Thursday, December 13, 2018

The Meeting of Legends

After a longer than necessary hiatus, some members of the Ntu Vespa Club Class of 2004 decided to have an impromptu meeting to reminisce the old times. This time, it's at one of the eateries at Jalan Kayu. After exchanging stories of how they're now on the brink of diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure, they said "eff this" and dug into some crispy deep fried chicken wings and good ol' burgers and fries. Ash managed to charm his way into getting a free chai latte from the waiter in a songkok. They managed to stay long enough to get free water refills and avoided further health risk by not ordering dessert. Here are some photos from the meet-up.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Vivo Vespa 2009

Hi guys!

Vivo Vespa is back! Remember the kampung theme last year? This time round it's gonna be 'Concrete Jungle' edition.

Date: 20 Dec 09
Venue: Wallich Street Public Carpark
Time: 9am
Registration fee: S$8 (member) / S$12 (non-member)
Registration Closing Date: 10 Dec 09

More details available at www.vespaclub.sg

Let me know if you're keen. We could submit a group registration. =)

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Galley by the Straits + Bottle Tree Night

To celebrate Maz’s belated birthday, we met up for dinner last Friday at an interesting location – SAF Yacht Club off Sembawang.

The restaurant is sea-facing, a stone throw away is our northern neighbours. As i did not bring my tripod along, i did not capture any proper night shot, hence will not bother with posting the lousy pictures up. But you can take a look at their website here.

Galley by the Straits, hidden behind lines and lines of yachts.

The restaurant warm orange lightings was made warmer by their in-house singer who made our night a lot more ‘lively’. So much so that we have to speak at the top of our voices, falling short of shouting.

Tough choice making our selection

The talented Ang Moh who kept singing for 80% of the time we were there, even entertaining diners song requests. Makes us wonder what songs he can’t play/sing. We decided not to quiz him with tough newly released songs…

The volume was loud lah…

Having our appetisers while waiting for the arrival of Old Mother – Huifen. Stomachs already starting their orchestra…

Luckily she arrived when we were almost done with our starters. It was another long wait before our dishes were served as (according to the waitress) there was only 2 chefs preparing western food (which most of us order), hence the torture.

After dinner, we pondered a while on where to head to next before Ash suggested Bottle Tree Village where we could do some prawn-ing. Been a long while since we did our convoys.

Riding into the long night

It’s different when you ride together.

Shortly after one wrong turn, we made our way into the Bottle Tree Village, where Ash was fascinated by the ancient weighing machine.

“Can i have a volunteer please?”

We are to keep Huifen’s weight a secret, luckily its within the weighing machine’s limit of 500kg.

Seeing the mini-prawning crowd, we did the next most logical thing…

Presenting… Zech the Fisherman.

Starting with 2 rods for 1hr, we eventually extended it to 2.5hrs due to the overwhelming excitement of catching the prawns. And also a friendly rivalry from the prawning teams of NIE – MAE – NBS.

Maz amazed everyone by getting a catch within 2 minutes of lowering his rod. Kampung power lah!

The momentum sort of slowed a little, before their quick change of rod, and the MAE boys are back in business.

Huda is just getting started with her prawning spree, you should have seen how she man-handled (or lady-handled) our prawns.

No Mercy!

The crowded pool. Makes us wonder if there were enough prawns for everyone. Somehow our catch always look smaller than those that we caught opposite us.

Nonetheless, patience is the way to go.

Our trophies for the night being prep for our dinner table. Not the prettiest of sight.

Catching the prawns with their bare-hands seems harder than using the rod.

While the boys are busying with getting the prawns onto the stick, the ladies are manning our grill… while I’m just snapping pictures.

A nice orange glow from our tasty prawns

While most of us would be happy with our prawns cooked, Ash has other ideas. He decided to have it raw, as fresh as it could be.

As he demonstrated how it should be eaten, we were all busy taking pictures & videos of his Bear Grylls act.

Savage Ash

Just for Ash: Next time, try to have your prawns eaten when they are orange in colour, not grey.

See how nice they look!

Just looking at them makes your mouth waters. Not to mention the slightly charred smell.

The Mae Boys with their big prawns

Digging in our 14 cooked prawns. Good supper after a looooooong night.

And a parting shot before we bid farewell to Bottle Tree Village…

For more pictures, do check this out.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Club Meet

Greetings!

Hope you're all satisfied and happy with your exam results. It's been a long time since we had an official club meet. Here's something totally different from our usual prata or teh meets at ktm.

Date: 29 May
Time: 6.45pm
Where to: Galley by the Straits
Meeting point: Pavement of Woodlands Civic Centre (we'll ride to the restaurant together)

Thanks to Ash for this wonderful suggestion. It's waterfront dining man. Check the restaurant out at http://www.galleysgourmet.com/ Sorry for the last minute notification. Hope to see you there!

Friday, April 24, 2009

Meeting up

blogging live @ brotzeit vivo.

For all those that missed out on today's meet. Here's 2 drunkards saying hi!

Sunday, March 08, 2009

Singapore Entertainment Awards

NTU Vespa Club was there to grace the event by contributing our Vespas for the opening red carpet ceremony, allowing our scooters to bask in the 5minutes of fame. Celebrities that we came in close contact with includes Zuo Guang Ping,  Wu Jia Hui, Energy & Xiao Zhu (Luo Zhi Xiang).

Some photos as evidence:

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For more coverage of the event, do check here.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Maz's Clone


saw this similar scoot online.

