Countdown.

The day is finally here!!! Boy I can't describe exactly how glad I am that the day is here, especially the last 5 days building up to it. All I'm going to say is I really deserve this trip. Yeah by the way I think those who read my last post should have picked up my typo. My bad :)

Man, I deserve this trip. Anyone who has been given the responsibility of coaching his colleague who takes 20 seconds to open a word document... anyway never mind. It's not my ultimate responsibility(aah the joys of being a mere employee...) so "Good luck!!" to my boss for these next 8 days in supervising & coaching him to handle the 3 sections I'm currently responsible for. I tried. May your remaining hairs remain intact. I will pray for you.

2 more days..then I'm outta here..

Whew, its been killer..just because of one phone call; "Do you want to go to ?" That was 2 weeks ago in the lead up to today. It also involved the scheduling of my night duty to *gasp* working 1st,3rd & 5th Aug. Just so I dont load up my night duty AFTER my holiday. Stupid idea. As I write my blog now, its been a record 3 nights of sleeping at 12-1am, getting woken up at 3-3.30am for work, getting 1 hrs sleep then waking up at 6am for regular office hours duty. Now what in the world possessed me to schedule THAT?

Im thinking about the cliche'd "need a holiday after my holiday" statement. Boy I hope that doesn't come true..but apart from that, I also subscribe to the statement "suffer now, enjoy later". Right. All cynics please repeat after me: "Wahlau eh, suffer so darn teruk dee, still got energy to enjoy meh?" I hope not.

Boy, Im looking forward to this break. Away from here, a few thousand kays away (5 hrs@230++kph to be exact), away from reality of life, away from normalcy, just to take a breather. Apparently I'm not the only one. So she says as well. The one who asked me to go along. It's going to be an interesting 8 days in S. Korea.

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Climate change!!! I have never experienced such things in my whole life here in Brunei (and that spans over 2 decades!!!) Monsoon rains I have experienced, flooding, even into the house, but never have I experienced such strong winds..mind you this is the 2nd time and I was at home! The 1st time was Friday night when I was at work..mind you I work by the sea, and its really scary to look out the windows and see total darkness illuminated by flashing lightning streaks repeatedly and seeing in those flashes the heavy and heady waves breaking ominously on the beach just 50m away from the window. And to think I parked under a tree!! I expected my car to be flattened. And tonight again, cooped up at home wondering how much stronger the winds could be, watching forlonly at my poor babe being mercilessly battered by the winds and rain..argh..

A post for the....

....due to the sensitive nature of the last post, I will be deleting it after my period of calm returns...so dont be surprised if the posts dont seem to match up..that means that it has 'expired'. Just watched Transformers, and omg that has to be the best movie I have ever watched. Period. Im getting the DVD9 when it comes out, it is so worth it.

Oh what a night!!!

Lucky lucky...was given an invite to the preview launching of the new C-class Merc (that is such a beautiful car but why is the side profile so much like an E90 3 series?) ..so I brought the sisters there..was late, felt underdressed and had to sign in the guestbook..aah sorry, no name card, (Sorry, but I dont rate a high enough salary or position to get my own card) so I had to fill in the blank cards..whoa lo and behold, there was a lucky draw and of all the people there, I got one of the only two prizes...I am now a proud owner of a genuine Mercedes Benz Collection Chrono watch..what a beautiful and lucky ending to the day!! Im smiling to sleep now...zzzzz:)

How illogical??

I say, I've seen some dumb things done in my life..but I tell you, what I saw just now must be the dumbest thing Ive ever seen done. I was at a friend's audio accessories shop and there was a very nice 9 mth old BMW 3 series sitting there (bear with me, my description says car freak, so expect posts in this vein to crop up regularly ok?) having its interior being taken out.

Why and who in the world would take out the full leather interior of a 9 mth old $80k car to install speakers which are poorer quality than those which came with the car itself? For God's sake, it comes equipped with BMW Professional audio system where all the components are frequency matched to give the best sound and you rip it out to install your so-called idea of better sound which sounds like the thrown together $600 system in my 20k car??

Oh the best part is, there was a huge aS* speaker installed at the footrest (yes, I am NOT kidding!) right next to the brake pedal..may I shoot the person whose idea it was to install it there? Please? Or at least let me take a hockey stick to his head? He probably rides a bicycle to work and does not know what the concept of driver safety is. Or his legs may have ears to listen to said speaker.

The owner who bought this car from a previous owner said that there has been a few times where he stepped on the speaker to emergency brake..ok. Applause deserved to your initiative to remove said speaker before lives are lost..by stepping on the speaker to brake. Probably will do us all a favour by smashing it so we dont have to listen to poor quality sound. Speaker in the driver's footwell, what a genius...

My blogsite is finally up...

Yess!!! Ive finally bitten the bullet and done it...it is still under heavy construction as Ive run out of ideas but for now it will have to do...

...my blogsite for Toyota Vios accessories.. http://garyvios.blogspot.com. I am happy, because now there is another dimension of sorts for the awareness that there is someone offering quality alternative to shops in terms of Toyota Vios modification..

There will be the focus for all the things I have on offer..I will also eventually offer a 'bulletin board' for 2nd hand stuff and it wont be restricted to car stuff only..keep looking, who knows you might find something you like...help me spread the word, or if you have frustrated friends who do not know where to get certain stuff for their car, who knows, I might be able to help, or point him/her to someone who can help...