Power Steering Fluid Flush

My Neo clocked 58000km last Sunday and had lots of maintenance work done. Especially the power steering fluid, which was due for flushing many km ago. This is the first time watching a power steering flush in progress. As they drain the old power steering fluid, it replaces with new one as the same time, note the two different colored hose. The darker colored is the old fluid being sucked out, the clear one is the new fluid being filled in. I question the effectiveness of such method as the old and new fluid will eventually mix in the reservoir and also the piping.


Torn sleeve needs replacement. At the moment it's non critical, so I'll delay it till next service.

OMFGBBQ SAUCE

I was having those nostalgia moments, surfing through cyberspace, looking for games during my era that I never got the chance to play, back then I didn't have the luxury for a video game console, and my PC spec wasn't up to date to keep up with times. Plus distribution of content was very poor because there's on internet back then. Then I came across this:

You are looking at a character selection of the game Armored Warriors. Also known as Powered Gear - Strategic Variant Armor Equipment in Japan when it was first released in 1994. If you are an avid video game player form the 90s, you probably know where I'm getting to next. In fact, I'll let the pictures do the talking.





These characters from two separate video games bears uncanny resemblance of each other, especially Meryl. Characters form Powered Gear looks almost identical to Metal Gear Solid. Or should I rephrase that to characters of Metal Gear Solid looks almost identical to characters to Powered Gear, since Metal Gear Solid was released four years later, in 1998. Both games also have the word 'Gear' in them, and they are about robots. Coincidence?

Powered Gear @ gameFAQ

Metal Gear Soild @ gameFAQ

Marc's new boomer

He's been talking about it the moment he got his car months ago. And now he finally materializes it when the warranty expires yesterday. A very simple mod of replacing the stock s-flow muffler with an aftermarket straight flow muffler. In fact it doesn't muffle anything at all.

More babies!

13 Nov 09. (Day 1) Quarantine, the fattest of the females given birth to 7 pups.

13 Nov 09. (Day 1) Mom and dad, Goldie the winter gold hamster, Sweetheart's birthday present. At first I wanted to separate Goldie from Quarantine, as advised by most hasmter breeders. Then I saw something remarkable, Goldie emptied his food pouch in front of Quarantine for her to feed.

14 Nov 09. (Day 2) I have them Noisy's old house, not realizing that Noisy was to give birth too.

15 Nov 09. (Day 3) I wonder what color will they turn out to be?


14 Nov 09. (Day 1) Noisy Given birth, yet again.

14 Nov 09. (Day 1) This time it's a litter of 7 minus one. This is the minus one

15 Nov 09. (Day 2) The remaining 6 healthy babies

[G400] Test of Time

I'm not going to go though the conventional product review like what most mobile phone review does. After all, this phone is more then a year old. What I'm going to post about is what the phone will look like after a year of use. Feel free to click on the high resolution images attached.




These pictures were taken using your out of the mill Canon D646U ex flatbed scanner. It highlights some minute detail like grime, and pox marks. But loses some detail as well, as the Samsung logo is still chrome, not flat like the picture. Another reason for using a flatbed scanner is because I don't have a SLR.

How much punishment has this phone endured? lots, from drops to tarmac, to being handled with greasy hands. This phone just endured it all. There are times when it will auto shutdown, but it was a month ago before I had to reset the phone. It's running fine since then. And this is what the G400 endured a day before this post

A 12-15 feet free fall.