Touge with Tuck, Xiao Huan and Fujiwara

I'm probably too moodless and too lazy to blog, but nevertheless, I'm here to share the video where I touge'd today. It has been a while since i Touge'd and definitely it was fun to drive since the cars were of equal challenge. I know the video taking was poor as it was probably my first time using my Nokia N78 as a chase cam. But nevertheless, I learnt some valuable lessons, which is to put the camera more towards the center! LOL. Anyways, heres the video, just ignore the long traffic pileup at the back of the video

Northern Touge Track day, 23rd Nov 2008

Touge with Tougeking on a blind night

Well, I was bored and so was TK. Since he messaged he was bored, I suggested touge! Well I'm sure he is bored because his friends aren't around to touge anyways, so why not suggest it? And this is the final touge I will do before my final examinations on November 18th! God, I hate examinations. I did not go all out on the touge, because I can't see anything, nor I want to risk myself being killed by my parents or lose my form of transportation to go to my college back again in KL. I dread riding the bus, the train and taxi altogether! Well, it was a good day to hone my skills. I used to touge more often with a buddy up Ulu Yam, but he was back in hometown, in Sandakan. Now that he is back, I intend to touge more often to polish my skills. Well, I had a great run and I thank Jeremy for coming. His car is fast and no doubt left lots of gap. I am certain my old Lancer GLXi could perform as good as his 1.8 Satria. Too bad I don't have it anymore. I'm forced to drive in a slow car, until I have money for a better one! Thanks for TK and Jeremy for taking out my boredom.

Gunsai Touge : Nissan Skyline GTR R34 vs Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86

Watch this funny skit by our legendary driftmeister with Keiichi Tsuchiya going against Nobuteru Taniguchi. Our legendary guy drives the Toyota Trueno, while the other guy drives the Nissan. Watch the movie and enjoy!

Keichi Tsuchiya tougeing in a Ferrari F430

Ferrari F430, at the hands of a touge pro. Watch what he could do on this amazing N/A car.

Touge part 2 - Cameron fun with TK, Steven and Jeya

Not being a touge for very long time could rust yourself from your driving skills. In order to maintain myself where I was last at. I decided to arrange myself some touge time with TK. I told him on that specific evening, to gather as much friends as possible, so we can head up to do some training.

Did I choose the wrong day? Well, YES and NO. The best part is that I was touge-ing in pitch black. I had such experience back then while in Australia, while going through the dense forest in Arthur's Seat without proper lighting. The only sad part is that I cant drop shift as fast as manual cars going uphill. Being the lead car, it is pretty stressful. The glaring headlights at the back was really pushing me to the limit. I was hesitating heavily, as I was unable to gauge myself on the road I was doing. Obviously, I had to avoid going inside the ditch and getting a hell of a scolding from my parents.

On the side note, I really had fun. Its good to know lots of talented people attempting the great Cameron Highlands. It was good to know new people, like Jeya, Steven, Steven's girlfriend (Sim Yuen) and Leena. I hope I get to have more fun time soon.

Cameron Touge with TK (KE70), Fuji (KE70) and Steven (Gen2)

I have been deprived of 2 months of touge-ing. This is largely due to the fact that people couldn't make time or actually spend a little more money pumping petrol in their car for uphill and downhill fun. Now that petrol price has fallen about 25 cents. I guess its now even worth it to take the car to the limit again. I have not set foot on any touge expedition. Well without any further delay, I guess showing a video of our touge expedition says it all. (Sorry no recording on my side, as I lost my memory card and its rare to find RS-MMC cards nowdays). Have fun with the video. Thanks to TK, Fuji and Steven for the fun time.

Touge in Hawaii - Oahu Island 3

Me in Ford GT racing against the bunch on a winding touge route

Downhill in Hawaii - Oahu Island

This is a downhill video featuring me in a Jaguar XJ220.

