http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:miraikazuya&section=today deviantART RSS for by:miraikazuya en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:07:31 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/19324414/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/19324414/ Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:30:52 PDT
Especially since YOU KNOW WHAT happened.








Uuuurgh.

Tell you what, tearing my '89 Legacy apart and putting it back together again, then convincing it to run with a massive water leak has got to be less painful than this...

]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/16218006/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/16218006/ Wed, 02 Jan 2008 04:01:07 PST
CAR RANT

My first-born son and I made a hike from Auckland to Wellington and back in the days between Boxing Day and New Year's Day. Shale was given a test of a lifetime - it is a 700km trip to Wellington through country roads, one of them being the Desert Road...a bit of a frightening one I must say.

A tank of fuel down, a tank of fuel up...he's an expensive bastard to run but in the scheme of things...well...most Subarus would do it in TWO tanks each way. NA ftw...

Nothing broke, surprise surprise.

I have to say, the Wellington crew treated us wonderfully...there were jibes as to Shale's lack of a turbo for all of about five minutes...it all pretty much stopped completely after we indulged in an NZ-style variant of Initial D.

I must point out at this point that Wellington is mostly mountains. The suburbs of the Hutt valley are smattered through an impressive wall of mountains, the only thing dividing them being a motorway and thin slab of civilisation throughout the valley. Needless to say...NZ country roads...mountains...it is the making of something that makes Initial D look just like a Quarter Mile (which is, for those not in the know, 'drag racing' - 400m of straight, flat road).

Shale's current setup is unusual - he has an extensive rear bias in handling. The rear brakes are STi, front ones are stock. Rear swaybar is STi-RA, front is stock (swaybars connect the bottom half of the suspension/wheel setup so they don't slosh apart under heavy cornering). No LSD (limited-slip differential) and an even power curve...this forces the car, both under power, in neutral/throttle and under braking, to break the rear tyres out and oversteer dramatically before the fronts will lose traction.

While this sounds dangerous, it's actually a very good thing. Imagine you're chasing a similar car (which I was), and you have to keep up. Sharp left hand hairpin (tight 180 degree turn) ahead...you slam it into 1st gear and slam your foot on the gas as you turn into the apex.

If the car is an AWD and has neutral bias, the front and rear will break out evenly - if not, front-first. After all, forces want the car to go straight...not turn. This results in understeer...which translates to smacky-smacky into wall straight ahead.

If the car's got Shale's rear bias, put your foot down and turn, and the back wheels are going to light up. If you can imagine the rear is going around a lot faster than the front, the car's angle is going to veer sharply in towards the corner rather than out of it...

...as the front wheels scrabble to maintain traction and steer the car...you can see how this is a massive advantage eh.

So yes. I got my first taste of REAL touge. And tell you what...I'm a changed person by it. After all, there are two options when you taste it.

Either you scream, cry, freak out, demand to be let out, and never step foot in a car again, especially the wet, soiled seat you leave behind.

Alternatively, you've never felt so alive. You discover your purpose. You revel in the sweat, the shakes...it's heroin, only better.

I know what I choose.

PARTS RANT

Meanwhile, back up in Auckland, a parts pile due to become twice the value of my car is mounting in storage. A $4000 gearbox awaits installation (6 speed manual with a driver controlled centre differential), along with brand new Brembo brakes...all $2000 worth.

Awaiting the cash for a few more parts, then this conversion can get underway. Shorter gear ratios, shorter shifter, more power being put to the ground due to less power loss...it's looking good.

Time and money...time and money...

OTHER STUFF...lmao

Currently on a Pirates of the Caribbean buzz like I never thought would happen. 3rd movie...it's caught me with one epic fucking hook...

Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann should have died horrible, horrible deaths...and I'm pretty hacked off they survived. Possibly THE most annoying, THE most Disney characters ever created. DIE DIE DIE DIE FREAKING DIE. Oh, and Orlando Bloom has no penis

True to my form, my favourite character has to be Davy Jones. You know what I'm like...the cold, bitter, dark 'bad guy' is the one I am drawn to in almost every series. It's because something just seems to scream of their silent pain for me...there is a reason behind every dark character's ways, and so often it's abuse, rejection or hurt...

Perhaps it's the allure of a weakness in an otherwise staunch, immovable character.

Frick, I like him so much I'd happily play with his tentacles http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/15722909/ Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:06:35 PST
Tomorrow is Dyno Day – Shale goes on the dyno so we can have a feel of his private bits...for those in the dark, we are going to find out what power and torque he is making :3

A stock HX20s makes 135hp...not a lot. As a comparison, a stock BC5 Legacy GT will make about 220hp...my partner has said Legacy with a boost controller. Low boost makes 180-200hp, high boost adds about 60hp to that. Feels like a NOS switch, I swear. Lol. So we’re driving back to his place to drop the Legacy (aka guzzleguts) back, and I’m following behind in Shale. He puts his foot on the floor on low boost...I put my foot down with no boost...and wow. The Legacy could not get away...right through first and second gear, that Legacy could not gain distance on Shale. That tells me – we can expect upwards of 170hp a the engine, and considering it’s almost stock, that’s a HUGE improvement over the factory output.

