Bored with a place to go...

Got bored last night. After setting out with a mate to find a suitable present for another mate who will be having his kenduri kahwin next week at his house(he got married this recent Friday. Congrats Maru!), i tried to kill some time at our favourite lepak spot. Funnily enough, we all (another mate joined us) opened the topic of "What to do?".
In the end, after shoving some typical ideas aside, we agreed to go on a fun-drive. Where? Genting Highlands, a personal favourite drive. On Aoi-chan, all i can say is that the new rims are really good. It helped me in the corners as i can now adjust the steering angle more correctly due to the way that the suspension now modulates without having to crash all of the time (very technical... i'm sure some of you doesn't understand a single word). Anyhow, the absense of that front lip spoiler does crate a tremendous difference. Even the mates can tell that the car understeers more in the faster corners and the front bobs quite easily.
As for the place, well, it is Genting we're talking about here. And of course it was cold. Especially when there's the killer combination of wind and thick fog. The visibility was so poor that at one point, i can't even read the number plate of a car... about 5meters in front of me. One advice though: Don't go there without thick clothing, especially in last night's condition. Not that i can't bear it though~~~
So, here are some pics we took at Genting. Unfortunately, the pda's camera was so useless at night, i can only manage to take pics at illumiated places, like the First World Hotel.

Enjoy!

The sticker that was on the box of the present. We couldn't leave it there before it was wrapped, couldn't we?

First World Hotel... you can see the thick fog even from here.

One of the mate who followed; Arul...

... and the other mate; Amir.

Info counter at First World Hotel. The dialog:

bvc100: "Excuse me. Can i have you guys close the roads so that i can go down faster without the other slower drivers obstructing me?"

person behind counter: "??????"

Two weeks, all rolled into one... post

And that's the truth. Nope, i'm not dead yet so bwahaha to all of you who expected something bad had happenned to me.
Anyhow, the fact that not a lot of thing happenned these past weeks kinda made me fumbled. What to post? If there's no material to post, can i at least make a lite update?Well... truth to be told, there were some good ones last week. But for the love of God, i did not record the event aka i was stupid enough not to capture the event with my pda's camera... silly me~
Onwards and upwards, let's recap some of the more decent and recent occurences. First of all, it seems that i'm now officially hooked to bowling. Seems that my game have improved quite dramatically with the new custom ball from the last post. There's a pic below showing one of my best scores so far (but the rest... let's just say it's inconsistent).
Oh yeah, bfore i forget, a warm welcome please to our 4th and last member of the apartment, mr Syazwan of Auto Eng IIUM aka Soldier Boy to some of the WPS people. He joined us last week and had provided me with TG's latest season... in full. So, a round of applause please~ *Clap3*
Err... what else? Oh! Last week's stuff. Had a one week training on using CATIA V5 at PROTON. The training was fun, and the food was great. Too bad it was quite short. The lecturer said that it should've been extended to cover the topics in depth. I quite agree to that.
Apart from the training, i joined the SAVOC's TT on Friday night, had a game or two of bowling with them and went for a late night nasi lemak. On the way back, i met with 3 accidents (which i think 2 of it were fatal) that was not reported in the next day's newspaper. Strange huh? The car's involved? The two fatal ones (separate incidents, single vehicle accident) were a Kia Sportage (the new one) and a Prod Kelisa which turned turtle... the othe one was a Honda CRX.
Right. i think that's sufficient. Errr.... hope to have my camera primed and ready for next week. Or not, i'll be updating this... later.

Aoi-chan posing with dignity whilst admiring her new rims~~~

Some of the members of savoc.net. We played 2 games at Sunway Pyramid's bowling alley. My group was 2nd best (Thanks in part to batterisya, bob and ultra)

One of my best score so far (top one). Seemed that i really needed that new ball~

bvc100 power up!

