chillin' off pulau sibu...

...at the hotboys kelong was as fantastic as i remembered it to be from past trips...

good location, good weather, good company and good food/drinks...and no bloody work phonecalls....just the perfect antidote for one as jaded and stressed out by work as me...

8 adults and 2 kids departed singapore on 25.11.7 at the wee hour of 6.30am...stopped halfway for some kickass bak kut teh and arrived at tanjong leman jetty around 9.15am...reach the kelong by boat around 10am...quick trip indeed...


off we go!




pausing to demolish breakfast


about to embark

what followed in the next 50 hours or so was loadsa relaxation in the form of fishing, mahjong, chor dai dee, drinking, eating and the ubiquitious PSP-playing...it was a great time to reaffirm old friendships, build on new ones and to just kick back and let the stresses of the world dissipate...simply lovely!




hooah...we gotta go again soon...

hilarious!

poor thing!

the ultimate scooby...

...is really NOT a scooby...well, not really one after dave richards and his PRODRIVE outfit get done with it...

step 1 - take a subaru R1 chassis

step 2 - massage the living hell out of a standard subaru WRX STI engine, ending up with 345 HP and a massive 515 nm of torque, lever in WRC-standard technologies such as anti-lag, active differentials blah blah, and chuck all of them onto said chassis

step 3 - get a designer who has boasts amongst his work, the seminal McLaren F1 to reskin the chassis

and what do you get?

PRODRIVE's very own technology showcase, the P2...ta-dah!!!


this baby is simply astounding in performance...everything that PRODRIVE has learnt running the subaru world rally team and the aston martin endurance racing team has gone into it...devastatingly fast it is...

too bad they're not putting it into production...it's only going to be a showcase of their abilities...

WHY WHY WHY OH WHY, DAVE?????????

just get a load of the performance of this marvellous car...enuff to blow away many other supercars...and blow your breakfast at the same time (just watch the video and you will get what i mean)

tyres tested...

this should be useful when it comes time to change lexi's shoes...

1 vid in 2 parts...

the yellowbird flies....

alois ruf...what a visionary and what fantastic engineering his company does to porsches...

hop on for a ride with stefan roser, the test driver for RUF as he tackles the nordscheleife with the iconic CTR YELLOWBIRD, slipping and sliding his way thru...outstanding car control exhibited throughout...vunderbar!!!

colin mcrae...better late than never...

further to my post earlier on HERE, here's a tribute to the scottish rallying icon Colin Mcrae with 3 video clips of his greatest "hits"...

RIP

his early days in the rover metro rally car...


colin @ the X-Games 2006, possibly one of the most hard-core drives i have ever seen, in sheer grit and determination to finish in spite of a ROLL-OVER!!


a pictorial tribute to the man of maximum attack

back to the future, the rah band way...

in 1985, this song ruled my world....serious...it was cheesy as hell, yet incredibly bitterweet...CLOUDS ACROSS THE MOON was the defining song for me that year, even more so that murray head's one night in bangkok...

this is the rare 12" full length version of the smash hit...a classic, Classic, CLASSIC!!! the vid is actually re-done by the band with a remixed version of the 1985 single with the vocals totally re-recorded by vocalist Emma Charles to bring the track up to date...

a guilty pleasure indeed, for me...

fashion @ the AMAs

some really hot women and some really strange-looking outfits...carrie underwood looks like a fluffball...but nicole looks FIT AS HECK! and i must admit that i will never get sick of looking at jennie garth and christina applegate...totally delicious, dem 2 gals...

i see he's only interested in her...

...pectoral development, huh?!?? click on the photo to see what i mean...