Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Good Smile Company 1/7 Scaled Painted Figure of Saber Lily from Fate Unlimited Codes

My brother helped me pick up this wonderful figurine from the Fate series. Everyone knows Saber and this Saber by far has the most nice looking costume ever on her. This figurine was so limited and so hot that I snapped the last one from the shop in Sunway. I paid deposit back in February and only the orders arrived end of last month. Since I was not able to collect it as the shop is located in KL, my brother helped me out on collecting it. The shop owners were anxious to know if I wanted to buy the figurines or not, since many customers wanted to buy it off him, but he has to get a confirmation from me. But yes, this is definitely not a figurine I'd let go. I'm waiting for the next one soon...



Back in the days when I had my Neo videos

I was perhaps in the Initial D trance and was into street racing. What was I thinking about? But then again, these memories are sweet, can't wait what can I do with the Honda S600 :D



Last days with the Proton Satria Neo 1.6 Automatic (White Mage)

The car has served me well for few years now. It is sad to let it go, however to raise money to restore my Honda S600, the Satria Neo has to go. No doubt, I had most fun tougeing in the Satria Neo, but Proton's reliability is always a wonder. My car ran into a lot of reliability problems lately and costs pretty expensive to fix. My car has become a ticking time bomb, so I think swapping my car for a Honda S600 makes more sense since the Honda S600 will appreciate in time and the high revving, manual car would be fun to drive. The Honda S600 will be my 6th car on my possession (6 of 6 aye, I see how it is now). Here's pictures taken last night to remember my car being sold. The used car dealership guy will pick up the car tommorow. Adios, White mage!



Friday, November 6, 2009

Ipoh South - Simpang Pulai South Rest Stop Wangan

I wanted to test out the car's capability on the straight road, so I had some guests help me with the recording. Check out the video on what the latest Merc could do.

Honda S500 vs Honda S600 on Nurburging Nordschleife

A tribute to the Honda S cars. The Honda S600 achieved pole position in the 1964 Nurburging GT1000 Class winning over the Fiat Abarth 1000 and the Marcos Mini. The car was driven by Denny Hulme in Jack Brabham Racing

Nurburging 500 1964 results

This was played on the Gran Turismo 4 on Playstation 2

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Honda - Impossible Dream

Wow, this ad is pretty touching, it highlights Honda's own legacy and history and how diverse their products and how they actually evolved to today's automotive giant.

Tragedies in Kampar for the past one week

It has been a sad week so far. In the last week, 3 students from a primary school lost their lives in a botched up el cheapo bridge that spans across the shallow Sungai Kampar. Despite being shallow, school children, are usually small and short, plus a flow of strong currents would mean, there is hardly chance for survival in they fall inside the river. These children were sent to the campsite to participate in the 1Malaysia activity. Even under such a major event, the organisers failed to take care of the little children and preventing them from such catastrophe. It was just a shame!
Further reading of the Kampar River incident is listed here.

The Star - Kampar River Tragedy

Pictures are on this page.

The Star - Kampar River tragedy picture gallery

As of yesterday (Sunday), another tragedy has happened. This time it involved 3 students from UTAR. It happened in a picnic spot/waterfall area called Batu Berangkai. I took pictures of the area last year and it is located at the bottom of this page

Pictures of the Batu Berangkai waterfall taken in 2008

It is most unfortunate for them that this has happened. Locals would know that, if it rains, it is better you do not swim at all. It is dangerous, as the underwater currents can sweep you away. If that doesn't, the sudden gush of water from top to bottom, would kill you. Sadly, lives has been taken away in this incident and nothing could change that. A lot of people have passed away in the past, primary and secondary schoolchildren drowned because they did not know the dangers in the waterfall, though it has never been sensationalised till the recent Sungai Kampar incident. I guess Kampar is heading for a string of disaster. No one has seen it coming.

Kampar - Batu Berangkai Waterfall tragedy

Honda S600 Body updates #6

The hood/bonnet is ready and the super rust on the left of the car body is being patched up. Good job on the car done by these guys. They are highly skilled and recommended for restoration projects.








Honda S600 Body updates #5

More holes! God, thank god the welder has chipped out the old rusty part of the body and replaced it with a new one. Look at how innovate the welder tries to duplicate the looks of the bonnet, A+ stuff going on here





Honda S600 Body updates #4

More rusts! Grrr, thank god the welder is doing his best to connect the dots, look at the job he has made. He takes an average of one day just to seal a hole. Talk about enthusiasm





Honda S600 Body updates #3

Car being taken apart with the hood/bonnet reshaped and relined! God damn, these are master metal smiths at work! Precision and they really know what they are doing





Honda S600 Body updates #2

So they set out to remove the headlamps the next day and the headlamps rim was jammed up by a rusted screw. So they took the cutter and cut through a hole on the screw and plying it out with a flat head screwdriver. Ingenious aye?





Honda S600 Body updates #1

Car is undergoing lots of body and parts removal. Check out how the car was defaced and reconstructed. This car is definitely going through a lot of plastic surgery and its only 1/4 done even for these past 2 weeks.