july 16, 2009

for some of us, it was a meaningful day today.

shimun went to her classmate's birthday party this afternoon and had a blast.

mingwei was in a school excursion today visiting the famed melbourne cricket ground (mcg). of course, the mcg is a sacred place to most sports mad melbournian. he too had a blast trying a game of cricket with his schoolmates. i have always wanted to visit the mcg and never had the chance yet. so the boy topped me on this on 2 counts; he's been there and played a game there. for the latter, it is something i will probably never have the chance to experience.

that said, things went well for me too. i went for my first cycling ride, albeit a short one. having chatted with a colleague on riding together for the past month, i decided to walk the talk and dusted off my bicycle today. we decided a short, easy off-road trail ride. having been off the bike for a good few months, i was a little worried about my conditioning and stamina, and my triathlete riding partner added to the pressure. my mountain bike was not in a good shape, so i brought my dahon p8 for the ride. we started off just before dusk at high street, glen waverley. the temperature was a chilly 10 degrees celcius. the bike trail was fantastic; we passed by numerous parks, farm lands and other scenic places. definitely a part of the neighbourhood i need to explore more. if you can overlook the runny nose, painful ears, dry throat and being left for dead in 2 mini hill climbs, it was actually a very gratifying ride for me. nothing like getting started to get that riding bug again. we finished about 19km in under an hour. once back, i was treated to his wife's home-made nasi lemak to round things off.

lastly, i received my much anticipated ticket to the australian masters via registered post today. the big deal of this is of course tiger woods will be playing here in november. mine's a 6 days ground pass, so i will experience what chasing the tiger is all about this november.