The Road Trip of Xgrind and AngKuGuay: Day 3

Due to limited internet and Angkuguay posting his entry with my lappy, so I shall post this entry with my trusty N95.

After a good night rest at the hotel, we finally set off for Chiang Mai today. We moved on to Lampang all the way to Chiang Mai via Highway 1. Some part of the highway are very very bumpy, so much that we are worried that the suspension will be screwed as a result. However most of the road are pretty smooth and the ride was so much more scenic as we are moving thru the mountain roads. Not to mention that the climate is uber excellent. As a result, we stopped by to take photos so you will be able to see them on my Flickr site.

About 200km ride, we finally arrived at Chiang Mai. As this city is a tourism spot, we have no problem finding a place to stay, abeit a bit expensive. As today is New Year's eve, everyone in the city are in the festive mood and celebrating so I guess we came at the right timing. At the hotel, a German couple came to look at our bikes and got to know that he is a Fazer rider as well. So far I've met 2 Fazer riders so far, one from Germany and one from Italy. That goes to show how popular Fazer is haha.

Tomorrow we will be heading for more scenic and gruelling ride for Northern Thailand border.

Lastly, happy new year to everyone who read this entry! Huat ah!

The Road Trip of Xgrind & AngKuGuay: Day 2

After about 10 hours of good deep sleep (surprisingly), we finally arrived at Nakhon Pathom Railway Station where we will load down the bikes unscathed.

Both of us were hungry, smelly (yes, we haven't bathed since the beginning of the trip) but fresh from the sleep and seeing that we can continue with the riding again. While we were loading up the baggage onto the bikes, the crowd were looking at us as if we were some aliens from another planet. Guess that they don't get to see big bikes in this town much, since there are not much singaporean bikes riding around the area.

Once we are out of the station, since we are not familiar with the place, we just rode around until we hit the main highway where we slowly ride until we found a nice little coffee place called "Friendly Coffee" and had breakfast plus enjoying the free wireless internet access (hence the Day 1 blog entry). After having our fill, we moved off at Thai time 10am.

From Nakhon Pathom, we rode to Highway 321 via Highway 4. Since our arrival at Thailand, we had been using Gasohol 95 as petrol seems to be unavailable. However we had read up that it does not really affect EFI engines, so we proceed to fill our tanks with it. So far so good.

After lunch, time to move off again. We continued to ride on Highway 321 until we rode on Highway 340 at Suphan Buri. As we pump at a gasoline kiosk, we had our lunch as well to fill our stomach as well as our tanks. Once done, we moved on towards Chai Nat for Highway 1. Along the way there we met with a traffic jam on the highway. At first we thought to be some kind of riot but later found out to be their Thai King is in the vicinity hence the police blocked off the junction and caused the traffic jam. The jam set our schedule back by 45 mins and once cleared we carried on with the journey.

Jam on Highway 340

Once we reached Chai Nat, we knew that we will not be able to reach our intended destination, Lampang, in time. So, after some plotting, we fixed Tak as our newest destination where we will find a hotel and stay for the night.

When we reached Tak, timing was just nice as the sun had set and with the help of Nokia Maps on my trusty N95 8GB, we were able to find a nearby hotel with ease. So we dropped by this hotel called Suansin Hotel and managed to find a room for us to bunk in. Guess how much is the hotel room? 370 baht! Fucking cheap! And the room facilities are not rundown I assure you, really a bang for the buck :)

Finally we had our first shower since the beginning of the trip and then proceed to have our dinner. How can we not eat their Thai food when we are here? Of course we ordered the famous TomYum soup and Fried Thai Noodles, I will say the food is real nice. However, the bill that came up happened to be more paang (expensive) than our hotel room charge LOL.

The famed Tom Yum Soup

Now, we are relaxing in the room, preparing for the trip tomorrow. That's all for Day 2 :)

The Road Trip of Xgrind & AngKuGuay: Day 1

AngKuGuay and me, together with DaBitch and Quizesilver, moved off to Gelang Petah Petronas Petrol Kiosk where they will send us off. There we get our stuffs ready and once prepped, we moved off at 1am sharp, an hour behind our original schedule.