Hence the dyno. :3

Anyway...

The folks with the 6MT I want are willing to negotiate...so with my loan I should have that sorted. From there I need forged rotors for my brakes (5x100, the cast ones I have are 5x114.5), rear hubs, four halfshafts, a new propshaft, R180 diff and a new clutch. And then we will have... GC8/GDB mongrel of d00m :3

We’re looking at a scary vehicle.

Unfortunately Winger currently has my dream car in...and I can’t afford it. Black version 9 STi – all the specs I want bar it being a Spec C. Maaan...Blackie is sitting there waiting to be bought while his poor son Shale is sitting out in the rain alooooone...

]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/15472432/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/15472432/ Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:42:01 PST
- I have stalkers...a few people have decided that they will follow me wherever I go on the internet and flame the fuck out of me. They have even dedicated hate sites to me. Why? They don't like my car or my gender. YAY HOW FRICKEN MATURE. They know me in real life too, which makes it worse. Always so sickly sweet and 'leasant' irl...then the backstabbing comes online. Honestly, why bother? What's the point? Is it going to make me sell my car? HELL FUCKING NO.

- Speaking of the car... 1) I went to a PPG place today to buy some touch-up paint for my f**ked bumper and lip (had a few idiots drive into me). Instead of buying paint, I discovered from them that the guy that resprayed the car didn't f**king prep it properly and all my paint is eventually going to peel all the way off. Looooovely. It cost me $2000 to get it painted in the first place, and now I find out it's all going to bloody peel off. Nice. 2) The new parts I want are not only far more expensive than I thought, I've now got half the car community abusing me over buying them. Why? Because it's NOT A TURBO (and because they don't think I drive well enough to deserve them. WTF. The only people that say this, mind, have never EVER seen me drive. Those that have competed against me at Grasskhanas quickly shut up, as the car is brilliant at them). Only a few people have come up with good reasons I shouldn't use Brembo brakes and a GDB STi 6MT with DCCD. Weight. They are HEAVY parts. But - the heavy bit on the brakes is the cast rotors I'm trying to sell and replace with far stronger, lighter FORGED rotors...and the 6MT is only as heavy as an auto box! My car used to be a fucking auto!! -_____- So I'm up for a few grand more on the hubs for the Brembos (have the calipers), and up to $4500 for the gearbox. Yaaaaay.

- My entire body is covered in flea bites. I am absolutely exhausted, but I cannot sleep because of the stinging, itching, burning bites. Nearly passing out on your desk at work is NOT fun. Getting yelled at for making mistakes because you can't concentrate is also not fun. Almost hitting someone pulling a u-turn in front of you because you're half-awake...also, yep, not fun. Would love to hit the gym and lose some freakin weight, but staying awake is effort enough, yet sleeping is just too hard. GURGH.

- Favouritism sucks. I make a boo-boo in the studio, and I'm chewed out. The other junior designer makes a MASSIVE FOOKING MISTAKE and it's a tap on the knuckles. Anyone think the fact that they're both of one race and I'm asian might have anything to do with it? Grr. It drives me spare, I swear.





...but ultimately, there's no wrist-slashing going on here. A bit of a whine, and soldier on.

Thing that gets me through - good friends, good family, good man. It's true - you show people love and respect, and you get it back. The knowledge that people care, even a little...it makes it all tolerable. Thanks to all my good mates out there...I haven't forgotten about you, just going through some hard times. Thanks Cam - we don't always see eye to eye but you're still a fantastic man and I love you to bits. Thanks to the family - you guys are awesome, even if you piss me off to no end and I get up your left nostrils. C:

]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/15266187/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/15266187/ Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:33:13 PDT
It's especially true here.

Now I remember why I left in the first place...

]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/15096340/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/15096340/ Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:45:07 PDT Edit: What the FUCK is with 329842834729834 USELESS comments on my art?! What the FUCK has happened to the calibre of people here?! Why the hell would you leave just 'LOL' or 'nice' or 'hehehehe' on someone's art?! Fucking spamwhores. Get off my yard. Anywhere respectable, you brats would have been IP banned years ago.

Btw: Thank you everyone who left intelligent comments, or at least a sentence or so


Well hasn't it been a while since I was last here. November 7th was my last visit by my records...nearly a year now.

I have to say, from what I see nothing has improved and the bad things have gotten worse. Typical...nope, I'm not in the least bit impressed. Especially as I type things, ads keep on refreshing and moving the cursor out of my textbox. And holy hell there are volumes of them...never seen so many ads. Or design bugs. Jeebus CROIST.

Didn't really come here to whine though. Since people have been wondering...here's updates on where I'm at. I haven't disappeared from the planet, just from this madhouse.

Updates

1) CAR.

The ride has been overhauled and is still running strong. Yes, my baby Shale is still my pride and joy - my first-born son - and has a few battle-scars to prove his worth.

