BMW. racing. sci-fi. innovation. design. technology. beauties.
We all are pretty concerned about home safety in all aspects: security, disasters etc. But would you buy a house in the woods, which looks like a hobbit den? Well, one is indeed for sale for only USD475,000 inclusive a 4.3 acre land.
It looks nice, but hey…
If you are keen, you can check out the website.
It has been a long while since I updated my blog. Things have been extreme for me for some time now. Changes at work, new initiatives with my-kart, business planning etc.
This Merdeka Day break is good. Just need to free myself from all the work and priorities and reflect for a short while. No doubt i shall be soon doing a bit of work… but let me for a short while sip some virtual tea with you.
I am going through and responsible for putting through some changes at work. This is a huge challenge for me, as change is one thing that many people fear the most. It is often so easy to do the same things we do for the longest time we can remember. But every once in a while things start to change and sometimes we tend not to be ready for it.
People often say that the only thing that stays constant is change. Hmph… easier said than done.
Yet, I am responsible to drive this change. I believe that change is good, but how do I deal with the resistance? How do I deal with the years of stability and predictability? I can see many obvious areas needing change, but this is not a matter for just turning the dial or switch and voila! No. There are no switches and remote controls.
The undercurrent that is resisting change are feelings of fear, uncertainty, resentment, comfort… I will have to deal with each of this. But do I provoke it with more fear? Do I sooth and comfort these feelings and say that everything is ok?
I have been watching House MD season 2 recently, and like Dr House, there are times that I feel I have to tell the patient that “you are going to die, so we need to do some radical procedures”. Yeah. You could probably excuse Dr House’s poor bedside manner because (a) he is fictional, (b) he is genius.
Where do I go from here?
You may be wondering what is all the odd and disjointed components on this website are all about. Certainly it is not intentional the way it currently looks right now. I am experimenting with some techniques on improving the navigation on this website.
One of the techniques is javascript + CSS pulldown menus that you see on the left hand side NavMenu bar. I am taking a few tips from suckerfish and a from css.maxdesign. I’m also visiting the CSS creator forums for discussions and tips. I would like to create a menu which opens up as you hover over selected items. I hope this will improve the usability of the site.
For now, the CSS is all screwed up. So bear with me. I would also suggest that you use Firefox for the best & standards compliant experience.
Most people who know me know that I love BMWs. I’ve been a Bimmer fan since the age of 6 when my dad first brought home a red first generation 520 (can’t remember the E code number, though).
The Bimmer to me always has an aggressive front “face” and drove quite well for a sedan car… very much establishing BMW’s sporting saloon niche cars.
So here I was today evening sitting in my first Bimmer in a traffic jam, and along comes the Peugeot 407 alongside me. Damn, that is one gorgeous car. I mean, I fell in love with the looks of the car the first time I saw it, and it still gives me the shivers whenever I see one on the road. The car really looks so good in the flesh. Sadly, the 2.0 model imported by Naza into Malaysia is a underpowered compared to its direct competitors the Honda Accord, the Toyota Camry (urgh!) and the Mazda 6.
These were the cars I was considering prior to me going for the 2001 model E39 Bimmer. Of course the Bimmer drives better than any of these, but the Peugeot has the looks.
Jeremy Clarkson’s review of the car hit the nail on the head… he concludes:
What you really need, if you want to come across as moody and interesting, is something desperately unreliable.
This then is a car that offers the style-conscious motorist just about everything. We can see, as you slide by, that you must have a family but that you haven’t bought an MPV, which would mark you down as technically dead, or an SUV, which would identify you as being Wayne Rooney.
We can also see you’ve bought a French car, which means you’re anti-Bush, anti-war and possibly that you have a place near Pau. These are all good things, too.
Best of all, though, we can see you’ve bought a car that you knew full well would go wrong all the time. This is good, too. Sit at the side of the road with the bonnet up reading Victorian poetry and I can pretty much guarantee that every girl who drives by will want to sleep with you.
Great stuff! *grin*
I am planning to do a few things: