Trust?

I must keep my promise to myself!

Must never break it ever again!

Must be hard!

Yes. There will still be people out there that I will make exceptions. Reals Bros. Real mates. But frankly, how many of them are "real"?

I know there are times I needed help myself.

It's times like this that you segregate the real from the "oh-I'm-real" type.

It's disappointing when you place your trust in people who has different priorities as yours, taking things that you said for granted and thinking that their times and priority ranks above yours anytime.

For this, it pays to be careful who you trust.

It pays to be hard hearted.

I thought I'm hard.

I will be harder.

Trust is a vulgar word sometimes.

For those who had betrayed my trust. You know who you are. Many of you. What goes around comes around! Maybe I owed you people before, maybe I don't. We will all know at the end when we reach the cashier.

For now, all I can say is thanks for the lesson.

Hope you have yours soon.

Buying a New Ride

Test yourself with this.

Does the ride, in question give you a "wow" factor? choosing a new car is a very spontaneous thing. That is of course after you did your research and is ready to go down to the showroom to make a really serious decision.

The Pre-Spontaneous Feel Stage
Do your researches. Car forums, buyer's guide, hearsay, showrooms etc. all will provide good advise and knowledge.

Just make sure you don't ask advice from those half bucket "experts".

Do your comparisons.

Check budgets and finance.

Check all parties-involved's opinion. Sell your ideas or opinions where necessary.

and then move on to the most crucial stage - the Spontaneous Feel Stage

Now that you have zero in on a few good and suitable rides, go down to the show room with a clean mind. Tell yourself you will not be marred by biasness.

Go straight to the ride that you are aiming for, don't talk to any sales exec and do your check immediately. Note the "wow" points.

"Wow" points refers to the score that you give the ride just by assuming you see it fore the first time. And it will mean the specs, the interior and exterior of it. Assuming the bases for comparison are on equal stand i.e. you have budget for ALL the chocies that are being reviewed.

Wi;th this, the ride that scores the highest "wow" point will be your worthy buddy for the next 5 to 10 years!

If there is a tie between 2 rides. Use the coin method.

do the flip individually for each ride. Decide if head is to buy and tail is not to buy a certain choice. Flip a coin. see the outcome. and quickly note your level of agreement with the coin's "advice". check if your mind tells you its a happy or regretful feel when you see the coin's outcome.

which ever flip that you have that reflects the happiest response from you is your ultimate choice. The outcome it self doesn't really matter.

eg: if you are throwing foir ride A and you flipped a "do-not-buy" from the coin and you have a sour feeling of regret in you. yoyu probably secretly wished the coin is a"buy" throw. flip for the other ride to "validate " this feeling. if the other throw is a "buy" and you again feel sour, then it is obvious that your heart is witrh ride A.

In the case of flipping "do-not-buy" for both rides, either throw again or check whith one you feel regret the most. The one you regretted notr buying the most is also the ride you wouyld love to own the most.

Try it.

Buy-by-feel is copyright of Rookie and Defiant.

The Type R Conspiracy!

A wickedly clever conspiracy, backed buy a true dream, yet profitable and benefitial to the aftermarket.

Let's look at the FD and FN group for easy and timely reference.

First, the emergence of the base models around the world. The FD 1 and FD2. ( FD4 is NOT a world wide model), and then the FNs.

In the USDM, the Si Coupe emerge.

Market reacts. Big marketing effort. Big response. Overselling. Undersupplying. Hype increase. Production is not as fast as the speed of sales.

Then the grapevines and aftermarket speaks.

The leakage of a probable mugen version, a SIR version, a Type R version, then the RR version, and the SI coupe JDM verison. Wow!

Natually, the consumers are spoilt for choice.

The variety further intrigue the consumers and spurs them tto gather more information on the FDs and FNs. And as they read on, they buy in to the Typre R dream!

Now this is where the real "poison" sets in!

By buying the idea of Type R, consumers will agree that "less is more" and so will be paying premium dollar for a bare ride.

No matter. It's a type R.

