Office habits...

A little joke for the working class people xD
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When the boss is not around....

When the boss calls...

Attending a meeting...

When the boss ask to attend a training...

When tea break time...

When almost 5 o'clock...

When tomorrow is a holiday...

When given a new assignment from the boss...

When the assignment given by the boss is too difficult...

When we knew that the assignment is impossible to accomplish...

Over time for 2 hours...

Over time overnight...

When the boss tells us to do Over time over the weekend...

When we made a mistake...

When we manage to perform 'a little' accomplishment...

When we fail, disappointment...

When the finance delayed our expense claim...

When we knew no BONUS for the year...

RE Gathering

Well, haven't written anything in awhile :-( been pretty busy and the fact that the flying circus is in cold storage just compounded the matter.... :-p

Nevertheless, in our desperation to find an answer to our seemingly perpetual problem, we sought the help of the Rx-7 gurus at the famed RE Club :-)

Last Monday i brought the Flying Circus to an RE Gathering, and met the people behind the wheel :-) everyone was really great and their cars, droolingly cool... X-p especially Patrick with his immaculate Black FD X-) too bad ReRider couldn't come with his marvelous FD, but instead he came with his equally stunning looking R34 GT O.o how many cars does the man hasa? X-p

Since i'm pretty tired, i'll just let the pictures do all the talking :-)

I FINALLY DID IT!!! X-D

THE TITLE SAYS IT ALL!!! X-) I finally accomplished what me and ryousuke had been trying to do ever since we got the flying circus.. X-p a full long drift... :-p in this particular case, a donut!!! X-) the size of which was about half the usual open ground we usually play at :-) all in all, last night was another blast X-)

As usual, i took the Flying circus out to the touge X-) with Turbo Jr. (he's finally not grounded X-D yay!!!) it was about half past eleven, and the touge was CRAWLING with cars... and the Flying circus was really acting up... the turbo boost would drop off below 500 and the car's compression felt really off... it was really stuttering at low revs and at some point, gas just doesn't seem to go into the engine even when i've already pressed the throttle to half... X-(

It was rather worrying, but once i got to the touge, things were a bit better... well, in the flying circus's condition that is :-p the touge was a bad nightmare... X-p but i was still able to do 180 spin at the end of the touge, and we headed out of it... :-p (the spin really took Turbo Jr by suprise X-p haha...) i tried to go for a few runs, but the amount of traffic was just too depressing... :-( so we had to call it off...

Since it's still early, i decided to go for some wangan action :-p so we went gunning down the highway towards the mines... the whole strecth at minlon, i was doing more than 180kmh X-p (meaning out-meter :-p so God knows how fast i was going... X-p) i was even managed to get into the 5th gear X-p but then, a car felt like it was fast and decided to go in front of me... the loser... :-( still, i had to brake for him... anyway, it's a public road anyway... X-p after that, we headed back for the touge again... the clock ticked half past midnight... i was hoping the touge would be cleared by then X-) and besides, turbo jr gotta get home.. :-p

thank God when we reached there, the traffic had mellowed down... X-) so after a simple scout, he went for a run X-) our first run was aborted because half way through, the traffic grew heavy... then i tried to go for another run again, did a 180 in front of that UKM guard post (and the Guard actually came out to see thinking a car was going for an accident.. X-p) and gun down the touge... X-)

The traffic was a little light, and i managed to get by without much of a drama, but because of the traffic, i drove rather cautiously (and the road was also wet X-( it seems that nowadays, every evening it rains, so the road is always soaked at night :-p)so i didn't try to slide the car :-p as usual, the moment i reach the end, did a 180 and immediately continued the run X-)

I wanted to do another run, but Turbo Jr was SO shaken (he hasn't gone to the touge for SO long, that like myself before, it felt like it was the first time for him X-p) so i decided to call it a night :-) not really satisfied that i wasn't able to go all out, but still, a run through the touge is always fun X-)

On the way back, i gave Turbo Jr to drive, he was so not used to driving the Flying Circus, that it was again like the first time X-p haha... of course, he slammed the throttle at the straights and blew everyone aside :-P (typical lebong style.. X-p)

after dropping off turbo jr, i headed home... not really getting enough adrenaline fix, i blasted down the highway back home X-p then headed to the pasar malam area and tried to do some drifting... :-)

The problem the last time around that i faced was that i would let go of the steering to allow it to counter steer... this poses the problem that allowing the car to correct itself is just THAT, it corrects itself.. X-p instead of going into a long sustained drift, it'd stop the drift dead cold in its track... :-p previously, i tried to control the throttle to try to keep the car drifting, but without any proper steering input, the car would just spin out... so what i needed was to counter steer quickly past the point the tyres are straight to make sure that the car doesn't straighten out...

