Ahhh.....the long drought for public holidays in Victoria has finally broken. Its the start of our streak of public holidays with the next one coming this Tuesday. Melbourne Cup Day!. so ...to utlise it fully, i have decided to take an RDO/day off on Monday...which equates to....4 day weekend yo!!!!!!!!!
Gonna be a crazy weekend again. Dinner after work with Marv and Ryn, Don Ariff's farewell party @ Docklands, Cruise tmrw with MRT Performance boys, dinner with Eric at night, sunday will be a recovery day. Monday and Tuesday is planless at the mo yo! but....gee...looks like it won't be that way for long.
Carbon Fibre Eyelids for the car soon!!!....watch this space....been awhile since my last update on da car...will do it soon...sure to have more pics from the cruise!muahahha
HAPPY FRIDAY NIGHT people!!....enjoy your weekend!!!....astalavista
Friday, 30 October 2009
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
What's new?????
BlaCKBERRY Bold 9000 is whats new....
Got this last Thursday....after months of thinking and thinking and finally my HTC P3600i is showing signs of death....this is the replacement....wohooo!! whats so great? i'm still on the $49cap but have to pay an extra $20 for the Blackberry Internet Service. WHICH includes: UNLIMITED internet yo!!! Time to disconnect the house internet??? muahaha...msn, bbm, facebook....all can be accesed thru the BIS and its UNLIMITED!,,.... iPhone??? kaaa....puiiii!!!!1
LOL!
kidding ya to all the apple lovers....it's just my personal preference to get this phone. I've had enough of touch screen phones and its about time to get a physical QWERTY keyboard.
Now.....the mountain biking return of me:
Lysterfield Park is the venue. We did the Commonwealth Games track 2 weeks ago, and this normal loop last weekend. AWESOME!
Thats all that is new. Eric will be down in Melbourne this Wednesday. Another superb week will be arriving soon yo!Poor boy has been having heaps of trouble from a bunch of childish "adults". Some acts by certain people just shows how uneducated one can be (not sure but seems like they are uneducated). Where are your moral values? Where is your dignity? most importantly, do you even value yourself at all? Things that these people did were just pure pointless, childish, and will bring them to nowhere but to shame! and Quanzilities says....SHAME ON YOU!!!!!
Ok that is all that they deserve to be written of in this holy blog. Not a single word extra for them from now on. Worthless u know?
Weather is getting warm now in MElbourne...woooshhhh.....sun is good~
To everyone out there, those who drive...please drive safely. Been too many accidents and road deaths lately and i.....from the bottom of my heart ...do not wish to see any familiar car plates or names in the news paper.
Ciaoz
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
How to wash a car with $3
This only applies in Australia. Many people refuse to wash their car because they think its too expensive to pay someone to wash. Yes it is and i agree too. A hand wash will easily cost $25 and above, and a machine wash,( those at petrol kiosks where you drive thru) will cost $9 for a basic wash with the latter usually being useless as your car will still be dirty. To make things worse, with current water restrictions being enforced, noone is allowed to wash their cars at the luxury of their backyard. So what do we do?
Those are not valid reasons! Washing your car is like washing your clothes. Do you really want to drive around in a filthy car? One with bird droppings and tree saps all around? Also, taking good care of your car paint will not only prevent your paint from fading and eventually rust, it will also ensure you fetch a higher resale value of the car when you eventually decide to sell up. Why so? Because when you look for a car to buy, your 1st view of the car will be the paint work...so how do we do it at a very affordable $3 at a local self-wash centre?
Easy...
Apparatus:
STEP 1
Insert $1 for this step to buy 2minutes of water time. (SELECT HIGH PRESSURE RINSE)
Thoroughly jet down all foreign objects especially on the bottom half of your car (Do this for 90seconds)
Then with the remaining 30seconds or so, fill up your bucket. Make sure there is a cloth in the bucket for you to point the jet outlet to prevent water from spraying all over.