You all know I've been through a clutch...next one might be on its way out soon too. I'm hard on those things :3 New gearbox is on the way too; it's a DCCD 6MT. For those that don't know, that's a 6-speed manual (fairly short ratio...accelaration ftw) with Driver Controlled Centre Differential...allows me to change the power distribution between front and rear at the flick of a scrollwheel. Along with this is new suspension (from Whiteline), new struts (in the form of coilovers - most likely Teins), new drivetrain (need new axles, new rear diff and new propshaft for the gearbox). Another major part is Brembo brakes - I've got the calipers, I need to get new rotors and hubs...probably new pads too, lol.

It's all rather expensive.

From there's a new engine, completely custom-built with a completely unique design. Yep, serious tuner now...we're looking at doubling the stock horsepower and getting into race car spec. Will be fully street-legal and a daily driver, at just under 300hp NA.

Not like you couldn't tell...I'm finally mechanically minded. Lol.

Oh yes...and there's racing going on now too. Shale goes to grasskhanas, track days, drag days, on club cruises, and will be getting dyno'd in a month or so.

There are a few friends for Shale on the way too...

- "Blackie", JDM version 9 STi (black) [and a definite addition]
- "Project Buntamobile", GC8-era Impreza Retna with some SERIOUS overhaulin' in its future [another definite]
- Black version 5 STi Type R [possible addition...droolworthy one too]
- Blue GDB STi Spec C, homologated for NZRC (yes, bonefied NZRC rally competition car) [hopeful addition]
- White 3rd gen Legacy B4 (leather option, auto, turbo) [possible addition, would be a good runabout/cruiser]

Yes, I have delusions of grandeur.

2) JOB.

Moved on - I'm now working for a trucking magazine (OF ALL THINGS! LMAO. At least it's the best in NZ)...graphic designer on the T&D team. Also looking at getting my own freelancing done...you'll see a website up soon, followed by my new personal website (with new art HOMFG). Yes...she still exists.

I've been a magazine designer for more than two years now...looks like this is what we're doing eh :/

3) ART.

Lots of vector. Lots of Initial D. Yeah that's my new fandom of choice...no bullshit like Tekken. Btw people have asked me (yes, the retards STILL ASK ME) if I'm into Tekken 5, or looking forward to Tekken 6. The answer is simple.

NO.

NO NO NO NO NO.

FAIL. NO. BAD. DONT WANT. YOUR DOIN IT RONG. DONT MAEK ME FIRE MA LAZOR.

Not interested. Tekken ended at 4 for me, so unless you want a string of verbal abuse...don't go there okay?

*cough* Anyway. Initial D it is. Bit of Project D stuff in the works...but mostly cars.

Expect to see a grand total of 1 new submission from me. It's a special little something that I hold close to my heart, and simply had to recreate in vector form.

4) IRL.

Now, how to say this...

Since I left DA I got a reality check, cashed it and landed myself a local boy with a car nearly identical to mine. Enough with the fantasy boys...enough with the geeky girl's existance, wired into the internet through the vein... ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/10642564/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/10642564/ Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:31:10 PST
The level of behaviour I've seen here is ridiculous and yes, I still hate the new design. This place has had its best years already - as we all know the downhill slide began long ago. I've hummed and harred over this for well over a YEAR now...but I think the time has come to give the game up.

This in mind, I will be looking around for alternatives for hosting my art. I will talk to a few web designers about making me a decent design - fully interactive, forum style - and find some good, high-bandwidth hosting. Once all that's ready to go and my stuff is online...I may get rid of my gallery here. Yeah I'll keep watching people's journals etc, but I will no longer be uploading art here.

No, I'm not doing this for the usual reason (attention). I'm sick and tired of what I frankly reckon is bullshit...every time I log on here I get stressed out. I dread seeing who's written what this time. I avoid looking at my messages for so long that when I do log in, there's at least two grand waiting for me. It's just...well, I've moved on.

I've also lost interest in what most people add me for - fanart. I've got my own story (stories) to work on, my own characters, my own comics...and if it's not anime/game art, no one gives a fuck anyway. Those who actually want to see my stuff - you'll know where to go. Those that can't be bothered...meh, I can't be bothered with you either.

[/pissed off]

In other news, we've decided to change the 'deviantART' stall at Armageddon. We will now be renaming it 'ARTearoa - kiwi art by kiwi artists', though we will still be recruiting artists through the Armageddon-Survivors club. So we'll still be there, but independant of the deviantART name. It's time to move on.

]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/10163331/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/10163331/ Sat, 07 Oct 2006 05:21:31 PDT YOU MUST POST A LINK HERE.

Seriously, just because I'm not commenting on art much at the moment doesn't mean I don't WANT to It means that I have 900 deviations I don't have the time to pick through and review individually. Likewise with journals.

So if you have a journal or piece of art/writing you want me to read/review/comment on etc, you really must post me a link so I can find it Here's a good place.

Seriously. If it's something important, or you're really proud of a piece, or you just wanna bloody give me some more work to do...post up your links here! There's a MUCH higher likelihood of me seeing it here than anywhere else.





