Nice Weather

Spring! The long waited ACTUAL Spring is here! Damn, I like the weather now. Sunny and windy with a bit of fog. Somewhat like Genting 8 years back. Time to get outta that stuffy room and have some fun man! Have a walk, go for a jog, play some games. Its nice to have energy again!



3 days wasted in the freaking room getting sick. Any longer and I'll probably kill myself.

They say timetables helps you keep on track of your studies. So here's mine.

Study timetable:
3 hours of saying "I'm gonna start studying."
2 hours of Command and Conquer 3:Tiberium Wars
1 hour to take notes out
1 hour to look for tutorial sheets
1 hour to regret all the previous procrastinations and head to bed.


PS: for those who don't know yet, Daylight Saving Time started already. Time difference of Malaysia and The United Kingdom is now 7 hours.

Sick but still alive..

Despite being sick and the fact that I had been wasting my time sleeping like a dead man for 2 days. I've just seen a few things I've got to blog about today.

Matter 1:

New BMW M3 will be having a V8 Power plant. Yeap. That's right. From the 3.2liter, straight 6 engine with 333 bhp to this 4.0 liter V8 with 420 bhp. Redlining at 8300rpm with a torque of 400Nm, this engine is produced in the factory that made all the BMW engines for F1 purposes. As a result of high pressure remoulding process, the new innovative exhaust manifolds has extremely thin walls (0.65mm-1.00mm) to minimise weight and optimise the flow of the exhaust gas.

Tell me who wouldn't go "ga ga" over these!?

The 2007 M3 concept car

Notice the bulged up bonnet to accommodate that monstrous V8!

Not a big fan of BMW. In fact, not a fan at all for the new styling. Prefer the old look but heck, its only me.


Matter 2:

Mercedes came out with its new C-class. And heck, I've gotta say "another one bites the dust!". There goes Mercedes.. The AMG version is not out yet. No comments on the power. A picture worth a thousand words. Saying no more.

From this
to these!


Yes, I am a fan of Mercedes. And all the car manufacturing companies that I'm a fan of seems to been letting me down. Damn!


Matter 3:

Last but not least.



Somebody shoot this guy.

Screw you, Pyrexia!

Panadol.. Need to hit the sack again..

Easter Vacation

Ahh.. First day of easter vacation.. Chilled, Relaxed, the already ghost town like place is now even more ghost townish. Freaking nose is like an opened tap. Will need to catch up with hell lotta studies tho. I know I sound like a freaking nerd but its for

DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL 2007!!

Yes, Its all in a deal. Studying for a Rock Festival? HELL YEAH! Download, Here I come! \../. Yes I'm going and YES I've bought the tickets already!


(Yes, I'm broke too. Slash on drinking. Slash on extra meals. Slash on spending money. Shut up. I'm just broke.)


Heading down to Amsterdam next week. Nice.

Random Note:
Australia Education System: Packed. Assignment based. Requires one to be constantly on the pace. There are pros and cons..

Time's an issue. Time difference is a bitch. Being understanding is a must..

Culture Shock

Was walking to class today morning, late, as usual. Saw this man who crossed the road without looking and there was this cyclist heading towards him. The cyclist hits on the brakes and shouted "careful!".

Now, imagine if that were to happen back home..

Cyclist will probably hit the person. Shouts and curse as tho you killed his dog or some sort while the guy is on the floor n pedal off. While a whole lot of people will surround the accident scene doing nothing.

Ahh.. Malaysia. The multiracial country.

I'm not stereotyping, not Malaysians act that way. But it just reminded me of the bike accident that I've experienced last time.

Speaking of cultural shock. I've not experienced any here till I saw tall, built, bald guy wearing dangling ear rings, bell bottom and heels. Yes. I am homophobic if you've yet to know. I'm happy with the way things are back in M'sia where you dress up and walk like that in the day light you get killed. Damn. If you're a guy and you are gay. Get outta my way else I'll run you over with a car. Well, if I can get one that is.

PS: Download Festival 2007. Dream Theater! Megadeth! Iron Maiden! 3 days of ROCK! \../. This is the time when I wish I am rich. DAMN IT! I NEED JOBS!

Rock Gig in Sheffield

Rock Gig in Sheffield. BEST 2 QUIDS EVER SPENT! Firegarden Rocks! Awsome band! Uber awsome drummer! Woohoo! ROCK ON! Thanks a whole lot to Zyran who invited!
Have a great day folks. I had mine.


PS: This is only as good as it could get, but a day will never be perfect without her..

