I may find peace within the emptiness. How pitiful.

Bryan Yong called last night and talked about Top Gear. It got my old interest in cars back again. The whole night I spent just watching car reviews on TopGear's Youtube channel. About halfway through(when they were testing out the Ariel Atom), I realized that the Honda City I'm driving was kinda lame. Hahaha.

I mean, half the cars on that show do 0-100kmh in 4.5 seconds.
Even when I'm concentrating, I barely do that in 12 seconds...(though the official record online is 11 seconds)

I guess it's not that bad. The City's engine is kinda tame(1.5 i-DSI instead of VTEC), BUT the transmission is fucking awesome. It's so hard to describe, but I'll try. I got these explanations from 3 different sources, so I'll try to piece together what I think it is. Could be wrong though.

When in default setting, the car is friggin fuel efficient because it doesn't use a standard 4-speed gearbox, but a continuously variable transmission system with infinite ratios. So if you throttle up, the gear kinda 'slides' rather than 'shifts' down. It's not that amazing or amazingly new, but it's the reason why fuel consumption is better than some of the City's rivals.

But if you look at the steering wheel, you'll find this button that says "7-speed mode". Click that, and the gearbox emulates a standard gearbox with 7 individual forward gears. It still is the same gearbox, just that the on board computer tells it to behave like an automatic transmission with 7 gears. This 7-speed mode guzzles petrol at twice the rate. This is because the car is a monster in this mode. Well, not a monster, but compared to the regular mode it kinda is.

The third option is a combination of 7-speed mode and manual. on the steering are + and - buttons. After tapping the 7-speed mode button, tap the - or + button and the transmission becomes sorta semi-manual. Not completely manual though. The RPM redline is at 6, so whenever the transmission is being over-revved, it automatically shifts up. Which is annoying because 6000 RPM is kinda weak.

I've also been told the CVT system is kinda like a mountain bike transmission, the gears at the back wheel are the main 4, and the ones near the pedal are the extra 3. But that would mean 12 gear settings right? I dunno, whatever it is, Honda City is one FUCKING UGLY car despite having a crazy transmission thingy. The new City looks way better, but has a different transmission system.

Ok.. regular stuff now.



Just like all other communist leaders, I have finally butchered my own people. This is now a dictatorship:

I buried the legs and torsos, but left heads and arms as a reminder of my power.

Those are actually my unpainted Russian soldiers, just before I gave them the skin coloured paint coating. Painting these type of figures are the hardest, because each individual figure may have up to 5 different colours. Lucky I have blu tack. That way I can spray paint layer by layer.

I've got exams in a few hours time. Really lucky my exams are squished up in Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Math is gonna suck, econs might suck if the questions are weird, cs will not suck, english will be fun. My English teacher says the topic for the argumentative essay might be 'religious schools'. Hehehe, I'm gonna have a blast.

I noticed that my recent posts haven't got any fillers. You remember the time when in between my psychedelic writing I pop a picture or a story or some lame joke. I kinda ran out of those things. Now it's all just talk! I'm not gonna kid you, if you look back at those posts, the written stuff is basically the same boring stuff, it just seems nice because of the fillers.

I miss fillers.

Ohmygod, squirrels!

The second picture shows that same squirrel being electrified, that's why its tail is up.


See... fillers are awesome.



otherwise I may come off as too dark and emo.

A dark and emo filler. Nothing else can describe the above picture.

In tank news, my Russian KV-2 giant Russian winter camoflaged Russian tank is finally done! No pictures shall be posted here, as promised. Whenever it is I post it, whoever is interested in that sorta thing can check out the Junkyard. It's not posted yet, so hang on you over enthusiastic non-person.

Then there's also something I wanted to say about my dogs. They're both back to normal. There are these two cats that are just pure evil. One lives on the street behind my house and the other lives on the street in front. To pass the time, they meet up at my neighbour's(the non-white neighbour) garden and stare at my dogs. This usually drives my dogs nuts and they start barking like crazy.

Last week, this is what happened.

They usually meet up at point A. but in the afternoon, one of the cats decided to walk along to point B. The two dogs in point B chased it, so it jumped into my white neighbour's compound, and their maid was outside. Because the cat was afraid, it jumped at the maid and bit her finger. then it ran to point C.


Point C.... Big mistake.

Two Massive Rottweilers.

x2

Which resulted in a very ripped apart cat. Well, can't say the son of a bit- I mean son of a cat didn't deserve it.





Oh, and all my TOPEDfriends might wanna watch this video. The new 'capture the flag' mode for Call Of Duty 6 Modern Warfare 2(COD6MW2) along with the new host reassignment feature(shown at the end of the vid).





You all probably know by now that the game will be out next weekish, 10th November.
A few things I that may interest COD6MW2 fans is
1)the ability to play in 3rd Person mode.
-multiplayer servers will have the option to play in 3rd person, the same way 'hardcore' mode is chosen.

2)There's more of everything!
-15 different kill streak rewards(compared to old UAV,Airstrike,Helicopter)
-Tonnes of new weapons and upgrades(you already guessed that)
-A 'spec ops' mode. it's like campaign missions, but you can play it cooperatively online!

3)No Nazi Zombies
D=