Once done, add car shampoo into the pail and you are ready for the TLC.
STEP 2
With car still wet, use the microfibre cloth to scrub down your car starting from the upper section of your car and slowly working down your way to the lower section. I usually do the bonnet, roof, and boot 1st. Followed by the doors, and bumpers.
(this is because the lower part of the car usually has heaps of tiny sand particles and it will create microswirls if you contaminate your cloth with it)
STEP 3
Once you have washed down your car, use the left over soap water to clean the wheels. Start off with the rear wheels and then work your way to the front wheels. This is because front ones are usually dirtier and hotter and you don't want the water to dry up before you can rinse it off.
Once done, Proceed to step 4
STEP 4
Insert the $2 coin and rinse the car starting from the section you first applied soap on. Give each wheel a good splash as you work around the car. This should be done in around 2 and a half minutes leaving another 1.5minutes.
RUSH back to the mode selector and select "SPOT FREE RINSE" and systematically rinse from top to bottom to remove the recycled water you used in steps 1 to 3. If you don't do this, especially for those who are not planning to wipe dry the car, you will get water spots everywhere. So just do it!
Ok your car should be completely clean right now. First timers might miss out a few spots so make sure every panel has been cleaned!
STEP 5
This is an optional but a very advisable step. WIPE DOWN THE CAR!.
With the other clean microfibre cloth, dry your car! Don't be lazy. A wet car will collect dust and dirt as you drive thru the dirty air. JUST DO IT! Don't Ask too many questions! its YOUR CAR FFS!
LOL
STEP 6
Another optional step. Open up all doors, boot, bonnet, and petrol lid and wipe dry the insides where water has seeped in. If you have a 3rd microfibre/rag, that will be better because there are heaps of dirt and sand hidden in these places and you don't want your next wash to be done with a contaminated cloth.
STEP 7
this is a SUPEROPTION. Buy silicon based tyre shine. Spray onto a sponge and apply it on your tyres. After all that hardwork, this is the icing of the cake. Do it if you can.
STEP 8
Open up a can of Coke. Find a spot to sit. and watch your car shine in style!
NOTE TO ALL: Not all car wash centre allow bucket washing. In fact most of them do not allow. BUT if you go when it is not busy, it is completely fine. Just make sure you are not hogging the washing bay if there are other cars waiting.
REMINDER: Quanzilities recommends you not to use any soap, wax, or brush provided at the carwash. They are cheap and really abbrasive soap. And the brush provided are usually contaminated with soil particles.
I will post up on "How to detail your car Quanzy style" soon.
Those are not valid reasons! Washing your car is like washing your clothes. Do you really want to drive around in a filthy car? One with bird droppings and tree saps all around? Also, taking good care of your car paint will not only prevent your paint from fading and eventually rust, it will also ensure you fetch a higher resale value of the car when you eventually decide to sell up. Why so? Because when you look for a car to buy, your 1st view of the car will be the paint work...so how do we do it at a very affordable $3 at a local self-wash centre?
Easy...
Apparatus:
- 2 Microfibre cloths
- Car shampoo (I'm using Meguir's now)
- 1 pail
- 1 $1 coin and 1 $2 coin
STEP 1
Insert $1 for this step to buy 2minutes of water time. (SELECT HIGH PRESSURE RINSE)
Thoroughly jet down all foreign objects especially on the bottom half of your car (Do this for 90seconds)
Then with the remaining 30seconds or so, fill up your bucket. Make sure there is a cloth in the bucket for you to point the jet outlet to prevent water from spraying all over.
Once done, add car shampoo into the pail and you are ready for the TLC.
STEP 2
With car still wet, use the microfibre cloth to scrub down your car starting from the upper section of your car and slowly working down your way to the lower section. I usually do the bonnet, roof, and boot 1st. Followed by the doors, and bumpers.
