Chuffed!
It was a great start to 2007.
After eating our way through the wee hours of 2006 at our friend's place with the rest of the Singaporean/Malaysian gang here... here's a photo at the party... (NB: there was Sarawak Laksa, Chye Tow Kuay, pork ball congee, chee kuay, fried springrolls, AND ice kachang... yes, we ate many helpings.)
We decided to burn off some of the calories with a session of snowboarding on the very first day of the new year... plus, we thought, might as well take advantage of the small snow fall Rochester managed to get.
And I'm glad to report that both of us are totally stoked and chuffed at our session yesterday - it went really well. We can link our turns now and can control at least how fast/slow we wanna go and the direction! Hahhaha. Pretty important if we want to go down slopes.
Plus! This is our sixth and longest run! Previously, we were either too pooped or too injured to continue after one hour, but this time we went for three hours.
So as you can tell, it's quite a nice jump in pace and relative skill. We can finally see light at the end of this learning curve tunnel!
These are our lovely boards. As promised, a pix of them - and isn't Gene's horribly garang? There's like this wraith on it. Very cool. Mine is, like I said, in the Singaporean National colours. Hahhaha.
Will buy an outfit to match the board when I finally manage to get down the slopes with some kind of style. Hahahahha.
This is Steeplechase. Nice ah? It's the nearest skiing slope to Rochester - approx 15 minutes away.
Me taking a Diet Coke break... phew... yes, the Ford Explorer, even though it has given us quite a bit of grief in the last few months, has come into its own: it can bash through snow and gravel AND hold those boards/boots/paraphernalia AND give us a perch to have a break too.
Me, and my beaaauuuttiifoool board: very happy after great run on the slopes. Will I say the same after I crash hard again, I wonder?
Oh, remember our little injury meter? It's hovering between a 0.5 to 1. We're both sore - in a good way - from the extended workout, and some injuries are yet to heal properly. Case in point: Check out my funny-shade-of-green/purple knees...
After eating our way through the wee hours of 2006 at our friend's place with the rest of the Singaporean/Malaysian gang here... here's a photo at the party... (NB: there was Sarawak Laksa, Chye Tow Kuay, pork ball congee, chee kuay, fried springrolls, AND ice kachang... yes, we ate many helpings.)
We decided to burn off some of the calories with a session of snowboarding on the very first day of the new year... plus, we thought, might as well take advantage of the small snow fall Rochester managed to get.
And I'm glad to report that both of us are totally stoked and chuffed at our session yesterday - it went really well. We can link our turns now and can control at least how fast/slow we wanna go and the direction! Hahhaha. Pretty important if we want to go down slopes.
Plus! This is our sixth and longest run! Previously, we were either too pooped or too injured to continue after one hour, but this time we went for three hours.
So as you can tell, it's quite a nice jump in pace and relative skill. We can finally see light at the end of this learning curve tunnel!
These are our lovely boards. As promised, a pix of them - and isn't Gene's horribly garang? There's like this wraith on it. Very cool. Mine is, like I said, in the Singaporean National colours. Hahhaha.
Will buy an outfit to match the board when I finally manage to get down the slopes with some kind of style. Hahahahha.
This is Steeplechase. Nice ah? It's the nearest skiing slope to Rochester - approx 15 minutes away.
Me taking a Diet Coke break... phew... yes, the Ford Explorer, even though it has given us quite a bit of grief in the last few months, has come into its own: it can bash through snow and gravel AND hold those boards/boots/paraphernalia AND give us a perch to have a break too.
Me, and my beaaauuuttiifoool board: very happy after great run on the slopes. Will I say the same after I crash hard again, I wonder?
Oh, remember our little injury meter? It's hovering between a 0.5 to 1. We're both sore - in a good way - from the extended workout, and some injuries are yet to heal properly. Case in point: Check out my funny-shade-of-green/purple knees...
no pain no gain!
glad to see you're getting the most out of all that snow. if only we weren't so ah-gong/ah-mah-style scared of the cold... :p
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