Monday, December 12, 2005

Mission Pack

yo! i've got a new backpack, without having to pay for it =P although it's a hiking pack, i bet it'll do as well for travelling =) light weight fabric and stuffs u c. and instead of the usual top-only-openning of a hiking pack, it's got a side zip so tht i can still get stuffs out of it without removing other stuffs ontop... ah, i dunno wot i'm talking liao, just see the pic lo~
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to do it justice, it actually looks much handsomer than wot i made it look in the photo =P
btw, it's a 50L =)

the price tag... dun miss the 50% discount sticker ^^
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Thursday, December 01, 2005

st. kilda BBQ

well, the story is we had a bbq at st. kilda beach this noon-afternoon. but the pix hav nothing much to do wf the event. i was just a bit bored and wandered off for a while to take these pix.

the sea
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doggies entertaining theirselves
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the beach
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bottle lid
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little flower (i got hook taking pix of wild flowers)
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weavy shadow of a pedestrian sign board
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Le Tour de Merri Creek II

this time biking to lake coburg, heading upstream instead of down like Le first Tour =P

we started from lcf's place in north melbourne at 10:45am. all the way to teng's house through lygon st. then from there on, we followed the merri creek trail upstream (which pretty much means uphill >_<) all the way to lake coburg, had our lunch there and had some fun too. leg got cramp... fortunately the way back is all downhill, arrive teng's appartment at around 4.30pm. slept there for the night, end of story! hurrah!!!

lazy to take pic, so only 2 which i thought worth while...

Duck family day out~
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cocky seagull
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005

九张机

看到ano的“浩浩愁,茫茫劫,短歌终,明月缺。郁郁佳城,中有碧血。碧亦有时尽,血亦有时灭,一缕香魂无断绝!是耶非耶?化为蝴蝶。”和阳的《侠客行》,我不甘示弱,用了《四张机》做msn nick。夜猫看到后说黄蓉有《八张机》,我就去找了一下,结果发现这个---

《射雕英雄传》中,周伯通与瑛姑之恋,伴有一首《四张机》:“四张机。鸳鸯织就欲双飞。可怜未老头先白。春波碧草,晓寒深处,相对浴红衣。”金庸借用了其中的《四张机》来说明周伯通与瑛姑的孽缘,以绣有鸳鸯戏水图的锦帕,作为二人的定情信物。“可怜未老头先白”是用来形容书中瑛姑初出场时的面貌:“容色清丽,不过四十左右年纪,想是思虑过度,是以鬓边早见华发。”
《九张机》,见《乐府雅词》录宋无名氏词。其词为联章体,两组。一组十一首,一组九首。九首者,各章皆三十字。三七七四四五句式,叶三平韵,九首韵部相同。且各首分别以“一张机”、“二张机”、“九张机”等领起,使之绵连一体。十一首者,前九首与上述者相同,第十首、第十一首首句各减一字,其馀与前面九首相同。整组词前后尚有口号。词前并有序云:“《醉留客》者,乐府之旧名;《九张机》者,才子之新调,恁戛玉之清歌,写掷梭之春怨。章章寄恨,句句言情。恭对华筵,敢陈口号。”盖亦用于侑酒。《词谱》卷四○列此调,视为大曲。《九张机》并非一般词牌,实当归为“转踏”类(即以诗词间杂组合,用以叙事者)。但因《九张机》结构较为简单,与一般的词区别不大,因此通常词家亦将它作为“词”看待,如胡云翼编《宋词选》收录无名氏《九张机》一首。

无名氏《九张机》:
醉留客者,乐府之旧名;九张机者,才子之新调。凭戛玉之清歌,写掷梭之春怨。章章寄恨,句句言情。恭对华筵,敢陈口号。一掷梭心一缕丝,连连织就九张机,从来巧思知多少,苦恨春风久不归。

