Tale of one Lancer Evolution, nice photography & Younha.

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).
Also been waking up earlyish to make phone calls to Aussie; to which I always get the voicemail, but never seem to mind.
Then there's that Younha video. So incredibly upbeat, and so incredibly uplifting. It's odd that
it has this feel to it, considering it's not that different a video anyway.

It's December again. And X'mas is just around the corner. I'm looking forward to the festivities, but know I'm going to be somewhat dissapointed unless I plan ahead. Which basically means I plan now.

But...

X'mas is the more expensive time of the year anyway.

Maybe I should do this thing like next next week or something and feel content doing nothing on the real day. Haha. Right.
This post is pointless. Just like how it should be. Whatever. The sun has to come up sometime right?

Rebel Alliance is the way to go!

Han Solo had his fair share of hardships. It ain't easy being a rogue smuggler and fighting for the rebel alliance. The empire has a funny way of infiltrating the rebel outposts, as well as turning their allies against them; mostly for the price of freedom (ie. lando calrissian in the turnover of solo at sky city). You'd be really surprised how far the emperor is willing to go to get what er...he wants.

Which is why, join the rebel alliance today!

We know this blog is being monitored by the empire, although with enough underlying sarcasm as well as star wars anecdotes, I'm thinking the rebels would be pretty safe...

for now.

The Coup d'état

Political engineering. "Tactically, a coup usually involves control of some active portion of the military while neutralizing the remainder of a country's armed services. This active group captures or expels leaders, seizes physical control of important government offices, means of communication, and the physical infrastructure, such as streets and power plants." In a nutshell, an internal hostile takeover.

How about a social one?

Social engineering. Recontrolling social environments to select and reenact group leaders, revise social politics as well as environments. Through this process, if conducted carefully; can result in a comfortable "perfect" social environment for the initiator of the coup. However, results do vary accordingly and cannot be predicted accurately.

What do you do when the revolution doesn't include you?

Do you create your own?

Do you have the capacity to do so?

Make haste.

73H L33CH1NG 15 D0N3..

Hello friendlies! I'm at the office again, so graphic intensive material is kept to the minimum.(Although, the pic I did manage to find is R0xX0rzZ.) Today is a weirdfest so far, after non-sleeping for the longest time (since 2am) I am now in auto-zombie mode. However, yesterday (well, this morning) was fun, I managed to get another cd burned, and downloaded tons of stuff.AAANND the final catchup on Megatokyo izz finally complete! yay! now i'll have to wait for strips like the rest of the other morons.
Arr.Just wondered.Where do you find a girl that would like to sit on you? I don't mean like the fat ones where they sit on you to KKND j00 a55. Or even the 5exX0R positions. I mean like a girl that f33l5 1ts au naturale to sit on y0ur lap, and 15 kinda grunge. N0t lik3 g0th grung3 but like jeans n t. Maybe just teh T.
ummm..luvly. NO NO 53xX0rZ Thoughts get out of my head!! Out!!!!
yeah well, what the question is a girl which is comfortable enough with the opp0site sex, but yet not because of t3h 3V1L influences. Just cummfy.
NVM. This isn't working out to be how teh question w45 initially d351gn3d.

Can't wait to get home but I can't. Have 2.5 hours left, and a p05t3r to c0nc0ct. J0k35 a5id3 I think I'm going to 5kip d15ner and sl33p again. Maybe tonight will be more fun. Maybe it will.
I think I will d0 Ch1xX0rZ research tonite! HYO!

1 15 G0iNg M3nt4l. l337 0v3rl04d.

What the hell is V Core?

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.

On other stories, epiphany has told me that anything 'performance' has to do with speed. The faster, the better. And high performance means only refers to the capability to withstand high speed.

Whatever.


Tomorrow's (well, today) Friday, and it's yet to be determined how this weekend will unfold, as usual. But unfold it shall, and while it might seem trivial, it never is.