With so many variations. the production, marketing and sales will also be confusing.

and what about prototypes. Type R must live up to its standards. But all the lab test and stealthy road test is only good for the brochure. There need a real test from racers, and the street kids.

Somewhere, somehow there must be some guinea pigs that could be suckered to buyt he new models and test them. So enter the FDR.

With nice brembo fronts, FD converted red-stitches parts and a highly supped up engine, it is now on the road. But heck, do we all agree that this is more like a prototype and a initial test marketing phase for the SEAsian market? While the FNR is in fact for the European market and the USDM has yetr to see a type R verison of the SI coupe. (think they have a 4 door SIR -nice)

So what do we excpect to see from here?

A eventually full fledged FDR? Or a new chasis name for the new type R? Maybe a 2 door verison? which by then has to be called the FDRR or FDR3?

Or simply a face lift model that is 10 times slicker than the current bulky typeR?

it's any body's guess.

If toyota can rename Xb to bB and so forth from USDM to asia, then who's stopping Honda from using the Si Coupe model in Asia and sup up the engoine to become the Typre R 2 door coupe here.

There IS a conspiracy.

Buy the prototype now, enjoy it either as a rarity or a racerboy/raceruncle misfit in the near future.

Bros with dole pay? Those who can't afford ain't bros?

Had this thought recently.

Does it mean that bros who constantly rushed to foot bills are true bros who represent true friendship? Non-calculative personalities? etc etc etc?

Does that mean that the rich should be generous and the poor stingy?

To me, bros who pay for the group first maybe:
socialable characters
generous when it comes to entertaining perople
loves to be popular
maybe quite well off or has spare cash on hand

Bros who don't pay for the group first maybe:
not as socialable
usually doesn't entertain much in business
may not have spare cash on hand or seldom have too much spare cash on hand
stingy
poor

Is that a cause for a discussion?

Yes and No.

No if everyone throws out their share in a group outing and one representative consolidates and pay the bill.

No if all take turns to pay, and all has same taste and all has same standard in terms of disposable entertainment budget.

Yes if there is a difference in terms of taste, entertainment budget and attitudes.

So what to do when a group find this a cause for concern? stop seeing each other? make demands? act blur? start measuring?

what if those who always suggest the programs and the budget to spend did not empathise with those who had less to spare?

how could the poorer one pick the tap?

it is then a cause for concern when the poorer one was told that he never pick the tap.

but it is also often noticed that such poorer folks in the group never suggest the expensive places. or the place that he did not liked.

why ask a non-drinker to pick the tap when he barely drank anything?

why ask the non-drinker to share a bottle when most of it is drank by the other "richer" bros?

so!!!

When such cases arise. Or it happens one time too many...

suggest this ...

GO DUTCH!

Talk is cheap

Expectations are easy to start and yet hard to maintain. Especially when things are two sided.

How many times do we make expectation of others only to fall short of it on the giving end?

Seldom? rarely? Never?

Now let's start off with a kind greeting : FUCK THAT!

We always have an excuse for our thoughts, actions and words. So with that kind of bias, it is only natural that we are always right in our own eyes.

that's why my greeting to those with this kinda of thinking, this kind of myopia is : FUCK THAT!

shouldn't we treat others the way as you would want others to treat you.

Friendships based on expectations are time bombs.

Expectations will lead to assessments, testings, comparisons and that in turn leads to egoism, conformity, norm settings, group culture, eltist attitude, group myopia and then to the eventual stigmaism and stereotyping.

For such behaviours, I like my tried and tested remedy;

BE MYSELF!

Another type ...

I look down on blind followers who second opinions based on bias favourtism. Such people doesn't have opinions of their own and survive solely on group norms and directions given by opinion leaders and group leaders. such people will do well in a team or group where creativity, originality or personal decision making is not required. feel sorry for such people. hope I dun have such people around me,

somehow, it feels good that I've verified something for a final time.

I draw the line!!!

seems like there is a lot of ppl tat u dun like... and after yr master analysis of so many types of personality, which category u think u r in?

Only Rookie kor kor understand me