一张机。织梭光景去如飞。兰房夜永愁无寐。呕呕轧轧,织成春恨,留着待郎归。
两张机。月明人静漏声稀。千丝万缕相萦系。织成一段,回纹锦字,将去寄呈伊。
三张机。中心有朵耍花儿。娇红嫩绿春明媚。君须早折,一枝浓艳,莫待过芳菲。
四张机。鸳鸯织就欲双飞。可怜未老头先白。春波碧草,晓寒深处,相对浴红衣。
五张机。芳心密与巧心期。合欢树上枝连理。双头花下,两同心处,一对化生儿。
六张机。雕花铺锦半离披。兰房别有留春计。炉添小篆,日长一线,相对绣工迟。
七张机。春蚕吐尽一生丝。莫教容易裁罗绮。无端翦破,仙鸾彩凤,分作两般衣。
八张机。纤纤玉手住无时。蜀江濯尽春波媚。香遗囊麝,花房绣被,归去意迟迟。
九张机。一心长在百花枝。百花共作红堆被。都将春色,藏头裹面,不怕睡多时。
轻丝。象床玉手出新奇。千花万草光凝碧。裁缝衣著,春天歌舞,飞蝶语黄鹂。
春衣。素丝染就已堪悲。尘世昏污无颜色。应同秋扇,从兹永弃,无复奉君时。

歌声飞落画梁尘。舞罢香风卷绣茵。更欲缕成机上恨,尊前忽有断肠人。敛袂而归,相将好去。

“织”的内容
一张机:织梭光景去如飞
两张机:织成一段,回纹锦字
三张机:中心有朵耍花儿
四张机:织就双飞鸳鸯戏水
五张机:织成了“合欢树上枝连理”
六张机:开始“绣工”:雕花铺锦半离披
七张机:绣出“仙鸾彩凤”
八张机:绣出“蜀江濯尽春波媚”
九张机:“百花红堆被”终于完成

全首《九张机》写闺中织女一边织春衣,一边思念情郎,用语浅白。其实唧唧复唧唧,春无非是春恨,什么春波春計、春色春天,全是可怜人一廂情愿的幻想,“此情可待成追忆,只是当时已惘然”。最后春衣织成,情郎未归,忽然想起自己的一番深情,只如秋扇见捐!

《全宋词》另外还有一首《九张机》:
一张机,采桑陌上试春衣。风晴日暖慵无力,桃花枝上,啼莺言语,不肯放人归。
两张机,行人立马意迟迟。深心未忍轻分付,回头一笑,花间归去,只恐被花知。
三张机,吴蚕已老燕雏飞。东风宴罢长洲苑,轻绡催趁,馆娃宫女,要换舞时衣。
四张机,咿哑声里暗颦眉。回梭织朵垂莲子,盘花易绾,愁心难整,肪肪乱如丝。
五张机,横纹织就沈郎诗。中心一句无人会,不言愁恨,不言憔悴,只恁寄相思。
六张机,行行都是耍花儿。花间更有双蝴蝶,停梭一晌,闲窗影里,独自看多时。
七张机,鸳鸯织就又迟疑。只恐被人轻裁剪,分飞两处,一场离恨,何计再相随。
八张机,回文知是阿谁诗?织成一片凄凉意,行行读遍,恹恹无语,不忍更寻思。
九张机,双花双叶又双枝。薄情自古多离别,从头到底,将心萦系,穿过一条丝。

Saturday, November 26, 2005

upon woei woei's request...

pix!

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pic from Meridian day
pretty much all the msians, singaporeans and indos in me course~
beside this year's unfinished formula SAE's car, designed by me course mates.

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having fun before industrial night

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final year dinner
the last day of the sem, we had a department dinner with coursemates and lecturers
well, as u can see, most of the ppl end up drunk... including the camera lady (as u can probably tell...)
dear prof. chong already had 6 glasses down his stomach by the time this pic was taken

and now... some overdue pix from early spring...(summer's coming yay~~~ beach! wf (topless)sun bathing babes! ~lol)

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a guy who 'sells' back flips infront of state library

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wild dandelion

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wild flower

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wild flower

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apricot flower

suddenly see this ~lol
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lolonso by teng and i

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AFL grand final parade

since i just finished me long-winded-2-papers-final-exam, none of those are taken recently. bear wif me for a while and u might see some of those wf me in regalia and hood ~lol (just found out that engineering department's colour is gold....)

