sinful escapisms
escapism has never felt so good.
it's been a brilliant week since the end of the wretched mid semester exams. and after all the hard mugging, surely there's no harm indulging in a little sinful procrastination does it? not even when i've got a 2000 word law assignment due in 2 weeks or 3 weeks worth of missed lectures to catch up with online. neither would the fact that i'm the only idiot who will be turning up tml to set up the stall for what was 'supposed' to be our club's display for the University Expo open day after the other 2 who supposed to turn up dropped the bombshell on me saying that they have work committments. not even the fact that i have no posters, banners, photos or any paraphernalia to put on display for the open day spoil my holiday mood. and if even the realisation that i barely passed my marcoeconomics exams (keynes failed to answer my prayer) isn't enough to dampen my spirts, i dun see why anything else should! lalalalalalah
spent a smashing wednesday night going to black betty's for the first time. it has to be the most happening club in perth that i've ever been to. in fact, it's probably the only club i've been to here that plays rock. it was backpackers' nite on wednesday so beers were going at $8 per jug. it's tons better than the metro's with its overplayed R&B, hip-hop repertoire. it's such that empathetic atmosphere with everyone in the club jumping in sync, singing to Smells like Teen Spirit that can never be replicated in any R&B club, not even metro. the sense of rock empathy was probably a reason why there was hardly any trouble in a club like black betty's which was just so fucking crowded, apart from one minor catfight. the only other time that night where there any inkling of dai ji ironically happened when we all left the club.
after leaving black betty's, we were just hanging at the exit taking a smoke when we heard some shouting coming from J's car in the carpark. u see, J has a history of being a rather agro drunk having gotten himself thrown out of black betty's the previous week and paramount earlier this sem so adrian and shiwei were there to take care of him. the fact that J is of a considerably small build probably made things worse. from where we were, which was about 50 m from J, we couldn't really figure out what was happening other than the fact that J seemed to be in trouble. so me and J's housemate daniel ran towards them preparing for what could be a rough scenario. so while running towards J, we soon realised that the shouting actually came from adrian who was shouting for J to cool down and stop. it seems J was already in his supra and was driving really fast and it almost seems as though he was trying to run down this other drunk asian guy. the drunk was pretty shocked and jumped out of J's way and started running away, and J barely swerved outta the drunk guy's way within a whisker and drove off. we were fucking shocked lah.
we were told later that apparantly the drunk guy -who's viet by the way- was caught pissing on J's supra when J and gang were on their way to the carpark and that really pissed of J big time. Shiwei tried to calm J down but to no avail so J decided to play punk and try to run down the viet. we were probably quite lucky that the viet was alone. common street sense dictates that one should never fuck around with a vietnamese guy in perth, especially so in northbridge at night. oh well, that ended as that and apart from the piss on his rims, the only other damage of the night it seemed was probably J's carpet after his housemate joel told us how J puked all over his bedroom floor when he got home. it's probably understandable for J to get furious. the supra like is a work of art and to defile it is simply blasphemous. here's a photo of J's supra i ripped from his friendster. it's a beauty.
for the past days or two, i've been watching totally hooked on the Initial D anime. ah, the perils of having friends in college who will provide you with all huge array of videos posted on the college intranet. with the huge shitload of catching up to do during the 2 weeks break, getting hooked on yet another drama/anime series isn't exactly the smartest thing to do. i can't believe i finished almost 25 episodes of initial d stage 1 in about a day. but it's really fucking addictive.
i watched the movie version back in singapore but i'm such a techno idiot when it comes to cars that i couldn't really appreciate what the fuck was going on for the drifting and shit. that's why i really prefer the anime which at least attempts to explain some of the dynamics of racing. at least the one thing which i leart from watching the anime is that the experts drift with 4 wheels while the also-rans can only manage a powerslide with the rear wheels. not that i understand how it is done though...
my favourite race thus far has to be the gumtape deathmatch between takumi's AE 86 and the night kids random's Civic EG6. that was totally out of this world. while initial d seems to be based on real-life street racing, i seriously wonder if anyone's crazy enough to actually take part in a gumtape deathmatch, and even more so on a mountain course.
it's amazing how much publicity initial d did to the cars featured in its story. while the anime ostensibly glorifies the usual japanese sports carmakers like the 2 Madza RX 7 driven by the takahashi brothers or the various Nissan S13, Skyline Silvia driven by iketani and the other randoms, i think it is probably Toyota who's smiling widely considering how the glorification of Takumi's AE 86 has also consequently rendered the car a cult status and implicitly lavishing praises on Toyota's engineering prowess. It's amazing how the popularity of the AE 86 generated from Initidal D has allowed car dealers to charge unbelievable prices for a Toyota Sprinter Trueno (as they call it here down under it seems). i was googling for 2nd hand cars when i realised that some Truenos are priced as much as AUD$10, 000 for an '85 model! to put things in perspective, a 94 Honda Civic VTEC can be bought at about AUD$8000 and a 95 Toyota Corolla CSi which is half as old, costs almost half as much at about AUD$5000-6000. i'll take a Civic or Corolla anyday over the Trueno.