Yessss!!!
I got my first paycheck yesterday. Can you smeeeellllll... what the paycheck, smells like.
So, what to do eh? Har3. Most of you would be thinking: This guy is sure gonna spend it on buying another figurine/anime stuff and blow the rest at the arcades. But no.
I've decided to help myself to some less useful but more meaningful things to commemorate the first paycheck:
1. Treat my family to dinner
2. Give some pocket money to my parents and lil' sis.
3. Get myself a brand spanking new bowling ball
4. Replace Aoi-chan's rims

Truth to be told, no 3 and 4 was a bit of a nutter, but like i said, more meaningful. The fact that i'll be playing bowling more often than before made me treat myself to a personal ball. Mind you, it does make a whole lot of difference to the game. The feel of the ball is just superb.
Speaking of superb, check out Aoi-chan's new rims~ Cool huh? Thanks in part to Mr. Gustav of savoc.net for assisting me in choosing and buying the rims. Now Aoi-chan looks meaner than ever (damn i have to get that front lip spoiler back!).

Righto. Since i'm tired and nothing much had happened in the past 7 days, this will be the only post for the week. Expect more update next week. Tatata~ Wahahahaha~~~

So many to chose from... so little time and budget

Aoi-chan looking tense before the change

Aoi-chan, midway thru the change...

Out with the old...

In with the new

Aoi-chan makes a dignified exit for a test-run.

The end result~

The new bowling ball (Tornado). Check out the colour scheme~

An artwork i couldn't scan. The scanner can only scan A4 max. Darn...

Trial by fire and water

i'm quite sure that most of you out there have watched Captain Planet (yes, the cartoon and no, not Mr. Planet/Universe). There were 5 elements: Fire, Water, Wind, Earth and Heart or something or another... oh well.
Today, i had a glimpse of people (other people were involved, luckily it wasn't me) facing trials by two of the mentioned element: Fire and Water.
For the fire, some unlucky fellow had their car torched on the Federal Highway this morning, and yes i was there to witness the event and again no, it wasn't a locally made or local brand car. The cause of a sudden detonation of a car is either a fuel leak, faulty cooling system or some idiotic mistake the owner made by not maintaining the vehicle properly. Tough luck...
On the water side, there was a sudden heavy downpour today and some part of KL had flash flood (as usual). Strangely, in one stretch of the Federal Highway (the exit to Kelana Jaya/Sunway, from Shah Alam) the water rose to a depth that a car couldn't wade through. But, since humans weren't made equal, some stupid drivers decided to try going through (and mind you, it's standard cars we're talking about, not the 4x4 which will have no problem wading through such depth), only to find their car cough and sputter a few meters in or after the flood. If they're lucky, once the engine is dry, the can move on. If not, hahahahaha... a long bill is comin' their way~ Again, i was there to witness everything... 'cause i was stuck in the traffic jam anyway.
Speaking of which, the pictures below isn't exactly photo perfect, but they sure paint the image. My word of advice? Don't play with fire... and don't play with water... errr, that doesn't sound right. Oh heck.

Trial by fire. Car is a Fiat Punto (one of the newer model, not the HGT). Picture distorted due to PDA's camera lag

Trial by water. One of the 'wet' spot on Federal Highway. Three cars were stranded (foolish owners); Merc Benz 200, Prod Kelisa and another i couldn't recognize in time. Seems to me that those living in KL need amphibious cars...

Doujin Update plus bonus stuff~

Noooooo!!!!
What in the world happened to warungpakseman.com's server? Now, apart from here n minitokyo.net, people will never be able to see my artwork. Darn! Dareka~! Somebody, fix it!!!
But hey, life must go on. So here's the update this week. Though there's only 2 artwork, they are of the completed type aka "i did have some spare time to sketch, clean n ink it plus do a bit more editing and cleaning up in the computer before posting it". The theme is nekomimi. One was inspired by the recent Valentino Rossi's day (Valentine's day to the other's who DO celebrate it. i don't... can't... darn again...), and the other is just another test of a different pose.
And here they are~~~ *clap3...




And since i had a grrreat week, here's some bonus stuff for all of you~ Wallies by your's truly~~~

Wallie of the two nekomimis from the above images

Char from T2's artwork, "Reflectia" is the tite of the OP in True Tears. Didn't find any True Tears scans on the net yet.

Char from Onegai Twins anime, one of my all time favourites