Tonight with Bin

Recently, I had just bought a M/bike after passing my 2b license.

She is a beautiful 1971 Vespa sprint, with a cream colour body and chocolate colour seat.

I named her Tan Hui Ling, english name Claire Tan.

On the 1st day of riding hui ling out from the motorshop, I was travelling down the busy serangoon 4 or 5 lane rd in the middle of a hot afternoon.

Being the newbie that I am, and not knowing hui ling inside out. I stopped her in the middle lane due to a traffic light, surrounded by cars.

Upon the traffic light turning green, I tried to caress her into motion, however I believe that my caress did not hit the right spot and only manage to anger her by stalling her engine.

In the blink of an eye, beat of a heartbeat, a brilliant idea came to my mind. I turned back to all the cars behind and beside me and I gave the best smile that I could ever give, then I raised up my right hand and wave as if I am Miss Singapore. Subsequently I used my left hand to control hui ling and did a flinkstone, I used my legs to propell hui ling to the side of the road.

As I made eye contact with all the drivers behind/beside me, no one pointed fingers nor horned at me, so who say singaporean is ungraceful.

Disclaimer: I don’t like to drink, smoke, club. Unless it’s a special occasion.

18/11/09, wed, was a special day.

It is the wedding of my pri sch friend, L and sec sch friend, F. CONGRATZ!

As fu is overseas, thus I represent him to the wedding dinner, together with zr, lq, chai, john & gf.

The ambience is warm and nice, makan is sedap, saw some old friends, their parents, time really flies…

As usual, happy occasion calls for some alcohol, and this time, the form comes in red wine and beer.

As usual, I don’t usually drink, but due to the joyous occasion, and some cajoling by the guys, I just politely had some X glass of red wine, X glass of beer in minimum quantity.

As usual, good food goes well with alcohol, so I just politely had some X glass of red wine, X glass of beer in minimum quantity.

As usual, when you see old friends, the tradition is to use your glass of unknown liquid and touch their glass containing alcohol, and both of you gulp down all the content together.

As usual, when the bridegroom and bridge comes to your table, you got to touch glass with them. So it is quite surprising to see the dear bridegroom bringing his brothers of around 10+people to our table and touch glass.

PS: The undermentioned paragraph consist of myth/rumor/hearsay from some unreliable source that told me all these, thus I strongly believe that it is totally fictional and not true. Any similarities to any person/event is totally conincidentally and accidental.

As usual, times fly when people touch glass. I could not quite remember what happen. But according to some unreliable source/rumor. They said that I drank alot, however my face was not flushed. As I was walking out of the wedding ballroom, I was walking around and asking pretty girl to take photos with me, in a not so quiet tone. Then I saw 2 pretty girls and politely requested to take pictures with them, however they thought I was joking. Only when the dear bride joined in, then did we managed to take the picture successfully.

Afterwhich, I walked to the dear bride and bridegroom parents and congratulate them on the joyous occasion and I was escorted out by zr and lq, into a taxi and back to their house.

As the sayings goes, true friend no need alot, a few enough already. Inside the taxi, someone passed me a plastic bag and I buried my head into it and pour out all my feelings.

Upon reaching v/deck of zr house, I scramble out of the taxi and the ingenious me came up with a new game. I told lq to tie up his plastic that contains all his feelings and I tied up mine, on the count of 3, we let it fly loose from our hand. It is truly exciting to watch the plastic bag flying through the air and land on the ground, letting out all our feelings!

Upon reaching the home of zr, I buried my face in the toliet bowl and confess all my feelings to it again before going to sleep.

Jokes aside, I sincerely wishes all the best to L & F. Zhao shen gui zi!

Times flies

Children that were once young

light enough to carry in your arms

cute enough to hold onto your hand while walking

Are now all grown up

Some are attached

Some planning to get married

This is life…

1) I chose to take a train back to Singapore

Went to the train station to buy ticket

Told the uncle to give me seat facing the direction the train is travelling

He said ‘ok ok’

On that day

The seat is facing opposite the direction the train is travelling

Air con spoilt

Door insulating the engine sound to the carriage is also spoilt

Seat smell

2) Before boarding the train

I had teh and prata

Went to the train station

Announcement made in Malay that train will reach in 15min

Suddenly stomache

Go toliet

Do business

Inside the toliet

Hear the sound of the train approaching

Quote what my cousin said:

Days are spent riding around in a semi-auto motorbike

Eating:

1) Wanton Mee

2) Penang Laksa

3) Hokkien Mee

4) Char Kway Tiao

5) Seafood Noodle

6) Curry Noodle

7) Teochew Tau gua
Tng bor Sng

9) Fried Crayfish

10) Braised/Fried Trotter

11) Steam fish/prawn

12) Sambal Kangkong

13) Hebal Duck Noodle

14) Prata

15) Home cooked meal

16) Instant Noodles

17) Alot of tibits

18) Alot of bubble/chewing gum

Etc etc…

Live to eat

Not eat to live

However

Don’t waste food

During the free time, i rediscovered my fondness for reading. Read quite alot of books

Took a night bus from Goldenmile Complex

Watching the scenary of Singapore fly pass me, I can feel my fatigue leaving me and excitement filling up in my heart

Passing the custom was a breeze

Seeing the M’sian driver driving the bus like Initial D on the M’sian highway, with pot holes and inadequate street lights

I need to squint my eyes to make out the road using the bus headlight, kudos to the M’sia driver for their god-like skill. Their skill level rivals those of F1 drivers!

