Sorry guys XAVAGE on holiday mood.

Yup you heard it. On holidays, for good reason its better that way because this month our local Internet broadband services provider (TELEKOM) http://www.tm.net.my doing some internet cable maintenance undersea so will have slow upload time till 31st December or next January. So keep sniffing some updates later. XAVAGE models will be released soon after internet goes ok.

Christmas 2008

Merry Christmas to everyone especially to my family, relative, friends and the community of internet especially the 4x4evo1/2 community and modelers around the globe. Honestly speaking 2008 was a bleaky year with so many tragedy, misfortunate case, political instability, bad luck, crimes and fake stuff in the market especially that tainted milk issue from china and economic slowmo. The chinese regards 2008 or the number "8" means wealth and fortune but i believe fortunes always comes with a price to pay for, "No pain no gain". Everyone tought Chrismas is a day to be happy among humans because "its end of the year", "oh finally we can share our present and gift" or "its a day to forget everthing and be happy and have a midnight party or gathering".....this is sad. "Christmas" or known as "Christ" + "Mass" (gathering of christ celebration) is a day bto remember Jesus birthday and birth of christianity and good will on earth. A day to remember him and his sacrifices.

On Christmas eve me, family, relative and friends gather around for a big feast of dinner plus with prayer to our Lord and thanks to Jesus for his sacrifices. We having a great time and my stomach are full with delicious dishes...hardly move, by the time i got home i quickly doze off into sleep mode. I'm glad my mind is empty only to think all about the purpose of Christmas. Then the next day on 25th its all rainning whole day, i was happy though....let the rain wash everthing into fresh new leaf. My friends and family went out for some gathering while i have to stay back enjoy my days on my computer and taking my chances doing some work on my PC and project. Throughout the day my meal consists of Christmas cakes and pudding on the table. Some animes videos, 3d models project and some r./c simulator to keep me entertained while rain cat and dogs dropped furiously on my roof. Was cold yet exciting. lots of missed call on my handphones but i'm sure they understand i need to be alone this christmas. my "XAVAGE" models release for 4x4 evo1/2 on my site is not yet released due to slow internet upload bandwith but i'm sure my fan can wait for another day or two since i'm all wash out tired.

2008 is a year of bad luck. Is a year of "Trust no one" and "be myself year" which is worth a lot for me. Its also a year to remember that my gandmother returned to her creator and may she reunited with my grandfather and live happily every after in god's heaven. Happy birthday jesus.

Rest In Peace Terry Torne aka Turbo

Shocking to hear! sad...One of our closest member of the 4x4evo2 community from http://vales.com/evo2 has return to its creator. According to his wife Adele Horne, he pass away at approximately 9:00a.m. on December 12, 2008.
Terry Horne or known as "Turbo" in 4x4evo2 community have contributed lots of 3d models to evo2 community and was also and oldest member around before i came into the scene few years back....he has converted lots of models from various game genre into 4x4evo2 format at uncountable amount plus the models always been perfect and top notch. His departure was a huge loss to our gaming and 3d modelling community and may he found a new home and peace in the heaven. For those who wish to pay last respect please post at this forum :
http://vales.com/evo2/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21083&whichpage=1&ARCHIVE=
May his soul rest in peace. Amen.

The Bisaya charity night,

Well i didn't expect it was today since Sunday i'm full of outdoor schedule, well i guess it won't hurt slot in extra time to spent on this special dinner nights for Bisaya people ion Miri at the luxury hotel, also attended by local VIPs. Genetically i inherit half race from my father and another from my mother. So this dinner night is on my mother side, Bisaya people is originally from LIMBANG district of Malaysia which makes minority but peacefull people. This event held annually but i missed some of their usual activity like sports, family activity, picnic, charity work and stuff, The nights felt soooo long was lots of stage stuff and food, Yes i come for food since i pay for it too. Lots of meat in the menu...yum! yum!. Crispy chicken, another chicken ... mix veges, yam cake and problem is that this hotel where we sit in no carbonate drinks.

From 6.30pm till 11.20pm...wow...i start to doze off asleep at 9.30pm. The food was great yeahhhh......uummm..i mean the gathering was good.
yeah. ** i never like social gathering unless its in my hobby list,...yeah take note.

Sun burn fun

At 10.30 the weather staggering hot, our skin burn like poured with hit water but our addictive activity never stop there, we hang around at out at local skate park doing some experiment with our r/c models to jump through several bumps and ramp see how durable and fun it can do, In few minutes we were really getting on it, with high torque motor and a good stable weight our our mini 4 wheeler doing some cool jumps and stunts around the park and we keep going until almost 3pm forgetting alla bout lunch. Thankfully we dun go much beyond destroying our empty stomach. So we decided to end it and continue the next day, I must say we really gain lots of vitamin D on open space under the hot sun sweat and burns. our r/c models also proven built tough.

Yup, they are still in action.

Dropping by to visit by main website as usual daily, i'm glad my buddies still active in the internet community all across the globe contributing cool creation to the public. Quite surprise to see them after days of silent in our chat box. I hope they have some cool surprise waiting to be revealed especially in the gaming industry. I'm also getting back to complete my project before Christmas. Must finish it .....aaahhhh..

Battery worry

At desperate moments when you need to recharge your "world most dangerous battery" and the end i have to use power source from the car to recharge my R/C Litihium Polymer battery risking explosion near my stuff especiall my car. But to keep the fun going for our radio control activity well i guess worth taking the risk. So i remotely hooked the charger on safe car mat below the engine hood while the dangerous battery is down few centimeters away from my car bumper on top of the ceramic teapot.

