Of Ryan, Kay Ren and Bandit!

Wow...times flies eh?


Dun hate me because i'm good looking...

I still recalled the moment when i first saw him last November, so tiny and wrinkly. He has grown from a 3.3kg, 53cm baby to a good 6.5kg, 63cm baby in just 89 days...and he might just be growing right before my eyes now as well!

It didn't really hit me and wifey just how much he has grown until we saw Tuck Yiew's son, Kay Ren during his fullmoon last Sunday! Congrats to both of you bro!


Baby Kay Ren

I'm sure Ryan looked this small as well, when the flannel that we used to swaddle him up could fit. We tried it again yesterday and his legs were protruding out. Then we realised we never did let him wear some of his newborn clothes anymore because the pants has became shorts and the shirts are bursting at the buttons.


:)

Such joy.

With Chinese New Year around the corner and festivities abound, life has certainly changed since he came along. Like Shen would said, "Yesterday, the world revolves around the sun, today, it revolves around him". I can't imagine if anohter baby comes along in near future. Imagine the fun!


Time to let me and wifey takes a breather...


i'm a good boy because i don't rely on Mr. Binky...

It was also on Saturday that i bumped into a friend i've not seen for the past 15 years! My own batchmate from RMC which stays next door to where Tuck Yiew was! Asri himself is a proud father of 2, coming 3. Now, looks like i got a lot of catching up to do!

Another good news that i am dying to tell. Since it's been 3 months, i got an announcement to make.

CONGRATS to BANDIT and JAZ for the family will increase by anohter member come this August!

Amerul finally will have a brother/sister and Ryan would have anohter person to race/ride with when he grows up!

Now, i'm just waiting for Lenny to give birth come this April and see Iqbal be a dad. :)

By the way, i've registered for KLIM 2007. Will be running the full distance without proper preparation. Lets see how the power of the mind match up this time eh?

And i'm dying to get a road bike in preparation for IronMan Langkawi next year, "Get Stupe A Road Bike Fund" has only RM1 inside. I've already missed it 2 years in a row. This time around, Doc, Steve and Zabil will be doing it, again!

So, Good luck to all triatheletes that i know that will be doing this race in 11 days! They are, Doc, Steve, Zabil, Azwar, Hin Tong and Ah Thiam! Good Luck! Good Luck! Good Luck!

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Masuk lagi, Belakang Mali!

Been ages since i even heard any bus conductor shout for the passengers to move behind. Mini Bas, our very own version of BMW (Bas Mini Wilayah - also known as Pink Lady because the buses in the mid 90's are all pink in colour)) was around way before Proton claims that they produced the BMW of Asia.


Images from Pick Yin's Blog

Sri Jaya (the one plying Jalan Ampang to KL), Len Seng(which was bankrupt in the late 90's...), Tong Fong (which brought me out from RMC over the weekends) were the few buses which i remember their schedule by heart. Here is a link of someone i supposed to be around my age on these buses...(Thanks Pick Yin)

Leng Seng was my primary transport, Bus number 191 and 170, bringing me and friends from our home to school and to town. I don't recall paying more than 30 sens for the journey from school in Melawati back to Permata. To town was a simple 50 sen to Chow Kit. Later, when they introduced air conditioned bus, the fare shot up from 30 sen to 50 sen, sometimes, i could get away with paying 40 sen by exiting at a stop earlier and walk the distance (what to do, short of 10 sen because i bought the ais krim malaysia...)


Anyone has these tixs still?

I'm not sure if these days, the buses' tickets are as exciting as the days before where different denomination and colour were the order of the day. It rival the faux money used in Monopoly even! My only regret was not keeping the earlier tickets such as those 15 sen Len Seng tixs. Those would be almost 20 years if i have them. My mum used to take me and my sis on these buses on Saturday to my granma's house in Gombak. We would hop onto either 191 or 170(which would turn into TAR College) and then we would get off at Setapak (infront of the old KFC, which is now a run down Motorbike Shop), cross the 2 lane street (traffic wasn't as heavy) and take either 168 or 165(thanks Beb21 for reminding me that 165 goes to Air Panas) to my granma's place in Gombak.

