A Pagoh Quickie

ICT

I just completed my ICT (In-Camp Training) on Saturday.

Actually very shek and want to spend my Sunday to kun. Then my friend KP come and jio me to go do a short biking trip on Sunday. Go where?
Go Pagoh and eat durian. Must be he see my blog on my last trip to Pagoh eat durian and gian. So I say on.

Before I talk about my this ride to Pagoh, let me share with you some new things I learnt from my recent ICT:

1. Some more new pronunciation of Durian.

Just as I thought there can’t be anymore ways we can mispronounced the word “durian”, I just learnt another new way…”Diu-ran”. The list just keeps growing.

2. Chor is in.

If you say “Endless, how come you so chor? Use the word quickie?”, I tell you, I just learnt that the big people even more chor.
PM Lee uses “talk cock” in his national day speech according to the poh zua;

But this Zoe Tay is No 1. According to Imedeen’s latest advertisements, Zoe says her secret to her beautiful skin is “I swallow.”

All the boyfriends and husbands, what are you waiting for? Quick go and tell your cha bor.
When I go back to office, I must circulate this beauty secret to all my female colleagues.

3. A new army joke.

My reservist mate tell me last time during his NS time, his OC ask his driver to go out and buy some snacks. OC tell driver:

“Buy 4 tea, 4 coffee, Marlboro tua bao (big packet 20 sticks type).”

Driver says “Orr”. Off he goes.
Driver left for a long long time and never come back. OC starts to wonder what is taking the driver so long just to buy some snacks.
Finally, after a long long time, driver comes back.
But he came back with:

Forty-four coffee,
Marlboro and
One big bun (tua bao).

Why do all the stupid things happen only when you are in the army?

Route

OK, back to our ride to Pagoh.

Who going? Just a small group of us:
KP on his R6 (2003 model);
Kinwei on his rather rare, GSX-K750 (2006);
Ben on his R6 (2006 model).

Wah, all sportsbikes. Don’t know Frost can keep up with them or not.

The route is very simple. It is the exact same route as our last ride to Pagoh (see Bekok Waterfall + Durian Trip). Meet at Esso GP. Take NorthSouth Highway.
We will exit at Ayer Hitam, then go to the kopi tiam to eat lunch.
Go back to NorthSouth, travel to and exit at Pagoh.
Go to the same durian stalls I ate the last time. Then NorthSouth back.

While gathering at Esso GP, I saw one whole large gang (about 20 bikes) of Malaysian kup kiahs riding pass on the highway. Malaysia motorcycle gang in broad day light?

I noticed a couple of them had pillions carrying the Malaysia flags flying in the wind.
Kinwei says their national day must be around the corner.
Wah, national day also got rounding one.

I saw a 2^nd link break-down patrol car. I go and confirm with the encik. Indeed, their national day is on 31^st August.
The patrol car is decorated with the Malaysia flag to celebrate their national day on 31^st August.

Later through out the day, every where I go, I see many cars have small flags sticked onto their roof. Even their lorries have flags.

This one is a taxi. It also has malaysia flags on its roof.

Some protons have a decal of the top left corner of a big Malaysia flag sticked onto their bonnet. I think it looks very nice. But Singapore cars cannot copy this idea. Because their bonnets all already have the decals of Mugen, TRD, STi, Spoon, CWest …

NorthSouth Ride

Nothing much special.

KP on his R6.

This is on the left of the NS highway, before the Kulai Toll.
Every time I pass by this stretch, I think it looks very scenic.

Then along the NS highway, up ahead, I spotted an unusual sight---A white Toyota Celica sports car with Malaysia car plate, fitted with an aftermarket rear diffuser.

It travels quite fast on the right lane. But I travel even faster. And it wouldn’t bulge when I go behind this Celica.

Nabeh. You drive sports car tua pai, right?

Never mind. I no mood to play with you. I just overtake you from the left lor.

I wind my throttle and Frost easily starts to slide pass the white Celica.

As I ride past, I wanted to see what this idiotic driver look like.

Wah, it is one damn chio bu driving the Celica.

Arm thin thin, skin fair fair, hair long long look like japanese race queen kind. Complete with stylo milo sun glasses wor.

When a babe like this is driving a sporty car, somehow the complete thing just looks damn sexy.
Nose going to bleed liao.

I quickly take out my handphone camera. I want to take a picture of this sexy thing and show Kin Wei, KP and gang.

I rode along side her and aimed my handphone camera at her. Chio bu pretend not to see me and continue driving. But like that the picture look even nicer.

KP was behind me and he saw what I was doing. He must have also seen the chio bu in the Celica.

I took a shot and soon we have to exit at Ayer Hitam.

Ayer Hitam

We went to the same kopi tiam as last time.

After we parked our bikes and we found a table to sit down, before I can ask them what they want to eat, this KP quickly ask me:
“Ai Endless, how how? Got take a picture of the chio bu or not? See leh see leh.”

