Spin Out: By BangHatch

2008 Karting Sponsorship Offer...

2007-12-10T23:00:00.000-05:00

Some people may already know this, but I have been competing in an amateur Karting Series for the 2007 season. And as some of you may know, I was quite successful.. I finished 5th overall in my division (out of 64), and 19th grand overall in the series (out of 328). Based on my successful performance, I was offered a Karting Sponsorship to compete in the ROTAX division for the 2008 season!! Now, you're probably thinking in your head - "Wow! That's awesome!!" - Yes, it is.. But not really.. Sponsorships are NEVER fully "free"..

I had to provide an initial deposit of about $7000 for a brand new Kart and 125cc Rotax engine.. As a sponsored driver, I get discounted parts and use of their tools and knowledge on setups for various tracks/layouts etc.. I'm still responsible for my own equipment (which i already have) and the maintenance of the Kart and engine - Which also includes any parts that need to be replaced.. At the end of the season, they give back $1500 as part of the "sponsorship agreement"...

By reading that paragraph, you already know my answer whether or not I took it.... HELLLLL NOOOOOO!!!! LMAO!! First off, my "sponsor" is the factory distributor of the specific Kart. So I'm sure they already get it at a significant discount - So the $1500 that they agree to give back, is probably just a portion of the profit... Secondly, they're going to make money off of me by buying all these parts from them etc.. And lastly, come'on.. $7000? Do they think I shit money? I'm saving up for a down payment for a condo, soooo that in itself is out of the question...

It's nice to know that I've been considered though.. But I politely told them "no".. I will probably join the arrive and drive season still (like I did for 2007) next season though.. :)

A Tragic Passing... Please Pray For Her...

2007-12-05T22:11:00.001-05:00

It's a sad day.. Tuesday evening news you hear about the regular things going on in this world.. You hear about a tragic car accident that took the life of someone.. The last thing that you'd ever want to hear is that it was someone you know.. Well it happened.. Here's the official story here -> http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_17363.aspx

Please read it before you continue...

She was a friend of mine.. We weren't extremely close, but we got along very, very well.. She was a former colleague of mine as well at work. She left the company in Feb 2007, however still kept in touch with a lot of us.. We'd get to meet up with each other once in a while when a bunch of us decide to get together for drinks or whatever... Last time I saw her was in June... She had invited me to her birthday party in November, just last month.. She JUST turned 26.. I unfortunately had to decline the invite as I had another party to go to.. I guess I should've gone to her birthday party.. Because she's not going to have another one.. Anymore.. Forever..

RIP Josie - You'll surely be missed.. She was a pretty, kind, hyper girl who had a heart of gold and would've had a HUGE future well ahead of her.

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2007 Canadian Karting Series FINAL Standings...

2007-11-26T20:37:00.000-05:00

You can download the PDF file for the FINAL Standings here...

Pretty much finished 19 out of 328 people in my group.. ;)

Here's some pictures as well...

Canadian Karting Series Race #7 and #8 and #9

2007-08-29T18:28:00.000-04:00

If you were observant, I skipped a number from my previous Karting Race post. I had missed one Karting race since I had gone to Atlanta on vacation for that time to visit my bro, sister-in-law, and newborn godson.. Didn't matter, Atlanta was much more fun :)

Race #7... Well what can I say? That day felt REALLY good. I clocked one of the fastest times of the TRACK. Wasn't sure if I broke a record.. But.. I'm sure I was close. In any case, with that said, I took pole position for qualifying ;) .. What's surprising though was a new face behind me who qualified second! It was a newcomer who had joined late in the season. But he obviously had previous experience somewhere (and weighs/looks really light) as I (and the third qualifier) had clocked really, really quick times!! Anyway, race is off!! I never expected it, but I got a LOT of pressure from the new guy. He was on my ass for the first couple laps AND peeking through in some turns with a possible attempt to overtake.. We were clocking times very close to our qualifying times dicing and protecting my position.. The new guy got me on one corner bumping me down to 2nd place; and so, I turned the tables and shifted the pressure to him instead.. I got him to crack - but to my disadvantage. I was tailing too close, pressured him enough to lock his brakes on a high speed hairpin and he went sideways, but because I was tailing too close - I had bumped him causing both of us to go into a spin!!! I was lucky enough to recover and rejoin the race at 5th place, but had to work hard to end up in a so-so 4th place position. Had there been more laps (2-3 more), I would've been able to catch 3rd and secured a podium finish... Unfortunately, not this race......

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Anyway, Race #8 was pretty exciting! For one thing, organizers decided to have the reverse-track layout instead of the conventional layout we normally race.. And because of this, a lot of people needed to get used to the 'new' layout. Surprisingly, it's completely different from what you would've normally thought. The reverse track required less braking points, was (or at least felt) faster too. I felt really comfortable right away and tested the limits of each corner on every practice session. I clocked pretty quick times in comparison to others; and on qualifying thought had edged pole position once again. To our surprise, it was the newcomer from the last race who had taken pole! Amazing! LOL... In any case, race started off, and the 1-2-3 positions were all bunched up. New guy, me, then the jockey guy (remember him? lol).. We were pressuring each other every lap, but I was feeling nudges from behind me. I had no choice but to give up my place and fall back to third. We were all dicing for positions at this point and no one backed off. We were dicing with each other so much that the 4th place guy caught up to us and ALMOST dove in on me on the last lap... But I was able to hang on to a respectable third for a bronze medal podium finish... Believe me though, if you knew what happened the night before this race, it's amazing I did as well as I did... I only had 3 hours or so of sleep. Was wired on Vodka/Redbulls. I had more than four CANS of Redbull to top-up on my double-shot vodkas. And considering that Redbull has a warning not to mix it with alcohol AND some bars refuse to mix it for you for safety reasons, is good enough sign to use caution... LOL

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And now... Just recently, Race #9... This happened during the American Le Mans Series Weekend (including Speed World Challenge, Star Mazda Series, Formula BMW, etc, etc) when they had visited our local track - Mosport.. I spent the entire day on Saturday walking, standing, and watching. You could just imagine how tired I was.. The following day (Sunday) was MY race day... I was clocking really crappy times during practice. Almost 4 seconds off the pace... LOL... But I just kept pushing myself and got quicker and quicker every session. By the time the track, the temperature, the engines had all warmed up - so was I... :) Qualifying session started. My out lap had ALREADY beat any of my practice times! I couldn't do much more but push even harder! And this wasn't just a fluke, they were getting consistent too! By the time qualifying ended, I found out that other people were clocking times close to a full second slower than me! So once again, I clinched pole position once more... Come race time... Was pretty straightforward - there were no position changes. I won FIRST place!!! :) It took me this long! Finally!!!

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There's some more races to come! But the season is coming close to an end....

Damn Right It's SHARK WEEK! ! !

2007-08-01T16:43:00.000-04:00

As dorky as it may be, it's Shark Week this week!! Started on July 29th until Aug 4th... And to commemorate this, Discovery Channel launched a 20th Anniversary Shark Week Collection!! It goes without saying that I HAD to get it...

As you can see, it's got a nice holographic cover for the box etc... This collection is pretty worth it. It has a lot of the essential Shark Week episodes notably the ones with the Great White Shark breaching water. Unfortunately it isn't an HD-DVD, but I tried it out on my bro's 'up-convert' dvd player, which is the next best thing, and holy crap do the videos look SUPER clear... Love it!

Canadian Karting Series Race #5 + Toronto Grand Prix

2007-07-28T12:40:00.000-04:00

This is a long overdue post of this race...

In any case, there really wasn't much to report... It was just "another day at the office" type of race.. ;) LOL

Qualifying had gone really well - I had qualified POLE. If I can recall correctly, just edged pole by 0.05 of a second.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to hang on my position the entire race. Probably the 3rd to the last lap, I had lost my place and fell to 2nd - which is where I had finished. It really isn't as easy as it seems especially if the guy behind you is apparently faster than you (I admit it!). Also, I've always had a bad habit of looking back to check MORE than normal. Obviously you can't drive faster looking backwards... Sooo.. Go figure.. At least I was able to hold him off for a bit before cracking under pressure... LOL

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Also went to the Toronto Grand Prix Weekend. Great action packed races/series! Had CHAMP Car, Formula Atlantic Series, Star Mazda Series, Speed World Challenge, and the local Ontario GT Series. The race day (Sunday) had called for great weather and only a 5% chance of rain. Guess what? It poured sporadically the WHOLE DAY. It got so many race teams confused on what setups to use etc. Being a city track, with low traction, incidents were bound to happen...

Check out my pictures in my multiply page!

Gold access tickets and paddock access were all courtesy of MAZDA USA. :) A major sponsor of each series that ran. Of course, it pays to have extremely nice contacts through the Mazda6club (and Cleveland6Club) to help me get the tickets.

Canadian Karting Series Race #3 and #4

2007-06-27T16:46:00.000-04:00

I've been pretty busy lately and haven't been able to update my blog about this... I also was kind of pissed as well on how these races went. So in any case, here's what happened...

RACE #3

My races are on Sunday mornings. Soooo... Here's how my weekend went. I worked Friday. Right after work, went drinking the WHOLE night. Mind you, I sometimes work Saturdays too. It just so happened I worked on Saturday for that week. And it's not just a normal work day, I have to be AT WORK by 7am. Which meant I had to wake up at 5:30am to get ready and get to work... So as you can imagine how brutal that was for me after drinking and going out, and going home just in time for about 3 hours sleep. Great. Day goes by, I'm at work on Saturday freakin morning still pepping with energy.. My buddy Cesar (Cho) calls me, and wants to play golf... LOL.. Right after work at 5pm (Yes, that's right.. 7am - 5pm - that's 10 hours), I go straight to the golf course to meet up with Cesar... Couple hours pass by, we do a good round of golf - We decide to go try out the "Ripstick" (2 wheel skateboard).. Couple hours pass by, we take a couple videos of ourselves carving the parking lot etc etc... It's 9pm by that time... I head on home dead tired.. BUT wait, I just remembered, that I had a birthday party to go to!! I get home around 10.. Take a quick shower and get ready - Leave my place by 10:45pm and WALK (2ish kms) to the club/lounge where I was to meet up with some people (and the Bday girl). Once again, partied all night - getting home at 3am-ish and get to bed to wake up for 6:30am to get ready for my race...

So as you can see the extensive preparation I had for my Sunday race :)

Chugged down a Redbull - and was still yawning after every 5mins. Whatever.. Sooooooo I got through the day qualifying in 4th and finishing the race as well in 4th place... I can't argue with that, it was my fault so whatever.. "Work hard, Party harder" right? ;)

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RACE #4

This time, I actually prepared myself... But lady luck just wasn't on my side that day... I felt pretty confident in my practice sessions! Qualifying came, my Kart felt very, very solid and was pretty quick on the straights too! The RPMs just kept climbing! I'm pretty sure I would've qualified pole or second... But where did I end up qualifying? LAST F*CKING PLACE!!! Why? Because my freakin' transponder wasn't working and was not reporting the time to my ALFANO lap timer....... Isn't it GREAT?

Well, what else is new? I was never lucky to begin with ever since before. I've started from the back of the pack before due to mechanical and stupid reasons. But the only difference was, was that we had 3 heats before (in Manila) instead of a single-heat sprint race that I have to deal with now...

Well, with my uber spectacular karting skilllzzzzzz LOL... I was able to CLAW my way back to 4th place (pack of 10) in about 7 laps.......

There's some "glory" to the finish considering the story behind it, especially since I was getting pretty close to the third place driver... But the bottomline is, 4th place is 4th place. I just missed the podium... Craptastic!

"...it doesn't matter if you win by and inch or a mile... Winning's winning!!" Hahahaha

Canadian Karting Series Race #2

2007-05-24T19:31:00.000-04:00

The first OFFICIAL points race kicked off on May 20th.. I had anxiously waited for this race since it was the first one that actually counted towards the championship. So as early as the week before, I was already watching the extended forecast from the weather network preparing myself for the race to come.. A day before the race came.. The weather was predicted to be SUNNY on Sunday!! BUT, it was going to be slightly chilly that day - about 8c degrees with a high of 12c degrees.. The race track is about a 50km drive north for me coming from downtown Toronto. Indeed it was chilly that morning (all I was wearing were boardshorts, a t-shirt, and flip-flops.. Typical "race wear".. Haha).. About 30kms into the trip north to the track, believe it or not, it started POURING. Not just a slight drizzle here or there, but POURING rain. Like the big-ass raindrops from a monsoon. LOL.. So I was thinking to myself - oh great... Normally I'm actually pretty good karting in the rain, but since I'm still unfamiliar with the correct "rain-line" on this track it got me a bit nervous.. But then, I thought to myself, some experience is better than no experience at all!!... I arrived at the track - it was still pouring. The officials had not allowed anyone to register yet at that point - probably checking to see whether or not the race was going to push through... Then, about an hour or so, the rain stopped.... The race is on!

