Tuesday, April 22, 2008

HPC Event Track day

It was their event on 20th April On Sepang SIC South Track,Steven Hwang and Andrew Chew was there to Be As Sit In Instructors on the day.


Here's the pictures
The HPC Instructors during the Drivers Briefing.
Andrew Chew a.k.a Condom awaiting to be assigned to his students.

HPC Chief Instructor briefing the track junkies new and old about the rules , flags ,dos and don'ts while driving in the track.

Assistant Chief Instructor Fabian showing the flags for track newbies.


Pasar Borong Session Going On they r doing some cheap car tenders...the lotus going off for rm0.99 and the white M5 is going for Rm3.99

Wat Do we have here???well well well as u can see this the te best car park lot of the day...=.= we have to sun bath the whole day...there is zoggee's starlet...andrew003's eg...hmmm xxx's e34...eh whose gray 280z is that???the white ones belong to andre i think...aaaaah...steven's e36 Dakar Yellow Limited 4door M3...and some other people tumpang glamour i dunno who else parked beside Steven

Guess what cars turned up? even supercars like Lambo,Ferrari,Lotuses,BMW M3,Scoobies ,Evos,Minis Old amd New ,RX8 and whole lot more.



this ferrari is driven by a very young rich man kid...i think he is like 16 or 17...the lambo is his dadsso is this porche its driven by some young kid too dad co owns the ferrari and lambo
ahhhhhhhh this car is driven by some auntie mistaken the tents for the pasar pagi thingy...see the wind screen shade...hehehhe
another car the rich man co owns...he is here every hpc event i seen him quite a numbers of time...i think he is trying to tell people cars below 1 million is not fun to drive

aaaaaaaaaaaah....see see the helmets???its alex yoong's helmet...damm he drives really really fast...i saw a few people went in the car nice and easy...came out wet and freak out...hot i mean no air con...that is hpc's super modified lotus ...gonna race in a hpc racing event in the future...think zoggee is gonna be the lead man...
gahhhhhhhhh...the rotor boyz...there must be at least 20 rotor boyz out there that day...
darn nice scooby huh???i love that car a lot darn...felt like leading the driver to the toilet then pound him out of lights...

One of the Lotus which belongs to HPC Instructors. Faisal Asri...someone whom I respect. Used to be from R3 and now with a Japs Manufacturer. His lady driving his AE86 and he ..himself driving the E36M3.
Faisal a.k.a Ah fai to us ...linnig up in the pit to go in the track.



Damn...!! two generation of Lotuses . Sexxxyyyyyy!!!!!!!

Kenny Lee's Car. HPC Assistant Chief Instructors . Last year MME winner in Group C. He was as awesome driver. The HPC group still regards him as the winner even though he was Disqualified. The legendary Bill Sherwood is in his team. It will be a honor to be under his guidance. Imagine his 1.6 Black Top was able to hold the lead in his group C and still faster then the Group B 2.0 I-Vtec Civics. Now thats what we call awesome.!! This year he will be going in with a Toyota Levin 111.

Zoggee with Starlet a.k.a Kookkaburra.



over taking a cooper s talk about supercharger and na And him again Turn 9 with anuder Toyota Levin 111 .


The Lambo exhaust note was so obviously sweet. Bert with his shy camera skills...too shy to go lower.




Zoggeee chasing his brother Steven Hwang before the kink to trun 1.
Steven Hwang with Julian,HPC Chief Instructor.
Bert also dont want to miss the chance . He is hooked on Go-Karts too.

Alex Yoong of A1 GP Malaysia Team giving a passenger a ride.
The Brothers with Alex Yoong...whats with the posture la?well meaning 2 aces and a 2 thumbs up...note alex's hand???


Bert and Andrew Chew( Condom)Do Re Mi...The Big The Short And The Ugly...hehehhe
Cars exiting the last turn.
Zoggee's friend Angeline in a track car. The guy in the baraclava is Luen...another MME racer,guiding Angeline.


Thumbs up!! Good well control events.
With his student from Singapore.




The Big Boss of RS impressive never fails to show up. This time with his incredible hulk's green volvo 940GLT...hey i think a friends dad driving 1 too...why not that cool ah???


The VW Golf Gti

The Mazda FD waiting in the pit lane.Darn Loud Exhaust...wonder he went to some ciplak pipe shop to do his exhaust...