Ji hong KP.

I took out my handphone camera and search for the picture.

This is the picture I took:

Ahhhh!!!!
Where is the my chio bu?
How come only shoot the front of the white Celica?
Bo bo shooter.

It’s too late for us to take off right now and pursuit her along the NorthSouth.

Never mind. No chio bu but got nice food to enjoy.

The last time I came, I ate wanton noodle and chicken claws (tim sum type).

What else is good to eat here?

I don’t know. I never give the other stalls a chance. I ordered and ate wanton noodle and chicken claws (tim sum type) again.

Some Upgrades

We exited at Pagoh. And we never see the Celica along the way. Sigh.

I did 3 things to Frost before this trip.

1) I changed my clutch cable.

The old clutch cable did not spoil. It is just that my friends commented that the effort to press the clutch felt heavy. So I changed to a new cable.
Indeed the clutch now feels so light. It is also so slick and light now to flick the foot gear level.
Not expensive one. Only $30 plus for my Frost.

2) I topped up air on my tires.

I had not pumped air into my tyres for 1-2 months liao. KP helped to pump air to my tyres to about 35 psi. Immediately, Frost felt very nimble and agile and very fun to corner.
It is amazing what difference the correct (and incorrect) air pressure can do.

3) I changed my brake pads.

The other pad actually still looks quite thick. But it is the inner pad that is wearing thin.
I was recommended to go to Mah Motorparts (19 Jln Besar). The boss is a friendly chap called Jeremy.
There are so many different types of brake pads in the market. Which one is good?
I changed to the brand GoldFren--the side really is gold in colour. I used the Ceremic model (there is a race model). Very cheap. Only $20 per pair.
After about 20km of scrubbing off, the bite is very jiat (immediate and strong). I like.

Pagoh

We ride towards the Pagoh durian stall that I ate the last time (see my 2 posts earlier to see directions to get there).

First, we passed the coconut stall (later than eat). Then as we ride further and further, “Eh, how come never see any durian stalls along the roadside?”

After awhile, we realized the durian stalls all never open.
Today is Sunday, the durian stalls don’t open on Sundays.
Does that mean we are going to go back empty-handed and unable to taste our one and only one objective?

We U-turn back and head towards the coconut stall.
Luckily, the coconut stall got sell durians. Not as many as the durian stalls. But at least we get to eat durians. The durian cost 3ringgit per kilogram. Ok. So so. Seed very big. Taste is not bad.

Mai hiam buay pai lah.

Eat durian eat durian.

KP buay kat ki (not shy).
That's why it is good to go on makan trips with at least some girls around.
Like that then the guys would be more civilised.
If not, very fast the food will disappear and I have no chance to eat.

After that, we went to the adjacent stall to drink coconut juice.
While we were there, the coconut stall owner went to buy kopi. He left the son behind.
Then a Malaysian lorry drove up and asked to buy coconut juice.

The son only 8-9 years old, but very garang. Father not around never mind. Son will serve coconut juice.

Son went on to pick one coconut, take up the foot-long parang knife and start to slash at the coconut left and right. In Singapore, such thing will never happen. The children here are so precious. The mothers will never let their kids go near within a 12-foot radius of a pair of normal scissors, let alone wield a one-foot-long parang.

I ride R6

Having ate our durian, KP and Kinwei ker gian liao and are satisfied. So we can return back to Singapore.

KP suggested we swap bike. I ride KP’s 03 R6 and he ride my Fazer1000. OK, on.

It has been almost a year since I last rode my own sportsbike, Honda CBR954 FireBlade. But the R6 gave me a very familiar feeling very quickly.

I ride R6.

Engine
If I were to ever buy a sports bike again, I would buy a 600cc. Why? Because on a 600, you actually can go faster around and out of the corner than a 1000. Many people don't believe how can a 600 be faster on a 1000 (on a track) . You go pasir gudang track you will understand.

Tyres
KP’s R6 are fitted with Michelin Pilot Power sport profile tyres. I like these tyres. They inspire a lot of confidence and felt very sure footed. I somewhat prefer its feel over Bridgestone BT012. I used to think the Pilot Power was very expensive. But nowadays, its prices have come down to BT012 level of $380 or so.

Brakes
KP’s R6 is fitted with a larger aftermarket front brake master cylinder. The brand is Majura I think. This brake cylinder being larger, enables even lesser effort for powerful braking. When I rode his R6, all I need to do is to tap the brake level with ONE finger and the R6 would shed 10s of speed immediately. The amount of effort is no more than the effort you apply when you drum your fingers lightly on the table.

Steering Damper
KP’s R6 is also fitted with a Scot rotary steering damper. I like rotary steering damper over the rod-type, because rotary type looks more compact and nicer. This Scot steering damper is adjustable in terms of damping stiffness.

