Car Free Sunday 3rd edition

The Wheelies participated in the 3rd edition of Car Free Sunday this morning. Here are the highlights of the event this morning. Photo credits: Kirby

Video credits: Max

Video credits: Robin Wong

The Wheelies welcome Tilmann from Germany

What does wheeling really means? It helps bring people of different background together, bonded by a similar interest. What is most amazing is besides knowing people from around us, it also bring visitors from all over the world to this little community in Singapore and this time round, Tilmann from Berlin, Germany. So how did he ended up wheeling with The Wheelies?

It all began from a post below:

We took it up and responded to Tilmann.

11th May. The day finally came for us to meet up with Tilmann. However, what was supposed to be a smashing wheeling session with our foreign visitor was almost threatened by the weather.

We were determined not to let the bad weather destroy our wheeling party and decided to proceed as plan. Thank goodness, the rain finally stopped about 6 pm and we were on our way to meet up our foreign visitor.

A group photo for the early birds

"Wheel handing over" ceremony

Stop over for the food at Satay by the Bay

Taking group photos at iconic landmarks such as The Merlion

Aerial shot of the group from Kirby's drone

Last stop at the Soya Bean store for our desserts.

Besides the memories, we also gave Tilmann something to bring back with him.

It takes both hands to clap

Recently, there was an thread on HWZ referring to a seller of a scooter as Hao Lian (Arrogant in Singlish) and asking all to boycott the seller. While it is important in an industry where good service and reputation counts, I beg to differ on the notion based on the responses of the buyer to the seller. 

Based on the correspondences, the seller was trying to provide different options for the buyer to get his purchase. However, the one liner responses from the buyer probably irked the seller to the extend of responding "boastfully" to the buyer's message. It is not that we are endorsing the seller responses but we do felt that in this incident, the buyer has its fair share of blame too. To go online and flame the seller is so wrong, given the circumstances. As a seller myself, rather than tit for tat messaging, I will probably leave the rude messages alone and move on, not bothering myself further given the buyer apparent lack of interest to buy and rude responses.

To sum it up, it really takes both hands to clap. Buyer will always demand first-class service no matter how much they are paying but a good service works both ways. A Happy Buyer =  A Happy Seller.

* TWT is not related to the buyer and seller