Went to check out Marina South today. Initial plan to try my brakes and shoes on Mt Faber was aborted because the brake failed enroute. Marina South is now more of an amalgam of construction sites... The cheap and good steamboat eating places and arcades are in a state of diassembly, and there are absolutely no other shops there too. What was once a nice field for kite flying and soccer is now half the the size and overgrown with shin-length grass. Some of the roads have been converted to part of construction areas, and what used to be a nice park is now replaced with mounds of sand and contruction stuffs. Numerous construction vehicles move along the windy roads, which are now dirtied with sand and small stones. It's no wonder that the Thursday morning ANZA ride has either been replaced or is no more, since the roads are no longer rideable given the preoccupation of having to dodge small stones and how the long, straight stretch of road formerly used for sprinting is now barricaded.

Stupid IR.

On my way back through tanjong pagar / shenton way, I was ALMOST taken out by a large, BLIND group of people from the office lunch time crowd. As I made my way across a traffic junction green light, a large group of office workers actually dashed out onto the road to jay walk! STRAIGHT INTO MY PATH. It's so dumb. It's like a whole large group of people watching and anticipating when they can jay walk, and then they step off in front of an oncoming vehicle. I was already half bracing myself for a collision into this stupid guy who wasn't even looking at me, but was able to swerve around him and some other less blind people (they actually stopped in their tracks) with just a few rear wheel skids. My poor rear tyre... Please people, if you want to jay walk, jay walk with your eyes open! Having said that, even if you have the right of way at any crossing be it in a car or on foot, LOOOK and THINK before you move...

Once again, I prove to be nearly completely invisible to some people. I was cycling in the 2nd lane from the left of a 4 lane road some more, decked out in yellow and silver in broad day light at a mere 33kmh, which makes this act of stealth even more amazing.