All In One Sat-Car-Day!

Car 1

Started my weekend with cheecheongfun breakfast with TFF. I was supposed to return her luggage which I borrowed but never got the chance to use it.

At the car park, I tied yellow ribbons to her SUV… in support……




Car 2

Went to see the progress of the Fiat.
I have to say I am very happy with the progress. It has been a while and the progress slow, but I very happy and impressed with David Joseph’s resourcefulness. Without David, the restoration cold be extremely challenging. He knows the car inside out and the best thing is – he knows where to source for scarce original spare parts.



Naturally, being Mr. Fussy, I still have a list of thing to be done such as re-chroming and other esthetics…



The mechanical and suspensions works are completed. I actually drove the car around the workshop and very happy with the job done. Suspensions are a lot smoother and less noise from the engine.

David informed me, it’s going to take another month. I am very okay with is.



First, I am not in hurry, I CAN wait – as long as the work done is up to my level of satisfaction and they are pretty much aware of my high expectation.

Secondly, since it takes another month - it gives me a comfortable room to manage my cash flow: the art of stretching payments.



RS got me a bunch of material samples with variety of colors to be considered for the upholstery.

The color of body is BLANKO white. I haven’t decided which color or combination of colors to be used to do up the interior. RS gave his professional advise not to use more than 2 colors. I can agree to that!

I am considering:

Material : synthetic leather – cheaper (a lot) and easy maintenance. The original material is PVC – which is rather ugly.

Colors: predominantly white leather-like with some red.

I trust RS’s taste.





Car 3



David (as enhusiatic as ever) : Did you see the GT outside?

M: Yeah! I thought it was a Corvette Stingray (in Malaysia? You gotta be kidding!)

It’s an OPEL GT – 1969 model only 1 unit in South East Asia – something that we have Jakarta doesn’t.. ha! ha!



Mint condition, left hand drive.









The headlights do not flip up. Instead they turned over to reveal the lights. You have to see yourself how the mechanic works to appreciate it.



Car 4

KW’s neighbour has this classic 1959 Porsche 356A.




Simply sexy! I love it!


p/s
Red Planet, if you read this, sorry to bore you.

Six? Why Not?

The result of the 12^th General election is the best election result in 50 years.

Best for the rakyat.

Best for Malaysia political system.

Best for the future of plural society Malaysia.

The people have spoken and the Government has to now listen, and listen carefully.

Malaysia is a constitutional monarchy with a system of parliamentary democracy. It’s unique but it’s certainly not unfair. It’s a mechanism to work to ensure the balance of power without which the extreme would be flirting with abuse and more abuse.

Yes, the members of the Royal Houses had a share of their very own doings which lead to the amendment of the constitution in late 80s. We all have heard things like thousands of acres of timber concessions given to selective few who are close to the Royal Family, inter alia. These selected few were not necessarily of the Malay race, as a matter of fact!

Unfortunately, as a result of the amendment, the Executives had more power and there were cases of glaring abuses of authority. We all know the hundreds of millions, accumulated to billions of Ringgit projects awarded to selected few who are close to the ruling political leaders – again, they were not necessarily of the Malay race, as a matter of fact!

Casino?

Why casinos? Why not holiday homes in Switzerland, bank accounts in Zurich, Houses in Kensington, flats in W1, London with a fleet of Ferraris and Porches, luxury yacht in the Mediterranean?

Oh well, I don’t really care about how the Sultans or their family patronize the casinos in London and spent millions of Pounds even marry the casino bunnies and who is now his consort. Most probably its duit mak bapak dia that they inherit. Some of them have hundreds of acres of land in Singapore and literally chests of gold and jewelry still within the family. They even have their in-house goldsmith (and I can confirm this!). Who are we to dictate how they should spend their money.

On the other hand, what about the ex Chief Minister who lost millions of Pounds in London casino. Where did he get the money to gamble and to cover such losses? And what about those Ministers and their wives and their cronies who have their several times a year first class holidays including in casinos in Vegas with suitcases of USD cash? I don’t think that’s duit mak bapak dia. (And I might be able to confirm this too!)

What really pissed me off is actually some of these politically well connected neuvo-rich are just arrogant, in some instances, they were more arrogant then the members of the Royals and it is NOT mak bapak dia punya duit!

All I want is just a mechanism to ensure Check and Balance in our system to ensure there is no abuse, or at least work towards the eradication of such inefficiency in our system for the benefit of every rakyat of Malaysia, regardless of their skin color.

Why do we suddenly turn to the Monarch?

Well, who else? At least he genuinely cares about the people, especially the rakyat in Terengganu. He is definitely not the kind of person who sleeps in the office and official meetings…..

Heck! If my car has six doors, I will tie

SIX YELLOW RIBBONS!

pix: Arms of His Majesty The Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia