The end of 2007. Top 10 Best and Worst of for me.

Well. It's the end of a very good year I would say. Lots of good things happening. Plenty of shitty ones as well but I guess those are the kind of things we don't wanna talk about. Let's get down to cool and not so cool things this year. They are in no particular order of coolness/uncoolness. Here goes.

Best of~
1) My new bike ( I've been yearning for a fixie for almost 2yrs!)
2) Lots of rock/metal acts making us bang our heads in our tiny island (slayer, dream theatre, Black sabbath etc....)
3) So many nice caps released and actually earning enough income to buy new caps all the time!
4) Finding a job I truly enjoy doing ( I love my kids! )
5) Behemoth album "apostasy"
6) Fixed bikes actually starting to filter into the local riding community
7) Many cool Super Mario figures from Japan released
8) Oakley Radars
9) Jordan 3 & 5 retro releases
10) Getting my first proper bonus pay!

Worst of~
1) Nightwish with thier new female vocalist
2) Prices of everything going up significantly
3) Terrorist still killing the shit out of themselves and everyone
4) Headporter bags are so expensive
5) Some of my sneakers actually died a 'foam' death
6) Smelly New Era's ( how to keep them fresh?!? )
7) So many cool concept movie's turned out gay ( I Am Legend etc... )
8) Lots of puntures on my tires ( my record was 4 in a week, that's $22 ppl.... )
9) Students who dun give a damn about anything ( now I know what it's like... )
10) No more luncheon meat!

And here is a pic of my new ride. Finally all tweaked and dressed up and ready to ride into the new year!
Many miles shall be clocked on this beauty!

Merry Xmas Everyone!

It has been a mad busy week for me. Lots of meeting friends. Chilling. Presents. And the works.
Won't be updating till Xmas is over. Then it's back to school again! I miss my kids already!

Lots of stuff to blog about. Spinworkx and thier new Yoyo store front in Suntec city, my cool xmas gifts, from friends and from myself. But I guess I won't have much time to post about them. Only till Xmas is over. Because of this! It's finally here! I'm gonna ride my guts out!

This is bad...

Once again. FTW.
My frame will only arrive next week. I can never get my bike up in time to ride the holidays.
THIS IS BULLSHIT.

Millenia Walk.

Alternative rescue.

Looks like I can get my orange bike setup after all. My Local Bike store. Yes. Tanjong Rhu Bikes. Have found an alternative pair of track hubs in black for me to lace my Deep V's to. Japanese Dia-compe Gran Compe track hubs.
It was just a scare after all..... Phew!
Bike' gonna be up by next wednesday. At least that's what was claimed! (it better be!!!)

Things can't get any worse can they?

As you all know. My track frame has been delayed. Which means I do not know if I will get my new bike tomorrow. Next week. Before xmas. Or even next year. My bike shop simply says they are shipping out soon. I don't have exact dates. And miraculously for a fussy and "super need to have things planned" kind of guy I sort of accepted that and just waited for good news. Rather than work with a date like I always prefer.

That aside. I got a PM from my bike shop tonite. I was so hoping it was a message telling me either A) my bike is finally here. Or B) the US side has finally got its order back on and have shipped it over. But to my horror. It was a message telling me that Velocity was out of rear hubs! WTF*ckinF*ck. I couldn't even get my orange wheelset!

So he offered me a gold wheelset. Seriously I don't know how I can live with 'bling' on my bike. GOLDEN WHEELS?!?!?

After searching online for bike in that color config. I thought it was not that bad after all. (ok I'm getting desperate) But seriously. I was also in a dilemma after seeing alot of 'ugly' bikes with orange wheels..... The gold seemed like a classy and slightly subtle alternative to the garish orange I originally planned for.

I'm confused. This whole bike is getting more and more problematic by the day. Pls people. Help me out here. Any feedback on the gold wheels versus the orange wheels would be greatly appreciated.

Here's a pic of a gold wheelset config. Mine will look almost the same if I get the golden wheelset.....

Sometimes not having is better than trying too hard.

When Nightwish announced the "sacking" of Tarja Turunen about 2 yrs ago I was happy. But also quite shocked at the same time. Why? Because I know that the female vocals 'sort of' single handedly brought the band to fame. I mean come on. How many really cool metal bands have good looking. Great singing female leads in them that actually sound good? Arch enemy aside. They are in a class of thier own. But with all due respect Tarja Turunen did do shitloads for the band. The music was good no doubt. I loved it. Her singing was good too. But i really grew onto the nightwish sound. Minus the banshee. As I listened on. I wished that Tarja Turunen would just stop singing for them. There are little parts in some songs with the male singing. It was great! And when they finally kicked her out of the band. I was like. "HELL YEAH!"
I though they were gonna put the past behind them and finally step out of the shadows of a banshee fronting the band. Make some real cool music and put some "BALLS" (pun intended), back into an otherwise great sounding band.
Then came the bombshell! They were once again auditioning for Tarja Turunen's replacement! I mean DAMN! They kicked off a great female vocalist. And are looking for another one? What the hell was going on.....
So fast forward a year plus till today. When the new album "Dark Passion Play" http://www.nightwish.com was released, I picked up a copy in HMV and went straight to the testing booth. Well. To cut short the long story. I stopped at the 3rd track. Sometimes trying too hard kicks you back in the face. I never heard worse singing.....