Edit:

[link]

Clicky there if you want to see what I've been up to lately.



You have to admit. THAT IS NICE.

]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/10108235/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/10108235/ Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:03:56 PDT Weird...might be going bipolar or something because I plummet up and down between MEH and W00T a lot these days...at the moment though, things are at a high...

ZOMG THERE MIGHT BE ART COMING SOON teh LOLZ. Because I finally think I might install the scanner software on my laptop Have a little Wilderness picture and Xiaoyu picture to scan...a few more to finish.

I think I might be one of those artists that drops art for a few years then picks it up later on. Meh...we shall see.

Oh yeah. If anyone wants to keep close tabs on me...visit me on these websites:

[link]
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OH YES and if you add me to MSN...um...please tell me who you are and where you're from (DA) because I have 2942840923840923840928 people on there, mostly from car communities, and everyone has a weird username I don't recognise! If you've never talked to me on MSN then instead of starting out with 'hi, sup'...can you please start off with something more like 'hi, it's ______ from DA' or something? I get confused as fuck Feel free to add me though! Just...uh...let me know who you are so I can group you accordingly >___>

And yes. I'm on invisi most of the time. If you have an inkling I'm actually online, send me an offline message if you want. (That being said, if my busy or away status is up, that essentially means FUCK OFF Just for those of you that forgot my rant a month or two ago. I'm one of those strange people whereby busy or away actually mean what they sound like XD)

ZOMG IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY ON SATURDAY! And I am now 20

What did I get for my B'day? A model of Bunta's car and a pair of bucket seats. Seems like not a lot, ne? Think again. The little car was all I asked for! Bunta's WRX, as some will know, has a LOT of meaning to me - the first WRX I encountered, and the one vehicle that got me into the whole car addiction. It's what Shale will soon become, more or less...or, an inspired version thereof. I've finished the model and will take photos soon. The bucket seats? They're genuine, mint condition WRX STi version 8 bucket seats...bright blue suede and grey/black trim. They're super-contoured and fit anyone's body like a glove. I've never felt something more comfortable! And they look fantastic.

[link]

And yes. Car was a gift, the seats I bought myself. Spent the day with my youngest sister Amanda, shopping and talking about cars (she's a bit of a racer at heart, bless her! ) and boys and life in general. Whoda thought hanging out with a 13 year old could be so endearing? She's developing into a lovely girl rather than an annoying emo kid.






...foooooor those who want an update... [link]
This is what Shale looks like as of Saturday. Notice the new nose (the black bit) and bucket seats on top of the full body kit (also note the mud flaps are gone from the front wheels). October is repaint time...with any luck, this will be finished before Armageddon!

Which I am still managing, bitches. I may be slow with the updates but fuck, that stall is my baby! D:



GRASSKANA! Wtf is a grasskana? LOL does anyone know what motorkhana or gymkhana are? The art of TEH WIKKID SKIDZ0RZ LOL. Not drifting...these two are based usually in parking lots... XD. Grasskana? Ditto, only in an open paddock. Go figure. I'm attending my first one just before I put the car in for paint. Awesome stuff...I learn how to do hellis, drift, rally, etc...and apparently Shale's the perfect car for the course.

Why did I just blurt that out? Well mate...it's the weekend befo... ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/10035698/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/10035698/ Mon, 11 Sep 2006 04:56:17 PDT





In other news, hocking myself up with about $5000 of mods for no fucking reason at all. Clear headlights, paint job, STi recaro bucket seats, Borla high-flow headers, OEM STi suspension and brakes...

...yes. This car makes me happier than people ever did Probably a phase but yeah. He's so loyal to me even though I rip his face off on a regular basis.






And in further news...it's my birthday on Saturday. Yay...5 more days of being able to blame my stupidity on teenhood because after that it's adult mode from now on... ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9959518/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9959518/ Mon, 04 Sep 2006 04:36:21 PDT
Out of everyone, the animals you campaigned to save the livelihoods and futures of will miss you the most. You're a great loss, but never fear, there are those that will continue your mission to ensure the survival of rare and endangered animal species and to imrpove the quality of life for all animals big and small.

Yes you were an idiot at times, but that was your thing...the world loved you for it. Ever the over-acting Aussie icon...

I'd put my money on little Bindi being the next Irwin ecologist and-then-some. The legacy shall continue, no doubt about it.

There would be no finer way for such a man to go; we know you loved your job and stared death in the face every day. A car crash or illness would be a terrible way to go, as would death at the hands of humans in any way. Yes, it had to be nature that took you from us; not only did it seem the most logical yet tragically ironic way for it to happen, but it just seemed RIGHT if it had to happen at all.

But you were seemingly invincible...you were gone too soon.

Thank you for your work on this ailing planet...again, you will be missed, but your legacy will continue.

]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9892128/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9892128/ Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:14:48 PDT
If anyone wants me I'll most likely be on MSN on mishima_akuma@hotmail.com. Just to prove I'm not dead or about to hang myself from a tree or something.

