was at the port today. hot, humid, but windy. the wind's better in the day. at night, it gets cloudy, making it a very dreamy scene. then the lights come on in the buildings faraway, on the structures in the sea, on the decks of boats as the sky turns from blue to grey, and the clouds become gloomy in the silhouettes of their day-selves.
this gloom and the outline the lights create are oddly still and romantic. and u see the water swirl below you. it doesnt look deep. you feel like you could step into it and walk towards the lights in the sea.
they day self and the night self are always remarkably different.
very tired. waiting for friday. then i shd be able to have a short break before i fly. hope i can play on friday too. zz. everything's so last minute.
i was feeling really tired after church today, got home after the usual jb trip, and went to nap for 2 hours, waking up at almost 8pm for dinner, and to watch the f1 race.
leaders event tonight.. so decided to have supper with gerald and co. 11 days. *shakes head* starting to get just a bit.. i dont know. anxious? frantic? ------------------------
i realised that i was really naive about motorcycles until i got this one. i thought that a sportsbike was the way to go if i wanted speed. well i was wrong. cos i'm cornering faster and lower with this one, grazing my footrest againt the road if i'm not careful. recently on the way to woodlands polyclinic i dived into the left-hand corner and grazed the left footrest, causing it to fold in and throw up my slipper, which landed a couple of feet behind me after doing some aerial acrobatics of is own. and that was when i realised that cornering is not wholly about the bike. true, the tyre profile matters( mine presently is supposed to be terrible for fast corners), but the skill(line, angle, accelerating and braking etc) and guts do matter.
today on my way from my "home" camp back to another camp, i "raced" an RGSX. you see neo tiew road has a couple of lanes that can bring you out to kranji road and the road that will lead you to sungei buloh.so after the T junction out of my camp i took the lead. it was at the apex of the slope that he overtook me, and he chose to take lane 2. i crested to the next apex and took lane 3( my favourite) because the nature of the lane allows one to travel round the bends really fast by merely taking a good line across it. lane 2 however is a great for bikes/vehicles with a fast pickup cos most of it is straight, before u meet a hump and a right turn prior to exiting kranji road. heart-thumping, i glanced to my right as i exited lane 3, to see (with glee) that he was behind me- i didnt expect to see him behind me, him being a big bike and all, and i glanced at my mirrors to confirm that it was indeed him. needless to say, he caught up( he's such a big bike). and pulled away on the long stretch of kranji road, before he got hampered by a car, allowing me to catch up. then came the hump at the reservoir, him probably being unfamiliar and taking it too slowly: i took the lead again. again, a couple of seconds later, he was pulling alongside me and overtook me again at the long stretch along the reservoir. but the next traffic light saved me again, and i regained the lead cos i knew the timing of tha traffic light and stayed moving on my bike long enough to wait out the green light, giving me the faster pickup. and he overtook me again, but finally we reached the same camp together- a coincidence, because i dont know who he is. but i learnt a couple of things from that little trip: 1)singapore really has a lot of traffic lights. 2)you dont need a fast bike to be fast. it's knowing the environment you have to "race/ ride" in that makes the difference. 3) there's really enough speed on any bike for all new riders- you DONT have to get a sports bike. it's not as fuel efficient as road bikes are anyway. so what if you have a top speed of 250kph on ur sportsbike, useable speed for the road say is 100, most bikes can touch that. and this is where the engine displacement of a motorcycle matters less. the smaller bike would just lose to the larger one in terms of straight line speed, when the power difference due to acceleration is prominent. for corners, that case is definitely not true, because how low u need to go and fast depends on the individual's guts and timing. and that's where the small and lighter bikes win.
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wow. long post. havent written so long in ages. kinda tired, reached church just in time to play too. zz... my brain's shutting down soon.
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i found (finally) a game on fb that i like, its called street racing or sth.. kinda addictive. haha. ( "i read books.....she's got one too" )
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and i hate packing. havent finished yet. guess i gotta go back on wed tho i'm on leave to turn in my field pack. i hope it wont be too late. all thanks to the new fb game, and my dad for intruding in juat now to have another debate with me about the note on the piano relative to a certain note of hey jude. took up like 2 hours, and i wanted to msn instead. zz anyway. --------------
changed aus dollars today.. 1k sing gets u abt 800 aus. very expensive. yet the rate's kinda lower today cos of currency fluctuation.. 1.23.. last week i saw 1.27.. so i guess its a good thing i changed today. and it reminds me that i'm flying off very soon.
was talking to andrew earlier.. hope to meet up with the gang before i fly..
oh man oh man..
hopefully next tues night..
why must i be so busy with camp stuff now?
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had a musical idea couple of hours back. was about to record it down..but gave up. dropout.. for some reason my com can only process and record without me running other processes on it. or the audio will dropout or "hang" and i had youtube, msn and a movie on. anway, i cant remember it now =/
i think i made someone angry today, and in the process must have pissed off a lot of people. not gonna defend myself here. sorry dude. hope you'll accept my apology.
today, was one of the best sundays ive had in a long time. i wont find words to describe it. because quite simply, words here will be like trying to draw a circle with a series of squares. it may come close, but it'll never be true to what it's meant to be.
the days roll up and peel away the pages are blowing by 26 days and i'll be gazing at another sky on another land while you'll be here and i'll be there
the voices will sing different for wind has many brothers their sisters leave their haunting tunes behind when sand begins to fly and machines' roar takes over i'll listen for the song the sisters leave as they roam and rover.
(waiting for my computer to sort out the music i've recorded into it.)
yay. musical is almost done. my job is almost done.. still apprehensive about that last song. ha. have a feeling it differed from expecations. and how will the audience see it?
well, gonna spend 12 hours in camp tmr. and its sunday. you can imagine how i must feel, when i'd much rather be somewhere else.
12 hours is actually an underestimate, if i include my travelling time to and fro, to be calculative. well why shouldn't i?
haiz.
sunday work. monday also work. reminds me of an song that goes~ monday monday...