I recalled, back then, still fresh in my memory, that i used to pronounce ONCE as ON-CE(as in ON and CE) on the bell to signal to the driver that you are getting off the next stop. Those PRESS ONCE button, in circular shape with a red button in the middle, you know what i meant?


Monopoly anyone?

One more thing i really like about Len Seng's ticket is that they have different images on the bottom of the ticket. You could almost tell which one is of the same batch by looking at the bottom of the ticket. For example, see these 30 sen tickets...


Horse, Ant, Octopus, Elephant...how cool is that?

I also remember how, back then, without handphone, me and friends, ie Surin, Kok Yun, Norman, Mano, Deva and the whole gang could actually coordinate ourselves to be in the same bus to town! With exception of Surin, which sometimes misses the bus, he would run across Kampung Klang Gate from his home in Jalan C and wait for us at the stop infront of the Klang Gate Mosque. We never did need to use any handphone! We have the bus schedule inplanted into our head. But ask us to take any bus now, i bet we might just end up like some tourist trying to get to our destination! Hahaha!

And here is a few pics of the bus tickets i have with me still.


Rare 20 sen ticket, at today's rate, this bus ride could be paid with 4 sweets!


Bas Mini, Tong Fong, Len Seng, Sri Jaya


Sri Jaya with Visit Malaysia Year 1994


Striking Pink Len Seng RM1.00 Ticket for Air Cond Bus to Town


Does Metro Bus still has 50 sen tickets?


Some of the Len Seng Tickets which i still keep


and a full stack of Sri Jaya Bus tickets next to another stack of Mini Bas Tickets inside the container!


Most recent bus ticket given to me by my Dad

The above ticket is special to me. My dad took a bus down to Petaling Street to buy dried octopus for wifey, as traditional recipe says that it would increase milk flow for lacticating mother. My dad went down to town without even me asking and i was rewarded with this ticket with the number 8574, which coincidentally was my last 4 digit in my RMC Military number (mine was 388574). This 4 digit is reflected prominently in my life, if you do know me phone number and my car number, you will definately see this! Comparing the new ticket with the old, don't you think the new ticket are so boring?

So, if i were to sell these tickets on Ebay, lets say, do you think i would make enough to buy myself that elusive Road Bike i ever wanted? Also, do any of you have any of these tickets to share with the rest of us here?

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Worst Modified Kenari, Ever!

Picture tells a thousand words, what more if i have two of these?


What is it with red bumper and black car?

The above picture is already worth a thousand words. The car looked great as it was zooming from behind me this morning, with all the nessasary scoop, bonnet spoiler, stainless steel grills and front bodywork, it looked promisingly well modified, from my rear view mirror.

So, never one to mess with a possible turbocharged Kenari running on a 660 cc engine, i moved aside.

Horror of horror...as i notice the rear bumper of different colour, *sports* suspension that ensure the car occupant to be bouncing inside with every available peeble on the road and best of all, twin exhaust pipe which was really, really, really, really badly, so ever badly done.

And i instantly know that this is a stock engine Kenari trying to be what it is not.

Sorry, i really couldn't resist taking this pic.

It is ok with the kickass rear lights which were tinted dark to go with the body paintwork, It is also ok to put in 15 incher rims into the car. But to NOT ENSURING THAT THE BUMPER WAS OF THE SAME COLOUR AS THE REST OF THE CAR AND WITH ONE REVERSE LIGHT MISSING....

BAD TASTE!

Yeah, and it's as ugly as the font colour above.


OMFG

And seriously, if you could cut part of the red bumper to accomodate the right side tailpipe, why can't you do the same to the left side tailpipe? It looked amazingly fugly. Total shame to all the car lovers out there, and an open arm to rice car criticiser like me.

