CCTVs in HDB

After less than a month reading on the newspapers and news that the common areas of HDBs such as lifts, letter boxes and even bicycle racks would have CCTVs installed I was skeptical about how long they would take the implement the scheme and whether we the residents would have to pay more...

To my surprise my HDB block has them! There is a catch though... My block has 2 bicycle racks, only one has CCTV installed (and since become full!), the letter box and lift area has no CCTV!

So it seems, the only reason they were installed were for bicycle security! Omg, hip hip horray! Now I just got to contest with other people parking at my usual space. I'm seeing new bikes there too, abeit not locked properly... I will suggest them to read my blog's guide when I see them...

Or maybe I should put an ad on my bike... Hmm...

The Holstee Manifesto Lifecycle Video

The Holstee Manifesto Lifecycle Video from Holstee on Vimeo.

The one phrase that stuck with me was, when you get lost... You find yourself! When I was cycling in Japan, getting lost was actually something I looked forward to... Sometimes its good, other times not that good, but the good time are so priceless!

I haven't been riding lately, as school begins the nightmare starts and soon the deadlines will come. Luckily I will always have cycling to turn to!

Firestarters Episode 1

There has been a few local television programs which had dedicated some air time to the humble two-wheeled machine, but thanks to catch-up tv we have the following:

http://video.xin.msn.com/watch/video/episode-1/1gqfqwlw3

It talks about a Singaporean cyclist who made his own bamboo bicycle and than traveled a crazy distance to prove it's worth! I came across this bamboo bike first in September last year i think, and read a newspaper article and now this.

As a sort of after thought, I keep thinking to myself, how much cycling has been growing. Just head down to ECP on a weekend, and you see the countless leisure cyclists, while commuting I pass by many many other commuters, locals, uncles, aunties, ang mohs with helmets, panniers, blinkers and SPDs, Chinese nationals and Bangladeshi workers in old beaters wearing slippers with no lights in pitch darkness... The list just goes on! God I love cycling!