But yeah. Can't be FUCKED any more. This new site layout was the final straw...

Edit: Oh fer fuck's sake e____e;;

Okay, driving home from work...on Tuesday I darted through an orange light just before it changed.

Got a letter today from the police saying WTFLOL SOMEONE SAID YOU RAN A RED LIGHT!

So apparently orange lights are red when you're driving a 'boyracer' car. Fuck I'm getting SO SICK of this vomit the media keeps on coughing up. Fast cars (or fast looking cars) and young people apparently means BOYRACER even if they're sitting in traffic. Wtf. Now 'normal' people look at anyone in a fast car (only Japanese cars) like they're filth. Thanks, TVNZ. Thank you too, all you farming-town newspapers. Get a life.

There was an incident down south there a girl walked across a busy road talking on her cell, got hit by a car and died. Three cars were 'involved'...a red trueno and two WRXs. Guess which cars got blamed by the media? The WRXs...both 'racing'.

They impounded the three cars...the WRXs had no damage, the red Trueno did. The driver of the Trueno was an Iraqi man, the WRXs were driven by young guys. So to get a lesser charge, the Trueno driver claimed he was trying to race the WRXs. Now they're going down too, thanks to the bullshit 'boyracer' bill.

One of the Chosen Few was just behind the accident, another car was parked opposite. Both said they saw the guys from the Subarus trying to direct traffic around the chaos! They hadn't even hit her.

Yet they're still being charged.

I'm so sick of this. There's a small proportion of young people that not only need to be taken off the road permanently, but also need to be castrated so they can't pass on their STUPID...the rest of us have been tarred with the same brush.

We really need to do something about this. Grr... ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9867825/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9867825/ Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:19:48 PDT
That means that not only can I not afford much petrol...I couldn't afford to drag today. Absolutely GUTTED...because I wanted to race again and get a better time for my baby. May sound like silliness to most of y'all...but racing and motorsport is what I live for right now.



Oh yeah.

Deviant ~miraikazuya | 386 deviations, 127 messages, 2 notes

So if I seem quiet...that's why.

Can ya tell I'm just not fucked lately? ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9811147/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9811147/ Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:23:07 PDT
I'm buggered.

On the plus side...I've necotiated to have it actually PAID to me instead of time off...that's some mean overtime

So yeah, that's why I've been away for so long.

I miss my Joshy-poo .____.;; ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9767539/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9767539/ Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:36:42 PDT
YEAH THATS RIGHT THE FUCKING VULTURES TOWED HIM!!

THEY KNOW I HAVE A DAMN PARKING TICKET!! BASTARDS!!

AND THAT WAS A $180 RELEASE FEE!!!! AAAAAAAARGH.

[/caps lock]

Yeah fucking bastards couldn't see my parking slip so they towed me. I'm having a dispute about it on Monday though, when the manager returns, because I HAD MY TICKET.

PS: Yes, I do have a deadline. Worked nearly 13 hours today and yesterday, tomorrow is gonna be 11 hours, then the following two days a good 13 each. Yes, tomorrow is Saturday. Yes, I am on the verge of a meltdown...

...in oher news, if I can get my damn money back, I might be buying Borla headers for Shale. Re-tune at the ENGINE is the best way to boost performance and add that perfect sound. Nearly 300USD though, so yeah...that plus RPS is gonna be October's money ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9708715/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9708715/ Sun, 13 Aug 2006 01:41:29 PDT
I can't stand my fucking bitch of a sister any more. I'm moving out.

Anyone want a young female flatmate with transport? I don't take up much room ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9707820/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9707820/ Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:17:57 PDT
A day at the drags! I can't actually be arsed giving too many details...exhausted.

Met up with REXnet in the morning...not a lot of Chosen Few but I like REXnet more anyway There were 5 of us, one of the cars being my DREAM CAR, YO...dark grey '99 STi coupe Of course once we got there I discovered that they had no eftpos so I had to go back up the road, get some, and come back ><;; Missed out on all the practice time...ARGH.

After borrowing a helmet, I managed to get some time on the track (once we'd dried it off from the freakin RAIN that kept coming)...first run I got 19.595 seconds on the quarter mile and the disGUSTing smell of burning clutch. I seemed to get no traction the entire time and it kept on over-revving as I took off in each gear...I had the clutch depressed slightly the whole time ><;;

Second run, still smelling clutch...over-revved to start with, almost KOed myself the launch was so incredible. Ran 18.258 seconds...huge improvement (keeping in mind I have no turbo so this car is SLOW).

Entered the DYO race...decided to be hopeful and dialled in 17.7 seconds (this is the time I must get close as possible to but NOT beat)...ran 17.958 seconds but the other guy was only .15 off his DYO D'OH, lost.

Since I was eliminated, 'grudge' was the only race I could do...went up against...OMFG THE GREY STI He did one of his best times ever...high TWELVE seconds! I got into 1st and launched perfectly...tried to change into second and SCCRRRRRRRUNDCH...yep, missed the clutch ><; FAR OUT it sounded terrible. It got me 18.673 too...urgh.