The second picture tells another thousand words, but i ain't gonna go there as i don't think i could actually write any further on how ugly it was!

Just a note, if you even think that this was a replacement bumper, don't. Every single thing told me it isn't, well at least not in the most recent period of time. The number plate is not the standard type, it's the type where you pay almost RM100 for the so called stainless steel alphanumeric, consistent with the car plate up front. The exhaust can't be done like yesterday as there is visible black soot on both end of the tailpipe. But whichever mechanic that does the tailpipe, he either has a Ph.D in both automotive and physics, as he could do such ugly job with theories only known to him.

Band this car from the road, please!

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Mt. Aconcagua Brief Report

Recieved an email from a fellow friend which was one of the expedition member for this climb.

Well done to all of you that made it up there!

This is his very own words.

:)

How are you guys doing!!!!

Im in Argentina recovering from my climb.... I should be back in KL by the 9th. I cant run, maybe by ironman hopefully im okay. I got frostnip (minor frostbite) all my digits on my left feet and 3 digits on my right feet are swollen.

Dont worry, I wont loose them, but it will take at least 6 months to get the correct sensation. Nerve damage.

You can follow the climb through CLIMB WITH PRIDE-ACONCAGUA 2007

Cant wait it to be aired on Astro. We had good footage. I dont want to spoil you with details... you just have to visit that website and wait for the 2 part programme on Astro.

All I can say is that IT IS BEAUTIFUL! The drinks and the steak... oh my god!

Im awefully thin pass 5 days, now eating as much steak as I can to get back my weight!

Spent 3 days in Mendoza after the climb. Now in Buenos Aires for another 3 days to do media thinggy.

Hehehe, we appeared in local papers here! but its in spanish!

some interesthing stuff:
Climbing in a 1 meter deep soft powder snow on a 15 hour summit push is NO JOKE!

Walking up scree slope is HELL... TOUGHEST thing I ever did its like walking on threadmill! you dont get anywhere.... Took 3 days to get to base camp.

Took us 1 hour 10 mins to climb a mere 200m on day 1 after base camp towards CAMP1.

Took 6 hours to climb a mere 300m on summit push.

GILA BABI... We had what it feels like a 100km/hr winds! The HUGE Base camp tent got blown away!!! Minus 35 degres celcius at High Camp..... and much more!!!

Regards.

ZABIL

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Second Cross Street, Malacca

I had this painting with me in watercolour and pen. Done by one painter decipiting Melaka back in 1986. Infact, this drawing was done in 1986 and was given to my family by a relative.


Second Cross Street, 1986. Painter Unknown

The reason why this has become today's blog entry was because i opened the picture frame last Saturday. It was infested with ants. Yeap, ants are making home in Second Cross Street.


Ants carrying their eggs elsewhere...


No wonder my toilet was infested...

The other bigger surprise was how well this frame stood the test of time, coming to 21 years this year, it was done at Taman Tun by this shop called Klassik Framer & Gallery Sdn. Bhd.


ol skool...

Even the phone number is still 6 digit! How cool is that?

But of course, to save the painting from being eaten and used as an ant home, i had to destroy the frame. No ants are hurt in the process as i removed the painting and let them all crawl out and find their new home.

So, today, i blog about it. I called Kelvin to find out what is Second Cross Street known as in today's Malacca. His first time answer was really accurate and pin point me to Jalan Hang Kasturi, near Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock. Spoken like a true Melaka-ian. But he did tell me that as far as he can remember, he has never used the Cross Street reference to the streets near his home.

My search in the world wide wed was somewhat not as promising, so i search for the above mentioned name PLUS Jalan Hang Kasturi and was lead to MBMB website (That's Majlis Bandaraya Melaka Bersejarah). But there seems to be a confusion as to which is actually second cross street. Lorong Hang Lekiu and Lorong Hang Kasturi are both refered to as Second Cross Street as well! But i guess the more accurate representation would be the JALAN Hang Kasturi being the proper Second Cross Street.

