Cost of survival
Man and machine relationship, it is more than meets the eye. Recently my doctor called.. "Mr. Sim, you have missed couple of appointments to do your check ups" Please make an appointment soonest possible". My car's service centre sent me a text to say my car is due for service. When I look at my bikes service records, I know all of them are due for oil change and general checks. Boy, my body and vehicles are on the same boat (pun). When I started riding/ driving 36 years ago, none of these things matter. Basically, I didn't own a car, dad was the "go to". My first bike was a 2 stokes Yamaha RX-S 115cc ( if memory serves) bought by my dad for me to commute to work. I took bus to work wasn't really motivating. The Yammy came with broken side stand which required wall leaning everytime I parked. Harlik the bassist of the resident band at the restaurant where I worked, did a fine rescue job by welding a piece of metal on to the existing half grinded...