The Instructors Vehicle

Probationary Instructor Andrew003@EG6

Probationary Instrustor Steven Hwang@E36 Limited Edition Daker Yellow 4Door M3

Another HPC Instructor with the Legendary Toyota AE86


Go to for more pictures. http://www.zerotohundred.com/2008/auto-features/hpc-sepang-april-2008-part-2/

Monday, April 14, 2008

Another Milestone 4 TBCM

Congratulation to Andrew Chew and Steven Hwang.They were at Citykarting Shah Alam last Saturday.They were supposed to be in the HPC certification Course somewhere in Shah Alam. But ended up having lunch with the HPC group Of Instructors including the Management.

Both Steven and Andrew being dragged down to City Karting to participate in go-kart activites. Brian( management) and Julian ( Head Instructors) acts as pace car to evaluates their driving style.
Here's ,the pictures of the day.

The Kart...Andrew Chew now crazy over go-kart.
Layout of City Karting Go-Kart Track. Clockwise with the racing lines.

The regulars at the track.They are extremely smooth, fast and compose.
From left Bert , Bin ,Steven with wife.Waiting for their slots. Format 15 Mins qualifying then 15 Mins Race. Zoggee suggestted that Bert should jointhem as well. He is now missing in action.( muscle aches)
Here's Andrew Chew in his matching 100cc Kart and Shirt.
He was given special attention by Brian and Julian. Being a little off the lines.( Noticed Brian slapping his forehead?)
He was even given extra time alone while the Senior HPC's Instructors observes him , giving him
a few good pointers of being an Instructors. Being A Fast Driver Doesn't Mean You Are A Good Teacher.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

The Siam Paragon


There was such hype at the previous track event about the Paragon in Siam that I'd decided to do a simple search on what all this talk is about.

Here's a simple write up of The Paragon in Siam (I'm not sure if this is what you guys meant).

"Siam Paragon is an upscale shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand. It is one of the biggest shopping centers in Asia. Opened on December 9, 2005, it includes a wide range of stores and restaurants as well as a multiplex movie theater (consisted of 15 large size theaters with one of the them having the biggest screen and seating capacity in Asia) and the Siam Ocean World aquarium (the largest aquarium in South East Asia) and an exhibition hall and also an opera concert hall. It also has a large bowling alley and karaoke center. It is a joint venture by Siam Piwat, the company that owns the adjacent Siam Center/Siam Discovery shopping malls, and The Mall Group, which also owns The Emporium. Siam Paragon has attracted large crowds since it opened, but financial results aren't reported by the privately held Siam Paragon Development.

History
Siam Paragon was built on the former location of the Siam Intercontinental Hotel, which was torn down in 2002 at the end of its lease. The site, leased for 30 years, is Bureau of the Crown Property land and at one time was the royal parkland of the Srapatum Palace. During the mall's construction, waiting passengers on the Bangkok Skytrain's Siam station platform could watch the building take shape. Now the Siam station platform has one of the best views of the mall's raised courtyard, where many expositions and events are held. Often people will purchase a one-station trip ticket (with which they can leave the same station from where they purchased the ticket) simply to watch performances or other happenings on the courtyard.

When the mall opened on December 9, 2005, workers were still putting on finishing touches. During the first few months of its opening, there were signs of a hurried finish throughout the building, with unpainted ceilings and cracked floor tiles.

It was built at a cost of about 15 billion baht and covers an area of 52 rai (8.3 ha, 21 acres).

Three days after the grand opening of the Siam Paragon, a 10-year-old girl fell five metres through a gap on the main floor to the floor below. Matarika Kijjapathoomsak, or Nong Meena has been playing around a water garden on the main floor when she slipped through a space between a water garden and an elevator, dropping to the ground floor. She later died of her injuries. A visit by the Bangkok Post to the accident scene found no warning signs had been put up to tell visitors of the possible danger posed by the gap in the floor that Nong Meena slipped through. Only a line of plant pots were placed there as a temporary barrier to prevent shoppers from slipping into the three-metre-wide gap." - adapted from Wikipedia

Here's the Siam Paragon's official website for your perusal http://paragonbangkok.tripod.com/

There's also news of a Paragon that will be built at Gurney Drive, Penang, sited where the Uplands School was situated. But there's no confirmation yet as the project is on hold, and pending further enquiries.

