Overnight Cycling (something I will prolly never do again)

A couple of weeks ago, my secondary school clique and I decided to plan an overnight cycling trip and we were all so excited about it but god...
WORST DECISION EVER.

Please pardon all the super low quality images from here onwards because its night time.

The last time I've ever went for an overnight cycling was prolly 5-6 years ago? So that may be what got me excited cause I was the first person to suggest it and I got super hyped up about it.

Obviously I didn't plan the overnight cycling route because everyone who knows me would know that I'm HORRIBLE with roads. I can get lost anywhere and everywhere that its not even funny. I have no idea how many km we cycled as well but to put it simply our overnight cycling route went like this:
East Coast Park > Changi Village > Pasir Ris Park > Downtown East > Back to East Coast Park (damn crazy i swear)

We started at 10pm in the night and cycled all the way till about 6am the next day and before we started our journey, we had this really cute dinner by cycling to the hawker at East Coast Park, packet all sorts of food we wanted (yay sambal kangkong) and cycled back to the beach to have our dinz.

So once dinner was out of the way, the real cycling 'fun' began after prolly like 10mins because everyone went like 'EHY CAMILLIA YOU CAN ANOT. EHY WE DONT WANT CYCLE BESIDE YOU. EHY CAMILLIA DONT FALL LEH. EHY CAMILLIA DONT JAM BRAKE HOR.' Confidence booster guys, confidence booster. (i did fall in the end anyway cause i decided i was good enough to pick up a phone call while cycling and BAM)

The first stop was to Changi Village to have the famous Changi Village Nasi Lemak where suddenly everyone started complaining 'WAH WE CYCLED 2 HOURS JUST TO EAT THIS NASI LEMAK.' and 'THE NASI LEMAK TODAY LIKE DAMN GOOD AH. ISSIT BECAUSE WE DAMN HUNGRY FROM ALL THE CYCLING.'

And then the real torture began. To cycle constantly from Changi Village all the way to Downtown East was a killer. The amount of uphills omg, CAN DIE. I wanted to just push my bike uphill cause I'm so tired but noooo, everyone says no. They said, keep cycling! Tell that to my thighs. They're not listening. The annoying part is that my bike gears weren't working well either so going uphill was such a pain. You can hear me screaming 'NO MORE UPHILL' for a very long time but yes I did it kay. Perseverance.

By the time we were at Downtown East, everyone was pretty much exhausted. Next time if any of you intend to plan an overnight cycling trip. Please bear in mind to insert more pit stops and food places because at least there will be something to look forward to rather than empty roads. Cycling to Changi Village wasn't even that bad because I knew that the moment I'm there I get to eat Nasi Lemak. But for the rest of the journey omg, there was nothing. There was NO FOOD to look forward to. That may actually be why I got really lethargic in the end. No motivation.

So yep, we had to cycle all the way back to East Coast Park and i think for a moment, all of us wanted to just flag a cab instead but nahhh, we managed to cycle back to East Coast Park again with ALOT OF UPHILL ROADS.

Am I ever going to do this again? PROBABLY NOT. But really guys, overnight cycling is fun and all. You get to catch up with your friends, talk crap, laugh at each other, make jokes & insults while cycling and its prolly one of the best bonding sessions. Just plan more pit stops and food stops really hahaha. It helps, trust me.
All in all, as much as I complain, I didn't regret this activity. The amount of fun and bullshit we had meant so much more and the pain from my thighs, my ass and my hands were worth it. But to the other members of this clique that didn't turn up that day, we have all agreed internally that we're never doing an overnight cycling again. Its way too tiring guys. We have to find something else.

The BFF's Birthday Countdown

HI GUYS. I'M BLOGGING FROM KL RIGHT NAO AND I KNOW I'VE NOT BEEN BLOGGING OFTEN.
It's like whenever I start blogging, I have to constantly write about 'hi, i'm sorry. i know i've not been updating frequently.' so okay yes thats VERY bad.

The past month had been pretty hectic! I was working in F1 Grand Prix for the entire month of September so that was a pretty intense part time job and now I'm taking a break (again) cause i'm tired like that. It's like no amount of sleep can compensate my sleep debt.

It was Rowena's birthday last month and to me, birthdays are a HUGE deal. Like you have got to countdown to your birthday and sleep really late and wake up super early and survive on prolly 3 hours of sleep cause its your birthday and you only have 24 hours. So we had this impromptu thingy of a countdown which i spent hours on the internet googling for but obviously to no avail cause we ended up at an ice cream cafe (again).

This time, we decided to try something else other than Udders, Daily Scoop, etc, so we ended up at Ice Cube Cafe. They are prolly known for their mudpies but we ordered a couple of other desserts such as their apple crumble and crepes cause I was actually very hungry and I needed my dessert buffet so there you go.

We decided to go with the DIY crepe where you get to choose your crepe fillings, ice cream flavours and toppings as well. So Rowena decided to opt for peach fillings with almond flakes and strawberry ice cream while i added another additional scoop of chocolate ice cream cause its chocolate. The crepes were a so-so. I find it a little too fluffy. My personal preference for crepes are a little crunchier, not so much on the fluff but I really enjoyed our DIY crepe. The flavouring and all was great.

Then there was the mudpie. I ordered the Chocoholic Anonymous Mudpie and omg guys, no wonder they're best known for their mudpies. Its really really good! The mudpie i got was super chocolatey and you prolly need to drink alot alot of water because it gets a little sickening after awhile. I like how they topped it with Almond flakes and Ferrero Rocher-Like chocolates. Its not entirely like a chocolatey taste but its very nutella, hazelnut chocolate flavoured so I really like that about the mudpie. Its like a taste of heaven.

Lastly, the Apple Crumble. I think adding baked apple chips on the apple crumble was something pretty new to me. In a way, the apple chips somehow brought out the apple flavour and the entire apple crumble itself was very apple-ish tasting which was something I've not tasted in a long long time. I have no idea what ice cream they used for their Apple crumble but it definitely was not vanilla ice cream cause it tasted really unique as well but it goes super well with the apple crumble itself so it was delish.

If you're a super dessert person like me, do try out Ice Cube Cafe if you're out on one of your supper hunts. I would highly recommend their mudpies and apple crumble.
ICE Cube Cafe
11 Kensington Park Road
Singapore 557263
Telephone: 9780 5073 | 8112 4706
Opening Hours: 4PM to 1AM

Okay, have a great Tuesday guys. I'm going to go back to my R&R nao. ciaos!