breaking the norm...

I find myself here in the office...it seems an eternity since i last took some time to blog. 2 weeks to be almost exact.

I mentioned previously in my blog that the computers in the office had been firewalled and prohibited from entering certain websites. Friendster being one of them. As if that wasnt bad enough, the internet connection in my house decided to screw up for a good 2 weeks. Thus, i've been deprived of blogging or even viewing friendster.

My baby gave me the idea of just starting one in blogspot and Voila! So i have done as you can see.... Right now im not too familiar with the interface here but by the looks of things, its not rocket science..... and i have to say it does seem easier than the one in friendster.
I've seen a couple of nice background templates etc on other blogspot accounts and i must say i think i'd give that a shot one day..... one day...... I just got to hope and pray that the IT peeps at my office dont decide to give blogspot the wall treatment as well.... sigh....

Aaaannyway...

2 weeks....wow....the days have really whizzed by..... so much has happened in that time and as much as i would have loved to, i wasnt able to put the weeks events down in words.... I dont think i'd even want to start on whats been happening as i think it would take up all my working hours!..... yes....im pretty sure it would....

Fast forward then to today..... i've got a couple of highlights coming up this weekend.... My band was invited to play for a event held by the 4x4 organization of malaysia at the Shah Alam stadium..... That would officially be the biggest venue that the band and i have played in.... Bearing in mind that Shannon has his exams, travels a lot and is not free most of the time, we sort of got our ex-2nd guitarist back to play for us..... Jo....

Jo played with us in 2004 when we qualified for the finals of the Taylors battle of the bands.... he was an alright guitarist then, but i must say he's improved tremendously.... he learns fast as well which is of course a good thing..... We had a short jam session last night but without our bassist and well, it sounded good to me.....

We'll be playing the gig on Sunday and we've got about 30 minutes for our set ...so about 7 or 8 songs should be sufficient to fill that time up... fingers crossed....

Chasing cars by Snow Patrol makes me emo......

Quite a lot of other stuff has happened.... my cousin chris is down for good, couldnt take the heat in the land down under...... Wynton is back as well, but will be leaving soon although his procrastination of his departure date continues till today...hahahaha..... but its good to hear he's planning to start a diploma course in music here in KL sometime next year...... Kyle's dad got him a Volvo 740 which i personally think, suits him rather adequately........ My baby and i? well, nothing interesting but everythings been great recently.... only thing that was out of the ordinary was when we won some stuff from the Mix fm Escape cruiser things 2 nights ago when they dropped by in OUG..... most of which were of not much use to us but they were worth quite a bit.... I got 4 Mall Grandstand tickets to watch the A1 Grand Prix in Sepang which unfortunately, i dont intend to make use of. Im that big of an A1 Grand Prix fan... but All the best to Alex Yoong who is in fact doing not too bad a job representing malaysia....

As with my previous blog, ill go on about charlotte.... The car which i really Love and Hate at the same time.....

I was scheduled to get my clutch replaced by the end of this month....as everything else was going as planned..... but NO.... true to the Nature of the Gods of Automobile Modifying, something HAS to go wrong.... and this time its my air conditioning system again.... The compressor decided to leak and well, the whole setup of the compressor isnt that good.... I got Mr.Tan to check it out and well, he mentioned that he'll be able to do it right and make it work.....

bye bye clutch plate....

SO yea...the money i set aside for the clutch plate is going to the air conditioning.....
I had to put my 7 second dashes to the century mark on hold even longer now...maybe next month....if finances permit...id be able to get it done......
But then again, christmas is coming! enough said...
Fortunately though, my mum has offered to send me some US benjamins to help me out with the clutch....
Thanks mum!

Speaking of which....things with the family have been going through some rough patches for the past week.... but things are better now..... only thing bothering me is my grandma who is undergoing an operation to deal with a tumor issue that she's having...... It really takes its toll on the emotions when all i can do is wait, hope and pray that she'll pull through without any complications.

Well...apart from that...life's been pretty much same old same old.... It really feels like such a relief that i've finally been able to blog.... ive come to realize that what i enjoy most about blogging is not really Who reads what i write, but more so because i can in one way or another, express myself in words...... It's like, letting it all out..... Like a nice fart that you've been holding in, and you finally get to release the stale gas into the atmosphere..... (okok..im getting a bit too detailed)

Oh yea....The car club....we've hit 53 members in less than a month! not a bad achievement.... and we're planning our first meetup this friday..... as much as i'd like to expect 50 people to turn up, it really seems impossible..... we'd be lucky to have even have 20 people show up.....

click here ...http://teamsublime.forumer.com.. in case you were wondering wht the site was....

SO i think this wraps up my return in this very unfamiliar blog space.....now i got to decide whether to continue from here or continue in friendster once the internet at home is up and running.....

By the way, for all racing fans and more specifically fans of Need For Speed..... Get urself a copy of Need For Speed Carbon..... Its worth a play.... and it really brings the customization options to a whole new level..... You can adjust almost every part of a body kit.....from bumpers to spoilers to diffusers to Rims...YES RIMS...... Deep Dish rims with 5 spokes and Super wide Tyres GALORE!!!! If only it was available to me in real life......

I cant say much for the gameplay, but the in game music really does make the racing action really "chi kek" ahahaha..... edge of ur seat kind of stuff.....

APart from that, i really have to conclude that Need For Speed Underground 2 is still better as an overall package......

And also, i finally found myself the REAL English version of Pro Evolution Soccer 6...... with english commentary.....

So i guess that wraps up my return to blogging..... till next post....

Dougie signing out....