Handbrake drift + carpark spot + old lady = jerk + apology

Man that was an EPIC handbrakie into a carpark spot! I regret I didn't take any pics since I was late and excited haha.

I'm up earlier than usual, meticulously executing my morning tasks, closing every task with a hairwidths amount of buffer, I'm not gonna be late to work today... Except there's one MAJOR impediment in my planned path of execution... I need fuel... So I brush my teeth in my shorter than usual morning shower, skip my shave and miss my breakfast, every second counts... I not gonna be late to work today... I have training after work, so I bundle my uniform, water and workbag in a fell swoop through my room, finishing with a cartwheel over my steering wheel and car keys, adding them to my inventory... I'm not gonna be late for work today... I sprint to my car, crispy cool from the morning dew, and spark up her ignition, I return to lock down the house as she idles out her slumber... I'm not gonna be late for work today... Then we trot to the local Shell servo... IMPEDIMENT... It's Wednesday, cheap fuel so there's a massive queue... I look at my phone... 7:33... 7:34... 7:35... 7:36... 7:37... 7:38... Funny how it seems whichever queue I join when I'm in a rush, I seem to choose the slowest one... Finally I get a bowser, Fill her up with some V, then we are off, 7:44 as we punch down the main road, like a footy player faking a pass then dodging a tackle, we sprint and ballet throught the overtoning drone of road cars doing 2,000 RPM and 70km/h, autopiloting towards another day's productivity... My car sings and squeals, sneezing at the height of every high note and on the challenge of every fat arsed moving roadblock... We skip, dance and charge towards our destination, and we finally arrive... 8:00, not much time left... It's dense here, All the spots near the station are filled, I'll have to try the strip that latecomers frequent... As I pull in, it's filled with little metro cars zipping around in 7 point turns collapsing into a spot on the common side of the road... I really don't wanna be late to work... So I thang it up the street... What do I see? A spot? It is! BUT! Oncoming cars! No! It's mine! I rev her up and she sings a note most praiseworthy! I Jerk the steering wheel to starboard bringing her nose in, oncomers are baffled! "What is he doing?!"... "He's gonna crash into the gutter!"... Alas! jumping off the gas she squeals out at pitch that'll shatter diamonds!

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Bullet time... The eerily familiar... The zone in which one makes or breaks... The sound of strapping wind now but a condescending drone... The faces of the oncoming... unchanging, fixed on confused...

Like a wise blind man familiarly reaching for his walking stick, my left hand cuddles the ebrake shaft...

blink...

like a gas fed rifle, cocking into the firing position, my left leg linearly disengages the clutch...

heartbeat...

the ebrake get's called into action with the heart of a zealot.

SCRAWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!

+ an unexpected squeal

As eerily as bullet time crept up, it reciprocally snaps as way... The car pivots around it's front 2 wheels, smoke pluming into my window, I even get a bit of road debris in my eye, then silence as the car is now parked, and idling... Fat and happy, smiling and sly, I disengage the steering wheel, remove the key and grab my inventory... Happy she idles away as I walk off, passerby's and motorists gobsmacked with jaws dropping down to their laps... I skip to the station... Fat... Happy...

I get to the stairs and have an old lady turn around and look me in the eye... She reminds me of Mrs. Horvath, a primary substitute teacher that used to torture us by spending hours on end doing spelling exercises...

"Was that absolutely necessary?"

Oh... I see, she must've been the 'unexpected squeal'... What do I say to her?

"Yes ma'am my brakes are boken so that's how I get around"

Smug bastard

"Well get it fixed you... You... JERK"

And I skip away onto the platform... I made it! with a few minutes to spare! Victory!