Touge in Hawaii - Oahu Island 2

This is another touge, going uphill. I'm driving the Chevrolet Corvette Z06, racing against the Mercedes-Benz CLK DTM, Dodge Viper RT/10 and the Lamborghini Gallardo SE. Watch out for the twist and turns. Followed by magnificient crashes (and my own human error). So much drama, this is what a touge should be. (Sadly our logic kicks in and no way we drive like that in real life)

Touge in Hawaii - Oahu Island

Due to rising petrol and the 7th month in the lunar calendar, I am forced to stay home and do nothing. Taugeh hero's friend met a car crash while some unfortunate friend broke a leg. I decided not to maximise my chances, so I sat home and did nothing. Due my recent move, I've discovered my old collection of games. One that includes Test Drive Unlimited. It's a game that features 1000 miles of driving on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii. So I decided this is the cheap alternative to touge, "Virtual touge". As you see, the roads are modeled exactly like Hawaii. The game publisher claims up to 1 meter accuracy and mapping was done via GPS. So I decided to go on a friendly touge, with an anonymous computer driver. The computer driver decided to whip up a powerful Jaguar XJ220, as you can tell, it over accelerated me, but I overtook him later, taking corners with confidence with my Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder. (I decided to pick a female driver, because it's like having a bimbo pwning a pro-driver :D) Anywhos, heres the video to my cheap-ass touge. Mind the crashes, LOL, I wish I had a Steering wheel control pad.

Good day, bad night!

This evening, I proposed to TK that we went up Cameron and that I sit his car for the first time. Everything went accordingly. The only thing was that we all panicked when an Evo 8 sped past us at the double lane entry point of the touge. We were supposed to stop and attach the video camera to the rollcage, but since we all got pressured, I decided to be the sacrificial lamb and held my 2 hands tight on the JVC video camera. The DVD video camera is good, except I've zoomed out a little too much, causing the video to be kind of slow. I'm sorry, but this is my first time holding the video camera when going uphill in someones car! I will perfect it next time.

I honestly didn't expect TK was able to chase that car, despite 1 minute start off difference. Damn, I was definitely shocked. I seriously think TK did not go all out when he was chasing me anyways. Haha, I guess these last moves were reserved for really really fast cars. So yeah, it was a great achievement for the TK's car. (I only posted up the Evo chase part, in respect of TK's wish)



Well, I decided to go touge again this time, since TK lured me with Felix, Boy and TK himself going up hill. I took my own sweet time to drive up there, knowing the guys would be late anyways. When I reached at the foot hill of Cameron Highlands, I was waiting for them. Suddenly, when idling, I noticed my car was having problems trying to maintain its RPM and the car shut off by itself. I was worried, so I decided to shut off the car and start up again. I tried to start and it works, but it would die again. I thought this problem occured when I put the car on N instead of P. So I tried P later on, it seem to have idled a couple of minutes before it died. Then, I took the initiative to trouble-shoot in my mind and see what's wrong. I realised my water temp went sky-high red. Shortly, TK and boy arrived. He came in front of my car and noticed my car was steaming hot. Other than that, there was some radiator coolant leaking on the road. Damn, now I am so worried if I have busted my radiator, which I hope not.

Whilst I thought I could let my mind off the troubles I will face at home later, I decided to follow TK in his car, going up hill in his TK. He is definitely fast, much faster than this morning. Since, it was in the dark, I could not see anything, but I could feel him countering every corner almost perfectly, despite that he have night vision problems. Suddenly, 3/4 of the touge, we heard some loud banging noise on the car. We kept on hearing it when TK decided to take corners hard. He was worried the LSD or something might have broken. Well, we stopped at the midpoint. I realised I dropped my torchlight in the car. I thought that was the problem, but when we went downhill, the car started rattling again. I was worried that the bracket would snap and I would have a sudden free-fall and being thrown off the front window. Haha. TK was pissed today, since I could not go fast and having some annoying problems like this. Nevertheless, Boy is fast in my opinion.

Well, today is definitely not my day. On the way home, I thought I will call my tow truck. I thought Uni-asia would cover up to 100km, but I was wrong, LOL! It only covered 50km and RM100 worth of towing and thats it. The total quotation after discount with the sales rep and the tow truck owners only bring it down to RM120. That means I have to cough up RM20, which is not good, since my wallet is all tight. Oh well, so I decided to drive home safely, despite TK told me not to. I was cruising slowly, at 60kmh at first. There seemed to be no increase in temperature. Then I went up to 90kmh and slowly 110kmh. There was no problems at all, even when I was idling at the traffic lights at Gopeng. I suppose this could be a leaked hose for my radiator, which I hope is true. Anyhows, definitely not my night, but it was fun to sit in TK's car over and over again.