Suzi gets some attention. Finally.

After a minor incident resulted in breaking an indicator, and other personal factors, Suzi has remained in limbo for far too long.
But on Saturday, my brother The Snark helped me rescue it from oblivion.
He took me to one of his favourite bike workshops, where Suzi was fitted with micro LED indicators, flush fitted into the front, and mini LED indicators at the rear.
Then a set of frame sliders, to prevent any damage in an accident, and to cap it off, a fresh, sticky rear 021 tyre was fitted.
I did have to exercise some restraint (over The Snark, LOL!) who wanted me to fit new steel brake hoses, and would not have stopped there until the bike was almost completely renewed!
Back home, a full wash and wax, and Suzi is back to Flying Banana status, and is looking forward to being thrashed the way she used to be!

Sixthseal meets Intensecure @ Cafe Libre.

After many years of commenting, and “corresponding” via blog posts, I finally met up with Huai Bin, of Sixthseal fame, at my cafe in Taman Danau Desa, ironically just across from the Huygens Asia office from which he used to work when he visited KL on projects.

I’m not going to expand upon our conversation, which could have gone on for hours except for time constraints, as we have quite a few things in common, but it was a pleasure to meet up IRL after “conversing” virtually for such a long time, and great to see him looking fit and well after his (mis)adventures – which will be known to any who read his blog, which has always been linked from both my old blog and this new one. Any other commentary I will leave to him in his forthcoming post, but I know it won’t be the last time he visits Cafe Libre!

Well met, my friend, well met!

 

And he brought a delightful friend, Ginny, who unfortunately barely managed to get a word in edgeways as the two of us gabbled on! Hope we didn’t bore you to tears, Ginny!

Blogging Cafe Libre visitors. With added Dabido!

Yesterday evening I received a phone call from Suanie, who asked me if I knew Dabido. Although I have sporadically read his blog, and it is of course completely impossible to miss the many comments that he makes on various blogs, I replied that I did not, as such “know” him.

Suanie informed me that she, he, and Lainie, were going to pop down to Cafe Libre for a bit of a relaxing evening, and did I want to join. I could hear the disbelief in her voice when I said “maybe…” which is hardly surprising as my record for attending any sort of social gathering usually consists of me not turning up. However, I have not seen Suan, who had always been a great friend of the Cafe almost since it’s inception, in quite a while, and as my social diary for that Saturday evening showed a few gaps I decided to pop along and at least meet someone new from the blogging scene – and co-incidentally someone much closer to my age, which would be interesting – and catch up with “the world outside my computer.”

Meeting Suan and Laine again was great, both are always interesting to talk to, and neither set off my sociophobia (which actually is now dormant, but no-one needs to know that, LOL!) and it was a pleasure to meet David (Dabido) who is such an obviously intelligent, well-read and humorous chap (send the $5 registered, please, David!)

Suanie as usual made me laugh out loud with some classic lines – all of which as usual I have forgotten, but will re-emerge from my short term memory loss at some inappropriate moment – Lainie is always thought provoking (well, she certainly provokes thoughts in David, but we’ll gloss over that ) and David himself proved excellent company. I certainly enjoyed my first evening out of the apartment in 2009 anyway, I hope the others feel the same Certainly Yasmin is still in shock that I actually ventured out to meet people. I think she hopes this will spark a trend, although as Suan remarked on leaving, “see you in 2010″ which showed a singularly cynical lack of optimism. I shall prove you wrong, Suanie, have no fear!

To recount the conversations themselves would be to miss the spontaneity, and the range of topics discussed which always seemed to revert to one thing , so I shan’t, and merely attach a few pictures in my role as compulsive photo archivist. OCD – who mentioned OCD?