Articles on Miscellaneous
Singapore Cycling Event – Green is the New Pink
I received an email from a friend just yesterday about a cycling event round the corner. Its called the Green is the new Pink Bike-a-Thon! Pretty good way to spend your Valentine’s day if you have not had any plans yet Here are the details Start point: sun plaza park End point/picnic ground: east coast [...]
Bukit Timah Hill… Done!
Wow! We had a brilliant turnout this morning at Bukit Timah Hill! Hope you guys enjoyed yourself and had a good sweat-out! Special thanks to Taxi Pool volunteers: Shi, Mahesh and Jess. Also thanks to Baveen (did I get your name correct?) for helping to guide the first group up. Really appreciate your help! It [...]
Singapore Women’s Everest Team Gets Funding
I read on the TODAYOnline news today that NATAS has decided to sponsor the Singapore Women’s Everest Team. Last year, they lacked funding. They will set off for Everest in April 2009! I know a friend who knows one of the mountaineers personally, so I’m really happy for them! I don’t aspire to climb Everest [...]
New Balance Warehouse Sale these 3 days
I just received this from a friend through email. There will be a New Balance warehouse sale from today until Saturday. So for those who are going on treks during the December period, this might be a good place for you to get some good clothing for your treks. Well, New Balance is more of [...]
Care to join the Singapore Trekking community?
In effort to form up this community of trekkers in Singapore, I have recently subscribed to an email management service so that I don’t have to keep track of all your email addresses by copying them into my Excel file one by one! Through this list, I hope that I can help to connect you [...]
No Desaru again
I was kinda disappointed because I was supposed to make my trip to Desaru over the weekend, but it was called off due to some other time commitments and constraints from the rest of the team. Still, we met up for half a day yesterday at East Coast Park to do some roller skating. It [...]
Train to the Roof of the World
I was just surfing on by some other blogs and I came across this post about the Qinghai-Tibet Railway! According to the post, this is the world’s highest train journey with an average altitude of 4500m! Man! Look at those photos! Imagine travelling on a train ride higher than Mount Kinabalu! The train provides oxygen [...]
Imagine Mount Kilimanjaro without a snow capped peak
Just a couple of days ago, India eNews.com published an article about Africa’s melting glaciers a warning sign for climatic change. It says: Over the past 100 years, the glaciers on Mount Kenya and Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak in Tanzania, have been melting away at an impressive rate, and scientists say the glaciers could [...]
The “Why” behind trekking and adventure.
I just read a blog called The Lost Globe, and the author Daniel is based in Australia. He explains in a very simple yet powerful way, that really answers to the hearts of many trekkers out there. Why? Why risk your life and take time to experience things that you don’t need to experience? Why [...]
Why do people want to go trekking?
Actually, sometimes I ask myself – why do I (and many others I have met along the way) love so much to go trekking, torturing ourselves having terrible headaches, having to cook and eat our own food, suffering from strained muscles, instead of relaxing ourselves on a beach resort, watching bikini babes run along, sipping [...]