today was little bit hectic for me. went to work, then went to my consulting gig for an hour, back to work, then worked out. then came home and showered so i can roll in jeff's new skyline. i took a power nap on my recliner, then he came to pick me up, and we hung out at tapioca express for about an hour and a half. it's amazing how much attention the car attracted. in convoy, i think it attracted at least, if not more attention than a ferrari would have. we've gone there in a nsx before and people just glanced for a sec. that's all. not with the skyline. i'm sitting there saying to myself, damn, if i had the money, i'd buy jeff's other vspec 2 just for the attention. it was cool to see people coming up to my friend just being mind blown of the fact that they are looking at an actual r34. and how it's their dream car. the fact is that probably most of the people didn't know how much of a better car it is to a vspec ii. this one guy was just speechless when he wanted to talk to my friend. my friend was kind enough to let him sit in it for a few seconds. i bet we'll hear stories from him on the internet about how he got to sit in one, and touched the steering wheel. i don't think i would be as excited in sitting in my favorite car (even after purchase), the 360 Modena Spider (Silver F1 of course.). ; ) it's nice to have generous and down to earth friends. you can share the excitement and it kinda feels like the new thing they got is partly yours. i can't wait till he breaks it in, puts the mods he wants, and then launches it. unfortunately this won't be a reality for who knows how long. the nur is not certified like the vspec ii, so he drives with a dealer plate on it until DOT starts accepting more cars in for certification. until then jeff can't modify it. and when it's in DOT, who knows how long it takes. the vspec ii took forever. enough about cars. another person we rolled with was this chinese guy who drove a mustang cobra with 1200 horses that can do a quarter mile in 9.1 seconds. faster than jeff hopes to take with his skyline. but at least the skyline will turn. i'll probably eventually take a ride in the mustang and describe how it feels to ride a car that is like Superman the ride at every light. i think i'm getting car sick already.



i'm nearing the day when i gotta get off creatine. i regret not taking stretching until now. i will have to wait a whole month before i'm on creatine again. damn.



well, more about the car. the front grill is pretty damn low. about as low as the nsx we rode in. i'd probably rip the grill right off the first day if i had a car like that considering i like to get real close to the cement block when i park. also, the ride is very stiff. you can feel every bump in the road. but then again, the seats were very comfortable. his gps doesn't work, and neither does the radio. this guy at tapioca express was telling him that you can get a module that's fairly common for japanese cars so it can work when the car gets imported. i think he should get xm or something. that'd be cooler. the lcd monitor has rgb inputs so he should be able to get anything else to project on that screen, maybe he can even get a gps system without a lcd monitor, so it will look stock. unfortunately, i didn't take my camera. but i think i didn't primarily because he expressed earlier that he didn't want pictures of his nur on the web. his spec ii pics are fine, and i have posted them on my blog before. but the nur, for some reason didn't want pics to be posted. i think his reasoning behind it was, everyone knows what a vspec ii looks like, but not too many people really know about the differences between a nur and a vspec ii. so maybe it's to protect himself from any posers like paul walker replacing his badge and claiming to have a real nur. if you want to look, for pics on the web, here's a link off of supercars.net.



damn, i'm still on a sugar rush right now.......damn boba. i actually feel my body burning it off though. it's an interesting feeling. i should start reading that book. it's my window to financial riches. even without the book, according to my dad, in about a year half to 2 years from now, i shouldn't have to pay rent any more, and i should have all the money i make to spend, while still being able to make at least a million (probably a few million as property and inflation goes up) in 30 years to retire with. out of all the false promises that he's made over the years, this one seems pretty legit, cause i know at least the money is there. erik and i discussed alternate plans for both of us to become slumlords of san diego. don't really want to discuss the details, but future looks mighty bright. near future too. maybe i'll have to buy a skyline of my own. a silver one, not jeff's white spec 2. but if i go with erik's evil plan, i could also get a 911 turbo, and a 360 modena spider. also, in 2 years, i should have a body to match my success. then when i've got money to invest in, i'll start my own boba/coffee "club", and a kimchi franchise right here in san diego. it all seems like a dream. like i'm gonna wake up and find myself in the hole again. but it's more that it's gonna happen faster than i can imagine it happening, than it not becoming a reality at all. these last 2 years happened in a blink of an eye it seems.



it's a little weird to picture my family being a wealthy family, because we were pretty damn poor growing up. even now, seeing where i live, and what i drive, the contrast of what we grew up with is mind blowing. my dad made less than what a person with a minimum wage job did for a few years and still managed to raise us. they didn't put us through college, but they sent us off to college which is still a great accomplishment. i never felt that i belonged to a poor family, like the one i grew up with. but then again, i never knew realized we were one of the more poorer families that went to my high school. i feel like our family always projected "old money", when we never actually had money. so our new roles in things to come should be a smooth transition. at least for me and how i see our family adapting. we'll project "old money" but it will be "new money" to us. i dunno about my dad though. he's the only one who really did grow up in a rich family, but would be least likely to project any wealth because of the stuff he likes to wear and things he likes to collect. basically he wears things from garage sales, and collects junk from garage sales. if i ever had to clean up the garage, i'd have to fill one of those steel garbage cans that the garage trucks pick up, over the course of a few weeks. we have that much, useless rusted junk in our new garage and new place in gardena.



right now, issue with me is, i feel that from a pretty early age, i managed to pretty much make it on my own. and since my parents didn't really help me with money, i have no interest helping out my kids when they get to college. but it looks like my parents wish they could have, or at least, since they have money now, be able to pay us back for the college loans that we are currently paying off. i was going to suggest to them that they should, but they brought the subject up them selves this weekend. so i was pretty impressed when they mentioned they wanted to. not really relieved, but hey, that money would be good, and flat out get me out of debt. maybe i'll want to return the favor to my kids when this actually happens. if it does not, my kids will put them selves through college like i did. speaking of the book (rich dad poor dad), i think i'm gonna start reading. i think i typed through about 3 newsradio episodes so far. gonna stop right.....now