Practice Sessions...
We were the first group to go out for practice. Cold karts, cold track, WET track, cold (dry slick) tires, cold engines.. The problem here is that, although the rain has stopped, the leftover rubber on the track mixed with the water, creates a very, VERY slick surface - not to mention the cold ambient temperatures too don't help.. I took things very cautiously for my first practice session. I tried to figure out the best possible line around the track. I only got 3 laps and 3 different lines to choose from!! I had to wait for my next practice session again before I could choose the best line from what I had tried to experiment with... I was able to conclude that some corners could be taken with a dry line, and some with an early turn-in drift... It goes with out saying that people were spinning out a lot this day because of the horrible track conditions. People horribly wiped out on the first turn (which is normally flat-out) hitting the tire barriers... My last practice session was cut short with just my out-lap since the kart I was using didn't quite feel "solid". Either the axle was bent, or one of the rear tires lacked air, or the engine mount was loose?... Regardless, I had no choice but to go back to the pits and forfeit my last practice session...

Qualifying Session...
I felt that I did crappy on my practice sessions trying to experiment with the best line; and as mentioned previously, I took things very cautiously. Not to mention I was overtaken a couple of times during my practice sessions.. HAHA.. So even before qualifying, I conceded to myself that this is only the first race, and whatever position I qualify/finish in, I'll surely bounce back... I was ready to settle anywhere between 5th or 6th place.. LOL.. So whatever, qualifying starts.. I do my stuff.. I got my quickest lap on the last one since I was actually being held up by another driver for 2 laps... Whatever, it's not the race, so, all is not lost... YET... My time was 3 seconds OFF the normal pace on a dry track, so it made me wonder what others did...

The Race...
As usual, the qualifying times are not posted or announced anywhere, so I only got to find out my qualifying position on my pre-grid lineup.. To my surprise, I qualified 2nd!!! If you've read my previous entry, it was "the dude" who qualified first!! And if you're wondering, "the jockey" had qualified 4th!! The 3rd qualifier was a buddy of mine that I met at the track, so that was pretty good!! On the grid lap, no tire scrubbing is allowed as a rule.. So I held the pack a bit and made room for myself up front and sped up and slowed down a bit just to get some heat in the tires... Like an idiot, I almost spun myself out on the grid lap by doing that.. LOL.. Luckily, I didn't get to embarrass myself too much this time... And so.. The GREEN FLAG is waived!!! I did a really good start this time as I was actually paying attention now!! LOL.. First turn comes, everyone is flat out now since the track has "somewhat" dried... To our surprise, the tires were STILL VERY COLD!!! Mid-turn, everyone gets introduced to a whole new meaning of UNDERSTEER!!!! "The dude" in front of me, just clips the dirt on his outer rear tire!! And in my desperate attempt to fight the understeer, I clip the dirt as well!!! I look behind right away making sure that mistake didn't cost me; I'm safe... We SLIDE right through the upcoming chicanes ready for the first hairpin - it was obviously taken more cautiously based on the first turn understeer experience... "The dude" and I clear it fine - I'm still right on his tail! BUT, just as I clear the first hairpin, I hear tire screeching!! I look behind and my buddy had spun out!!! Since "the jockey" was just right behind him on 4th, he had no where to go; so he had to fall back into the pack as well... So the "the dude" and I pretty much had our own race and pressured him for the next couple of laps, but I had to concede that today, he was clearly the faster driver... Checkered flag comes, and I officially finish 2nd... Not too bad I guess..

Canadian Karting Series Race #1

2007-05-09T23:56:00.000-04:00

So some of you may have heard that I've joined a Karting series here in Canada. It's a pretty decent "arrive and drive" series; which at the end of the season could possibly get you a sponsorship. In any case, the first race just kicked off last Sunday, and since it was the first race, the officials declared it an "exhibition race" - thus no points towards the championship.

Practice Sessions...
To start off, practice sessions for the different groups were done on a rotating basis. It was a cold morning (8-10c degrees), but expected to warm up in the afternoon to 18-20c.. I was pretty confident going through this practice session since I had decided to visit the track to clock some laps on my off day during the week.. But as soon as the go signal was given to begin the practice sessions, holy shit that track was SUPER slippery!! I actually managed to spin out on one of the hairpins as I was trying to test the limits of grip in this unusually slippery surface!! After that, my practice sessions were uneventful, but watching the other sessions go out, there must have been about 3-4 spin outs each session!! It was that bad... Hopefully as the day went on, the track temperature would heat up as well...

Qualifying Session...
The group for my race was set. I apparently ended up in the group with the lightest (weight) drivers. I believe I was one of the heavier ones - believe it or not LOL.. I do weigh about 150 - I have no idea where the weight is from - and no, I'm not flabby.. :P .. Each kart was equipped with a real-time Alfano lap timer which was really helpful so you could see your lap right away. The qualifying session didn't last very long, since I probably only got (if I can remember correctly) 2 hot laps.. I was pretty worried where I would qualify since my fastest time was about 2.5 seconds off my actual pace; but because of the slippery track, it was hard to tell how I actually did - and they don't post the results right away either..

The Race...
My group was called in to get ready for our race.. At this point, we still did not know where we qualified - we would eventually know when we got to pre-grid.. To my surprise, I qualified 2nd!! The guy that qualified first, by the way is quite a bit older than me but weighs only a 100.. Yup that's right.. 100.. His body structure is that of a jockey.. LOL.. 50 whole pounds lighter than me.. But whatever, I'm glad where I placed... We did our grid lap because we were doing a rolling start.. Now I don't know WTF I was thinking at the time, but I effed up at the start LOL.. I should have anticipated the green flag, but instead I was daydreaming and didn't accelerate sooner than I should have... I tried to defend my position, but too late, the 3rd place dude had his nose on my side coming in to turn 1 - Which I'm not very happy about that guy's driving either. I respectfully gave the guy enough room as per race ethics, but this dude decides to squeeze me completely off the track taking the racing line as if I wasn't there.. In any case, we pretty much ran away from the pack for the first 2 laps or so... It was the "jockey-guy", "the dude", then me.. We were hounding each other for the most part of the race, and of course, when I had the chance to overtake, "the dude" fucking squeezes me out again.. Next time he tries that I'm fucking holding my line next race.. Last lap comes, nothing has changed.. but third-to-the-last corner, "the dude" makes a daring and unexpected move on the jockey-guy! They slightly touch wheel to sidepod!! (No surprise there with "the dude's" driving). But he manages to get by!! So it's now "the dude", "the jockey", then me (still).. Second-to-the-last corner is a very bumpy, tight and elevated cork-screw like turn.. As soon as we hit the elevation's crest, "the dude" SPINS!!!!! "Jockey-guy" touches, but manages to get by!! I witness everything and ALMOST hit them both, but manage to brake in time and get by "the dude" too!! I would've been able to get by the "jockey-guy" too but there just wasn't enough room to squeeze by... So I just cruised to the finish with "jockey-guy" in first and me in second...... It was an awesome race considering it was an exhibition. A great indication of the season to come!!

Facebook...

2007-04-17T14:33:00.000-04:00

So I called in sick today... :(

Has anyone heard of FaceBook? It's pretty big here in Canada. It's just another one of those Friendster, MySpace, Hi5, etc type of website... Apparently everyone and their mother is part of it... Everyone who knows me knows that I'm very anti to these sites.. I don't know why - but I just am.. I guess it's just creates drama where there is none.. It's funny though, I'm considering signing up for it on this boring sick day.. Just how I eventually caved in with Friendster when it was the "in" thing to do back in the day.. Years ago.. LOL.. But there's only so much productive things you could do in a week anyway. Considering that I only work 4 days a week (10 hr days, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday OFF).. Joining FaceBook could pass the time.. I also can't seem to keep up with the stuff going on in Multiply either!

Maybe I just might sign up for kicks.. I hear a lot of people finding long-lost-friends on FaceBook.. Interesting.. Bah, who am I kidding - I could just start up a new site myself - ShitFaceBook.

Sharkwater & Saving The Sharks...

2007-03-30T08:24:00.000-04:00

Those of you that know me, know how much I love motosports and a strong passion for sharks... Just recently released in theatres, the documentary "Sharkwater" reveals to the world how much sharks have been ignored, misunderstood, misconceptualized, abused, and illegaly fished to virtual extinction. Not many people realize how important sharks are to our eco-system. Not many people realize how much sharks are getting killed every second of everyday. . And although I was aware of the problems sharks face in the world, even I had never thought to what magnitude and proportions this has gotten to. I'm glad that this documentary was released to give the exposure that the sharks have longed deserved. I'm a little disappointed though that it hasn't really been widely release in all theatres like the "big-bucks" movies are... But what matters is that there's more exposure where there was none before...

I recommend taking the time to watch "Sharkwater". Not only will it be educational, but it will also help support the cause of those who are actively defending our eco-system from illegal shark finning... You may also notice that I'm showing a bit of my support and spreading the word through my blog and multiply page by displaying their links.. Join the pledge and help be a part of SAVING THE SHARKS!!

Vacation [Yet Again!!]

2007-03-21T23:43:00.000-04:00

It's that time once again!! After my 2 week stint in Manila on January, I have one more week left for the year... It's going to be the third week of May... I have yet to decide what to do. On one hand, I could go to Atlanta to visit my brother and sister-in-law and give an unofficial house party *cough* I mean warming.. But on the other, I could go with some of my buddies to Cuba, Dominican Republic, or Mexico... Ridiculously gorgeous beaches... Although I haven't been, I've seen some promising pictures. It may even be better than our Boracay... I've been dying to go to a beach for the longest time.. If I go to Atlanta though, my sister-in-law would be ready to give birth at that very week too!! LOL.. Also, I'm not sure if my brother's in-laws are going to be there too during that time so I hear... Awkwardness... Atlanta will be cheaper too since I could get a free flight with my credit card rewards points, and essentially (I hope!) free lodging! HAHA... But I'd also like to do an Atlanta road-trip too in the future....... Now if I choose to go to a beach, I still have to decide between the three!! Cuba? Dominican? Mexico? They go in the order of price as Mexico is the most expensive... Each have their pros and cons.. Damn... See the dilemma I'm in!!! LOL!! What a predicament!! I need serious HELP!!! Hehe

Toronto International Autoshow 2007

2007-02-19T20:32:00.000-05:00

It has finally come once again. Every year, Toronto hosts its very own International Autoshow. Our equivalent to Detroit's Autoshow. I have always made it a point to visit the show and TRY to go into each make/model that's available on display. It's fun comparing different features, styles, etc. Sometimes, it's really funny looking at stupid and useless features on a car that make you wonder what the hell these designers were thinking when they were in the pre-productions stages of the vehicle.... As a whole though, the show was awesome as usual. It makes you want to get rid of the car you have now, magically come up with unlimited funds and just pick and choose the vehicle of your choosing.. It's like anything in relation to reality just got thrown out the window.. But then again, reality does set in, and you start categorizing which cars are for DREAMS, and which cars are in a REALITY perspective.. I've already found my ideas coming 2008 for my new car :) What would you choose? Hehehe... Check my album out on my MULTIPLY site... Don't know my multiply site? Just ask me! ;)

Wow... Just Wow...

2007-02-12T22:24:00.000-05:00

Wow. The Manila trip was just ridiculous fun! That was probably one of the most jam-packed 2 weeks in my life!! First of all, Congratulations and Very Best Wishes to my brother, Vince, and my now sister-in-law, Carol!! That was such a GRAND wedding! Beautiful!! Of course, it was sooo grand that the BEST MAN (yours truly) was NOT INVITED to the reception!! Haha... I'm sorry, but I don't think you two will never hear the end of it! ;P It's all gooood though :) both of you helped me out immensely while I was there. ;)

I also couldn't ask for better friends. All of you were so amazing! You guys sacrificed so much sleep.. LOL.. But we all know - "Work hard, PARTY harder!". You all definitely made me remember and feel how good it is to be back in Manila. Even 'til the very last minute, we were still partying! Haha... Exclusive soft opening of Warehouse 135 @ 2:30am... I still made my flight for 6:00am!! LOL.. And surfing.. Damn.. You guys got me hooked! Errrr, "stoked" I mean! :P Haha jokes.. Lia's karting injury was also a nice "highlight" of the trip too! Hehe...

Hopefully, I could go back starting the first week of January 2008. I'll probably be planning to go to Boracay that trip since it's the 50th Anniversary of my grandparents, and they want it held in Bora.

For some of the pictures of the Manila trip, visit my newly opened MULTIPLY account. Message me directly for the link to my page. :)

Which reminds me, since I've (once again) been coerced to create a Multiply account, most of my pictures will no longer be posted here. Maybe just some here and there. I'll probably be linking to my albums that I post there. At the same time, this blog is directly linked to the Multiply site as well. We'll see how it goes.. I don't think I'll be abandoning my Blogger site anytime soon anyway..

Once again, THANK YOU EVERYONE for making my vacation fucking KICK ASS FUUN!!!!!!!

NY Road Trip Pics - Dec/2006

2007-01-10T20:32:00.000-05:00

It's a little bit late, but better late than never... I have more than 150 pictures, but here are some of the pictures that were took during my recent road trip to New York. I think I had a post like this sometime a year(?) back...