Pimp garage warehouse sale.

Went to the pimp garage warehouse sale last friday. http://www.PimpGarage.com
Hoped to pick up some cheap parts. But unfortunately could get nothing as they were totally only selling stuff for cruiser and chopper bikes. Not my kind of riding. It was a nice trip though. Had a nice talk with the owners of this daring venture. A German couple living in Singapore. Unfortunately I guess the market for Singapore is not strong enough to sustain a bike shop dealing only in these kinda bikes. Honestly speaking..... How many HDB flats can truly accomadate such a large bike without the rest of the family members "kap pei kao bu-ing" (making noise)?
I did however pick up a few stuff though! Super cheap too! A park tools floor pump for only SGD20! Madness! This shit retails for at least SGD50-70 normally! And also to show love I got a Pimp Garage tee. And for the metal in me some Iron cross valve caps!

Some pics of the D&D

Went back to school today. Got some pics from the photographer who covered the event.
Some random whacky shit that went down.

So nice.

Perfection. Pure perfection.

This is what happens when something perfect happens. Omg. I'm drooling.....

*pic taken off fixed gear gallery

I can't bloody wait!

This is how my new bike will roughly look like. Same rims and frames. I bet mine will look much more ace though.
Come on shipping! Get my bike over to singapore ASAf*ckinP!!!

*pic taken off fixed gear gallery

Yay? Maybe abit.

Email came to my local bike shop. Stock is in for my new bike. And they are gonna ship it out soon. Let's hope it comes in by end of next week. Pray for me people.

So many things happening. I'm finally tired.

Alot have happened in this past week. Some cool. Some not so cool. But overall has been a tiring (because I've been cycling like everyday) and crazy week. I've gotten a digital cam. Courtesy of Joclyn's brother, whos name is also Melvin. Thanks so much. I can finally take pics mania again. I'm still lame at taking good shots. Although the camera seems really good. But these will do for now. Gonna be having lots of pics up in the future. Sometimes, being alone can be cool too. I love riding with no destination. No one to think about. No person to go meet. And sometimes unexpected company can be refreshing as well. Cheers everyone. (p.s Fel. All those pics of food are not an indication of what I ate! I have been eating alot less and sticking to our rules. The Tanjong Rhu pao is not mine! The only sin was the steamboat..... sorry!)

Happy. Just feel better than I have for a long time.

Found out that the frame is indeed out of stock. And I got info direct from the bike company that they shud have stock in 2 weeks. At least I have a time frame to work with.

And. I had a nice time out today! Been awhile since I felt so happy.

I am super pissed and angry! FTW!!!!

Remember I ordered a bike with my local bike shop and put down half the amount for it. 2 f*cking weeks ago? I am supposed to get the bike anytime now. And I have been waiting with high hopes. Guess what I was just informed about? And I had to f*cking pester the bike shop before I got this info! I dun want to put this shop down because I respect the guy running it and his passion for bikes I love. But this is totally unacceptable! Why do I have to pester him about info every damn week before I finally know that its not available!!!!

Thank you God for the suffering.

I have made up my mind on a very important part of my life. And I shall leave everything to the hands of time and fate to decide what the future has in store for us both. I have tried very hard. And I know she has as well. But I guess it's not enough to keep me trying anymore. I'm worn out. I tried. And I'm tired. I really did. But I honestly can't see anywhere else we can be heading to anymore. I felt a part of me die this past week. And people around. Especially her. Can feel that I've been acting strangely. Even I feel that I'm going off track. I have finally let go. And I can feel it.
As I stood today in Takashimaya watching the seseme street live performance. I listened to the childish songs and dance by the puppets. I love cookie monster. I was fixed on him all the time. I absorbed all the energy in from the show. I have not felt so free, so light and so happy before in a very long time. I actually could feel tears storing up in my eyes. And I had to wipe them before they poured out....

Thank you very much.

It's not often people give me things. And more so when they have to actually get down to making it for me. I can barely use all my fingers from one hand. Every little detail on your muffins have been taken notice of. Even the stains on the side of the boxes are appreciated. And to top it all off. I get bonus artwork!!! And yes. We are going on a plan. And it has already begun....

Overdue Punggol Bike Race

This event happened last sunday. Alot of shit was raging through my head the past week. On top of that I tried once during the week but blogspot doesn't seem able to process my pics. Anyway. Here I go again. Enjoy the pics. Although most of you reading my blog don't really give two hoots about cycling. Sigh....

Donuts=Metal

My first time actually taking away (tapow) donuts. ( I've never held donuts in my hands for longer than 3mins before!! )
For the nice people in my old workplace. And what do I learn? Donuts taste like shit when held in your hands longer than 3mins. ( That's right. Do them a favour and eat them all! ) And cheese still tatse like frog's penis no matter what you put it on.



The only way to eat it. Fresh from the grave. Thanks "ang moh" girl for actually making me go queue for donuts. Having fresh donuts with me. And letting me know how frog's penis taste like. ( I'm sure you enjoy it alot. But no thanks. )