Shan's Big Day Part Uno.

yup, i woke at 6.15am to send my dad to office. why you may ask? is nick being a good son, or is he trying to get more ang pow money from dad this chinese new year. well, the answer is neither (but i think good son is more like it).

here's why. 2 days ago i went to get my insurance and road tax done at Autobarn. lame name i know, but bear with me. this is the dealership where i got my putra from. and i have mixed feelings about the putra but that's a whole other story.

i went at about 11am to settle the payment for the road tax and insurance. after leaving that place for about an hour, kurnia insurance SMSed me confirmation that my insurance has been paid and that road tax renewal was possible. i thought to myself all is well. then came the end of that day and no phone call from auto-fucking-barn (AFB from now on).

i woke up the next day to call them and hopefully get the road tax before noon cause it expires on the 7th of February. after i called one of the bosses, he told me that it wasn't ready at all and that it was my fucking fault for going there at 2pm!!! WTF! he wasn't even there on the 6th and i went at 11am!!! ZOMFGCCBKNNCBKTNSSHPBCTMOFO!!! nvrm, they promised that it'll be done by the end of office hours. so fine. i waited and my dad agreed to pick it up on the way home.

however, once my dad reached home, he didn't have any road tax sticker. turns out, they didn't get it done yet because quote: "CIMB won't allow non-CIMB runners to take out the grant to do road tax. due to company merger" unquote. what the fucking hell man. so my dad gave the usual 'Laurence Super Power Megaphone Shouting Power Nine Dragon' treatment to the boss. and the boss said "wah, you pay us RM10 service charge and you expect us to get shouting like that form you?" lagi la piss my dad off. so he ka me ha me ha-ed them to the next dimension.

so that's that. i can't drive the putra. not until saturday. hopefully later today. then i can terrorize the streets of KL with the noise that my straight pipe makes. yup, i put it back on since JPJ has approved my 'mengubahsuai sistem ekzos'. haha!

here's two random pics that don't fit anywhere




and here's a pic for my friends and a very special someone. i'm not telling who, but i think you know pretty well!

I paid RM500 to get head!

if you know me well enough, you'll notice that i purposely left an 'a' out in between 'get' and 'head' in order to make a lewd title that would grab your attention.

but yeah, it should read as 'I paid RM500 to get A head'. what head am i talking about? a 4G93T GSR cylinder head ofcourse! too bad i couldn't find the RS version. but that would be a more expensive head since it's so fucking rare.

good head


i think comments with hidden sexual interpretations are funny. and i have been hearing alot and also dishing out some of them myself. wanna know what else is funny? seeing hans trying to prove a point by washing dishes!



yup, he's proving that he's not a person who can't wash dishes before going off to scotland. hans, you're jist a heid banger!

Lulu Bar.

got back about half an hour ago from lunar bar. can't really sleep yet cause i had 2 roti telur this mamak called pelita.

anyway, attended some IMU medic dude's bday, kah yen i think. yen or yong. can't really remember. cool people.

so i gave a lecture to uncle david about automotive and finance related stuff for a good 45 minutes. then my dear dear called. then spoke to her for a very very good half hour. :D then she had to sleep cause she needs to accompany the little one (egbert, her youngest bro) to school to buy some writing material.

basically, i'm the dull one at the party cause i didn't drink. at least it seemed that way. everyone else was drinking their pants off...as usual.

hans, azree and foo had some passion fruit cocktail thingy called, 'get your honey hot/high' or some ridiculous name like that. tasted alright.

waiting for drinks


passion fruit cocktail thingy


flaming couple, part I


part deux


the vending machine gets a flaming


from this


to this


when we were on the way to drop hans back, both of us heard the song 'walking on air' you know, the one that goes, 'believe it or not, aaaahhhhmmmmm! walking on air...' anyway, we had this vision of someone like michael j. fox from the 80s or 70s doing that graduation jump like this:


imagine him singing that song while doing that! so fcking hilarious man! so yeah, we decided that it'd be a great idea to shoot a photo of ourselves doing that. but alas, due to poor lighting and equipment, the best we could come up with was this:

ready?


believe it or not? i'm walkin' on air...(look at me, moving so fast camera couldn't catch)


yup. that's a detour to stupidity for abit. anyway it's freaking 4.34 in the morning. gotta sleep.

Post working activities.

well yesterday (sunday) i had to go back to the office to finish testing of the solar demo rig. and was also supposed to eat spicy pan mee somewhere in chow kit.

so i hurried the testing and finished at around 3.40pm. called foo sze to schedule the pick up at IMU at vanessa's place. we reached there on schedule at around 4pm. when azree told us that the shop closes at 5pm!!! wtf! and we still needed to fetch paviter from taman midah and hansel from ampang and then fly to chow kit before 5!

so anyway, we headed out and reached PV's house at around 4.20pm. we rushed to hans place to pick him up at 4.45pm. and guess what? after our driver (foo) who drove like a mad person cursing all the 'blardy sunday drivers!' oh, and with the help of our BIG middle finger to whoever was behind



we managed to reach the pan mee place at 4.52pm! yeah, we got out of the land cruiser like proud amazing race winners who've made it to the last check point and it being a non elimination round.

somewhere in chow kit


here's kin kin restaurant!


the amazing race participants: (L-R) azree, reemah (hope i got her name right), vanessa, hansel, foo sze, paviter (not in pic).


the steps to eating spicy pan mee (my style)

1. get the plain old looking pan mee


2. put 6 spoons of 'gun powder'!