MBMB has fully documented all the nessasary to the Melaka town. Well done.

Second Cross Street - Lorong Hang Lekiu
Third Cross Street - Lorong Hang Kasturi
And a reference of Second Cross Street as Jalan Hang Kasturi (Item 2.5.2.k)


Second Cross Street according to MBMB

The archive and reference could be obtained here, but it's in Bahasa Malaysia though, so, to tourists that chance upon my blog while searching for info on Melaka or Malacca, sorry for the unavialiable translation! But Welcome to Malaysia (heh, just doing my part for VMY 07 la!)


Nostalgic...

I've no idea who drew the above painting, but i thought i saw Yorke. Maybe it's Yoke? All in all, this is a good 21 years since it was drawn, truly priceless, to me, that is.

Oh ya, have i show all of you my collection of bus tickets from yester-years? Imagine an orgy of colours from Len Seng Bus, Tong Fong Bus, Mini Bus, Sri Jaya Bus and many others where a bus ride is only 15 sens at their cheapest! Will show you all once i snap the pic of the tickets!

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Take Off That Tie

Ugly ties...i bet most of us would have some that looked horrid in the closet...


All in the name of Retro???

It has been 5 years since i last wore a tie to work. My line of work doesn't require me to wear any. If needed, i only wear my Alumni's tie.

I've been wearing the same pattern of tie since 1992. It is now 2007, that would be a good 15 years of the same tie pattern i've been wearing.


Taken in 1993 in RMC


Taken in 2005 in MINDEF

But, what interest me most is that as i was surfing through the web, there is a a person by the name of Peter Belisi that is running a Belisi Take off that Tie Campaign!!! Campaign to take off the ties? Read On!

Belisi is a luxury designer of high-end silk ties, scarves and women's handbags. Infact, he is offering a year supply of ties to the winner of this campaign! In his own words, he says "The Belisi brand unites the luxury and prestige of Palm Beach with Italian beauty and sophistication."

Now, looking at his pic in MySpace does show he at least wears nice tie, so, who am i, someone that hardly wears one, to argue? :)

Just check out his website and his company's website and see the range of stuff they have!


OK, maybe Surin had something to say about me not wearing one on my wedding...

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Magazines Subscriptions

Wifey has with her, tonnes of National Geographic magazines dated back in 1970's till early 90's. With a few issues missing here and there, this rack of magazines got to be amongst my favourite at home.

Now, problem with living in Malaysia is that some of these so called *overseas* magazines comes with a premium price (fortunately, National Geographic isn't one of them). Muscle & Fitness are priced at a hefty RM29.90 (that's USD 8.54 per issue at the current rate).

I sort of surf right into this site that let you subscribe to magazines and just check out how competetive the pricing of the magazines could be! Muscle & Fitness subscription for USD29.97 a year (that works out to RM8.74 per issue, DAMN!)

This site too offers subscription to over 1,300 magazines at the lowest prices allowed by the publishers for general internet sales, which explain how they could offer such obscenely cheap magazine.

Heck, even the back copies that is sold in our local magazine shop would cost us about RM19 (that's USD5.42) for copies that everyone has already read since like forever!

I am now checking if they do mail to Malaysia FOC. If it does, then, that is great, isn't it? Imagine the Runner's World, Car And Driver, Glamour and even...Guns yo could read for a fraction of the price!

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Diapers & Diarrhea

As usual, Diethelm (or DKSH) warehouse sales are usually packed.

Saturday and Sunday was no exception.

I drove myself to DKSH at Section 17 at about 8.30am and thought i must be amongst the first few there.

Imagine my shock when the cars were all parked from the UIA junction until the Sin Chew's roundabout!

Took me a good 2 hours to JUST get through the traffic (UIA-DKSH-SIN Chew-Section 17-UIA).

Cars were everywhere and anywhere and stuffs were bought as it if was FOC.