But what is this? This nagging voice in my head... Well as I'm writing this I realise, that my response was a bit uncalled for... Really I should have apologised and told the lady the truth... perhaps something more like "I'm sorry ma'am I'm really late and sorry to have frightened you, but I've done courses which teach me how to park like this... I really apologise, I feel really bad for frightening you" would have been a bit more appropriate and truthful. Well let's just say this then... If I ever see her again, how about I apologise to her for my conduct today? There's a deal... I may be parking there again soon, should I come across this old lady... I shall apologise for my smug response today, and for frightening her.

But gosh that was cool...

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Significant thoughts are SHY!!!!

I've been holding back from blogging because I don't wanna keep talking about mundane stuff all the time! I've been trying to get significant thoughts out onto the screen but it's not happening! I think my thoughts are shy! I think just the thought of jumping out from the inner workings of my tickerbrain onto the hectic, fast paced, exposed anti-void of the world wide web is enough to render my mind thoughtless! After all, the viscera of my mind-mush is a much more comfy, warm, familiar and secure place than out on there in electronic, public exposure.

If you think of it, it's kinda like how us people behave. We people like the comfy, warm mush of familiarity. It seems that it's always been in our nature, we were shaped by God inside the warmth of our mothers wombs...

Isaiah 44:2 Thus says the Lord, Who made you and formed you from the womb, Who will help you: Fear not, O Jacob, My servant, and you Jeshurun [the upright one--applied to Israel as a type of the Messiah], whom I have chosen.

Isaiah 44:24 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, and He Who formed you from the womb: I am the Lord, Who made all things, Who alone stretched out the heavens, Who spread out the earth by Myself [who was with Me]?

Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew [and] approved of you [as My chosen instrument], and before you were born I separated and set you apart, consecrating you; [and] I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.

So then we are born and spend the first lot of years of our lives surrounded by the security and protection of our family. God created family, and community, after all the trinity depicts family and community. So anyways, as we move on in age, the primal bond to family and community remains as an unmovable foundation in our lives. Family becomes the familiar environment in our lives hahaha I just noticed how those two words have the same roots. It's safe, warm, and protects us from the injustices of the outside world....

Now that's all well and dandy, but how does this have anything to do with my significant blogging?!

Well we as people are called to be the light of the world and not to remain hidden, check these verses out:

Matthew 5:14 You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.

¹⁵Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a peck measure, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.

¹⁶Let your light so shine before men that they may see your moral excellence and your praiseworthy, noble, and good deeds and recognize and honor and praise and glorify your Father Who is in heaven.

Ooh! so it sounds to me that although family is good, and community is good, we shouldn't be hiding, shying away and being kept protected away from the world, we should be shining our light and spreading the news on who we are!

And who does Jesus say we are we?

John 1:12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God

John 15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. ²He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.
³You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
⁴Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
⁵"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing

John 15:15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

How encouraging! Being a child of the one who created the Universe! Being Connected to him, and being Jesus' friend.

I guess if you knew that you knew that you knew you were this person and you lived it a breathed it, you'd be a pretty bright person hahaha everyone would wanna know who you are and what you think. If you don't believe in Jesus then imagine being friends with Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Superman and Martin Luther King rolled up in one AND THEN SOME! Note that none of these guys created the world or saved man kind from Hell... but hey everyone would still wanna know who you are, what you think and what makes you so special to be rubbing shoulders with with this superduper unit of a person!

SO! Let's bring this back to blogging. So it all starts because my thoughts are shy and are afraid to come out probably coz they're scared they won't make sense to anyone... But lo and behold, we're all fearfully and wonderfully made

Psalm 139:14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

So no need to be shy my I say to my timid thoughts:

2 Timothy 1:7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control.

SO! My dear intimate and significant thoughts, compose yourself and know that you are called for a greater purpose than loafing around in my headspace! There's a much bigger world out there!