Weird People, Weird Weather

There had been a bunch of idiots driving around an throwing eggs at pedestrians in Sheffield. Encountered them once somewhere during winter but no injuries were done as the egg just bounced off a friend's jacket and landed somewhere else. Unfortunately another friend was victimised few days ago. Either it was meant to be fun or it an racism act, we've got no idea. Got the number plate of the car. Whatever it is, hope they crash and die. It wasn't funny at all. The Yorkshire police is taking action and these guys should be in trouble soon.


Don't mess with us Malaysians, we'll skin you and eat you in 10 different dishes!


Another thing, the only emergency unit in the whole of Sheffield during the night is located at the Northern General Hospital. The Royal Hallamshire Hospital nearby apparently only operates from 7.00am-7.00pm. The emergency units is located at some end of the hospital and does not have a doctor standing by during the night. Meaning if you get stab in Sheffield during midnight, you're supposed to travel 4-5miles to the General Hospital. Then, you'll need to climb up the dodgy stairs to get to the Accident and Emergency Unit. How thoughtful.

Getting stabbed: 5 mins
Getting to the hospital: 15 mins
Looking for the Emergency Unit until some guy from 10 stories above in the hospital to question and give directions: 20 mins
Waiting for the nurse: 5 mins

And all for the nurse to tell you that they can't do anything. I'd stab myself again to speed up the bleeding..

Saw this while discussing how to get back to the halls from the N.G.H. :

Smart Business People

On another note,

it is freaking snowing in Spring! Forecasted with temperature < -1 Celsius. "Black Shirt" aka Soon Hock from york is on his way back to Malaysia for Easter. Snowed when we were heading to the train station and snow flakes are falling as I am typing this..


His flight is being delayed at the moment due to snow on runway. Possibly arriving a day late as the chances of him missing the Dubai transit flight is pretty high as well.

First the railway maintenance on Sundays caused you to take the replacement service buses due to the fact that there are no alternative rails from Sheffield to Manchester Airport, and now the delay. Enjoying your trip so far? Hahah! Anyway, sorry dude for your second failed attempt to get Sheffield United's Scarf. Wake up early next time.

Snow. It hits the ground faster than you can say "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"

P.S. : Stevo won the annual beer race again! We have the smallest bar, but the biggest drinkers.

P.P.S. : 11 PM, Mr BS is still in Manchester Airport, started snowing when the plane was about to depart. Delay and double delay due to weather. How nice. LOL!

Birthday = Beer day

Guess what i found on ebay?

THIS!

The coolest chair ever! Imagine working in an office where all chairs are made out of bucket seats? Dori-Dori and tsuiso all day night man!

Updates:

Spring is here!
Depressing winter is over. Sun! Never appreciated the sunshine so much.

....

okay, that's about it for season updates.




New drinking game introduced by a Bahrainian friend!

Rule of the game: One shot of beer per minute.
Challenge: To reach 100 shots.
Occasion: No class till 11 the next day, Vincent's Birthday on the same night.

Birthdays, an excuse to get your friend drunk.

Apparently the JD shot glasses I got were 50 ml shot glasses and unlike the U.S., they call those double shots here. That certainly spiced things up a little.

Before:

After:

24 bottles of Budweiser. 1/5 bottle of Chivas. 5 guys.

Birthday boy: 21 double shots within 20 mins and a shot of Chivas. Puked. Bravo! Remember your collegemates! Hahaha!


Edited:

Budweiser, King of Beers.

Another one to the world's population

I'm officially an UNCLE! Woohoo! 12.3.2007. Happy Birthday Niece! Welcome to the world! I've got no idea what's your name yet.. Blame your parents who've yet to tell me nuts.

Here comes another little devil in the coming years..

Guess who's back?!

Wait, not the beer! the k800i!


Freaking mainboard cracked within 3 months. Damn carphone warehouse in the city centre pushes their responsibility here and there, told me it can't be repaired because it had liquid contact and therefore the warranty is void, bla bla bla..

Called up Sony Ericsson, they told me to send it back to them. Went back again to another carphone warehouse and they agreed to send it over to SE. Finally, it is back after a whole month! Well, it was there earlier but according to carphone warehouse, they "called" me but I didn't answer the call.

Anyway! Sony Ericsson gave a replacement phone. Here comes better quality pictures!


1.3 Mpixel camera from the nokia

3.2Mpixel from the Sony Ericsson

Veyron

Nope, not the racing driver Pierre Veyron. But a car named after him. The Bugatti Veyron 16.4.



