once again, raffles marina tuas anniversary's invitations

It has been raining cats & dogs the past few days so when I took a look at the sky this morning, it was like, well...gotta get the bike out for a spin and since Raffles Marina Tuas has invited Harley Riders for their 14th Anniversary Celebrations, why not? I arrived early, of course seafront parkings, just beside the berthing area, had my coffee whilst waiting for some other fellow riders to turn up. It was not a long wait anyway..., Dod Sng & Andrew Chu came rolling in with their "sewing machines". We then combined to have mee siams, satays, rojak and beers to gulp down. It was a nice cloudy morning with an air of festivals, regattas, magic shows, snake charmers, belly-dancers, taekwando displays and many leggy models manning the car booths (mini-coopers and some others). Families with children splashings in the pool and many babes strutting in their teeny-weeny bikinis...... wow! Good thing is that I met an old family friend (rider too) Mr Nigel whom I have not seen for sometime already.
By mid-noon, then the 1st convoy of Harleys came in. It was then, the head of the Raffles Marina catering, Mr Martin Chan came over and called out my name.., JoKiNg and handed over booklets of food vouchers and an envelope of beer coupons, compliments from the President of Raffles Marina Club, Mr Francis Lee. Well, now food galores and drinks freely flowed until late afternoon when I remembered it is a SUNDAY and I have to be in Church at least, for a reflections of the week. I then took off and ran into heavy downpour..., all wet!
Well, a quick bath and change and Holy Trinity Church bound. GOD bless!

Jack's Neo - Money No Enough II

As a token of appreciations from local movie producer Jack Neo, HOG members were invited to have a preview on the screening of the movie, "Money No Enough II" on 3rd Aug 2008. We were amongst the Guest-Of-Honour MP Mdm Lim Hwee Hwa and many LTA officers. Well, as for my personal opinion, we were made to film more than 4 hours onn site in the blazing sun and out of it, appears only for a few seconds. I still can't connect the relevance of having a convoy of Harley Davidson bikers riding past a couple of a "cub chye". I honestly don't see any connections with our parts although it is just a glimpse. Luckily for me, being the last biker in the convoy, I was seen though. Being a "calefare" in the movie is better off than our poor HOG bikers! Anyway, I took it as......, we are immortalised so long as the movie is around. Self-consolations, yeah! HaHa!

Ah Boy (TopGun) requested me to ride for his niece's wedding, although a wet day! It was fun as usual with lots of "makan makan" and opportunities to meet many other riders. The joy of being remembered by fellow bikers although we have never been riding together as passing friends beside the organised ride..., is a feeling of gratitude and being wanted. That's a true biker friend, Ah Boy! Cheers!

jurong west sports & recreation centre

L to R : Pang Jiamin, JoKiNg, Pang Jiating, Jessebelle Lim Jiajia, Pang Jiaxin (pretty young ladies)

The convoy riding past the VIPs and crowds on the stands!

The evergreen................ JoKiNg with National Colours in balloons !

This was being requested by the school I am with to have a convoy to help celebrate the National Day Observance Ceremony. It was a last minute thing and gladly.... with much appreciations, the following riders supported me eventhough the meeting time was on a Sunday 3rd August 2008 at an unusual early hours......., 7.30 am (wow).
I had Jess Ley (heritage softail), Jimmy Ho (fatboy), Hashim (roadking), Sabar & daughter(roadking), Dod Sng (sportster), Andrew (rocker), Hashim's fellow Independent member (apologies name forgotten - sportster), Salleh Ridhwan (night train) and me (roadking) to grace the occasion. It was a happy scene with us entering the new stadium tarmac and the crowds really roared to see us riding in. Gives all riders a sense of feelings that 'if I have to explain, you will never understand'
The bikes were fully decorated with white and red balloons (national day flag colours) and after the event, I even rode home with the balloons. A cruising police patrol car with the officers gave me a fright but they encouraged me with their thumbs up and along the way home, many Sunday outing vehicles slowed down to take pictures of me...., well ! What a blessed me !

some of the many events

Well, we had our R2R again but unfortunately, only 1 KL rider Mike Gan turned up. I took the opportunity to ride with him around Singapore after picking him up from HDS.
The next morning, I left home early and that was indeed a blessing, I later realised that those riders going over half an hour later, were caught in a massive jam along the Singapore side. Since the appointed time and with added another 1 and a half hours of waiting, I decided to ride on my own up to KL. Along the way, I caught up with some early birds so there was no fear of losing my way once inside KL. I even had a durian feast with Tony, formerly from Samsoon Motors! Great fun in KL HRC as usual. The ride back was smooth and the best thing about this event was.., either way was cloudy with no rain...., a dry ride up and down. Time for Sunday Mass back home, GOD bless me indeed!

The SOUTHERN MOST TIP of mainland Asia !
Hi,
there was..., considered a huge turn-out this morning, close to 40 bikes for the trip to Tanjong Piai. Surprisingly, many are new riders with some expatriates recently posted here and conversely, a few of the older ones are going back to their homeland like Peter, Rene Heim and others. There were also a new group of LOHs (very sexy indeed) tagging as pillions.The ride was slow but the scene are typical Malaysian scenes with kampongs and many fruit orchards along the way. Wild animals like the common macague, iguanas and squirrels can be seen too if you are observant enough.We had a sumptuous lunch at the floating pier where they also run a resort like hotels. We had tin-foiled baked fish, steamed fish, prawns in rendang, prawns in tomatoes ketchups, tomyam soup, fried squids, fried rice, mee goreng, 3 stewed vegetables with hot brewing coffee or iced-cold lemonade. After that we rode to the MOST southern point of mainland Asia to check the place out. It is a boardwalks trails with mangrove trees hovering all over, egrets, sea hawks, all those insects connected with mangrove swamps with watch towers all over the place ideally good for couples to make it out. The most southern point has a globe like structure to claim its status being so. I considered another conquest after riding up Cameron Highlands (Gunung Biringchang) recently to the highest possible route by vehicle in peninsular Malaysia which was 1 conquest. The ride back was leisurely and supposed to end at Handlebar's free food and drinks compliments from Rene Heim who is leaving Singapore back to Germany but was caught in a sudden downpour at Clementi side so I headed home instead.
Cheers!
Hope to see more NARRs around such trips (only Patrick was there excluding me)

Cameron Highlands

Simon started it all with, "hey, long time no ride". So the timely reminder spurred me to sign up for the Cameron Highlands Ride organised by HOG Mr Barney for the Labour Day Holiday. Together with Mark & Audrey, we rode earlier than the main group and as usual arrived at Concorde Hotel KL way before the rest. Stayed a night rocking away at HRC with Mike Gan, Joey, Vinxx & partner before the next morning, joining the main group to Cameron Highlands. Along the way, took off ahead and waited for the main group at Tapah. Put up at Lakeside House, rode up to Gunung Biringchang (6,666 feet above sea level-highest in peninsular M'sia), to Gua Musang, (unfortunately no musangs anymore nor any Guas), later to beefarms, butterfly farms, nicknack shops, waterfalls, tea-gardens/kiosk). Departing day headed earlier to take the scenic route down and back home with good speed and scrappings of footrests.