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Sweet young girl... Miss Daphenie.

29 Dec 07 :: Again live from FRIM

Our 1st stop for the day. Today i pushed myself all the way up. Stupid gears not smooth. Today we are joined with kids riders. Met with Chew and gang. The uncles brought kids along..

My photos on printed media !

My photos on printed media !, originally uploaded by ::N.Keong::.

FHM Dec '07 Cover girl

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This is 1 of my "better" reason for missing out in weekend rides. Her name is Crissty Chiang. Find her on the cover of FHM M'sia Dec '07 issue.

Balinese Dancer

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She was a part of the Barong dance..
Battle between good and evil.

Sunset @ Tanah Lot, Bali, Indonesia

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It was end of November 2007, that I was in Bali. Company trip..
Wouldn't mind going to Bali again. Shopping is affordable. And the clubbing is great !

On road

Another weekend of no ride. Weekends have really been very tiring.. Most of my time have been taken up by photography. Just the usual cycle around the housing estate. Better than no ride at all la..

Yish in action

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This was the outcome from joeadnan's photo shooting of us last Sunday in FRIM. Makes it worth for him carrying all his heavy heavy gears...

Live from the coconut stall

The best stop for FRIM sg buloh trail.. Sigh... Later it is going to be a hard way up..

Live from FRIM

Today's ride is a mixture. We have got real newbies, experienced and re-introduction riders like myself. On top of that we got joeadnan, all suited up with his camera and gears. Will get his photo later.. Now i'm at rover trail, waiting for Keat and the couple to reach. Looks like a long ride ahead of us. Hope the newbies can take the distance.. That's all for now.

After ride

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Here is my Tank Fobia, after ride... After a good clean up.
Though the ride was bit the short distance (in FRIM). But it was good enuff, since I also level up (coz I barfed). Didn't have any wan ton minn that weekend. Was rushing off to get the car serviced, since it rained so much on Saturday ! Yeah, that's Malaysian weather for you !

Ride at FRIM (live)

After so long.. My weekend ride is back. Up now at rover trail. Stopped for a break. Guess wat, i puke.. Pushed too hard. So now resting and smoking. Cool ya..

Lovey @ Lake Garden :: 13 October 2007

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Topeak saddle bag

This morning.. Got up and wanted to do a short road ride.. In the midst of putting on the saddle bag. Stupid holder FUBAR.. So this was what i did. It works and i didn't sacrifice my short road ride.. Which i ended up having breakfast with CS.. Doesn't matter.. Tomolo ride again !

Testing macro with SE K800i

Set it to macro mode.. And this is what i got. Probably should have reduced the exposure.

::new bling bling::

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In my previous blog post.. I did mentioned that I've ask Armijn to source some bling bling parts for the Tank Fobia. I really really hope that he'll be able to get them... =)

But before I could get anything for the Tank, look at the cuff links ! Isn't it just a good BLING ! Hehehehe... Cool rite ? I think I might wear it for a wedding lunch this Saturday.
Thanks to Keat actually, he the one who bought it from Robinsons, The Garden. With my sub card... Main thing, is I got new cuff links ! Now... to get more cuff link shirts.

::must RIDE weekend::

Memang for the longest time since there was any proper blog from any of us. So how are you guys enjoying the photos that we have been posting ? I wonder if there are anyone still viewing this blog.. Not too sure liow, I used to monitor the hit counter, but now lost track liow. Cause even I myself don't visit this blog as often.. YUP ! Guilty as charged !

Anyhow.. As the title say, this coming weekend is going to be a MUST RIDE WEEKEND, for me at least. Since this coming weekend, got no Taekwondo classes and hopefully I don't have to work (fingers crossed). Last weekend, didn't ride cause I was working outstation.. Another good weekend gone.

So long never ride.. But then (currently) talking to Armijn of Project Maheez, asking him to help me get some RED bling blings for my Tank. Hehehehe... I'm just a sucker for (almost) anything RED. Few things I wanna RED bling ; YETI grip, SALSA QR and seatclamp, rims as well (if the price is right). For the longest time I wanna do a photo shoot of my Tank Fobia. But just now the right time yet.. Not RED enough ! Hahahaha ! ! Woo Hoo ! ! RED Fetish, is me...
Oh.... on top of all the list of wants, I am also looking to replace the Specialized Enduro 2.3 tire. Which is now running in front, the rear was replaced with the Maxxis Highroller 2.3 ! Probably get a new 2.1, for the rear, and then shift the Highroller to the front.

OK OK... back to work liow... Really need to DE-STRESS this weekend !

Happy Mid Autumn Festival ya'll ! Have a mooncake on my behalf.. I just don't favor them. Hmmm... Could I be a Mongol descendant ? Enjoy the big bright round moOn...

~::NK the wOOfer::~

GRA Round 3 @ Shah Alam

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What is a car race event... without the cars rite ??

To me, this is the BEST car on track.. Toyota MR2 :: Driver is Mickey Teoh. The best sounding Turbo !

