books I borrowed during those days doing my final year report. Well, they even gave me a big "WARNING" sign threatening me if I don't pay up, I wouldn't be allowed to step into the convocational hall + receiving my scroll.... Now it doesn't appear they this fierce when they wanted us to donate some money to the school, naming it " The 2006 Class Gift" kind of thingy~ Oh goosssh, I simply cannot believe those system in my school~

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So, I had to reschedule my appointments and head back school next week just to pay up the CHARGES they charged me, amounting to a GREAT sum of S$1.50 only.....

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Now now, I haven't even complained about the stupid allocation that the school had played a joke on me! They allocated 2 students, at the same time, same venue but with just one screen to present their FYP!!! Darm it, and made me worried like ants on a hot pan looking for free rooms.... + with a decent workable projector! In end, I had to settle for a lousy one instead..... Ohhhhh, life just ain't a fair playing ground..... To live, learn the tricks and adapt fast~

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Stupid stupid school...........

Brianc 说: The day after tomorrow.....?

When the times are tough, the tough gets going...

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An age old saying that was constantly flooding in my mind for these past few days. The trip to Taipei is still about 2 weeks ahead, and I'm already too excited for it. Maybe its just because I'm now too free at home waiting here and there..... Been waiting for the date to Taipei, the date returning Army, the date to start looking for a job, and etc~ What's the day going to be like after tomorrow?

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The final presentation was already over yesterday, things went pretty well for the start not until the examiner started to pop some tough QnA, survival is the key, while to score is a bonus. Things managed to slip its way through and the whole session took just 40 mins. Yes, a mere 40 mins to summarize all the hard works done the past 1 year. Is it time to put the easy-going life of a student behind and move forward to the vast world infront of me? Most reluctantly I am to leave the comfort zone, I told myself maybe its about time to face a new environment.

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Hmmm, the day after tomorrow? Is it all about waking up in the morning to work or be laying on the sofa at home waiting for the days to wear off by itself?

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Truly a moddy morning I had now, seems like relaxing with no money comes in a big issue. When one turns 25, responsibilties piles up and often then not, bills always follow its way to you. "Ahhhhhh boy, since you graduated its time to share the expenses of the house" came a saying from my dad. Woaaah, thats fast dude~ Am I about to indulge on a journey of a typical citizen of my national and thats wake up = work = get paid = pay bills = sleep = (again the cycle goes one).........

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Hmmmm, whats the day like after tomorrow.................?

布莱恩 说: Is this the industry you want to go?

Predictions for Singapore

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Research house Gartner estimates Singapore's semiconductor consumption including chips used locally and those exported - to be worth about US$3 billion (S$5.2 billion) in 2002. Growth in Singapore's semiconductor sector will start picking up.

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Singapore should also benefit from the surge in sales of mobile phones, digital cameras, consumer electronics and computers - much of it in the Asia-Pacific and Japan. But Singapore is going to be hit even harder by the shift of low-end electronic production out of the city-state.

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Problems in Singapore semiconductor industry

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Chartered expects a net loss of US$40 million to $48 million (Dec 1, 2003). Compared to other industry, wafer fabrication industry is not doing well. There are not many success stories. And now, with the country in the midst of a painful recession and the electronics industry suffering severely from the global downturn, chipmakers (Singapore's key manufacturing industry) may not be profitable in the near term or the long.

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In the future, instead of building their own fabs, IDMs will increasingly look to manufacture their chips at pure-play foundries. For cost reasons, they will not want to be tied to any specific foundry, so they will start to contract with library developers to create their own proprietary libraries that are portable among multiple foundries. So, customers of foundries and wafer fabs may want a more diversified source and may look for alternates to Singapore foundries.

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Like disk drive and PCB industry, rising costs and competition from neighbouring countries such as Malaysia and Thailand leads to movement of wafer fabrication industry also.

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The tax breaks for high-tech projects in Malaysia are competitive with neighboring Singapore. Singapore is a potential source of employees, estimating that Malaysians make up nearly 40% of Singapore's labor base. If that's true, and enough skilled labor is encouraged to return home, the exodus could threaten Singapore's ambitious plans to attract 25 wafer fabs or roughly $30 billion in investment.