Bad weather day

ooooo...glommy weather. This is a wet seasons where it bring bad luck to any outdoor enthusiast like me. Its been a month i haven't join my Mountain Biking group for Sunday ride. Cuz i don't like being wet inside the jungle with those muddy ponds, water puddle and sticky trails. I guess i have to join my R/c group again. I make sure i control my food consumption to avoid pot belly unless i get back on my bike and pump some adrenaline.

Once again we are all bored.

Its saturday, the guys day out to kill sometimes with talking about stuff. This time is the radio control modeler enthusiast group. Yeah when you have too much friends its hard to sit around at less a minutes in the house.

Bored?

'yeah i'm bored, lucky i have friends who are bored as i am picking me up for a hitch nearby cafe for a drink and chat about mountain biking activity and stuff. Beings old i guess the best way to entertain self is to get along with friends and chat the good ol times all night.

A month full of life.

I'ts been a very busy month for me, doing business, working and also having fun with tonnes of exciting outdoor activity....which makes i very less time to blog about myself daily.

Finally things are cool down tonight where most of my usual activity with friend make changes to let off some stim since we've been bashing our radio control models until nothing left to run except heavy maintenance. We learn how to minimized the damage instead being skill full and economical.

The nights always restless for me compared to day time where mostly i work in the office. At night especially this month i move around a lot not because i wanted too but friend keep organizing interesting activity like radio control racing, mountain biking at night, dinner invitation and some oldies chat inside either bike shop or R/C shop. Yah we talk and hang out too much till we forgot its already 1am midnight. Thankfully all those thing i do keep me well fast asleep once reached home and woke up the next day felt refresh and feeling great,

I must say this month life full of colors, not every minutes was wasted. I almost forgot it was either wednesday, thursday or friday. Time most extremely fast when i keep my mind on interesting works. Meet lots of friends to in just a week. First get to know people in the internet then gather at real places both business and fun activity, Miri city where i live know felt like its a small world. The closer i gt into the more family gets around and join in.

omg! i almost forgot my 3d design work for the community. Oh, well i can always catch up.

More handy tech stuff.

This is what i always do during free time, glad i took this to kill of some boredom during lunchtime. It does usefull thing to teach me some science and physic behind maintaining this mini speed machine. I helps to refresh my brain than being infront of the computer every day. Its a dirty works but it has to. Which reminds me where did i left my 3d design task?

The rain doesn't stop us.

Was raining heavily last night, weather forecast on tv says its going to be a wet seasons and heavy flooding on certain part of the country. Will be like weeks. But for us nothing stop us from enjoying our gathering. We went over to near by inddor venue. Yup, we found it and enough space to drift around. We really enjoy our nights.

Yay! new spare set of NRX-18

Thanks to Mr. Foo our local hobby shop i manage to grab this extra spare set of NRX-18 at on;y 1/4 of its original price after booked for a week. Recently i've trashed my current NRX-18 with broken and worn out parts due to extreme speed after made several upgrades to the performance parts ioncluding switching to 7.2v 1700mah YEAH RACING LIPO battery with 25C to 40 current discharge burst rate and 6800KV CASTLE CREATION CM2068 brushless motor. Almost 40% of the parts worn out or damaged badly due to intense speed and stress force. Hopefull i can rip out this new parts from newly bought NRX-18 set and place it on my current active model.

Goodbye toothy.

Ok, there's goes another tooth down the bin today, Last night the old pain from my back tooth have been triggered causing senssation pain throughout my working days, and nights spoiling my mood every seconds. Wasn't pleasant at all and was unexpected to lasts for more than 24 hours continously which i assume it just pain for just few minutes. It really disrupt my happy hour so i decided to get it remove permanently not through John Rambo style teeth pulling but by visiting the dentist and choosing option B to pull it for good. After 30 minutes procedure that tooth was history and the detist immediately dispose it into the dustbin without putting it as my souvernir..Ahh..to bad i didn't have chance too see my own tooth in my pocket. Good news for me i finally can and much some food like normal man..hahahahaha...

Anotgher Miri MCNET R/c gathering

Its been few nights weve been gather around with our local city member forumer for our daily dosage of radio control activity at local open space r/c playground. From drag racing, circuit to drift. Everyone was enjoying them self. Lots of techinical work, discussion, chat, tech tuning and parts swapping among ourself. Can be a bit costly but it worth spending since its a very healthy activity and a way to get more friend through socialized activity, In just 1 month through R/C activity i've made more than dozen of friend of similar interest and hobby. We're almost family at instant. Yup we're always happy racing our cars together regardless size and speed.

Sunday home Crisp Chicken Nuggets

Sometimes you have to be smart when buying nuggets from fast food restaurant like KFC or McDonald. They costs more than $4 per-pack with only 6pcs of meat in it...if you're unlucky you might stumble thumb size meat. But if we buy raw nuggets from supermarket in packs of 32 pcs inside we get $6....cheaper than buying and much safer if we cook our own. All we have to do is just work effort and cook it in hot oil and waaalaaaa.....we have our own home cooked nuggets and saved some money from fast food restaurant. Hmmm....12 pcs for myself for breakfast...hahahaha.

Farewell mini-z

After keeping it for more than a year finally i gave up and decided to sell all my 1/24 scale Hobby Grade r/c car KYOSHO MINI-Z at ultra cheap price to one of our local mini r/c enthusiast. I think i did a right choice since i need some cash to keep up with bigger scale r/c models. Small stuff really high maintenance and need extra care and attention. However i have no regrets since it has taught me lots of basic knowledge about advance R/C technical know how and great deal or hand work and maintenance skill. Its worth keeping for a year then release it to those who knows how to take care of it. Well now i'm concentrating 1/18 and Aircraft r/c hobby to push my self to the next level.