Thursday, November 10, 2005

the father of MP4-20

ofcoz i'm talking about adrian newey, the man who, with other ingeneous engineers in macca, created the awesome MP4-20.

ofcoz i'm talking about adrian newey, which macca fan dont? given that after izzit 9? well just put it as 9 then... after 9 yrs with us, newey decided to move to redbull... not that we havnt face this before, he nearly left us for jaguar last time around. but then he gave us MP4-20, one of the subjects worth dedicating this blog to. (the other one is ofcoz kimi...)

ofcoz i'm talking about adrian newey, tha mate~

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

天理何在 六月飞霜 血洗沉冤

1. 澳洲 P8 alonso P3
改正 P4 +5 P3
formation lap时clutch 失灵,从P20开始,排位在jpm之前,jpm P4,所以kimi至少P4。

2. 大马 P9 alonso P1
改正 P2 +8 P1
pit stop后轮胎泄气,预计本来会在webber前面,webber与trulli相撞出局,所以,kimi原本是P2。

3. 巴林 P3 alonso P1
改正 P3 P1
没有mechanical failure,不用改正。

4. 圣马力诺 DNF alonso P1
改正 P1 +10 P2 -2
Kimi轻松的领先下drive shaft failure。

5. 西班牙 P1 alonso P2
改正 P1 P2
没有mechanical failure,不用改正。

6. 摩纳哥 P1 alonso P2
改正 P1 P2
没有mechanical failure,不用改正。

7. 欧洲 DNF alonso P1
改正 DNF P1
车手错误,不用改正。

8. 加拿大 P1 alonso DNF
改正 P1 DNF
车手错误,不用改正。

9. 美国 DNS alonso DNS
改正 DNS DNS
以kimi 排位赛强劲的表现,这场多数也是他赢了的,但因为也不清楚,就不用改正了。

10. 法国 P2 alonso P1
改正 P2 +2 P1 -2
kimi换引擎,排位赛重油下速度惊人。正赛fastest lap,该胜。

11. 英国 P3 alonso P2
改正 P1 +4 P3 -2
Kimi再次换引擎,正赛最后一圈的fastest lap证明有打败jpm的速度。Alonso应该是P3。

12. 德国 DNF alonso P1
改正 P1 +10 P2 -2
在此轻松的领先下hydrolic failure。

13. 匈牙利 P1 alonso P10
改正 P1 P10
alonso是慢,但没有mechanical failure,不用改正。

14. 土耳其 P1 alonso P2
改正 P1 P2
Jpm和monteiro碰撞,过后跑出赛道,送两分给alonso,但也不用改正。

15. 意大利 P4 alonso P2
改正 P1 +5 P3 -2
Kimi再次换引擎,以全场最重的载油夺得pole,然后双手连同胜利奉给jpm。

16. 比利时 P1 alonso P2
改正 P1 P2
Mclaren一、二又随着jpm与pizzonia的碰撞说再见。送分给alonso,但也不用改正。到这里,kimi是86 + 44 = 130,alonso是 111 - 10 = 101,最后三站只要拿一分,或alonso有一场不胜就了事。

17. 巴西 P2 alonso P3
改正 P2 P3
Alonso 夺得世冠,改正后变kimi夺世冠。

18. 日本 P1 alonso P3
改正 P1 P3
没有mechanical failure,不用改正。

19. 中国 P2 alonso P1
改正 P2 P1
没有mechanical failure,不用改正。赛季结束,kimi 156分,alonso 123分。

Thursday, October 20, 2005

revenge of el nino

in response to the jailing of alfonso, my 8-yr-old brother Hobbes, a lolonso fan, made and sent me these, child humour lol~~~

1. fatmi (fat kimi, hahaha) there's even a "K" on his jail jumper, wotever u call that... lol
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2. KR!!no!!
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a bit on the title...LL might tell u "el nino" means "the boy" in lolonso's language

kimi celebrates with ano in suzuka

omg.... pls dun blame me... i cant stand it....
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
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Saturday, October 15, 2005

meridian 05'

i was spent~~~~~ long long day.....