Night riding is never AKG’s preferred choice of riding, but as we need to coordinate the train schedule at Hattyai, night riding is the only way where we won’t have too much waiting time. Nevertheless, the road up was light in traffic and weather is very cooling. And we rode thru the night till dawn, when we continued till we reach the Thai border. Along the way, we stopped at the following locations for breaks and petrol:

  • Pagoh
  • Bukit Malin
  • Bukit Tangang
  • Napoh

However getting thru the customs isn’t exactly smooth. AKG went to check on the procedures while I keep watch of our belongings. We got our passports stamped but we were told that we were supposed to do our customs process at another counter. Wa, damn confusing, and it added to our frustrated mood due to lack of sleep on the previous night. What makes things worse is the rainy weather in Southern Thailand: Wet boots, wet helmets, wet jackets…you get the picture.

When we finally reached Hattyai, another challenge faced before us: find the railway station. We were lost the moment we entered the town. While getting lost while touring makes riding trips, doing it in wet weather isn’t. Still clueless, we decided to stop by a Chinese eatery shop and ordered lunch, as well as asking for directions. Alas, the boss couldn’t give a clear direct so we took out the N95, hoping the GPS will guide us there. True enough, in a short while, we found the station and AKG went in to get the tickets while I look after the bikes. After a while, we rode into he station (YES, you heard it right.) so that the crew can load them up into the train.

We were skeptical at first but what we saw really made our jaws dropped. They managed to lift up the 2 bikes with their bare hands! Check the photos/video to believe.

Ok, now sitting in the comfort of a air-con train cabin typing this blog entry and hope I can update more often when I can get some updates.

Meanwhile, that sums up for Day 1

Both bikes waiting for loading at the train station


See how they load up AKG's Busa without scratching the fairing....jaws dropped!

Goodbye Singapore!


Goodbye Singapore!, originally uploaded by Xgrind.

See you next year :)

After months of waiting and weeks of preparations, AngKuGuay and Xgrind is finally moving off for the longest trip these 2 crazy fuckers (to non-bikers that is) ever attempted.

Huat ah!


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Old school!

While Mum is doing some spring cleaning, she dug up this pager and old Motorola phone of more than a decade. Best of all, the phone still works!

The Road Trip of Xgrind and AngKuGuay: Prologue

1 Day and 20 hours.....

Yes that's the remaining time at this point of writing before I and AngKuGuay embark on the longest road trip we have ever attempted and a long-mentioned one since 9 years ago. Due to personal commitments and stuffs, this adventure had been postponed and never mentioned until recently when we have a sudden feel to get this trip done while we both can still afford the time and moolah to do so.

Basically it is a trip up to North Thailand and our furthest destination will be somewhere near the border of the Golden Triangle. And the main focus of our trip is the 1868 turns at Mae Hon Song, The Death Bridge at River Kwai, and pay a little visit to Eddie, who owns a bike shop in Thailand. On our way down, if time allows, we will be heading down to Penang, Fraser Hill and Genting on the way back to Singapore.

The trip took us months to prepare, when both of us (most of the time is AKG) finding out from those who had been there what to look out for and advises. Even up to now I still have not finished packing and by tomorrow everything had to be in place, by hook or by crook.

So, we will be spending the New Year in Thailand, riding and exploring around the places and if internet access is present, probably some updates on the blog :)

Dynojet PCIII Review on Sotck FZ1 Setup

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Thanks to Charlie/Avril, they gave me a $100 dynojet voucher which push my PC3 purchase schedule way way forward. So on the following week I proceed to get the PCIII and did a dyno tuning 2 days later. Note that my setup is FULLY stock (air filter, exhaust, unmodded airbox)

Prior to the tuning, I loaded the PCIII with the generic map downloaded from the Dynojet website. Well, better than running zero mapping right? Well, to be honest, loading the generic map don't really help in improving the rideability of the bike anyway as response seems more retarded and performance's kinda suffered slightly. From that, figured that dyno tuning is still the way to go.

During the tuning, the tuner commented that the fueling was way too rich (~14), so after the tuning, the picture below showed an improvement of average 3HP and 2Nm torque, with improve fuel efficiency. I was also shown that at 40% throttle, I can attain peak power at half the time compared to the stock mapping. Results of the tuning? Better and Smoother response (confirmed by Charlie as well) plus better mileage per litre :D


Note that my tuning is more for fuel efficiency and better rideability and not so much for max performance. Still there is still a significant performance gain.