Another problem of letting go of the steering was that i'd lose touch of the tyres direction :-p so this time, i wanted to try to counter steer myself... of course the first few tries, i found out that my steering work is TOO slow.. X-p i'd spin out even before i was able to catch the drift.. :-p so then, i needed to rely on my previous technique of counter steering, letting go of the steering :-p

Just as i was going in the drift, i realized that what i needed to do to sustain the drift was to get the car drifting, once it starts drifting, to immediately counter steer, quickly past the correction angle, once i got that done (i.e the tyres would be pointing the other way around by then) i can put any amount of throttle and still able to control the angle without spinning out bcoz the tyres are already pointing to where i want it to go.. ) so what i did was instead of letting go of the steering, i just swing it around X-p

With that, i was able to achieve the counter-steering rate needed to keep the car drifting without straighening itself out at the point the tyre crosses its straight point :-p once i got that done, a little bit of throttle control to keep the car drifting, and some steering input to maintain the angle, WALLAH!!!! I GOT MYSELF A DONUT!!! X-D

i was able to get the car drifting about the size of half the open parking lot ground... :-) but i still had problem of sustaining the angle, so the donut wasn't really a round donut, but more of an ovul donut... X-p quite elongated.. :-p

But the feeling was GREAT X-) i felt like i want to drift FOREVER !!! X-) the only thing stopping me was the thought of the amount of rubber i'm burning X-p and besides, i wasn't able to sustain it for long :-p the control and balance was so fine, that a slight mistake at the wheel, or the throttle can either kill the drift, or put you in a spin out :-p so i was only able to do a few rounds before i lose my concentration and spin out/ straight out.. :-p

after some time of doing it (and confident that i'm able to do it again and again and that it wasn't a freak accident X-p) i decided to finally call it a night :-)

Now i'm feeling more confident in drifting X-) and a couple more practice, i think i can go to the touge DRIFTING X-) haha!!!

Oh and we did took a video of our run (i had asked Turbo Jr to take his camera along X-p) but still hasn't taken it from him... will be posting the vid of our run once i manage to get the vid from Turbo jr... Just to make Ryousuke wish he's home... X-p haha!!!

The night the beast came to life...

There had long been a nagging thought in me that there's still something wrong with the flying circus, and the stronger nag is that the apex seal is failing... X-( So i tried to find some company to take the car for some testing, i've just removed the silencer and was eager to see the performance of the Flying circus :-)


Cloud was busy (working on SATURDAY NIGHT!!! O.O) and zid was at singapore, just as i was about to give up hope of testing it that night (i needed someone to keep an eye at the boost meter, which was at the passenger's side... :-p) as if God-sent, my cousin came to drop by... X-)


We went to see the arsenal match that night, and after 1, went out to test the car out... And to my pleasure, the car still packs the same punch as before X-) but just as before, the same lingering problem of jerking at 6k rpm is still there... :-(


After the problem is confirmed, we decided to go get some touge action X-p


I was so happy when we arrived to find the touge quite practically empty (there was a few cars here and there, but for Bangi standard, a few cars is practically, for all intent and purposes, EMPTY!! X-D) but sadly, as i was about to make my run, the traffic starts to build up X-( i've just MISSED THE WINDOW!!! X-( (in Bangi, there seems to be a small window between midnight and somewhere around 1 or 2, depending on the day, that there seems to be a lull in the traffic before it builds up again...)