So, on Sunday, me and wifey take extra effort to wake up earlier and went to the warehouse sales again. Hoping that the crowd won't be as wild/mad/rich as Saturday, we found ourselves within stone throw from DKSH (parked in the middle of the road's divider...i know, law breaker!

First time we did was headed to the diaper section.

We spent a good RM518 on diapers alone.

And this are our bounty.


8 packs of S52 and 6 packs of M72 - all in, 4 boxes.

Buying the Matrix was a good choice as the boot is carvenous enough to carry this much alone, and with space infront for more still.


Can last for 4 or 5 months only...

We left Ryan with his godma.

And later in the afternoon, as if that he knows he got tonnes of diapers to waste, he was down with diarrhea.

First time. From 1pm until this morning at 8.30am, he has shitted 6 times. Not good as the stool was watery. We've done everything as per usual and kinda baffled how this could happen.

His appointment with Dr. Yong is this afternoon at 2.30pm.

Hope he will recover in no time. See how a simple diarrhea could make new parents (like us) worried?

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Congrats Shen!

Congrats to Shen for the safe delivery of his Baby Gavin!

Came out to this world on 27th January, afternoon!

Rest well and get hubby to give you plentiful of TLCs!

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Of Self Defense

Now that i've felt threaten over my life, family and even my properties, i really do wish that the government would allow usage of self defense tools, such as Taser???

In US of A, where having a license to carry a firearm is as easy as us going to the shop and getting a prepaid phone line, and like a prepaid phone line in Malaysia, it is easily and cheaply available.

But, since this is not US of A, we all could do with a bit of self defence and security no?

Why didn't the government approve the usage of TASER guns? or Stun guns? I can't rely on my huge 6D cell Maglite all the time, no?


50k Volt Stun Gun...can be used for BBQ as well!

How about family with maids? afraid that you maid might abuse your kids?

Maybe this is what you need.


StealthCam Hidden Camera!

Your maid would just think you put a big ugly looking clock for her to make milk to feed your child, but in actual fact, it is spying on her, ensuring she has no side activities going on. You know...of those 18SX type.

So, with the recent happening in my home area, the stun gun might come in handy, just have to make sure i don't stun myself! :)

How about a baby monitor? This one too hgh tech looking la! But nice! Forget those walkie talkie lookalike baby monitor...


Wireles Night Vision Baby Monitor

Now, why can't our government just approve the use of the Stun Guns, if one has a valid reason that their felt their life being threaten???

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Stupe, The Law Enforcer

Now, how would you like to be called the above?

Unfortunately, i was accused, blamed and labelled as such!

It all started when i help the guards at my condo to clamp a Waja which was parked at the common car wash area about a week ago.

I was told by the guard that this was the second time that this car parked at a spot not designated to him/her.

So, today, as i logged into the forum, imagine the shock i had when i saw someone posting something that sounded like this:

posted on this thread:

"Stupe, I thought you say the onwer is a lady without brains? Well, first you say that you know she's a lady then you say HE storm into the guard house with a metal piece. Eh, you please make up your mind la. So absent minded or are you experiencing amnesia? getting old already i guess. I heard from the owner that he/she parked in a wrong place. he apologised for that and he thinks that the the law enforcer ie. security guard has been assigned to enforce law in this lovely living place which soon will turn into war zone. anyways, he/she also mentioned that destroying ppl"s property ie. car is also wrong (patient onwer: please take note about law. u you don't take up law studies via internet, moron!). the waja onwer simply parked on the wrong spot the first time and paid rm50 for it. deserve him/her right. but what is funny is that when he/she ask the security guard why didnt you clamp the other car parking at the washing bay? the guards reply that parking at washing bay is alright. so the poor waja owner thinks its fine for he/she to park there. well, for all you know, there is a so- call perdana view condo "privately/exclusive organise security guards aka heroes" has been setting up "private operations" that stick labels on these cars with their own juice and on top of that, they add dents on ppl's car.
not only that, the waja onwer is piss because these "private securities" created 3 dent on his/her car. who to be blame when these private securities decides to act on their own? IS THAT CORRECT or LEGALLY RIGHT? Haven't you think that acting on your own is not right? I mean, you guys are grown adults and you know very well that never to disturb other ppl's property? Unless you parents never taught u, i felt bad for your parents. Guess they won't feel good or proud of what the daughter has been doing. by the way, you don't work? Think about it stupe, you're not only person monitoring the condo now... Good on ya! At the very least, if any of our car is damage while parking in perdana view condo, we know who to look for irregardless."

