the world asleep, I awake

日夜顛倒的日子,





"眾人皆睡我獨醒"嗎??

so, this is what happened...

I have to write this down while the memory still fresh,

this awesome, once a life adventure...



with the pouring rain fogged my eyesight, I now realized that there

were so many signs, signs told me this is not going to be an easy journey...





so, where should I begin?





9/17, 2009 4:37am.



In the dark alley where I parked my bike,

after work, as usual, I wearily climb up the seat,

turned the key, pushed down the start button,

warming up the engine... like any other ordinary day.



all of the sudden, there were smokes coming out of

the button of the bike, with a sick smell of boiled horse piss...



I hit the kill switch right away, tried to push the damn thing out of the dark,

and i found there was no front break! not a damn thing!!



"oh great... now what??!!"



it turns out to be some f#cking as*hole who is a total pus$y and can't even finish

his freaking noodle, and threw the rest of it away...

and of course, with my damn luck, that's where I parked...

and of course, once again, the alley was too freaking dark for that f#cker

to notice that there was a motorcycle, a beautiful, 250cc, single cylinder/water cooling

piece of art, that was parked there.



For your information, a Chinese noodle soup can be very greasy indeed...





An hour ago 'til now.





Even with the rain last night,

I still convince myself that it's all ganna be ok,

the weather report said that the sun is going to shine

like a motherf#cker for the rest of the weekend,

so I dozed off on the sofa in the office...



and when I wake up this morning,

the sun is shining, the birds are singing,

the tarmac is drying, the dogs are humping...

everything seems to be fine!

so off to my apartment to pick up my things, and

get ready for the road.



I quickly done showering, pack all my camping sh%t in the duffel bag,

put on the helmet, looking good and ready to go...



Due to busy at work, I haven't even got the time to think of how am I ganna

tie the 15 kgs of the camping equipment on the back of the bike,

and in the trial of doing so, I break the sponge cord.



It takes me about 45 mins...



so I get back to the apt, re-pack the thing into a 75L mountaineering backpack, thinking:



"THIS IS NOT GOING TO STOP ME!!" "

"I am the guy rode 100km+ offroad on a mountainbike, 36 hours without sleep, bring it on!!"



and when i get back to the motorbike, with 15kgs weights on my shoulder...







IT STARTS PISSING WITH RAIN...........





now I have to park the motorbike 8 km away from my apt, in the rain,

and back on the bicycle, again, 8 km away form the parking lot,

to my apt...

oh, yeah,



did I mention it was pissing rain??





Now I end up waiting on the traffic light on a weird looking bicycle

, soaking wet, think it must be the man up there trying to tell me:



"Oh, my beloved son, Daniel.

it's just wrong to thinK of fun all the time,

you should pay more attention at the office,

focus on the work you do more often..."





meanwhile, a Ford Escape slowly parked in front of me, and the guy

on the passenger's seat roll down the window, looking at this way and

seems talking on the cellphone.



"The guy must be lost..." I think.



then the guy keeps mumbing, with the cellphone by his ear, still looking at this way,

not at me, but looking at this way...



"What the f%ck??" this starts to piss me off a bit.



"........" he sound like.



"what??!" I asked.



"@#$%&*...." he gose off again.

"WHAT?? are u talking to me??"



now I am really pissed, I was ready to pull

him out off the car and deck him right there...











"excuse me... could you please tell me which way to the shopping mall???"



so, a squinty guy who has a cellphone by his ear, asking me for direction,

who just happens to be have the voice of a squirrel...





now I am pretty sure I just shit out of luck today.

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