Julie Plug - Blue Sky Propeller, the song from the Galdori video

Well remember that song that I fell in love with from the Galdori video? Muahahha well I found the video of the band and song but I couldn't find lyrics or an mp3... SO I'm gonna post the lyrics up here! I did this by ear so please forgive me if I got it wrong, feel free to recommend corrections via comments! The song Is "Blue sky Propeller" and the band is "Julie Plug" Hahaha at first I though it was the name of the lead singer but it's not! So without further adieu, here's the lyrics. I'll even chuck the video on! It's such a cool song!

Julie Plug - Blue Sky Propeller

Suddenly I could cry, suddenly I could touch the sky
what I don't understand is on my own head, will you come with me?
I don't want to fall out, of the sky
I need to hang onto my dear life
If you help me I can, can survive
If you'll be with me
If you'll be with me
Take me out on a trip this Sunday, hold my hand and I'll love to give you
All that I can give, all that I can give
Take me out on a trip this Sunday, hold my hand and I'll love to give you
All that I can give, all that I can give to you now

Suddenly I could cry, suddenly I could touch the sky
what I don't understand is on my own head, will you come with me?
I don't want to fall out, of the sky
I need to hang onto my dear life
If you help me I can, can survive
If you'll be with me
If you'll be with me
Take me out on a trip this Sunday, hold my hand and I'll love to give you
All that I can give, all that I can give
Take me out on a trip this Sunday, hold my hand and I'll love to give you
All that I can give, all that I can give to you now
to you now

I don't want to fall out, of the sky
I need to hang onto my dear life
If you help me I can, can survive
If you'll be with me
If you'll be with me
Take me out on a trip this Sunday, hold my hand and I'll love to give you
All that I can give, all that I can give
Take me out on a trip this Sunday, hold my hand and I'll love to give you
All that I can give, all that I can give to you now
to you now
to you now
to you now

motorkhana, running, swimming, 3d, martial arts, production

Sometimes I'll think about how I've now got a blog space and I get excited hahaha, There's alotta random stuff I get up to (like modifying my car, 3d modelling and animation, martial arts stuff) that most people around me may not be that interested in but thanks to blogging, maybe, just maybe somebody who is looking for info on this kinda stuff may have a chance to come across interesting reading! Don't you love it when you come across gems? I think I'll be just spewing my mind on the screen most of the time but if I do think of an interesting article and/or video, I'll be sure to be posting it up here. It turns out that backdating your posts work! So everything 2008 and before is reserved for my articles and writeups! Imagine having a site that hosts the best, info attracting large visiting numbers for a variety of things! That'd be 50 1337! I think my site would have best info, and attract masses to martial arts, cars, film/comic production, maybe even cooking! Heeheehee.

I've decided that I'm going to stop my daily swimming, the pools are getting too crowded as everyone's got the same idea, sharing lanes at the pool ftl. I've always despised running... I hate how it seems to take so long, I hate how it hurts, I hate gasping for air, I hate how boring it is, I hate how self-conscious I feel ARGH! Is anyone else with me? Alas! Because the pool is now full, I must revert to another form of easy fitness. I was talking to a friend while at McDonalds last night and he said I should try running in the city where there is much inspiration, for egsample, the botanical gardens, he says being in that environment and seeing so many other runners inspires him to run, he says music also helps. Hahaa! I must try it sometime this week! Plus I've got my new runners that I bought last week!

SO! FINALLY Dave's given me the video from our Valentines day motorkhana (it was partially my fault for not picking it up off him when he brought it earlier in the week!) I got to work on it straight away, turns out this vid is gonna be slightly longer than 10 minutes nooo =( So it's not youtubable =(... SO I think I'm gonna break it up into 2 parts... It's kinda boring really coz it's the same thing over and over, it's definitely more fun in person! I didn't think about it at the time but I shoulda tried a more movie approach on it... Shots of us getting ready, getting prepped, getting psyched while in the wet weather... That woulda made it fit for a KING...

Anyways, here's some cool music! An oldie but a goodie, it reminds me of the theme song from Girl from tomorrow!

First article is up!!!