it seems the fever caught on the other cars as well. i've got a fren T who bought this 89 RX-7 sometime ago, ostenisbly imitating the style of Takahashi Ryosuke. even though it wasn't totally the RX-7 FC driven by Ryosuke, he claims it was fully mod for racing with '480 horses' as he claims in his friendster captions. this is interesting cos' just before Ryosuke's race with Takumi, Ryosuke said how his car was just only 350 HP downtuned to 250 HP. nevertheless, here's yet some other pictures which i ripped from T's friendster.
poor T has had rather bad luck with cars. the previous 180 sx which he bought ended up with a overhauled engine in less than a semester. i last heard, T is having some problems with the clutch of his RX-7 as well. Aparantly the clutch has become too sensitive that it's really hard to find the biting point. Rumour has it that there's a challenge at the college T resides in where the challenge is for anyone can try to drive T's RX-7 onto the main road without stalling. apparantly 8 person has tried and none of them could successfully drive out his car without si qia-ing - not even T himself. even if the clutch is fixed, it seems that T's RX-7 consumes petrol like a monster. T said how it took him 1/2 a fuel tank just to go to and forth to the airport. i guess that's probably one factor which most people overlook when purchasing cars - the hidden variable costs in terms of petrol consumption, and in light of soaring petrol prices, this is no joke at all.
despite of the glorification of street racing in initial d, i guess one thing which wasn't really clearly illustrated in the anime was that 'it is actually very possible to crash and die while street racing'. i have never seen a street race in real life, but me and my friends did have a close shave on a roadtrip to margaret river last year. all of us rented 3 vehicles in all, a lancer, a hyundai trajet MPV and a hyundai sonata. somewhere on our way back, the lancer decided to fuck around and overtake the MPV which i was sitting in. robin who was driving our MPV decided to play along and tailgate the lancer in front. u see, the roads between magaret river and bunbury (a mid point stop) are two-laned on each direction with a centre lane in place of a centre divider that allows vehicles on both sides to use it to overtake. so the lancer went into this third overtaking lane on and our MPV followed. soon we found the lancer swerving sharply back into the 2nd lane. we then realised that there was a gianormous trailer truck heading in our opposite direction on the overtaking lane as well. fortunately, robin had time to swerve back in to the 2nd lane a good 5-8 seconds before the trailer truck passed us. that was one hell of a ball-shrinking experience.
for T's sake, i really hope he won't take his imitation of ryosuke that far. i know the hill on king's park across the road is rather tempting for some initial d-ing. but trying to race downhill at kings park is probably a sure way to kill yourself or someone else considering that there's virtually no streelighting at all. not even putting tofu or a cup of water insider your car is likely to help navigate such a treacherous course in this case.
it's been a brilliant week since the end of the wretched mid semester exams. and after all the hard mugging, surely there's no harm indulging in a little sinful procrastination does it? not even when i've got a 2000 word law assignment due in 2 weeks or 3 weeks worth of missed lectures to catch up with online. neither would the fact that i'm the only idiot who will be turning up tml to set up the stall for what was 'supposed' to be our club's display for the University Expo open day after the other 2 who supposed to turn up dropped the bombshell on me saying that they have work committments. not even the fact that i have no posters, banners, photos or any paraphernalia to put on display for the open day spoil my holiday mood. and if even the realisation that i barely passed my marcoeconomics exams (keynes failed to answer my prayer) isn't enough to dampen my spirts, i dun see why anything else should! lalalalalalah
spent a smashing wednesday night going to black betty's for the first time. it has to be the most happening club in perth that i've ever been to. in fact, it's probably the only club i've been to here that plays rock. it was backpackers' nite on wednesday so beers were going at $8 per jug. it's tons better than the metro's with its overplayed R&B, hip-hop repertoire. it's such that empathetic atmosphere with everyone in the club jumping in sync, singing to Smells like Teen Spirit that can never be replicated in any R&B club, not even metro. the sense of rock empathy was probably a reason why there was hardly any trouble in a club like black betty's which was just so fucking crowded, apart from one minor catfight. the only other time that night where there any inkling of dai ji ironically happened when we all left the club.
