And the Mental Torture Continues...

uni has gone by for some 2 weeks already. so caught up in the hype of it all, i kind of forgot to come back here and update. so in a very brief summary:

1. des has joined monash engineering for the mechatronic side
2. i passed all my subjects last sem (woooot to me!!!) so finishing off my 2nd year subjects :P
3. i have just sat for my first quiz... (and i wasn't prepared for it!!!! :( i hope i didn't do that bad)
4. dear dear and i have had our 2nd anni lo!!! (and this i may ramble about cos it's worth rambling about!!! nyeh nyeh!)
5. my newly formatted laptop has been attack by... VIRUSES!!! (just got rid of them... stupid viruses... curse the fucking assholes who were so free...)
6. just read finish the first two chapters of "Song of the Dodo" (about island biodiversity... very interesting...)
   

As you can see, within a couple of weeks, we're back in uni. we're hitting the books again and the guys have projects to build, i have essays and research to do... this sem i really have to be a proper nerd... (yeah, i know i promised myself that last sem, but it ain't easy to be a nerd, k!!!)

well, as you can see at point no. 3, i so elegantly hinted that i have just crossed the 2 year line of my relationship!!! hahah! it's been a hard, and sometimes trying 2 years, but worth it. in these 2 years, i dare say that nearly 85% of the time, we're blissful. but the times we fight... not worth mentioning (maybe something juicy you may like to read, but i really can't remember much :P)

the day before our anni, he took me on a pre-anni dinner to jogoya in starhill... if any of you have been there, you know that it's damn freaking expensive! now, for a guy that has been saving for the whole year for a very expensive car component, spending sparingly, i was rather touched he was willing to pay 200++ for our dinner. he knows i love jap food and wanted to take me to a place that he read, served a great jap buffet. so we went right after uni...

we started dining at about 7 something and finished at about 9++. i think that was the only time i've eaten oyster without much of a second thought! i love oyster and salmon, so... heheh! go figure. i have only two slabs of oyster... (but huge le!!!) one of them was a kimchi seasoned fresh oyster, the other was a cheese baked oyster. my salmon came in the form of SUSHI!!!!! heheh! i love jap food... did i mention? :P

as for my darling, heheh! he took a variety of stuff. whilst i made bee lines to unagi, sushi, soft shelled crabs and tempuras... hahah! he went all over on a food odssey! he sampled everything from special sushi to lemon chicken! hahah! isn't he adorable?! hahha! anyhow, he'd specially pick food he'd think was extra nice for me. like the kimchi oyster, he took for me. so i ordered the unagi.

the food there, if it's not malaysian food, rocks! the lemon chicken nick took wasn't that good but the other types of food, the jap food, the fusion food, it all seriously rocked! the unagi was good, it falls apart in your mouth with that sweet sweet taste, the oysters are all fresh! the scallops are divine! and their wasabi is unique, as if they ground the radish themselves!!!

the dessert was so ooooh! it was sinful just to consume it! the chocolate fudge was so delicate! melted in my mouth, same with the green tea fudge. the tiramisu... ohhhhhh! (if all the ooooohs and ohhhhhs remind you of the "Big O" the cake i guess was as good as that!) hahha! imagine a rich tiramisu resting on your tongue, slowly melting, arresting your sensory organ (the tongue) as it teases you with the delicate aromas of coffee rising to the roof of your mouth. as you swallow it, the rich creamy texture leaves hints of coffee, chocolate and cheese. just makes you crave for more!

the ice cream was also heavenly. i took 3 dollops of chocolate chip ice cream! hahah! rocks le! nick took strawberry, and vanilla. he was entranced by vanilla and had to go for seconds! hahah! but it was really really good! the ice cream was super creamy. it didn't have that rough texture you get from your everyday ice cream, yet it was so much nicer than those from baskin robins!

i went to grab more salmon!!! haha! but alas, someone had taken one too many and only left one lonely slab. i didn't want it to feel so lonely, so i let it join it's friends in my belly :P

Boredom... (A very dangerous thing!)

i'm so so so freaking bored!!! for the past few days, i've been wallowing in self pity over my very irritating period cramps, and surfing this thing i call the internet... gah!why you ask? because i'm finding a holiday any longer than 1 week to be boring. give me something to do!!!! i have around 1 and 1/2 weeks left of my hols, but the thing i'm fast running out of things to do. i've been doing cross stitch and stuff but then again, it only takes up say 1/2 of my time!

yesterday went out to catch up with a couple of friends. now, yesterday i was less bored mindless. i had mental sparring with good sparring partners. what resulted was a little (rather long and heated) chat in starbucks times square. apparently, one of our friends owed my friend (let's name him Bob) some (alot actually) money. total? more than 1k. anyhow, this money was due to unpaid rent in a house they share staying in uni. now, Bob is a very sweet and passive chap. if anyone bullies him, he smiles and just takes it in, but then he is starting to feel unhappy about more and 1k debt that our friend has owed him.

as if to make matters worse, this particular friend has a tendency of taking advantage of Bob's passiveness. and he actually had the gall to tell Bob that he couldn't pay yet as he had to collect some debts first. now, the type of debts that our friend apparently needs to collect is at the most 400 bucks, if i know him, he would never have allowed the debt to amount to that. thus, i and a few others conclude that he was lying to Bob... poor Bob? well, the only good thing is that Bob will be relieved of him in a month's time. our friend is moving out.

still, we have the problem of the 1k ++ debt! now what options do we have? most of us are 20 approaching 21 and i'm sure that we won't have to go to the extend of going to tell on each other's mummy's and daddys right? right? sigh! but if the matter persists, i'm afraid that Bob will just have to end up complaining to our friend's ma. what would you do if it were you?