Arsed around for a while as everyone else raced...went home...proceeded to scrub the mud off Shale. It looked like I'd gone to a fuckin' rally track day. WTFLOL. I could smell freggin' clutch coming out of the scoop still...o___o;;

Anyhow. I did a walk-around with the vidcam and took pictures of the dirt on the poor boy since no one had a camera or vidcam on the day o_o; Shall post them shortly and update X3

Edit: Walk-around video here: [link]0jxImqAhoQ

It's crappy because I didn't know where the mic was and had my finger over it, and I was wobbling x___X; Maybe a better video or two will come soon...night-time vid of the lights, and maybe an onramp boost ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9667922/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9667922/ Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:51:56 PDT
I've been hanging around with Chosen Few for the last month or two, trying to get into the car scene...all but a select few will ignore me, and I get no respect for the wussy little non-turbo car I have. It's hard to become one of them =\

Jumped fences to REXnet. Unlike Chosen Few, it's not about modifying the snot out of your car...it's about...well GASP, owning a WRX. They're friendlier toward me, even from the beginning; it was a positive sign.

I went to one of their meets last night, and instead of standing around looking like a LOSER with CF, they included me in their group discussions. In fact, the first thing they said is that they were comparing wings (keep in mind all of the 10 or so cars, except for one random Legacy, were WRX or STi Imprezas)...and that they had a good oggle at mine as I drove down. LOL. There were about three STis, including mine, that had the big late-model wing...and every single one of them looked different.

Got to know quite a lot of them...very nice folks. Very friendly and down-to-earth.

They decided that, since this was their biggest turn-out EVER (totalling 15 cars...ALL Subarus), it was time to take some photos. We headed down the road to the car park opposite Foodtown in Greenlane and lined 'em up. Gawd...it was a frigid night but I was overheating with my windows DOWN. Why? Well dude. I was stuck in a middle of a throng of modified Subarus revving up and down the road making a TREMENDOUS amount of noise. The sound of ONE of those Subies turns me on. There were FIFTEEN of them. Yeah...I was sweating up big time e____e;;

Funniest thing in the world: rolling up to a car park and seeing all these monster Subies darting back and forth and back and forth and BACK AND FORTH as they try and line themselves up properly in a straight line. I think I nearly peed laughing. And then people couldn't decide which end of the line they wanted to be in...so they boosted (and when I say boost I mean nearly leave rubber tracks from launching so hard) from one end to the other in the lanes we weren't using. Geebus it was fun when they did that.

Finally managed to line ourselves up...it was a long row of beautiful Subaru noses peering forth...most of them like Shale. One guy set off his alarm...the one next to it heard it and went off too...the next one two cars down went off too...so I set Shale off for shits and giggles X3 they were all screaming! Hilarious shit.

Omg there was a girl there with a blue STi hatchback called 'Gilbert'. She referred to him as such the whole night...it was so cute!

And then there was a little puppy running around. Omg X3 It was chasing the soccer ball the guys were kicking around...almost got splitched against the tarmac a few times...

There was another girl there (four of us in total) who had...well, how do I put this. BLACKIE. Omg. I was leaning against him most of the night, until we all lined up. She was gonna take it for a test drive...I was standing there in the row of guys drooling, saying 'ohmahgaaaah, shooo puuuuurdy...' so one of them slaps me on the back and says 'go jump in the back seat!' so of course the others join in with 'GO GO GO!!'...so I ran, one of the guys jumped in front of the car as they were about to drive off, and I invited myself in X3 They just grinned and let me.

The car boosted off with the typical Subaru burble. Wtf? Blackie can't do that (technog33ks will know it's because v8 and v9 STis have even-length headers whereas earlier Subarus have uneven headers). And thus it is revealed...this 'Blackie' is actually a formerly bug-eyed WRX that'd been facelifted to v8 STi. NIIIICE.

So she boosts off down the road. This car is amazing...it moves so smoothly and so slickly that you can barely feel a thing except your shoulders being pushed back into the seat. Yes...its accelaration is so fast that it pushes you back a bit.

She's test-driving it with one of the guys to show off her boost, so I discover. You know what that means. To test boost you need to use the turbo. To use the turbo you need to get the car into high revs and stamp on it.



Needless to say, she revs the snot out of the little bastard through the gears. It's so SMOOTH, yet when you feel the boost it's the sensation that someone has placed a board of plywood against you and is PUSHING on it. For those of you that have never been in a fast car...this is what you have to look forward to. If you can feel pressure on your chest, your shoulders being p... ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9636259/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9636259/ Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:08:54 PDT
It was as bad as I imagined...not to be a stick in the mud or anything, but SWEET JESUS this new layout is frustratingly STUPID. Not only illogical and messy and disorganised and lop-sided (why is everything on one side of the page and so much unusually placed white space?!), I don't actually remember swearing at a website so much in the space of five minutes since I joined MySpace for some ungodly reason. That is saying something.