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China has initiated a program to replicate Taiwan's success in microelectronics on a much larger scale. China is successfully attracting investment through its 17 percent value-added tax (VAT) on imported semiconductors (as opposed to a 3 percent VAT on those made in China). The 14 percent surcharge on foreign chips entering China is enough to force those companies operating in China to seek indigenous sources of supplies. China has created a tax-free environment for semiconductor plants. It has created "very powerful financial incentives to draw in talent from abroad," and it has all the capital and technology needed to put into place a vibrant semiconductor industry.

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Temasek Holdings, the investment arm of the Singapore government, may divest itself of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. and its sister company, ST Assembly and Test Services, thereby abandoning the wafer production business [August 2002]. Temasek, which works with Singapore's Economic Development Board, is helping the government in its search for new technology growth markets and for a way to maintain Singapore's status as a telecommunications and routing hub. With over capacity plaguing the global semiconductor industry, Temasek is now looking for new opportunities in telecom and biotechnology.

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Despite the industry's global woes and move towards diversification, the island state's faith that its economic future is etched in silicon remains unshaken. But to show a profit from its chip making commitment, won't be easy.

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Reference: http://www.apec-isti.org/isti/abridge/sgz/zsgzic.htm

布莱恩 说: Progress Package?

I have a great plan to deal with the recent "Progress Package", and thats simply to save it all up. Well, apparently things ain't moving along with the plan. "Hey mister, your cassette is darm loose & its matter of time the whole thing crashes!" came a message from my bike mechanic. Most unwilling but left with no other choices, I had to agree to a $45 change of cassette, which was on top of the servicing charge of $50! There goes~

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"Blaggg Pobbb~" came another sound the night after the intensive training and I was pedalling like a crazy man on the middle of the road with my crank spinning like no man's business. I managed to hold my balance and took a peep down to my legs. ARrrrh, my chains are goNE!!! It snapped at the junction and was laying about 10m away from my sight. I unclip my feets off the pedals and ran across the road to fetch it up. Oh god, I just serviced it! But not to blame since my chains are pretty low-end, I'm more grateful I'm still in one good piece the moment it snapped~ The only challenging part left is to hand-in-hand walk with my bike home, which cost me additional 1hr.....

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The next day right after work, I pushed all the way to the mechanic and got it fixed with a kind charge of $26. Well, back to the ride I supposed.....

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One wedding dinner is on the way, whereby chinese AngBao is a muz with >$50 and following my another half's birthday feast and present, and the Taipei trip spendings...... Urrrrrrrh!!!

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Part-timing in the school lab was indeed a great help to the situation, and most importantly hope I will be blessed to find a wonderful job with wonderful people......

布莱恩 说: My legs are total numb~~~

The mind told me to keep it going but those legs just would agree with the mental order. I started put off the idea of the excess weights I carried on myself since I'm the heaviest guy in the team, and blamed it more to my bad pedaling skills and stamina I had... Seeing the riders infront with the same rpm, I simply cannot figured out another better reason why in the hell I couldn't catch up with them. Puzzled to a point which I couldn't stand it anymore, I decided to ask one of my better rider himself aka also my cycling buddy. The tips were here and there but for the least I knew was my stamina is the most crucial factors!!! They had been riding for a regular period of time and never once lower their ride standard, well.... perhaps that day when they had to slow down abit just to make sure I'm in their view. HaHaHa~ Seems like the prata egg + one plain + one hot tea for my breakfast appeared abit too much for the ride then~

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Wooooh~ I enjoyed my time very much as I managed to complete the entire course, just some speed problem to work on now that is. The short rest over at the goat farm was fantastic and we brought an expensive bottle of the goat's milk to share... Well, right after that was a challenging stretch of road off LCK. Drafting was in the mind of the team, and I was fighting hard to keep the wheels turning! 35 to 30 to 28 to....... Oh gosh~ the wheels ain't turning at the rpm they should..... darm it, I slowed down!

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YES! Finallly I reached the pit-stop of the day when we spend some good time over lunch. They found out my seatpost was just too short to extend more and today I'm getting one from kelvin, hehehe.... The bike needed a over-hual, and today is the day for it. Servicing is in view again~~~

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No more lifts for me and its stairs I shall defeat!