Maz, your alter ego ah?

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Happy Lunar New Year

Here's wishing everyone a prosperous Lunar New Year!

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

R.U.N. 3 - Port Dickson

This is not going to be an easy post, due to the overwhelming load of pictures (click here to see the whole album) but i shall try my best to sum up the whole trip.

As per schedule, the guys and girls arrived at KTM before the stipulated time, probably too excited about the trip... i know Huifen is. Jumping up and down like a 6 year-old who has gotten her new toy.We left KTM after our caffeine fix and headed for the 2nd link under the midnight skies. The long stretch of AYE we travelled on will soon seem like peanuts compared to the 264km of North South Highway that we are going to embark on.

We cleared the causeway and were soon at the first pump at Gelang Patah at about 12.30mn or so. Checking and making sure all our tyres are of the suitable pressure before setting off, during which we discovered some really powerful tyres.
Cheng Yang finding the nipple
All speckys except Weixiong
About an hour later, we reached our first R&R checkpoint to rest our butt from the vibrating uzap-like machines. Topped ourselves with some fingerfood and more caffeine before refueling our scooters.
Maz looking soooooooooo happy
Ya, we know you're eating toast
Some friendly policemen dropped by to say hi to us too

We attacked the NS highway soon after, bracing ourselves for the cold dark night, sadly no pictures of us while riding (obviously) and another hour or so later, we hit our next R&R checkpoint with the same routine. Just that this time round, Maz wanted a quick change of his coil so that his Proma pipe's performance is not hindered.
Maz, the man, in full concentration
Leaving Huisi thinking: "Wah, wtf is Maz doing?"
While Jay Chou decided to catch a wink...

A small hiccup as we were about to exit the Highway for our last pitstop as Cy's scoot came to a halt with an empty tank due to a leak somewhere. So Maz and I kick-push the Vespa into the petrol kiosk, which thankfully wasn't too far away... otherwise we'd end up with elephant leg each.

Our last pump before heading off the highway and into the winding trunk roads of Port Dickson. Finally, we are almost there. Almost. As day breaks, we found ourselves in unfamiliar territory, whipping out our map to reconfirm our position as well as to keep the raincoat away.
Yes, it started to rain quite heavily when we were a couple of kilometers away from PD.

Here we are at some eatery for our breakfast while waiting for the kind uncle to deliver the keys to our apartment to us as well as to lead us into our accommodation. By the way, it's raining while we ate.
Prata galore~!

We are not the tidy sort, apparently. Tired from the long night ride, extending from night to dawn.
Maz doing some yoga
A peek into the apartment. There's satellite tv!
3 bedrooms with 1 double bed each
The view from our porch is not that impressive in any way
Maz determined to find the source of the leak. Which he did eventually. Kudos to him, wouldn't know what to do without him. Our travelling mechanic, lead rider, navigator, translator and photographer. While he was out there troubleshooting, the rest of us took turns to shower, not so friend uh? We support you spiritually lah~
Don't worry, we won't follow you in there.

We took our well-deserved nap (about 2hrs?) just to recharge some of our juice before we go check out the beach & lighthouse in the afternoon. It had been a long day for most of us, having to work/go school earlier on.Here we are climbing the slope leading to the lighthouse, waiting to be mesmerised by the landscape ahead (or rather seascape).
The lighthouse!
Maz:" Guys, try to look natural for the picture"
The view that took our breath away, a sure death plunge lies just ahead.

The climb up to the lighthouse took its toll on our stomachs, the sweet aroma of food cooking away in the distance did no help to fight off our hunger pangs so we headed for the Telok Kemang beach for foodie.
Classic shot of WeixiongThey still serve old school glass bottled soft drinks!And for Maz, no burger will ever taste better than those by BurGer
And a little more of slacking by the beach, we head for another location nearby for some seafood dinner which was marred by the stingray (which stinks of ammonia) and the price.
That's the stinky stingray in the foreground, which we later asked for a replacement with a seabass as it was really unbearable. It's like eating in a toilet. Where got appetite!?

We got some tidbits after dinner to idle the rest of the night away in our comfy little house, but before we slack our lives away. We did what all Vespa lovers would do... shower them with TLC.
got free water leh!*ting* shiny shiny
Whatever Maz is doing, it's R21.
The rest of the night was spent in front of the TV watching and debating about Memoirs of a Geisha, in particular, the role of a Geisha. After which, it was light-hearted annimation Shrek 3 to entertain the kid in all of us... then slowly, one by one, we felt the bed bug... We had to rest early as we are checking out at 10am the next day. A very tight schedule.

So the journey back begins, basically revisiting the same spots we went to during the night journey but now with better vision and more vehicles on the road. AND, A&W is open. So we get to lunch in there. They really should consider returning to Singapore, a lot of us still has a sense of nostalgia for them.
The curly friesand the float.

Another R&R stop, another drink, toilet, and 'fresh air'... and we are off.
Minor stuff. Wire got loose.But it's cool to stop my bike somewhere along the NS highway that stretches into the horizon

Our final makan place and pump before heading back to familiar ground. Some satays and drinks to end our Malaysian leg of the ride.
The 3rd R.U.N. was accomplished safely and with lotsa fun... but i have to say it really tested our endurance (or rather patience). A slow ride is not something everyone can tahan, but i'm proud we all did it. They say that it's the journey, not the destination that matters. It's as true as it can be for this R.U.N.!

Are you ready for R.U.N.4?