Having fun at Fraser

Fianlly, part II of our Fraser trip :P

Kicking off from part I, so first thing in the morning....

 This is the kind of view that we woke up to in the morning ^^

SilverPark Resort... the resort that can never be Gold :P

After our humble breakfast we took some morning walk around the resort^^

And some bird watching... if you watch closely you can catch a glimpse of a bird on the tree :P

The monster machines in their natural habitat... the parking lot :P

So after our morning relaxing session, we took a drive around Fraser with a practical car (my father's car :P) to absorb the beautiful scenery that is Fraser's Hill ^^

And finally some wild orchid picking :P

All was nice and quite until the arrival of...

The Boy and his Tiger.... xD

So with Keisuke and his family arrived, we've decided to go for some swimming at the waterfall...

The Baron with his Rider Kampung Style :P

The road going there was unique in its own way^^

The arrival of the RedSuns at Air Terjun Jeram xD

The Baron is liking the water :P

 And Keisuke in his natural habitat :P

Cloud trying to meditate underneath the waterfall :D

 He's really contemplating hard :P

 But the return journey is not very exiting for some people :P

The flight of stairs was too much, so we had to stop and take some air....

 Like father like son :P

But the walk to the waterfall is picturesque as usual^^

That night they went to have dinner out at one the restaurants

 With Cloud and Justin Bieber :P 

I was knocked out cold that night with a seething tooth pain T.T

The restaurant^^

Next morning, with the rest of our extended family... we went to The Paddock for some horse riding and archery competition^^

Keisuke with his family

Abdullah with his family... with me tagging along :P

 And another stowaway we found on our way to the archery range :P

The much anticipated archery competition... who will go out on top?^^

Justin Bieber making his pot shot :P

Cloud concentrating making sure he wouldn't lose xD

 And he makes a Bull's Eye o.O

 While Keisuke was having trouble on which eye he should be using....?

His eyes? or the tiger's eyes? :P

  End of the day.... Clouds shot was kinda good....

 But not as good as mine :P

Keisuke's was kinda hopeless...

  So was Justin Bieber's :P

 Next round was for Abdullah and his rivals :P

Abdullah pulling the bow to the rhythm of his body :P

 My sister-in-law claims the target was too short

While Keisuke's other half is having trouble shooting :P

So all in all, their shot was kinda hopeless :P

They were even lucky if they got the arrows inside the target xD

Next up was the horse riding... poor soul...

  The horse's worst nigthmare xD

The Tiger (retard) and the horse :P

 The Baron (retard?) and the horse xD

After the fun-filled morning, it was time for us to say good bye to Fraser's Hill and head back down to earth where we belong :P

  Family photo before returning down to earth^^

 The Boy enjoying his first taste of superbike :P

But being Fraser Hill, the road down itself was an adventure to be had^^

What a way down it was...

 We had to make a pit stop while heading down...

 'Coz Keisuke had to pee :P

While Keisuke was answering nature's call, The Baron strikes back!!!! :P

And testing some photographic skills...

And appreciating some of the finer details of Kate :P

 Once everyone was wrap up and ready.... we continued our way down that awesome piece of road^^

And finally we reached down from Fraser's Hill

  And a few more stops for those all important memory lane^^

 The RedSuns were here :P

 The RedSuns pose!!!! xD

 With The Baron being in the middle of retards :P

 Our touge machines from a vantage point :P

After those few more picture snapshots... we continued down to The Gap where we met...

 The Stalking Tiger!!!! xD

 The Tiger spotted in its natural habitat :P

 The Baron and the retard :P

 Justin Bieber about to hand The Tiger "The 1000yrs of Pain!!!" xD

 Old Kate at The Gap..

 Abdullah was kinda pushing it going down to Kuala Kubu Bharu :P

 We had a stop at KFC Jejantas Sungai Buloh^^

Then I found out Kate's electrical wasnt really working... we had no wiper :P

So the return journey became kinda dangerous with the rain and not seeing where we were going >.<

And after the journey Cloud sent his Bike for some inspection because idling issues they found out that the bike was running on a single cylinder o.O

Single cylinder up and down Fraser Hill :P

And Old Kate had to go to the workshop to have those wiring issues addressed :P

So that was a wrap up of our journey up Fraser Hill... I know I am kinda too lazy to type it into beautiful words, I neither had the creativity like Keisuke and he neither had the time :P

Oh, and one last montage for our return trip from Fraser.... how to get into Old Kate :P

Becoz her central lock was not working, we can't open the doors using the keys... below vid is how to do it^^

 

 

It's the climb....