To date, no apparent disadvantage had been observed.... yet (cross finger)

So even if you get a used PC3 with stock map, it is still advisable to go for a round of dyno tune to reap the full benefit of this wonderful gadget.

So the debate of PC3 being useless on stock setup is totally busted. I and Charlie are the living examples :D

Walau eh!!!!!

Super duper uber WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!?!?!!?

This kind of music video he still dare to show everyone?!?!?!

My eyes are closing, feeling sleepy.... until I saw this video that shaken me up.... #$@)#$*@#()*@


This is the first.....

Time since like donkey years I last drank a cup of coffee and now i'm trying with Vietnamese coffee lol.

Just pray i don't get upset stomach after this

Updates... (National Bikers Weekend and stuff...)

It's been a while since I last post something proper....well, as indicated in my blog, my EeePC went bonkers and sent to service centre so I don't have the right mood to post (since I mostly post proper entry on my bed using the netbook LOL). Since after the repair (replacement of a new mainboard), the netbook is alive again and here I am, lying on my bed writing this entry.

National Bikers Weekend
On 27-29th November 2008, Singapore is having its first ever national biking event, namely National Bikers Weekend. It is a 3-day event held at the Singapore Flyers location where most of the popular bike shops set up their booths selling their products at attractive prices. There is also some stunt bike show (as usual for a biking event) being held in the premises during the 3 days. In conjunction with this event, Singapore Bikes Forum is also celebrating its 10th Anniversary and organised a riding convoy on the 28th November 2008 from the Old Police Academy @ Thomson Road to the Singapore Flyers.

Being a Fazer rider, there is a Fazer group being gathered to be part of the Marshalling team. I figured, since this is the first ever national biking event, no harm being a part of it and join in the fun. The team had a dry run on the previous week, using the chance to know the new Fazer guys I've never met before (friendly dudes they are :D). On the actual day, the Fazer guys arranged to meet at Lavender Food Court before we ride down together as a group into the Police Academy compound. There, for the first time I get to see the largest ever bike gathering in Singapore and it was quite a good thing actually, showing the generous support the biking community had provided despite the hot weather.

The Fazer Marshal Team

Part of the Fazer Marshal Team Bikes

Before moving off, we were briefed for the last time and there we took a group photo. As the Fazer group was in charge of convoy direction, we moved off ahead of the convoy to position ourselves at the respective locations, there we then wait for groups of convoy arrive and we direct them to the right traffic entrance. In my opinion, the organisers made a very wise decision of splitting the convoy up which is so much more manageable and organised. Kudos to them.

Part of the entire convoy gathered at Old Police Academy

Once the whole convoy had gathered at the first FUP (form up point), the whole convoy will move out as a whole for arrival at the Singapore Flyers, which will make a spectacular sight for the people and passer-by over there. Once the convoy had departed, our team also rode off to the final destination.

The event had a pretty good response, with the "famous" Steven Lim, dressed in a body armour with nothing underneath, being one of the MCs. Of course there I meet up with AngKuGuay & DaBitch to go collect the goodie bag we have registered earlier. The goodie bag consists of one NBW T-shirt, a mini tankbag-like pouch, keychains, key straps and lots of vouchers. There are also lucky draws, NBW & SBF, where I, DaBitch & AngKuGuay each got something from the draw. AngKuGuay/DaBitch won a mini LED torch & Racewerkz voucher while I won a FogCity HyperOptik anti-fog visor. AKG ended up gave me the voucher as he discovered it is only for Dynojet products, which he already have a PC3. So he pass it to me knowing that my bike needed one (and also to prove with another living example that a PC3 do makes a difference with a fully stock bike LOL) Really thank him for that, for the PC3 do makes a difference to my bike, in terms of better rideability and fuel efficiency.


