Wednesday, May 17, 2006
2nd mishap of 17th
Oh my, what's wrong with 17 May!!!
Another mishap has happened and my what a mishap. Cant really say I didnt see all this coming but I never really expect it to be like this. Late in the wee hours of 17 May, I already had to pick up my spoilt Nokia 3230 from the TPE. Now this.
These few mishaps, siGh, I'm looking at it as a test. You know, the storm before the calm. Already had decided to slowly get back up so these are the things to pull me back down again. Can easily just wallow in self pity but I would have of course failed. These mishaps are just a test to my mettle to make me stronger, I believe, insyaAllah.
So this morning had woken up early, met my guardian angel & sent her to work. Let her have some eye candy since I'm in executive wear. Hah! What's with women & their thing for guys in executive wear haha *grins* We arrived early so just relax with a morning cuppa. Miss hourglass then sms-ed me. She was late, haha, padahal padahal, I had given her morning call. tsk3.
She candidly proposed & I quote,
"Hey, if I ask you to gime a lift, wud u kill me?"unquote...Of course how could I turn her down. Hah! So after seeing guardian angel to her work made my way to her estate. We were already late for our morning session. 15mins to 11am & I had just arrived to pick her up. Ghosted through the roads & expressway and reached shenton way just 1 min past 11. I thought to myself WOW. I'm good haha.
If only I knew.Earlier I mentioned that I saw it coming. This is upon reflection of course. The day before, my bike, Rose no.2, was all clean, polished & waxed to a wonderful showroom shine when out of my stupidity I lost control of my bike in the
CARPARK, and dropped it. Damn!
So today as I approached where I usually parked, I thought with the dark clouds in mind, why not park at the multi story carpark. All safe indoors. Would protect my showroom shine. I wished I'd stick to routine sometimes. Stupidly as I made my way up the steep wounding slope, I went...
ah ah ah...
It was less then 20kmh, how did I lose control of the bike ?? I slammed sideways into the wall as the bike was falling like timber to the ground. =( *ke-che-piang* All the glass shattered. Miss hourglass was quick to pick herself up. Me ? I was stuck in an awkward position. Maintaining control of the situation, picked up the bike & parked it first before doing damage assesment. =(
For Rose no2., I'll just let the photos do the talking -(
I was lucky she was ok. I wouldn't know how'd to explain if she was hurt badly. Just some burnt skin & a traumatised brain. Heh. My left knee though felt like popping out. I just brushed the pain aside thinking it was nothing.
After morning activites were done, I excused myself to repair my bike. Only at the workshop did I realise the full extent of a 20km/h damage. My cowling bracket had broken into 2. It was metal btw!! The left portion of the cowling had chipped off so that need to be re-fibred. Part of the left joint had come off, that needs to be changed. Oh the thing I'm holding in my hand is my digital meter btw, It had broken off from the bracket =( Luckily not damaged bad, still usable so just changed the back casing. The front brake fluid holder had burst & of course I need to change the smoke screen. Wahhhhhh 500+ I was quoted. Shit all for 20kmh. Sigh.
So now I'm without a bike until min sat, latest monday. Oh well back to public transport. As I walked back home from the workshop (it was in kaki bukit, so less then 1 km) I felt guilty for traumatising miss hourglass with this incident, so I gave her a call to apologise. Cant remember if I did already but just did again anyway. Luckily shes okay, & shes speechless about the incident btw. Oh the walking back home hurt alot! My hips started to sore. Felt like they were going to dislocate, again. & this time the left side as well. My left knee still feels like popping out, though the right knee is the one with the ligament tear. Not sure if I should visit a doctor. The left knee is all swollen & red now. sigh =(
This had made me thinking. Why do all my road accidents happen when I'm riding slowly!!! But Alhamdulillah. If 20kmh did that damage wonder what higher speeds that I reached during the journey to shenton way would have incurred. Btw, feeling optimistic, I thought better accident today when I'm slow rather then when Im in Pasir Gudang track on the 29th.
Blessings in Disguise. Things happen for a reason.Oh miss hourglass, If you do read this, I apologise once again. Make sure still go riding with me when my bikes out yar *grins*
Oh guardian angel, see you got what you asked for. I'm not with my R1 kan. Be careful what you wish for...or maybe its a sign to ask your dad to allow me to ride his
brand new R1 06 *grins*
Blessings in Disguise. Things happen for a reason.
when darkness turns to light @ 5:34 pm