It never is.

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I'm typing this from work so the diagram is not the best of artworks, but will do to explain the compromise in l337ness recently. While Hasbro was deemed as a drain, it is now since been converted into a training ground! Orange Doom and pointless excursions with the unl337 are deemed as bigger drains of unadulterated l337 5k1llz. I think it is tim3. 0r4ng3 d00m I can't do anything about, but the the unl337 should be bl0ck3d.

Tyler told me this.

I have been irony. I have been melancholy. I am neither of those. I am not your perception. I am not your muse. I am not your laughter. I am not your sunny day. I am not your anorak. I am not your door-to-door salesman. I am not your madness. I am not the reason you don't make it in life. I am not the reason your girlfriend doesn't look anything like Jessica Alba. I am not the reason she acts like a bitch. I am not your kitchen sink. I am not you.

The day I find me, is the same day you lose you.

The Big Update

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).

Thirdly, while NFS:MW progress has been virtually zero, I have magically managed to get a Cayman S. Yeah..look at them curves. It's pretty pretty, and is the fastest thing in the garage at the moment; and we really shouldn't be discussing some year old game. Well we can't be bothered anyway.

OOH.

Then there's this..


Kim Possible.
We here at TMS have gone incredibly kimpossibly crazy about..er..Kim Possible. I know that it's rather wrong to be harping over some toon, especially at this sort of stage, but it's just something in the show, something about the character that makes it so damn appealing. So there, (virtual) TMS girl of the month.

Oh yeah, and on other news, our long standing K750i has been replaced with a V3i, simply because it seems to be so utterly stylish. Regrets about the shoddy camera quality pretty much vanish when realization upon the amount of videos, music and the quality of the whole thing comes to play.

Oh, and let's not forget Infiltrator 3. Okay. Okay. So shootings been a bit dodgy, and progress is practically gone with the lack of script (but mostly lack of lead actor), we still got a semi-kickass introduction to boast about. Let's just say in that two minutes, there is more action and proper shots than the entire previous two movies (well, trailers) combined.

I guess that's all for this round of updates. TMS out!

Real World Tuner-ology

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.

All said and done, that means the car has an increase from factory figures about 10bhp. Which brings me to the question... if my current figures show that...what was the siemens ECUed power back then? 90bhp at the wheels?? No wonder it seemed much like the 1.3 ocassionally back then.

Shocking revelations from the dyno charts also show that my previous fuel consumption was incredibly high due to the engine running incredibly rich. I did an estimate on my previous fuel consumption and it came out to about 250km per full tank(urban driving); which is about 50 litres, that's about 14 miles per gallon. Those figures won't mean much until you realise that a Ferrari F430 does 15.4mpg. And that's a 4.3 V8 producing 483bhp. My fuel consumption is only trumped slightly by the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti at 13.6mpg...and yes that's a 6.0 V12 producing 540bhp. Really puts things into perspective. Where did all the fuel go??? It sure didn't translate it into power.....was that why the exhaust smelt like fuel everytime the car was idle? Figures. On the graph that would be the dotted blue line versus the one with er...a blue line. Apparently I'm the record holder at the tuning garage for insane fuel consumption for a naturally aspirated 1.8. Figures.

NFS Evo Antics...

The evo finally has new transmission coupled with better brakes etc. so it's faster than my supra now...crazy nitrooooooo
either ways...haven't touched the game for the past few days......
been thinking about real life. And how it sucks comparatively to my virtual one....
if onlyyyyyy ...four fully done up sports cars and Yua Aida...mmmmmmmmmmm
and cassshhhhh
and not forgetting josie marannn....aar....better go to sleep ......

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2) Make running faster so performance increase can make bed sports ultimate dream!

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4) Fuel/Power Ratio increased!! Run away from dog is no worry. Consistent Power Regulation System is achieved!

