Archive for June, 2005

Initial D The Movie

Posted in Random on June 26th, 2005

Hmm, the movie wasn’t that bad, IF the movie’s name isn’t “Initial D”, but since it is, then the movie is really not up to expectations. The show is basically a summary of Stage 1 and 2 but the character roles have been totally changed. Jay Chou’s acting as Takumi wasn’t really THAT bad, at least he was blur enough to be Takumi. Chapman To’s character, Itsuki was perfectly acted. He really portrayed the character well and especially his jokes were damn funny. It’s more of a comedy compared to the manga/anime. Anthony Wong’s character, Bunta was damn funny as well. The way he acts as Bunta was good, even to Bunta’s eyes which are always closed, LOL. Anyway, overall the show was slightly below average to me, go watch it for yourself and you’ll know what i meant.

Anyway, Wednesday’s night up Genting was good. Nothing bad happened on the way up with all 12 cars. The front few cars were fooling around by turning off their headlights while going up -_-” While i was the last car cause i gotta take care of the convoy in case anything happens, but i still got to play a bit on the way up. We had a cup of tea at Gohtong Jaya, sat down there a little while, then we went back to our cars to hang out and have a talk. After a while we started going down, i was going quite slow at first and suddenly one of my friend sped past me. Of course i decided to follow him and both of us were practically playing every single corner all the way down. Up to a point where a Genting Taxi overtook us and of course we followed his racing lines but we still couldn’t catch up. My bald tyres were still gripping well unexpectedly =X Everything went well in the end and everyone came down safely =P

Last night when i was about to leave my house, i heard a chirping sound nearby and guess what i found? A baby bird. I wanted to leave it there but i felt bad cause i couldn’t do anything to help it. I just left it in a container and my dad put it upstairs this morning hoping that the bird’s mother would come and take it away but till now it’s still there. Anyone knows what to feed it with? Been feeding it with wet bread, luckily it’s eating the bread if not it would’ve starved to death. Hmmm. Anyone got any ideas?


Initial D day

Posted in Random on June 22nd, 2005

w00t ! Tonight i’m gonna go up genting with the Pro-Hatch guys. It’s my first time going up using my GSR turbo engine and of course HWL adjustables. The only bad thing is that my rear tyres are totally bald, so i’m left with my front AD07s to play with. I won’t go to the extreme anyway. Might just drive slow. =P

The previous time i went up was during last year’s Christmas eve i think. I was still using my 1.3 back then with GAB adjustables. That was my very FIRST time driving up genting and i was already playing with the corners there =P Oh well, that was because i was confident and already used to my GAB adjustables and of course my AD07 was just barely a month old. Anyway, i’ll take some pictures here and post them here soon? =)

Okay, so today i finally bought the Initial D tickets for this coming Friday, which is two days away. At first i asked the girl at the counter about Friday’s show and when i told her if the cinema is empty, she asked me how many tickets i wanted. Of course i said 24, then she was damn shocked, lol. She counted the seats and then told me there were enough seats and i bought them eventually. The seats are a few rows from the back which is damn good =P

After buying the tickets, me and Alvin went over to Jaya Supermarket in Section 14 in PJ to meet Eugene and play Initial D the arcade ! =X OMG, today is like the Initial D day for us man -_-” I was supposed to go over to 1U after the arcade for the Initial D roadshow but i got too lazy cause there’ll be a lot of ppl there and it’s gonna be damn packed. Tonight? Genting to initiate the corners ! -_-” We’re so dead =P

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Tickets baybeh ! =D

Bicentennial Man

Posted in Random on June 17th, 2005

Anyone watched this show yet? Yes, it’s quite an old show starring Robin Williams which came out in 1999 i think. It’s one of my favourite shows and i downloaded it again the other day cause i wanted to watch it again.

Well, this show is actually told somewhere in the future where robots will be a normal household appliance where they’re used as servants. One family had one robot where he’s special. Special as in, fast in learning things and cares for the family. Slowly, he started having feelings like a human. He even tried to make himself human by modifying himself too look like one. But inside, he’s still considered a machine as he’s immortal. In the end, he turned himself into human cause of the feelings he had for a girl. You gotta watch this show for yourself to understand cause i really do suck at explaining =P

Guess what? at the end of the show i even had a bit of tears rolling down my eyes. Hahahah =X YES ! It is THAT SAD =P especially the ending part.

Been going out a lot lately for movies. Recently, i just watched Mr. & Mrs. Smith and The Interpreter. Both shows aren’t bad though. Go watch it for yourself ! Hahah, missing lots of shows lately and i gotta catch up on my movies. Especially Batman Begins and of course Initial D, which is releasing next week. Gonna watch the show with the Pro-Hatch guys !

Okay, anyone wanna read up about the new Putra? =P
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/witchblade2002/newputra.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/witchblade2002/newputra6ws1.jpg[/img]

Btw, it’s fake =P Just some photoshopped picture. =X

Dyno !

Posted in Random on June 10th, 2005

I’m back ! heheh, after a few days of downtime. My domain expired and Wai Keen wasn’t online to renew my subscription. Anyway, it’s all done now and i’m happy. =P On to today.

My car got dynoed in GT Auto today. Today’s dyno was just to tune my SAFC and i was damn satisfied with it. The results? Of course won’t be revealed here =P but i can say that i got a 15hp on wheel increase just from the SAFC tuning =)

Well, since it’s my first time on the dyno machine, it’s normal if i took a few pictures and a video right? Hahah, and here are the pictures =P

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My car getting onto the dyno machine while the guy behind sets the machine up

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My car being strapped up front and back to prevent it from going off the machine

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All ready to go ! and finally the dyno starts =)

Hahahah, it was a bit scary at first cause i’ve NEVER revved my car up till the redline before and when he revved till redline, the amount of smoke that comes out from the exhaust is really scary LOL =P Then at every gear change, you can see the car jump almost like it’s gonna go off the machine anytime. Although my car’s horsepower ain’t that high, it’s already that scary, i can’t imagine those cars whose horsepower is a few times higher than mine. Overall, i was really satisfied with the horsepower and torque gain throughout the revs. RM150 well spent there =P

On another note, the Proton Savvy was launched yesterday at 5pm. I didn’t get to check it out at any Proton showrooms. Wasn’t even bothered, hahahah =P Anyway, it comes in 3 colours, Magma Red, Stratosphere Blue and Midnight Black.

[img]http://paultan.org/wp-content/savvy3colours.jpg[/img]
(Image taken from [url=http://www.paultan.org]Paul Tan[/url]’s blog)

The colour selections aren’t that bad though. It’s powered by a 1.2 liter Renault engine. The only downside to this is that there’re only manual versions available. I’ve heard of the automatic versions being available later in the year. Oh well, don’t wanna say more about this cause i’m getting really lazy now =P

The Savvy has just been launched and the R3 team of Proton has come up with the Proton Savvy R3 Concept. Hahah, wonder when it’ll be launched next to the Satria R3. I’ve even heard of them coming up with the Gen 2 R3.

[img]http://www.archang3l.net/pics/savvyr3.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.archang3l.net/pics/savvyr32.jpg[/img]

The colours on the Savvy R3 looks exactly like the Satria R3 which makes it look really fierce, black car with the red stripe across the body. The rims are the same with the Satria R3 which is the Advanti rims and does that makes it’s tyres the Advan Neovas too? Whoa, that’s gonna be sweeet. I wonder which engine R3 is gonna use to power this Savvy R3 and what goodies are they gonna include in this ride?

I think i’ve typed enough? Hahahah =P