tomorrow is my fitness assessment day. yay. never felt so ready for a class. not over-prepared, not under-prepared, just right.

today, i met up with jeff and loi to get some pho. loi brought his mustang (he has a few) with a NASCAR racing engine in it. damn that thing was loud. i wasn't really impressed. more mad actually because it sounded like the exact same car that wakes me up at 6 in the morning in international gardens. even though its not loi doing that, i'm just conditioned to it. supposedly it gets 750hp at the wheels, and drives like a normal car if you don't mash the throttle. would it pass smog? well, just standing behind for under a minute, i felt i had lost 2 years of my life. supposedly, loi got bored doing off the line stuff, and wanted a car that could turn. so that's why he's into imports now. rx7's to be exact. he's almost done putting in a big turbo that should give him around 500hp. the funny thing is, the motor that he's doing that to already has a 100,000 miles on it. according to jeff, rotary engines blow up at about 70-80k miles, and need to be replaced. and at rx7 meets, all people talk about is when their engines blew up. anyway, the 100k motor (ready to be blown up any minute) is just a place holder until he can get a new built motor put in by this shop in LA. loi asked jeff if he wanted to come with them to drop the car off in LA. and jeff said no because he didn't want to end up sitting on the side of the freeway with a blown up engine. that was pretty hilarious.



other car related news, jeff's GTR might make an appearance in R&T in the Ampersand section around january. That should be cool. Supposedly, the guy didn't even drive it hard and wasn't even interested. Can't blame him cause he's driven far more exciting vehicles.



the Infiniti G35 Coupe looks really sweet. it's the next perfect car for me. stick, rwd, sophisticated, and 80 more horses at the crack of the whip.... and, it's affordable since my honda retains value really well. oh well, enough about cars....



after that, we went to get boba.......i can never seem to pass that up. oh well. i've been losing more weight than i was hoping. can't hurt when i'm trying to bulk. when i'm cutting up, boba will be my worst enemy. we'll find out when i start cutting up january.



after boba, we went to the nissan dealer to look at the G35 (no coupes there yet), and we went to lexus so jeff can check out a GS430...............yeah. i'll leave it at that. they didn't any any GS430's parked outside, and they were closed, so we just briefly looked at the new ES 300 (car with an interior like Mercedes, and exterior like a corolla), IS300 (doesn't appeal to me any more), and the GS300 (didn't look like anything special). even though jeff's had some influence in my increase in interest towards cars, glad i'm still a big fan of stock. i rely on the engineers to do their job. the biggest mod on my car are wider tires with stiffer side walls about a year ago(Bridgestone Potenza RE730 225/50/16). i read somewhere that if you deflate the tires, it would still stand up. kinda doubt it. anyway, the car rides great. the accord v6 ex trim has really stiff suspension (jeff and nguyen pointed out). i had to change my driving style. and i quickly learned that i couldn't run through the bumpers as i had been doing at IG before.



Track my yohimburn

i did 2 day air shipping because last time i ordered something from Florida by UPS Ground (my receiver), it was 2 weeks of torture, tracking a damn package for 2 weeks as it made its way across the country. i think they just do that, and let you track it to convince you that it's not the way to ship things. i had gotten my speakers first, and it was torture just looking at my speakers for 2 weeks in a box and knowing i couldn't hear them for the first time until i got the receiver. by tomorrow morning, i should have it. unfortunately, the cutting gel just doesn't seem to get used fast enough. but it sure beats having nothing for a week or so.