Designed by Hartmut Warkuss of Volkswagen (VW Group owns Bugatti), the Veyron underwent various development stages. Including being pulled back to the drawing board as the requirements were not achieved by its concept cars. Now, with the 1001 bhp, 8.0 liter Quad-turbocharged W16 engine, and the friction coefficient of a fish, the mid engine all wheel drive monster is the fastest production car in the world. Not to mention the most expansive too with a price tag of approximate £840,000 (approx. RM 5,880,000).



With that 1001 bhp (1006-1026 bhp to be exact) and 1250 Nm of torque, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is capable of achieving a top speed of over 400 km/h within a minute with the aid of its 7 speed, dual-clutch sequential transmission (0-100 km/h in 2.5 s, 0-200 km/h in 7.3 s, 0-300 km/h in 16.7s) . With the top speed of 407 km/h (electronically limited), the W16 engine is capable of drying its 100L fuel tank within 12 minutes and the four Michelin run-flat tyres (specifically designed for the Veyron) will wear out within 15 minutes in the process of achieving its top speed. 10 radiators were mounted onto the vehicle to dissipate the immense amount of heat generated. 3 for engine cooling, 1 for the air to liquid intercoolers, 2 for the air conditioning, 1 for transmission oil, 1 for differential oil, 1 for the engine oil and 1 for the spoiler's hydraulic oil.


The Veyron 16.4 is stopped by a set of 400 mm(front) and 380 mm(rear) cross drilled, turbine-vented carbon rotors with 8 pot titanium calipers and ABS, ESP and stuff to provide even braking on each wheel.The rear wing further improves its braking as it acts as an air brake as it raises up to 70 degrees within 0.4 s as the brakes are applied at speeds above 200km/h. With brake pressure of up to 180 bar, the Veyron 16.4 is said to be able to come to a stand still from its top speed in less than 10s.

Straight to the point now, I am most impressed with that 8.0L W16 engine. Engineers, care to do some calculations?


The aim: create an engine capable of producing 1001 bhp
Challenge: make it burn enough gasoline to produce that amount of power.

1000 horsepower = ~2.6 x 10^9 Joules/hour
1L of gasoline = 34.7 x 10^6 Joules
1000 hp requires approx. 75 liters of gas per hour(1.25L per min)

since efficiency of car engines = ~25%
1000 hp now requires 300L of gas per hour (5L per min)

1kg of gas requires ~14.7 kg of air to burn.
density of air = 1.22 kg per cubic meter
density of gasoline = 737 kg per cubic meter.
= 0.737 kg per liter

Air required to produce 1000hp= (5 x 0.737 x 14.7) /1.22
= 44 cubic meters per min
= 44,oooL of air per min

A normal V-8 engine at 6000rpm can inhale total of 24,000 cylinders full of air per min.
(Since V-engine, 1 min = 6000 x 8/2 cylinders full)

-For 44,000L of air per min, it requires approx. 2 liters per cylinder full.
-therefore displacement of V-8 engine = 16 liter

But, a 16 liter V-8 will require huge pistons and cylinders. Due to laws of physics, It is impossible for the engine to rev up to 6000rpm.

Bugatti came up with a solution:
take 2 4.0L V-8 engines, bi-turbocharge both of them, mount them side by side, there you go!
An 8.0L QUAD-TURBOCHARGED W16 engine! Each cylinder consists of 4 valves, that makes 64 valves! Massive!



I myself am not at big fan of the Bugatti Veyron 16.4. Not a big fan of its design, nor its styling, not to mention its colour coding. However, the vehicle is a break through in the automotive industry. C'mon, with 1001 bhp, it is capable of actually turning through corners! And it had got a horsepower meter! How cool is that? You've gotta be impressed! This ain't not a freaking wussy American car that only knows how to go straight, mate!



PS: a little extra. Not for the faint hearted. Here


References:
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Veyron_16.4
-http://auto.howstuffworks.com/bugatti.htm
-http://www.rsportscars.com/eng/cars/bugatti_veyron.asp
-http://www.bugatti-cars.de
-http://www.atspeedimages.com/limerock_2003/concours/bugatti_veyron/

What IF

What if this, what if that? what if I do this, what will happen if I do that. What if I'm just being stupid. What if things doesn't turn out well? what if it goes boom? Life's filled with what if's. The end justifies the means. Cause and reactions. Damage control, how much would it help? Do something stupid, you end up being stupid.

What if you merge 2 engines together?

The cause: One crazy idea, one crazy aim.

Reaction: 8.0 liter, quad turbocharged engine kicking out an immense 1001 bhp




Still have no idea what this is all about? Wait for it then. At the moment, I've got tutorial sheets to work on.