Cheating The Breathalyzer

Can we really cheat the breathalyzer?

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*The honey in the video speaks Cantonese.

WAJA power window

Damage done by a Malaysia car to a Malaysian citizen, RM 276.

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I never knew Waja's power window can be so fragile. I never knew the window pane lifting frame is made of plastic.

It's not that "waja" after all.

Malaysia Boleh!

Oopps that's dangling!

Dangling; up close

2 out of 8 people required in this "mega-project". 1 do-er, 1 helper, while 6 trainees observing.

The final blow : 1 unit of centre locking cable and 1 unit of door lock cable costing RM38 each.

Overall damage in detail :

1. Power window frame - RM170
2. Service of power window switch - RM30
3. Centre locking cable - RM38
4. Door lock cable - RM38

Total Damage - RM276

p/s : I can get quality spare parts from Semenanjung, half the price offered in Kota Kinabalu. Import/export firm. Anyone cool with it?

Perfectionist ; Part III

This is my argument on why we must be perfectionist.

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A picture speaks a thousand words.

But it's fine, as long as rainwater doesn't seep through the gaps.

Perfectionist

Perfection can be attained. Perfection must be attained. Anything less than perfect is unacceptable.

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I've asked 5 persons about it and they say I can be a little pushy to attain perfection. Well with that statistics, I couldn't dispute it anymore.

I find a single dot of dust in my room unacceptable. I will spend 20 minutes everyday, checking and cleaning my room. I term myself perfectionisme induced germophobia.

I want the arrangement of my stuffs in room to be in perfect order, but I had to forgo it now due to work commitment.

I want my partner to be good looking, good in kitchen and good in, ehem you know where. So far I couldn't find any more possible candidate.

Similarly, I want my car in perfect condition, but unfortunately it has lost its "virginity" from the backside yesterday. The slight collision took away my first wife in Sabah. (So-called first wife is at the west side). The gaps are out of the default fitting, especially between the tail-light and the bumper. The incident is combo to my problem with JPJ just 6 hours earlier.

Oh to mitigate the streak of bad lucks, I promised myself to become a vegan for one day. It is very unfortunate too, that I forgot my word after 12 hours. I had an egg and 2 pieces of chicken for lunch.

Life's too ( please insert a better word than "colorful" ) across the South China Sea.

Perhaps I should ignore irrelevant small details aside and learn how to settle for slightly less than perfection.

Post-Convocation

This post is dedicated to our Taiko Mafia Samseng Lima Bintang Muar Shen Da Great.

Our Dear Taiko Shen

Our great taiko will start his job in KL soon, which means he will reside in KL and will have his dream KL life.

Working here, in KL's Golden Triangle ----->


Staying in condominium in Wangsa Maju ---->


Have a shaded car park for himself and only himself ---->


For his car equipped with GPS so that he won't get lost around KL ---->


And I hope he will get a girlfriend to complete his "ideal KL lifestyle".

Who could be the lucky girl?

Car Shipping

My new baby will reach Kota Kinabalu in 1 week time! Yayyy~

It's a Waja 1.6M, year 2005 with 65000 km of mileage. Standard specs with no modification. CD player included with two additional tweeters mounted on top left and right hand side.


I consider this my convocation present, which I need to pay for. My dad bought this car weeks ago for me, and I will service the loan to him!

To those that is being posted to East Malaysia, contact me if you need to ship your car over. I'll give you the shipper's details. No worries, coz I am not taking profit for myself. It's just that I don't feel appropriate for me to publicize the shipper's details here.

For a start..

RM2000 exact, to ship a car from Port Klang to Kota Kinabalu. You (1) drive the car to Port Klang, (2) bring the car registration card and (3) a photocopy of car owner's identification card (I/C). (4) Somebody will call you when the car reaches the destination port. They will enquire you for verification before handing the car keys to you. (5) Only 3 days is required to ship the car from Port Klang to Kota Kinabalu, plus additional 1 day for customs clearance and administration nitty gritty.

p/s : I'll be away to KL on the day the car reaches KK. Who's taking it for me??????

