Time for changes

I've been driving my old Toyota since my uni years, now 2 years after graduating, I think its time for an upgrade. Not because that I dislike my current ride, well, I do dislike it and love it. It is fun to tackle a corner with, it has a reasonable good torque, enough for the spirited daily city drive. But it is rather old, I believe its about 2 year +- younger then me. Leaking could happen during downpour, and sometimes even during carwash. Squeaking sound here and there, parts breakdown every now and then.

Now, before moving forward, lets talk a little more about my family and Toyota. My dad had a Toyota which he passed down to my elder brother after changing to a continental ride. After some time, it gave him a little too much problem and my dad finally went back to Toyota for a new ride. My bro totaled the Toyota given by my dad, and now he got himself a second-hand Toyota. My brother-in-law drives a Toyota, I got a Toyota during my uni years.

When thinking of getting a new car, one of the car that I really wanted was a Forte. A lot people have been telling me that this brand is no good etc. But these people are talking about the past, and its definitely not base on experience, even if its from experience, I could bet none of the experience came from Forte itself. From the people that I know who drives a Kia Forte, the feedback is nothing but good. Its a great car, value for money. If only I could afford it, it'll cost me around RM100k. So I had to turn elsewhere and start looking for a reliable second-hand / used car. And when looking into this segment, we can't go wrong with the Toyota, in this case, the Vios.

The above is the older generation of Vios which I kinda like, while the below is the newer version of the Vios which should be better as the wear and tear is still not that serious yet, in other words, I can use it for longer and sell off for higher.

I think I can safely say that Vios is a rather reliable car in Malaysia, having sold the highest volume for god knows how many years in both the new and used markets. Since so many people are still going for Vios, that will only mean that it is a really good car in some way or another. But if we are looking at the highest sales category, the Kia Forte is also among the vehicle which achieve a high sales number in Malaysia, I hope you get what I'm pointing at. But it remains a dream, where as my GTR-35 lies in the dream of my Forte's dream. Lol, what the **** am I saying.

But another car that I had had a crush before, which also belongs to the Toyota family, of course Supra is in the list, the dream list, but the crush that I had was for Altezza. The looks is simple, a little weird to some, but special to me, and with a simple bodykit upgrade, its a fabulous ride!! Definitely something to stand out in a crowd of Vios.

But end of the day, with my current wage, I really need to step up on my game in order to really make my dream come true, once the dream comes true, then the dream in my dream will be only 1 dream away.


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Careful on the road

Saw a car rammed into a tree near a dangerous corner near my office. Usually motorist are the victims, and this is among the rare times where a driver is the victim, don't know about the details.

Anyways, would just like to present all of you with a few pictures.
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I know the likelihood of the last picture is very slim. But guess what are every Malaysians thinking are. 

"Most drivers are an idiot, only a few are really good. I am not the best, but definitely better then the idiot over there"

"I am a very good driver, I can manuver and control my car good enough to avoid an accident."

"That idiot don't know how to drive is it! Give signal earlier!!" - the issue would be if signal given, would you let them pass or would your right feet get heavier for a moment? Most of the time.

"I am smart/lucky/alert, won't get into an accident"

Anyways, what I am trying to say is that what you think won't happen to you, might actually happen! 

Ok really final, be careful on the road, be alert! I always like to say:

Drive fast and full of awareness/alertness.

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Being at the easy place! Great work!!

Why is it that at places such as malfunctioning traffic light, road repair/construction etc, you can't seem to find the  traffic police?

But when you pass that place, they seem to be standing at the usual highway, that particular long stretch of road, directing the cars which are all travelling the same direction.

Yeah, that is our 1Malaysia, Malaysia Boleh. Gotta say, smart! Directing a congested straight road is definitely better then directing a place where it would help.

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Double parking bad?

How many times has we seen people double parking, I mean if sometime you ter-park out of line a little is ok la, sometimes its cause you didn't notice, sometimes its due to certain reasons, but no forgiveness to those who double park like no ones business, I mean if it is at a place where there are plenty of car parks, and not much people parks there, by all mean, triple park and no one cares, but at certain place where car park is limited, please park properly, or at least leave some space so that a normal sedan car can park!

Double and triple park is bad enough for us, but the worst thing is to do it at the handicapped area, I know that most of the time these car parks are free and most likely no handicapped will park there, but what if you did that and then some poor handicapped fellow is frantically searching for a car park?

