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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

A Mercedes Got Nailed by a Cellphone!

Mercedezs and Cellphone Crash 41. The weirdest and dumbest crash ever seen by me, and might be you too. Hopefully there will be nothing like this happen in Malaysia. If not, I'll laugh non stop during my crash investigation work. Uh, not good, supposed not to laugh at people's unlucky event. sorry, my bad my bad..

2. Anyway, yet it is still not as funny as Terengganu MB wants to change all Perdana to Mercedes. Be careful MB, even the cellphone will get angry!

3. Hmm now I'm thinking what happen to the occupant of the car. By the way, this crash happened in Russia and I'm not sure whether Russia is right hand drive or left. If right hand drive, ughhh I guess the driver was experiencing pretty severe injury over there. Trauma to head would bring GSC (level of consiousness) of less than 7.

Mercedezs and Cellphone Crash 14. "Dude..What will be the direction of force and CDC code of this kind of crash? looks like a collision from the top?" Hmm lemme see..the code shud be like 00TDAW3 which means collision from top with distributed of damage (more than 41cm), covered from bottom and top area on respective side, wide area covered and the depth of crash extent is at level 3. How's that? It just estimation though.

Mercedezs and Cellphone Crash 25. No wonder Putin doesn’t want anyone especially teenagers to use cell-phones in there cars. But who cares? He's busy attacking Georgia as I write this. Stupid Putin!

6. Back to the topic. Can you think of a better reason to ban those "devilish" machines in vehicles than this cell-phone related accident caused in Russia? Of course, Malaysia should learn from this event too. Too many stupid people used cellphone in the car while driving. Im stupid too sometimes! And I don't think you are not. Cheh its kinda irony eh.

Mercedezs and Cellphone Crash 37. Anyway, learning from the post, be careful when you are driving, look you side mirror, rear mirror, front and dont forget to keep an eye on your top too! And, dont use cellphone while driving ok. The huge cellphone will hit you from the top if you are not carefull enough. Chiow.

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Friday, August 8, 2008

Lamborghini Reventon Vs. Ferrari Enzo

1. I figure once in a while I need to enjoy my eyes with this kind of impossible getting machine thing. Sport Cars! Reading Sport Cars Specs are really tiring but open wide my eyes huhu.

2. These two exclusive cars are among the top in the world at the moment. Take a look of their comparison.

Lamborghini Reventon Wallpaper

Lamborghini Reventon
Specifications

Brakes & Tires
Brakes F/R: ABS, vented disc/vented disc
Driveline: All Wheel Drive
Tires F-R:245/35 ZR18 - 335/30 ZR18

Engine
Displacement cu in (cc): 396 (6496)
Power bhp (kW) at RPM: 650(478) / 8000
Redline at RPM: NA
Torque lb-ft (Nm) at RPM: 487(660) / 6000
Type: V12

Lamborghini Reventon Wallpaper

Exterior Dimensions & Weight
Length × Width × Height in: 185 × 81 × 44.7
Weight lb (kg): 3671 (1665)

Performance
Acceleration 0-60 mph (s): 3.3
Fuel Economy EPA city/highway mpg (l/100 km): NA (21.3)
Top Speed mph (km/h): 211 (340)



Ferrari Enzo Wallpaper

Ferrari Enzo
Specifications

Brakes & Tires
Brakes F/R: ABS, vented disc/vented disc
Driveline: Rear Wheel Drive
Tires F-R: 245/35 ZR19 - 345/35 ZR19

Engine
Displacement cu in (cc): 365 (5988)
Power bhp (kW) at RPM: 660(485) / 7800
Redline at RPM: 8200
Torque lb-ft (Nm) at RPM: 484(657) / 5500
Type: V12

Ferrari Enzo Wallpaper

Exterior Dimensions & Weight
Length × Width × Height in: 185.1 × 80.1 × 45.2
Weight lb (kg): 3009 (1366)

Performance
Acceleration 0-62 mph (s): 3.65
Fuel Economy EPA city/highway mpg (l/100 km): NA (23)
Top Speed mph (km/h): 225 (362)

3. Truly, when judging and estimating the cars, my eyes just look at the how fast the car go from 0-100 km/h. Seems like on this battle, the Lamborghini is the winner!

4. Even though on endurance fight, the Ferrari will beat Lamborghini hell out of it. Seriously. On design term, I give 5 stars for both. Wohooo..

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Monday, August 4, 2008

The Road Cracked Again!


1. Last week, I have been shocked, and I believe you are too with news that MRR2 bridge was cracked again. It was for in fact, the third time since 2006, where the first one in 2004. The problem is the crack occured at the same strecth that had a problem last time. Cost of RM70 million before this to fix the bridge seems like going to garbage because only can sustain the bridge for 2 years. Average of RM35 million per year. Hmm..

2. "3 of 18 carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) tensioner that adding to the bridge pillars are suddenly broke". Luckily, the new JKR management successfully detected the defect earlier, before the worst severe tragedy happens, which of course, will make Malaysia is in the eyes of the world like the collapsed of Minnesota Bridge. (I studied at University of Minnesota and I know where exactly the bridge is and until now, I still can't believe that massive bridge collapsed)

3. Two years after the MRR2 damage has been fixed on 2006, the bridge is become defect again. So actually it merely can be utilized in 2 years lifespan, yeah seems like it. I really want to see the contract agreement between the contractor that fix the bridge and the goverment. How long the bridge is still in the responsibility of the contractor. And if my guess is right, its only 3-4 years. You know, engineers are really great in estimation with only 5-10% error. So that they can maximize the profit.

4. The engineers are already calculated that the fatigue cyclings (N) that could be sustained by the bridge. The biggest mistake is they are a little bit underestimate or accidentally left the factor, which vehicles in Malaysia increasing exponentially during the past years which implicitly indicated that the road user increase as well as the users of the MRR2. As a result, they must fix the bridge with their own cost. Good news for us, goverment do not need to pay a dime.

5. There are no heavy vehicle bans on the MRR2. Thats the reason why some of the road there have potholes here and there. I personally didnt like driving on MRR2. I rather used other road. Potholes are bad for my car's tyres and suspension. I love my car. How about you? This is not related to the topic, sorry hehe.

6. The traffic on MRR2 is indeed overwhelming. Constant maintenance and observation is needed. Some independent body should be involved on the observation too. We do have actually, but I'm not sure they are independent or not. The association called Road Safety Audit. Plus, somebody must make sure that the contractor do their job well, without using crappy materials just to get profit. Its not their fault though. The fault lies on people who push them hard, squeeze them and threaten them for money.

7. Suddenly I feel not really confortable on the fact I will drive on the defected part within this 3 weeks (thats what goverment said time to fix the defect). Why? It is traffic jam! Maybe I should extend staying here in UK, until the road is fixed. Bah forget it, its not my daily route to work anyway.

8. To JKR, please do u job well to pantau the make of the road. All the bad roads are appeared like "mushroom after the rain", after all the contracts of road made given to the private company. Before this, JKR did the road by themselves and the road are for my opionion is the best of all. For example, Federal Highway connecting Kuala Lumpur and Klang, until now still good even after quite years.

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