Of Rubber Hose & Great White Shark

A few days back, I felt something wrong with the Iswara that I am currently driving. Even though I've already stepping hard on the pedal, the car wouldn't accelerate. The little power that it has is not good enough to sustain 110km/hr on highway. I thought never mind, it might be because of the RON97 fuel I pumped in the day before.

Wednesday was a terrible day. The rubber hose connecting the car radiator and the engine bursted and water can be seen spraying out from the leakage. We were trapped in highway nearby Tapah.

This "lil Napoleon" is the biggest trouble-maker

The radiator has been made totally empty due to the leakage. I think the rubber hose bursted earlier, and because of short journey around Bidor, I was not aware of the rising engine temperature.

Four half-baked "mechanics" including me and my father are responsible for the repair works at a friend's workshop! We laughed all the way while cursing each other because one of the "mechanics" mistakenly fastened a rubber hose in a wrong orientation. Beforehand, he called himself the most competent person there.

Overall 4 rubber hoses of various sizes have been changed. Can you believe all these dried iron sludge clogged one single 130mm run, 12mm diameter rubber hose? I don't believe either.

You can simply press and hear the sound to check whether the rubber hoses in your car are clogged or not. If you can hear cracky or harsh sound from the inside, that means iron sludge has been building up in it for ages.

If you are even too lazy or too hygienic to touch the hoses, just perform a visual inspection. Clogged hoses will "fatten-up" due to excessive water pressure.

If either one of the symptoms occur on your steel baby, bring it to the nearest mechanic. You might not be as lucky as me, escaping astronomical repair bills due to engine overheating. Anyway, the 4 rubber hoses cost me less than rm30, plus RM40 bill of radiator cleaning and service!

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Great White Shark is the nickname given by Chinese people to Ipoh Specialist Hospital.

All New Honda City 2009

This model is awesome!






Check this out~
http://www.excitementinthecity.com.my/

OMG I Bangs!

Sigh...I sucks in parking car. This is the first injury (28th Sept 2008) I had caused to my younger brother's little baby Wira. The front bumper skirting is torn and I have to tie it temporarily with plastic string. Else it will drop down while I drive the car home. He will grunt, ad nauseam because he LOVE his car a lotttt!

And this is the injury to my own Iswara (some time ago during internship in KL). This is even more embarrassing. I banged the guard house of my previous rented unit in Bdr Sri Permaisuri. Sorry Mr-Cengal-Condominium.

Lesson learned:

1. Be careful while parking. Both injuries are on the driver's front side.
   
2. Do not touch brother's car.
3. Do not drive under nicotine deprivation. (Wira case)
   
4. Do not drive if you feel sleepy. (Iswara case)

The Complete Dummies Guide to Engine Oil

Get To Know The Bad Guys In Your Engine

Internal combustion of petrol with air gives your car the power to go further, but it also produces by-product harmful to your engine, clogging up the interior parts. These by-products are call soot, a type of black powder produced in combustion. On higher heat and RPM of most performance vehicle nowadays, engine oil of good quality is no longer a luxury treat for your Number 2 Darling. These type of good oil contain certain additives that help to reduce wear and tear, maintain viscosity and to suspend the soots.

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How Bad Are The Bad Guys?

The oil become so saturated with soot and contaminants from prolonged used that they will build up and form sludge at the bottom of your engine. It increases the wear and tear inside the engine, resulting in less response on highways. Your morning start-up will be a nighmare too.

Protect Yourself From The Bad Guys

The bad guys are there all the time. They are by-product of combustion process with air and petrol. That means you can't get rid of them. All you can do is change your engine oil frequently so that sludge won't build up in your engine.

Oil Change Interval

Somebody will say "Okay, now I'm confused. How frequent is frequent? Give me some values. Numerical values."

Many people debate on the proper oil change interval. Those sitting at mamak stalls say 5000 km. Those sitting at kopitiam says 7500 km. Some kids down the block say 10 000 km on high quality synthetic oil. Which one is correct?

Of new car less than 1 year old which is still under manufacturer's warranty, it is advisable that you follow the manual book. A complete manual book comes with every new car purchased. (Look into the dashboard compartment if you don't see one in your car.) Each time you send your car for normal or severe service, there will be some markings and official verifications to show that you follow the maintenance schedule accordingly.

