well.here goes..my first blog post.
As the title suggests,this was my first experience driving my bike upto ascendas.And wen i say my "bike" let me paint u a little picture of wat it exactly is. My bike is a black,weather-beaten,10 yr old scooty..the oldest model. It can do 0-60 in..hmmm..actually i don't how much time it can do it in cos it has never touched 60 in its life.
so let me start. It was a monday and me and my pals (abt 6 of us) were playing literature in CK's place(it has kinda become like a mandatory thing). Ck's birthday was abt 2 weeks back and his treat was still due.So while playing the topic came up and after much persuasion( persuasion as in 5 of us beating the crap outta him!) he agreed to give it the following wednesday as it was a saraswati puja and hell thats the only day our parents don't force us to study.(i know wat u must be thinking,ya like we study on all other days..free).So anyways after a lotta thought we rounded up on the food court in ascendas as our destination.
So then wednesday came,the day of the treat. i hadn't initially planned on taking the scooty on the trip...not in my wildest dreams. It was bad enough that i was taking that thing to college..but to ascendas..jeez no.
and more so we had 3 bikes and there were six of us..so,after the application of my extra-ordinary math skills, that leaves us two on a bike which was perfect..so that i couldn't bring my owners-puke with me!
so i arrived at CK's at 2 PM to my utmost displeasure that there wee actually 7 of us going foe the treat,so i had no other choice but to bring my scooty. now let me tell u wat the other 3 bikes were...2 Apache RTR 160's and one Hunk...a combined cc of 450... whereas my scooty was a mere 50cc. i was the sole rider...without a pillion...! (come on would u sit in a scooty wen affored the comfoet of an Apache??).
There u have it.... and i can tell u that watever u might be thinking at this point is correct. Apache Vs scooty... even the TVS guys would have laughed their head out at this. The trip started and those guys sped of from the word go..and i was left behind smelling the afterburn.
Occassionally one of them would wait by the side of the road or by the shade of a tree..waiting for me to arrive at my own will at 50 KM/hr in my scooty.
Atlast after abt 45 min of perspiration and disgruntled feeling..i finally made it to ascendas. My pals arrived before me and were already in their first course wen i joined them. i was actually surprised that my scooty could manage the trip without any hiccoughs. I always had the feeling that it wuldn't be able to hold up for such a long distance..but it proved me wrong and my respect for it grew a little. But never,ever again will i take out my scooty to such a distance,even if it means me stuck in my house. One experience was enough for me to come this conclusion.
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