October 17, 2007
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Yay, free breakfast!
Well, it's "National Ride to Work Day". I ride my bike everyday anyway... but it's great to have some company on the Pacific Highway! Of course, the free food was good too. There were scones, bread, juice, muesli bars, coffee, and tea. I had some of everything except for coffee and tea. (Well, they had bottled water too, which I didn't take either.) Maps and reflective snap-on bands were also given out. It was like a party!
There was a photographer taking instant photos for everyone to post on
the board. I was there quite early, so I had mine high up on the board.
The Mayor of North Sydney drew the raffle. I didn't enter though.
The President of North Shore Bicycle Group announced that there is a plan to lobby for state funding to build an elevated cycleway to extend the existing Sydney Harbour Bridge cycleway. I hope it really gets built. That would really be nice.
Towards the end, the bulletin board was filled. Apparently, there are people riding from Normanhurst to the CBD. Now that's a long trip... O.o
Somehow, I was still hungry after my first tute today. xD
I also watched "Ratatouille" today. Yay for rats! I like the song towards the end too.
Come to think of it... I came home by train three days in a row because I stay out so late these days. Today, someone on the train did some kind of gesture to me and I thought he was trying to tell me to move, so I moved my bike. He proceeded to stroke my bike and gesture to me that it's a nice bike. Later on he told me the name of the stop at which he needed to get off, and then I realised that he'll need to get out of the doors on the left (which I usually stand near, because all the busy stops before it open the doors on the right). It was kind of awkward, but at least this person smiled at me and wasn't trying to make trouble at all. Two guards actually happened to get on the train, and they started talking to that person and I explained what was going on. It turned out that he actually had sight problems, but because he was gesturing at me with his hands I thought he couldn't hear either, so I just gestured back. He did have some difficulty speaking though.
What a day...
Come to think of it... it seems like a long time since I've posted anything here. I've been staying up late to finish assignments recently. I never thought I would do this. I take a long time to recover, because I already put enough strain on my heart riding the bike everyday, so when I don't get enough sleep, I can really feel my heart beating faster than usual, and it's really distressing. It's actually good that I didn't attempt to ride in both directions this week. I do still ride in the morning though. Before I get on the bike in the morning I often feel so miserable that I just want to go back to bed, but by the time I get past the uphill part of Pacific Highway, I feel so much better. By the time I arrive at the university, I'm awake and ready for class. I never thought that cycling would become so important to me.
