Squish the Cyclist

Posted May 2, 2013 by Timothy Yuen & filed under Drive.

I almost squished a cyclist today near the roundabout.

Approached the roundabout, stopped, signalled left, and looked to the right for on-coming traffic…one car come, and then I would be free to go. So, turning the wheel, and pressing the gas, i double-confirmed there was no traffic on right; looked forward and slightly left to follow the car that just went by..n then glimpsed a cyclist that just appeared out of the left blind spot into my left side mirror.
There is NOT much space between my car and the curb (and it has a railing). I was literally squeezing him in while turning.
Bloody idiot, trying to take pass on my left while i was turning left. I quickly swung back to the right abit before we made contact.
I think he realized that he shouldn’t be going there..coz I kinda expected him to swear or kick the car; but he didn’t.

Another roundabout incident long ago.
I looked right at the roundabout; intending to go straight. The on-coming car on the right signalled to turn left (into my road); and commenced to turn. So, I stepped on the accelerator to go straight. Am I wrong in doing that?
Anyways, guess what? A cyclist zooms straight past the slowly turning car towards me; I was already half way thru the roundabout; and the bloody cyclist had the nerve to indicate that I should give him way.
Did he pause to see if there are incoming traffic? No
Does he know the right of way in a roundabout is not to those on your right, but those that already in the roundabout?

Tim’s Office Moment 1

Posted April 29, 2013 by Timothy Yuen & filed under darwin-awards.

Today’s guest post is courtesy of yuniphan. Written under duress from this blog’s owner*.

Have you ever had that moment of realisation that perhaps what you are about to do wasn’t quite right? It happens to the best of us. And this particular moment happened to the owner of this blog. It has to be known, everyone in the office (save a few) have had to move to a new desk, including the owner of this blog and below are his actions according to the eyes of the witness.

Action 1: Returns from whatever it is he has been doing.
Action 2: Walks back towards seat.
Action 3: Moves seat.
Action 4: Pauses.
Action 5: Realises that perhaps this is not his own seat.
Action 6: Proceeds to look around the office.
Action 7: Realises that others have seen this sudden glitch in the brain.
Action 8: Casually walks towards own seat as if nothing happened.
Action 9: Laughter from the nearer half of the office.

Thus, one of Tim’s numerous moments of sudden epiphany.

*Just kidding.

Noori – Anzac 2013 Trip

Posted April 29, 2013 by Timothy Yuen & filed under Diary.

This post is dedicated to Noori, who made us a fantastic din on Sunday.

Wednesday
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Let’s see…she arrived on Wed evening; Jane and I went to pick her. We were late..stupid traffic…and late to get back to Chatswood for din.
For din, we had decided to go to Pappa Rich. Sam (and Hmk) queued up for about 45min before they got ‘inside’. By inside, it didn’t mean that they got a table. They just got into the next stage of queuing..which was ‘inside’ the restaurant. We then arrived and promptly got a table.
(at first, they asked if they could squeeze the 5 of us on a 4 person table…we looked at the waitress…and then looked at jane(who is pregnant!)..and looked back at her…good thing she was smart enuf to realize that that would not work).
The night ended by 9pm. we all went home to sleep.

Thursday
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Participants: Sam, Jane, Noori, Hayden, Dominic, Alice, Jayden, Carmen, Tim
Where: Eastwood Peking Restaurant (or something like that)
Food: 2x Peking duck, crab meat with egg white, vege in cream sauce, sweet and sour fish, fried buns, chicken with green bean starch, sang choi bau and noodles
Din was good and cheap..only $25pp..what more to say?…went to Meet Fresh afterwards for a quick dessert (coz Dom was still hungry :p)

Friday
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Dinner again. This time at woolwich pier hotel. Hope it was good enuf for Noori. The dessert/cakes afterwards at Kurtosh (crow’s nest). Ordered diff cakes etc and they all liked it…yay, successful dining

Saturday
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Lovely Noori cooked us a din; including roti; and takeaways; Good Times Great Taste

Sunday
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Didn’t meet up; Hmk was thinking of noori and wanted to see her before she leaves back to Brissie
HAHAHHAHA

Photos: gallery

Mushroom Picking

Posted April 28, 2013 by Timothy Yuen & filed under Outdoors.

The trip has been a long time in planning….well, a year anyways. I was hoping to be able to find fancy mushrooms with all diff colors…that didn’t happen, but it was a nice and pleasant trip.

Facts about the mushroom picking..
– there are two types we could pick
– they are kinda expensive if eating in restaurants
– if it has some white color or spots on it, don’t pick
– some mushrooms shouldn’t be even touched
– obviously, the red ones with spots are poisonous
– they like shady places…and shady characters pick them
– there are alot of crap (prob wombat crap) lying around near them
– i need to use the flashgun to get better pics
– they are easy to find
– they are soft and spongy
– they can grow to be quite huge
– the grow under pine trees
– mixing poisonous mushrooms with non-poisonous ones may make them all poisonous

We didn’t pick any since we don’t want to risk it. The weather was fine, with no signs of clouds, the air cool and refreshing.

Oh, went by Mt Wilson for some red leaves. So many asian tourists and posing for pics…..for more pics, see gallery