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Saturday, October 10, 2009

im going to od on awesome if i continue at this pace.

today was 10S06B day! morning we went to escape theme park. when i left home it had just started drizzling. but well the plan was made, no going back. as it turned out, kaicheng was on the same train as me. when we got out as pasir ris it was dry so we thought it wasnt going to be so bad. but just as the others reached and we started walking towatrd the bus stop, it started raining again. when we reached, they said that everything was closed due to rain, but we could still go in, and if the rain didnt stop in 2 hours, we'd get our money back.

as it turned out, the rain was a blessing in disguise. the first place we went was karting. incidentally, this is the first time in my life that ive driven a self powered vehicle. yes my life is very sad. anyway, i didnt freak out in the first lap. but by the end of three laps my right foot was firmly down and i was pushing the dinky little car as fast as it would go. which i must note is not very fast.

we went for i think eight or nine rounds of three laps each. as we got more confident, the rounds started becoming increasingly epic. at one point when i was climbing the spiral to the top, i looked back and saw meng right on my tail with like 3 inches gap. so right at the top i slammed the brakes with the hope of taking him out and giving myself a bump forward. but i didnt notice that he had dropped like three feet behind and was trying to overtake from the right. he was doing full speed, i was at zero, and the pickup in the karts is fantastically bad, so i did the next logical thing which was to slam him from the side as he overtook. i somehow hit him so hard that his kart ended up on the tirewall with all 4 wheels in the air. win.

the karting track was wet. wet = slippery. slippery = awesome. the last corner is right at the bottom of a slope. towards the end we didnt even bother letting off the gas all the way downhill. the speed at this point is not too bad, so i could actually make the back end slide out towards the end of the turn. i went sideways to the extent that i actually had to countersteer as far as the wheel could turn. that was incredibly fun. and there was also drifting into the starting lane when we were done. although calling it drifting is overstating it a bit.

alright then enough karting. i went on the viking ship thing like 10 times. it was awesome. we took the hardcore seats right at the end of course. it felt like i was going to fall out at the top. at one point i let go of the bar and actually left the seat. pretty cool feeling. on the last round two girls took the hardcore seats so we had to sit one row in front. i was suggesting that we do a silent run, just for the fun of it. i think they overheard us from behind cos they started screaming. and when i say screaming i mean SCREAMING like someone was murdering their families. even before the thing went up to maximum height. i suppose that was their sad idea of a joke.

well... thats enough awesome for one day then. more soon.

AJ sped off at |9:09 PM|

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