Woohoo! So after all this procrastination, I've finally completed my first article/techinical write-up!! I posted it up in a few areas of NS and will get to putting it up in a few other places like SilviaNSW and maybe even SAU... But wow that was fun! I hope it proves useful to lots of people! I enjoy writing about my experiences and what I came across, it's just the formatting, copyrighting and legalistic stuff that's crappy and boring. You can check out the NS articles post here. So I think I'm gonna go get me something to eat now... I've been on tis computer for way too long! Who would have thought that I'd spend more time on the pc doing a writeup than playing games! Well hopefully there's more articles to come!

technical articles, comic production, DEBT

I decided yesterday that I'm going to use this blog to host some technical articles on things that some people might find helpful/useful! I started a writeup ages ago in my spare time at work on how to go through a 5-stud conversion and brake upgrade on an S13. It was left unfinished for the longest of times but I started hammering into it while at work yesterday. I think I really like writing technical articles! So that should be coming up quite soon if I keep at it. Hopefully people will find it helpful, there's not that much info out there for DIY 5-stud conversions.

So I'm supposed to meet with Dane today to do more work on our comic, we planned to start working through storyboarding and breaking up key scenes into cells and shots! But silly me stayed up till so late last night writing this bloody article! I don't think I slept until about 3 or so and I couldn't get up in the morning for the meeting! Argh I'm quite irresponsible aren't I? But alas I hope to meet with him in the afternoon after he's day's errands are done. I'm so excitied about getting some story progression stuff done! It's alot easier to spearhead artwork when you know what you're looking for. So at least I think hahaha...

So I was reading on NS this morning about the spending habits of some young car enthusiasts... OMG! I though I was bad! I still owe money on my credit card but am taking care of that as best as I can so I can enjoy my holiday in Japan. I'm in need of some more income to make this work I think. *Frowns* I think the majority of NS members are in debt! It would be so interesting to see figures of what debt is like withing the NS community! I can't wait to be debt free. Must work hard! and be freed from this burden!

So! I'm going to continue working on this article! Oh I've learnt that to make a separate page for articles, all you need to do is backdate that post! I'll give it a try when that article get's done!

Early bird catches the worm

For the first time in what seems like a month I came into work on time today! 8:28am and I was at the front reception! Check out the scene that I came across when leaving my house, this was taken just outside my granny flat, obviously belonging to my brother, I have no idea what time he came home last night or what he was up to, but let's say there was a torrent of beer in the fridge this morning -_-"


I walked out the gate thinking "Oh sweet! Motorkhana!" then I realised that it's something that my bro got up to during drunken randomness.

Anyways, I'm such a klutz! I left my car keys at work yesterday! I was on the train to Nth Strathfield and was looking forward to training then realised "Oh no I forgot to ask Brian if I could have his shin + instep guards" then in some form common acknowledgment, my thoughts became "Phil you don't have your keys" and fair enough, I checked my bag and there were no keys to be found. I was really hoping that I'd left them at work coz I have no idea where the spares have gone! Well to tell you the truth, the keys that I had just lost WERE the spare keys! Yes, yes I'm bad. Well at least the good news is, I found my keys at my desk today, I hope my car is still there! But that's ok, there's not much you can do with a car that is without a steering wheel *grins*

Hahaha I got two songs stuck in my head today! One is thanks to Laura and Khang, and their ADDICTION to Ouran High School Host Club... The song is... "Sakura Kiss"

"KISS KISS FALL IN LOVE" !!!



Hahaha I haven't seen the anime yet but isn't this song just the darndest?! I have to finish Fruits Basket so I can move on to watch this, I just finished book 8, Laura! Jeanette! I need the next 3 please! I love how the manga has the author's musings and outtakes, I think I secretly draw blogging inspiration from them! Muahahahaha

Oh and the second song is from Morning Musume - Furusato, that's because Khang sent me a clip from Hello Project hour and Natsumi Abe starts singing this song out to Erika Umeda's drumming, here's a clip of the song...