Time flies, we’ve moved from the old wooden house to a terrace house near to the city center

Its near a plantation

Sometime we see monkey climb by

Sometime we see cat stroll by

Sometime we see dog run by

Time seems to creep slowly

The pace is relaxing

If a pen is mightier than a sword

And this sword is a double edged sword

Slash someone with it, it kills

Cut food with it, it feeds

Humans are like nuclear energy

Words that we utter are not merely hot air escaping from our mouth

Words used, with the intention to kill/injured/backstab, are nuclear weapon

Words used, with the intention to heal, are nuclear energy

Use it well, it will benefit you

Misuse it, it might kill someone

Poor use of it, it might kill yourself

The choice of words

The way we phrase it

The situation/atmosphere that we said it

The tone we said it

To whom we said it

The straight to the point

The beat about the bush

The hidden meaning

The roti prata…

But more often than not, words fly out of our mouth in an instant, without much thought

In the end, words end up like nuclear weapon, hurting the other party

The other party not only gets hurt, but also suffer from radiation

He/she might not suffer immediate death, but the side effect of the radiation will not heal

Before speaking, think, feel it with your heart, imagine you are the person listening to it, put yourself in his/her shoe

Cheers

25 tequila

50 sex on the beach

beers

waterfall

volcano

graveyard

misc drinks

1 bruised knee

1 cutted finger

Thank you berry nice!

Day 7

After returning from pattaya, we returned to the same hotel and same room. Saw the same girl-next-door staff again. However it would meant leaving soon.

We meet the group of thai & jap for makan & movie again. Bid farewell, nice fellows!

While at night at the hotel, while channel surfing, suddenly a thai mtv caught my eye, the unknown song is sang by an unknow female singer. The song is quite nice and although we could not understand a word, but I guess it is about a lovelorn couple.

The mtv started by show the couple happily together, suddenly the mother of the guy objected to their relationship due to their status as the guy’s family are rich, whereas the girl’s family are poor, thus they are forced to part.

The girl left with her sickly mother and set up a roadside stall.

Years passed, the guy worked hard and was successfully in his career. Whereas the girl suffered together with her sickly mother.

Fate has it that 1 day, while tending to her stall, the girl saw how successful the guy is. She is happy that he is so successful now and wanted to turn away and leave. However, she accidentally knocked onto a pail. It caught the attention of the guy but as he was a distance away, he could not see clearly.

Years passed, the girl had gotten a better job as an office lady and she bump into the guy at a function. All the long lost feeling seems to come back. However their reunion was witnessed by the guy’s mother who felt that the girl is still not worthy of her son.

The mother paid her a visit at her depilated house, she offered to pay for her sick mother’s medical bills if she leaves her son again. Choosing fillial piety over love, the girl took the money and left with her sick mother.

Admist all these, the guy had actually gotten a PI to check out where the girl stay and paid her a visit, however he was too late as by the time he arrived. There is only the vacated house…

As only me & Ch were still awake, we decided to imagine what the couple dialogue would be in English and we took on the role of the couple and had a fun time dubbing the mtv.

During the singing part, we would try to mimic how the thai song sound like and sang to Sl, who is sleeping. I guess he had a sweet dream due to our melancholy singing.

Next evening, we took a taxi to the airport, there were not much jam, no riot, no protest, no takeover of the airport.

We took the flight back to Singapore.

I had a fun time!

Day 4 to 6

2 hrs bus ride from bangkok to pattaya

Stayed at Sawasdee Sea View Hotel, 302/1 Moo19, Beach Rd, Soi 10

Traffic is not as jialat as bangkok, we rented a bike for transportation

We went for massage at this dragon massage place, the masseur are very experienced.

Tried Thai massage, with the bone breaking experience, shiok!

Tried oil massage, which at times to me are quite ticklish, Shiok!

Same routine, went around look x2, see x2, makan half naked at roadside stall.

There is these particular roadside stall that sells pork/beef ball noodle soup which I find particularly tasty that I had it for 2 night straight for supper.

Makan half naked at roadside kopitiam. Nice food that is easy on the pocket!

Thai ice tea is really 1 of your best companion on a hot day!

Ate by an Atas cakehouse but due to our half naked situation, we were asked to makan outside which is even better for us as we can ogle at girls people. The cake are really nice!

Fufilled 1 of my objective of lying by the beach, sipping coconut juice and doing nothing, eating fried finger food.

Shopped around at the Central Mall, night market.

After some recceing, we mangaed to find the gun range and we tried a variety of pistol, shiok!

There is a group of taiwanese, whom make my day. This particular guy who was standing beside me was so excited and talking to his friend about trying a shotgun.