With concept of DYNAMIC BODY in hands, the world of bed sports has changed forever! TMS Co. Ltd. is in the forefront of increase special technology! Never let hyper hot female out of target ever again!


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Mundane-ity

Melancholy. I like that word. It sounds nice, but it isn't obviously. Unless referred to any Suzumiya-esque references, it's not a very positive thing. Days go by like clouds in the sky. Set in a blue sky in my head, but reality seems to have the opacity turned down low, colorless, mundane. Kinda like what that sepia button does on my digital camera. Or phone. Whatever. The point of the matter is.. it's 2:43 in the morning. The foos are keeping me company with Next Year off their There Is Nothing Left To Lose album. Which is great, but their music tends to be very nostalgia-based-reminisence feely thing. So it's really not the best sort of music to play.

Melancholy.

More NFS antics..

EA's attention to detail is amazing. The Fast & The Furious fans are gonna love doing this shit. Only be careful, when under the trailer you can't see shit so keeping the speed constant is immensely tricky. Hit the wheels on this trailer, and the whole thing comes to a halt. Hit the ones carrying logs, and they break off all onto the highway...into the police...hahahahaahaha...

Either way, just scored the RX-8 from Izzy (is it?) and it's pretty fly. Can't wait for the Evo 8! Rank 11 here I come...

You can guess what I've been doing and you wouldn't be wrong..

My initial IS300-- superb sound and handling...
















--and my brand spankin' new Supra! Tempted to spray it F&F orange but...you know that's just plain wrong.


Well it's 5:02am, kinda like yesterday; when I first got the game from Theo, and got immersed into the Josie Maran/crazy mad racing scene that is NFS Most Wanted. I know most of you will probably have one eyebrow raised and a proverbial thumb and finger on your chin, partly because the game's about a year old, and it kinda shows. Three reasons I'm playing it: 1) I've always wanted to play it but then my X-box died. 2) Josie Maran 3) Josie Maran; oh, and the cars sound beautiful, the soundtrack's amazing, the graphics could be better if I had a faster computer and.....it's partly because I'm halfway through the impossibly difficult PSP version.

On other news, I wasn't even supposed to blog anymore, but since I'm back to playing games, I suppose bad habits die hard. A bit like Hartz. Which is back. I'm tempted to write about it, but Ian already has done that, so just go to his blog instead. Finally got my transcripts today, but I doubt I'll be doing anything productive anytime soon; besides NFS, which really isn't productive anyway. Then there's my sudden love for Kim Possible. It's crazy. One day you're just thinking about your future and chicken chop, the next day you watch a disney cartoon and go nuts. About the character even. It's like she's reallllly nice. Her friend at school is insanely hot as well. I think I should stop writing about this. Aaanyway, it's getting late, gotta wake up early tomorrow, got races to win, and Josie to impress.

No direction in life? Bah. I've got plenty.

Changes are..

I'm here typing this at 4:11am on a Tuesday morning and I'm listening to John Mayer's "Waiting On The World To Change", his new single, from yes; his new album. It's lovely. It also makes sense. As avid readers (or maybe not that avid) of this highly unpopular blog (as well as my previous one) would notice, right about now I'd be writing about my day, and how at this time of the year I'm about to make a crazy change in my life, how I'm going to go register in college, and make a good semester, how I'll topple the business world with my immense talent, or even to edge in a subtle nod at my views on class, and to nod even more at the slightest chance that I possess such said qualities. Some may even expect me to post the new scantily clad Heidi Klum pictures I have acquired (thanks Ian..) and drool all over it; or even (god forbid) I talk shamelessly about my car and it's endless modification list that bears no real bearing on anything, except to fill that gaping hole which I call an ego. Then there are those posts where I try to act out the crazy man in me (with substantial proof most of the time), the who I've been portraying to most people, for the most of my life. There is some truth in these words I assure you, but I will not show it. This is because most of the time I don't know how, and sometimes it's because I simply don't want to.

