Here I am, instead of trying to write something useful for the mag publisher (which is due in there morning), blogging instead. What's there to blog about?
Dunno really. Spent most of the day wasting away @ C&C Alexandra trying to get the power window fixed.
A job that's supposed to take ½ an hour took closer to 4½hours! :P Why you might ask? Because, they had the part but it was in some warehouse somewhere and they have to get it sent over.
I mean, c'mon...how big is this tiny red dot that we live in? 4 hours to get it? I could've driven myself to the warehouse to collect it and bring the darn thing back for them to replace for pete's sake.
Oh well...at least it wasn't a TOTAL waste. They had a decent enough internet connection with PCs for customers to use so I spent most of my time there trying to sell off stuff that I no longer needed or used...
And all that for what? So that I can pour more into squeezing out more from the car.
Granted it's freakin' ugly but hey, at least it's got a decent motor in it that can punch out some serious torque. One of the guys in our group's already running a dyno proven 300+Nm of torque.
I just realised that feelings that've been buried deep down and left unnoticed can surface with a vengence. Right now I feel pretty crappy which is why I'm banging on the keyboard trying to write something sensible. Ah...to want to write it down yet want to keep it in confidence. That's a major contradiction that I've got to get over. tough but hey, I'm a tough guy ain't I?
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Boost
Ever since whenever, I've dreamt of owning a turbocharged car. Now that I've managed to get one, it's as fun as I expected it to be and more.
Being able to tweak the car is even more fun. For the past six months, I've been debating with other owners of the same model of car regarding the issue of Boost Cut. Tonight, after some thought, a little online research and some experimenting, I've finally sorted it out.
Where previously we were limited to 0.8bar of boost, my ride is now capable of 1.2bar which is decent to say the least.
Well, lets just hope that the engine holds out.
Being able to tweak the car is even more fun. For the past six months, I've been debating with other owners of the same model of car regarding the issue of Boost Cut. Tonight, after some thought, a little online research and some experimenting, I've finally sorted it out.
Where previously we were limited to 0.8bar of boost, my ride is now capable of 1.2bar which is decent to say the least.
Well, lets just hope that the engine holds out.
Monday, April 09, 2007
Almost half a year on...
If life were a computer game, and I was a character in it, I'd say that the past 10 months or so has given me at least a ton of experience points. However, life is not a computer game (much to my dismay) and experience comes from painful lessons.
Needless to say, the ups and downs just keep coming with downs coming more and more often.
I sold the good ole Mazzy and got myself a Mitsu this time round. It's uglier but at least it outperforms the Mazzy by a huge margin. You'd think that I'd be all excited etc and blog about an event as significant as this but events were happening around me that were bigger than that.
In any case, these couple of weeks have been up weeks so I'm blisfully enjoying myself. I just hope that the downs don't come as hard as they did in Nov/Dec. I don't think I can bear another downer like that.
I was tough getting over it but yeap, I found strengh in myself and worked my way out of the pit. Now, I find someone relatively close to me falling into the same pit and it's a little scary to think that that was how I was 5 or 6 months ago. The only consolation I can give this person is to jump into that pit with him and show him the way out. After all, I've been there before and have an idea of what's inside.
I would should try to update this more often but being as lazy as I am, there will definitely be times where I'll ignore it completely. I just hope that it hasn't put people off reading whenever there are new posts (not that I get alot of readership anyway).
Now, on to commenting other things going on around...
STOMP, the Straits Times web portal for reporter wannabes seems to be getting a pretty decent load of traffic (which I play a part in contributing as well - traffic, not posts). In any case, I'd say it's the best way to get people to do their work for them...for free too.
All they have to do is follow-up after the initial report is posted. How about that! If not for the pathetic speeds, I'd say it's quite an entertaining sight seeing how we're so "concerned" about the people around us. Hahaha!
Well, that's about it for now. Nothing much else to say heh.
Needless to say, the ups and downs just keep coming with downs coming more and more often.
I sold the good ole Mazzy and got myself a Mitsu this time round. It's uglier but at least it outperforms the Mazzy by a huge margin. You'd think that I'd be all excited etc and blog about an event as significant as this but events were happening around me that were bigger than that.
In any case, these couple of weeks have been up weeks so I'm blisfully enjoying myself. I just hope that the downs don't come as hard as they did in Nov/Dec. I don't think I can bear another downer like that.
I was tough getting over it but yeap, I found strengh in myself and worked my way out of the pit. Now, I find someone relatively close to me falling into the same pit and it's a little scary to think that that was how I was 5 or 6 months ago. The only consolation I can give this person is to jump into that pit with him and show him the way out. After all, I've been there before and have an idea of what's inside.
I would should try to update this more often but being as lazy as I am, there will definitely be times where I'll ignore it completely. I just hope that it hasn't put people off reading whenever there are new posts (not that I get alot of readership anyway).
Now, on to commenting other things going on around...
STOMP, the Straits Times web portal for reporter wannabes seems to be getting a pretty decent load of traffic (which I play a part in contributing as well - traffic, not posts). In any case, I'd say it's the best way to get people to do their work for them...for free too.
All they have to do is follow-up after the initial report is posted. How about that! If not for the pathetic speeds, I'd say it's quite an entertaining sight seeing how we're so "concerned" about the people around us. Hahaha!
Well, that's about it for now. Nothing much else to say heh.
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