Perhaps its today or the difference five minutes make but traffic on the road this morning was absolutely horrendous.

I am rather upset with myself for one instance of carelessness that could have resulted in me squashed in a 3 car pile-up. Luckily nothing happened and I didn't even get honked at (For the curious, it involves trying to filter left across one lane when the left lane is packed with cars exiting an expressway ramp with no gap between vehicles in sight. I had to stop at the painted triangular island between two lanes to wait for my time and I'm not even sure if that is safe either - I do get nervous at that particular stretch but traffic was always ok previously). 

One cyclist I met on the way urged me to 'do my own thing, cars will give way to me' when he saw me tail a bus instead of overtaking it by the right. Thanks but I'm too chicken shit for that, especially with traffic like how it is this morning. I'll be setting off earlier from now on. We'll see the difference ten minutes make.  

$174 later, my bike is shiny again. It's a lot of money; I didn't think it would amount to that much when I took it in. 

New cables, bar tape, chain, pedals and toe cage plus service fee. Is that expensive? Oh.. my backlight has conked out because of battery leakage so that's another $20+ I have to shell out soon. I shall have to start cycling to work every other day to cut back on transport expenditure, which is a brilliant idea on paper but I can't start till next week because the little one starts pre-school this week and I have to take him to school at noon. 

I also left behind 4 curry puffs meant for tea on the bus today. A little upset with myself about it. No tea! Boohoo.