Here's hoping they return to a 'skins' system where we have a choice which form of stupid is the most tolerable.

I like my version 5 STi much more than THIS version 5.


EDIT:

WHAT THE FUCK DEVIANTART. Why is it SO GODDAMN HARD to put more than ONE link on ONE page to update my journal? I don't even look at the freaking main page, don' tell me there's a link there! That's a bad place for one anyway! What is this, the new MySpace?!

AND WHAT THE FUCK, why is it so HARD to find a way to edit my preferences?!? [insert overkill of exclamation marks and question marks here] All I want to GODDAMN do is stop my comments on my userpage nesting fer chrissakes', why must I hunt for hours?!

You guys better get rid of the USELESS links everywhere and put in some that people actually like to click frequently.

Useless. Absolutely useless.

If it ain't broke don't fix it. DA4 was fine.

SAD UNBIRTHDAY TO YOU. You're bad at giving gifts DA...please for the love of GAWD let US give YOU presents next year and save us the agony of another god-awful rehash! Are you trying to compete with Subaru for terrible revamps or something? This is officially the new Impreza. ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9631560/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9631560/ Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:56:24 PDT
TOP UP WHILE PETROL PRICES ARE AS THEY ARE.

[link] ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9612379/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9612379/ Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:07:44 PDT Infamous-Angel, you can imagine who it was going under the knife.

Poor Shale. What we thought would be an hour's simple take-off, bolt-on developed into a fuggin' 6-hour MISSION and entailed removing the ENTIRE front of the car from the doors forward.

While we had a friend from Chosen Few and his Skyline 'Babybear' with him, we went on a short mission to get the appropriate tools. We needed a giant socket wrench for the four main bolts! To get to them we had to take out the grille, headlights and corner lights...I've gotten to the point I can practically do it with my eyes shut now. These huge bolts, two on either side of the engine bay, were 17mm wide and required one HELL of a wrench to get out. Of course, Dad's toolbox is older than I am so it proved to be absolutely useless.

40 bucks later, I had a set of 10 socket heads and an uber wrench to go with them...~Infamous-Angel used her natural strength and insane anger to get the bolts loose. Far out...that girl is STRONG. Let's just say I ain't fightin' her (But you knew that already Amanda )

By now the Bear and his owner had gone home to sleep before the night shift, so we were left to our own devices. After taking out the four main bolts, we discovered, to our horror, that we needed to take the side panels off the car (for those not in the know I'm talking about the bit of car between the front and the front doors, above the bumper but below the bonnet)! By this time we'd had to go back to Supercheap Auto and get ANOTHER set of wrenches to do the job as my new ones were too big. Amanda decided to fork out for the kit for herself and use it on my car...she'd be needing them for her cars eventually after all.

Four bolts along the top of the panel, we found out that there were TWO more in the door, one more in the engine bay and one on the fucking MUD FLAP! After attempting to get ANY form of socket into the engine bay, the poor thing snapped off the tool and fell into the bumper once I'd finally made some headway. Uh...you can't shake those bastards out when the bumper's bolted onto the car...so after much frustration Amanda managed to get angry enough to wrench the fucker out with the tool we usually use that's not quiiiite the right size and is a touch difficult to use. You can't get 10mm bolts out without a 10mm socket for the wrench! Unless you have a VERY angry ~Infamous-Angel on your hands.

Somehow, between the two of us, we managed to pull one of the sides off the car...we found the 'one bolt on each side' the guys on REXnet had talked about...between four arms and a lot of swearing once again we managed to unscrew it.

And the bumper WOULDN'T BUDGE. To our horror...there were two more bolts UNDER the car. After trying to find a jack (mine was stuck in the boot as was Mum's, and the only tool kit we could find was for Mum's car...mine eventually came free) we managed to get the car raised on one side. Once again Amanda's wrestling (she's the srong one here and is better with bolts, sadly enough...I need to work on that ><;; ) got the bastards out and with a bit of a lift-yank motion, half the bumper came off! We even found our 10mm socket! With that, getting the other side of the car off would be easy.

RRRRK. WRONG.

The car was so far into the garage that the passenger door wouldn't open the whole way...meaning we coudn't get to the bolts inside the door!

And thus comes everyone's worst nightmare...waking up during surgery. We had to clear up, start Shale up, carefully move him backwards (with half the bumper hanging off, no headlights and the bonnet up) then carefully towards the right to give the left door room to open.

With that done, unscrewing the left side of the car wasn't quiiiite so hard. After repeating the same damn process (and having to wrestle the stupid plastic clips holding the wheel arch together) the bumper FINALLY came free!

Monumental moment... we had to take photos! You can see one of his new shoes in the background there... lol. He can't wear them yet though, the last Subie that had them was so rough on them that there's no tread on the tyres.

Here's another shot of Shale... ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9594286/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9594286/ Fri, 04 Aug 2006 04:25:37 PDT
.....and when asked how much I'd charge, I came up blank

What I'm proposing to them is easy...one of two options. Redraw their Impreza from a template (Shale would be the base drawing for the base ver.6 STi shape), or redraw it from scratch. It'd be in the same detail as [link] <- that sorta stuff. Only BETTER. And more dynamic! They would get the .ai file, the PDF, and any desktops/icons/previews/TIFFs/etc that they wanted on a disk.