This post is a start of something. I can't tell you what, because it is something I don't know, but I can safely say that it is true that every beginning has it's end.


And to plagairise Dylan Thomas, I will not go silently into the night.

Isn't she the greatest thing on the planet?

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.
Oh and she's a modder. And wow. I'm out of my mind.

Let me say this again. Dreaming is the single most beautiful ability we have. And this photo is proof that out there, on some other continent; dreams really do come true.

The return of the real(ish) GTi

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.

Managing Power

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.

Here's the original part list(what was supposed to go in):
1) Evo 2 ECU
2) Evo 2 wiring
3) Evo 2 throttle body
4) GSR inlet manifold
5) Evo 2 spark cables
6) Evo 2 Injectors
7) Evo 2 Air Sensor w/piping
8) MMC knock sensor
9) MMC relay
10) A/C reconfig relay

Here's what went/stayed in:
1) MMC ECU
2) Evo 2 wiring
3) MMC throttle body
4) Siemens/Proton inlet manifold
5) GSR spark cables
6) MMC Injectors
7) GSR Air Sensor w/piping
8) MMC knock sensor
9) MMC relay
10) A/C reconfig relay


Here's what went horribly wrong:
1) A/C Compressor kick in loads too high leading to...
2) inconsistent idling when A/C is turned on...which means....
3) car is tuned up to 1500rpm on normal idle...
4) losing 6000-8000rpm when A/C is turned on..
5)dammit...something always has to go wrong.

So there...my worries of the past 48 hours and more...

Running it in

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.

It's been awhile..

It's been a good forever since I last updated this blog/pointless ranting outlet. What's happened thus far? I'll try to keep the updates as in timeline-esque fashion as possible, but thanks to my 53 year old brain (a DS lite told me so), it'll guranteed to be a bit messed up. Okay, so i'll start with the car update. First off, the new rims.. well..not that new anymore, but since the last post...and the engine light's been as busy as an intersection traffic light at noon. Apparently it's the dirty throttle body, and that's fixed sorta, but the whole siemens system is to blame anyway, so I'm still frustrated. The car's been sitting pretty at home for the past 8 days as my mom just went to China for hols, and have been driving her car to work; which was horrible (work not the car...) initially...until I met this girl yesterday, who was so super nice and hot, although I doubt she had what I had in mind...anyway, that's a story left for another day..Been making paper animals for 8 days now..my room resembles a miniature zoo; am still yet to take my ace ventura picture.

On other fronts, nothing much has been really new except for the world cup, which initially started as my "boycott the damn world cup because they're messing with my top gear timetable" and became "dammit i've seen almost all the games except the finals thanks to peer pressure". France should've won though. At least Zizou went into retirement in style. My msn nick currently says "real men fight; but only legends do it in the world cup finals..". Like Cantona before him, he's the other frenchman that has made me proud. Oh yeah just coined a new footie special move you guys will get to experience when we play (someday) --"The Hammer of Zizou". Along with "The Foot of Cantona" and the established "Wall of Maradona" I think I should win world player of the year (not that player you ass..) in due time. Eat your heart out Ronaldinho.

Then there was the Japan GT that came to town. I have fallen for the Ferrari race queen/girl/person. She's just so kawaii desune. I think I maxed out my camera memory taking voyeur-ish pictures of her. On hindsight, voyeur is such a harsh word. Appreciation is much more suitable.

Right.

What else is there? Movies Movies Movies! Tokyo Drift was so damn good. I don't care what the critics and non-car loving people say.. it was so damn good. Superman and Da Vinci fall in the same league of "it's sorta nice but that's because the female leads were unbelievably hot so I'll vote for them"-- but not great. However...Pirates was one helluva good damn ride. Keira is so damn fine.

So...damn...fine.

Then there was MI3. Nigel can go eat his shorts as it was unbelievably good. So now all that's left is Click and Miami Vice. Rocky 6 anyone?