Sunday, November 05, 2006

Need For Speed In Autobahn

It almost comes to winter, so it's not good to be in the speed during winter. It would be too dangerous to go for speed. So while the no speed limit still legal, me and Thomas decided to go for special car.
We din get a Porsche, but an Audi. In fact, we were offerred and Porche Cayene (SUV) but we think that it's too big for us. Porscher 911 & Carrera are all rent out that weekend.

So in the morning for speed, I took my navigator seat just to relax and took some photos. Thomas went to enjoy this car.
So even BMW 3 series saw from behind also 'siam' us. But to tell you the truth, BMW 5 series, Audi A6, Volkswagen Passat, Mercedes E class (Export), Porsche are equally fast. These are the top food chain on the road.

Overtaking this Porsche as well. But we believe this Porsche is just have his time.
Thomas is our fastest driver in out Kulim trainee. Before this car, his record id 240km/h with Alfa Romeo. But with this Audi, the broke his own record at 260km/h. We called him Micheal instead of Thomas already.

But speed always comes with a price. Every 2 hours on the road, we need to visit gas station. For full tank (60 euro) this car only can go for 350km with 6th gears.
The back seat is not for passenger, even Sim was thinking to follow us for this trip but it was really too small for a adult or kid. Only for dog.

So finally we are at Stuttgart, home for Mercedes Benz. Too bad, we din get a Mercedes SLR.

The rear has a spoiler lift up when speed reach 100 km/h. The faster to go, the spoiler automatically adjust. Nice car really can turn girls on. Even it is a rental, we easily get impressed by locals & also colleagues from Kulim.

So it's my time for speed. Top speed 240km/h. If you look at the speed meter carefully, you can see it almost reach the end of the limit. This one we are getting is an 2.0 TFSI 200 hp engine. Still not the top grade Audi TT.
So on our way back to Dresden the next day, so an 500km trip just took us 3.5 hours including road construction only allow us to go for 100km/h. Ave speed around 160 to 180 km/h.
Amazing, it's once a life time chance.
Go Karting In GermanyBe have an official outing with our mentors (Teachers) before we go back to Malaysia. So it was organized by my company for a Go Karting Session. So while waiting for briefing, we took our time at the lobby. This a mini bike.

So the instructor is ready. The first lesson on Go Karting. Left foot is brake & right foot is gas paddle. Do not touch any where else in the vehicle cause they are really hot. The car has side bumper, so anybody hitting other ppl on purpose will be disqualified.

So now we start to do our practice for 15 minutes with the track twice. The we went on the qualifying round. Was my first time with go kart. So get to learn my first lesson. There are 2 groups among us. The first 7 best drivers with best lap will be qualify for first race and & & worse will have second race.
So guess where I qaulified? I was the 2 fastest and qualify for 1 race. But too bad, I did finish the race as I went into too many crashes.

Me, My Mentor Udo & Sim. After the rest is really tired. Lesson learn, never push too hard for the practive laps. Reserve some energy for the race.
I am glad Udo join us for this session.

So all of us for a photo before leaving this place. I ranked the fastest driver. That's all.

Friday, November 03, 2006

GUESS where am I. The winner get a cap!
Answer need to be the name of this place.

I guess most of you seen this car in internet pictures. Yes the one without steering wheels. Just joystick like playing video games.
Concept Cars

Car model of future roadster
This is the concept design of the current S-Class.

Thursday, November 02, 2006


My Big Sister Never Reply my Blog anymore.
Hi Sister, Can you talk to me? I miss your reply and updates. For now I really miss home. Tonight is snowing.. I just have a walk home, the snow is melting on my jacket.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Prague 1st Day On our way to Prague. No Highway.


Not forgetting good food in Prague also.


This their Orchard Road. Both side of the street are shoppings.

Famous of the crystal. There some of us bought. I dont' find it very interesting.



At the square where everybody just to wait for the clock to bell.

Prague is no like any other European cities. It has night life and best for tourist. Even it's around 10 pm, still can see these ppl at the streets.
Hungry and cold, we decided to get each of us a Haagen - Dazs cost us about RM20.
After a long cold walk, we stopped of a coffee break.

You realized the Hard Rock Cafe' any differences? It's not a original one. So Europe also like Pirates version of Hard Rock Cafe'


2nd Day in Prague Ok everybody wake up! Time for second day tour!
So everybody ready to go!

With these 2 Mecerdes. Brand new. Mileage only 2000km. This is the picture for all of us. Behind us is the parliment of Prague Breakfast in KFC. No idea why it's hard to find KFC is east Germany. So one the items is to have KFC in Prague. Looks like Banana doesn't chance much in Checz. 39.90 is about 2 euro.. about RM8.








Me & the castle in Prague


Best view from the bridge. The usual european cities are churches, bridges, castles, squares.. & etc.


The church at the square. We din hire a tour guide. So that's the minus point. We din get to know what the historical reason for this church. Unless, we 'google' it in the future.

Sitting next to the church. We took a break before depart to next destination.

Before leaving Prague must try the local food. This a mixer of all the best of Checz food. Duck, pork, beef..and dumplings. When they say dumplings it means bread. Very oily
ChecZ Republic 2 Hot Spring Resorts in Checz Republic. The whole town is just driving by the hot spring available here. What you see all in these pictures are only the nice part of the town. The rest, you can imagine of Malaysian bus stop standard something like that.

The leafs are brown & sky is grey.

The building looks abit like Post Office in Kuching.


Almost dark.. time to go home. Of course, din bring any clothing for hot spring can't stay any longer.
On our way back.
I managed to get wireless signal from my neighbors. So I am back alive for my blog.

Weather here is getting really cold, forecast tomorrow will be 7 deg C max. Anytime can go below 0 deg C.

So, most ppl is preparing to go home.

Monday, October 30, 2006

Hello all,

I am unable to log online in my apartment recently. So sorry for no updates.
Hope everybody is in good health.

Bye