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Took this at Singapore Botanical Garden. This photograph well represent my current mood and feeling. Been feeling very down emotionally for sometime due to some unforeseen issues. Hope this wallpaper will help me go through this period of my life.

BMW GINA Light Visionary Model: Video and Photos

With the development of the BMW GINA Light Visionary Model the BMW Group presents trendsetting solutions. Chris Bangle gives us a first impression of the ideas behind the process of sculpturing an experimental study. This is the story behind this innovation!

Chris and his team must be dreaming very bold and wild on what would be the future of car design and development. This video show some extraordinary concepts and ideas of potential material and forms in design. Who can be thinking that fabric could be the future material for car body design?












Source: Car Magazine

The iPhone you been waiting for? I don't think so.

What's new on iPhone 3G

• 3G Speed - Surf the web and download email over fast 3G cellular networks. Learn more

• Maps with GPS - Find your location, get directions and track progress along your route. Learn more

• App Store - Get ready to browse and download innovative applications for iPhone. Learn more

• iPhone in Enterprise - Get push email, calendar and contacts with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. Go to the Enterprise site

Frankly, I'm not really impress with iPhone 2.0 release. Its not really something I would expect on a 3G-enable phone cos the video calls feature is missing. On the other hand, Apple had realize their earlier mistake for not enabling user to SMS text to more than one reception. You can finally do it in iPhone 3G.

App Store will makes it possible for the world s best developers to create applications that are nothing short of amazing. Designed to leverage the groundbreaking technology in iPhone like the Multi-Touch interface, the accelerometer, GPS, real-time 3D graphics and 3D positional audio these applications are unlike anything you ve ever seen on a mobile phone.

The will be 2 colour option to choose from

• 8GB model: Black
• 16GB model: Black or white

The USD $199 pricepoint for the 8GB, make an extremely compelling case. But I felt its still had to beat Blackberry's phone as iPhone still no physical keyboard.

And those who just bought their crack iPhone not long ago. Good luck! the resale value should be almost nil.

BMW GINA Light Visionary Model trailer

BMW GINA Light Visionary Model. Exclusively on BMW-web.tv: Transfer of the confidential concept car "GINA Light Visionary Model" to the BMW Museum, Munich. Check out the premiere on June 10, 2008 on www.BMW-web.tv/GINA

Will this be the next Z8/Z9?

Sepang Tracking Photos

Almost fully Modded E46

E46 ///M3

Maserati Victory MC

MINI Cooper S JCW

Tuned Honda S2000

Porsche Cayman

Porsche 911 GT3


The BVO Trackies


On the straights,









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1st driving experience at Sepang International Circuit

I manage to go out 4 session doing 4-5 laps per session. Didn't push the car at all as I'm still learning the track lines. Its fun attacking hairpin, apex, fast corners and flooring your throttle down the 2 long straight. BMW E90 320i is really more than enough for newbie like myself. On the 2 long straight I manage only about 160-170Km/hr before the 150KM braking zone. The stock brakes is good for the laps and speed I'm doing. Its more than I could handle. Some turns are quite tricky, it looks like semi-circle but its not. Learning and memorizing those racing line will take a few more trip there. The tires I'm using Continental Sport Contact (CSC) 2 isn't that good as I expect it to be. But maybe it could be my camber angle or even maybe its the stock anti-roll bar isn't strong even. I really glad I sign-up for this event and learn lots about my car and its potential. I'm definitely going back there to had more fun tracking my car.

* will update some video when I got it sort out.

MWOS 2008 - Day 02

On the second day we meet up at another nature location, HortPark - The Garden Hub by National Parks Board.

HortPark is a one-stop gardening hub that brings together gardening-related, recreational, educational, research and retail activities under one big canopy in park settings. It is a knowledge hub for plants and gardening and provides the platform for the industry to share best practices and showcase garden designs, products and services. This 23-hectare regional park in South-Western Singapore is also a park connector, connecting Telok Blangah Hill Park to Kent Rigde Park.

Student were task to continue their 'See As' - Observe, See, Study. We start off by taking a slow walk around the hub's garden and later move on with a nature walk to Kent Ridge Park using the newly build sky bridge.

By 12 noon, the student head off for their lunch and meet back at Singapore Polytechinc by 2pm.

MWOS 2008 - Day 01

On our 1st day, The ManyWayOfSeeing (MWOS) 2008 workshop kick start at one of the finest nature reserve in Singapore, the Singapore Botanical Garden. The facilator, designers and students fro various school were asked to gather at near Swan Lake this morning by 9:30am. Felix and I were pair up a a team and handed with about 42 students respectably from Teck Whye Secondary School and Chua Choo Kang Secondary School. The students were from their Sec 1, 2 and 3. Soo Yin the personal in-charge from Singapore Polytechnic gave the student some generally briefed about what to expect over the 5 days and handed with a MWOS2008 handbook. We spend the entire morning there doign 'See As' - Observe, See, Study and students were encouarage to take as much photos of the things that inspire them.

Then we had our break at 12 noon, which most of us had our lunch at the food court near the Tanglin Carpark entrance. By 2 pm, the students were asked to meet back at Singapore Polytechnic.

In the afternoon session student were asked to select 5-10 photos taken this morning and print it out to share with the rest of the class about their observation. Felix and I gave the student some backgrounds nof ourself and proceed to guide them with the task to guide the student about the design process with the materials they had in hands. We started of by asking student to present their photos and what they 'SEE' from the photos they had taken. From there we slowly guide the student to understand why is this step necessary in design and how to benefits from the photos using design point of views...