(this is because the lower part of the car usually has heaps of tiny sand particles and it will create microswirls if you contaminate your cloth with it)
STEP 3
Once you have washed down your car, use the left over soap water to clean the wheels. Start off with the rear wheels and then work your way to the front wheels. This is because front ones are usually dirtier and hotter and you don't want the water to dry up before you can rinse it off.
Once done, Proceed to step 4
STEP 4
Insert the $2 coin and rinse the car starting from the section you first applied soap on. Give each wheel a good splash as you work around the car. This should be done in around 2 and a half minutes leaving another 1.5minutes.
RUSH back to the mode selector and select "SPOT FREE RINSE" and systematically rinse from top to bottom to remove the recycled water you used in steps 1 to 3. If you don't do this, especially for those who are not planning to wipe dry the car, you will get water spots everywhere. So just do it!
Ok your car should be completely clean right now. First timers might miss out a few spots so make sure every panel has been cleaned!
STEP 5
This is an optional but a very advisable step. WIPE DOWN THE CAR!.
With the other clean microfibre cloth, dry your car! Don't be lazy. A wet car will collect dust and dirt as you drive thru the dirty air. JUST DO IT! Don't Ask too many questions! its YOUR CAR FFS!
LOL
STEP 6
Another optional step. Open up all doors, boot, bonnet, and petrol lid and wipe dry the insides where water has seeped in. If you have a 3rd microfibre/rag, that will be better because there are heaps of dirt and sand hidden in these places and you don't want your next wash to be done with a contaminated cloth.
STEP 7
this is a SUPEROPTION. Buy silicon based tyre shine. Spray onto a sponge and apply it on your tyres. After all that hardwork, this is the icing of the cake. Do it if you can.
STEP 8
Open up a can of Coke. Find a spot to sit. and watch your car shine in style!
NOTE TO ALL: Not all car wash centre allow bucket washing. In fact most of them do not allow. BUT if you go when it is not busy, it is completely fine. Just make sure you are not hogging the washing bay if there are other cars waiting.
REMINDER: Quanzilities recommends you not to use any soap, wax, or brush provided at the carwash. They are cheap and really abbrasive soap. And the brush provided are usually contaminated with soil particles.
I will post up on "How to detail your car Quanzy style" soon.
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Return of the Quanster
ahh...another update of whats been happening is:. I am back competing in archery tournaments. WOOHOO!!!...After 6years of silence from the tournaments...i attended my new chapter of shooting in Moorabin on the 13th of September. Came overall 6th but got 1st in my class which is the 1st class Masters. LOL no idea what that means but its the 2nd rank down from the pros...LOL...so i think i did alright...
only have 2 pictures...
only have 2 pictures...
The ScoreBoard...I'm in the Recurve class
Lim Pek!
Was a crazily tiring day... Shot 4 distances (70m, 60m, 50m, and 40m) Madness at its epic. 120 arrows from 9am to 4pm...geee...Australians have crazy shooting schedules! LOL
anyways...will put up a pic of the trophy when i get a chance to snap it.
Its TUesday now! 3 days to weekend! Enjoy the rest of your Tuesdays YO!!!!
out.
MRT Great Ocean Road Cruise II
Long overdue....Cruise with MRT boys on the 22nd August to Great Ocean Road
Met at Subaru Docklands for a quick meet up with everyone and also for those who can't make it for the cruise
ahh....enough of car-camwhoring.....superb turn out ....14members turned up at the pre-cruise meet and i think 9 cars cruised together after that. Awesome drive plus superb weather.
Only downside is the treacherous road condition with rocks littered all over the road and a few road works area.
Next cruise will be on 31st October to Sorrento. Hope the next one will have even more turning up. Bythe way,
MRT Performance is a automobile performance workshop specialising in various car performance upgrades ranging from engine/ecu/retune to handling packages. For more information, visit : MRT Performance
*Note: This post is not an advertisement.
Met at Subaru Docklands for a quick meet up with everyone and also for those who can't make it for the cruise
ahh....enough of car-camwhoring.....superb turn out ....14members turned up at the pre-cruise meet and i think 9 cars cruised together after that. Awesome drive plus superb weather.
