Speed through skill

Sometimes, less is more and more is less.
I'm trying to get some products in to distribute but the supplier is really holding me up by quite a bit.

Been scouting around for a webhost so that in future you guys can surf and browse through the entire range of products (which will come when the supplier wakes up) that will definitely give your ride a beautiful shine.

Worry not, all products that are sold by me are my personal faves, and undergo vigorous testing by me during my details.

Went back to NUS today and quite interesting to see the students washing cars in the name of charity. While I can't say that the standard of the wash is fantastic, applaud their effort, washing under the hot sun. (another detailing taboo btw)

Thanks to JK for linking me up with them.

881

It was pretty nostalgic watching 881, and the princess has been spouting random spurts of Hokkien incessantly.*faint*

The soundtrack is also very nice and there's a 2nd OST in the works. You can view most of the vids online on youtube. Replacement (代替) by Lin Qi Yu is my fav!

So long, farewell.

A detailing blog I created

As per the title, I created a detailing blog, partly to showcase my works, partly to educate and partly to market. :p

projectmdetails.blogspot.com

Visit it if you're free!

For Ivan aka walking animal planet

A monitor lizard about 70cm long I reckon, almost captured on camera. This is the same spot where the pangolins were spotted~!

Now you can only see the tail because I scared it away. Damn.

Busy

I've been busy with work, interviews and business opportunities all at the same time.

This is Life and I embrace it!

The stuff is finally here!

The first bimmer I did!

Long time no blog, today I will blog about my detailing.. Hehe~

Since I got my machine, I've tried it on a couple of rides and the results are nothing short of great :)

I did this BMW sometime back and well, thankfully the clearcoat wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. The condition was mostly light swirls with some deep scratches on the boot, bonnet and roof, the most pronounced scratch was on the fuel door.

Process:
Wash with Duragloss #901
Clayed with FK1 #146 QD
Dry
Polish - Optimum Hyper with FK1 #923 mix (Reduced dusting, increased cut and working time) with LC orange light cut pad
Polish - SSR1 with LC white polishing pad
LSP - Optimum Poliseal and Duragloss #951 Aquawax after an hour.

Rims got Autoglym SRP, they're probably dirty like hell right now anyway :/ Stupid stock brake pads.

Rim before

Rim after

Fuel door before

Fuel door after

The boot

The bonnet

Side profile

More black vehicles please!

Project M

Credit goes to JK for thinking of such a simple and easy to remember name. I still think my idea was better.

Initial D. Haha, he commented that it was lame ( I don't deny it but hey, if its easy to remember..) and so his next suggestion was project M. What the M stands for.. hahaa ambiguous now that I think of it man. Lol~

Just rearranged the order of the photos, this is 1 thing photobucket isn't that good at. There is no sequencing order for the pics you upload.

So, leave a comment =)
Project_M photobucket site

Crazy ppl

I find that a few select people I know who embrace a certain faith, are really offensive at times.

While I claim to be a free-thinker I have no problems burning a couple of joss sticks to pray for the well being of my family members. People of other religions should just 'know your role and shut your mouth' instead of commenting that such acts are so 'bo liao'.

If every Sunday you have to go to Church I say you bo liao how will you feel? Offended right?
You too, were a freethinker/Buddhist by default before you were baptised. You want to embrace Jesus Christ pls go ahead and do so. But if you want to put down our religion and our praying acts, that is just pathetic of you. I don't care if somehow you manage to read my blog and feel offended because you kinda deserve it.

For now let's just leave it as that but for sure, you've been included to the excluding list in my little black book.

Hmm

Looking at how the detailing industry works, seems like its quite simple to set up your own shop literally. I've been thinking a lot about it, the labour problem, time problem, location, resources, charges etc.

Something inside of me says just bite the bullet and get it started. Think of so many problems, you can only solve them when you actually need to solve them. Adopt the chiongster mentality and just forge ahead like a cutting edge :p

Like what Mr Shingo T said, get a master's degree for what especially for those who are not so inclined in studies? I really strongly object to my dad's asking me to further my studies. Studied for 15 years already and still see no fruits of 'labour', what for study another couple of years just for a piece of paper? I don't even know what to study? More Physics?? No thanks.. Business? Maybe but maybe not. I'll pass.

CNY is also a good fresh starting, maybe I can shut all those aunties/uncles/cousins mouths once and for all. "找到工了没有？"

Me: "没有leh, 你要不要帮我打工？"

Haha~ that would honestly be a good reply. Had a good talk with my cousin and he was telling me the secret behind his success (duh, oxymoron wahaha) and he commented that I was lucky to live in such an environment full of entrepreneurs and businessmen. About everybody on my dad's side is self employed, those who are employees are all high level management type with exception of a few.

I wonder if I followed my sis' path exactly where would I be now? Some junior accountant executive? Or if I didn't change to physics and took Matl engineering under NTU, wah.. would I be in some semiconductor fabrication plant or some lab in science park or something. Or if I went for MOE.. wonder if I would be happy and contented to teach pri/sec school kids.

Anyway, to quote somebody else..
Be what you want to be because those who matter don't mind.
Those who mind.. don't matter =)

CHIONG AH!

Full detail on the ang pow chia

Recently I've acquired the long awaited Porter Cable 7424 and on Friday I detailed the 3 horizontal panels just to test out some products I have on hand.

Read more (pics on page 2 also)

Any guinea pigs?

W850i review

Having switched over from a Panasonic EB X800 'smart phone, it was no surprise that I was exhilarated by the speed that the SE W850i walkman phone offered me.

This is SE's first sliding walkman phone and the slider works pretty well, compared to the Nokia 6288, whose slider just had this feel of inferior quality. The screen is bright and the colours vivid, the buttons all feel great except for the directional buttons. It would have been better to implement a joystick instead of the pressure points, it feels like the plastic casing will give way in due time. If you have small and nimble fingers it should be acceptable for you.

While importing contacts from my SIM card, I found a minor niggle about this phone that bugged me to no end. the W850i simply cannot erase contacts on the SIM at one go! Despite referring to the instruction manual, I was still unable to resolve this minor hiccup and ended up deleting about 80 odd contacts manually.

The camera function is great and so far the pictures have turned out to be acceptable for a 2.0MP camera phone. 1 note though, the W850i does not come with autofocus, so people who value taking quality pictures should just stick with the K800i. Another weird limitation is with regards to the camera zoom function, you cannot zoom while in the normal mode. Zoom is available in all other modes - Paranormal, burst and frames so what's so normal about the normal mode anyway?

The phone came with a 1GB Memory Stick Pro Duo and it has proved to be just about sufficient. Uploading songs from my PC was a breeze with the supporting software. The volume from the phone's speakers are above average. Just try not to annoy the hell out of everyone on the train now!

With the Mega Bass equaliser setting, I enjoyed the thumping bass on my Cresyn earphones. Listening to the radio was equally enjoyable, there are 20 channels for you to store radio stations at last count, that's even more than the head unit on the Mazda6!

All 3G functions not tested as of yet.

Final verdict, 7/10.
Everything except the camera and directional keys are great. Photo taking connoiseurs , avoid this phone. Walkman lovers, take a queue number.

Tactful words

My dad told me the Taiwanese president (is he still the president) Chen Shui Bian better known as Ah Bian said the following words.

不是不说老实话,只是有些话不能老实说.

Hmm food for thought, brings back the doubts I have over this person I met on Sunday. Oh yeah, Happy new year! Doh.

May I find a job, strike 4D and live the Singaporean dream!