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Found somewhere off the Internet:

Top Ten Signs That You’re A Dumbass
10. You’re a teenage boy from a small town like Sungai Petani
9. You’re a hypocrite who thinks other people of your race is stupid for the things they do, but you are proud of your stupidity
8. You’ve just got your SPM result and post it on your site so that everyone can see
7. You’ve just passed your driving test and you think you’re damn smart
6. You think you’re damn smart when you figured out that it doesn’t make one gay just by having anal sex
5. You found out that all the girls would rather sleep than to sleep with you
4. You rarely speak to your parents and your only brother because you think they’re stupid people of your race
3. You worry about others’ punctuation marks, while you have heaps of problems with your grammar and comprehension
2. You use your dumbass friend’s name as your nick because you hate him.
1. You’re fat404 a.k.a Bios Reaper

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Just felt it at my apartment in Kuala Lumpur, at 12:13am… !
Gosh! petertan in Penang felt it too!

Hope it’s nothing serious unlike Boxing Day tsunami…

Just reformatted my computer today. And decided to fancy up the boring desktop layout… here’s how it looks like now:

Cool, huh?

Seems like FIA finally spoken regarding the exploitation of the 2-race engine rule loophole, as demonstrated by the BAR Honda team when they retired both Button and Sato into the pit on the final lap of the 2005 Australian F1 GP. FIA closed the loophole, and warned that both Button and Sato may be docked 10 grid slots this weekend at the Malaysian F1 GP should they decide to use new engines for their cars this weekend.

This knee-jerk FIA decision only came up after the Toyota F1 team cried foul over what BAR had orchestrated the exploitation at the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne almost a fortnight ago. Personally, I don’t think BAR should be penalized for exploiting this loophole.

Firstly, that particular rule was not clarified and it’s up to anyone’s interpretation. None of the other teams can really blame BAR Honda for that stunt, perhaps only blame their own team strategist for not coming up with that idea first . After all, if it was not for BAR’s exploit, this rule would not have been clamped down and it might even be a bigger controversial issue when the battle heats up in the later stage of this season.

Since FIA did not do a preventive measure with sufficient clarification of the new rules, I think that the FIA reactive clarification should only be in effect this weekend and BAR should be allowed to change their engines as they please. After all, BAR did prove this concept and in the process, raise the issue. Let’s just move on with it, hopefully the FIA won’t get too anal about it and have BAR come in with lawyers and all. Let’s have more racing and overtaking, and less court orders and bitching, shall we?

… is what I’m feeling now. Just managed to finish some work today that contributed to half of my final year project’s development part.

Yeah, I’m ahead of schedule now. For now at least. Gonna soon start on the second half of it, just a matter of integration and interfacing between different modules. Hope I can finish it this semester so that I got more time to relax in my final semester in Inti. Gosh, it’s been 3 years already…

Oh btw, tsewei is currently touring the Madison Square Garden in New York City now… lucky her.
Wish I could be there too, but hey, a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do… Just hope she’s having a great time there… well not that great lar since she’s not with me, good enough time then

Gonna go sleep soon… it’s been a productive day. I’m proud.

It’s been quite sometime since I last wrote much about Formula 1. What better time to resume than now, at the start of the 2005 season!

Woke up and saw the Qualifying 1 of Australian F1 Grand Prix in Albert Park, Melbourne. My thoughts? Stupid! Stupid, stupid, stupid - the changes made to Formula 1 qualifying makes it boring and dull. Like for instance, today’s qualifying session was ruined by rain. The only driver smiling around the paddock now must be Giancarlo Fisichella of the Renault F1 team. His gamble to use dry tyres on the drying track paid off, and it started to rain heavily right after he finishes his hot lap. I think the saddest driver there now must be Takuma Sato, and not Kimi Raikkonen, JP Montoya, or even Schumi. He crashed out badly on his out lap, he must be furious now that his insurance premium is definitely gonna increase, again

If you thought last season’s qualifying was bad, this season’s worse. I really have no idea what that stupid Max Mosley was thinking. Then again, what could you expect from someone who sleeps with Ferrari? I bet if Schumi and Rubens can’t make it to Top 10 on qualifying in the remaining runaway races (Malaysian and Bahrain), Max would alter the rules again when F1 goes back to Europe, just to favour his lover Gosh, really wish someone would contest for the FIA top seat that Max’s been hogging. Paul Stoddart might not be the best candidate, but sure as hell he’s different. Heck, even Eddie Irvine would be preferred instead of Max for the seat!

Why did I think it was worse? Well, this season’s qualifying format aggregates both the Qualifying 1 (Saturday) and Qualifying 2 (Sunday morning) sessions to determine the grid position for the drivers. And today’s rainy session gave a very good example how weather can dictate the outcome of the grid position. Should there be no weather changes in tomorrow’s qualifying session, the grid is pretty much decided by today’s session. I really feel that this is just crap. It’s an uneven playing field now, with grid slots easily decided if weather intervened. What about driver talent and car performance, does it not matter? Furthermore, if it rains tomorrow during race time, it’s gonna be really dangerous having slower cars up in front of the faster cars on the grid. It’s just accidents waiting to happen if it rains tomorrow at the start of the race. Mark my words…

At least in the last season, if the first qualifying session was ruined by bad weather, teams can still salvage something during the second qualifying session - having only penalized with an earlier lap queue. Even then, it’s not a fair session. Cars that go out later typically have tremendous advantage over the cars that go out first. It’s not even interesting. They should just bring back the old qualifying format, with some changes of course.

During the low-time of F1 viewership, the new qualifying format was adopted in order to improve TV ratings and attract more audience. However, the old qualifying format is still the best for the race. 1 whole hour of maximum 12 laps per driver. Fastest time decides the grid. It was criticised only because the top teams would normally drag on until the last 20 mins before starting out when the track is at its best condition. Heck, if that’s the case, split the session to 2 x 30 mins in succession. Require each driver to record at least a lap at each session, exempted only if there are technical problems. Still the best time gets the best grid position. More excitement, more fun, lesser crap - Are you listening, Max??!

And then there’s this change to tyre use. Now the cars must have tyres that survive the Qualifying 2 session and whole race distance (up to 200km) in only 1 set of tyres. So now we don’t get to see much tyre change during pitstops, unless of a puncture or change of weather. Makes it even more boring. And if another pitfire happen like what happened to Jos Verstappen in 1994 at Hockenheim, Germany (see here for the video clip), definitely we can kiss pitstops goodbye for a long time! And if Schumi dominates this season like he did previously, F1 is definitely gonna be boring… that time I’ll rather just watch World Rally Championship (WRC) instead.

Let’s just hope that Kimi and Montoya gives Schumi a run for his money this season. Watch out, McLaren’s on the bounce back!