That's pretty much about it. I've never really stayed IN the city, usually just day trips back and forth from NJ to NY. So even if I've been to NY many times, that kindof made it a little bit different. My buddy Kev was also with me during the road trip which also made it pretty cool too.

Good times. Next set of pictures should be for my Manila trip and brother's wedding! I should be arriving in Manila on Monday Jan 22nd and leaving super early in the morning Feb 3rd... *Hopefully* next vacation's gonna be @ Mexico in May... Mmmmmmm...

For Now...

2006-12-25T01:59:00.000-05:00

Just for now...

December 19 - Happy Birthday to me! :) -- Thanks to all those who greeted me!! Much appreciated!... I don't celebrate my birthday either, but I did this year with a couple for friends. Was nice to do that..

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Just came back from a roadtrip to New York! Pics to come! There's way too much to show all of'em though... Stayed at a midtown hotel for 4 days, 3 nights... It was awwweeesome...

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December 25 - Merry Christmas to all!!! I'm actually gonna be working that day... LOL - whatever, it's more money...

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New Year? Hmmm No plans yet... I have no idea what to do. The sound of just sleeping through is kindof tempting right now... It just gets too repetitive each year. There's nothing more "new" to do for New Year...

N80ie Sexyness...

2006-12-10T12:59:00.000-05:00

I finally bit the bullet. After almost a year of considering a new cell phone, I finally got it.. It took me this long to find a phone that I REALLY wanted. I went through a number of considerations from the Nokia 6131, Nokia 6233, Nokia E50, even veering off from Nokia and looking into the Sony Ericsson P990. In the end, the phone that really stood out was the Nokia N80. I was a little skeptical of the slider as I've always had a 'candybar' style phone and was actually considering a 'clamshell' type. But then of course, it was a mix of both and it's pretty much the 'in' thing now for a lot of newer phones. A large part of the reason why I chose the N80 too was that it uses the Symbian OS. My previous phone (Nokia 6600) used Symbian as well, and I don't think I would've liked anything else (ie. S40 OS) otherwise. Feature-wise, the N80 is awesome. Aside from your regular smart-phone, it packs quite a number of features too. In addition to my requirement of a Symbian OS, I've always liked having a phone that no one else has - and since the N80 is an international worldphone, no North American carrier has this available. If that didn't already convince me, I specifically didn't want the N80 in colour black or silver. I wanted the N80 Internet Edition that came in a nicely brushed aluminum bronze colour. I'm lovin it!!!

I love it I love it!! Cellphone sexyness defined... :)

But why am I still not satisfied?
Sooner or later, there'll be an "iPhone" with a ridiculous number of gigs of internal memory that's half phone, half iPod. I want a phone with GPS too. Yes. GPS. Sooner or later, the cameras on phones will be at par with regular Digital Cameras. In FACT, Nokia (not Sony, not Canon, not Nikon, etc) is largest manufacturer of Digital Cameras in the WORLD... Who am I kidding though, these are ALL perfect reasons to upgrade! ;)

Vacation Time Coming Again!!

2006-11-29T17:09:00.000-05:00

It's that time again!! Once more I have my vacation coming up... I feel it's a damn well deserved vacation at that too! So I'm off on December 18-22, 2006. I've been thinking for the past month (or two) or so what to do with this week. It's my Birthday week too :P *hint*hint* haha. Coincidentally, my buddy Kev, had the same week off too! It was a toss up between Atlanta and New York. New York apparently won. It would've been awesome too to go to Atlanta, since my bro just got a brand spanking new house - and what great timing to do a little house warming *cough*bachelor party*cough* from the first guest! ;) Unfortunately, I didn't have the budget to do that since I've been spending quite a bit lately. But whatever. It's Kev's first time to go to NY too, so I'm pretty much gonna be his "tourist tour guide". I also couldn't pass up a great deal that my Uncle and Aunt offered a while back early this year since they both work at hotels in midtown Manhattan!! Wicked sweet sweet deal.. So the Road trip begins on the wee hours of the 21st to Manhattan... This is gonna be crrrrraaaaazzzzyyyy!!

Just a month later, I'm off once again for vacation!! Two weeks this time... January 20 - February 2, 2007... Across half the world to Manila, Philippines!!! OOhhhh I soooo can't wait... That's gonna be RIDICULOUSLY fun!! Not to mention that the purpose of the trip is my bro's wedding! :) Wondering if my sister-in-law has some cute friends for me too. Haha jokes.. My bank account is gonna be super drained for these two months... It's gonna be money well spent though! I haven't seen my friends and some family for the longest time there... Has it been four (or close to) whole years already? Whatever it is, it's been long enough! Waaay too long...

So much things to do... So little time... So little money... LOL...

I Miss Karting Again...

2006-10-30T20:48:00.000-05:00

This Halloween, I had planned on using my racing suit as a costume for the usual Halloween weekend clubbing.. That didn't push through... It was a shitty weekend with super strong winds, cold weather, wind chill, and rain. Not a nice time to go out - Which I still did regardless, minus the costume. I commend the ladies that still braved it out in their hot, hot, HOT costumes though; coz damn, it was cold out. Maybe next year I'd get the chance to use my suit... It does nothing but collect dust now... Going back to costumes... Carine, if you're reading this, were you able to use yours? :P You know what I'm talking about... Let's see some pictures!!! Haha

Busting out my racing suit though, brought me back wonderful memories of the past... *reminisces* ...Those were really, really good times of my life. I so miss racing again competitively. Cheesy as it sounds, it set me free. You concentrate only on one thing - Winning. Any problems, any dilemmas, any responsibilities, anything, anyone are all set aside. The adrenaline rush is like a drug. There's no other high like it. The motivation is strong like no other. It just felt soooo good. The smell and sound of 16,000-18,000RPM revving two-stroke engines in a full grid is like a taste of Heaven to me.. *sigh*.. Will I ever get to race again like I used to!? Sure I autocross once in a while; but it's like comparing a junior roller-coaster to a REAL one.. Karting can also still pull more lateral G's than circuit cars. If you had also seen my back after every race, you would see how bad I would bruise on my sides coz of the G's. Then again, it's also partially my fault coz I refused to wear a rib protector which helps prevent that.. No pain, no gain! ;) It's a true passion, and passion never dies.. I haven't posted pictures in a while - so here's some...

*sigh* Good times.. Good times.. Wish I could easily forget the things going on in life just like I used to....

More Random Shit...

2006-10-22T21:15:00.000-04:00

So I did the CN Tower Climb again this year. I had done it the previous year and got a time of 27minutes and change. This year I did it in 33minutes and change. I didn't improve! I actually got worse! In all fairness though, the climb was 6:45am on a Sunday morning. Considering also that I was drinking on the Friday and Saturday, and then only end up with one hour sleep since we woke up at 5am-ish on Sunday morning. Fuelled up on a Red Bull, and we were good to go! Sooooo, what I'm getting at, is that my non-improvement was somewhat justified in a sense... :P

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So based on my previous post, I had mentioned something about the retardness and truth of Astrology in peoples' actual personalities. Jomz had commented and directed me to this site -> Linda Goodman's Sun Signs <- ... That site is pretty cool! Everyone should read on it. Some funny shit on it too coz a lot of it riiidiiiiiculouslyy sooo true!! I would post some excerpts, but go read instead. It will help you understand a LOT of people.

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Couple of buddies of mine were talking about the words we so commonly use... It's funny, coz we're all conscious about it now. "Chill", "bro", "harsh", "dude", etc... Not to mention the extra vulgarity used in every sentence when drinking. What's really weird too is that we noticed that people from our group are actually pretty similar to the Friends characters (Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Ross, Chandler, Joey). We're freakishly similar, but not exactly.. We don't have a Phoebe though. LOL. And of course, there's more of us than the number of characters available. Arguably, I was branded as a Joey Tribbiani minus the stupidness. Agree?

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Life is HARSH. Overly harsh... Going back to the "Karma thought" on the previous post. What's even weirder is that I don't really think of it that way normally... I'm usually a pessimist, but a lot of the time, I would just be passive about it and say "fuck it" and move on.

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I sooo need a vacation. I'm getting one week in December the week before Christmas. And hoping to secure Last week of January 2007 to first week of February 2007. Can't wait. Oddly, not sure what I have planned yet for this December. Need I mention it's going to be my birthday that week too? Hehe. Probably thinking of retreating to NY or something. Atlanta even maybe?

Random Thought(s)?

2006-10-19T23:25:00.000-04:00

Oddly, I recently remembered the earliest fortune from a fortune cookie that I got waaay back. It was at a Chinese restaurant (duh) in Mississauga, Canada. It went like this: "Confucius says: 'Love is triangle, not square'". My brother can attest to this because I can clearly remember him teasing me about this the whole day home - that was of course the time that I had thought girls still had the cooties. Hehe. To come to think of it, it's actually the ONLY fortune I can even remember. Weird. I wonder what Confucius is trying to tell me. Any recollection of your memorable fortune?

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Recently, I also found out how Zodiac signs actually and really do match a person's description of their personality. That's pretty retarded. Stupidly enough, I match my own sign (Sagittarius) description. Doesn't it make you wonder how that shit works? It's weird how that is. I can probably bet too that whatever your sign is, you would probably match the description. (Example, today's Yahoo Horoscope - 10/19/06 - I just checked it to make a point though, which is actually the first time I found out Yahoo has this crap on their site - "To see the problems at hand, you need to open your mind -- and your heart").

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Karma. Karma I think is overrated. Normally, Karma means that if you do good or bad, it will come back to you 10 times fold. To me, Karma is shit. You do good, you don't really get much back - and if you do, it's a miniscule speck of shit you would barely appreciate; But if you do bad, you get it back 10x fold AND it doesn't stop coming back to you 1,000,000 times to screw you over.

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Spam. Spam emails never stops to cease. No matter how much you "status" spam emails as "spam", the bastards STILL email you. "Greetings! I'm [insert African name here] from [insert African country and Financial Institution/Bank], blah blah blah, give me your information to invest in some pyramid scheme, blah blah blah". Or the fake Paypal emails: "Dear Paypal user, please update your info by clicking this link or your account will be deleted. blah blah blah". What is it with this crap!?! Do these people have nothing better to do!?

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Work. Work sucks. It's boring, it's repetitive, it's tiring. I'm a tiny little worker ant in a whole antfarm working for a King/Queen ant. My workplace works like high school too. It's rare you get treated like an adult and people just talk too much and pry themselves in other people's business as if it's their business!

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Was just reading the news a while ago. It indicated that some recently produced Ipods were shipped with a WINDOWS VIRUS. LOL Irony. Compleeete irony. It was traced that they got infected during production when a WINDOWS based PC got infected. Cool. So according to the story, a recorded 25 instances on complaints have been filed.

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To those who have me on Yahoo Messenger, I've killed my movie trivia. Too lazy to update it, despite popular demand. Maybe I'll bring it back. Try MSN (?)

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I think with my heart, not my mind. So I'm told. Maybe I just don't think at all (?) or think too much (?)

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I've exceeded 1000 minutes on my cellphone this month. I got a text message from my cellphone provider to keep using the damn thing. Are they insane? I'm not complaining of the usage. I've come close, but not exceeded before. But it's the first time I got a "text reminder" to actually keep going! The bastards don't even want to provide me with a FREE decent cellphone - which btw, I really need now. My Nokia 6600, which was cool a full 3 years ago, now looks like the largest phone on the planet. Literally, a bar of soap.. Why is it also that almost ALL cellphone companies have the WORST customer service on the planet??? Anyway, was debating between a Nokia 6126 (yes, it's a flip phone! LOL), or a Nokia 6233 (yes, it's a very boring looking phone).

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I am honestly afraid of hitting 30 years old. There's so much to do, so little time. Is it too much to say that I want to retire at 35? LOL. No offense to anyone else sensitive with age though, these are my thoughts, not yours.

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My mind is currently racing with thoughts. Weird, odd, random thoughts and rants (mostly). But this will end here for now...

Skateboard Thing...

2006-10-05T22:32:00.000-04:00

Last weekend was a very special weekend for many different reasons... At the same time, involved in that weekend was the first time I had gone to a skateboard show/convention/competition (or whatever they call it). Who would have thought of me showing up in one of these? LOL. It was actually pretty interesting. It couldn't have been any better as well since a friend of mine had invited ("forced" for a better word actually :P ) me to come. Was well worth the time though... I didn't know what to expect at all for this show. But they had all the usual stuff you would see in ESPN with the wooden ramps, jumps, rails, etc... It's too bad that the day we went there, there were no events for the huge halfpipe that they had setup. The events were mainly on the streetcourse/freestyle. Still fun to watch nonetheless. It's really amazing to see the kids perform too. There were 12yr olds doing ridiculous tricks even the older guys couldn't do.. Here's a couple of pictures of the event:

Looking at these photos, my poor photography skills obviously standout. I really need/want to maximize the ability of my cam. Makes me wonder if there was any other way to make these shots work. It's hard to capture 'still action' with slow shutter speed! I think it's damn impossible! Had I used the flash for quicker shutter speed, the shots would be pretty dark since the flash wouldn't reach that far. Blah. Lia, if you're reading this, you still have to give me those online lessons.. LOL

Regardless, it wasn't about the pictures, it was all about the experience, time, and EFFORT. Definitely worth it.