after leaving black betty's, we were just hanging at the exit taking a smoke when we heard some shouting coming from J's car in the carpark. u see, J has a history of being a rather agro drunk having gotten himself thrown out of black betty's the previous week and paramount earlier this sem so adrian and shiwei were there to take care of him. the fact that J is of a considerably small build probably made things worse. from where we were, which was about 50 m from J, we couldn't really figure out what was happening other than the fact that J seemed to be in trouble. so me and J's housemate daniel ran towards them preparing for what could be a rough scenario. so while running towards J, we soon realised that the shouting actually came from adrian who was shouting for J to cool down and stop. it seems J was already in his supra and was driving really fast and it almost seems as though he was trying to run down this other drunk asian guy. the drunk was pretty shocked and jumped out of J's way and started running away, and J barely swerved outta the drunk guy's way within a whisker and drove off. we were fucking shocked lah.
we were told later that apparantly the drunk guy -who's viet by the way- was caught pissing on J's supra when J and gang were on their way to the carpark and that really pissed of J big time. Shiwei tried to calm J down but to no avail so J decided to play punk and try to run down the viet. we were probably quite lucky that the viet was alone. common street sense dictates that one should never fuck around with a vietnamese guy in perth, especially so in northbridge at night. oh well, that ended as that and apart from the piss on his rims, the only other damage of the night it seemed was probably J's carpet after his housemate joel told us how J puked all over his bedroom floor when he got home. it's probably understandable for J to get furious. the supra like is a work of art and to defile it is simply blasphemous. here's a photo of J's supra i ripped from his friendster. it's a beauty.
for the past days or two, i've been watching totally hooked on the Initial D anime. ah, the perils of having friends in college who will provide you with all huge array of videos posted on the college intranet. with the huge shitload of catching up to do during the 2 weeks break, getting hooked on yet another drama/anime series isn't exactly the smartest thing to do. i can't believe i finished almost 25 episodes of initial d stage 1 in about a day. but it's really fucking addictive.
i watched the movie version back in singapore but i'm such a techno idiot when it comes to cars that i couldn't really appreciate what the fuck was going on for the drifting and shit. that's why i really prefer the anime which at least attempts to explain some of the dynamics of racing. at least the one thing which i leart from watching the anime is that the experts drift with 4 wheels while the also-rans can only manage a powerslide with the rear wheels. not that i understand how it is done though...
my favourite race thus far has to be the gumtape deathmatch between takumi's AE 86 and the night kids random's Civic EG6. that was totally out of this world. while initial d seems to be based on real-life street racing, i seriously wonder if anyone's crazy enough to actually take part in a gumtape deathmatch, and even more so on a mountain course.
it's amazing how much publicity initial d did to the cars featured in its story. while the anime ostensibly glorifies the usual japanese sports carmakers like the 2 Madza RX 7 driven by the takahashi brothers or the various Nissan S13, Skyline Silvia driven by iketani and the other randoms, i think it is probably Toyota who's smiling widely considering how the glorification of Takumi's AE 86 has also consequently rendered the car a cult status and implicitly lavishing praises on Toyota's engineering prowess. It's amazing how the popularity of the AE 86 generated from Initidal D has allowed car dealers to charge unbelievable prices for a Toyota Sprinter Trueno (as they call it here down under it seems). i was googling for 2nd hand cars when i realised that some Truenos are priced as much as AUD$10, 000 for an '85 model! to put things in perspective, a 94 Honda Civic VTEC can be bought at about AUD$8000 and a 95 Toyota Corolla CSi which is half as old, costs almost half as much at about AUD$5000-6000. i'll take a Civic or Corolla anyday over the Trueno.
it seems the fever caught on the other cars as well. i've got a fren T who bought this 89 RX-7 sometime ago, ostenisbly imitating the style of Takahashi Ryosuke. even though it wasn't totally the RX-7 FC driven by Ryosuke, he claims it was fully mod for racing with '480 horses' as he claims in his friendster captions. this is interesting cos' just before Ryosuke's race with Takumi, Ryosuke said how his car was just only 350 HP downtuned to 250 HP. nevertheless, here's yet some other pictures which i ripped from T's friendster.
poor T has had rather bad luck with cars. the previous 180 sx which he bought ended up with a overhauled engine in less than a semester. i last heard, T is having some problems with the clutch of his RX-7 as well. Aparantly the clutch has become too sensitive that it's really hard to find the biting point. Rumour has it that there's a challenge at the college T resides in where the challenge is for anyone can try to drive T's RX-7 onto the main road without stalling. apparantly 8 person has tried and none of them could successfully drive out his car without si qia-ing - not even T himself. even if the clutch is fixed, it seems that T's RX-7 consumes petrol like a monster. T said how it took him 1/2 a fuel tank just to go to and forth to the airport. i guess that's probably one factor which most people overlook when purchasing cars - the hidden variable costs in terms of petrol consumption, and in light of soaring petrol prices, this is no joke at all.