3. and if it's not enough, you'll still have plenty of 'ammo' left.


so yeah, overall, it's fucking grade AAAA stuff man. but not spicy enough. compared to the thailand clear tom yum that made me almost the chili god. haha. the shopkeeper and his workers were cool ppl. making random comments as we waited for our food. like when we ordered mineral water then someone asked for a glass of ice, and after he brought the ice he said 'drink from bottle, more feeling' and after he saw me loading up on the chili he said, 'we love our gun powder!' hahhah! damn random man.

the shops been there for ~25 years already and has been on 8TV's 'Ho Chiak!' apparently. and when you've got a good business, good food, appeared on tv, someone's bound to copy you. there's a shop directly opposite Kin Kin that follows the signboard and chili and everything! except it has air-con and doesn't taste as good (so says hansel). so to all those fakers and pirates out there who wanna ruin a good solid business, here's what the shopkeeper of Kin Kin wrote on their walls to inform their customers:





and our food odyssey didn't end there, we went for food at jalan alor later in the evening. ended the day on a relatively high note.

that's all for now. time to pay attention to my siew yok faan.

New Sofa.

finally, after many years (7 i think), my parents have decided to move on into the future with one of them fancy L-shaped sofa sets.

we got this set from the LDP Furniture mall at a very low price of RM2700. cheaper than anything IKEA could offer for the same type of sofa.

anyway, enjoy the pics:

out with the old,


in with the new.


my dad modeling,


and finally,



well, it's really comfortable and if you want one, you can get it from:


though i doubt they'll take orders now since chinese new year's around the corner. waiting time ~2 weeks.

Mivec Throttle Body Swap.

here's a short post regarding the recent throttle body swap that i've done. just for comparison sake.






notice that the 93P inlet although larger, tapers down to 54mm as it reaches the butterfly valve whereas the MIVEC one tapers to 60mm. and that makes all the difference.

still trying to get the idle rev back to around 800-1000 rpm. if an ecu reset doesn't fix it then i'll hae to adjust the TPS.

A Cut Above The Rest.

the day started out good. i woke up late had roasted pork rice, went to sunway to buy a MIVEC doddle body (:P) and some other stuff which i can't really remember doing.

thenm eagerly i came home to clean the throttle body (TB for short) and decided to fix the thing. ok, so i started to remove the air filter and the old throttle body as what people would say 'out with the old and in with the new!' but beware! his doens't apply to parents you know? hahha.

anyway, while fitting the new one in, there's this hose clamp that's a real bitch to put back in place so i use the usual gripping tools like pliers and a vice grip to aid myself when suddenly the plier teeth slip from the clamp from all the pushing and woosh! there goes my hand. then i notice i got a cut. it's bleeding. it's bleeding real bad. i remove my latex gloves to find blood oozing out from the rather deep cut (~2 to 3mm deep). it didn't hurt. but i was like 'ah fuck, dammit Q^#*$%@#^%$&^&^!@&#^&@' that sorta thing. then i decided to go wash the wound.

even more blood came oozing out. then my mum came then my dad. while washing, i felt a pain in my stomach, like i wanted to take a crap sorta pain. i kneeled down, hand still under running water when suddenly, all sight was lost. i was not unconscious, i just couldn't see anything! it was pitch fucking dark i tell you! i told myself not to panic. rather difficult trying to convince yourself everything is alright at that point of timebut i did. then i kept talking to my dad, i told him that i can't see a thing. last could see were his hands waving across my face. now my eyes were wide open but i couldn't see a damn thing. pretty scary.

after 3-5 mins i still had no sight at all. i was still kneeling down infront of the sink. my dad decided to make me stand up and walk around the house. i did, and slowly my vision came back. first it was purple outlines and black fills. then gradually as i walked around, green came back, then blue. then the rest followed suit. as i relieved!

i had a splitting headache after that and it felt something like a mild hangover. went to the doctor to get the wound washed up and just to check up on my general health. he charged RM30!!! for cleaning the wound, antibiotics, painkiller, cream, and a swell reducing med. what a rip off!

doctor and everyone else agree that i went into a state of shock. but i thought ppl who go into shock usually feint right? i'm weird. anyway here's a pic of the wound filled with what i believe is savlon.



wound doesn't hurt. but as i type this, the rebound from typing is hurting it abit. like a bruised finger.

close up pics tmrw when i remove the bandage.