Sun, sand, sea and the SATan

Today I woke up and I had a red spot on my nose.
Despite having a red spot on my nose, despite not being a beach person and despite only riding my motorbike once this weekend, I went to Siloso beach with my friends G.E.M.S.
I didn’t being my motorbike cause my parents objected, they said it was too dangerous for me to ride there at my current skill level.
Turns out that traffic along the route was rather light, nothing I couldn’t handle.
However, it was drizzling and I don’t have any rain gear so I’d probably get pretty wet, I’d probably get lost cause I didn’t know the way there, and my friend brought wine so if I rode the bike there I wouldn’t be able to drink. ;p

My friend drank the wine and she was like “Bleaugh”.
My other friend drank the wine and was also like “Bleaugh”.
I drank the wine and said, “Not that bad what, but come to think of it, it does taste pretty much like vinegar”.
I mean, usually drinks with alcohol will have a kind of bitter taste to it. This one was totally sour.
Then my friend revealed that she had taken it from her aunt’s house and goodness knows how long her aunt had kept that thing.
So she drank the whole bottle and then proceeded to get drunk and couldn’t stop giggling.

Couldn’t help thinking that the beach seemed very claustrophobic and what we saw of the attractions looked very outdated and sad. Sentosa really cannot make it.
Well, guess we have to wait and see what happens when the casino comes up.

There were two girls on the picnic mat behind us and they fell asleep.
Then along came a group of around 5 guys with cameras and they came right up to the sleeping girls and started taking photos of them.
One of them pointed his camera at one of my friends but I drew her attention to it. I don’t know if he succeeded in taking that photo though.
Girls, be careful when you sleep at the beach, because sometimes groups of pervert guys will go around taking pictures of you.

I had great fun with my camera, sitting around and being a camera pervert (but only taking photos of my friends la)
Unfortunately, now the lens has been scratched in yet another place.
Doesn’t seem to affect the photo taking and auto focusing though.

Anyway,
Faluine, thanks for the furry belt!

Ride report for Saturday

Went for my first morning ride today, and it felt just like the old days at SSDC when I went for road lesson 6, which is about 1 year ago already… sigh.

Only this time I was by myself and I was considerably less kancheong (nervous), but just like the old days, I made the same kind of mistakes e.g. not using much engine brake to stop, accidently getting neutral at a traffic light, making a loud ‘rrrrr’ sound trying to move off, then realising my gear is in neutral 😡
And I even beat a red light, okay I didn’t exactly beat it, I sped through it although it was orange, and as I was almost through it turned red, which sounds pretty okay but the reason I did that was cause I couldn’t stop in time ahahahah.

I chose a pretty good time to go out on the road, so the traffic was pretty light and I didn’t have much trouble. But all through the ride, I had this feeling that if anything unexpected were to crop up, I wouldn’t be able to handle it. It was a pretty unsettling feeling.

And some time in the evening, I realised that I had commited a terrible sin: I had been riding with the choke open for the entire ride!
Ack!
Now I’m terrified that the next time I try to start it, it won’t be able to start.
I smsed my friend for help and he consoled me by saying, “Don’t worry, your bike is strong”
Hopefully, my bike will be stronger than the results of my stupidity.

Verdict: FAIL