For sure it is no longer street legal.. Got launch control sial ! !

GRA Round 3 @ Shah Alam

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How also I have to blog this photo...

GRA Round 3 @ Shah Alam

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The famous AE86 :: Tofu carrying car... replica of course...

GRA Round 3 @ Shah Alam

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This is where you would wanna go on a Sunday, after a good morning's ride..

Had a good short ride @ Kiara on Sunday.. Nothing much to it. Had to cut short my ride, coz I realized that I left my phone in the car. Sigh...

After lunch, headed to Shah Alam Stadium area.. Where N.Keat was already there covering the event. So I took the camera, relief him awhile and started shooting away.. For sure there are more photos... You should know where to find them by now rite ?

060907 - Port Dickson

For no reason, i just follow my friend to PD who want to do some surveys.

A very good day to use the polarizing filter. Really see the blue sky and reduce the reflection of the water... The more i shoot, the more i like the kit lense and it wasn't as bad as i think!!

I like this picture the most. If the cloud wasn't there, this picture will looks heavy to right side. Don't you think so?

silhouette?

Oldies + Modern??? Taken by Estelion Belegorn!!

Again my sickness!! Take picture while people doing something

This pic a bit under. Haha. Lazy to edit it. Looks like oasis? What say you?

:::CenseSence @ ND40:::

Josephine for KK Lau @ Monash Motorshow

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Just another to add...

If only her eyes were looking at me.

Not bad....

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I'm getting loads of VIEW hits on my flickr...

Damn cool... simple shot like this also can catch attention.

Must be her pierced tongue ! Can you see the stud hiding inside the tongue ?!

I'm back with something!!

After all, there was a long long time i never post in this blog. I'm back with something to share!!
Here you go:

By @}--CenseSence©--{@

Another weekend with my 400D

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HAHAHAHAHAAH !!! You guessed it !

Another weekend of no riding for me... Wondering if I should really sell of my bike, then I could get myself a Canon 70-200mm f2.8L lens ??
Then again, no also ler...

Sorry guys... don't know her name... But that doesn't stop you from drooling at her photos...

ENJOY !

This is sweet smiling Amy...

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Was lucky enough to snap her photo... Look at her smile ! How can you not agree that it'll make you melt ?

MAPA 2007 @ MVEC on 11.08.2007

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This is the reason why my riding have been less frequent on the weekends liow.. I wonder will I be like Kevin Han, go crazy into photography and sell off my Tank HT ?

The girl's name is Stella, photo was taken during the MAPA event in MVEC.

Dinner @ London Cafe

Finally... An end to my site work, well almost. Considering since tomolo i've still gotto conduct a training for TNB. Plus not to mention tonite gotto update drawings.. :( Will do that while i watch the delayed F1 Hungary race.. Talk about hungry.. I'm now waiting for my food to arrive. London Cafe this place is called. Supposed to be a fast food joint, but then when i walked in, i see many ppl waiting for their food. No wonder not many ppl eating here le.. Oh cool ! Food arrived ! Now to eat, gain energy for some shopping...

Penang, Pearl of the Orient

Look look ! If u dun already know, that's like the famous landmark design.. Of Penang Bridge of course. Such an inviting gateway to the vast choices of food. Can't wait to indulge in a bowl of asam laksa, or should i start with char keoy teow ?

:: PBP is born ::

Today is the birth of a new BAND of photographers.. Today being, 21.07.2007, it was something that pop out of the blues. Same way also how this HardTail'ers was born as well. Look that the flash, nice PINK hair BAND huh.. Remember this, PINK BAND PHOTOGRAPHY or PBP for short. This is me, NK signing out live from RAFI mamak SS15 Subang Jaya.. ;)

ELENEX 2007 @ KLCC

ELENEX 2007 @ KLCC, originally uploaded by nkeongprofile.

Greetings... I'm still not able to sleep.. Yup it is way pass 2am liow. What to do, after last nite's all night-er in the office. Kind of messed up my sleeping time liow. Have to rush for a tender closing.. So the usual last minute rush.

Which I took the chance to sleep in today till mid-noon ! After lunch, I headed to KLCC with my colleague. Wanna checkout the ELENEX exhibition there... Basically, it is about Electrical Enginneering. All the major players of the Electrical Eng field is there... Except my company, which is a good call. Cause the crowd is just not there.. Unlike Tenaga expo (held biannually).

Anyway... I managed to meet up with old colleagues, both local and from the UK. Walked around alittle... Siemens were the best ! They hired hot looking girls.. Few of them were common to the photographers. If you view those photos I've uploaded on Flickr, you'll see Rose Chin there.. Hope I got her name right.

Of the few shots I managed to get... DAMN ! ! ! Wish I had Tammy with me liow... Very hard to balance and play with the kit lens. The 85mm pulak gives a too tight framing. But that's another story...

This girl, cute as ever, Agatha is her name... Just wanna highlight her out on the blog. So no particular reasons...

