impulsive purchase/upgrade...

from January 2009 - December 2010, for approximately 2 years, I have been using 17 incher RSW chrome deep dish rims......

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and right before the 2011 Chinese New Year...

went window shopping for rims with a few friends... and ended up with this:

18 incher rep. Advan Racing RS... =_____='"

buddy's wedding (06.12.2009)...

the bachelor night partay was held a couple of days before the actual wedding day so that we, especially the groom wouldn't end up getting pissed drunk for the big day...

fast forward to the actual day, we started the journey early all the way from Samarahan to Tabuan Jaya...

a compulsory braders' group shot before departing...

signing of the "my-money-is-your-money; your-money-is-also-your-money" & "giving-up-total-freedom" agreement... very the jialat and hailat... =.='''

the newly wed... Belinda & Yew Zion...

flowers & portrait...

BanQuet entrance, family portrait & center stage deco...

muaks~~!!!

Ah Shin & Eileen's baby Emily... so cute da baby... and guess what??

her birthday is the same as my Vios's...

YIIAAMmmmm----SeNGGG!!!!!~~~~~

congratulations bro... all the best to your married life... =)

wedding in Kuching...

my sister's wedding was held a couple of days after the food tasting session...

my ride being used as the wedding car...

the stage, with some lighting deco, champagne and cake...

the menu for the night...

sitting at the main table...

typical YUM-SENG routine...

--------suppose to end here, but-----------

John just told me that this entry is way short of pictures... -___-''

oklaa... so here goes the extended version...

everyone got seated at the main table...

the newly wed posing for the cameras...

all my uncles badly wanted to get my dad drunk that night... hahahaha...

all the ladies in the family... little Elizabeth is the cutest...

with cousins...

next up: pre-wedding & wedding in JB...

Pekin Restaurant @ Sutera Utama, JB...

interior...

some of the stuff that I added into the interior...

my new ride...

this is how it looked like after 3 days out from the Toyota showroom... hehehe... :)

**will post up more photos of the car when I am less busy... followed by a post on my best friend's wedding... shit man... these are really wayy overdue stuff....

another note: "bye bye to my Waja... it has been quite a colourful eight years being with you..."

a bit of makeover for the car...

the Sun-Guard tint that I bought about 3+ years ago has faded badly, so I send the car over to my usual car tinting/accessory shop to get a new layer of tint, and this time, Ice-Cool was the pick, at 50% tint on all sides...

the guys working on the windows...


I also bought a center speaker (max output @ 60W), that comes with its own little power output amp that is placed in the console box... pretty cool gadget lor... and now I get more vocal and bass from the front... :)


I did mention before that I damaged the front skirt of the car last November right?? well, the damage to it became worse after that as there were a few times when I scrapped it while parking the car to near the parking curb...


so I decided to get it changed. how's the new front-look??

Ais-Cool Tint - RM400
Center Speaker - RM220
Front Skirt - RM220

Total Damage - RM840

I damn broke liaw.... >___<

The Original Carwash...

went to this somewhat new high-class car wash outlet - The Original Carwash at Rubber Road about a month ago... yea, I know... this is a way overdue post, together with many more to come... :)


the place is huge... and very nicely done up to say the least...


where else could you find another car wash outlet with this cool set-up and renovation work in Kuching?


sommore WIFI is provided free, together with a free drink of your choice...


can choose to sit outside or inside, which is air-conditioned, and a range of food & beverages is served...


see your car being washed ala-assembly-line style through the glass panel...


pretty cool place to hand around lor... abeit the higher price... RM15 for a normal car wash & vacuum + a free drink...


even the toilet design puts typical three-star hotel's toilets to shame... -_____-''

rear disc brakes repaired before CNY

my rear disc brakes have been giving out this weird irritating sound whenever I step on the brakes while reversing, and knowing that the rear disc brakes needed trimming due to uneven surface, like what happened to the front disc brakes a year ago, again I went to the workshop to get the problem fixed.

before that, I went over to my usual spare part shop to purchase a set of better brake pads (both front and rear) as well... those with less brake dust...


the workshop guys took out the rear discs first... and sent them for trimming...


then they change the front brake pads...


fixing the rear brake calipers in place was the worst part as it took the longest time... and I waited close to 3 hours at the workshop.... but I guess it was worth it as now the problem is fixed, and there is no longer irritating sound while braking the car anymore... :)

total damage: RM220

it was my lucky day...

When your car rims and tires looked like this:


you know that the car seriously needs a car wash. The problem however was that it has been raining almost every evening here in Kuching, so it serves no purpose to get the car spanking clean for just a day or two, and then got ruined by the constant rains.


Then last week on a Thursday when I was driving Alex home, he spotted my car number on the "lucky number" board on one of the car wash centers, which means any cars with their numbers shown on the board would be given a free car wash + vacuum. It was my lucky day, and in we went for the FOC car wash.


After the wash, the rims and tires looked like this... much better huh?? However, it lasted only for a day because as I was out doing errands on Friday, it rained like no tomorrow in the afternoon and it's back to the dirty old look...

crap!!...damaged my car's front skirt...

I don't wanna go into too much details on how it happened... basically it's just my carelessness when turning a slow corner and hit the side curb after filling her up at the Petronas station... knn!!!

At first I thought the side skirt would have a huge crack or something like that... but after checking it out, it's what you see in the below photo.



the fiber glass area where it scrapped the side curb was damaged, and the paint chipped off quite badly... no major cracks though, and everything is still intact.

nope, I would probably not spend money to get it changed or re-sprayed... spent too much of money on the car already... sommore it's not that big a damage. I could actually get it fixed by double taping or clamping some metal thingy over the damaged area... hmm... lemme think first...

treasure hunt crap...

was asked to participate in a treasure hunt competition for my association's youth, an annual event organized by the Sarawak Youth Association. arrived at the meeting point at around 7.30am to get the team of 4 for registration, and after that waited for almost 1 hour before all the VIP arrived, gave their VIP speeches and etc before the hunt was started.


VIP speech... owes the same boring crap talk.... -__-

the whole event was actually poorly organized with a delayed start, and no extended time of arrival at the destination. it shouldn't be called a "treasure" hunt in the first place, as there's nothing to look for except for answers to be written on the answer sheet along the specified route, looking for the answers for the riddles/questions given (answers mostly from shop names, road names or something along that line...) pretty lame I should say...


was going back to our car when I took this picture in the middle of Gambir Street...


the lunch wasn't that bad, but we're too tired to actually enjoy it...

our team didn't win anything... and was damn tired by the time the entire event was finished. reached home at about 230pm, after having lunch prepared by the organizer at Golden Dragon Restaurant, which was also the final stop of the hunt.

verdict: a waste of my Sunday