Career Change?

2006-10-01T17:59:00.000-04:00

I can't help but think about it. Should I have become a Pilot? My grandfather was a pilot; so was my dad. I've always loved travelling around ever since I can remember. I had never really just pursued that particular interest to actually take up flying lessons; yet it's always been at the back of my head for the longest time - even in high school. I also had a very near miss for my chance to do it by joining the Canadian Air Force. I was giving up looking for an I.T job and I figured: "heck, why not just join the Air Force for a great experience!". If you think about it, you get paid well, learn to fly, learn to speak a second language (French), do what you know you'll enjoy, and of course - serving my adopted country. Not to mention the chance to become a captain for an F18 Hornet. It didn't push through as I was just filling up my application for the Air Forces, my (now current) employer gave me a call for an interview. Now, I'm pretty much stuck in an office job confined between walls in a two-dimensional environment. I also get that feeling of attachment that I've pretty much invested my time with my current company that it may not be even worth leaving. Don't get me wrong though, although it's a boring-ass job; I've met a lot of wonderful people, new friends, and HOT chicks. Hot chicks are going to be a hard thing to come across in the military... I don't regret not trying to be a pilot, but there's always that burning question - "What if..."

Here's a picture of my grandfather with his Cessna; and another one with my dad..

John Mayer!

2006-09-17T00:27:00.000-04:00

John Mayer (and Beyonce the day before) had a free concert at Dundas Square, Toronto, to commemorate the grand opening of the new Best Buy downtown and to promote his new album Continuum. John Mayer's one of my favourite performers/artists. He just has a cool vibe with his music. Dundas Square is Toronto's equivalent (or similar) to New York's Time Square, or London's Piccadilly Circus. It's about a 20 minute walk from where I live. What's weird is that I knew John Mayer was going to be playing, but I never really intended to go and watch. Coincidentally, I wanted to get a haircut that day and the place I go to was right there as well. So, what the heck! I watched the concert! I'm glad I did! John Mayer's pretty big in Toronto, but not *that* big. So there was a fairly decent crowd but nothing too crowded to invade each other's personal spaces - which is perfect for me since that's the actual reason why I don't really like watching concerts. I couldn't really get some decent shots since I wasn't that close either, but the experience was pretty cool.

These are pretty much the most decent shots I have. LOL. There are a couple more, but they're not really the greatest. In the concert, John Mayer also mixed in a couple of his older songs as well with the new. I was able to take a video of "Why Georgia" when he played it. The video I took sucks. These are times where I wish I had a MiniDV or a DVD Camcorder or an HD Camcorder or something. You can watch it HERE but if you get dizzy easily, you'd probably throw up. I took a second video of his last two songs before he left, but the video file is too big, so I couldn't upload it. Then again, it sucks. Cameras are made for taking pictures - not videos... Hehe

..."I Wanna Fly Away"...

2006-09-04T15:29:00.000-04:00

A new post after a month! Labour Day weekend has come up marking the end of our summer. Many events occur during this time as people try to squeeze in the very last activity before the last long weekend of the summer ends, and before their kids go back to school. This also includes the annual Canadian International Air Show. Ironically though, after having pristine weather for the past couple of days prior, it just had to be horrible for the weekend - pouring rain. Regardless, the show went on (for the most part), and I had decided to go to the airshow this year as I wasn't able to make it last year (2005). My clearest memory of the 2004 airshow was actually seeing an F18 Hornet break the sound barrier and (literally) leave a wall of air behind as it had blasted away - the crowd went wild! This year could have been better. It wasn't bad, but it was fairly decent. There was a pretty good lineup of planes that the CIAS had in store. Disappointingly, the F22 Raptor couldn't get airborne for mechanical setbacks, nor did I get to see the F117 Nighthawk (stealth Fighter), nor the B1B Lancer (huge bad-ass bomber), nor the CF104 Starfighters. What a disappointment!!! The rain sure didn't help either!! Well, Here's some of the pictures I was able to take. They're really better than how they appear - Photobucket doesn't really reflect the actual quality of the real picture.

This here is a CF18 Hornet doing a very, very, very slow pass. Despite it's capability of doing close to Mach 2, it's quite amazing how slow this jet can cruise.

Now we have the C17 Globemaster. This is a purpose built plane that assists the military for cargo missions, from carrying troops to all kinds of military vehicles.

This is Sean Tucker's plane. It's a one of a kind piece. This plane was exactly made just for Sean Tucker. Those who don't know who Sean Tucker is, he's probably the most decorated aerobatics pilot. His plane is quite familiar as well - The Oracle Challenger. Pretty cool stuff. First picture actually shows him hovering just like a helicopter. The other doing a classic corkscrew maneuver.

The F15 Eagle. Ahhh what a great classic. Beautiful plane. Amazingly loud twin thrusters. This plane made me feel a tingling down my spine.

These two shots are my personal favourites. This is going to be a rare sight. The old and the new flying together. The F86 Sabre, the F16 Viper, the F15 Eagle. All together in formation flying to commemorate the achievements of these great aircraft.

The F16.. I personally like these shots as well because of the contrast of the plane against the sky. The first picture also gives nice distinct orange afterburner trails when the pilot had powered through to do a 180.

These are the "Snowbirds". Canada's counterpart to the US' Blue Angels. These guys are excellent pilots. You'll notice that there's a plane missing to complete the group in my pictures. One plane had to abort the formation. In fact, the snowbirds were not able to do their performance due to the poor conditions - Safety first.

Here's some videos of the flybys of an F15 and F16:
F15 Flyby
F16 Flyby
F16 Flyby

All in all was great fun. I'll cut this post short for now... I still have more thoughts to write about this, but that'll come another time. Also, on a sidenote, this post was made while the final day of the show is going on right at this moment. I can hear the jets and props buzzing by every couple of minutes right above our building. An F16 just flew by. Hehe

Shark Week...

2006-07-31T19:35:00.000-04:00

It's that time of the year again... It's Discovery Channel's Shark Week!!!!! It started as of July 30th!

Another Visit to Hooters...

2006-07-26T18:57:00.000-04:00

Ahhh good 'ol Hooters... Hehe Last weekend, a couple of my work buddies decided to go to Niagara Falls to celebrate a friend's birthday. Having a birthday in Hooters is really funny since the Hooters girls all gather round the celebrant and grabs the attention of everyone by shouting "Attention everyone!! Today is ___ birthday!!!!" right in the restaurant and do their little gimmicks depending on which Hooters you go. Generally they usually make the celebrant stand on a chair while they do their thing. This time, our celebrant had to spell his name with his ass while on the chair with everyone watching. That was awesome! LOL Pure jokes! Anyway, our waitress was really nice (nicer than the usual Hooters chick), and as always, I couldn't help not leaving Hooters Niagara without a picture. Her boobs were real too. Maybe I should update my friendster picture with this one now if my account still exists.. In fairness, the wings and the philly cheesesteak are good there. Tasty. :)

The Protoculture Edition...

2006-07-20T17:56:00.000-04:00

I have it! I finally have it! I've been pre-occupied for the past week watching DVD after DVD, episode after episode, of the whole Robotech Saga. From Gen1 to Gen3. 21 DVDs in total, 85 episodes (plus extras). I've been searching and searching for this definitive collector's DVD set for the longest time - and I'm like a giddy little boy now that I have it!!! :)

Those who don't know, Robotech was an animated television series aired back in 1985. Yet it's so timeless regardless of it's age. It's crazy how popular this series is, and has become.

New to Robotech?
--> An Introduction to Robotech
--> Trailers for the series
--> Robotech on Wikipedia

A while back, I had inherited some Robotech DVDs from my brother, while cleaning out some of his stuff in storage in Atlanta. They were an original reproduction of the First Generation series. I loved it. I wanted to complete the whole set including the Second and Third Generations as well. I was a little hesitant to purchase the "Robotech: Protoculture Set". As this was the complete set in a Digitally Remastered release. I was afraid it would be somewhat like the Star Wars (Ep. 4,5,6) digitally enhanced release wherein it just sucked and didn't really look natural.. Boy was I wrong. The digitally remastered release is completely different from the original release. Like night and day. In a good way of course! Everything is still preserved as it was, however the colours are sooo much richer. The sound is so much fuller (changes and enhanced). It's also remastered in 5.1 surround sound and the explosions really thump hard!

Now, if only I can find the two Robotech toys I had received long ago around 1985-1987. I had an large SDF-1 fully transformable toy like this one on sale on eBay. Which I understand is no longer for sale and a collectible item. And I had a Rook Bartley Alpha fighter as well, which can still be purchased here. Damn it!

The First Gen series is still the best of the 3 generations; followed by the Third Gen, then obviously the Second. The Third Gen could have been better if there was more character development. It seems as if the Third Gen felt somewhat rushed. Second Gen just wasn't exciting enough in all aspects, so it falls behind a lot in comparison to the others. Pity.

Btw, Miriya and Rook are hot. :) Haha

References:
Robotech.com
ADV Films
Wikipedia

Old Games FTW!!!

2006-07-17T21:55:00.000-04:00

I only found out about this site: Abandonia, quite recently. Man, what gold mine!!! Old games for the win!!! What great memories these games have made!!! Games like the Kyrandia series, Prince of Persia, King's Quest, Mechwarrior, Gods, Golden Axe, Lost Vikings, Lemmings, Dune series, Warcraft, Archon Ultra, Wing Commander, etc etc ETC ETC!!!!! The list can go on!!!! I've been so excited and giddy playing these games again. I remember back in the day when and old 386dx was the ultimate PC of the time. Even 286's. When the slightest of smooth video-like graphics kept us in awe. It's sucks that some of the REALLY good games are still under copyright which prevents the site from allowing certain downloads.. Actually, I was looking for Quest For Glory 1: So You Want To Be A Hero, which actually brought me to Abandonia. It seems that most (if not all) the Sierra and Lucas Arts made games are the one's mainly copyrighted. Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis was also a "forbidden" favourite. Pity. Nonetheless, there's a LOT of really good games there that would keep any avid gamer busy. Heck even the TEXT-BASED games I used to play in a black/green monitor is still quite fun.

It's addictive! Try it! Maybe some people know about that site already... But... What the heck!

Autocross Event Last Week...

2006-07-14T20:12:00.000-04:00

Last weekend was the first Autocross I had attended the whole season. I really did miss doing it since last year... I hadn't autoxed this year since I had decided to make my car completely stock as I had the plan of getting rid of it.. Nonetheless, my buddy Cholo had kindly agreed to have me co-drive his car for the event! It was a great event at that too! I've also realized (or remembered for a better word) how great a (EG/EK) Civic can handle.. Here's some pictures of the event...

I do have a in-car video of one of earlier runs that I had done... Don't really know where to upload it. It wasn't a relatively good run either in my opinion. Plus I talked too much in that video. Hearing your own voice sounds really weird too, so I'm a little shy/embarred/ashamed to upload the video somewhere.. LOL. I kindof feel bad for Cholo's tires that day. We had a total of 6 runs each! Which means that the tires took a beating of 12 runs total without really allowing the tires to cool down. They blistered and overheated... :) Regardless, Cholo's Civic proved to show potential. There are some things that can make world's of difference which I would suggest in this order: An alignment, sway bars, tires, and more torque!! Overall though. Great day, great fun! Although, damn I wish I didn't have my Mazda.. I'll probably be 70 years old before I can afford my STi. :)

Got A Blog?

2006-07-07T19:57:00.000-04:00

Got a Blog? Can I see it? Let me know!!!! LOL!! Damn! I only found out that my bro - Vince, has a blog just the other day!!! I also found out a buddy of mine - Pawie, had one too!!!

I feel a little silly not knowing these blogs right away. But then again you gotta let me know these things sometimes!! Check'em out!

Also, I'm looking for a decent replacement cellphone. My current phone (Nokia 6600) probably isn't going to hold up much longer. It's starting to hang, and had also erased all my messages. Good thing though, I don't really keep much messages. At least my contacts are still intact. It's lasted me a good 3 years now though. Any suggestions for a good replacement phone? Preferrably Nokia. Compact. No need for extra frills (like mp3 player etc). At least Tri-Band. And of course, it's gotta be stylish!

My Thoughts On Jacques Villeneuve...

2006-07-04T17:01:00.000-04:00

Jacques Villeneuve is a has-been. A thing of the past. And probably with no future - In Formula One racing at least... Sure he's had his past moments, but that's all he has left. But yet in his mind, he probably is insisting to himself that "he's got it". I wouldn't go as far as calling him a disgrace, but indeed very, very, VERY, disappointing. There must be a lot of pressure on him coming from a family of racers, but Jacques has made his own mark - And that's probably the ONLY reason why race teams put up with him. Jacques had become the second Formula One driver in history to ever achieve both pole and a podium finish in his maiden Grand Prix; and probably the best rookie season as well in F1 history (runner-up to World Champion Damon Hill in 1996). His second year in F1 was indeed a spectacular one where the battle came down to the last race in Jerez with Michael Schumacher - Very controversial where Michael had admitted to causing a "race incident" with Jacques with intention to take the lead... Michael was stripped of his runner-up standing that season as a result. 1997 - The last good year of JV.