Only downside is the treacherous road condition with rocks littered all over the road and a few road works area.
Next cruise will be on 31st October to Sorrento. Hope the next one will have even more turning up. Bythe way,
MRT Performance is a automobile performance workshop specialising in various car performance upgrades ranging from engine/ecu/retune to handling packages. For more information, visit : MRT Performance
*Note: This post is not an advertisement.
Monday, 19 October 2009
Monday.....
What a crazy weekend.....one of the 'funnest', action packed weekend i had in a long long time WOOHOO~~
What can I say.....weather is getting better now with warm days forcasted for the whole week. We've collected heaps of water in our catchments with Maroondah Reservoir and O'Shannassy Reservoir filled to capacity and overflowing....be rest assured that the spill will be collected further downstream at Sugarloaf Reservoir...
Our water storage is way higher then current date last year at 36.6% as of 2pm today (19/10/2009)...I say...good job to the clouds! muahahah
Summer is coming and with extreme hot weather forecasted, we will be losing heaps thru evaporation and also with dry wind factor seeping out some of our water. So this is a good relieve to compensate for the coming hot spells. I just hope it doesn't get too hot :)
That said, lets hope our water level keeps going up and soon we can start washing cars at home...taking our own sweet time cleaning every hole and gaps on our car...
So whats new with my life? NOTHING!!!.....when life is at its best, how much better can it get? kidding... work's treating me well, weather is treating me well.... friends are treating me well, only thing is money is not treating me too good....we can never get enough can we?
Announcement!!!:::: its Marvin's birthday tommorow, ... HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAO MAO!!!!....
we had an awesome weekend celebrating with you .... Go-Kart, Jap Dinner, and bashing your house after that...lol... now you hurry up and make ah sou go kk!!!
Also, Happy Belated Deepavali to all my Hindu friends. Sorry for the late wish.
ok more to come soon...just don't have pictures at the moment and that will teach me a lesson to whip out that camera for some picture posts. Its been pretty boring and black and white for the last few posts. Will get this worked out real soon...on that note, enjoy the last 1 hour (for those in Australia) and for the rest, enjoy the rest of your afternoon of Monday....Tommorow will be a full on day as described a few posts away!
Adios
What can I say.....weather is getting better now with warm days forcasted for the whole week. We've collected heaps of water in our catchments with Maroondah Reservoir and O'Shannassy Reservoir filled to capacity and overflowing....be rest assured that the spill will be collected further downstream at Sugarloaf Reservoir...
Our water storage is way higher then current date last year at 36.6% as of 2pm today (19/10/2009)...I say...good job to the clouds! muahahah
Summer is coming and with extreme hot weather forecasted, we will be losing heaps thru evaporation and also with dry wind factor seeping out some of our water. So this is a good relieve to compensate for the coming hot spells. I just hope it doesn't get too hot :)
That said, lets hope our water level keeps going up and soon we can start washing cars at home...taking our own sweet time cleaning every hole and gaps on our car...
So whats new with my life? NOTHING!!!.....when life is at its best, how much better can it get? kidding... work's treating me well, weather is treating me well.... friends are treating me well, only thing is money is not treating me too good....we can never get enough can we?
Announcement!!!:::: its Marvin's birthday tommorow, ... HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAO MAO!!!!....
we had an awesome weekend celebrating with you .... Go-Kart, Jap Dinner, and bashing your house after that...lol... now you hurry up and make ah sou go kk!!!
Also, Happy Belated Deepavali to all my Hindu friends. Sorry for the late wish.
ok more to come soon...just don't have pictures at the moment and that will teach me a lesson to whip out that camera for some picture posts. Its been pretty boring and black and white for the last few posts. Will get this worked out real soon...on that note, enjoy the last 1 hour (for those in Australia) and for the rest, enjoy the rest of your afternoon of Monday....Tommorow will be a full on day as described a few posts away!
Adios
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