On the second day of Chinese New Year, I woke up to a "pleasant" surprise at 9am. The front right tyre of my car was punctured! Apparently it had "stepped" onto a nail and the tyre was totally deflated. I was so pissed that I didn't even feel like going for the "Dong Dong Chiang" at WC's place at 11am. Eventually I went cos they psycho-ed me into thinking that no tyre shop will be open on the second day of CNY and Pussyjus offered to come and pick me up.

Having a flat tyre is quite a must-have experience for all drivers I guess. I learnt how to use those lousy DIY car-jack. I learnt how to change tyre. And I learnt that most cars now do not carry a spare tyre which is the same size as their current tires. Go check the spare tyre in your car to find out! It is in fact a small ugly black tyre which has a sticker on it saying "DO NOT EXCEED 80km/h. PLEASE CHANGE TO A NEW TYRE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE".

Luckily my dad went past a petrol station at AMK with a tyre shop which was opened. So after the "Dong Dong Chiang", I came home and drove at 60km/h to the petrol station. The spare tyre didn't give me too much assurance to drive faster than that cos it just felt damn weird. And so, the Indian mechanic helped me patch up the hole. Then he told me that I can carry on using the tyre until the tyre threads are worn out. I was like 'huhhhhhhhh...'. No way was I gonna risk my own safety so on the fourth day of CNY I went to Poh Heng at AMK ave 10 to change my tires. I changed from 14" to 15".. and so I got myself new rims as well.

Here's my old tires..




The empress's new shoes!




Yes I'm a gold digga'!




I guess 'cos the shop's name is Poh Heng, I started thinking bout jewellery and so I bought gold rims. Now I think they are too xialan. Everybody say I very beng. Sigh. To which, I can only sing Lee Hom's english song "I'm not your average gangster"..