Friday, May 26, 2006

My first crash

A beautiful day for another long distance cycling today. Destination Sentosa Island, at first i think to myself, this is going to be a long ride, boy was i wrong instead it's rather more bumpier then going to East Coast park. The traffic is much more challenging then i though. My first fear was cycling through Orchard Road, man, today's drivers, what happen to them man, in my own lane, the space is so big and not a single car and yet there will still a naughty driver horned at you and even look at you, what did i do? Well, i just stick to the road rules and paddle on to my destination.

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A few climbing up of slope to conquer, Chinatown is next. Another messy traffic to look out for. When i was about ten minutes away from the island, where i still need to paddle hard for this rather long slope heading towards Church of St Teresa along Kampong Bahru Road, i stop by a bus stop rest my pity stressful legs for awhile.

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When I'm done, as always i will look out for in coming vehicles, clear to go, i paddle hard and fast and didn't realized that I'm moving too fast towards the side walk, i keep thinking that i can squeeze or avoid it but i was wrong, my miss judgment leaded me into becoming Superman. My paddle hit real hard on the side pavement, i flew like about one meter away from my bike, saw a pretty fast moving car coming towards me, something just tells me to roll right now! I'd managed to dodged the fast moving vehicle just in time. Pick myself up. See if there is anything broken on myself and of cause the bike too, fortunately not a scratch accept for my right knee with a minor scratch. And what do you know, my Hasa cheap bike, i don't see any damage at all accept a few torn off paint job on the bike, also when i landed onto the ground i felt my head bumped, and later also didn't even see a scratch on my MET helmet, wicked!

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For awhile, i was worried about my bike too. So i carry on to my Destination, nothing still can stop me, for now. Finally i was at the entrance to the island and also almost miss the turn. Anyhow, paid for the entrance fee $2/- to the island, my first though was to find a place to pit stop for some cool refreshing drinks. When i was finally there, i too didn't take any photos as almost everywhere are upgrading or doing construction, so instead i put up with some of my previous photos when i was there just about four months back.

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After enjoyed enough of my Snapple drink, it's time to head home for the sky is rather dark, looks like it's going to rain. Well another about 10km of ride home and all the messy traffics coming ahead of me soon, well wish me luck.

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