From the corner of my eye, I saw that he lifted the shotgun but I think he dd not place the butt of the shot gun onto his shoulder as after he fired the 1st shot, I saw his supporting shouder sinked slightly, and he told his friend that he will call it a day as his shoulder are injured. I could not help but chukle. Thankfully he did not heard that, if not, his 2nd shot most likely would be on me.

WARNING! THE FOLLOWING ACTION WERE PERFORMED BY AN UNTRAINED, HUMBLE BUT HANDSOME LUCKY BUGGER WHICH SURVIVED TO TELL THE TALE, PLS DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. U ARE NOT ME!

1) After the gun range, we rented an ATV to roam around the area, as I did not know that there is something wrong with the left handle, I rode the ATV onto the road.

Just into the 1st left turn and when I tried to steer my ATV to the left, to my horror, it just went straight, best of all, there were 2 thai riding on motorbike coming towards me in the opposite direction. Damn, what a balls-shrinking experience!

All these happen within secs, I hitted onto a grass verge and the 2 thais managed to e-brake in time and went pass me, but I could see from their face that they are about to alight from their bike and perfrom some Tom Yam Gong Stuff on me.

After appreciating the situation, and being well trained during my national service days for situation like this, I decided on the best move:

I smiled, apologised, lowered my head, bend my waist, placed my palm together as if praying to them!

The magical thing happened, the anger from their face disappeared due to my magical action, and they left on their bike after muttering some thai to me.

I guess they must be praising my good looks. I don’t blame them. The thais are so friendly even after I had almost kill them and myself.

2) We rode our bike uphill to a place where by there is go-kart. We played with 1 group of ang moh, whom I think is either high on drug or drunk, as they would bum into my go-kart as if playing bumping car, thankfull I manged to escaped unscathed.

Here comes the best part, while riding down a long and steep hill, separated from a cliff by a low wall, I rode too fast and could not turn normally or brake as I might skid.

I remember watching Valentino Rossi performing his turn on his bike. I decided to do the same, however failing which, might meant coming back to Spore in a coffin.

I tapped intermittently on my brake, bend my body very low to the right, I felt as if time had stopped and I had combined with my bike as 1 as I had narrowly miss falling over the low wall by just a whisker away and turned successfully. What a ball-shrinking experience.

Even almost after killing myself, I’m amazed at myself for have the ability to jeopardize and save myself in such situation.

Prior to returning to Bangkok:

Someone while reversing his bike, knocked down any bike, but don’t mention name.

Someone had lost a concerned friend hp, and on the last day, lost his own hp, but don’t mention name.

Had a death-defying time at Pattaya, we took a taxi back to Bangkok.

To be continue…

Day 1 to 3

Stayed at Samran Place Hotel, Soi Kingphet, The Hotel staff are nice and approachable, 1 particularly stood out like your girl-next-door

Daily Routine:

1) Makan

A&W

 It is near to our hotel, who can resist a icy cold root beer float, ice cream waffle on a hot & humid day. The fried chicken are very nice too!

I think we makan till the staff can regconise us, they must be thinking where the hell these 3 mountain-tortise tourist came from, they makan A&W like nobody’s business.

Roadside stall

Everywhere u go, u are bound to come acoss a roadside stall, be it the bbq chicken/squid/pork/fish/ball, cutted fruits, mandarin orange juice, thai ice tea etc etc.

Imagine working along the streets, with a handful of the above mentioned food, so shiok!

Insect

Criket, beetle, maggot, unknown insect, taste ok but there is these particular insect that upon bitting, its body fluid will explode in your mouth!

Food that might look dirty, surrounding might be unhygenic, mostly taste good! However Weak stomach should not try!

Kopitiam by the road

Its like Zhi Char, just that it is in thai style, I like the thai oyster omelette, abit diff from Spore’s style, as there is more egg and less starch, the oyster are so fresh that even I could not resist!

Tom Yum soup just taste better in Thailand, don’t know why! Sweet & sour chicken, steamed fish, veggie, just bring it!

Foodcourt at Shopping mall

In Thai, u got to change your cash into coupon or card before purchasing your food, balance can be refund.

Pork/fish/beef ball noodle soup, I been eating that since day 1 till day 7 and no matter how I tell them that I wanted the thick beehoon, the staff either give me kway tiao, bee hoon or tong hon, don’t know why!

Restaurant

Manhattan Fish Market, Jap Food, forgot the restaurant name, nice food which is easy on the pocket!

Fastfood

Mc, Kfc, A&W, Chester etc

2) Jalan Jalan

Pratu nam mall, Siam Paragon, Central Mall, Chatuchat weekend market. Night market etc. It is a shopping heaven but I don’t think I have finished going through all the shops, my leg could break from all the walking.

Side Show:

Tiger Show

It is indeed…eye opening!

RCA Route 66

We invited the tutu driver to club with us, total of 4 person, cleared 2 bottle of vodka. Thai are indeed good drinker.

Made friend with a group of friendly thai and jap. Watched movie and makan together.

Alcohol indeed helps in bridging the language barrier.

Took bus to pattaya

To be continue…