6.30am - wake up, dress up... remember, business attire!! well, imagine me in leather boots... right.... even the thought of it sounds funny....
7.00am - left home
8.30am - arrived in fluids lab, start dismounting my apparatus, start washing the greasy box.... yes! engineering involves dirty work! unless u r a control engineer, well said chris....
10.30am - posters on, booth set up, ready for exhibition.
11.00am - school kids coming in, they are cool, socks down, ties loose, sleeves up...
12.30pm - school kids taking photo, can imagine they are for school journal or report or something, now, socks up, buttoned up, shirt tucked in, sleeves covering up to fingers, and stands straight! full marks for the act kids!! dun think anyone of them actually understood wot we are doing.... get the impression that uni is using us to attract future students... free ad!
1.00pm - say goodbye to school kids, hello to fellow postgrads and coursemates... and accessing lecturers...scary.... some bugger invited by the department gave a talk about salt bath modelling a few days earlier, now there are ppl who actually interested in my topic... damn... but it gave me a chance to talk to my idol -- will moarse wakaka... will is a dreadlock hardcore who wears only singlet in winter... idol.... hohoho....
4.00pm - tht's half of the job done. hav some rest and get ready for industrial night!!
6.00pm - dinner with fellow coursemates
7.00pm - right, time to get serious now... coats and ties up, look smart, a cuppa will help! tired man.....
7.30pm - ppl from industry and minister coming in... not as scary as first thought tho... phew... i must say i'm really IMPRESSED with mr. randy low.... his mouth..... very very very.... amazing... that's the only word i can use....
9.30pm - finally, the day's over... zzzz.... not going to PA's with the others... they're gonna hav a few boos.... not interested.... bunking in teng's place~~~ yay~~~~

felt like we've already graduated... cant get back to reality... cant believe i still had to attend lectures today... and still assignments and projects dueing soon, 2 more presentations to go... and exams!! well, my life is full of excitement... if u can call that excitement... may kimi win shanghai, and it'll be real excitement!!

Monday, October 10, 2005

F1 sports of drive class and constructry

If you are an F1 (especially Kimi-McLaren) fan and liked Harry Potter’s adventure in Hogwarts School of witch craft and wizardry, this is for you mate!

Inspired by my dear brother - Arska

Episode 1: Fiery throttle and the fuel-load Silverstone
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Dedicated to the brilliant drive by Kimi in Silverstone this season.
Having qualified P3 with the heaviest fuel load on board, we saw Kimi suffer an early engine change and took the 10 grid penalty, just to storm home to grab the final podium place.

Episode 2: Fiery throttle and the camber of tyres
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Tyre camber and durability had been a season long talking point.
We saw the 7x WDC Schumi puncturing and tyre lines thinning out on a few Renaults’ and McLarens’ tyres due to extreme tyre cambers. Furthermore, US GP doesn’t need reminders.
Wish tyre will no longer be a problem again next year.

Episode 3: Fiery throttle and the prisoner of Pudu Jail
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Well, what can I say? The youngest WC ever.
The day after crowning the honour, he created another history by getting himself locked up in Pudu Jail~~ (by me, that’s right)
Paparazzis would love this…kekeke…
Episode 4: Fiery throttle and the finger of fire
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Yeah! We want to see sparks! That’s racing!!!
By the way, can someone please tell me who the honoured receiver of this FINGER is?
(I thought it was JV… Kimi was bullying a bully, wakaka….)
Episode 5: Fiery throttle and the order to easy
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Yea yea, typical Kimi…
A driver who makes more mistakes when he doesn’t push…*sweat*
(it’s true, go dig the history if you don’t believe it)
Episode 6: Fiery throttle and the half bald principal
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Ron, we love you for everything you do for the team.
So no offence here ok lol
We never thanked you and the rest of the team properly.
Appreciate all the hard work and sleepless nights spent in chasing the
results we all sought after!!
Long live Macca!!!