A routine check before you travel long distance reveals dirty black engine oil. It does not mean that you need to go to have the oil changed immediately. Modern engine oil, called detergent-engine oil works in a way that it suspends the soot and contaminant from the combustion process. That is why the oil is black in color. By following the manufacturer's recommendation, you will never go wrong because you change the oil long before the oil has become saturated with soot.


Anyway, both Malays and Chinese call them "black oil" in the own dialect.

However, maintenance schedule differs by country, even for the same car. A Nissan Latio in USA and a Nissan Latio in Kuala Lumpur have different service regime and package. This is because of difference in quality of fuel used in both countries. Have you learnt in high-school that petroleum extracted from Malaysian reservoir contains less sulphur? Come on, recall the facts!

For cars relieved from warranty, here comes the tricky part. You can still follow the recommendation from car manufacturer, but with a longer service interval of course. Comes this tricky part, it all follows your money. From my conversations with a few of my mechanic buddy, they recommend 5000 km service interval for any car less than 10 year old.

Personally, I go for 7500 km on semi-synthetic Shell Helix Plus. If you are with your car for some time, you can notice the deviation from its real performance, especially while overtaking other vehicles on highway. Over time, a far deviation from its real performance rings the bell. It's time to change the engine oil.

Shell Helix Plus made a hole in my pocket for every oil change, making me RM 90.00 poorer and that is excluding oil filter, spark plugs and workmanship. For your information, I am driving a Proton Iswara 1.3 Manual, clocking approximately 148 000 km from 11 years of service life.


On what the numbers and alphabet printed on engine oil packaging means, let me quote from Shell Malaysia's website.

Below the word ULTRA, note 5W-30. It means the oil is able to maintain their performance in high and low temperature. The first number (followed by "W" for Winter, not Weight) indicates the oil viscosity under low temperatures. The second and higher number indicates the oil viscosity under greater temperatures. Most modern engine oils such as Shell Helix Ultra are multi-grade, which minimizes the viscosity differences under temperature variations. The higher the number, the thicker the oil. However,there is no such thing that the thicker the oil is, the better it is. Using oil which is too thick for your car can clog up the bearing clearances.

Normally the lower the first digit in gradation ,the higher the price is. 0W-30 is certainly more expensive than 5W-30 due to quantity of base stock. Mechanics will tell you that the lower the front digit, the thinner and the lighter the oil is, resulting in easy morning start-up and powerful acceleration. This is true though.

Ehem, girl drivers..don't get yourself cheated by dishonest mechanics. They might put mono-grade SAE 30 oil in your car engine and say "This is very very good" and charge you a whopping RM 90.00 for it. My quick and reflexive response will be "Fcuk you mister mechanic! Monograde SAE oil is not for use in modern passenger vehicles. Possibly lawn mowers!"

Exclusive car such as Bimmers, Benz and Volvo require more stringent service schedule. Some generous owner send their cars in, even at 3000 km. This is due to misconception that exclusive vehicles are heavier hence the engine is stressed up more compared to normal sedans. A service bill exceeding RM2000.00 is considered normal on a new E-class Benz. Well, I don't know. Rich men have deep pockets. Any Bimmers, Benz or Volvo owners reading my blog post?

So, This Is Malaysia's Roadtax?

My father came back from the town with 2 pieces of cards. I was wondering what they are until he handed them to me. They are road-tax stickers, for the Iswara and the Toyota. Without a word, I understand that he wants me to replace the old road-tax stickers on both cars. So I compelled.

The road-tax sticker on my car windscreen has been made hard and "crunchy" from the gruelling hot sun in Tronoh, which means... I have to scratch it away bit by bit using a 20 cents coin.

After scratching the crunchy layer off the windscreen,I have to use petrol to clean up the sticky dirt. What a hassle!

Finally I got the sticky dirt wiped off. Frankly, I don't have any idea on how to remove this "crunchy" roadtax behind any tinted windscreens. Anyone care to share?

So, this is Malaysia's roadtax, huh?