Last weekend, just as I arrived back home... the first order of the day was to get Kate out of the shed and back into the world because during my working period, Cloud and I had planned a touge trip to the picturesque Fraser Hill :D

With Cloud just acquired his superbike a fortnight ago, we were itching to have our taste of adrenaline rush after so long... Old Kate with the new 2 wheeler on the block ^^

As usual the plan did not go as we had planned :P
The trip stalled until late in the afternoon despite all our intentions of an early morning dust off... because with Cloud taking his Bike up Fraser we can't afford to be still climbing when its dark.

The Baron gearing up and ready to go^^ little did he know that his SuperBike is not quite super fit for the climb actually..

Kate wasn't actually fit and ready for the climb either, with her broken plate number and some wiring gremlins... but I had to run-in the engine just for fun xD

But different from all our other trip, 'tis time we bring along a stowaway in the form of Malaysia's Justin Bieber >.<

As going to Fraser Hill, we only know the route through MRR2... which did not bode well for our timing because just as we were passing through to get to Batu Caves, we hit the inevitable....

MRR2 Rush Hour....

But still we had fun ^^

And had the time to appreciate some of the finer details of the interior trinkets we just bought for The Lady Kate :P

Also her new voice... although not at full song, but she does make a nice melody on low tune ;)

And as usual... being part of the Malaysian motorist... making up the market statistics for road use, we were bound to hit one of our friendly, social conscious government's tax collector :P

But this time we were equipped with the latest gadget to combat Plaza Tol Road Rage :P

Its not like we are trying to become some kind of politically correct blogger or something, we just didn't have any choice concerning our Touch n Go card picture :P

As usual, with such heavy traffic.... Kate didn't stand a chance against the shattering speed Cloud and his Bike was eating up the miles :P

So eventually Cloud had to make several stops at several gas stations just to let me catch up, also for some rest n refit and our evening prayers.

Cloud and I having some serious intellectual discussion :P concerning the sheer amount of time just to get past MRR2 and Ulu Yam.

Obviously time was against us... it took us 2 hours just to clear MRR2 to reach Ulu Yam... and we have approximately another 1 hour of hill climb to reach Fraser... the prospect of tearing the Touge with a 2 wheeler in the dark looms high in the horizon... the risk-o-meter just jumped out of scale  >.<

We made one final stop before moving on to change Cloud's visor and top up our fuel for the Battle Gears and ourselves (junk foods) xD

Cloud and Kate racking up the miles at Ulu Yam Touge... ;)

The high speed Ulu Yam Touge... with its beautiful curving roads and long sweeping corners, it feels like putting your heart right in your mouth... literally :P

But try as we may... it was already night fall once we past Kuala Kubu Bharu.

With the day light failing us and road lighting non-existent ... Cloud could not push hard and had to rely on the lights from Old Kate... which is however you put it, it's not good news.
Kate's lights are wanting at best, so we had to make the climb really slowly... with me having to nurse Cloud up to the clouds :P making sure he catches up and having him clear view of any obstacles or imperfections on the roads leading up to Fraser.

But eventually we reached Fraser's Hill... with the clock striking at 9 when we reached there... that's almost a 4 hours journey since we started at 5 in the evening o.O

We immediately went to the Silverpark resort where my parents are already waiting 'coz they checked in since afternoon.

After we offloaded our stuffs we went hiking around Fraser's Hill to have that taste of England in the Summer ^^

The Hills were woken up from their sleepy hollow with the sound of horse powers... The RedSuns Crew have arrived ^^

It seems we were not the only one to pack some punches coming up Fraser's Hill that night.. some even came in style :D

The trademark RedSuns pose ^^

And I found a new Battle Gear to tear up the Touge xP

That's about it for part 1... this post is becoming quite long, and I'm getting tired writing it up, I'll just wrap it up for tonight and hopefully I'll write up about the rest of our adventure to Fraser's Hill in part 2 ;)

I'm coming home...

"I’m coming home
I’m coming home
Tell the World I’m coming home
Let the rain wash away all the pain of yesterday
I know my kingdom awaits and they’ve forgiven my mistakes
I’m coming home, I’m coming home
Tell the World that I’m coming"

These specific lyrics from Diddy was always playing in my head these past couple of days because of exactly that...
I'm finally home... now our touge adventures are just waiting around the corners... just a couple of chores that needed to be settled first.

But during those busy days at work, I was able to find some time to compile a video clip with a collection of our memories these past 3 1/2 years since we started owning Our Good Woman Kate (FC) and the start of our RedSuns adventures ;)
Collection of Memories

Whats Up?