Friday, March 21, 2008

Prima donna? We don't need no stinkin' prima donnas.

歌剧中的主要女歌手

"prima donnas" were often regarded as egotistical,twist of facts person,un motivational, unreasonable and irritable, with a rather high opinion of themselves not shared by others.A person who takes adulation and privileged treatment as a right and reacts with petulance to criticism or inconvenience. A person who has no regards for members of its organisation,twist the fact to his personal mileage.More generally, it refers to someone who thinks they are "the greatest thing since sliced bread", i.e. they are vain, haughty, above having to deal with trifling concerns, and typically hold others to the same high ideals to which they hold themselves (which, of course, they think they meet and nobody else can so why should they even try).Overly sensitive person who is temperamental and difficult to work with.Although whether they are truly more vain or more hot-tempered than other singers (or than any other people in the opera houses) is not substantiated, the term often signifies a vain, obnoxious and temperamental person who, although irritating, cannot be done without.

Are you that...? A clear message to BC Machine guys. We still got a long way to go. Even zoggee feels that he needs to learn more.He is just merely sharing his motorsports knowledge and opened our mind towards driving.

so it's a point for us to ponder......Are you that!?

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Backdated: Sean Khoo And his gang drifting

Sean Khoo driving E36 328i Manual with 3.15 Limited Slip Differential



Owner got a bit dizzy filming Sean Khoo



ScaVenGer was in the car. Yes!!! Sean Driving again.



More to come...

Mr.Nismo( Yoong) drifting his Toyota Caldina at a very highspeed. coming soon....

Jo-Han Drifting Zoggee's Kookkaburra. with ScAvengEr as passenger.


Zoggee practising his donuts around TougeKing.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

March 16th Open Track Day

We had an open track day on the 16th of March since we were there anyway. Zoggee planned a Solo I style time attack and each of us got 1 warm up lap and 5 timed laps on track.

Here are the results in sequence :-

Zoggee driving Henry in his Subaru Leone. (+75kg)
1. 51.62 secs.
2. 51.19 secs.
3. 52.58 secs.
4. 50.47 secs.

Jay Kang driving his EvoII Perdana.
1. 46.07 secs.
2. 47.33 secs.
3. 47.53 secs.
4. 47.02 secs.
5. 47.14 secs.

Lao Heah behind the wheel of his H22A Accord.
1. 48.85 secs.
2. 48.14 secs.
3. 48.13 secs.
4. 48.67 secs.
5. 47.10 secs.

Fasso piloting his Supercharged Corolla SE.
1. 50.42 secs.
2. 49.29 secs.
3. 48.47 secs.
4. 48.45 secs.
5. 49.16 secs.

Andrew Chew (003) driving EG6 B16A.
1. 49.47 secs.
2. 49.68 secs.
3. 47.30 secs.
4. 47.62 secs.
5. 47.09 secs.

Zoggee driving Lao San in his Toyota Vios. (+75kg)
1. 49.84 secs.
2. 50.29 secs.
3. 50.12 secs.
4. 50.24 secs.
5. 51.06 secs.

Andrew Chew (Snappy) in his Perdana SOHC.
1. 47.24 secs.
2. 48.35 secs.
3. 47.92 secs.
4. 47.89 secs.
5. 47.02 secs.

Tommy of Tommax stickers driving his WiraSE.
1. 50.92 secs.
2. 50.94 secs.
3. 52.25 secs.
4. 50.55 secs.
5. 50.58 secs.

Lao San piloting his Toyota Vios.
1. 49.18 secs.
2. 48.52 secs.
3. 48.15 secs.
4. 48.67 secs.
5. 48.35 secs.

Zoggee masterfully reining in his Kookaburra (KP61).
1. 46.17 secs.
2. 45.18 secs.
3. 45.12 secs.
4. 44.87 secs.
5. 44.36 secs.

Ah Teng crafting the track in his Saga VR4 turbo.
1. 47.20 secs.
2. 47.52 secs.
3. 47.55 secs.
4. 47.33 secs.
5. 48.59 secs.

Last but not least, Henry driving his pristine Subaru Leone.
1. 51.51 secs.
2. 51.14 secs.
3. 51.32 secs.
4. 50.57 secs.
5. 50.71 secs.

*All cars are manual (that's right, including the Vios!)*