
Whoopsie-daisies!
Oh forgot to post this one in the last post as I was practically too busy bragging, but yeah. Wanted to do a Masterful awards feature before 2007, but have yet to find the time. Will try though.
I said try.



It's odd really. I really shouldn't be able to cope with this madness. It's not like I'm not mad. But it's like the real amount of craziness that is actually and virtually (in my head) happening at the moment I think I should already have broken down a long time ago. Instead I think I'm back on my happy mode yet again! I might have just found it unearthed beneath all the rubble that was the former me. The core to all the sunny days of the past self. Does this mean I'm one step closer to finding me? I hope so! I really want to meet my old self again! The happy days of long ago! I mean, it's not like I suddenly became happy (although Younha did help). It's sudden realisation on what life is, what I have been living about, and what I should live for! Maybe it's all the quitting that has helped me! I don't know, but whatever it is, I hope it's here to stay! Let me chase that blue sunshine baby!
Weird days have yet set upon my life yet again. Not weird bad mind you (so far anyway..). How weird? Yesterday I was fishing prawns till about 12am. And before that was a blackout at the office which saw me walking around and taking beautiful photos from my secret location in the business park (I call it secret cos it's kinda like my little retreat that I visit regularly when I'm there).
it has this feel to it, considering it's not that different a video anyway.
Maybe I should do this thing like next next week or something and feel content doing nothing on the real day. Haha. Right.

It's almost 3am. Yesterday was an overclocking fiesta. Long story short, now the graphic card's finally got a new driver, along with the mobo and netwerk card as well. This mere translates into smoother (and higher rez)nfs most wanted, and (much better)beautiful carbon graphics. However, the stability of netframe has yet to be determined.
First things first... The Masterful Surprise has yet again shone through with our win of the "Man of The Year" award; (obviously) for our incredible wit and performance throughout 2006 till about forever, we reckon. The golden "Arnie" is not just a sign of our socio-economic achievements but that of more importance than the nobel prize. It is quite apprent that in today's madness where such silliness like the Bush administration is allowed to prevail, the world needs us.
Secondly, it's the haze. The incredibly annoying haze that has yet again befallen upon our lands. It is mainly annoying because walking outside tends to smell like burnt pants and also because when it doesn't rain, haze-dust sticks to the car, and when it does rain , it dirties the car even more. I agree with Ian that we should set up giant fans (see pic) (which coincidentally happen to be wind electric generators as well) so we can blow the haze to some other country. While I have some reservations about Ian's idea of blowing it (the haze) to Singapore, I would much rather send the dust back to Indonesia, and then use whatever electricity we have gathered from the giant fans to power some doomsday device to sink Singapore (right after bringing Denise Keller back here of course).
Kim Possible.
So it's finally been done, the car's finally been tuned. I'm proud to say it's finally got about 128.4bhp and 161Nm of torque at the wheels, and since powertrain losses are about 15% that means the car has about er...147.66bhp...just about.
The evo finally has new transmission coupled with better brakes etc. so it's faster than my supra now...crazy nitrooooooo
The call of the world has been formed in shape n' size in the special DYNAMIC BODY IMPROVE SYSTEM! The Masterful Surprise has new objective in world conquest of super hot body system! Make easy of Hyper Hot Female!


