pumping up the AIR

Having nearly-flat tires on a Sunday afternoon is, to put it simply, disappointing..

Especially when I'd been waiting so long to get on the bike, and more so when what I thought was a simple solution because, remember, we've done this before, the nearest gas station has the nozzle.. but it turned out that said same gas station switched their nozzle and so after that I didn't know where to go anymore.
 

It was one of those times when you just got to do what you do. Push the bike round the neighborhood from one gas station to another, from one (closed) bike shop to another (closed) bike shop, plodding, pushing, smiling, and hoping. dodging pedestrians on narrow, stepped pavements and trying not to feel silly even though you're pretty sure you're looking it.

For over an hour half that's how we were- until we finally decided to make a last, final round, putting ourselves at another gas station which coincidentally was a mere fifteen minutes away from our original starting point and which we would have reached had we not turned the other direction. *facepalm*

But  I got my Sunday late afternoon ride after all. :)

Not too long, not too overly thrilling, just a round that took us from East Coast Road (after a triple-variety roasted meat dinner with bowls of rice), down one short stretch of Joo Chiat Road where now a spanking new shopping mall stands, all the way to East Coast Park where we passed by a soon-to-be-closed cove of eateries and shops- goodbye, old Marine Cove that I used to know- past seemingly empty holiday beach chalets. past the Food Centre that is the other side of the lagoon. and at last, Bedok Jetty where tonight the tide was high and the sea came closer and the shimmering reflection of jetty lights turned our late, late evening into a most magical night.