Ever since he's been World Champion, and his move to Honda, it's been nothing but a landslide for this Canuck. It's almost pathetic in a sense. I somewhat feel sorry for both JV and Honda for pulling each other down. Honda wasn't the best team to be at with their plaguing reliability issues. Furthermore, it was almost quite obvious that JV was losing heart. He lacked the passion to race/win being with Honda. I honestly think it was more about the money. I mean, who the hell expects a salary of $19million dollars (said with Dr.Evil voice with pinky in mouth) a year without performing!?!? With the political bickering, Jacques' contract probably was the only thing keeping him there in the team..

Reality hit, contract ended, and boom, Jacques gets dropped like rock from Honda. Best decision Honda ever made. They could've and should've been more conservative with their choice of driver from the start to enable more budgeting for car development than the throw it away on JV's high salary.

I was so glad no one decided to hire JV again after his stint at Honda. I had hoped that his forced sabbatical gave him that time to reflect and regain that heart once more.. And he probably did.. But it no longer mattered because it was all too late. I was so surprised (or shocked), that Sauber (now BMW Sauber) had actually decided to hire the damn bloke. Whyyyyy?!?! *shrug*

Anyway, Jacques had talent, but I guess he never had style. Pink is one of his helmet colours. Pink. Pink.. LOL.. He's sported dyed blonde hair too. Probably a result of the current lack of hair now! Hehe.. He's also known to have a very baggy racing suit. Hip-hop style. But hey, at least he's consistent. Look at the way he wears his racing shoes (pic on left). Hip-hop yoooo!

Now, I was glad to hear that his 2007 Grand Prix season is uncertain. It's about time he starts fading away. But nooooooooooo, I read he plans on moving over to NASCAR if he doesnt get a drive next year! NASCAR for God sakes!!! From Formula One!!!! That's not all yet! These are some of the quotes JV has said:

"Going to NASCAR might not be such a bad career move, because it’s the most exciting race series in the US and it’s a very different discipline to F1"
-- Not a bad career move? Yeah for sure, if you have NO career in F1, or NO career at all!! Doesn't sound bad at all when no other team wants you...

"I would not consider it a step down."
-- Oh really?! F1 to NASCAR not a step down!?!? Either JV thinks extremely lowly of F1, or too highly of NASCAR!! I mean shit man! At LEAST go to CART/Indy racing or something!

...Enough of my ranting. It's just as if his career was thrown away somehow. It's a pity really. I just thought of voicing/writing my opinions built up from his (another) disappointing 2006 Canadian Grand Prix.. Blaming it on the stripped rubber "marbles" off the racingline and on Ralf.. Maybe he shouldn't have attempted to overtake at that point then? Not that I was rooting for him anyway... GOOO ALONSOOOOO!!! :)

Not sure if this is also true, but I recall hearing it somewhere that JV also has his F1 pedals setup up in such a way that it's like an "on/off" button. Nothing in between.. Well no wonder he keeps flatspotting his tires if that's the case! Can't drive with finesse like that!!! Oh well.. I really shouldn't care so much to write a whole entry. Complete waste of time. BUT hey! At least it IS an entry in my blog... Haha

[Images and Quotes obtained from ITV-F1.com]

Holy Shit! It's A New Post!

2006-05-27T10:53:00.000-04:00

I almost forgot I have a blog... Hehe... I've been very busy trying to finalize a "DVD Production" I made for a while and there just wasn't enough time for blogging. With all honesty, I actually find it a task to put in an entry - You really have to have some time to gather your thoughts and type away. If the entry has pictures, you have to resize, upload, arrange, and post. Hassle? Anyway, this is going to be quite an entry - and as promised on the previous post, pics from the ATL trip...

These are just a couple that I pulled from my (and bro's) collection of pics. Great output from my brand spanking new free camera! Hehe. Most of these pictures are from the (fairly) newly built Georgia Aquarium; Which is branded as "The World's Largest Aquarium". We just clicked away as my bro had recently obtained a Nikon D50 for himself during that time as well. I must say, I really liked the aquarium. Although I had thought it to be bigger than I had expected. As usual, there was soooo much people. In fact, you had to BOOK your tickets with a scheduled entrance time due to the huge demand!!! Definitely worth it though. Got to pet a Scalloped Hammerhead Shark and some Rays too. :) Aside from the Aquarium, we went to the Coke Museum/World of Coke - which I guess is one of the attractions for an Atlanta tourist. Stone Mountain Park as well seems to be an Atlanta Tourist thing too. That mountain also happens to be the "World's Largest piece of exposed Granite". LOL There's a large carving on it too - for which I have no idea for.

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Atlanta aside, I had gone to New Jersey, New York, Long Beach Island, AND Atlantic City recently. Quite a roadtrip from Toronto. 9ish hours just to get to NJ. Everything else was just a driving blur averaging about 2hours a drive between places... My grandparents had celebrated their 60th (Diamond) Wedding Anniversary! So we had quite a huge reunion. And as mentioned above, the DVD Production I had made, that kept me VERY busy, was to commemorate this celebration. Was quite a success too! That whole trip was a BLAST.. Here's a tiny selection of pics (Bro's pics using the Nikon)...

Won a couple of bucks at the Atlantic City Casinos. The Monopoly Board Game properties are also based on the main streets/areas of Atlantic city. Blah blah blah...

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And lastly... We had a long weekend holiday recently - May 20-22 (Victoria Day Weekend). Traditionally, we (Cholo and some buddy(ies)) go camping on that weekend at the Mosport International Race Track. A lot of people do too. And damn it gets cold at night.. LOL.. BUT this time, we have branded ourselves as PRO/Expert Campers!!!!!!! Come see for yourselves with our camp site :)

Like our campsite? Hehehe The last picture is our view from our site. The notorious "turn#2" of the track. Most crashes happen at that relatively high speed off-camber turn...

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THE END! BLOG FINALLY UPDATED!!!! HOORAH.

Coincidence? Irony? Fate? Just Damn Lucky?

2006-03-12T23:45:00.000-05:00

Funny how things turn out the way they are... One of my friends (Lia) was ranting about how much she hated her (previous) employer. Here I am today, going to rave about the company I work with... LOL... For many other reasons why, but most recently, I won a raffle! I won a brand spanking new digital camera!! The current digi-cam I have is the 'ol reliable Canon A40. I still think it's a great camera to have! And still does the job (point-shoot) quite nicely. At 2.0 MP, bulky, uses AA batts (which I believe is useful), and not to mention it has a number of years under it's lens, I guess the new digi-cam couldn't come at a better time! If I'm not mistaken, I believe I've taken about 2500+ pictures with it. Not bad. At least I think so.

By now you're probably wondering what damn camera I won, and thinking I should just shut-up and get to the point. I won the Sony DSC-P200 camera. It's a compact, pocket-sized point and shoot style camera. Has 7.2 MP and has pretty much all of the essential functions that most modern digi-cams have. It's silly though that Sony packages the camera with a 32MB memory stick. With it, I can take a whopping 10 pictures at full resolution. YES!... LOL... So I ended up buying a 1GIG memory stick and a nice little case for the camera. To think of it, to this date, I've been through 2 digi-cams and didn't have to pay a single cent for either one! :) ... The digi-cam Gods must love me. The Canon A40 was a gift by my bro, and the only money I pretty much invested in that camera were the (4)AA batteries it takes that I constantly keep replacing, and a camera case. Now, just a memory stick and a camera case as well... Sweet deal... Nothing beats free!! Thanks Vince! Thanks to my employer too! Hehehe

BEFORE:

AFTER:

[ Pictures Obtained From: Digital Photography Review ]

The website "Digital Photography Review" is a great site for in-depth reviews of most (if not all) digital cameras out in the market. Safe to say, the "free" camera I got has a great review! Right now, I just can't believe my luck AND the timing. Pretty funny since I won the camera the day after (or two) I booked my vacation to Atlanta next week! Coincidence? Overall, I'm just pretty happy how things turned out. I still want that Canon S3 IS though.

Next entry for my blog would most more than likely be my Atlanta pictures! Hoorah! Hehe

Just Another Entry...

2006-03-07T00:08:00.000-05:00

Soooo Academy Awards night was just the other day... I was pretty much satisfied with the results of the winners! I'm sooo glad Brokeback Shit didn't win Best Picture! Although, I'm glad that Ang Lee won Best Director for it. My main choices for Best Picture were Crash (Which won! Woohoo!) and Munich (Which won absolutely nothing!). If you haven't watched Crash (or Munich) watch them!!! They are definitely awesome movies. In fact if I'm not mistaken, I did give great reviews for those two movies on my blog previously. Brokeback Shit did get a LOT of rave reviews - I still haven't watched it as of yet - But I'm not sure if my curiosity of why it was given such rave reviews is worth watching two gay cowboys get it on in some love story. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not homophobic, but it's really really really really just not my cup of tea. LOL. I'm also quite surprised that Philip Seymour Hoffman won Best Actor for Capote. Capote does look quite interesting - I just never remember seeing it available at theatres! It's just one of those movies that slip by you, and made you think it never even existed. George Clooney won Best Supporting Actor for Syriana (Blech). Hated that movie. And Damn! Reese Fucking Witherspoon won Best Actress!!! She's now officially the highest paid actress surpassing the previous queen of that throne - Julia Roberts! Reese officially took the throne now that she has an Oscar to back herself against Julia who has one of her own as well. I feel sorry for some of the actors/actresses that didn't win. Some of them looked super teary eyed when the winner for their category was giving their speech. Jake Gyllenhaal and Joaquin Phoenix looked hurt the most. LOL. And shit. The Best Original Song... "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp". OK..... WTF..... LOL......... Just laughs... Pure laughs... Haha... If I were to also give an award of Best Presenter, I say it goes to Ben Stiller. If you actually watched the awards night, his presentation was freaking awesome!!!

Anyway, to those who have a fairly quick internet connection, I've come across a site that was referred to me by one of my buddies. It's 24/7 streaming music for house, chillout, trance lovers and also everything else not really classified. They play awesome mixes. I apologize if this site is old news, but it's pretty new stuff to me!!! -- http://www.di.fm/ Give it a try! :) Great stuff!

I also forgot to give a review on King Kong as I finally watched it in the theatres when they're practically going to come out with the DVD already. So I'll make this short. Great movie. Sad ending. Could make you/me cry. Makes you hate humans in the end. Fucking ignorant bastards. Every award King Kong won at the Oscars was well deserved. 9/10.

Now more recently, I watched "Date Movie". That low budget slapstick comedy with Alyson Hannigan. I thought it was shit. It did give some cheap laughs. Well actually, I admit it was funny, but only because it was stupid funny. Anyway, it's pure parodic slapstick. Because it gave me a couple of laughs, 3/10 is what I'll give. It's a movie not worth spending for, but perhaps just watching for the sake of watching it by downloading it. LOL... My friend Cholo liked it... LOL...

I'm Sick.

2006-02-25T22:25:00.000-05:00

The past week has been the shittiest I've felt in a long time. I got hit with the (common) Flu virus!!! I'm the type of person who hardly gets sick, yet, when I do get sick, I get really sick. I also had no choice but to go to the Toronto Autoshow, since my body decided to get sick on the last weekend that they're open too. I was planning to take lots of pictures, but I ended up with a grand total of none. There was too many people, and it was just about the same as the previous shows. All of the nice cars were being crowded over. Stupid wannabe teenagers/kids sitting in the cars, playing around as if they can even drive. So I ended up sitting in the shitty cars out there - the ones that people won't flock to, buy, or even think about. It was great actually. I got a great deal of laughs sitting in the crappy cars of the world. In fact, their build quality was so top notch that some plastic trimmings were already coming off the latches after just a week in a public car show. Found some silly ideas too that were placed in the actual interior design. Pure jokes. LOL. I can bet some car designers are on crack when they think of their "novel" ideas/innovations... Anyway, if pictures were really important, I could probably post pictures from 2004 and nobody would probably notice, since it's really the same shit.

A couple of birthdays this month.
Feb 17 - Happy Birthday Vince!
Feb 20 - Happy Birthday Cholo!
Feb 25 - Happy Birthday Carine!

It's also funny that I only noticed recently that my bro - Vince, has the same birthday as Paris Hilton. I believe I may have said it before, but contrary to what other people think of her, I think she's amazingly hot. I've also been reading some trivia about her, and I'm kindof surpised what I found out. I never knew Paris is actually a natural brown-eyed curly haired brunette. I also thought that the phrase "that's hot" being trademarked was a joke. Apparently NOT! LOL. Her favourite sport is also golf by the way... Haha.. Pretty cool stuff. I wanted to post a couple of nice hi-res pics of Paris, but apparently I only recently found out that the "Piyeza site was hacked into and the password was changed for security reasons by the webmaster. LOL.

