congratulation, it's your graduation!

今天有人毕业哦，
没办法出席，所以只好捐出一个blog。

恭喜恭喜恭喜你啊，
恭喜恭喜恭喜你啊！

毕业咯！
Proud of you!

礼物快到了。耐心等待！

noob car review

Last week on Monday night, I was given the opportunity to drive the MINI Clubman Cooper S (the not so cute, but still damn cute MINI) for four days four nights. Yes, four days and four nights!!



After sleepless nights of car testing including city cruising, highway mad rush, max speed attempt and 0 to 100 km/h experiment, I decided to attempt a noob review of the car~

The first few seconds when I laid my hands on the steering wheel, I was amazed by the classic looking speedometer that smack right in the centre of the dashboard, open roof, and the customisable interior lights. They are so adorable, so chic, so metro, so individual!





My first night drive with the car was from Cyberjaya to Puchong, and later back to Klang using the KESAS highway. Ahh, I went to Puchong to see Samantha’s eldest sister baby, and also to catch up with Samantha :)

The club door! Yep, the USP of MINI Clubman was handy when I fetched Samantha and her younger sister. But the doors, they are freaking heavy… Samantha was the first to say so, I told her its your skinny hands, but later when I have less adrenaline in my system, I couldn‘t agree more.


Useful when washing the car too :P

While on the road, I experimented with every dials and switches available! Sports, DSC, headlights, spot lights, open roof, interior lights, font/ rear wipers, side windows, side mirrors… It felt like a first date, when everything about your companion is so damn interesting, even the most miniscule and useless stuff.

Second night, I grabbed a few friends along and we took a long, straight stretch from Kapar to Sasaran (in case you are wondering, Kapar is in Klang and Sasaran is in Kuala Selangor) to TRY to floor the pedal, the turbo boost, and to take corners in high speed. We broke the speed limit, most of the time :P But we were still no where near the max speed.


damn cool to stick your head out, siauhui did that

Third night was drive from Cheras to Mont’ Kiara and dinner in Bangsar. I learnt the word electronic magnetic lock, or something like that… showed Wendy the good for roadshow/ picnic split door (the reason why it doesn‘t look as cute as the old MINIs), and the air conditioning is non existence for back seat passenger :(


the split door

Forth night, yes… it was the night I learnt that the car can go manual, that the car can go 0 to 100km/h in 7.5 seconds, that the max speed is 219km/h, that I can cruise in a constant speed, without stepping on the pedal! and there is a hidden key in the key (no typo here, you read it right)!

But the wind noise is loud and the car is not heavy enough to handle the speed it can go. You see, the original MINI wasn’t supposed to go this fast…

Important lesson here, To drive a MINI, is to realise- life is not about dashing and zooming and overtaking, it's about doing them in style... keep that in mind.

Parting with MINI on Friday morning wasn’t easy. It might be another 20-30 years before I can drive/ own one again. But even by then, would I still be as passionate of it? MINI is a car for the young, as soon as you can justify why it is not worth it, you are not young anymore (you are wise :P) . Young punks don’t justify, we just do it!



My conclusion for MINI- it is a toy car, a car that is fun to drive around. I have to be honest here. four days commuting to work in a MINI does make me felt elevated in some way.

MINI also remains a selfish car for two, but this time it does try to be generous by adding in the Club door that receive mixed responses.

Oh ya, I also couldn’t figure out how to open the bonnet.

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Pix above are taken using hand phone :) Film is hibernating

FHKL 101 Part 1

People whom i work/ see/ have lunch/ hang out with everyday. (clik on pix to enlarge)



Only half of the office is here. Some tier 1 are absent. Ha ha ha.

We watch movie together so often lately, it almost become a weekly event.

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Ooh, for two days i stayed in my house this weekend, didn't go out at all.

Oops, munthye is here. I'm going for my dinner, ciao~

deep deep south

My whole family will be moving very soon, to Southern Park Klang.
I'm not very enthusiastic of the new place,
so I think I'm going to pay myself out of the cleaning/ painting mess.

I hope by the time i see it, it's pretty enough.

I'm gathering pictures taken during my recent trip up to genting.
Quite an enjoyable maiden visit to the casino.

Here's some i took using a RAZR2 V9.











Even without flash, without 5MB camera, and NO 3X zoom and auto focus,
applying some common sense/ rules still deliver ok photos.
You want any better? Just get a proper digicam.

found ya

jeng jeng jeng... check out my latest blogroll's addition
ha ha ha. the sweet couple that is now with each other in newcastle.

catch up with their life together in uk,
and stay tune for more diabetic pictures.

even better if you are into romantic stuff and lomography,
they got tonnes of it in their jointly written blog.

ha ha ha. alarm you only wrote one post!! don't be lazy!!

argh... they always make this BGR retiree feels like wanting a girl friend too.

blek! just kidding!

*hugz*

there are changes all around. for better or worse is yet to tell.

have faith.

i will see you soon.

*hugz* *hugz* *hugz* *hugz*

ctrl + c and then ctrl + v

i wish it was as easy to give you the real one.

exam is here!

wow. i love it. copied from claudia's blog. Or you can go here, the official website.

born as a chinese here, migration seems like a solution.

the common saying/ logic/ sense is "I rather be treated like a 2nd class citizen in a foreign country, but not a 3rd class in my home country."

my version of racial unity is not a homogeneuos society. definitely not when eveyone speaks in the same language, dress the same, believe in the same god and have similar names.

i believe, racial unity is overcoming differences and establish mutual respect. the key word here is overcoming, not eliminating.

certain country tries to assimilate all their citizen into one common language speaking society. Guess what, they still fail when one particular ethnic was attacked during the most horrifying riot to me (because of the proximity) that happened in 1998.

a simple logic, imagine one day, when physical globalisation take place, are we all willing to fully adopt, let say, the US culture? or Chinese culture? or which ever superpower that rules at that time? without retaining our heritage as a Malaysian?

if you cascade this logic down, it is not difficult to understand why people oppose to eliminate vernacular school.

talking bout vernacular schools, esp the chinese, serious contradictory rule is imposed upon all students, no dialects within school compound. On one hand, they fight hard to keep mandarin as a syllable, on the other hand, they are banning dialects...

frankly, i have problem communicating to my grandma who speaks only teochew. as a teochew myself, i got frustrated for not knowing teochew well. i live in klang and i speak little hokkien. i work in KL and my cantonese are quite off.

born as a Malaysian TeoChew Chinese, i'm rather speechless of myself.

i'm re-learning all the dialects btw.

i'm proud as a chinese. but i like malay's friendliness and indian's sporting-ness (such word exists?). is this stereotyping? well it can be put to good use isn't it?

back to the song, i like it when differences are celebrated, but unfortunately, such celebration remain as a song, an ad, a painting, an article. But at least, they are doing something. something that triggered me to go off topic.

ok ok, back to the header, my cim exam is here. still chillax-ing, just go in and bash it la.