~::NK the wOOfer::~

Release from the ICU

The day finally came ! Oh yeah... After I think almost 2 weeks of waiting and disappointment, which could not be avoided. But whatever it is... The important thing is that finally Tank Fobia is out of the ICU, Project Maheez Medical Center. Thanks the great hands of Dr. Armijn.

We, as in CS and myself, arrived at Project Maheez late evening. We had a detour and had a quick dinner before making our way to Project Maheez. Together with me, I had the carbon seat post, headset / stem cap and the XTR chain.. These were the few last minute add on parts for my bike. As you know, the XTR chain was left to soaked in the ICE WAX.

When we arrived, I was so glad to see my bike on the working stand.. Shows that work was done. What a sigh of relief when Armijn said that my bike was ready. Which was when I handed over to him the XTR chain... Basically the bike was ready once the new chain was installed and tuned. Here is a close up shot (by CS)...

New hubs :: New chain :: New cassette

Oh... That is not all... Don't recall if I told you about my Deore crank. Armijn called before and said that the crank was UN-removable. Barbaric methods had to be used... Well, nothing was documented, but for sure... Here is the outcome...

FUBAR Deore crank

So when it was my turn to test ride my Tank Fobia... Realised the real tire was touching the frame. Been having this problem from the start liow. Armijn said that it was the spokes length. 1 side shorter than the other, or something like that.. If he would have told me earlier, I would have gotten them spokes replaced as well. Doesn't matter, all in not lost ! Solution... Changed to new tire ! Maxxis High Roller 2.35.. Which surprisingly was a thinner tire compared to my ex-Specialized Enduro 2.3inch. So... With all my problems solved. Only thing left to do was to pay for the service and be on my way. Total damage was RM420nett. Of course, that is not including the other parts bought from the other bike shops. Whatever it is... I got my bike back ! And now in smooth running condition, hope it stays that way...

There after, we were supposed to join those other bloggers at Friendster Cafe. But somehow, we literally back tracked our way out. Instead we headed down and join my high school friends for a gathering.. Nothing like being in the company of people that knows your name... We met at OldTownKopitiam Taipan USJ. Just a sample, more photos can be viewed at our HT's Forum...

I'll be pretty much riding on road, over the weekdays, whenever possible. Have to revive my stamina mar.. If not how to even make it up to Kiara's tarmac cross junction ?

That is all... It is already Monday morning, I'm staying to feel cranky liow. Signs of Monday Blues, for sure !

~::NK the wOOfer::~

My Taekwondo uniform

Check it out.. adidas dobuk, very rare that you'll find with this logo.
If there is anyone going to KOREA, or from KOREA... That can get me more new Taekwondo WTF uniform, I'll be every so greatful.

~::NK the wOOfer::~

<~::XTR::~>

Really... for real, I made cake last night..

As you might have known by now, I've got a few purchased parts - all yet to be installed. Still nicely hidden from the sun, stored in my cabinet drawer. So finally getting the parts and the bike back together. In fact, at this current moment, my Tank Fobia is en route to Project Maheez. Body guarded by both Keat and CS. Heheheheehe...

Wait... TCSS stories later.. Now back to my XTR cake 1st...

Last night, I finally took out my XTR chain.. Sprayed it heavily with WD40, with the intention of washing away the grease / lube already on the chain. Honestly, not really that effective.. Then hor I kasi wash the fella with KAO Attack ! powder. Washed it double time, still not good enough.. After drying the chain, can still feel the lube still on the chain.
Finally, I used dish washing liquid... Soaked it in the kitchen basin, luckily parents were out watching news on the TV. Mom would shout at me for doing that.. Anyhow, after soaking it awhile then rinsed it. The chain became BLING BLING ! Here... see below...
See how clean the XTR chain is... So once I dried it, using old newspapers and kitchen paper towels. I put the chain into a plastic container. The only thing left to do is to drown it with ICE WAX... I think I must have squeezed almost half a bottle of the ICE WAX, at least quarter of the new bottle went into soaking the XTR chain.
Actually I think it looks more like custard, rather than cake.. But definitely not something appetizing. Gonna leave it so soak till Saturday afternoon.. Then, wipe off the excessive ICE WAX, give it a nice rinse. DONE ! ! ! I think so... Have to ask CS and see if correct or not. After all he is the one that taught me these steps...

Now, back to some TCSS stories.. Was on the phone with Armijn, got to know that he might be going down to Singapore tomorrow for a day trip. Or rather a shopping trip to me, grab bike parts. Heheheehehe... Apa lagi, I pun kasi pesan sama dia.. Tolong angkat 1 set RED mavic rims, itupun kalu dia ada jumpa itu barang. Oh oh... Ade jugak kirim dia beli itu Salsa RED hubs QR.

So hopefully, by Saturday evening.. I'll have my bike all ready, with all the upgraded parts. Plus hopefully some more added new parts from Singapore ! Gonna collect my bike, just before going for the Malaysia Blogger's Day @ Friendster Cafe...

wOOfer out

~::NK the wOOfer::~