Raining whole day and we stuck in 万宁

We end up staying in 万宁 for 3 nights. The first 2 was cause we need a break after backside sore due to 50km cycling. The 3 days was due to raining small droplet of rain the whole day.

Tonight we stayed in the room to find Brompton bag and think how our stuff that we buy in China can courier correctly to the location which we will arrive only 6 days later. 

We watched the free show “envy” on the MI TV. And order food via 饿了吗 the whole day. Today nothing much. We will leave by train tomorrow to catch up with our schedule. 

2 days in 博鳌 and left for 万宁

博鳌镇 we stop over for 2 days. The highlight of the trip is that we get to know a couple running a cute van that sell coffee at the booth. We sat and we talk the whole day and keep drink coffee one after another. 

They inspire us to start coffee business on our back of kelisa. Our player really try to give us hint and tips. We are taught to use 拼多多 and 饿了吗？These are app in China to do online shopping and order food. 

Today we reach 万宁 via didi. Cause we really tired after 40km ride from 博鳌. The hotel is 108 and able to do laundry and drying services. We went to eat the 甲鱼机子牛鞭煲. Super full. I had problem walking back to the hotel. I even eat 清补凉 as desert before coming back to hotel. Tonight we going to turn in early. 

On the road when we saw people is herding bull and goat on the road. I sort of thinking about how the capitalist is trying to breed cow just to slaughter them. Even before cow were turned into wagyu beef, they had to produce dairy or fur and what not. If you realise your fate as a cow is like this will you still want to give birth to small cow? Your off spring will be born into the vicious cycle of being breed and slaughter by farmer. Just like us human is being make use to work for the banks and capitalist. 

Cycle 56km to 潭门镇

This morning we left 文昌for潭门镇。Total 50+km. We broke it into 3 parts and stop over for food in between. 

会文镇 is 14km away. We stop for lunch and eat goose meat (gnan) very fatty skin and thin. Meat is very little. Paid 110rmb. Hui wen is a place of many industries factory and they are famous for doing 佛珠。

长坡镇 is 20km more. We started to fail tired when we reach this place. We stop at one of the 清品凉. Owner very chatty and keep asking about our country and our foldies. 

潭门镇 is another 20km away. This trip is already enduring already. Backside super pain. I guess <40km each day is comfortable for us. More than that we starts to get aching all over the place. Suppose to be a seafood place but we too shag to go eat seafood. Or maybe we are sick of seafood already. We almost had it every other day. We met a couple selling coffee on the back of the car. We sat at the beach and start talking.

 

2 days in 文昌

First round island trip cycling is Hainan. We left Haikou and start cycling to 文昌. 90km away we cannot finish the whole trip so have to break into smaller pieces. We cycle 5 hours for around 50km and reach a half way point and stay in the small town 大致坡 for 2 days. We damn relax. I think we can take us 1 month to finish the island if this is the speed we are going. 

What 大致坡 had in store for us? Actually only 2 things that is memorable there. First is the 上央视的包罗粉. Super nice like beef noodle and a small little aunty shop that sell great bakery. 

The whole small town only have 2 cafe which is cotti and luckin coffee. And what we eat every evening is 猪脚饭. Stay 2 days leave for 文昌 soon. 

Next we travel to 文昌。one of the 老爸茶 is really good and we even can eat crab for lunch. At night we go to harbour and buy fresh seafood and get them to cook grouper fish for us. Now we are very tired. Tmr might have new place to go. 

First time flying Brompton with Dimpa Bag

Yesterday we arrived in Hainan airport. What is different this time is that we had brought Brompton to travel with us for the next 3 months. Yes our travel got longer and longer. After last Japan trip which last for 2.5mths we didn’t get enough so we had plan to travel again in 2025. However, we had temporary put Japan on hold and replace with Danang instead due to the flu. 

