R/C Helicopter Flying

The Titan (L) and the King2 (R) getting ready for their evening flight.

On Sunday, met up with Lelek for lunch after my bowling tournament (will post about it later) to discuss some stuff. After our meal and our discussion, we decide to head over to the R/C Air-field near our home to put some air time in the helicopters. So picked up the Titan and King2 and off we went. It was 4pm when we reach the place. As I’ve very little sleep and tired from the tournament, I told him that once the juice ran out of King2, we’ll be out of the place, I want to go home and sleep!

Hovering King2 with Training ‘Wheels’ To discourage crashing

So, plugged in the King2 and turned up the juice and got down to practicing my hovering, this time around, I’ve no fear of crashing the delicate chopter as we installed a training kit on it. Yup. It’s like training wheels but on a Helicopter. The battery lasted about 10minutes before I’ve to put the King2 back on the ground and Lelek got his Titan up into the air within seconds. 

Peter putting the finishing touches on his plane.

Also, we met an English couple that came by to fly their newly build plane. Peter was the name of the guy, after getting his plane installed and all system checked, he got himself parked at the best spot and shot his plane off into the air like a rocket. As he got use to the control and speed of the plane, we start throwing request to him to perform, barrel roll, loop-a-loop, low pass and so forth and he happily performed them. Even his wife was impressed by the performance as she commented that he usually would take it slow on the maiden flight of his planes.

The Jet Engine before it was fired up

Oh yeah, by then, a crowd has started to build up as more people start arriving with their own R/Cs, but the attraction of the day was a Jet Turbine that was newly installed. The owner of the turbine set it up on a workbench and got it fired up. The sight and sound was amazing! The sound is deafening, just like the real thing! Well, it is the real thing, the mechanics and the internal components is just the same as the real thing, just shrunked in size to be used on Remote Control Jet planes. Check out the video below for the sight and sound!

Well, took some pictures of the day so click here to view the gallery of pictures.

Smashing Friday

Friday afternoon proves to be a very unfortunate and lousy afternoon. With my day’s schedule all planned out, I decide to go out and get some treat for my colleagues and drove my car to do so. That little road trip during lunch time prove to be fatal for my car as it’s rear window got smashed.

No one knew what happened or rather, the people that’s just standing around looking at my car is just there to "kepo". None even helped me with removing the windscreen from the car to the rubbish bin, all have to be done by myself. Anyway, I don’t blame them, no one wants to get cut even though I have cut-proof gloves and the window’s covered with a layer of strong tint that clings on to the broken window pane strongly.

After seeking permission to go get my car dropped off at the workshop, I proceed to do the next natural thing while waiting for the Ah Wah (The Workshop’s owner) to quote me the cost of the whole fix. What’s that you might ask? Taking pictures of course. Anyway, it’s part of the process as I’ll be needing to claim from insurance for the damage as it ain’t cheap. The total amount was quoted at RM1,000 and this is using back locally made window panels and not the original Hyundai stuff whic cost more!

Well, have a look at the artistic shots. 

Can you see what’s missing?

Yup! It’s the windscreen!

The Shards

Most likely something fell onto my car cause even my speakers are dented

And the culprit tried to remove the evidence resulting in damage to panel as well!

Another angle of the panel that needs to be welded back

The remains of ZeroTohundred’s bomber-man was not good.

Another part of the Bomber-man, May he rest in peace.

More pictures here. 

Sex Is Like Aspirin For Men

This article appeared in Friday’s The Sun newspaper. Just thought that it’s a good enough subject for me to test a camera out with.

Kelab Autoshow

Tuesday marked the first day I joined a new family of motorsports enthusiast @ Kelab Autoshow. Huckseng, the club’s president (right most in the picture), and his committee invited me to lunch at Chef & Brew in Plaza Damansara so that I could get to know the team behind this club.

Kelab Autoshow is an idea mooted by our Minister of Youth and Sports, YB Dato’ Seri Azalina Dato’ Othman Said, to serve the “automobile-crazed” community. YB has a knack for finding ways to help youths by encouraging them to participate in more sports and recreational activities, and diverting their minds to healthy activities.

Fans of motorsports, watch this space as I’ll be using this blog to inform you of any upcoming activities that is organized by the club.

Movie: The Simpsons movie

Simpsons fans, no, I’m not talking about Jessica Simpson. I’m talking about The Simpsons. This is one movie anyone living in the civilized world shouldn’t miss. Thanks to 988 and Stephanie, I practically laughed from the start of the movie til the end (closing credit not included).

What’s this movie about? Here’s a quick synopsis of it. The polution of Lake Springfield reached a critical stage and everyone in town decide to be good and stop polluting it. In that time, Homer’s dad had a vision of God and spoke of grave danger happening to the residents of Springfield but no one takes him seriously. Homer found himself a pig when he and Bart went to Krusty’s for dinner and brought it home. Shit happens and Lake Springfield became toxic… ok.. that’s about as far as I’d go. Go watch the movie and find out more.

 

As usual, the 10 things I learn from this movie

1. The Lyric to the song for Homer’s pig goes like this: [singing Tune to Spider-Man Theme Song] Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig. Does whatever a Spider-Pig does. Can he swing from a web? No he *can’t*, cause he’s a *pig*. Look out! He is the *Spider-Pig*!
2. The Simpsons is still as funny as it was first produced
3. If the prophecy of this movie is correct, Arnie is going to be the next President of America.
4. Tom Hanks guest starred in this feature film.
5. Only in Simpsons can you find a dome big enough to cover an entire Springfield.
6. Alaska is the only place on earth where they’ll pay you USD1,000 to stay in it.
7. Only in Springfield can you see the four states that border it: Ohio, Nevada, Maine, and Kentucky!
8. The Simpson’s movie will debut in Springfield, Vermont. 20th Century Fox held a contest to select 1 of 16 possible Springfields (spanning from Oregon to Nebraska to Massachusetts) to decide which city will host the premiere. Springfield, Vermont won, just beating out Springfield, Illinois.
9. Homer taught us that if you can ride a bike fast enough, you can go up and around a giant dome the size of a small town.
10. With creativity and a friend that’s stupid enough to follow your plans, you can kidnap Homer away from it’s display at GSC, 1Utama.