Slowly

Past day or so been feeling pretty down. The reason why is pretty clear to me. Its here. I'm sick of this place. Sick of being at work all the time, sick of dealing with some of the people at work, sick of the country I am in. But looking at things compared to a year ago, I do admit things were much worse then. Work for a start has actually become more bearable and at times not too bad. So why the long face so to speak?

Best analogy I can think of is smoking. 1 stick wont kill ya, hell, suckin on a lite cig would do even less, but keep it going day after day after day and slowly but surely it'll catch up with you.

The fact of being here for over a year. And no clear signal as to when I will be able to take some time out away from this place. Not talking days or weeks here. Months. It will take at least a month if not 2 for me to get over all this. Home sickness I guess some call it. Only thing I really miss about "home" is my car. I miss driving it, I miss being in it, listening to it, I just miss it. Vast majority of my tiredness is just work. simply can't stand jobs in which you do few hours but many days. Personally I'd go all out to make the effort to spend a straight 48hrs at work if it meant I got 5 full days off. Mainly I simply need time away from here. By here I don't necessarily mean this country. Just maybe this state. See more of this planet before I pass on. Rather than wasting all these precious hours of my life at work.

12herue du Sepang

A lil late in the posting or rather blogging but sorting thru the 6 gig of pics is something I really had trouble facing. But now tis done.

Went to a 12hr endurance race at Sepang circuit in early August. Wasn't really expecting to do much other than snap a few pics as the lame ass website never detailed what teams or drivers would be racing... Really gripes me when websites don't put essential/useful info on their pages but instead stack it with a ton of FLASH and useless filler. Anyway turned up a treat as some of my fave drivers would be racing as well as some well known Jap teams. Namely "Spoon" and "J's Racing"

Watching the Z4s of the Petronas team (M. Orido & N.Taniguchi) was excellent. Mainly due to the demonstration of real team play. 2 of them always staying together thru most of the race. Drafting thru the straights and on the turns whoever was trailing blocked for the lead so he could concentrate on the fastest line. Amazing they managed to stay relatively together thru the whole 12hours, claiming a 1,2 spot at the end of it all. Orido getting the top spot. Props go to the 3rd placers thou. The 911 GT3 from the Singapore Porsche owners club! Just amazed an owners club can get a podium finish in an international event.

In the 3rd class leader board, sadly the Spoon S2K suffered a DNF. They died half way thru the race. Thou "J's Racing" S2K fared better with K. Tsuchiya behind the wheel. Placing 2nd. Not bad for the JGTC retired drift king.

Only regret was not being able to stick around till the end. At about the half way mark the wife was getting a lil bored/cheezed off. Can't blame her really. Would have been cool to get some night shots as well as watch the checkerd flag come down. Well enough of the blabbing here are the pics.