People should not show off. Unfortunately, people who like to show off/act seh (like me) tend to be the kind of people you simply cannot drum this fact into. It stays in for a while, but when the confidence returns it just flies right back out again.

See, last year, cycling back and forth from home to the sports complex every week (about 30min cycle) up and down the curbs, dodging pedestrians, fellow cyclists and lamp posts, and smoothly checking my watch once in a while had given me the confidence that I am a reasonably.. fluent cyclist. No I still hate cycling, and I do look pathetic and wimpy on a bike, but it just never has been a terrible problem mounting curbs and pedalling furiously along the road. On my 1st cycling attempt after a considerable period, I was 1. late and 2. on a bicycle that was too high for me. Or rather, I was too short for the bike. Anyway, with the ease that I assumed had been ingrained into my cerebellum, I confidently swerved past a pedestrian onto the road cycling track. That was successful, but when, with equal confidence, I turned to mount myself back onto the pavement again my bicycle bucked and flung me flat onto my intended destination without it :(

I was just a few metres ahead of the person I had overtaken too :(

I try not to think how, if I were that person, I would feel 1. really sorry for the poor person and pity her embarrassing plight 2. smug about how that idiot tried to overtake me and ended up falling flat on her face and try to think 3. ignore her. she is just a child.

Lesson #2. Believe in Feng Shui. Oh I might as well do some promotion for my feng shui book. It is really quite a good book. It is by Lilian and Jennifer Too and is called 'Feng Shui for the Dragon 2009-2010' or something like that. The book has been so far so good.. I mean, not to follow it to the letter, but generally it has been pretty accurate and given me advice that actually seemed to work so far. Anyway, this month it told me as a side note that if I am involved in any sports or games to avoid them completely because if I were to engage myself in sports I would be sure to meet with nasty injuries. Ok, to qualify, I am still fit enough to blog and go on facebook, and I was only thrown off 1m from where I started. Not too bad la. Only ended up with scraped palms and bruises at all sorts of funny places I did not know I could land on. I always hear about my friends or their friends flying off bicycles before and think, 'What an interesting experience to share'. I now realise that is very shallow and stupid thinking.

People who are proud and scared of embarrassment really do end up with more of such loser incidents. Falling down in front of the whole LT? Check. Falling down for no reason in front of cheering crowds? Check. Having an entire match stopped because my shoe sole came off? Check. I cannot help wondering why these things always happen to me. I was talking to Evon about how people always complain about why everything happens to them.. Well I suppose not everything happens to me, but a considerable proportion of them do seem to. Like my eventful journey home. Laptop crashed > Airport caught fire > Flight delayed > Need to pay for trolley > Took wrong train > Arrived at train station late > Raining > Reached home to find dog shit on my doorstep. The poo was a classic comedic ending to my trip.. They are still in the midst of disintegrating, but shit is still rather prevalent on my street these days.

Which leads me on to think about what Yiling said about my affinity with flies. I got 緣 and I got 糞 and so I got flies. This year, because of the stupendous amount of shit along my street, I no longer walk on the pavement but stick to the side of the road. Firstly to avoid the shit and secondly to avoid the flies that come with it. New experiences have taught me that. 3 times already this year a fly has flown into my left eye despite my spectacular (I wear SPECTACLES. hahahahaha..) protection. That means the fly(ies) deliberately dodged under my lens just to poke me in the eye. I felt a bit consoled tho when my friend told me about how a fly had flown into her mouth while she was yawning. She then choked on it and coughed it out but I think it had already died.

Many thought accumulated from the month I have been here...