Oorah it's Friday! That means youth is on tonight! I should be getting the video of the motorkhana from David so I will post them up soon.

Who was into Y&D?

I'm going through a young and dangerous revival today! All thanks to Khang the ubergeek! Hahaha man that series was a craze, every high school boys dream was to be in Hung Hing and be just like Chan Ho Nam or Chicken hahaha...



I thought this was an epically tragic scene, I remember being in high school and watching this at a mates house and getting so worked up over it. I don't remember the series very well, it's been a solid 8 years I say since I've seen any of them! I think the last one was part 5 and I'm under impression that one was epic fail because chicken wasn't it in.

Anyways! I bought me some new Joggers yesterday which were a tad too small so I got them changed for larger ones, I'm wearing flared jeans today so with these new runners I look like a an old Cabramatta try-hard hahaha... Whattya reckon?
If I broke out the old microfibres and sported dyed fringes, it'd be a complete ensemble! About the shoes, I dunno if it's the design or a recent injury (I'm pointing more towards the injury) but my right toe hurts after walking around for a bit... Hahaha I'm always finding ways of getting hurt...

Anyways, I never new that posts took ages to go live?! Here I was all excited to show that I've started blogging and I've told some friends and when I send them the link, they're all like "Dude your blogs empty"...

Khang's got all these cool Yaguchi Mari and Natsumi Abe youtube video's lined up for me when I get home... Can't watch em all here, I'm at work!!!

ちょっとまてください！

Oorah my firstie!

SO! Eugene reckons I should start a blog, so here goes. Never thought myself a blogger, but I guess it's fun to share cool things that I come across. Hahaha it all started yesterday I guess when I was BROUGHT TO TEARS by this adorable video!



ARGH! I love the music in that video, so these chixorz are a Nippon drift team called Galdori (girl drift)... My eyes teared up when I watched this, the music is to die for! Galdori have drift meets at a circuit in the mountains and they bring their kiddies along and they go drifting! They've got the CUTEST kids too! Check out the kid towards the end of the first song running away with his finders in his ears because of the noise! Hahahahaha!!!

I guess for the longest time, drifting has always been a man-sport but it's soooo good to see the ladies get involved! Especially mum's! I myself was out at easter creek skid pan this past Saturday David and CACA (Christian Austosport Club of Australia) doing a motorkhana... I'll be sure to get the video posted up... HURRY UP DAVID!

OH! I also had this I wanted to put in today when blogging became a topic of discussion on the Nth Strathfield to City train. I CALLED MY OLD TAFE TEACHER YESTERDAY! I can't believe it's been about 5 years since I've last seen and spoken to Vince! It was almost surreal! So I rang the TAFE front office and asked "I was curious to know if a teacher was still employed at the school? His name is Vincent Rossini" the lady was really nice "Yes from 3d Animation, he's still here I'll patch you through to the 3D animation office" And before you know it I hear a distantly familiar voice "freedee animayshun vis is Vince" Hahahaha I immediately teared up on hearing his voice... It was so damned good to hear him again. We spoke for about 10 minutes on small catch up stuff, I couldn't stop saying how good it was to hear from him. I told him about my shitty experience with TB and that because of that I'm afraid to get back into industry, it was encouraging being told that he's heard things about them and not to let that worry me because they were no-good... Hahaha. So anyways, I think I would like to go back and visit the school. It's wierd how I connected well with the teachers and member of staff but not really any of the students? I guess that's what sucked heaps about TB, everyone was like a droid... Sure people are into family guy and games and all that but it's like everyone was a droid playing human?

How much or how little am I supposed to write on a blog? I thought my first post woulda just been a Hi I'm Phils, bye kinda thing... Anyways, I guess I'll work on feedback, if you think I write too much, too little or whatever just tell me via comments! Muahahaha...