The Great December Splurge – pt. II

So ends the car shopping spree.

After a while I got a few more things. Dunno why but I just felt like I HAD to…

First up was an ORIGINAL Cromok CD. Anyone who has known me for some time knows I do not buy original CDs. All are downloaded of the net and then burned to a disc. As can seen in my CD sleeve in the car. Blank faced discs plastered with labels using black marker pens. Some don’t even have labels! (there’s actually a very good reason for that but I can’t remember what it’s supposed to be). The CD was from Artist Gallery when I went there with Nick and Azmy. I did have a collection of Cromok MP3s a long while back but they were lost to the 3rd Great HDD crash of 2007 along with give or take 14-15GBs of my other MP3s. Was only able to recover about 10% of ‘em. Sob sob. Anyhoo, I went nuts and got the CD. Or rather CDs actually. It was a set of 2. Album was Cromok The Great – A Metal Manifest. During the trip back, Azmy surprisingly allowed me to use HIS car audio to test em. Yes. Azmy’s prized CAR AUDIO SYSTEM. Figure that. He had a listen to a few songs and is now hooked. Great strings he says. Even got around to copying the discs (piracy, I know. Tell Azmy that). Now, in all circumstances, this would have been considered normal. However… and a big however at that, Azmy has never been known to listen to such music. Why? Get the CD from me and try em out yourself… hahaha

Earlier today, before I wrote TIME, I went looking for glasses. No, not drinking ones. The ones you wear laa. It was something that I thought of after trying out Nick’s and Lynn’s glasses the other nite. Seemed quite fashionable. Heh. So, went around a bit, and got me a pair. What made my day was, the frames are TITANIUM. Pricey, but hey, that never stopped me before. Blue, half framed TITANIUM ones. Sorry, still can’t get past the TITANIUM part. Hahaha. Luckily, got kang tao price for em so wasn’t really THAT pricey. Been wearing em all day now just to get the feel. Bah, so what you say? I DON’T wear glasses. Vision’s a crisp 20/20. So that’s what…

It is now a bit later, – well, a lot later really – but still before I wrote TIME. I needed to get online to write TIME on my laptop and music was needed. That part is solved by item #1. But then, there was 1 other problem. It’s a laptop. Sound is crappy (to say the least). My BT headsets were nowhere to be found either (just remembered, 1 at home, 1 in office). Can’t listen to songs on crappy laptop speakers rite? Especially when the source is an ORIGINAL (still can’t get past the ORIGINAL part also) Cromok CD. So, what to do? Buy new earphones of course! Got out and got a pair of brand new Philips earphones. Could’ve settled for regular no name ones but since I was on a roll, why the hell not rite? Really strange ones these. It comes in 2 parts! 1 part is the usual earphones. The other is an extension cord of sorts. A regular head or earphone would be around 1.2 to 1.5m in length. This one is of the same length (1.2m in case you really wanna know) but has it split up. 60cm each. Very handy when using laptops since you don’t have a whole stretch of wire running around everywhere. Not a bad choice methinks.

So ends, my current spree. Pay is coming in tomorrow. So, I just might have part III up soon. Hope not. Hahaha :P

The Great December Splurge pt. I

I cannot sit idle and do nothing. Just can’t be done. So, write some more…

This month alone, I have bought a lot of stuff. Maybe because it’s year’s end and a lot of wishes remain unfulfilled. And I keep wondering where most of my pay went… hahaha

Part I : For the car -
My car, the ever enterprising blue Savvy recently developed some major issues. One of which is oh so very costly to fix. The ignition coil… A lot of other people have had this problem as well it seems. So, for future owners, Caveat Emptor.

Anyway. Problem was initially minor, but got worse. Quite embarassing to offer to bring people out for dinner and at then end the car couldn’t climb a hill to go back. Hahaha. So, I bought a couple of stuff and McGyver’ed a fix for it. Seems to work really well. And since I was at an accessories shop, I thought, why the hell not eh?

Got a RedLine high flow panel air filter. Woven fiber over steel mesh. Good stuff. Really good. Wanted to get this a long time back but it was never in stock. Now revs are smoother and car has nice acceleration. Niceeeee…

** it sorta looks like this but longer with blue mesh

Then an Elevo D1 Drift short throw competition gear knob.

That was to replace the OEM one that came with the car which was making a racket when driving. Had to muffle it with tissue paper. The new one is solid alloy with leather handwrap. Feels really solid quite unlike the old one. Shifting has never been so fun. lol

And finally some lights.

 

A set of AF Projektz LED driving lights to replace my old ones which at this time has, I dunno, 2? 3? LEDs left on each side. New ones look better. Clearer and shinier. Heh.

To top it all off, as replacement to a 1 side blown headlight, a pair of DLAA 4500k Xenon super white bulbs. Still thinking on this one. The last time I used super whites, kena saman once. RM300… dem. But that was 7500k ones. The new ones are a bit more law enforcement friendly. – I hope…

** these are halogen ones. tarak pix for xenon

To be continued… :P

Time

I’ve always liked to talk about time. A lot of times (no puns intended) really. There’s just something about it that piques a part of the mind that – in normal circumstances – lays dormant. What is time? Who defined it? What to do with it? Possibilities for questions are boundless as they are endless. Much like time itself.

One has to consider the very real and visceral fact that, to put it simply, time flies. Time is the constant in all of life’s equations. It’s the one thing that has to be included whether you want to or not. Although a constant, time never really stops. Which makes it all that more fascinating. It’s always on the move and you can never really catch up to it. Once it passes you by, that’s it. You can neither turn back nor look forwards. All you do then is stand there with a blank stare wondering, what happened? Where did that moment in time go? I guess that’s why people like saying things like “seize the moment” or “capture the moment”. All nonsensical really. All you’re really doing is using up the time given to accomplish what you set out to do, never really realizing, when you so call “seize the moment” it has already passed.

In one’s life, there can never be enough time. There’s never a moment that someone actually does have enough of anything really. Especially time. Which for me, I find strange. Lately, I’ve had a lot of time on my hands. So much so, that I cannot begin to grasp the concept of time anymore. It’s mind boggling to think that before, I wanted time. Time off. Time to relax. Time to catch up. Time to spend. Now that I have been given time, I cannot figure out what to do with it. I spend it walking aimlessly,using that precious time to waste the time of others. Why? You tell me. I am still trying to work out what I’ve been doing and what I can possibly achieve with it.

Time is fleeting. It’s high time I realized it. Instead of dawdling and idling in the past, I should use the time given best I can. Do what needs doing and remember that one day, there will be no more time left for me spend. Claw and scrape I much as I would, there will never be more and it what little I have left then, is not enough.

So precious is time…