Local Mags

Recently, i've been buying lotsa books and magazine. Well, better spend it on expanding my knowledge especially when it's tax deductable. I haven't been buying local mags for a long time. A LOONGG.. LOOOOOOONGG time.. Infact, i have forgotten why i've stopped buying local car mags.


Today, i saw this local mag with GOOD YEAR drift cars there. I recently started a topic on drift.com.my. It was about this event we had in sunway. Posted some car pics there. That itself, started a fire. Someone claiming how much horsepower the car got and doubts came .. soon it went into a frenzy.

I bought that magazine hoping to get a better angle on what's under the hood. Guess what? that article aside. I had to go through endless ADVERTISEMENTS just to reach the INDEX page. That made me wonder how many pages of ads they have there vs the pages of the magazine. So i counted. U go Guess....

1. Ads : 141 pages
2. Total pages of the entire magazine : 241 pages

That means, it's only 100 pages of pictures and write ups. That itself doesn't count the 'review' sections. Review sections are actually 'more detailed' advertisements. No fucking wonder some people are damn fuckin rich nowadays.

After being on a healthy dosage of foreign car mags, i find these local mags are just 'not up to standards'. It's like "Let's just get the job done and take the consumer's money". Even the write up itself lacks 'the heart' or the 'passion' ... like what my friends put it "fuckin a dead fish whore"

No puns intended for anyone ok? chill...

Aahhh.. Saturday,

Woke up late this morning. Slept like a motherfucking pig till 10.30am. My son was playing horse riding on my large ass belly and woke me up. Played with him for a short while before i headed out to run my errands.

It was an enjoyable day. Spent alot of time with my wife and kid.

I'm really grateful Ivan actually took the trouble to take my car from my house and got the walbro fuel pumps installed. Else i'd have to drive it down and eat into my 'family time'. After all was done, he was so nice to drive it back to my place. Really appreciate his efforts. Friends like these are hard to find.

Oh yeah, in the afternoon we were chilling out in Gardens, Midvalley. There was these few blokes who were checking out my wife as if they were wearing x-ray goggles. I really hope they bang a wall or walk into a bottomless pit or something. Fuckin dick faced jack-asses... sheesh!

Then, in the evening, i went over to the place where my 'other car' is usually sent to. Basket, it was still parked there un-touched. Frankly, if i can do it myself, i'd gotten it done within 30 mins. To me i think it's a simple job. Ok, maybe 120mins. I got fat hands... hence may take more time.. but .. IT WAS STILL THERE! Project failure= FUCK! Project Delay = FUCK x 3!

Sigh.. I still do not know if the A33 fans will work but according to all the people whom has used it says it works! rough trashing = 93'C . Jam and idling = 79'C.

I'm praying very hard now.

Oh, i still havent figured out what to do with the Fuck-A-Lite fans.

There's so many things i have in mind.. but so little time to do it.. not to mention, MONEY! The only other thing that made me happy other than spending quality time with my family today was, when i passed by Zaibi Motors, i saw the white R35 there. I could have sworn it was winking at me... ;) it's wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy over my pay grade to get one... but, i might get Leo's bro Aaron to give me a ride in the car one more time to get 'the feelings' refreshed again to continue the article...

I still cant wait till december comes. Buds like Leo will be back. I double checked with Russel, he'll be around too. Hence.. comes December, WE WILL BURN THE STREETS OF KL! Picture this,

1. Supra JZA80 - 6xxbhp
2. Russ' Bayside Blue GTR34 - ???bhp
3. Leo's White GTR34 - 5xxbhp (upgrade project in the pipeline, so it'll be that figure by then)
4. Monster Pit's R32
5. Wern Shern's GTR34 - 5xxbhp
6. Eugene's FD3s - 3xxbhp
7. CB's FD3s - 3xxbhp
8. Shawn's A31 Cefiro - 3xxbhp (upgrade project in the pipeline, so it'll be that figure by then)
9. Joe Wong's scooby...






All these cars screaming down the road...tearing the horizon... ahh... heaven!

It's still months to go...

Electro Fan - The failure.....

It really saddens me whenever any project fails. These projects, be it work or car projects, whenit fails, it always makes me wanna go grab a machete go out and start slashing any dick faced dude i see. Hey, u'd be surprised how many dudes in Sunway looks like a dick - no puns intended.

I bought a set of flexalite fans for my car. Got it installed and phooweeee the car really felt so much more fun... the fuck part was, the water temp levels were kinda high. I floored it on 1st then to 2nd.. by the time i shifted to 3rd it was already hitting 97' C. Fuck that is high. To some they say "hey, it's ok wannn". My ass it's ok. I was doing mid 80's with the old fan.

All I can say is... Fuck!

I made a call to several friends who were driving the same car as I am, they just called me a donkey and told me the same thing : Go for the Nissan Cefiro A33 electric fans. They work like a charm! but only 1 dick asked me to go for Billion Fan. Which costs 3x the price of A33 fans but the saddest part was, if these 2 fuckin solution works, they both are cheaper than my fuckin flexalite. They costed me a whop-do-fucking RM900 bucks!