despite of the glorification of street racing in initial d, i guess one thing which wasn't really clearly illustrated in the anime was that 'it is actually very possible to crash and die while street racing'. i have never seen a street race in real life, but me and my friends did have a close shave on a roadtrip to margaret river last year. all of us rented 3 vehicles in all, a lancer, a hyundai trajet MPV and a hyundai sonata. somewhere on our way back, the lancer decided to fuck around and overtake the MPV which i was sitting in. robin who was driving our MPV decided to play along and tailgate the lancer in front. u see, the roads between magaret river and bunbury (a mid point stop) are two-laned on each direction with a centre lane in place of a centre divider that allows vehicles on both sides to use it to overtake. so the lancer went into this third overtaking lane on and our MPV followed. soon we found the lancer swerving sharply back into the 2nd lane. we then realised that there was a gianormous trailer truck heading in our opposite direction on the overtaking lane as well. fortunately, robin had time to swerve back in to the 2nd lane a good 5-8 seconds before the trailer truck passed us. that was one hell of a ball-shrinking experience.
for T's sake, i really hope he won't take his imitation of ryosuke that far. i know the hill on king's park across the road is rather tempting for some initial d-ing. but trying to race downhill at kings park is probably a sure way to kill yourself or someone else considering that there's virtually no streelighting at all. not even putting tofu or a cup of water insider your car is likely to help navigate such a treacherous course in this case.
13 Comments:
1. Viets - yes you guys were lucky he was alone. Them guys don't need much excuse to call up their gang and come f**k youse up.
2. Driving fast - Yes, never ever drive recklessly. A life is too precious. Wanna race, go hire a track. Not that expensive. Cheaper than replacing your car and definitely better than dying.
good blog
yes i can identify with the racing and initial-d.... have watched initial-d the movie... after that tried to do a film review for my speech exam and quite extensive research... in the end gave up coz don know if english examiner can identify with the craze of toyota cars eg AE86 and the whole range of japanese sports car
i love driving
I am so disgustingly jealous of that supra. So very.
SUPRA!!!!!!! too bad singapore only have a few and worse, it's discontinued *DROOLS* FD!!! dammit! it's around 60k in singapore..bo hua for an old car.
anyway if u wanna get latest id news or anime, join idforums.net
i've been ther for 1 yr plus. I know the admin there :)
by the way, FD is better than FC..
oh yes, i have a friend in sydney.his dad's friend has an AE86 too ;)
f cheap in aussie
mooiness: yah man! i heard quite a few horrow stories involving the M_B_ros and they S_p_yder boys or something. Is the racing track you're talking about somewhere near burswood's side on the freeway? cos' i remember seeing one around there
hiao auntie: i can understand how you feel. when i was in JC2, i took part in a speech competition and while most of the other contestants talked about some serious/philosophical shit, i gave a speech on star wars and cracked some suggestive jokes with it. apparantly it din go down too well on the judges and i din break into the next round. i think i might have blogged about this in my star wars entry.
c: dun jealous lah, u got ur really cool 4WD already. but if you still do and happen to see it in northbridge, u can feel free to piss on his car too whahaha
spinee: yah, in fact i've never seen a supra before until i arrived in perth. even now it looks ultra futuristic so u could have imagined how uber cool it must have been during its time. i think the other super cool old car is the Nissan 300ZX. it's the lao chio of jap cars. i'm not too sure about the engine stuff, but confirm the FD is chio-er. i saw a few RX-7 Series 8 around perth and i still think it's more chio than the RX-8.
YES!!! rx8 look so not fierce! rx7 FD series is the best man..
supra is so chio too!!
i just wish i have one of them!!!
T__T
A 4wd is WAAAAAYYYY far from a performance car... and i'm definitely a jap import kinda girl. Gotta wait till the big trip (if we ever take it) is over before i settle down and get meself an R34. Heh. 'Course, i gotta win the lotto first.
must take lotsa photos when u make ur big trip k! hahaha, that's ur lotto dream eh. my lotto dream would be probably to get a Holden Monaro though the soaring petrol prices probably killed any last desire to buy it even if my lotto dream do come through =(
i just realised that the house at east perth are UNBELIEVABLY gorgeous after my fren drove us around there. i guess i would much settle for using the lotto money just to rent a house there. heh.
I can't remember which one it is but there's one you can hire it out if you have a bunch of guys and do laps around a track - "M's Performance" something? I've never done it myself. :P Then there's the Kwinana one for drags.
mooiness: wah, u should just go and try it out man! if not you will not be doing your Skyline justice! LOL
you are getting quite an audience, gohsama. Hope your debates set up was great.
yo! why u dun use ur normal profile?
the set up was ok only, super sian lah.
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