Is This Really Relevant?

2006-02-17T00:30:00.000-05:00

This should be my opening statement everytime I make an entry here on this blog: "I haven't posted anything relevant for awhile, so here goes..." . I think "neglect" is an understatement when it comes to updating this blog. Hehe. Anyway, I haven't posted anything relevant for awhile, so here goes... :)

First off, the Canadian International Autoshow is starting today!! Every year, this is somewhat our "Tokyo Auto Salon" or our "Detroit International Car Show". I've been going every year, and last year kinda sucked. So hopefully, this year is gonna be a lot better. I'm hoping to plant my ass in the nicest automobiles that are available to the public, but are too embarrassing to stroll in a dealership to do. Sweet. Pictures will be posted when I get the chance to go. Good excuse for another entry to be made at least within a two week timeframe. :)

I also wanted to post something about Valentine's Day on Feb 14th (duh). Valentine's Day is stupid and useless. For couples and singles. Poor excuse to make an occassion out of nothing. I mean, if you really wanted to be "sweet", then do it every other freakin day. But yeah, whatever. It doesn't affect me, so I could careless. Besides, good for those who take advantage of the occassion and make money out of the blokes who feel the need to do something special.. Haha J/K..

To redeem myself for the previous posts as well for the "lack of content", more hi-res pictures will be posted. The thing is, I've been quite pissed off at PhotoBucket lately. For some fucking reason they keep re-sizing the pictures I upload by upto 50% of their original size, when they never used to. I figured it to be a "space" issue, but I've deleted a couple of the old pictures that were on there, but still no change. So, previous posts may already have dead links. I hate dead links too. OC-ness...

Anyway, Playboy March 2006 cover is Jessica Alba. I've posted some pics of her before, but, just can't get enough. Besides, these pictures have been plastered all over the internet already. The way she's been uber hyped now. Getting a little bit overrated. In any case, she's still hot. But no, being in "Playboy", they're somewhat decent pics.

Another magazine cover making the stands is Vanity Fair's. Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson's nude photoshoots. The same magazine that did Lindsay Lohan's nude photoshoot and also claimed her drug use as well. Apparently, I've read somewhere that Rachel McAdams was to be included in the Vanity Fair shoot, with Keira and Scarlett, but chickened out when she found out that it was to be done in the nude. That's ok. Lindsay is to freckles, as Rachel is to moles. I think Keira is kinda weird too. I think she tries too hard. She has a weird nose, weird smile. She does have a hot Brit accent though - I'd give her that. In fairness, I also liked the movie "Bend It Like Beckham". Scarlett on the other hand has ridiculously large breasts, and isn't quite shy to show it. The dresses she wears seem to be giving up - they're practically popping out of there. I'm not complaining though. It's just almost comedic. I like her husky voice too...

Ok, I admit, I also chose some ridiculously funny looking Keira pictures to post.. LOL.. I couldn't help it. Hahaha.

I'll end this post here. I'm getting tired of uploading anymore pictures. Too bad so sad, if you're still on 56k. I can't help it. There's no other way for me to upload them properly and I'm also too lazy to actually create thumbnails.

Oh and btw... My Mazda6 is now officially completely BONE STOCK. No more suspension. No more racing tires/rims. No more etc etc. Contemplating whether to keep the car or not. But.. who knows, we'll see. A condo is definitely looking good for next year if all goes well... IF ALL goes WELL...... Before anyone starts saying "Wow, BIGTIME", just think of a condo the size of a port-a-let.. So there.

Movie Trivia: "Wedding Crashers"

2006-02-08T23:51:00.000-05:00

This is one of the ridiculous movie trivias I've ever seen...

The Rules of Wedding Crashing:

Rule #1: Never leave a fellow Crasher behind. Crashers take care of their own.
Rule #2: Never use your real name.
Rule #3: When crashing an Indian wedding, identify yourself as a well-known immigrant officer or a county lawyer.
Rule #4: No one goes home alone.
Rule #5: Never let a girl come between you and a fellow crasher.
Rule #6: Do not sit in the corner and sulk. It draws attention in a negative way. Draw attention to yourself, but on your own terms.
Rule #7: Blend in by standing out.
Rule #8: Be the life of the party.
Rule #9: Whatever it takes to get in, get in.
Rule #10: Invitations are for pussies.
Rule #11: Sensitive is good.
Rule #12: When it stops being fun, break something.
Rule #13: Bridesmaids are desperate: console them.
Rule #14: You're a distant relative of a dead cousin.
Rule #15: Fight the urge to tell the truth.
Rule #16: Always have an up-to-date family tree.
Rule #17: Every female wedding guest deserves a wedding night.
Rule #18: You love animals and children.
Rule #19: Toast in the native language if you know the native language and have practiced the toast. Do not wing it.
Rule #20: The older the better, the younger the better (see Rule below)
Rule #21: Definitely make sure she's 18.
Rule #22: You have a wedding and a reception to seal the deal. Period. No overtime.
Rule #23: There's nothing wrong with having seconds. Provided there's enough women to go around.
Rule #24: If you get outed, leave calmly. Do not run.
Rule #25: You understand she heard that but that's not what you meant.
Rule #26: Of course you love her.
Rule #27: Don't over drink. The machinery must work in order to close.
Rule #28: Make sure there's an open bar.
Rule #29: Always be a team player. Everyone needs a little help now and again.
Rule #30: Know the playbook so you can call an audible.
Rule #31: If you call an audible, always make sure your fellow Crashers know.
Rule #32: Don't commit to a relative unless you're absolutely sure that they have a pulse.
Rule #33: Never go back to your place.
Rule #34: Be gone by sunrise.
Rule #35: Breakfast is for closers.
Rule #36: Your favorite movie is "The English Patient".
Rule #37: At the reception, one hard drink or two beers max. A drunk crasher is a sloppy crasher.
Rule #38: Girls in hats tend to be proper and rarely give it up.
Rule #39: The way to a woman's bed is through the dance floor.
Rule #40: Dance with old folks and the kids. The girls will think you're "sweet."
Rule #41: Never hit on the bride -- it's a one way ticket to the pavement
Rule #42: Try not to break anything, unless you're not having fun.
Rule #43: At the service, sit in the fifth row. It's close enough to wedding party to seem like you're an invited guest. Never sit in the back. The back row just smells like crashing.
Rule #44: Create an air of mystery that involves some painful experience when interacting with the girl you're after. But don't talk about it.
Rule #45: Always remember your fake name! Rehearse it in advance and make sure you know your fellow Crasher's code-name as well!
Rule #46: The Rules of Wedding Crashing are sacred. Don't sully them by "improvising."
Rule #47: You forgot your invitation in your rush to get to the church.
Rule #48: Make sure all the single women at the wedding know you're there because you've just suffered either a terrible breakup or the death of your fiancée.
Rule #49: Always work into the conversation: "Yeah, I have tons of money. But how does one buy happiness?"
Rule #50: Be pensive! It draws out the "healer" in women.
Rule #51: Always pull out in time.
Rule #52: Tell any woman you're interested in that you'd love to stay put but you promised to help out at the homeless shelter today.
Rule #53: It's time to put your Drama Lessons in practice! Get choked up during the service. The girls will think you're "sensitive". Bring a slice of onion or artificial tears if necessary.
Rule #54: Avoid virgins. They're too clingy.
Rule #55: If pressed, tell people you're related to Uncle John. Everyone has an Uncle John.
Rule #56: Don't fixate on one woman. ALWAYS have a back-up.
Rule #57: When seeing a rival Crasher, do not interact: merely acknowledge each other with a tug on the earlobe and gracefully move on.
Rule #58: The Ferrari's in the shop.
Rule #59: If two rival crashers pick the same girl, the crasher with the least seniority will respectfully yield.
Rule #60: No "chicken dancing": no exceptions.
Rule #61: When crashing out of state, request permission from the local Wedding Crasher chapter.
Rule #62: No more than two weddings a weekend. More and your game gets sloppy. You'll also attract unwanted notice.
Rule #63: Bring an extra umbrella when it rains. Courtesy opens more legs than charm.
Rule #64: Always save room for cake.
Rule #65: When your crash partner fails, you fail. No man is an island.
Rule #66: Smile! You're having the time of your life.
Rule #67: Mix it up a little. You can't always be the man with the haunted past.
Rule #68: Dance with the Bride's grandmother.
Rule #69: No sex on the altar. Confessionals, okay. Chair lofts, better.
Rule #70: Two shutouts in a row? It's time to take a week off. Ask yourself: what is it that is getting in the way of my happiness?
Rule #71: Research, research, research the wedding party. And when you are done researching, research some more.
Rule #72: Studies have shown that women have a more developed sense of smell. Breath mints: small cost, big yield.
Rule #73: Keep interactions with the parents of the bride and groom to a minimum.
Rule #74: In case of emergency, refer to the rulebook.
Rule #75: Girls in hats tend to be proper and rarely give it up.
Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion.
Rule #77: Carry extra protection at ALL times.
Rule #78: The unmarried female rabbi: is she fair game? Of course she is.
Rule #79: The tables furthest from the kitchen always get served first.
Rule #80: Stop, look, listen. At weddings. In life.
Rule #81: Occasionally bring a gift: you're getting sex without having to buy dinner, so you can afford a blender.
Rule #82: Always think ahead but always stay in the moment. Reconcile this paradox and you'll not only get the girl, you might also get peace of mind.
Rule #83: Don't let the ring bearer bum your smokes. His parents may start to ask questions.
Rule #84: Stay clear of the wedding planner. They may recognize you and start to wonder.
Rule #85: Don't use the "I have two months to live" bit: not cool, not effective.
Rule #86: Shoes say a lot about the man.
Rule #87: Always choose large weddings. More choice. Easier to blend.
Rule #88: You're from out of town. ALWAYS.
Rule #89: Know something about the place you say you are from, whether be from another US state or another country. Texas is too-played out. For some reason, England, Germany or even New Hampshire seem to work. Master the accents convincingly, and you've nailed them!
Rule #90: Of course you dream of one day having children.
Rule #91: Never dance to "What I Like About You." It's long past time to let that song go. Someone will request it at every wedding. Don't dance to it. No matter how hot the girl.
Rule #92: Tell the bride's friends and family that you are family of the groom and visa-versa.
Rule #93: Only take one car. You never know when you'll need to make a fast escape.
Rule #94: Deep down, most people hate themselves. This knowledge is the key to most bedroom doors.
Rule #95: Try not to show off on the dance floor. This means you Jeremy.
Rule #96: Etiquette isn't old-fashioned. It's sexy.
Rule #97: Catholic weddings: the classic dilemma: painfully long ceremony: horny girls.
Rule #98: The newspaper Wedding Announcements are your racing form. Choose carefully.
Rule #99: Be judicious with cologne. Citrus tones are best.
Rule #100: Save the tuxes for "the big show" only.
Rule #101: Avoid women who were psychology majors in college. There is no kind of woman more clingy and persistent than a psychologist investigating your story later on.
Rule #102: No periwinkle colored ties, please.
Rule #103: Always have an early "appointment" the next morning.
Rule #104: Be well groomed and well-mannered.
Rule #105: Never cockblock a fellow Crasher. Cockblocking an invited guest--okay.
Rule #106: Eat plentiful, digest your food. You'll need the energy later.
Rule #107: Know when to abandon ship if it ain't floating.
Rule #108: Know your swing and salsa dancing. Girls love to get twisted around.
Rule #109: Always carry an assortment of place cards to match any wedding design.
Rule #110: Make sure your magic trick and balloon animal skills are not rusty. If the kids love it, the girls will too.
Rule #111: Never have sex with bride or groom's mother even if she is the hottest bombshell at the wedding. Just control yourself.
Rule #112: Have FUN! It's why you're there!
Rule #113: Don't look for opportunities; make them.
Rule #114: 3-4 months to wedding crash--funerals are year round!
Rule #115: Never walk away from a crasher in a funny jacket. (The rule that Jeremy makes up to insult John)

Uh... Yeah...

2006-01-13T18:33:00.000-05:00

Been busy the last couple of days. Quite a lot has been going through my mind. Apart from that, I was able to obtain a game that I loved from a while back, which has also kept me busy as well - Rogue Spear. It's an oldie but goldie. Not to mention we (Jomz, "Saint", me) won a tournament of this game back in 1999 (or 2000). That was quite a tournament!!! Still an exciting game to play even for one player, especially with a nice computer system (it was really slow back in the day).

Kindof pissed off right now at the Management of the condo I'm staying in. They want me to remove the (autocross) tires I have stacked there in my parking spot. I have no other place to put it (parents don't want it inside the condo either). Fuck. Apparently the management claims it to be a "fire hazard", creates clutter, and is also against the fucking condo rules as stated: "The parking spots are not to be used as a storage facility". Mother fucker. As if I'm storing a SOFA in my parking spot. Anyway, I'm probably not the only who's screwed; other people have winter tires in their spots as well - but who knows, maybe they have storage space somewhere. I don't. So fuck it, I think I'm just going to get rid of the tires by selling them. By selling the tires, there's no use to autocross. Might as well sell my coilovers and chassis braces as well. Unless of course I can find a place to store my tires (near to impossible). I do have a week to decide. Jackasses. Want to get my own place already.