on suzuka

ofcoz...dedicated to arguebly kimster's finest win ever...

hail the newest god to join the heaven - Kimius lol
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man, the win from P17 had left me speechless.... engine change for the wkend which accompanied by a 10 place grid penalty, then heavy showers late in quali which virtually shattered kimi's run....

and then comes race sunday... early scares with collisions with juan pablo. and the early sprint of alonso which actually did make kimi looked the slower of the two. brave dive down 130R to pass schumi, leaving stupid itv commentator james allen in amazement... but then the renaults were the first to blink, they pitted earlier and even schumi regained his position over alonso...

then comes the move on schumi at turn 1, capitalizing on a tiniest driving error from... again on fisi at the same corner in the final lap.... while all ice-agers were jumping up and down their sofas with the excitement prior, during and after the brilliant brilliant pass, kimi was just as cool as a cucumber... head down, breaks away from fisi's slip stream, breaks late, hitting the throttle earlier and that's it, job done, cruise home (lapping the dangerous sato in the final lap) for one of the greatest history in the record book....

addicted to kimi... cant hav enough of him...

Monday, September 26, 2005

a letter to itv commentator james allen

dear james,

greetings. this letter is about the kimi vs. jpm comment u made on itv f1 coverage in the brasillian gp. we would like to offer you another angle on things you didnt see. and yes, we are die hard kimi-macca fans.

we are pretty sure that we payed a bit more attention on wot kimi and juan pablo did through out the season than you did. and we are sure that so did our principal ron. and there are reasons y we make kimi our driver of the year, although u can argue it's fernando since he's just clinched the WCship. to be fair, we start counting after juan pablo returns fine and fit.

yes, juan pablo had been very good for us, winning 3 of the last 7 GPs, but so did kimi. u might argue that he should hav won the one in belgium. and we will reply that mclaren din fueled kimi up for nothing. the strategy was ment to make kimi overtake juan pablo during the pit stops by himself and not juan letting kimi through. wot do u think the hot laps were for? kimi's fastest lap was a dazzling 2.1s off juan pablo's in the wet! he did that for fun? if that still doesnt convince u, we will say the win belongs to kimi anyway coz unfortunately juan pablo went out in the accident with pizzonia.

and look carefully, juan pablo won the british and italian GP. please let us remind us all that kimi had engine changes in those 2 GPs. heaviest fuel load in silverstone he went on from P12 to finish P3; qualified fastest with the again heaviest fuel load in monza and went from P11 to P4! and that was inspite of the left rear tyre problem! and yesterday, yes, locking up those tyres in qualy was kimi's own fault, but still, the way he went from P5 and nearly overtook juan pablo in the 2nd stop, wont u rank him the best driver in the field?

if that isnt enough, here's more. just 5 GPs ago, kimi went out first in qualifying in the dustiest hungaroring thanks to the brilliant new rules. 26hrs later, he became the winner of the 2005 hungarian GP against all odds. fernando won french and german GP with kimi's engine change put him P12 on the grid but finished P2 and retiring from the lead due to hydraulic failure in the later. and ofcoz winning turkish GP convincingly from pole. that's the 2nd half of the season after US GP.

perhaps not the one yesterday, but we thought kimi would hav won every single one of them if not the mechanical problems he suffered. to include those early in the season, he could hav been WC as early as monza.

nevertheless, we are enjoying and celebrating the strong performance put on by macca recently. good to hav monty back winning races, we congratulate fernando on being the youngest WC ever, but kimi is still the driver in our eyes. we apologize if the comments are too critical. enjoy the rest of the season and the fight for the constructor's championship.

warmest regards.

your sincerely,
ice-agers

congratulations to Alonso -from ice-agers

nice to see a new name carved beside the word World Champion. well done on making the youngest ever world champ!

appreciate the thrill u gave for being kimi's rival, to make every race so important to us, to make every win kimi gets feels better than sex(oops, sorry kids lol)...

hope the goods keep coming in the remainder 2 races and let us battle out the constructor's championship!!

