the height of youth
(omg i blogged some super long thing and it's gone. so now i'm shortening everything)
Youth Day Tribute!
my mom reminded me of the accident i had today while cycling and i decided to blog it before my indignation dissipated.
(an abbreviated version because the long thing i typed disappeared)
1. speeding back because i thought i was late. i was safely biking and had successfully overtaken alot of people. when i came across a girl and a gang biking towards my direction. there was a roller blader in white in front of me and the girl was like 200m away and in the wrong lane. i judged there was enough time and space if the girl moved out of the centre of the wrong lane (the lane i was in).
--> [me] [white blader] [girl]
-------------------------------
...................<-- [gang]
2. assumed she would give way because of the signs she was giving off - eyes (made eye contact), wheels, body language. so i cut the white blader and moved to second stage: cutting the girl by turning to the left because the group of people was blocking the right... and the girl was drifting slightly right, quite slowly...
3. THEN she CHANGED HER MIND?! LIKE WHAT. ON. EARTH. she decided, no i shan't give way?! and she drifted back!!! into the lane i had now cut into?! i was rather shocked because i was too near AND i would have gotten away unscathed because i swerved damn sharply to avoid her! BUT. BUT!! she decided to turn in the same direction , i have no idea why. WHY!!!
4. crash. her front wheel scraped against my bike chain, missing my leg by centimetres. and she turned in the correct direction this time so we didnt get tangled. phew. wheels, spokes and bike chains and flesh weren't meant to meet each other in close proximity. i went off into the grass because turning back would have made us more entangled and used the momentum to get off the bike before it fell. managed to make it not fall too. the rollerblader in white was too close behind and he went off into the grass too, but luckily he didn't fall down. girl disentangled and used momentum to move forward to center of path? and stopped there. i think she bit herself (no comment). i don't feel any pain anywhere so i guess didn't get injured. luckily. otherwise i'd be more pissed.
okay. i don't feel better after blogging it. and the illustrations screwed up.
like wth. i'm sure you're in the wrong lane, still don't know how to move out of it when you see people approaching?! alright, maybe i should have known and slowed down, i trusted my judgement but forgot about the randomness and folly of people's brains and perhaps, pride? nvm, i know better now and will take those into my calculations...imagine if it had been two cars?! BOOM!! byebye.
i hope she doesn't learn to drive. or if she does, she'll learn some common stuff.
Common knowledge that everyone should learn:
1. Speeding vehicles take the innermost lane of that direction.
2. Drive in the correct direction. (duh) alternatively, learn how to read arrows.
3. Overtaking requires speeding up and moving into the innermost lane.
4. Slow vehicles take the outermost lane, don't anyhow, or risk irritating people.
5. Be Clearheaded and not blinded by stuff. please.
6. Do not pose a danger to other motorists. zzz.
on the other hand, it was quite a good cycle today =D 2 hours straight with only 20 minutes break when i reached the end of ecp from mac's! the part where they are going to build a connector to changi beach. lol. the only reason i didn't go on was because it was a car road and not a cycling track. found breaker 23 =) and took a breather there, snapped some shots using my phone. Next break i took along some stretch of landing leading out to sea, to take pics of the Singapore flag being flown along the coastline by some huge-ass chopper whose name i don't recall... and random pics along the way back. before i realised, i was going to be late and the above incident occurred... ahh -.-" sigh. no mood to blog about post cts stuff. do that another time! but the ECP trip was good overall, especially dinner at the hawker centre! and the accomplishment i felt from cycling so long, and finally getting exercise. that accident was just a tiny mar on the entire snapshot of the day, like a small mosquito that happened to land on the lens of the camera just as it was shooting the photo.
at least i learnt something from that accident.
oh well. flight tomorrow! =)
FHT in my sights again.
Youth Day Tribute!
An inordinate pleasure for passion is the secret of remaining young. - Oscar Wilde
my mom reminded me of the accident i had today while cycling and i decided to blog it before my indignation dissipated.
(an abbreviated version because the long thing i typed disappeared)
1. speeding back because i thought i was late. i was safely biking and had successfully overtaken alot of people. when i came across a girl and a gang biking towards my direction. there was a roller blader in white in front of me and the girl was like 200m away and in the wrong lane. i judged there was enough time and space if the girl moved out of the centre of the wrong lane (the lane i was in).
--> [me] [white blader] [girl]
-------------------------------
...................<-- [gang]
2. assumed she would give way because of the signs she was giving off - eyes (made eye contact), wheels, body language. so i cut the white blader and moved to second stage: cutting the girl by turning to the left because the group of people was blocking the right... and the girl was drifting slightly right, quite slowly...
3. THEN she CHANGED HER MIND?! LIKE WHAT. ON. EARTH. she decided, no i shan't give way?! and she drifted back!!! into the lane i had now cut into?! i was rather shocked because i was too near AND i would have gotten away unscathed because i swerved damn sharply to avoid her! BUT. BUT!! she decided to turn in the same direction , i have no idea why. WHY!!!
4. crash. her front wheel scraped against my bike chain, missing my leg by centimetres. and she turned in the correct direction this time so we didnt get tangled. phew. wheels, spokes and bike chains and flesh weren't meant to meet each other in close proximity. i went off into the grass because turning back would have made us more entangled and used the momentum to get off the bike before it fell. managed to make it not fall too. the rollerblader in white was too close behind and he went off into the grass too, but luckily he didn't fall down. girl disentangled and used momentum to move forward to center of path? and stopped there. i think she bit herself (no comment). i don't feel any pain anywhere so i guess didn't get injured. luckily. otherwise i'd be more pissed.
okay. i don't feel better after blogging it. and the illustrations screwed up.
like wth. i'm sure you're in the wrong lane, still don't know how to move out of it when you see people approaching?! alright, maybe i should have known and slowed down, i trusted my judgement but forgot about the randomness and folly of people's brains and perhaps, pride? nvm, i know better now and will take those into my calculations...imagine if it had been two cars?! BOOM!! byebye.
i hope she doesn't learn to drive. or if she does, she'll learn some common stuff.
Common knowledge that everyone should learn:
1. Speeding vehicles take the innermost lane of that direction.
2. Drive in the correct direction. (duh) alternatively, learn how to read arrows.
3. Overtaking requires speeding up and moving into the innermost lane.
4. Slow vehicles take the outermost lane, don't anyhow, or risk irritating people.
5. Be Clearheaded and not blinded by stuff. please.
6. Do not pose a danger to other motorists. zzz.
on the other hand, it was quite a good cycle today =D 2 hours straight with only 20 minutes break when i reached the end of ecp from mac's! the part where they are going to build a connector to changi beach. lol. the only reason i didn't go on was because it was a car road and not a cycling track. found breaker 23 =) and took a breather there, snapped some shots using my phone. Next break i took along some stretch of landing leading out to sea, to take pics of the Singapore flag being flown along the coastline by some huge-ass chopper whose name i don't recall... and random pics along the way back. before i realised, i was going to be late and the above incident occurred... ahh -.-" sigh. no mood to blog about post cts stuff. do that another time! but the ECP trip was good overall, especially dinner at the hawker centre! and the accomplishment i felt from cycling so long, and finally getting exercise. that accident was just a tiny mar on the entire snapshot of the day, like a small mosquito that happened to land on the lens of the camera just as it was shooting the photo.
at least i learnt something from that accident.
oh well. flight tomorrow! =)
FHT in my sights again.
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7/01/2007 12:23:00 AM
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