Nevertheless, i went screaming through the touge X-) the traffic as always proved to be a mere nuisance... :-p but it did have that deterrent effect X-p it kept me from going all out... X-p and besides, i haven't been to the touge for SO long, i was still cautious... :-p

But IT WAS SO FUN AND eXCITING, i went for run after RUN!!! X-D if the traffic is pretty clear at the end of the touge, i yanked the handbrake and do a 180 and immediately continue screaming on... X-p i did somehow slided a bit here and there, but compared to an all out run, everything was really rather timid :-p

but there was this one time, when i was making a return run, i saw that there's no traffic at the 'highway' corner (ryousuke would understand what i'm talking about X-p) so decided to try to 'properly' tackle the corner... X-p

I braked a little late until it nears the threshold as the tyres started screaming, and stepped on the gas as i turn the car in, the car went running down through the corner, and the sudden change in elevation unsettled the car's weight, the rear immediately swung around, noticing the MASSIVE oversteer, i immediately released the steering, allowing it to rapidly countersteer, and cut down the throttle to relieve the rear tyres of its pressure to allow it to regain traction... and the slide was saved X-) not only was it uber cool, it was also UBER FUN X-)

As was done at sepang before (when i overtook the volvo wagon) so again did it occurred yesterday night :-p and i'm starting to get a hold of things X-) especially the notorious exit wiggle.. X-p hoho... can't wait for ryousuke to come back and we'll be going all out like no tomorrow (but a part of me dread of having to sit through that kind of experience.. :-P)

I don't know whether my cousin is scared or not, i dare not ask :-p bcoz he might just be, and i'll have to stop all the fun... X-p if i just keep quiet as it is, he might just not say so, and i can assume he's having a great deal of fun himself (as with Zid when we first took him to the touge... the guy was really crazy.. X-p) so after a few more runs (i really don't remember how many times we went back and forth.. X-p) traffic was really beginning to build up, bcoz of the adrenaline in my blood was off the scale, i started to recklessly overtake the slow common mortal lay traffics, even in blind corners X-p and then the road lite up, a car was coming.. then the headlights appeared before me, as i saw the car coming, in that split second of deciding whether to abort the overtaking and brake or go gung-ho all the way, i saw a small window of opportunity, and without a second thought, slammed on the throttle and quickly manouvered in front of the slow traffic whilst avoiding the oncomings... :-p by then, i realized i was going too reckless, and decided to call it a night...

So we headed off back home, my cousin wanted to try to drive the FC, so i parked at the roadside and we switched places... he wasn't used to the very short twin-plate racing clutch and stuttered as he went along... seeing how our path is dotted with traffics light, he then decided to give me back the wheel... X-p

thus after a short stint, i was back in the wheel, and decided to have some wangan action by bursting into the highway.. X-p as we're ripping through the highway, we blasted pass a cool modded 350Z X-p luckily he didn't decided to join us, bcoz of my inferiority complex.. X-p haha...

But before we headed home, i decided to have a short drifting stint at the local open parking lot cum pasar malam ground.. X-p i tried to do some donuts, but alas as before, it's pretty hard to maintain a long drift... :-( plus there were patches of water here and there, and every time i hit it, the rear just let loose and i find myself inadvertently looking at the wrong direction.. X-p however, our sideways action was beginning to attract some attention so i finally decided to call it a REAL night :-p and headed for home proper...

When we got back, it was 2.30... i checked the wheels, and the right rear wheel's outer thread has worn off :-( but the left wheel is still ok... i guess i had done quite too many left turns :-p oh well, luckily they're cheap second hand tyres... X-p haha... still, it's RM100 a piece... X-( and i don't have that kind of money in these tough times... :-(

We went home, contented and happy :-) i haven't had so much action in one night for so long, that it felt like it was my first time all over again... X-p with better skills of course.. X-p haha... too bad we didn't brought any camera with us :-( as our usual camera, for some circumstances or another, has been taken away for some more other economical uses, and until now, we don't have any other camera to take photos or videos (if you notice... X-p) so damn, no photos nor videos to show all those fun.. X-p haha..

well, next thing up after we've fixed this flying circus is to get the team a camera X-) we need one to capture all our retarded moments again... X-p haha...

for ryousuke who's hammering some pipes on some obscure iranian platform, make a LOT OF MONEY and let's have SOME REALLY CRAZY FUN X-D HAHAHA!!!!