Ready? Set? GO!!!!!! (R3 Time Attack, Round 3, 2006)

yesterday went to nick's race... so fun :P hahah! well, anyhow, i'll give you a summary! hahah! any the nice thing is though nick didn't get a podium finish (he came in 5th in his category) we got our own souveniers! heheh! i went with my brother so both of us got passes as competition crew... (the picture on the right... there!) cool name for the people that set up the canopy and sit in it throughout the day... hahah! ok technically i think the reason they did that is so that it would be easier to manage the people on the sidelines. anyhow, there wasn't that many non-"pit crew" people around that day. most of the spectators were sponsors or family of the racers.

we left at about 7.15am from Mont Kiara and arrived at Shah Alam Stadium around 7.45. we had a parking place "booked" for us by Nick's friend, Ken. on reaching, we basically began to unload. i started to arrange the ice and drinks, and the sandwiches i packed. the guys began unscrewing the spare tyre from the boot and hauling it to the front. after all the loose bits had been removed from nick's already nearly empty putra, we set up the canopy. that was quite fun with all the horsing around with the parts. once the canopy was up and ready, we had to think about what to use to anchor the damn thing down. the last time i went, our canopy flew over a fellow driver's car. luckily, no damage.

we settled on tying one end down to nick's very heavy tool box. the other end was anchored to the passenger seat that had been quickly removed. the last two legs were weighed down by the trusty old spare tyre. suffice to say, yesterday, our canopy was planted to the ground. with the canopy set up and three of us proud with our work, and my knotting skills (:P), we settled on scrutinizing anything else we could do. result? des sipped on chocolate milk as nick decided to go sign in for the race. me? i just sat there thinking of what a wonderful weather we were having...

sadly for me, the wonderful weather didn't last. i have sunburns on my poor face... so have des and nick! hahah! but they're guys!!!! (moans and groans a bit then glares angrily at nick) and the worst bit is that nick is the type that once he gets burns, he peels, then he's fair again!!! not freaking fair man!!! (no pun intended!) sigh! life is soooo not fair la! (no pun intended again!)

so anyhooooooo, we were parked just behind a 1.3 satria from ipoh. that car was
sponsored by fts... a rally spec car but, real good car. the guy won for his category lo... the fellas go for every round and they had camped overnight since they have to travel to get to the venues. not only that, they were fully prepared with mats and pillows and all the works! hahah! not only that, i think they were going to participate in the drift event too. i think la.. they had they're bluebird parked next to us ma... the dirver for the car was called johan i think. all very smiley smiley people... :D

the runs started at around 9.30 to 10.00am. starting with the practice run. nick's practice run was his smoothest run, but the time he scored was far from good. at least by the end of the day, the practice run timing looked poor in comparison. hahah! by the time it was around 11.30 am, Time Attack 1 (TA1) had begun. the car were lined up in the hot sun and the race was on. the course was a rather sandy one, so the track resembled that of a car park rally. cars were let out one at a time at 1 minute intervals as most of the cars took around 1 and a half minutes to get the track done.

nick managed to complete TA1 in 94 seconds but for missing a cone he got penalised 5 seconds, giving a final time of 99s. by right, the time should not have been counted as he would have "not completed" the track but i think the excessive dust cloud that the car kicked up blinded the official a little. another problem encountered in the first round was that the security box in the car had some how come loose and winded up near nick's feet which would be rather dangerous. getting back, he zip tied the box to the passenger side to prevent further problems.

by the end of TA1, we were tired and hungry. the heat was begining to get to us and i had resorted to sitting in the car to get away from the sun. my brother fell asleep in the driver's seat and nick nodded on and off as he rested whilst sitting on the cooler leaning back against his car. me, i slept like a pig... haha! yeah, i fell asleep hugging the cushion he mum gave us to sit on as i sat on the passenger side floor. the wind was rather cooling so sleep was very possible. halfway through lunch break, the canopy on the other side of the parking space flew. nick got up to catch it, i held on tight to ours. if you have never encountered a blown around canopy, it's not fun. or maybe it is, a little. luckily that the canopy was more or less weighed down, all i had to do was make sure it didn't shift too much.

just as TA2 started, nick's parents came along with their small chihuahua mix pommie and our food! hahah! nick was in the car and my brother was getting ready to start going photo crazy. me, i was the unofficial timekeeper. this time around, though nick claimed that it felt sluggish, the timing had imporved to around 92s. a drastic improvement i dare say!

on the left you can see the beautiful car in its glory (covered in dust and hand prints from us touching and leaning on the car). this baby really did its thing on saturday. oh, and for those that just feel like it, the number is 427 and position on the championship grid for 3 dot 6 R3 Time Attack is 5th in the Hung category! :P

after TA2, we dug into the lunch nick's folks got us... Mc Ds!!! yum! hahah! i just loooooove Mc Dees. anyhoo, after a very estatic and excited nick kicked our drinks over when explaining his run to his dad, we were left with only one cup of icey coke. ah well... hahah! well, after the relaxing lunch, round 3 started.

TA3 was much more slippery in comparison to the first few rounds. basically, the sand had flown everywere thus making the track very much unpredictable... haha! anyhow, i filmed the last round, but i don't think i can post it here... it's some 128mb!!! anyhow, the results TA3? 90.57s!!!! it's a huge improvement lo... even so, nick came in at 5th, which isn't that bad... hahah! the results are here

by the end of the day, we were sooooo tired... actually, i'm still tired, and it's sunday afternoon... this post is too long... gah! and i'm not making up fpr my absence k! hahah! anyhoo, i'll jot some other things down when i get the chance to. tah for now! :)