Watched Syriana and Munich as well recently. Short review: Syriana sucked ass. Munich was awesome. Long review: I thought Syriana sucked since I believe it was stupid. The movie is presented in a way such as Traffic (same writer) or Crash. Different stories of different characters and how they intertwine with each other. Traffic and Crash were done magnificently with that method. Syriana was pretty stupid since it was long, boring, and there were plots/stories/characters that they could have done without. The trailers of the movie also portray it to be somewhat an "action/suspense" movie. Trust me, all the action in the trailers was ALL the action there was. It was completely misrepresented - 3/10. Munich, on the other hand, was a great movie. Being it a "Spielberg" movie, I was a little skeptical about it based on his more recent films. He redeemed himself well here. Munich was interesting since it also was inspired by actual events. It was "suspense-ish" (I don't want to say suspenseFUL) to the end. It's also helpful to know a bit on the background of the countries involved in the movie as well to help understand the cultures more too. All in all, I'd give it a 8.5/10. The only thing I didn't like was that the movie felt long because it was long. Unlike (for example) Lord of The Rings, it's a long movie, however didn't feel long at all. You feel more involved so to speak.

There's more I could say about other things. But I'll leave this entry as it is for now.

P.S. Happy Birthday "JU" lol

The Holiday Season....

2006-01-02T20:22:00.000-05:00

It's never too late to post I guess...

Dec 19 - Happy Birthday to ME.
Dec 20 - Happy Birthday to Dino B. and Nico B.
Dec 25 - Happy Birthday to Jesus.
Dec 26 - Happy Birthday to Boxing Day.
Jan 1 - Happy Birthday to 2006.

[Did I miss anyone out? Sorry... Happy Birthday to you! LOL... Happy Anniv to Artie/Lia - Dec 19 right?]

Didn't do anything really special. Boring Holiday season this year. In fact, for the first time (I think), I didn't do anything for New Year. I didn't even feel like doing anything anyway. It was so overrated this year I thought it was fucking ridiculous. $30+ cover charge (entrance fee basically) to get in ANY club. Same shit, different "special" day. Go out, drink, drink some more, and spend a stupid amount of money just because it's New Year. So, I just slept through it. Haha. Maybe I'm just getting old.

I did get some stuff done through the Holidays though... Got myself a new haircut. A dorky looking fauxhawk, or a "shit, I just woke up" look. Whichever I feel like doing that day. Got some good deals on Boxing Day too. To those who don't know, Boxing Day is an annual occassion wherein most (if not all) stores go on massive sales. Great day to get good deals - as long as you can stand the crowd.

There's nothing else I could think of to write right now.

Vacation Report....

2005-12-18T16:29:00.000-05:00

I've been so lazy (again) in updating my blog, it's about time I actually did. So since my previous post, I've gone to London and Amsterdam and now back in Toronto. Those were good times indeed; hopefully next time, I could stay a little bit longer as I only had a little more than a week of vacation. Now this is the first time I've actually gone to Europe so pardon moi for the "typical tourist" shit. The London sights and tour were tackled in about a day-and-a-half. I arrived in London Heathrow at about 9-10am-ish, went to my bro's pad, dropped my luggage off, and went straight to London Downtown. Not a minute wasted I should say. Anyway, doing London in a day-and-a-half wasn't that bad at all; however, if you're nit-picky and interested in cultural shit type of person, then my kind of "tour" isn't for you - I take a picture, and that's it. I don't go in museums, art galleries, castles, etc. Although, IF there's more time in the future, then I might just consider actually going IN the sights. Hehe. Time just didn't permit it. Besides, most art galleries and museums don't allow taking pictures inside. What's the point? You look at a painting. That's it. Whoopeedoo. A lot better if you could take a picture so you could take whatever you saw at those museums home. I just don't see the point. Ridiculous. Anyway, Here's some London pictures (the quantity of pictures attribute to my laziness in uploading them - there's really a lot more):

The ferris wheel pictures are actually the London Eye, which is in fact the largest ferris wheel in the world (or similar structure as it's really not a ferris wheel, but an "observation wheel" instead). And no, I didn't ride the damn thing. I just took a picture and moved on. Considering the line, which could have taken at least 2 hours; the time it takes for the ride/rotation of the wheel (45minutes - 1 hour); and lastly the price. It just wasn't worth it at the time. I would like to try it out for next time though. Next picture shows my bro in the sunset with Big Ben as the back drop. Trying to look like some DJ of a chillout album making a CD cover. Haha. The next picture was just a random shot I took of the typical eye-level concept of London - Old type building, double decker bus, the special taxis, etc.. Next of course, is Buckingham Palace. And no, I didn't go inside the Palace for a tour. That's as close as I got to the Palace and as well as those Royal Guards. Too bad. I would've tried my best to "pull a Mr.Bean" on them. On another thought, maybe I'm lucky I didn't get to pester the guards a bit, or I may not be typing right now at all... >:) Hehehe. Also, of course, every noob/newb to London HAS to take a picture of Harrods. This time, I DID go inside something; although just went out right away coz of the ridiculous amount of people. It's a completely retarded place to shop in. I don't fucking care how "high class" their shit is. Only an idiot would shop there with the amount of people inside. For those in Manila, think SM during Christmas x10; although, at the very least, the people don't stink in Harrods. The picture with the lights is Picadilly Circus (which obviously isn't a circus.. Brits apparently use obsolete terms), which can also be referenced to be the Times Square of London, although there's no Naked Cowboy here. Following pictures would be Tower Bridge and the Tower of London. No I didn't go inside the Tower of London. Cool place to visit considering an ancestor of ours was beheaded here - Lady Jane Grey. The rest are other pictures I'm too lazy to describe. Some of them are actually really stupid. Like WTF is CIA? Honestly, what kind of a stupid shit sign is that? There seems to be several of them. Until today, I have not figured what the hell that sign means.

Moving on to Amsterdam... Here are the pictures:

Ahhhhmsterdam. Hehe. Well known for its weed, red light district, and..... um..... hmm.... um.... Gouda cheese? LOL It's a nice city to visit though. Although if you remove all the "vices" from the city, it can be quite boring actually. Amsterdam is quite a fucked up city. Really. Just check out some of my pictures above. "Moving Wall"?! Yep. That was the sign in our hotel elevator inside. And yes, the wall does move. "Snackbar BOBO"?! A sign that tells you were the "HOMO Monument" is?! And everything is "Dam" this, "Dam" that. Fucked up indeed eh? The other picture of the building? - That's Anne Frank's place. It's as modern as it can be, which is quite odd considering the time of Anne Frank. The picture after that is the Van Gogh Museum, and no I didn't go in that either. Now for some reason, the pictures aren't uploading properly to show their full size. They are still somewhat visible though. Btw, Vince also bought a pair of clogs for himself. LOL. Amsterdam/Holland are also well known for their wooden clogs. Haha

All in all, out of the (more than) a week I had, it was really fun (thanks Vince)! Not to mention that I had coincidentally met up with Carine and some of her London friends. Thanks to (bwahaha) *cough* Friendster *cough* and blog comments (Lia), I was able to get in touch with Carine and meet up with her. It's quite cool too considering that the last time I saw Carine was in Toronto! We were already wondering where the next International Gimmick would be! Hehe.. Check out her Multiply page to see more of her pictures. Actually, ALL the London places I didn't go IN to, she did. So check her site out. :)

Vacation... Finally!

2005-11-30T23:06:00.000-05:00

So it's final. I AM going to England. Flight departs December 2 (Friday) and I come back December 11 (Sunday, midnight to Monday). This was completely a last minute decision and a spur-of-the-moment purchase. I really didn't plan on going since it's only a week and funds were low (always). But, what the heck, I've never been to Europe and my bro, Vince, isn't definite in his stay in UK as well. So fuck it, I hear it's a great experience anyway and I might as well take advantage of the fact that Vince is there already. Aside from England, there was a choice between Rome, Paris, or Amsterdam as another place to passby. Because of the short notice, timeframe, and price, Amsterdam was the end decision. No surprise? Hehehe... It was the price... Really!! It was!!! LOL

I'll definitely post pictures when I come back.

High Maintenance...

2005-11-20T18:24:00.000-05:00

Being a fairly "new" blogger, I'm beginning to feel the "high maintenance" of a blog. It's also sort of a trend too since some of the blogs that I link didn't update theirs either for quite a bit of a while as well. Whatever the case, either I'm too lazy to type something up, or there really isn't much to say.

Just an update to those who don't know, my trip to Manila has been postponed to March 24-ish. Hopefully it shouldn't be a problem to get everyone together for something at least. I'm also not too too sure whether I can get the 3 weeks I was initially hoping for, BUT I do have a guaranteed week for my bro's wedding. I still want to go to Boracay.

This December, I'm also hoping to go to Europe... Extremely last minute decision if ever it pushes through. If I can find enough money to fund it, hopefully I could go by December 2-11. I'm still undecided. Pretty excited to go since I've never gone to Europe yet. *Fingers crossed*

Blah blah blah yeah yeah yeah. Things are going to get a little slow here... Winter has arrived to Toronto. It's getting effing cold already.

By the way, after a long "boycott" of no longer watching movies @ the theatre, I ended up watching Jarhead last weekend. It kinda sucked ass. I'm giving it a generous 5/10 rating in my book. It gets a "generous" five, since there were some parts that actually made me laugh and chuckle a bit. Other than that, it was very similar to Full Metal Jacket, and just plain boring/dragging. I understand the meaning/message of the movie that it depicts, although, I just don't seem to appreciate it. Screw that. Buying DVDs than watching movies at the theatre are a lot better, cheaper, and enjoyable for more than a hundred times of viewing. I'm holding off in watching Harry Potter (GOB), since I know I'll be buying the DVD anyway.

Any special picture requests? I can't think of anyone/celeb/model/hot/pretty/chick in particular...

Warning: Long Post, Some Pictures...

2005-10-23T15:22:00.000-04:00

There's a lot of things I'd like to share and catch up on on this post. No, the double "on" was not a typo, just try re-reading it. A couple of weeks ago was the last day of the autocross season. I only posted about it now since I was waiting for the results to come out, which still hasn't been posted. It was a good season all together and I guess I'm quite satisfied with the results considering it's completely the "wrong" car to autocross in the first place. Have some new pictures of the event.

Not much decent pictures, but these are what "stood out" among the other shots. Do ya'll like my precision driving? :) haha... If you also haven't noticed, Since my old pictures, my registered number is 66. My car's model is a 6. I'm evil. [With pinky pointing upwards towards lip a'la Dr. Evil style]

What else is the talk of the town? If you're an avid Hi-Res celebrity picture searcher, then you definitely should know what the talk of the town is. Hehehe. Who here knows the screen name "Ruthie Camden"? Don't know? I'll give you a clue: 7th Heaven. That's right! That cute troublemaker of a girl who always seems to end up innocent in the end and always rats out on her siblings' secrets. I'd be talking about Mackenzie Rosman. Know what? She's pretty grown up now and has been taught well by her on-screen sister Jessica Biel who apparently is the "Sexiest Woman Alive" according to Esquire Magazine. So see her for yourselves and judge! :) She beats Emma Watson hands down.

Now you must be retarded if you don't believe she's going to be an AMAZING WOMAN. I had to wipe the drool when I first saw these pictures. Fucking gorgeous man. Simply gorgeous [or maybe Drop Dead Gorgeous? - Inside joke, pun intended :P ].

Just also wanted to add that this weekend, I had joined a charity fund raiser for the United Way of Toronto. One of the Major events that they hold every year is the Enbridge CN Tower Stair Climb & Conquer The Tower. I assume you see where this is going... Yes, I DID (stair) climb the CN Tower. As painful as it sounds, I actually enjoyed the event. In fact, I didn't find it as bad as the other charity event I had done in summer for the JDRF (Juvenille Diabetes Research Foundation). For the JDRF, I had to ride ALL-OUT for 8 minutes on a stationary bike. Now you're thinking, 8 minutes, that's nothing! Try it for yourself... All-out, non-stop pedalling on a stationary bike under the scorching sun and extreme humidity. That fucked me up so bad I could hardly see straight. I only rode for 8 kms. 1km/min. LOL. Anyway, the CN Tower climb was much much better, and much much satisfying - NOT to say anything bad nor that it has to do anything with either charity in itself.

Some CN Tower facts: It's twice as tall as the Eiffel Tower, it's one of the Modern Seven Wonders of The World, and now the juicy stuff - it has 147 storeys and has 1,776 steps and is the tallest metal staircase on earth, and the tower itself is nearly half a kilometre high. I can also officially say that I conquered that BITCH in 28 minutes and 17 seconds. I didn't rush and completely walked all the way up. :)

Verdict...

