OPA Belimbing Ride

This year's OPA Day falls on 21 May 2006, slightly earlier than the past years. As usual, I would not want to miss the opportunity to visit my alma mater, the Royal Military College in Sungei Besi. We normally had agame carnival between the Old Putera and Present Putera in various games like football, rugby, hockey, volleyball, tennis, takraw, basketball, etc .... to win the Piala Radzi (named after Dato' Radzi Sheikh Ahmad...of course an Old Putera).

This year I reached RMC at 8.15 am to take part in the MTB (mountain bike) Cross Country a.k.a.Belimbing Ride, together with the Present Puteras. The route started from the college padang to the golf course, then up to the Boys' Wing and then into the infamous jungle track that we used to sneak out to Balakong.... either to get the Tong Fong bus to KL or to buy cigarettes , passing thru the Belimbing plantation ( heyyyy...i didn't see any belimbing laaaa).

There were around 15 PPs and more than 10 OPs took part in the MTB Cross Country, led by OP Azudin (an ex-battle commander who turned into a reborned-cyclist). The oldest participant was OP Frank who is already 65 (that's what people told me).

MTB Cross Country Participants


RMC Golf Club


Belimbing Plantation


Dangerous descend from Boys' Wing to RMC Golf Club


GPS Log


Track Log from Google Earth