We travel with dimpa bag alone without much protection. Only a bit of cardboard that we pick up at the lobby. We really only decide 1 day ahead that we are bringing our bike hence everything is rush. But still good that we are used to 7kg travel. After packing all my stuff into Brompton T bag my weight is only 5.2kg. Whao. Even I am impressed with myself. I didn’t imagine I can survive outside for 3 months with only a Brompton bag half filled!

First day is too tired as we fly morning 4am flight, the whole night we stay awake in the airport. End up when we reach Hainan Lao Jie at afternoon we already low battery le. Book a hotel and sleep the whole day. After recharge we did 2 must visit place in Hainan. 

老爸茶 is something very famous in Hainan and we get to experience it. So it basically something like a Hong Kong dim sum like that. 

Hainan being an island, the seafood must be cheap, we got slaughtered the first round by 啊浪海鲜which is expensive. Then now we smart. We know how to use deepseek to search for better result. Compare to google search which is very ad heavy and result is more or less the same. XHS also usually promote 网红打卡点. So asking deepseek is more clever approach nowadays. 

Young baby got addicted to iPad early

Kelisa, change engine oil and repair light and lighter port for 400rm supper expensive

Nowadays I see young parent came into the food court to eat lunch with their baby. Baby like less than 1 years old sit I to the baby chair straight away the mother pull out iPad to “distract” the poor baby. 

This is so that the parent can have time to take their meal or deal with noise and unwanted crying. 

This reminds me about my childhood when we do not have internet when young, our parent just ditch us at grandparent place so that both parent can go working to so call earn enough to bring back to the family. I think all these contribute to detachment issue. When we grow up we often ask why is this world so unfair and we are not given a choice but to put us thru this. 

Now, with internet so popular. Giving iPad is like feeding a soft drug to children which will create addiction earlier than us. When they get older they will also ask why give this to me when I am young. I didn’t ask for it. But human will always take the easier way out. 

Got a chance to travel Europe in my dream

Last day at Setia Alam before driving to JB

Dream of flying to Spain with Jackie. It was due to a very special ticket discount of $22. SG to Spain discount. 

I realise in the dream I am a very messy person. Disorientated and very unorganised. The mind is all over the shop. The dream is not very continuous and will tend to hop from one moment to another moment. 

We met with 2 couple outside a casino and started to hug each other. Jackie went hugging with men and women until they fall down on the floor. These 2 couples I think they come from Asia as they can speak Chinese so we recognise them once they alight from the bus. 

The story goes like this. We are very excited on a news that there is a ticket sales of less than $50 to fly to Spain so we connected on a phone with some people on the phone. Initially it was a normal call and later we convert the call to a FaceTime. The person is a thin female hippie with tattoos in her late 40s.

The call was very messy and loud so in order to hear the person clearly we have to fly to Spain to find the person. The next moment the sense moved to Spain and we tried to talk to the person but she was interrupted by other task on hand. I remember the whole Spain experience only have casino, bars, clubs and nothing else in my dream. 

Then what we pay in the casino and bars is very affordable as in comparable with Singapore so we ask ourselves why not we don’t go back and travel longer in Europe then. I remember I didn’t bring anything just a shirt, jean and a paper and pen of course wallet. 

Later near the end I realise the dream become lucid and kinda can control the dream if I want to but I didn’t push on. This dream happen at my dad JB place. 

Bought another SLK, small little kelisa

 Today we just went to petaling Jaya to view the manual kelisa gino. For the price of 9k on the road including transfer and inspection cost. It was down from the 9.8k initially quoted on Mudah. Since its manual so it will be slightly cheaper as no many people like manual car. We decided to bite the bullet and just buy straight cash from the dealer. 

Insurance we went for 3rd party fire and thief which cost us $380 without NCD. 3rd party allows other to claim on your insurance company already. For the machine price of 6.8k average, insurancer does not want to cost cause it’s too cheap also.   Road tax $20 and top up Touch and go card for $50. Bought a handphone stand for $32. 

