nai's rhetoric

the jounrney: tube ride to hatton cross which is basically at heathrow airport and a good 43 min tube ride away. transfer to coach pickup which was supposed to come from birmingham but came from plymouth instead. coach coach coached all the way to dover. insert traffic jam. dover transfer to ferry. drifted for 1 half hours. continue coaching coaching coaching down to lyon where we got stuck in a jam because of a horrific accident on the motorway. i tell you, accident in ang moh country different from accident from singapore one. the 2 cars were basically smashed to shit and one of the cars were balancing on the railing which was about half a metre from a vertical drop to the valley down below. needless to say, super jam. so coach coach coach until this small little town called Bourg Saint Maurice. Transfer to a service bus which took us up the mountain another 45 min ride. All the while i was gushing like a fucking tourist an idiot as we approached the snow capped mountain. en route, we saw this huge dam with a have frozen lake beside it. really cool. so the fuckin french coach driver drops us at the wrong place and we had to hike it all the way to our little chalet apartment.


the view from outside

total time eclipsed: 22 hours.
time taken for rowan and chris to get there in another coach: about 15 hours
can anyone say deep vein thrombosis?

nevertheless i was pysched. small time boy from singapore finally seeing some proper snow. and if you've been day dreaming about snowboarding as long as i have. its like waking up to find sucking on your ****. but i digress.

day1: rowan volunteered to give me and chris some lessons. he's the IC of all the clubs and societies at my university and hes also been snowboarding for 9 years. free tuition! the night before he asked if i was going to take lessons. to which i replied: nah, i wakeboard in singapore and i'll try to wing it. he practically laughed his head off. i can see why.
SNOWBOARD DOES NOT EQUAL LESS THAN TO WAKEBOARD. The mechanics is just totally different. no fins, no flat smooth water, no skiiers zig zagging all over the fucking place, no boat man for you to shout: oi too fast cheebye!!!. its just you yourself, your heavy board and the slope. think newtons law of gravitation.
once the basic teaching is done, it pretty comes down to this: balls. do you have the balls to do it or not. some might dispute the reason why our chinese girls go after ang moh guys is because they have a bigger dick and bigger balls. (if they are living and working in singapore, they are also most likely to be expats which will almost certainly have a bigger wallet. that one i suck thumb lan lan pcc) so, after approximately 3 hours of abusing my body it clicked. everything just clicked.
you see, the whole motion of snowboarding is counter intuitive. in order for you to crave the snow swee swee, that is to move from side to side in a graceful manner down the slope, you have to lean your weight over your front foot. but every orifice of your body will be going: NAI WTF ARE YOU DOING? YOU WANT TO DIE ISSIT????? its the most natural body mental reflex reaction. however in order to move, you have to do that. its kinda like dropping down from a vert for your guys who skate or do inline. so fuck it, i threw my weight over the top and took it from there. and lo and behold, insert singapore's newest snowboarder. fuck man i was tearing up the place, throw my weight in front, that takes you down the slope, going too fast, swing your back leg to pivot the direction you are going thus slowing down, rinse and repeat.
before long, i was going down intermediate runs like this



it was good fun, i felt so pro. ahh.. on to the previous subject of angmoh men having dua lan pa. so like chris yah, real nice funny guy whom i got along really well was having trouble with his bindings, his boards and perhaps his confidence to let go and go all out. so by the end of the week he was still having trouble going down novice runs whereas yours truly was zipping down the advanced ones. so dua lan pa? i think not.
-nai dances the funky chicken-

here's a picture of where we had our $S 24 dollar spaghetti's and lasagnas and our $S 6 330ml cokes.



one of things i was really looking forward to was smoking on the mountain. which i duly did. and on the chairlifts which i did. alot. was sitting on my friend snowboard having a fag. ahh. im so cool. lol




alot of funny things happened, i dont got all the pictures, will blog about them when the rest gets back from their easter holiday and we do a photoshare.

im a happy man =)
now for the small matter of my examinations which commence in 2 weeks which i also happen to be quite ill prepared for. ho ho ho.

Nai at 2771 m on the French Alps :)