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"Selamat malam, Encik! Saya nak laporkan kemalangan", kata seorang lelaki dengan nada cemas.

"Nah... isi borang ni dulu. Lepas tu taipkan detail kemalangan kat PC tu", arah pegawai polis tersebut.

Lepas beberapa ketika...

"Dah siap, Encik!", ujar lelaki tu. "Ok... duduk dulu", kata pegawai polis. Jarinya mengscroll trackball pada mouse sambil sambil matanya mengekori bait-bait perkataan utk membaca.

"Engko nak buat lawak ke?" tanya pegawai polis dengan nada tinggi.

"Takde, Encik... tu memang kejadian kemalangan tu. Ni saya repot ni nak claim insurans la ni", jawab lelaki tersebut.

"Ko ada minum tak? Ni ape cerita mengarut ni!!!", tanya polis tu dengan nada lebih tinggi.

"Sumpah, Encik! Saya tak tipu... apa yg jadi, memang camtu la yg saya taipkan...!", balas lelaki tu dengan nada bersungguh.

"Ni ha... gambar yg sempat saya snap pakai henpon saya tadi!"

Aku lupa!!!

Pagi ni buat lawak pulak... bukan Gelanggang Raja Lawak ye!

Al-kisah nye, last week, my wife pegi Jakarta-Bandung. So aku kena sign up for "Junior Duty". Selama 5 hari tu la (Rabu - Ahad) aku kena bawak ATR ke mana-mana sebab nak kena hantar/jemput juniors kat tadika.

Lawak hari ni... aku boleh lupa camne nak pasang aircond Black Knight. Jenuh aku adjust 'fan speed' knob tu tapi senyap je. Dah la pagi tadi hujan. Berkuap la aku dlm kereta tu. Dalam kepala dah mencongak-congak dah... berapa nak kena keluar duit nak 'repair problem' ni. Dah nak sampai ofis, baru aku perasan yang aku lupa picit button kipas!

Cheh...

New 'liability'

After a couple of months hunting for 2nd car, we finally took delivery of our new 'liability'. A Mitsubishi AirTrek 2.0 Turbo. It's a second hand unit and the car has 92K++ on the mileage. It came with 18 inch wheel (gasp!) and repaint with metallic light blue. The original colour was silver. Other than that, everything is still stock standard.

Initial drive review:
Feels comfortable. But the large rims might have compromise the ride comfort slightly. Despite it's large size, the drivability is very much like driving a normal car with the exception of the ride height. The real fun is when the turbo kicks in :).

Modifications?
Don't feel like modifying this ride. It'll be a family car that we will use for long journey and weekends. Maybe the most 'extreme' modification I might do is to reflash the ECU and get back the 20HP that was detuned by the factory. Been contemplating on changing the rims into a smaller size... 17 incher perhaps.

The finalist [cont'd from "Yang Mana Satu?"]

After much deliberation, we've finally have the finalist of our family car candidate. The winner is...

Mitsubishi AirTrek 2.0 Turbo

Time to start hunting...

Yang Mana Satu?

Mari buat hutang baru!

My wife & I memang minat Legacy despite orang kata macam kete mayat :D. Some ingat kete Korea (Kia Rio... apekah?!)

Forester ada 2 version 2.0 (auto) dgn 2.5 (manual). Enjin boxer kedua kereta Subaru ni menyebabkan aku fikir banyak kali.

AirTrek is in the list sebab AirTrek is the cheapest to get. Cuma banyak yang available dah cecah 100K dah mileage dia. Occasionally, ada jugak yang baru 50K - 70K mileage available. Aku dah congak, kalau aku angkat AirTrek ni, dump in RM30K d/p, loan around 4 - 4.5% ambik 5 tahun, instalment is around RM 1K.

Memang dah lama jadi idaman. GT-4 N-Spec nye specifically :D. Ada banyak jugak available unreg & 2nd.

Latest by March 2011. Harap2 takde aral melintang.

Relationship advice anyone?

10 Perkara yg Lelaki Suka
10 Perkara yg Si Dia Suka
10 Perkara yg Perempuan Suka
Apa yg dikata... Apa yg dimaksudkan

Tajuk2 artikel yg kerap diisi dlm majalah 'muda-mudi'. Being a 'senior guy' [eceh], all I can say is it's a bunch of 'total crap'! Nothing new... cuma rehash, copy paste, ubah struktur ayat and then sell to the public. Nothing more. The writers must've watched too many romantic [comedy] movies. Too much fantasy! Maybe have been through one or two relationship... while some may have no experience at all.

That's why aku prefer artikel yg mcm bawah ni... lagi realistik :)

• Men ARE NOT mind readers.
  
  
• Learn to work the toilet seat. You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down.
  
  
• Sunday sports. It's like the full moon or the changing of the tides. Let it be.
  
  
• Shopping is NOT a sport. And no, we are never going to think of it that way.
  
  
• Crying is blackmail.
  
  
• Ask for what you want. Let us be clear on this one: Subtle hints do not work! Strong hints do not work! Obvious hints do not work! Just say it!
  
  
• 'Yes' and 'No' are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.
  
  
• Come to us with a problem only If you want help solving it. That's what we do. Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.
  
  
• A headache that lasts for 17 months is a problem. See a doctor.
  
  
• Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument. In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 days.
  
  
• If you won't dress like the Victoria's Secret girls, don't expect us to act like soap opera guys.
  
  
• If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one .
  
  
• You can either ask us to do something or tell us how you want it done. Not both. If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.
  
  
• Whenever possible, please say whatever you have to say during commercials.
  
  
• Christopher Columbus did NOT need directions and neither do we.
  
  
• ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings Peach, for example, is a fruit, not a color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.
  
  
• If it itches, it will be scratched. We do that.
  
  
• If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing", We will act like nothing's wrong. We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.
  
  
• If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, expect an answer you don't want to hear.
  
  
• When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine…Really.
  
  
• Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as baseball, the shotgun formation, or golf.
  
  
• You have enough clothes.
  
  
• You have too many shoes.
  
  
• I am in shape. Round IS a shape!
  
  
  
  

Favourite drummer

In no particular order...

Dave Lombardo - Slayer, Grip Inc., Fantomas, Testament (The Gathering album)

Tommy Aldridge - Whitesnake

Deen Castronovo - Geezer, Bad English, Hardline, Journey

Raymond Herrera - Fear Factory

Charlie Benante - Anthrax

Danny Carey - Tool

Josh Freese - A Perfect Circle, Static-X (studio recording for Shadow Zone album)

Ryan Van Poederooyen - Terror Syndrome, The Devin Townsend Band, Non-Human Level, TheMightyOne

Neil Peart - Rush

Mike Portnoy - Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment, Avenged Sevenfold