Made several calls to my sources and finally go the fan. Passed it to my 'ever reliable' mechanic cum friend immediately....

I've got my fingers crossed all day and night.....

p.s the fan showed here was installed on a mustang - not my car

Drifting...??

I went over to Under5 Performance Garage yesterday. I was there to shoot 2 drift cars. Tan Tat Wei's Corolla and Ah Boy's AE86. Several years back I had some 'issues' with Alan but as years past, frankly, i have forgotten what was it actually about. Really.. i cant really remember but I do on abit of this and that but vaguely.

Anyhow, that was in the past.

I cant put too much details about the shoot as it'll be posted in autojunctions.com but all i can say is, it's damn good stuff! the machines were great and the skills of these drivers were simply magnificent!

There was one part, i was in d car with ah boy while he was driving it for a re-fueling session. The car was really just bare essentials, no sound proofing whatsoever. I felt stressed. Don't really know why but the clanking, cronking and grinding of straight cut gears really got to me. Kinda makes me think, is it really worth making a track car? I mean, i had plans to do one with Monster Pit but.... shit man.. after this, i really gotta think twice...

Oh yeah, Ivan and Shawn was fuckin around with the A31. I told Shawn that it's different drifting a car than sitting on d passenger seat next to a person drifting. He never listens. Ended up, he told me it was like having his brain fucked by a hundred benglas... Serves him right for never listening to good advise!

After the session... Went home, showered and dropped dead. Fuck man.. i'm really getting old. Sorry to the guys i promised to show up for tea session. . .. Oh yeah, was suppose to go JSOC meet too but.. ah well.. fuck it.. bwahahha

Life in KL - as it is today

It's funny. This Singapore friend of mine sent me a mail asking if i would be free to meet up end of the month as she'll be coming up with her husband and kid. She would like meet up to see how i'm doing. So far nothing funny eh? Guess what? She popped the question:

"Hey, how are things in KL? I mean with all the hyped up Politics and all?"

Wtf? is it that bad to people outside of our country? Everything's fine here. We still chill out at mamak stalls. They still over charge us for a glass of plain water and basically, well, everything's still the same.

A point to note though, i do not know if it's due to the down turn of economy reasons or what, this recent Raya, i felt it was abit quiet. Not as lively as the previous ones. Oh well, irregardless of that, we still had our days off. EVENTHOUGH WE CAME BACK OFFICE TO WORK ON THE SECOND DAY OF RAYA!

Deepavali's coming.. another day off... YIPPEEE!

R35 Article

U know, quite some time back (2 months ago? or was it 3...) we did a shoot and write up on Skylines. R32 all d way up to R35. It was amazing. The feeling was really amazing. These machines were designed to race, perform and thrill the heck outta you.

IT DID THE JOB VERY WELL.

Problem is, i do not know if age is catching up but i tend to be forgetting things quite easily. I heard people on hypertension medication kinda has this tedency but... I don't know.. I just dont know.. hopefully they are wrong.

I can still remember how the 32, 33, and 34 feels like but i totally forgotten about how the R35 feels like. I stare blankly at the 35's pics and watched the video endlessly but i just cant write. I know wat's writer's block but this is plain silly.

Maybe i should ask Aaron out to the showroom. Wack him unconcious, grab the R35 keys and drive it away for a spin. The adrenalin rush should unclog those memory circuits i have between my ears....

but... WHY!??!? WHY of all the cars that i've forgotten... IT HAD TO BE THE R35!

FRIDAY!! IT'S A FRIIIDAAYYY

Well, finally Friday's here. So what am i to do? Go JSOC meet or Chill with Monster Pit Crews? I think the choice is quite obvious. Kinda suck to be Leonard now.. so far away. Though his car has turbos the size of JET engines, he cant travel back and forth to chill with us on our usual TT sessions.. LEO! DONT WORRY! I'LL SNAP PICS OF THE DELICIOUS FOOD WE EAT OK?!

I seriously do not know why people even bother with JSOC TT. U pay 50 bucks annually to an unregistered car club, just to sit and have drinks with them. Occasionally u go illegal drag sessions with them at certain dark roads and risk being caught by cops. Setting that aside, what do u get? just to be able to sit with guys who has 'sports' cars? dat's just bullshit...

Anyway, enuff of 'craps'. This coming evening, i've got an appointment with 5 drift cars. I'm gonna be shooting it and filming their practise rounds. Apparently they'll be tweaking it for the upcoming drift event in A'Famosa Melaka. It's gonna be an exciting evening.

Shitty part is, i'll be abandoning my wife and kid at home again. That's really crappy. U know, every now and then when i'm out doing this kinda stuff, the vision of my kid or wife pops into my mind and then it's like someone just dropped a ton bricks inside my chest... That's just damn bad. Eventhough i spend as much time as i could with them during the week nights and weekends, it's just never enough!

Sigh.. u guys will understand if u're a dad or husband... A RESPONSIBLE ONE!