Portsdown - Kent Ridge - Labrador Park Run

5:50am - sms received from Tiwazz. "Gal, wake up :-)"

"What the (#)$&(@$(*" - wau lau, I asked for a 6am wake up call last night as I was out partying the night before at Club 72. This guy dunno how to tell time issit ?? :P of coz being grouchy I replied to complain lah, ask him i asked for 6am wake up call, not 5:50am leh!
amp;(@$(*" - wau lau, I asked for a 6am wake up call last night as I was out partying the night before at Club 72. This guy dunno how to tell time issit ?? :P of coz being grouchy I replied to complain lah, ask him i asked for 6am wake up call, not 5:50am leh!
Yes yes, no doubt its just 10 minutes, but 10 minutes to someone who lacks sleep is A LOT alright ? Tell that to someone who could not make it for a Time Trial due to a 2 seconds difference! haiz

Anyway, enough about my whining. I got ready and was at Buona Vista to meet Tiwazz at 6:30am. At I stepped into the station, sms came in from Tiwazz "will be 8-10 mins late" -_____-
Of course, I couldn't be an angel to just reply "sure no prob". Once again I replied to bitch that first he had to wake me up early, and now he had to make me wait! So I demanded breakfast would be on him hehe
Waited for not 8 mins, not 10 mins but a whooping 20+ mins!! He finally calmly slowly appeared at 650+am! Argh!!!!

We discussed about the route (he was thinking of a 5km run and I was like "huh? I said less than 10km leh") and readily pushed off for a 5 mins walk before stopping at the bus stop for a warm up stretch. We heard frequent thunder and the dark clouds were closing in and we got worried whether our run would be cut short. I was eager to run and so we pushed off after a good 15 mins of warm up.

First stop, portsdown road. It wasn't a good place to run as there were no pavements and it was near to some construction. At night the place would be really deserted but in the morning you see a lot of workers. Still unsafe for a lone runner in my opinion, and the lack of proper pavements and running on the roads just make the place unconducive for running. However, it was worth it when I reached the Colbar. A dilapidated coffee house that according to Tiwazz serves simple western food. We walked around the area before running inside portsdown (Woking Road) to look at the old colonial houses. They all look so serene and tucked in lush greenery, the houses are just like my dream houses! They seem like they were in a world and era of their own and it just make these houses soooo attractive. How I wish I could stay in one of these but unfortunately there is no way I could afford their rent. hehe. Maybe can suggest they convert one of these to a chalet ? :P

We ran past the Tanglin Trust School (not sure what school that is) and not knowing where we were headed, we reached the stretch leading to Queensway. From there we crossed the road to Normanton Park into Science Park and guessing our way found one of the entries that led us to Kent Ridge Park! We ran inside, walking instead of running up the slopes and Tiwazz taught me the zig-zag method of running up slopes. In order not to strain my shin I was very careful and made sure I walk up any slopes instead of pushing too hard. We got a good view at the canopy walk (very short walk) before leaving Kent Ridge. We just ran and took whatever turn that we fancied at each junction, and was surprised when we hit Pasir Panjang. I was really excited as we were just planning a Labrador Park some other weekend morning and now that we are so close to Labrador Park, we decided to just run there. With some run walk, we managed to get to Labrador Park where we saw a lot of young men running inside. Seems like they are training for something. It was Tiwazz's first visit to the park, so I took him around. Again I took some photos but sadly ...... I was eager to see how Olive Restorante, the new restaurant recently featured in the Straits Times, look like. Unfortunately it was such a let-down. Although it wasn't open in the day, but it looks like just any other open air restaurant. Frankly I didn't think it was anything great, I bet it would be really hot and stuff and the patrons will be the the dinners for the mosquitoes ... not a place i would want to have dinner in. No air con leh! aiyo, eat until perspire .. haha











With about an hour left before we were suppose to meet Roentgen back at Ghim Moh for breakfast, we left the park, jogging slowly out and finally stopping outside the small coffee shop to replenish our lost water. From there we walked past HP and took the bus back to GM to meet Roentgen. (Roentgen did his own ninja and met us for a pig out session thereafter)

Between us, the three of us had wanton noodles, yong tau fu, tang yuen, chwee kueh, soya bean curd. It was great fun eating and yakking with both of them!

All in all a very great morning! Thanks to Tiwazz for accompanying me for a west side run! I wouldn't have been able to explore so many places on foot without Tiwazz's company! I have been wanting to visit Kent Ride & Labrador Park for the longest time ever as these are the places that bring back memories to me. Poignant memories but memories which although I do not want to relive, are still memories that form part of my life experience.

And thanks to Roentgen for the great company at breakfast! He helps to liven up the mood and really make the breakfast even more enjoyable! Thanks also for lending me the running book! So nice of you! Will definitely read it and aiya, too bad you have written your name on it. Else I will sure follow the footsteps of the eraser gal! wahahahhahaha

Total distance covered : about 15km according to Tiwazz. Great morning run!
*thumbs up*
Must do this more often! :)

Disclaimer: Since none of the pictures I took was saved into my dopod (ARGHHHH), pictures here courtesy of NParks website.