Picture stolen from fast and furious forum, google if you don't know where this forum belongs to

Old saga taxi are out, coming in is Lancer?

How long has it been that the old faithful is here? The old driver trying to sell you his service in his beat-up old saga/iswara?

Once you are in, you are greeted with torn/worn out cushions and sunken seats. If you are lucky the air-cond is still cold. 

Now imagine that we hope from that to this!

It looks great right. Now on a totally different segment, I also bet that most of you have seen this happening around the world.

Which also means that:

And then you have our Malaysian version, I've seen them on highway numerous times, but lately not that often

Now for the issue!

If you are driving the new Proton Inspira, and next to you is the above, our police variant of the Evo X, I believe you will feel somewhat good. But, what if you are driving the Proton Inspira and driving in KL, every few cars you will see the all new Proton Inspira TAXI! I guess it can be rather demotivating to drive it, and value will be shot down. 

So should we get the new Inspira as our taxi like these countries are doing?

Or should we just stick to the old faithful?

Shoe-Peed Fart Up Idol-et follow up

This post is a follow up of my previous rant post on Shoe Peed Fart Up Idol-et.

One more thing I can't understand is why park at other people's parking bay, unless you are sure there is no one parking there, even so, some of the visitor's car park have roofs, and its not that far from my parking bay.

Well, this is the visitor car park!

I know this picture is a little blur, but you can actually see the car which parked at my bay from where I was standing, that my friend, proves that it is not very far away from the visitor's bay

After complaining, I assume the guards gave the owner some grace period, they only came and clamp the vehicle in the morning, which was more than 6 hours later. But that car is still there.

You can see the guards there after the sun is quite high in the sky.

And the result of parking at someone else's parking bay without permission nor a sticky note asking to call you or something like that.

Shoe-Peed Fart Up Idol-et

After getting back home, feeling kind of tired, I found this car parked in my parking bay (Cyberia D-23A-A), its ok if you park there for awhile, but at least when you park at someone else's parking bay, please be alert, especially when you hear people honking! When you hear it, the least you could do is come out, say sorry, and move your car as fast as you can. But NO, the owner of this car, has disappeared, and it is almost midnight now and no one has yet to come and drive the car away. 

If you are not going to be able to pay attention when people's honk, or you simply do not plan to care, please park at the designated VISITORS' CAR PARK!! It is not actually very far from my parking bay anyway! I really don't understand why people like to park at someone's parking bay and just go away like it is his/hers. I swear, if I was not so civilised, I would puncture three of his tyre and make sure I empty his engine oil, all I need to do is get a container, large enough to contain about 4litres of liquid, and unbolt the nut which is accessible to anyone if you would just bend down and look under the engine bay of most car. 

But being the person I am, I am giving this person a grace period, if he/she don't move it away by the time I finish this post, I would have no choice but to go and get the security and clamp his/her car. And those who hold a the VISITOR PASS, are not even allowed to be in Cyberia after MIDNIGHT!

I took the liberty of getting an insurance if anything were to happen to my car in the coming future if the car below is clamped for parking in my parking area (they can just come and have their sweet revenge at my car since my car would be naked to their attacks), by snapping the following pictures. 

As you can see the parking bay next to mine is D-23-B

And so, the end, I am going to ask the security to clamp his car now. Though it will pose a problem to me as I have to WALK to the guard house which is at the front, but at least it will cure my rage for now!

You can read the follow up at Shoe-Peed Fart Up Idol-et follow up 

Cyberjaya Drift 20th March 2010

Again caption only post.

The track

Feinto D

Goodyear Racing team's Jane

Goodyear Racing's Michael

S15

The prettiest car I saw the whole day, Nissan Fairlady! (Elmo's Fav)

FX Open's RX-7 FC3S I think

Exo X

Skyline GT-R34

Bridgestone's Ivan Lau in his Toyota AE86, in the training session he was superb, inches away from the clipping points. (ps: I don't see his bumper flying around, maybe in the race itself? Haha)

Next up we have Goodyear Racing's Jane (she suffered from gearbox problem)

I'm not sure who this is, but this FX Open sponsored is darn good as well

If you are into drift, I believe you would know this guy, Tengku Djan

And this was what I got for sitting to near to the track so early, I was basically sitting from the start of free run for Group A. Though I left when Group B started their free run, so if you want to know, I did not watch finish the race due to some event.