and on anohter thread, he/she says this:

"yea yea... woohooo ... lets go kick and dent ppl's car like how stupe and her gang do... how much to join ur association ar? issit called the "stupe, the law enforcer" ?"

I've been staying at this place for almost 2 years and i've helped the ad hoc committee and guards to monitor the condo's safety.

I take breaks during lunch to go back and run the full 16 floor on the emergency stairwells, on both blocks, to check for irregularities in activities. This is especially so that a few units was broken in last year.

I thought i was also doing everyone a favour when i do my rounds in the parking lot since there were 8 cars being vandalised and broken into one fine morning last year.

But to recieve threat as such in the threads above...

and being accused of the doing, i guess, enough is enough.

I am not gonna fight with someone over the RM50 clamping fees, nor do i want to be labeled as a law enforcer when all i'm doing was on a voluntarary basis.

Now i felt threaten. People that knows me would know that i won't stoop so low.

How is that for being neighbourly?

And i do not like it either that he drag my family into this, saying that my parents did not teach me yada..yada..yada...

I've refrain from posting nastily and has held my tongue (in this case, finger).

Now, perhaps i should redirect all queries by the guards to his unit. So far i've been called by the guard to resolve a few matters, latest being a woman, which was drunk at 4pm in the afternoon, slept in her car, woken her up, then later she went up without even switching off her car engine, leaving behind her specs and her handbag, locked herself in her home, and only having her husband come knocking on my door at 12am, apologising and then proceed to have a major domestic arguement until 2am in the morning.

I need my sleep too, and i do not want to be involved in domestic dispute. Ironically, this unit is the same unit that has been splashing water down, wetting all my clean dried laundry. Seeing the husband, i now believe that it was the wife's doing.

So, perhaps, Mr. Destroyer would want to take over the role.

And nevermind the Law Enforcer tag that he will wear on himself!!!

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Hyundai Matrix - Grounded

I've just got my Matrix grounded.

No, she didn't do anything wrong and i won't send her to her room.

Ok, corny jokes aside. what i did was, well, to be more precise, i've added more grounding points for the car.

The usual RM69.00 for 7 point grounding kit that comes with so called copper block sold in some car accesories shop just doesn't hack it.

The product is good, but to get a good installer to install it properly is hard.

So, when i came across what Drex Chan does, it took little convincing to actually go to him, eventhough the price is a little less than double for what i could get for.

Customised Grounding.

He call it C-Ground.

I call it personal service.

So, for Rm120.00, what did i get?

I get a solid 4 gauge OFC tin coated pure copper 1666 count of cables

Now, i've been taught that resistance is directly proportionate to the length and inversely proportionate with the area of the cable. It is also proportionate to the material's constant. Now, the material aside, what this custom grounding offers was a large area (5.189mm) and the optimum distance(or length). This would minimise the resistance of the cable and hence, provide more path for the electricty and current in the car to return to the battery's negative terminal.

Think of it as you are working in KL and you are constantly stuck in Jalan Sultan Ismail. If only you could build one dedicated road to return home, wouldn't that be great? Now imagine if you could do the same for 4 different places that you frequent. Now, that was what Drex gave me, a 5 point grounding.

Some accesories shop offer up to 7 points grounding, but shody work would make even 14 points useless. OK, it might make your car engine bay looked as if it was pimped, but that is besides the point.