Riding along NorthSouth

View of a R6 rider.
This is how your view look like when you ride the R6 in a hunched down position.
Complete with insects and all on my visor.

I rode the R6 like my Fazer and KP rode my Fazer like his R6. After a while, KP starts to disappear out of my sight. At the end of the ride, KP said he hit 220 (can still go faster) on my Fazer. I had never even reach 170 on my own Fazer before.

Along the almost hour-long ride back along the traffic-heavy northsouth, I observed one thing. It is actually faster if you ride along the Motorcycle lane than if you were to ride along the main lanes.

Many Singaporeans don’t know this. But along the Malaysia highway, the “road-shoulder” lane is actually meant for motorcycles (as well as broken down vehicles).

Even though the Malaysian car drivers will give way, it is actually faster for you to just ride along the Motorcycle lane along the NS.

How I know? KP was riding along the extreme right car lane. I was riding along the motorcycle lane. Even though the cars were busy trying to get out of the way of KP on his Fazer, I have many opportunities to ride ahead of KP simply because the motorcycle lane is clear of any traffic.

The Other R6

Soon, we reached E3 (the NS stretch from Kulai until the customs).

KP and I swapped back to our own bikes. It is also about time. My feet and palm are starting to feel numb and pins and needles from the sporty ride position.

From E3 back to GP Esso, I noticed that Ben’s new R6 rear number plate had came off. Kinwei and I signaled to Ben to stop.

I think the new R6 is too fast for its number plate.
Its bracket came off.

To TP Officer: My number plate really really fly off.
The only way to continue was to remove the half-hanging number plate.

Picture of the live firing area north of Singapore custom.
I can’t resist taking this photo because those green hills remind me of my NS days.

That area used to be the live firing area. I remember got Elephant hill, E-shaped knoll, etc. Once, I saw a tank traveling along the dyke (the grey straight line) towards the green hills.

Songs

There are a couple of popular songs now by guys.

I hate to say this, but I actually find this “Bow wow wow” song by Wilber Pan very catchy. The song just goes Bow wow wow, bow wow wow all the time--kind of remind of my dog. I can’t quite catch the lyrics in between the bow wow wow.

Wilber Pan – Fan Zhuan Di Qiu

Source: http://bleargh.net/fitfit/2006/07/05/wilber-pan-%E2%80%93-fan-zhuan-di-qiu/

Bow wow wow
让我看到你双手
推开地心引力一起反转地球

Bow wow wow
现在不适合罗嗦
试着选择不然请你离开这节奏

Bow wow wow
让我看到你点头
跟着我的音乐一起跳舞准没错

Bow wow wow
现在不适合闪躲
正面出击看我怎么反转地球

(rap)这个少女看穿地球
赤裸的一片天空
我摊开双手接受所有催眠式的节奏

有没有感到心情放松
有没有感到细胞跳动
节奏的变化谁能摆动
让你全身放松
现在请不能罗嗦
看着我的眼鼻四周
频率太急
看你的心脏正在 chill we go

跟着我走跟着我做跟我点头摆动双手
世界的一切都转动一直带着我的音乐跟着脚步在走

世界turn around change around everybody have fun
别想压抑我们定意世界的传统
世界turn around change around everybody have fun
没有对或错我只想牵动这节奏
世界turn around change around everybody have fun
音乐没有自由仿佛坠进了黑洞
世界turn around change around every body have fun
现在跟着我们创造新世纪的秩序

Bow wow wow
让我看到你双手推开地心引力一起反转地球
Bow wow wow
现在不适合罗嗦
试着选择不然请你离开这节奏
Bow wow wow
让我看到你点头
跟着我的音乐一起跳舞准没错
Bow wow wow
现在不适合闪躲
正面出击看我怎么反转地球

一道音波划破天空
在我的领域不停播送
激发出的热情不能抵挡你竖起的耳朵的诱惑
你停不停你动不动全部在我掌控之中
你知不知道地心引力在这永远拉不住我
当音乐力量合二为一创造出新的世界秩序
不跟随的人闭上你的
SHHH有别的比那更好的吗
有别的比那更出色吗
有别的比我们向往追求的音乐更独特的吗

世界turn around change around everybody have fun
别想压抑我们定意世界的传统
世界turn around change around everybody have fun
没有对或错我只想牵动这节奏
世界turn around change around everybody have fun
音乐没有自由仿佛坠进了黑洞
世界turn around change around everybody have fun
现在跟着我们创造新世纪的秩序

The other song that I like is by this guy called Li Sheng Jie. I like his 2 songs: Yan Di Xing and Zui Jin. I have his album but can’t find the mandarin lyrics to post here.

Li Sheng Jie’s voice has a special voice quality, like the blind Superstar singer Kelvin Tan. His forceto (fake) voice is also very nice. Go check his songs out.

My day with the sporty and fun R6.