2005-10-16T01:26:00.000-04:00

So the verdict has come for my choice between the 4 gig iPod Mini and the 5 gig Creative Zen Micro. Didn't get much feedback I guess from my previous entry, but what the hell it really just boils down to what I want anyway hehe. Thanks to my friend Cholo, he accepted the trade, as his Zen was practically brandnew as well. I do feel that I did make the right decision as I was playing around with the Zen a bit, I do like how it is compared to the iPod all together in terms of the features and usability... Hopefully he doesn't change his mind :) Hehehe

So here's some pictures of the Zen itself. I also love how it comes with the built-in EAX/Equalizer shit... Nice blue and white light to match as well.. :)

This weekend, we also decided to watch the movie "Into The Blue" starring Jessica Alba (and Paul Walker - who fucking cares). The only reason we watched was of course (you guessed it) Jessica Alba was going to be in nice skimpy bikinis the whole movie. She's fucking HOT. Despite the hmm "shallow" story, she makes up and compensates for it. Ya just gotta love her colour too. Nicely tanned and copper-ish skin... Yummy... >:) It also has been a while since I posted new chick-pics, so here she is:

Now there's a shitload of pictures out there. But if you're definitely a Jessica Alba fan, then just watch the freakin' movie instead. The movie itself isn't something that you'd miss out on, but it's well worth the money just for watching her. Take note: She ain't goin' nude. :P

End of Days?

2005-10-11T20:40:00.000-04:00

First off, I'd just like to share that I did get my 4 gig iPod Mini from the "shoutbox spam" by Krazyfrog. Pictures are shown below :) It's a lot more sexier than I had initially expected. Great silver/brushed aluminum housing and white backlight. Unlike the other tutti-frutti colours and "Nokia 5110 style" back light, the one that Krazyfrog sent was waay better. I'm still contemplating though whether I should switch with my friends (Cholo's) Creative Nomad Zen Micro. A lot of forums will suggest that the Nomad is better. For one, it has one extra gig (5 gig if I switch with Cholo), it can take all formats (wma, mp3, etc), battery can be replaced (which can now be done with the iPod), creative has a known issue with the headphone jack though, however, sound quality is claimed to be better on the Nomad. Accessories wise, iPod wins hands-down; But I don't believe I'll be using any of those add-ons anyway. Shit! Decisions decisions... They're both brand new btw. Any suggestions? :)

Explaining my odd title for this post: End of Days, doesn't it just seem like that? Doesn't feel like it's nearing the "end of the world"? If you watched the wonderful flop of a movie "The Day After Tomorrow", you'll sense what I mean. The world is being struck full of (un)natural disasters. Hurricanes here and there, earthquakes here and there, freak ice storms and blizzards here and there, tsunamis and shit. What the fuck is going on?! One after the other. Or maybe... It's just the Gaia Theory in action - The spirit of the Earth has been injured and is retaliating against us... See how high the gasoline prices get? Forces us to look for other means of environmentally friendly energy sources..

Bah, it doesn't matter. We can all die. Anne Hathaway has privileged us with some nude scenes for us before the world ends. :)

Post Filler...

2005-10-03T21:09:00.000-04:00

Finally turned on the "word verification" for comments. SPAM THAT NOW BITCHES!! Hehe. It's funny how my friend Jomz got freaked out and turns on word verification after ONE spam comment. Haha

I finally thought of a tentative schedule for my trip to Manila. From January 21 (Saturday) to February 12 (Sunday). I obviously can't arrive/leave on those days since I'd still have to consider the travel time getting/leaving there. That's at least a good idea of the timeframe. Bro's wedding's on January 28, which is also apparently the Chinese New year. The Boracay trip planned date (Lia's helping out with this so far) is February 3-5 which is (Friday - Sunday) and is also only 3 days. Hopefully with the cooperation of others, we could make it from February 1-5 (at the most) or 2-5. These things are all assuming that I actually have money to pay for all of these plans. Hmmm, I guess the rest of the days, we gonna paaarté!!

I just watched Fast and The Furious on DVD again recently. It's absolutely fucking hilarious!!!!! Hahaha The acting, the lines, the story, holy shit... Everything was freakin hilarious. I love watching those types of movies again and again. It's so cheesy and corny, I love it!!!

Paul Walker: [Smiling]
Vin Diesel: "What are you smiling at?"
Paul: "Dude, I almost had you! I almost had you man!"
Vin: "You? You almost had ME?! You never had me, you never had you car!!!"
Crowd: [ooohhh][aahhhhh][hahaha][whoaaaaaa]
Vin: "Ask any racer, any real racer; It doesn't matter whether you win by a mile or an inch - winning's winning!" [Arms spread out Michael Jordan style]
Crowd: [oohhh][yeeaahh][undecipherable comments agreeing with Torretto]
Leon: [Listens in on police radio frequency] Oh shit! We got COPS COPS COPS!!!!!!!!!

Hahaha Priceless!!!

There's got to be something more interesting to post.... LOL

Btw, you HAVE to watch this >>> Click Me! <<< Darwin Award winner for "show drifters". Hilarious!!!!

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Spam!!!!!

2005-09-26T20:47:00.000-04:00

This is now getting out of hand! What the fuck is up with all this SPAM! It's everywhere!!!! I get about 20 emails a day in my bulk folder, 1-2 comments in my Blogger posts (watch, as soon as I post this, there's going to be a spam-comment), and now my shoutbox?! Hehe The most retarded thing though, is why people/companies actually DO spam?! It's ridiculous, it's as if people actually read the shit they send anyway; Nor are they earning any money (or marketing value) for what they do. I think there's a special place in Hell for the Spammers out there :) - 8th Circle of Hell to be exact actually.

Anyway, speaking of SPAM, I just wanted to share that I love SPAM (the food). Despite the criticisms of people of how "processed" and unhealthy the stuff is (whatever the hell it is), I still think it's one of those concoctions of the century. I have no idea how or what it's made of, but it's still good!! Especially if you fry it just crisp enough to be crunchy on the edges but soft in the middle... MMMMM... You should check out their FAQ! The answers are stupidly hilarious (considering it's the official site)!!

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2005-09-20T22:35:00.000-04:00

I just want to revive the program Drempels psychotherapeutic screensaver and desktop enhancer to those who don't know about it and/or forgot about it. I almost totally forgot about it, and reloaded it as my regular desktop. God I love this thing. Don't forget to get the latest 1.5 version as it's a lot more smoother than the previous version and also get the extra texture collections. If I recall correctly, it was Carine (update your blog! Go travel somewhere! :P) who had introduced this to me a couple of years ago.

Last saturday was another autocross event. Nothing really new. I'm just keeping up with the Integras now. Hehehehe. Considering my car (as my buddy Artie would say for his Corona/Carina) is about as heavy as a Civic Hatchback and a half; that's fairly good. I just had to share. :) I also gave Ting (Ivan's sister) a nice thrill ride on 2 of my runs. LOL.. Btw, no pictures of the event available yet...

The other day I received some pictures from a friend through email. Lo-and-behold, semi-hi-res pics of Nancy Castiglione. To tell you honestly, I never really knew how she looked like (have I been gone from Manila *that* long?!), but I've heard her name come up once or twice in some conversations. Like I'd give a fuck who she is anyway - um.. actually, I'd give her a fuck. >:) LOL... So pictures for this post are going localized :)

I've come to realize that I think I blab a lot on my posts. Anyway, can someone confirm and find out when the Chinese New Year is for 2006? If I plan on going to Boracay with my friends, I'd at least like to avoid the "peak" rates at that time as I will be going to Manila (yezzzzz!) for my Bro's wedding on the 28th of January... Assuming it's still on... LOL Hahaha I'm kidding.

Blah effing Blah

2005-09-14T21:17:00.000-04:00

I've logged in to Friendster after the longest time. I took me a good 15 minutes to actually figure out what the hell I logged into and familiarized myself with this "new" (to me at least) layout. The only reason I logged in was the harassment of emails I receive everyday that "[insert name here] has updated their friendster blog". FRIENDSTER'S A FUCKING CULT!!! It amazes me that there are still so many people active there. Haha I figured it wouldn't really last long like any other fad. It's funny too that almost every other chick HAS to have some beach/Boracay picture in their gallery - I'm not really complaining, but, fuck, if you're ugly, save the pics for yourself!!! PLEASE! Haha. I'm truly an asshole (or maybe I just make the truth hurt?). Maybe that's probably why I have the coolest ratio of friends:testimonials.. LOL.. Furthermore, it's also funny how the basic rules of posting pictures on the Internet really apply to a lot of people on Friendster too. Rules? What rules? MINE --- If it's an extreme closeup, you're ugly. If it's an extremely far shot, you're ugly. If it's an artsy fartsy shot where you can hardly see the face, you're ugly. If the picture usually has some weird lighting (usually dark) to it, you're ugly. List goes on and one - you get the idea where this is going... :) Everyone who reads this now is going to login to Friendster and look for my profile and start looking for ways to insult me, good luck! :)

I'm kinda liking this Blogspot/Blogger shit btw. I'm actually glad I did switch to blogspot from my previous personal site. Much much less hassle. Thanks Jomz & Lia. I wished more people I actually knew had blogs (actually they do with Friendster - Cultists!); blogging, commenting, and reading other people's shit is quite interesting actually - most of the time.

Btw, if you don't know Britney Spears finally gave birth to a baby boy. She plans to name him London. What a fucking idiot. She's such a Paris Hilton wannabe. First the "pink" stuff, then fashion, then the freaking DOG-in-the-purse, now her child's going to be named after a city just like Paris (duh). Pathetic. I'd still do her though... Against what other people would believe though, no matter how "slutty", Paris Hilton > Britney Spears.

Maybe at least Brit's sister's gonna be hot. I think. LOL

9/11

2005-09-11T23:07:00.000-04:00

As you all know, it's the anniversary of the tragedy that to the United States, most especially to the people (and heroes) who had lost their lives to the WTC Twin Towers in New York...

Ok, fine, you all know I'm a complete asshole and don't usually say things like this - you're right. It's a good excuse though, for me to show off some pictures I took last year (2004) when I did go to Manhattan to visit. Hehe

First picture shows practically the only re-built part of the WTC, at least since last year. Second shows the surrounding buildings still being repaired from the damage. Third's basically the empty void that was left behind - mind you, I was only able to take that picture from the barriers that surround Ground Zero, the "void" is really deep (I would guess 20+ storeys deep). Fourth is a Cross, and I'm guessing it would symbolize either hope (or anything similar), or a symbol for those who had died in Ground Zero - or both. It's been constructed from the structural beams of the building. Lastly, if you aren't familiar with it, the WTC (like any other building nowadays) had an artsy-fartsy structure in the "pre-lobby-outside-area" when it had still been standing. This was reconstructed from the original parts salvaged - obviously it's all bent/mangled and shit. An eternal flame also lights by it.

Anyway, that's it............. I'm fucking bored and there's nothing to do....... I'm not going to write anything more right now.................. No actually I'm lying, I'm going to continue playing Icewind Dale II now. I know it's old, but it's interesting enough - I started it, I might as well finish it.

Weekend Stuff...

2005-09-05T18:00:00.000-04:00

The ONLY games I feel worth getting for the Playstation 2 - Gran Turismo and Tekken Series... I got to try out Tekken 5 during the weekend, and all I could say it's the BEST Tekken yet! It's got the revival of a couple of great characters too, not to mention that it includes the "arcade" of the previous Tekkens (except 4/Tag) included within the game as a bonus. It's also got a customization feature that allows you to choose what types of outfits the characters use.

My current character favorites are the usual Anna Williams (of course), Paul Phoenix (who doesn't use him?!), Julia Chang, Marshall Law, Wang Jinrei (remember this old fart? he rocks!), and of course Asuka Kazama (who's a complete Jun Kazama clone basically). I like using all of the characters, but these are the one's I would regularly use/master. I could completely go on and on rambling about this game, but try it out for yourselves, this is definitely a MUST-HAVE game, and makes me want I had my own PS2. Great Tekken Info and Videos for download can be found here: Tekken Zaibatsu.

Aside from that, we went to another autocross event last weekend. It was my friend Cholo's first time to try it out, needless to say, he can't wait for the next event... Haha Once you start, you can't stop. Racing's always been my passion, but sometimes I wished I just got a Honda/Civic instead of my Mazda6 - It's cheaper, lighter, and easier to modify. Although, every marshall at the start line would comment on the car before I would run: "THAT's a nice car", "Your car looks badass!", "That's a hot color!", "I love the lines of the Mazda6", etc. Hehe :) Here's some pictures:

Cholo's pictures can be found here: Cholo's AutoX Pictures

An Excuse for "Picture Testing"...

2005-09-01T23:31:00.000-04:00

I wanted to get things started off the RIGHT WAY. Just to continue the theme that was going on from my previous entry on my older site. :) This was also a test since I wasn't sure how to post up pictures for this blogger shit. I do hope that the loading time isn't compromised though - they are fairly large hi-res pics. Enjoy.

The fourth picture shows that she's quite a furry one... haha I LIKE it though. >:)

So I fell to the Darkside....

2005-09-01T21:53:00.000-04:00

And so finally after a "horrible" attempt to create my own site/blog... I'm now making my first post in blogspot... The Darkside of the force consumed me in doing so. So there.