The NBW T-Shirt

Certificate of Appreciation for the Marshals

The NBW Babes


One of the lucky Fazer guys keke

Steven Lim gets dumped.... erm.. dunked

Pasir Gudang Dec 2008
This month, AngKuGuay had asked me to go down Pasir Gudang once again since our last disappointment where we were shut out outside the entrance of the Johor Circuit. This time, finally the track is open to public and I am there again, riding on the circuit asphalt track after many years. This is also a good chance for me to try out the bike with a tuned map done at Racewerkz days before. Of course, since I am embarking on the longest riding trip I have ever attempted, I made a constant reminder not to ride beyond the me or the bike's limits. Anyway, I was never an aggressive rider so riding in the track is more or less like a leisure ride rather than going all out (I never aspire to be a track racer LOL). Main objective is just having fun on the track without pushing myself o the bike too hard. Moreover, I'm running on stock tires and without a proper track suit, it just don't make sense to do so. The session and the weather was good, and AngKuGuay is also having great fun with his DR-Z but he is not satisfied with the performance of the bike.

2 days later, he asked me to go down again after modding his bike and ok, I figure I just accompanied him down. However, I had to be more gentle on the bike since I don't wish to change the tires before the trip as my next tires will be a sports tire and not touring type. So there again, good session, good weather and AKG is still not satisfied. This time, he wants better acceleration.

So the week after (which is yesterday), he asked me down again. This time DaBitch kept stressing that she will be going down to take photos of the session, as she know that I had been wanting a photo of myself riding in the track. So I bited the bait LOL. Lucky as we were, session and weather is fantastic and again, AKG is STILL not satisfied. Check this out and you'll know why.

3 sessions in 2 weeks! That's the most track sessions at such short intervals I have done myself so far haha.

AngKuGuay

Yours Truly

Shawn

Alan

Victor

Quizesilver

It's alive!

Finally, after a change of mainboard. It's back in action again. Now i can do my work in peace......

Wasted

AngKuGuay only realised that his tripod is not functioning properly when reached the photo taking destination. Damn.

Ultimate FUBAR

After countless hours of installing, configuring Windows XP like 4 times. the OS barely survived 12 hours before my EeePC 900 went bonkers again...

All those wasted hours translated to precious time which I could have used them for a good sound sleep. When it went bonkers for the last time, I almost had the urge to take the netbook and smash it against the wall.

Yes, I am really pissed.

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Now playing: 我还想她
via FoxyTunes

Retro

Happened to watch this chinese oldie MTV 天真 by 杜德伟 and many more on cable tv right now.

How I realised that it's more than 10 years ago when i first watch these oldies on MTV channel

How time flies and I'm an old man now haha

Thanks to this..

Or my palm will say hello to the tarmac lol.

To those who blades, wear protection!

A little addition to my guitar collection...

Except that this time it's not a real guitar LOL...

Nevertheless, great to hear some classic rock tunes from the 70's and 80's which brings back memories :)

Rest in Peace Xian Ping


Today a sms from a friend came as a shock to me....

Xian Ping, my friend I've known for 17 years, had passed away unexpectedly on Monday from haemorrhage and I wasn't informed as no one had my contact number except Diana, who thought I would have known thru Facebook Group she had created as a tribute to him. Luckily she had sms me this morning so at least I still have the chance to pay my last respects to him before his family send him off on his final journey the next day.

Thinking back, I remembered how I first met him at Parkway Parade G2000 boutique where we worked together as colleagues while we were waiting for 'O' levels results. During those times, he was nice to everyone at the workplace and everyone liked him very much as a good colleague and friend.

Moving on to Polytechnic, we landed in the same poly but in different course... and different clubs. However we still bump into each other and still have short chats from time to time. When I started hanging out at his club at the later time, I attended a couple of events with him together with a bunch of cheerful friends I've made over there.

Moving on to worklife, we kinda lost contact with him but fate sometimes brought us together when we bumped into each other from time along the streets and again, a short catching up before we moved on....

The last meeting with him was at our friend's school opening event last weekend, where I'm kinda glad to see him and Sim (who is also a friend knew during poly days) in good shape. Alas, I couldn't talk too long with him as i was busy helping with the school event but I never expect that will be the last time I'll see him. Now I wished I had spoken to him a little bit longer back then. I don't understand why life is so cruel to rob such a nice guy of his right to start a family and live to a ripe old age.

I will always remember him as a good-tempered (I never seen him blew his top even ONCE), friendly, quiet guy who treat his friends with respect. I am honored and pleased to have him came into my life as my friend.