Saturday, September 24, 2005

the story in shanghai 2005

今年尾在上海站拍的。。。请冰民们享用^__^

10月16日讯 - 经过alon-slow在巴西的车祸,

以及静冈的戏剧性战车故障,

世界冠军之争延到了今日的最后一站--上海。

kimi和alon-slow两个车手之间的间隔只不过是5分,alon-slow虽然很慢,但他只需多6分就可成为史上最幸运的世界冠军。

这场全世界车迷都期待已久的序幕战,终于将开始了。前芬兰冰人mika也不忘了为kimi打气。

更有无数的冰人迷扬旗支持。


毫无意外的,已在日本站夺了constructor's championship的迈凯轮双雄在星期六排位在再度大放光彩,勇夺首两席排位。令雷诺车队的所谓世冠角逐者alon-slow显得黯然无光。


正赛开始后mclaren,双雄即领先全场。trulli竟然割了alon-slow!他果然是slow!

但很可惜的,trulli在第一轮pit stop后又给alon-slow割回。。。

接着,整个gp竟然一路无事。。。显。。。好在mclaren双雄继续领先。


一直到2005年赛季的最后一圈,眼看alon-slow就要以一分之差幸夺世冠,奇迹发生了!alon-slow 的前翼突然间飞掉了!!!
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原本排在第四位的button很快的追了上来,容易的超越了alon-slow!

黑白格子旗已在视线内,迈凯轮车队欢庆kimi以与alon-slow同样的116分,但多4个分站冠军而获得2005年度世界冠军!
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kimi与观众庆祝他八个世冠(就是要比舒米多!)里的第一个!!!!而alon-slow只有到他的工程师怀抱里。。。
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本故事纯属虚构,若有雷同,纯属诅咒 ;p

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

they were SOOOOO happy~~~

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like to see more of these~~~~~ ^_^

although kimi's chances are getting slimmer, no one is giving up!!
WE WANT MONZA TOO~~~
AND BACK TO BACK SPA TITLE~~~

Friday, August 19, 2005

3 reasons why kimi will take 10 more pts off orlando alfonso in turkey

  1. as the winner of the last gp in hungary, kimi will be the last to go out in quali this saturday. this will be a big advantage as turkey is a new circuit to all the drivers >_0
  2. as the team finished 4th in last yr's constructors' championship, mclaren has the advantage of running a 3rd driver in friday practice. so, kimi's car will be well setup with the help of data collected from pedro's run on friday. and ofcoz renault doesnt hav the luxury of running a 3rd driver. who asked them to finish 3rd ahead of us last yr? lol~~
  3. as we all know, lolonso had an accident with ralfy in hungary. apart from the front wing, it actually damaged the right side of his car and part of the internal cooling system was damaged at the same time. that means his engine was under high temperature all the time, wakaka~~~. although renault's engineer rob white said they will put some additional caution on this, the engine is still an "injured" one, kekeke.... so alfonso will hav to take care of his engine in this gp. wot's more.... unfortunately (for him, not for us =P), turkey is even hotter than hungary~~~wakaka~~~

boost of confidence~~~~~ haha~~~ ^^

first signs of spring~

cherry blossoms in the neighbourhood blooming ~~
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Thursday, August 18, 2005

road map to peace~ not...

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wishful thinking, this will be where i'll be in about 5 months' time ~~^^
help me choose btwn the green and blue route~.... actually, i've already chose the green one =P lol

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

along came corolla~~

oh yeah~ the long waited pics of apia's new corolla is finally here~~

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oblige view~~

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front view~~

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de dash board

more pics are available upon request~ wakaka ^^

Friday, August 12, 2005

Johnny Walker - McLaren - Mercedes

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how about that?!! macca's no longer silver!!
i'm guessing it's just a concept, not the real thing they'll put onto the racing track, it's not MP4-20 anyway... lets us see wot will happen in turkey...
(but it's beautiful!)