Maybe not the single greatest thing, but she is immensely close to the person I want. And that who be Natasha from Atomic Kitten (taken) and/or Jenny (taken), also ftom Atomic Kitten..This however, I saw in my friend's car mag (thanks Chen) and get this, she's real life. Not some pseudo celebrity that I can't ever have the chance to get.. she might even put Australia back on my map... I think she is...looks more British by my reckoning. But wow.
With the original mmc inlet manifold firmly bolted back in place, the transformation is finally complete..full mmc electronic control is regained. Power is back to (nearish) stock configuration but as usual, top speed isn't tested yet. Last set of runs with the idling issues gave me about 185km/h top end, here's hoping that the mivec extractor works it's magic. It's been exactly a week of worrying and dreaming about manifolds, throttle bodies and sensors, and since it took so damn long to complete, it hardly feels any more special than the other day when I was grinning all the way home after having had fixed the ac/idle problem. Apparently my compressor is faulty now and makes a strange vibrating noise at high revs. I beg to differ, but with my normal driving style it seems relatively okay. It could be the manifold, but then again, I'm really tired of this. So tired, that all I want to do is lower the car and call it quits.
ECU change isn't as easy as it looks. It's taken 2 days and everything's fine. Except for the air-conditioning. And the damn alarm. Anyhoo, power is restored to my 4G93. Not too mental power, but then again, it's never been truly tested yet. Here's to hoping that it manages to sail past the 180 mark and go on to reach the great 200. Pipe dream perhaps, but not truly impossible methinks.
I've just gotten back from Klang, in about 15 minutes. I'm not very proud about that, simply because it's been done before. Neither am I proud about the fact that I hit 193 km/h on that stretch of road, again; because it's been done before. However what I am proud of is that I kept it at 193 km/h for most part of the journey. You probably are thinking, so what? Here's the issue. My car doesn't like going past 175 km/h very much. It's mostly siemens's fault, but partly mine. Let me explain. 160 km/h is fairly nice cruising speed; and easily reachable, but getting it up to 180km/h tends to worry me. It tends to take really really long straights and then some to get there. The federal highway isn't exactly straight, or flat, so I tend to slow down. The last time I reached 193 km/h for record purposes was such a short stint before a corner appeared, I hardly felt what the speed feels like. Today however, was different. Apparently I've managed to unknowingly screw with the underside aerodynamics of the car that at 175 km/h, the turbulent wind pushes on the inside/outside air switch thingy so hard it moves by itself. It literally opens itself to outside air at that speed, and I can't close it until I've slowed down. Either it was my doing or it was really turbulent wind today. Anyway, the point of all this marlakey is that 193 km/h feels great, and while it's 7 km/h short of 200, it has kept me satisfied with my baby, at least for another month or so.




Been spending the last few days giving Jamiroquai's Live in Verona quite a bit of airplay, and it's really brilliant. The real attraction of this vid, basically most of whatever Jay Kay does, is while it does have brilliant brilliant music (even better live really), it's got an unwritten class and style to it. Almost subtle, but always present. This is the best balance of what stylissimo really is. It's not overdoing it, but balancing it with a natural style. Natural class. Most of the time people relate it to money and wealth (pretty much the same thing); however this is not the (only) way to achieve it. The key is perception. Perception on the things that matter, or more importantly, the things that don't. Having class means getting used to things that would be out of the ordinary for normal people. It means taking things for granted. And it means doing things in that context because you have the confidence that it doesn't really matter at all. Whether it does or not in reality, is a different matter. Like smoking an expensive cigar. You might've worked your ass off to get it, but if you were to smoke it like it was made of solid gold, it's really ruined. Smoke it like you would a cigarette. That's class. Concentrate on the style on handling things, not the thing itself.

Often, we have this romantic link to a certain concept to life, one that we see as perfection. A life in a picture. The picture on the left is not really my ideal life, but it comes close. This is a picture painted by some marketing department to shout in your ear and say "hey you! get a PS2! look at the life you can have!", and to be fair, some people do indeed have such a perfect looking life. I've seen it, felt it, but have never lived it fully and that is why I keep chasing the life in pictures. My pictures.
Here it is! In all it's glory the first limited piece of the Masterful Art Collection, entitled "Flight of The Cock", a contemporary art piece that is, and will always remain a true classic; simply because unlike some other art pieces that just sits there and does nothing, this one does it stylishly, and more importantly, masterfully. Our resident TMS contributor Randy Andy was spotted grabbing his crotch every time he passed by the art piece. When asked why he only muttered something about it being "powerful yet so sexy" before running off to the washroom with a box of tissues. The piece represents today's lifestyle, the end of monogamy and keen female art enthusiasts are bound to find more uninterpreted new meaning simply by staring at it when not wearing underwear. Kids can also spend hours on end laughing at the giant cock while entertaining themselves to a simple maze game also included in the piece.
Limited to 3 worldwide.
Bids start at $25,000. Contact TMS offices to get hold of a chance to own one.
