Last Friday night, I was drooling endlessly! Why? I was surprised there were so many Lamborghini’s at the main entrance of Tropicana City Mall! The engine’s were still on… gosh! The macho, strong sounds emanating were so beautiful! Yes, I am crazy over beautiful engine sounds like this… call me crazy but it makes me high!
As you can see, there’s an odd one out… a Rolls Royce… sorry only 1 photo as I’m not into antiques ^.^ Anyway, OverTime, a blooming franchise, was celebrating the opening of their new outlet there and they have invited Lin Chi Ling to officiate it. So the Rolls was to ferry her and the Lambor’s were the escorts. They also had a band ala Mardi Gras to lead the convoy from the main entrance to the outlet which was on the other side. Unfortunately, it was raining heavily. Errr… Hokkien people believed that if a person is kedekut then it will rain during their function… hmmm o.O
I didn’t attend the opening lah but I had time to spare while waiting for Hubby to finish work so I waited for Lin Chi Ling to arrive. I was curious too as I had read an article before that she was rated as the most beautiful woman in Taiwan. I wonder how true this statement was. Alas she arrived 9ish and those MEN! They ‘engorged’ her! I couldn’t squeeze through! I did catch a few glimpse of her and honestly… she was really pretty in real too… not only in photos. Her make-up was light yet she exuded youth and glowing! I rest my case!
After being pushed and shoved, this was the best I could take… sigh! So near yet so far! My paparazzi mode totally failed! I guess I have to stick to taking cars or still photos =.=
I wonder why I bothered posting this… hmmm… I guess it struck a sad chord when I heard it…
Hubby is a member of Lancer GT Club (LGTC). The club just had their 3rd Annual Gathering somewhere in Perak over the weekend. I had given it a missed as it coincided with school holidays, same as last year. It’s also costly for all of us to attend so might as well not go. Furthermore, I’m not familiar with most of the attendees… many new members leh! One thing for sure, FAMILY is of the utmost importance! We have learnt it the hard way… the sad chord. Well, we shall not dwell over the past… let bygones be bygones.
Luckily we didn’t go too as:
1. My sis came back for the weekend and we had a good quality time catching up.
2. Besides that I also wanted to check out the ‘I love bazaar’ which had just started at TCM recently.
3. I saw something intriguing when we reached TCM on Saturday morning… so many people passing by carrying buckets of paint. I later found out that Seamaster was giving away free paints and those desperate people had been queuing since 6am! The queue was sooo long! So typically Malaysians!
Anyway, sad chord aside, to reminiscence, we attended the first inaugural launch on 8th Nov 2008 at Tiara Beach Resort, Port Dickson as it was before the school holidays. To end this post, sharing some write-ups from the magazines of the launch:
On The Road, issue 83, 19th Nov – 2nd Dec 08
Top Gear, issue 22, Jan 09
Shift, vol 26, Mar 09
I was curious when Hubby mentioned that there will be some fancy cars gathering at Tropicana City Mall last Sunday afternoon. So I went around to scout for it and my, my, my… what a surprise! I didn’t asked what event they were there for as I was busy taking photos! I’ve loaded some here for your viewing pleasure ^.^
Noticed the nice photo quality? Hubby let me try the Sony HX-5V camera… I have totally fallen in love with it! So easy… point and shoot! The above photos were all taken in Auto mode… I don’t have to adjust a single button! Cool right?! I also loved the sweep panorama function… with just a click of the button and whallah! Captured the whole event with one click! For a compact digital camera, it’s totally value for $$$ 
When I heard rumours of the new Proton car to be based on Mitsubishi Lancer, I just waived it off thinking that they would probably copy some and add most of their own design. How wrong I was!!! When it was revealed last week, I nearly fainted.
For those who didn’t know, this is how Mitsubishi Lancer looks like:
This is how the new car named Proton Inspira looks like:
Did you see any difference? Not much actually! They just changed the front nose, back bumper and rims! I’m not sure of the interior though as it will only be launched officially in November. It rendered me speechless…
Proton is so proud of this rebadged Mitsubishi Lancer. I totally wonder what their R&D felt inspired about when they rebadged this new car! Ok ok the be fair, this is the first batch where it will have 20% local content, the next batch would have 40% and the official batch will have 60%. Still… don’t they have their own original idea or design to make, a local car which we can feel proud of instead of feeling ashamed when we or even the foreigners could get confused with the design and model later on. I won’t be surprise if there’s a hike on the crime rate for stealing car accessories in the near future. A thought, Inspira owners might want the original Mitsubishi emblems to replace their Proton ones. Luckily Hubby had removed all his emblems to keep his car looking neat :-)
I still remember previously when we were stopped during a roadblock:
Police: Ini kereta apa? Waja? (Hinting that it’s a modified Waja i.e. Waja-lution)
Hubby: Bukan lah, ini Mitsubishi Lancer GT
Police: Betul ker? I ingat you sudah mod kereta ni (Still thinking we were lying =.=)
Anyway, sad to say there will be a drop in resale value of Mistubishi Lancer’s but the Inspira is also overpriced for a local car. So it’s up to the buyers which they prefer. One thing’s for sure, I believe they can do cosmetic changes to Inspira and mod it to look like the original Mitsubishi Lancer. More confusion later on but good news to car workshops!
Sigh!
Photos taken from www.paultan.org
We saw this beautiful car at Restoran MMZ in Bukit Jelutong last Friday night. It’s a Honda Civic, fully furnished with Miss Ayumi and bling-blings! As the owner, mind you it’s a he, was proudly showing his beauty, I quickly snapped some photos ;-)
There was a TT session between Honda FD2 Club and Lancer GT Club that night (hubby is a member of the Lancer GT Club), a first for this year. It was crowded with Honda’s and Lancer’s, even our very own Helang was there ;-)
Helang is also a member of Lancer GT Club ;-)