Rest in Peace my friend. If there is really life after death, I believe that you are in a much better place right now.

You will be dearly missed.

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Now playing: Sarah McLachlan - I Will Remember You
via FoxyTunes

Is it so hard to flush?

Now I'm talking about the male public toilet, whether it's in shopping malls or my company, I have a nagging question in my head...

"Is it so fucking hard to even lift your bloody hand for the flush button?"

Do these asses ever think that their bloody urine is not exactly fragrant and there are others who will come after them to use the exact urinal they have used previously? Worst still, some don't even bother to wash their hands! (I'm surprised that their hands had not rotten yet)

Or is it the selfish Singaporean mentality that "It's not mine so I don't care"?

I don't know.

But I strongly feel that if you have the strength to jerk your little willy off or caress your wife/girlfriend's titties, pressing the flush button should take less than 10% of that strength to accomplish the task.

So to those disgusting maggots out there, UP YOURS!

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Now playing: Will You Remember Me
via FoxyTunes

Been listening.....

this chinese song passed by a colleague over and over again...

Listening to the lyrics, it simply reflects my old memories... which brings me endless thoughts of regretful things I ever done.

Shouldn't have done that, but simply can't help it.

Guitar Hero Madness......

on the DS lite!!!

Ultimate poison! LOL




Nintendo DS is just that appealing.....

My Mountain Bike Resurrection - Phase 1 Completed

After constant pestering by Weiming, I finally decide to unveil the dusty plastic cover and do something to revive the bike. It had been lying under the plastic cover for 10 years unused, after I had gotten my bike license. So, this bike is like 12 years old already LOL. When we unveiled the cover.. the bike is totally in bad shape: rusted chain, gearsets with oxidation residue, faded handle grips, hardened tyres, unusable cable lines, corroded pedals, faded paintwork on the frame and LOTS of dust!

in short, it requires a bit of effort to rebuild this bike up. However to our surprise, most of the components are still salvageable, like the hubs are still rolling, gearset & dereailer still functional, rims & brakes functional, front fork still going strong, and my fav air horn is still able to scare the shit out of anyone in its path!

So in order to restore the bike at minimum cost, first thing I need to do is to remove the components and clean them up to assess the useability. While most of the stuffs are easily removed with little effort, the pedal screw thread seems to have bond with the thread in the pedal lever, making it very difficult to remove them. In order not to damage it, I leave them as it is and coming weekend if have time and not feeling lazy, I will probably do some cleaning and polishing on the frame and metal components. Then from there I can see which are the things that needs to be replaced.

After dismantling the bike, the obvious components that needs to be replaced are:

  • Tyres
  • Inner Tubes
  • Tyre air valves
  • Chain
  • the battery in the speedometer
  • Riding Glove (either the gloves shrunk or my hands' gotten bigger
  • Cable Lines
  • Saddle
Let's hope that no more items are to be added to this list as this is supposed to be a low-cost revival project.

And surprising thing I had found is that the rear red LED blinker is still functional with a 10-year-old battery in it! WTF!?!?!?!?



More updates to come as the project progresses.....

Will Obama win today?

I certainly hope he do :)

Schindler's List


Schindler's List, originally uploaded by Xgrind.

This movie DVD had been banned in my country when it was released back then due to reasons I do not know. Saving Private Ryan was another great movie that was banned for its DVD release which I find it a great pity. That's the reason why I never had good impression in my country's censorship system. When the censorship ratings had softened up the past few years, I kinda forgotten about this movie until recently, when I found it in a video store, selling at affordable price. Without much hesitation, I grabbed a copy and here it is.

The movie is in black and white although it is a modern film by Steven Spielberg for artistic reasons. It's based on true story during World War 2.


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Rumbling Roars....

from the engines of the MotoGP bikes are what me and my group of biker friends are experiencing on Sepang Circuit this year. We travelled 300+km just to see world-class racers like Valentino Rossi, Casey Stoner, Nicky Hayden and the likes pitting against each other at the top speed of 300+km/h while we feel the rumbling vibrations and deafening engines as they zoom past the grandstand.


Of course, riding such a distance up and just going for the race is kinda boring. So the group decided that we roam Kuala Lumpur for 2 days shopping and chilling out before we head down to Sepang for the race.

