left penang about 6am on dec 8th...it's about 1000miles to my destination...chiangmai in thailand...first trouble...well...the last refill station was closed for certain reason so thought i had enough to get to the next one and guess what?? tank was empty about a mile from the next one!!! so was stuck in a dark stretch of the road and noone's stopping!!! had to push about half a mile :(...and waiting till dawn broke...finally someone stopped and helped...so yeah...the first hiccup....
continued to the border about 120miles away...well give or take lol...stopped at the usual border town and get my money changed...when i climbed back on the bike and started the bike...smoke came out from under my seat....heh...i had worst days...had no tool...i know i know...but my saddle bags were full of my clothes...:p ...borrowed a screw driver and removed the seat...and found the short circuited culprit...nothing some insulatiion tapes can't fix...so fixed that and got on my way...so yeah...hiccup no.2...
crossed the border and i've already wasted a few hours for the 2 hiccups...fat chance of arriving there before it's too dark...anyway...me and my iron horse continued on...
well the day flew past and i felt likei'm having a permanent weggie in my butt!!! yep!!! carpet burn lol...but it wasn't funny then...
then i took the wrong turn near on the outskirt of bangkok!!! they really need to learn how to label their roads properly...heh...me and roadsigns are not the best of buddies...had to call a friend to ask for direction...should have known better than to ask passer-bys...they seemed to have a wicked sense of humour...pointing me to everywhere but the right directions...so yeah...after a few rounds around the mulburry bush...i got back on track...
well...then the petrol started flowing out like nobody's business and i was thinking...."oh no...not the carb overflowing!!!"
again...kicking myself for bring too much clothes and stuffs and not the tools!!! well....again in the dark and don't even know where i was!!! had to wait awhile before i could flagged someone down...luckily he has screwdriver and plier...anyway...remove the seat...the tank...luckily it's the tube...and it broke at the beginning so yeah...seemed someone was smiling at me from somewhere up there...heh...yup!!! made a clean cut and push the tube back on and clamped it tight...could have been worse...thanked the guy and offered to buy the screwdriver and a spanner from him but he said no and gave them to me for free!!! wow...guess lady luck was smiling!! a really nice guy!!! and he doesn't speak a word of english!!! ;p...and that's hiccup no.3...
wasted too much time...but at least i could continue with my journey...well by then i've already been more than 15hrs on the road...continued riding anyway...in the dark...well continue for a few more hundred miles and stopped for the night...'cos my friend told me the road ahead isn't good and it's safer to ride in daylight...so hell...checked into a motel and slept like a log...considering i hadn't slept the night before i started the ride...
woke up all fresh...another 400miles or so before i reach chiangmai...about halfway through...was stopped by traffic police...told me i'd passed a right light...bs!!! i knew they tried to get some money out of me...heh...fat chance...pretended not to understand thai...so they let me go lol...this time the ride was pretty smooth...and reached chiangmai in one big chunk lol...so yeah end of the first journey...
