95' Mugen Dome Avex Honda NSX

Fulfilled one of my dreams during my work break which i wanted to do in 10 years back.This is a Tamiya 1/24 scale model of the 95' Mugen Dome Avex Honda NSX, one of the first generation NSXs who participated in the Japan Grand Touring Championship (JGTC) during the 90's. Honda entered a fleet of 3 NSX machines to battle against the powerful Supras of Toyota and highly advanced GTRs of Nissan. The early generation NSXs suffered the lack of topend speed compared turbocharged engines of Toyota and Nissan as their engines are natural aspirated but made up with their excellent cornering abilities due to their mid engine-rearwheel drive layout. This helps the NSX to achieve high cornering speeds while maintaining cornering stability thanks to the highly effective aeroparts designed and built by DOME which generates huge amounts of downforce to keep the car on the track. This proved to be quite an advantage for the NSXs in technical tracks such as Suzuka, Sugo, Autopolis and Okayama. The other NSX teams consists of Raybrig and Mobil1.

Was quite a challenge assembling this model as it was quite detailed starting from the engine compartment to the detailed interior and the stickers.

Enough of the history lesson, here are the pics:

スピカ

二つある星を一つの名前で呼ぶって
確か君から聴いたな
夜を拒むようにたくさんの燈り
いろんないろかざる東京

夜空探した
あれ、どれだったつけな？
何もかも全部君にむからから

ほら、星の光で離れてしまったてとてが繋がるなら
憶えた星の名前がとどかなくなった未来をしめすのなら
ずっと隣どうし二人ぼっち白いスピカ

わりきれない恋分数といた
答えわ誰かと同じでい
つきみさかのぼり宇宙みちくさ
歌うよ猫の泣きまねで

夜があけるまで
後、どれくらいだろう？
嘘ねならないで消えていかないで

まだ星の光が忘れそうになった想いをつなげるなら
覚えた星の名前がかくれてしまった未来を照らすのなら
きっととなりどうし二人ぼっち白いスピカ

ほら、星の光で離れてしまったてとてが繋がるなら
憶えた星の名前がとどかなくなった未来をしめすのなら このまま星の光が忘れそうになった思いを繋がるなら
憶えた星の名前がかくれてしまった未来を照らすのなら
ずっと隣どうし二人ぼっち白いスピカ

優しい、優しい、声が聞こえた
悲しい、悲しい、涙落ちた
恋しい、こいしい、心にわ
もう、合えな
もう、合えな

ここから見えるのわとても遠い僕ら
過去にも未来にも見えた

Started a diary. There's no freedom left in blogging to honestly voice out one's opinions, views and thoughts in the circle nowadays in order to stay politically correct.

Sitiawan & Lumut trip

Nikki called me out for lunch. Met her in Old Town. Coffee was great huhu missed the hometown flavored aroma. After lunch she was heading down to Sitiawan to do some stock ordering checks in the departmental stores there. Accompanied her along as i also wanted to visit Teluk Batik beach, which i haven't been since the last 8 years. She was done at 6pm and we were getting hungry. Nikki suggested to have dinner in Lumut as she recommended that there's a jetty called Lumut Waterfront which has a nice view beside the sea.

Reached there at 7pm, a bit late but was worth the 1 hour detour. Smelled the used-to-be-so-familiar sea and felt the breeze. Brings back the memories where i used to go fishing here with dad every weekend.

Hanged out at the harbor after dinner watching boats and vessels sail by and seagulls flying around. Some pics of the harbor under the sun set.

Cameron trip

Went to Cameron Highlands for a day's trip on the first day of Raya back in Ipoh. Nikki kept on insisting that there's a secret BOH tea plantation site called Sungei Palas Boh plantation which is much cooler than the one in Tanah Rata and Brinchang and she had never got the chance to drive up there so we decided to go up there and check it out. After a traveling back and forth we were getting frustrated and i told her that there's no such thing as i've been there a zillion times and i've never heard of such a thing. Apparently i was wrong. After hours of hunting and asking the locals around we managed to catch the sign board heading towards there, and boy was the road dangerous, not to mention her driving style which scared the life out of me (i never had faith in female drivers anyway). We had to squeeze through the narrow path through Nikki's white myvi with 2 way traffic through a half an hour drive into the interior, but i can assure you it was worth the trouble.

Had our lunch + tea. The place was packed full of people as it was during lunch hour. We had no choice but to temporarily sit in a crappy spot facing the bar. It was not long when Nikki lost her patience and decided to grab the corner of the balcony which has the best viewing spot. If was funny looking at her competing with the other guys who were also eying for that spot. After a long grueling battle with other guys she manage to grab the table! So we celebrated the "victory" by sitting there for 5 hours eating, drinking tea and talking crap but it was fun lol.It was not long after we decided to have a picture taking contest while trying out our phone's panorama mode. Turned out to be quite crappy.Got a nice view of the place at 4 pm. Apparently we were the only one there. Sigh, the peace and quiet and stillness... if only this was my balcony haha.A final side view pic of the tea house before we head back to Ipoh. Bye bye Cameron.