Day 1

The journey starts early in the morning where we meet up at Gelang Petah Petronas station. The whole group consists of:

- 4 x Suzuki Hayabusas
- 1 x Yamaha Fazer FZ1S
- 1 x Honda VTR1000 SP2
- 1 x Honda 2008 Fit
- 1 x Volkswagen Golf GTI

Considering that there are 2 cars following the group, the drivers are kind enough to let the bikers place their extra baggage into the cars' boots.

Waiting for everyone to arrive at meetup point before moving off...

As we moved off very early in the morning (6.30am), most of us had not taken any breakfast and so we stopped at Pagoh R&R for breakfast and fuel. While the Busas still have about 1/2 tank left of fuel, my bike was like down to less than 20% of the tank, way lesser than the SP2! Seems like my bike has the worse fuel efficiency in the group... sigh.

Arrival at Pagoh R&R

Once filling up our stomach and topping up the fuel tanks, we moved on to Sungei Besi R&R as the next stop for fuel. However, me & Bryant had to make one more fuel topup at Ayer Keroh due to our short fuel range.

Once we reached Sungei Besi, we pumped up the bikes and waited for the cars to arrive as we wanted to ride/drive into the city together which is less than 30km away. So while waiting for the cars, I took some shots for the fun of it....

After everyone had rested enough, most of us can't wait to reach the hotel and unload our stuffs so that the group can start their shopping spree. The road to Hotel Nova @ Jalan Bukit Bintang had not changed much so we didn't have much difficulty finding our way there. Thanks to Nokia Maps, Darren & his Black Tortise managed to find his way to the hotel despite losing us during the way there

Once reached the hotel, we parked outside the building as what I and AngKuGuay usually do whenever we come to our regular accomodation spot. Once parked, we loaned our stuffs at the car and hotel luggage room as it was too early to check in then.
So we went for an early lunch at a nearby coffeeshop where we had their local Lor Mee and Ban Mee (which are very different from our local ones) before we proceed to the Bukit Bintang Shopping Centre, a shopping mall we never miss whenever we ride up to KL.

Once it's time to check in, we got our keys and brought our stuffs up to unpack and clean up ourselves for the later part of the day. As our newlywed couple Tish and Blurz decided to join us at the VERY last minute, they got to share the room with the only single in the group, ME.

As Tish & Blurz need to go get some stuff for Blurz's contact lens, I encountered this BMW R1200LT from Karzakstan parked at the hotel which had travelled many countries including Singapore, which was its previous stop before coming to this hotel. So took a couple of pictures but never really gotten the chance to speak to the rider himself.

When the evening is near, the grouup gathered up and proceed to another of our regular hangout: Telawi Street Bistro. However, timing was pretty bad and no cab seems to willing to bring us there, probably due to the congested traffic conditions. So we took a considerable walk to the nearest monorail station @ Sungei Wang and proceed to KL Sentral station

There we have to walk another distance to ANOTHER station which is a LRT station to catch another train to an area near Telawi Street. We were supposed to take a cab there but the traffic situation there is just as worse. In the end, QuizeSilver highlighted to the group that he found the destination is not a long walk away and with his GPS phone, we managed to reach our long awaited hangout. And yeah, by then everyone is hungry as a pig LOL.

Down there we started ordering our drinks and food, not forgetting one of my fav free starter from the bistro: Sour Olive with Bread. We had our usual soup, which is the mushroom soup and some of their well-known dishes. However, to most of our disappointment, their standard seems to have dropped.... and we are even considering whether to come back there again on the next visit.

How can we end the dinner without the initialisation of Chilli Padi Volka to our newest member? This time Amy, QuizeSilver's gal, and Darren will be "initialised" and inducted into the group by toasting the potent drink to the group. Luckily, both of them handle the drink. However, poor me, I and AngKuGuay asked for Wasabi Volka (since we never tried it before) and the moment I downed the drink, the drink kinda burnt up my stomach.... worse than my usual gastric attacks...Think I am bothered more about the stomach burning than the nasal choking by the wasabi LOL. This is what I called self-tekan move and from this drink I had realised my body had really gone weak muahahaha.

Think the night is over? You wished. the group decided that we go to Zouk (yes, there's a Zouk in KL as well) to chill out before we call it a night. Seems that the girls are having more fun than the guys and the faces shown in the picture speaks it all LOL.