Well it's been awhile since our last update.... not quite a while, but very long time that the blog seems to be dead :P
Well we Redsuns has been quite on a slump of Touge and Automotive orientated activity lately but we has been doing something quite entirely different for our regular adrenaline fix :P

 

Hanz was busy making some last minute arrangements :P

 

We found ourselves at Kota Kinabalu, Sabah...
With some very expensive rides

Where should one go once you're in Sabah? Of course the islands.... with the many pristine islands dotting Sabah's waterline, its just natural one heads there  ;)
But we were not there to have some unadulterated fun, we're also there for some license application :P

 

After that last adventure I had to report back to my work life and everyone carries on with their life uninterrupted with any adrenaline frenzy.... >.<

But since I've been having alot of free time lately... what has been the news of the motorsport world? :D
It seems the results as of late has been very pleasing from my side^^

 

The Nissan GTR won at Fuji Speedway at the Super GT, beating both the Lexus SC430 and Honda HSV ;)

 

The JR Motorsport Nissan GTR made a double at Portugal FIA GT1^^
They won Qualifying race and also the Championship race...
In fact the GTR's was so dominant at Portugal they clock 1-2-3-4 qualifying time, finishes 1-2-3 for Qualifying Race and finished 1-3 for the championship race^^
Being only their 2nd season in FIA GT1 things are looking good for the GTR :D

 

And Sebastian Loeb won at Rally Sardinia^^

The only thing that is sad for me is that there no longer any Rotary at the grid for the Super GT :(

And what of the update for our Good Woman Kate? (FC)
Well she has been borrowed by our mechanic to test some killer engine he's building for some of his customer... so since he got the HKS engine down and I'm off for several month from her, might as well let him rebuild my engine as well... not some porting or anything, just regular engine rebuild for better reliability ;)
But is seems Hau has got the crazy ported engine in Kate and Keisuke has went to take some pics of her and her roar ;)

With a short vid of her hearty roar ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZGqGB3xcIg

The hard trip home...

Well it seems our activity haven't picked up even after I came back for a week already...

It seems a lot of other things has taken our attention, I'll try to re-iterate our not-so-happy sequence of events xD

As usual, the first thing I did once I arrived back home was to pick up Old Mattie from her normal sleeping home >.<
Keisuke has been naughty with her... he has been spending our savings on her like there was no tomorrow.
He sent her for some tuning at Formula D by the world renowned tuner Mr. Omura (?) and has bumped Old Mattie's horses to another extra 30 hp >.<
Ouch! Just when we thought she already has too much power she has another power bump... it seems she is gaining power more faster than we can catch her up with our noobish skill T.T

But it seems they has fixed some of her smaller gremlins and caught some unseen one as well, most notably concerning our tires and LSD.

Now she is running on a much fatter 295 tires on the rear... Bridgestone Potenza RE-050 to be exact, how Keisuke was able to procure such a gem at a bargain price is still quite a mystery for me >.<

The tires were so huge.. only one fit in the Vios bonnet...

The other we had to fit between the backseat >.<

After some tuning and alignment adjustment... Old Mattie seems to be ready for some shakedown.
Which we did exactly that on the night of my return^^

Unfortunately that was our only touge adventures since then... at first my grand mother passed away... so we had to cancel all our plan and rushed to Kelantan to help with her funeral (may Allah bless her soul T.T)..

It was a sad moment for us... but as soon as we headed back to KL we would still find ourselves in some very peculiar predicament...

The night of 25th Mar was when our little brother Madun arrived back from Penang for some much needed break... so we picked him up at KL Sentral and had a race back home with me and Madun in Kembara going back through KL-Seremban highway and Keisuke and Rafiq in Old Mattie through Federal highway... what we thought was a lost cause ended in a victory for the Kembara xD
Old Mattie was handed again another defeat in the hands of Keisuke :P
Hahahah... although it was not an intense battle but it was classic Top Gear race >.<
Unfortunately we did not have it on camera since it was quite an unexpected race :P

After that we went to have some midnight fun with our Airsoft Guns.... unfortunately we were caught by the low-life UPM pakguard... and with a lot of ego and bullying attitude they send us off to the nearest police station, where things were getting out of hand with my temper and Keisuke's future was in jeopardy.. so we informed Hanz of our problems >.<

Hanz came along and help us out of our messy situation, and after sleeping at the police stations all night and pulling some strings along the way we somehow gained our freedom!!! :D

With Hanz bailing me out and Keisuke's wife bailing him out... that was not a very exciting experience... but it seems we have owned Hanz more that the value or our unpaid momo steering we got from him >.<


Now our weekends were ruined.... our sleeps were ruined... and our armpits were smelling like sewers after almost 24 hours without a shower xD
As for Madun.... our unfortunate little brother... it took him 19 hours to reach home from Penang xD
with most of the time spent at the UPM security guard office enduring abuses and the Police Station >.<

Now Old Mattie is back in the hands of our friendly neighborhood mechanic Hau for some more little mods and touch up and I'm off to Bandung for some vacation with my family >.<
It seems our touge adventures has stalled for another few more weeks.... T.T