The lower end of the roller coaster

Since last week my intention to update my blog with my road trip pix but was so lazy to even download my pix into the PC...aiyoooo! Anyways its done now. Time to tell everyone about THE road trip. We left 5 Aug for the ride up to Hatyai, southernmost tip of Thailand. The plan was to stopover at KL after 2 days in Hatyai, so as to break up the return journey into something more manageable....a bike ride up to Hatyai takes about 10hrs, so we need the stopover to make it less stressful. So it was 3 bikes....1 Honda transalp (thiam's), 1 African twin and 1 YELLOW GS 1150! Damn it, i love the yellow GS man!

The bikes all lined-up...this was actually a pic taken on the way back. from R to L: GS, AT, Transalp


THE GS.... I LOVE THE GS.......WOOOOO THE GS.........orgasmic man this machine.... You ain't owned a bike till you owned a GS

But... i must be "politically" correct and say....i love the Transalp too....not biased but it was THE WOW bike...when i was in JC and yes it is still "saaaaaat" to me man.... ;)

The riding bit was of course the worse bit. I was like dozing throughout the night though i was a pillion, never thot it possible to sleep while on a bike but i did and it was scary and a mental pic of a long vehicle running over my head when i fall off constantly played in my head. i realised once dawn came and the sun was up, i was pretty much ok but dark skies just like put me to sleep. We basically kept speed of about 110 to 140 km/h....and riding to thailand, it is definitely an experience! the sound of the wind, the scenery going by and the speed at which you are going....makes you really just lose yourself for a while.

The road as we rode....cool! Risking my precious lens to take this shot

Another "artistic" shot...me in the rear view mirror

Here's the highest speed we were going....140km/h

Are we there yet????? ... Almost la, check point into south Thailand....Sandao!!!

Hatyai was an ok place, apparently a lot of prossies but errrr i cant really tell la....some bloody obvious are "working gers"....others cant make out. Love the food, always fancied thai food, be it the chinese style or road side dishes just like to try everything so was like eating "xiao chi" all the way. Nothing much to buy except....yes....underwear!! cheap! Hotel and massages were best....super cheap....1,700 baht for 3D2N so makes out to be almost S$40 for a night. Massages in the hotel spa was good and at $8 a 2-hr pop. But once is enough....tho shiok pain! In massage get-up...

The streets of Hatyai Feeding a baby elephant

Oh how can i forget....i did a piercing in Hatyai.....$10! Best that....see my piercer oso quite cute hor....and he is skilled man! See show you all....the piercing in action

My all time favourite food in Hatyai....glass noodle soup....light, clear and just yummy.....hmmmmm.....

KL stop was fun, we got there almost midnight of 9 Aug (guess SSB pple were probably partying hard at their 10th anniversary party!)....thanks to Shirley, Lisa's sis in KL, we got a great budget place to stay at about S$60 a night and its right along Bukit Bintang.... BINTANG WARISAN ...very near the quiksilver shop and Sungei Wang (my favourite KL building) Lot10..shopping was fun along that chinatown place where they sell chiong stuff...had a hell of a time bargaining and getting stuff. Food in KL....the best part la. but it was just a one day stay so basically not that much done and trying not to stress too much coz it was gona be another 4h ride back to SGP from there....so try to really not overdo shopping etc. And also the haze was like super bad due to the Sumatra forest fires while we were there, this just before the haze set in later in the day...Petronas

Had this real cool choc banana cake at Sungei Wang....forgot wat the cake shop is called but i think it is BETTER than Secret Recipe!

And riding at breakneck speed, you tend to gather a lot of smashed flies all over the bike... see or not....mangled flies on African Twin.

After the road trip felt rather energised, missed hatyai a lot...the place, the food, the pace of life, just seems like a great place. But then lapsed into depression again. Like just felt like everything was going wrong and that really my life was crumpling before my eyes. Everything sucked and i was questioning my value and self-worth it was very extreme, haunted by nightmares every few nights and just breaking down at work, i seriously need to do some self-help thing. Due to a few unfortunate incidents i started to feel that i am not good enough to exist, especially not as a person beside thiam, in his life. Don't get me wrong, I love him to bits and enjoy my time with him but somehow feel:

- I am not good enough, just cause him frustrations
- He doesnt even know what exactly he likes abt me but knows wat he doesnt...isn't that a little wrong?

In the short span of a mth i have saturated myself and questioned my existence, my relationship and my self-worth and honestly i still don't know the answers except that i really need to stop hanging at the lower end of the roller coaster ride.

We look so happy....another stunt shot....hahah not easy balancing and taking this at 120km/h. Arms felt like they were gona tear off!