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GP Riders Team at OCBC Cycle Singapore 2013

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                               Cyclists lining up - Photo by Russel Wong taken from top of Benjamin Sheares bridge     Many of us from GP Riders were competing in this morning OCBC cycling event in the 'Super Challenge' 61 km category for the first time.  Prior to the event, we had been training quite hard together.  We did the 40 km challenge in previous years and this year, we upped the challenge by competing in the 'Super Challenge' category.  Those competing in the 61 km category were, Ernest, Richard Tan, Tomas, Peter, Bernard, Richard Foo, William, Bernard, Gavin, Poh Kuan (the lone lady in our group), Brian (who replaced Steve who is still recovering from the fall at the last NTU ride) and me.  My buddy, Francis Higgins was the only one from our group in the 40 km 'Challenge' category.                                                              At the start point with my gang Some of us had arranged to meet up at Aranda Country Club and elsewh

Desperate Call For Help

It is about an old friend, a secondary school classmate whom I have lost contact for some years or I should say I have deliberately deleted his contact following an event that has upset me till today.  In fact he lives very near where I live.  It is still the same old place going back in the late seventies when we were in secondary school, ya that long.  I did see him on few occasions around the neighbourhood but each time, I pretended not to see him.  Some may say, hey...he is an old friend after all, no harm to even say 'hello' to each other and for that, I have to admit I have been quite petty.  I won't give his real name for obvious reasons and I shall call him, D then. D has always been very ambitious, not the studious type and owing to his 'not that bad' family background, he has had many opportunities than most of us.  He can afford to fail his exam, re-take and re-take again.  He even managed to study abroad for some years while most of my classmates incl