I left with a balance of $500 for touch screen music player and others. Tmr we plan to go JPJ to get the vehicle card. 

Got a tire lock on the highway when I speed a little and jammed on the brake. Need to be careful in the future. Lucky skid forward only without freewheeling the back tire. 

All for less than 10k ringgit. $3,037sgd still got change.

Good night for today

What propel me forward is pain

Today went to Chinatown to visit aunty. Since my mum wake I had not been visiting her for more than a year. Feel so guilty. When I sort out my mum photo album ytd then I realise she is my other mum. Or the closest I can call a mum liao. Therefore, I should really need to take care of her. I will want to put in more effort. So today I went down with Jackie and Clement to visit her for a short while. 

Bring her to Chinatown Point to eat Toast Box and coffee. Order ham cheese set for her and I think she enjoyed the meal. Simple people like her needs very little to be contented I think. Simple food like Toast Box will give a lot of happiness. As we who have work and what not will overtime feel Toast Box is less of a treat. I start to want more and more and we are unable to feel happy for all these small little things. 

What impress me is that she is able to read all the Chinese words on the zodiac board. She hasn’t went school but she self taught Chinese by reading magazine and read subtitle on Channel 8. Some more she is intel challenged. Very impressive how people are picking up knowledge. If you want we can almost achieve anything. 

Lastly I was thinking to get her a phone to play tik Tok. But I scare to get her addicted to all these social media. Maybe by not having all these tech is something of blessing. I think she is kinda boring just to watch TV everyday and all days. I thinking a

Phone with tik tok may benefit her but now I think I shouldn’t introduce all these to her is better. 

Today also met Liting and her sister Limin at Chinatown to eat fish head. Her sister is a warden officer and she is so alike to me. 

-No friends, 

-No empathy to people

-Either right or wrong but no grey area

-Don’t want to have children. 

So on and so no. Very similar to me. I was thinking is it of our defence mechanism that made us become a super “I” person. 

Liting mention a verse that impact me very deeply that what empowers her to overcome obstacles is love. I start to reflect on how this statement can apply to me. I try to think of an event that propel me forward is by way of love. I cannot think of any. 

2 event obstacles comes to my mind, one losing love one and the other one is near death experience in Vietnam. Although both event I can think back and realise that there are people who love me are around to give me support. But this is not what I remember the incident for. What really drive me forward is using pain and suppressions. How I manage obstacles is to bite the pain and pull thru and once I got used to pain then pain is no longer painful. Apparently there are people although not a lot think akin to me. 

Packing my mum’s old photos

Jackie cook lunch again. Clean and healthy meal again. Someday I weighted myself I am 73kg going to 75kg. Really suck. I need to do more exercise but now is like moonson period the rain had not being stopping for 2 days straight. I never had seen so much rain fall in Singapore before. 

Healthy meal of saba fish and Cai Xin

Today we do spring cleaning. I moved the newly bought metal shelf and move it to the kitchen. Sort out of leather craft tools box and clean up more of my mum stuff. I even sort out all of my mum’s photo albums and compile them to only 3 books. This will be all my physical photo moving forward. 

I don’t know if I still working when will I never work on the photo album. I doubt my mum will even work on her photo as well. But today I spend the whole day sorting out her photo and I am loving it. Slowly take all out and select. Keep track of numbers of slot and then slowly fix it back via chronological order. I am really grateful that I do not have work at the moment so I can do simple and memorable task like this. 

I had a feeling that my life purpose in life is to back track on my ancestor, grandma and so on. Those things that they had left for me, I do need time to look into it, assess the worth and think how to generate value out of it. Those value that was not enjoyed previously by these owner, I felt my job is to use up the value if not these item will always be bought and stored without any purpose other than passing it down to your children and then they will have a lot more things of a burden. You know things that was passed down by parent is hard to 断舍离. It really takes effort to let go of these things.

Packed for Clement to stay for a short period of time