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The fun of driving

Ford PumaOne of the thing I missed most since I moved to the U.S. is that I am no longer a car owner. Before the move, I owned a Ford Puma which is a small sport car only sold in Europe and in limited number (~10,000 were made per year). Here are a couple of photos of my car soon after I bought it brand new from the car dealer.

Ford Puma - backThe great thing about the Puma (apart from its fantastic styling) is the handling. Although the engine was by no mean very powerful (only a 4 cylinders/1.7 litre/125 bhp) but coupled with the finely tuned chassis (tuned by the Ford Special Vehicles Team who also works with Cosworth Racing for Ford’s European Rally team) it is a dynamite on the road. The progressive powered steering makes it easy to drive around town while transmitting the feel of a non-powered steering at high speed. The suspensions were tuned such that it is again ‘progressive’. It has none of the dull understeer most cars have and when push too hard, snaps into oversteer. The Puma is tuned to be slightly tail light and as it is pushed harder and harder, it retains only very slight understeer and gradually fades to oversteer. Thus, this gives the driver (me!) the confidence to push the car hard as there is no nasty surprises.
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Well, it's confirmed

I am officially no longer working on a project, though I am still ‘available’ for anything that require my attention which I think will be far and between. Let’s hope the job interview I am having tomorrow morning will be successful and land myself a job. At least I have more time to work on the TypeWriter app.

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Chinese New Year

Tomorrow is the Chinese New Year, the year of monkey. Being the good Chinese that I am (*cough*, *cough*) Leah and I are planning to go to Chinatown this weekend and see what kind of New Year food we can acquire. First and foremost on the list is the red sticky sweet rice cake that I love so much.

And this is the first New Year that I am married so I am no longer eligible for the red pocket money 😦 Instead tradition rules that we, now as married couple, should give out those red pocket money! At least being in the separate continent let me get away from not giving any out! Ha!

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Best camp story!

Ron had posted a three parts series of his camp story. It is by far the best, funniest, and memory provoking story I’ve read on a blog so far.

I’ve been only to camp couple of times. The first time it was a boy scout trip and it was exciting but it wasn’t the best experience in my juvenile life. I was too young to appreciate the outdoor from the concrete jungle of Hong Kong. The second time it was just a regular school trip. We got to try out archery and star gazing at night. We ‘party’ (as a bunch of school kids without alcohol can party) throughout the night and only managed to get like 30 minutes of sleep in 2 days! That was pretty cool trip. No camp counselors like in Ron’s trip though. Just teachers from my schools, and none of the female ones were spring chicken…

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How British!

Leah made scones this evening and we had it with Devonshire clotted cream and jam, and tea (well, coffee for me) while watching Yes, Minister DVD. How British of us!

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