Furthermore, the cables from these shop are mostly 8 gauge cable in thick rubber housing, thus, giving you an impression of, well, thick cable!

I reached Drex's place at about 2.30pm. A brief introduction (eventhough we've seen each other online via the Autoworld forum) and he proceed to check the engine bay for all the possible place he could ground the cables.

1. Engine block to Chasis (side nearer to battery)
2. Chasis to battery's negative
3. Alternator to Engine block
4. Engine block (far end) to engine block (near battery)
5. Engine block (far end) to chasis(near filter)

"Alternator will be tricky", he says.

Eventhough item 1, 4 and 5 seems to look redundant in writing, but when you view it in the engine bay, it does make sense. As there is two points where the engine block is meeting the chasis, there is also an existing point where the manufacturer grounded from the chasis to the engine. So, what we are doing is to create more path.

He then proceed to cut the cables and crimped it with the lug. Then he used the heatshrink wrap to wrap the connection.


Stock as it can be

The whole process took almost 2 hours. Definately you won't get this kind of installation if you go to the usual accesories shop. I've seen bad grounding routing done, usually bolted straight to the first nut these buggers can find. Shoddy work!

Now look at the picture below. This is what Drex has done after 2 hours. Compare it with the before picture above. Nicely hidden with no extra intrusive looking cables lying around, no?


Stock as it can be, still!

The after picture, you can clearly see item 1,2,3 and 4. But it appear as only 2 cables running parallel with the engine block and a hint of the cable sneaking/peeping out from the battery's negative terminal.

Here, more pictures


item 1 and 2. Notice how thick the cable is?


item 3 and 4. The cable is the same size as the engine breather hose!

Drex went on to make extra bracket to hold the cable running to the alternator. Nice touch. Look almost stock, isn't it?


Item 5 to complete the grounding

As he unplugged the battery terminal, the car's ECU has been reseted to factory setting. That also has the safety feature found in Matrix activated.

I tried starting my car after the work was done and couldn't start it despite the starter cranking.

A quick check by the both of us found a switch near item 2. There is a switch to reset the fuel pump. As a built in feature, this switch was switched off when the battery was removed or during collision to cut the fuel off from the car.

As this was Drex's first work on a Hyundai Matrix, this was indeed a learning experience for the both of us.

I didn't notice any improvement on torque or in horsepower after installation, it should have actually as the grounding does nothing more than allow the electronics in the car to function better.

But a test at night yesterday as i went to see a friend to pick something up, i did notice that my radio reception was much clearer, especially over a few spot i drive past everyday where the reception quality would be bad. The headlight too, surprisingly shone brighter. But these might just be my imagination.


pics taken in a total dark road in Mutiara Damansara

And of course, which modification will be complete until a sticker is stuck to tell the world you've just modded you ride?


"Damn ah beng man..." This was Drex's own words...

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The Platters - (You've Got) The Magic Touch

He got the magic touch. Definately.



He refused to sleep after his 10am feed on Saturday and insist that he wants to play and talk to me.

I switched on the MP3 on my K750i and let it blast all the oldies (and Metalica, GnR, BPR) and as i sing to him, he, in his own playful ways, sang back to me.

If the collage here don't make you smile, maybe the one at the end of this blgo entry, would.

(You've Got) The Magic Touch

Artists: The Platters (peak Billboard position # 4 in 1956)
Words and Music by Buck Ram

You-oo-ve got the magic touch
You make me glow so much
It casts a spell, it rings a bell
The magic touch

Oh-uh-oh when I feel your charm
Its like a fourth alarm
You make me thrill so much
Youve got the magic touch

If I go reeling, uh-oh, Im feeling the glow (uh-oh)
But where can I go from you

I didnt know too much
And then I felt your touch
And now Ive learned I can return
The magic touch

If I go reeling, uh-oh, Im feeling the glow (uh-oh)
But where can I go from you

I didnt know too much
And then I felt your touch
And now Ive learned I can return
The magic touch



Love You!

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