Day 2

Early in the morning, we had gathered up for the breakfast at Jalan Petaling, going to our usual coffeeshop, which is AngKuGuay's favorite, as that's where his favorite coffee is brewed. Once we had our breakfast, we moved on to shop along the street where cheap "branded" goods are sold to tourists like us. Of course, I won't miss visiting the famous Muah Chee stall for the unique flavoured Muah Chee.

AngKuGuay with his trademark look LOL

In the afternoon, most of the group went back to the hotel room to rest until dinnertime, while I, with Red Devil & LavaLife, went to Low Yat Square (Equivalent of Singapore's Sim Lim Square) to get poisoned with new gadgets. While the stuffs are tempting (the thumbdrives are really dirt cheap), we managed to hold off the urge so we only get what we need to get: LavaLife got her "chong" phone headset and I got myself Sony earbuds since my Panasonic earbud had gone up the lorry.....

Come night, we went down to the food street to have our dinner. The street is just in front of the hotel (one of the main reasons why we chose this hotel as our regular accommodation choice) so it won't be long before we found a good seafood stall for our seafood extravangansa. Now come to realise... we didn't even call for crabs WTF!!! LOL. Nevertheless the food is nice and we headed back to the hotel after the meal and we chilled out at Bryant's room for chitchat session to cheer him up. For obvious reasons, I had chosen not to disclose the details in this blog.

Day 3

This is the day why we had this trip in the first place. MotoGP!

For many of them, they had been there before but for me, it's a first. I must say I am pretty excited and at the same time, feeling pissed cos of the freaking hot weather and I am wearing a touring jacket with helmet & tankbag, walking for Hell-knows how long before reaching the mainstand. By the time I unload everything, my Tee is literally soaked with my sweat... and I really mean LITERALLY.

That was really my first time seeing such a massive gathering of bikes of different brand, class and types of bikes in one single place. You see bikes coming from Thailand as well. I must say it was a breathtaking scene.

And on the way, Tish highlighted something that is pretty interesting. Look at the photo and you'll know why

Irony LOL

Once settled down, it won't be long before the 125cc class race had started. I had expected the bikes to be loud but they were even louder than what I had expected. It came to a point that I really had to use earplugs to filter out the piercing part of the noise. During the race, I noticed the Suzuki Rizla+ team brought out their MotoGP bike to perform some tuning and I had never heard such sweet, loud, rumbling engine in my life until then. The sound can be heard from where I was seated and the pits were like about minimum 200m away. Here's the proof.




Shortly after, 250cc class race started and in the afternoon, the most anticipated race is beginning. I saw Casey Stoner's Ducati in the flesh riding out of the pits to his starting line and of course, Rossi's Yammie riding past as well. Lavalife went hysterical again when Rossi rode past the the grandstand LOL. Once the warmup lap had ended, it's time for the real deal. With the green light goes on, the bikes launched thru the start line, fighting for the first position. Perdrosa started the race in the first position, however overtaken by Rossi at the middle of the race, who took the first position in the race... as expected. I would have hoped that Stoner could cliched the top 3 positions but seems that he did not perform well in this race and landed in the 6th position.




I would say this is totally new experience for me and as a biker, it is another personal objective accomplished. Lastly, I will like to thank the group for bringing out the fun and laughter that makes this trip a tiring but very enjoyable one. And while browsing thru the photos/videos, I simply couldn't resist the urge to share this video of Tish's trademark statement LOL

To the Uber Inconsiderate Driver....

I've encountered last night.....

Thank you for being such an idiotic mofo that you allow your passenger to puke out of your car travelling at 100km/h without considering if there are other road users behind you. You could have pulled over to the road shoulder to let your passenger out to puke in a more comfortable and considerate environment. Now your fugly "tiong" car had been decorated by her puke as well.

In return for your passenger's watery gift of half-digested food plus your incapability to react appriopriately to the situation, I will also present to you and your passenger my gift as shown below:



Next time learn to be more considerate. The road DO NOT belongs to you or your family alone.

Isn't she cute...

Managed to capture some cute shots for the precious of Mr. and Mrs Woon...



Actually....almost every shot is adorable cos she herself IS adorable :D