Anyone have a random stab in the dark at how much THEY would charge for work like this? Cuz I'm stumped O_o; The originals would clearly take a long time...up to a month or more for the level of precision and detail I intend to put into it, but the templates would take less than a month.

Wow. This might FINALLY be the end of my year-long art block! ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9572682/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9572682/ Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:25:59 PDT
Maybe I should hurry up and just WIN LOTTO. Before I let loose and fucking kill some poor innocent.

That blood trickling down from my ears...that's what's left of my brain oozing out. ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9544936/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9544936/ Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:08:42 PDT Edit: My navy-boy just left for 2 weeks for his training mission...thing. Man...I can barely survive 3 days without him let alone TWO GODDAMN WEEKS. ARGH!!

Still. I left him with a bit of a present to go away with He got a bit more than he was expecting since I was on my webcam, and he had to 'take care' or something before he left for work a few minutes ago. Lmfao. Oh how I love modern technology!

Man am I gonna miss him I have his work email and he has mine so we'll probably sit there spamming each other and getting in trouble with our bosses but who cares. Any man who takes the time to talk babies with me and listens intently to my car crap can get me in trouble at work any time

***

BOOM baby. (My boyfriend informs me I should always spell the boom in caps if I'm alluding to the famous line from The Emperor's New Groove )

Not a lot happening these days other than socialising and organising. Not much to update basically. But here's a random splurge...hold yer noses as I vomit spam across the internet.

1) Car stuff. My 'Birthday Present' has undergone a few mutations in planning. Budgeting is a biiiartch so things might be going a little slowly on this front. I just put Shale's new bonnet on with the help of ~Infamous-Angel. We had to buy a new socket wrench to do the job...Dad's tools are utter garbage they're so old, so now I have a random socket wrench...that thankfully will get around the ENTIRE car He looks like he rolled out of fucking West Auckland...the bonnet is white and he's silver. Wtf? I should probably put the bumper on too, for shits and giggles...just to look a little more South Auckz

Once I get paid I can go buy my new wheels too. I have the Spec C wheels I always wanted (you know how I wanted Version 9 wheels? These are exactly the same only with the correct stud pattern and offset for my car. AND AND AND while the ver.9 wheels are 9kg each, Spec C wheels are only 7.5!) waiting for me I somehow knew I'd get Enkei or BBS wheels! Subaru wheels tend to be BBS.

Paint job is still on for September, only it'll be after my birthday. Not sure if I can afford the RPS or not...we shall see. The wheels are damn expensive. Also waiting are the lights...but hey. And I have someone willing to sell me a set of Recaro STi ver.8 bucket seats Dayum...this car is going to cost me as much as an STi when he's done, only he'll be slower =\ Grrrfuck.

2) Art...well thanks to =fello, *MurkHellsing and a select committee of nutters, I actually DREW SOMETHING. I had one piece organised for Armageddon...it's a tad dirty. It involves a plushified panda and a schoolgirl outfit (not on the panda)...and purple undies. I'm sure ~ll will approve of this one Given time (time away from Shale that is) I should have some more ready...along with, hopefully, MORE STORY for the couple of you demanding it.

I think I'm just crazy burnt-out this year or something. I've lost interest but it comes and goes. Then again, this car addiction is sucking out all my creativity; Shale is just one huge, expensive canvas I'm working with. I keep on wondering though...why am I spending 20,000 bucks on a mere HX when I could just use all of that money on an STi that already looks like that?

Then I remind myself of the problems turbo cars have, and the problems most cars have at that age...and the problems Shale DOESN'T have...and the insurance woes... e___e;;

But I am still sorta drawing...and I really need to get back into writing. There aren't enough hours in the day and work is sucking the life out of me.

3) Thought I'd randomly make a mention of romance... ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9475213/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9475213/ Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:26:37 PDT UPDATE: Aucklanders! I'm trying to organise a mini-event with Chosen Few this weekend. Is anyone interested in joining in? This involves 1) meeting at a certain place, yet to be decided and 2) following the train across...wherever, undecided, most likely MISSION BAY! And if you don't have a car this involves 1) finding someone to hitchhike with, 2) enjoying the other purdy cars and 3) eating ice cream or something and watching the world go by

Does anyone feel like jumping on board? It'll be a half-day at best, something entertaining might happen at night but that's not too likely. I have free seats for anyone that wants to ride with Shale and I...anyone with a car is welcome to tag along.

And no, you don't have to have a 'nice' car This is a n00b cruise!

***

Man. So much happened on that little 'holiday' I don't know where to start other than OH MY GOD I am buggered...more tired than before I left! SO much for the weekend.

All the insanity started on Friday night. You know that 'incident' I spoke of? Well here's what happened.

I arrived at the park up after midnight, and it was PACKED. There were no spaces left! I was hunting for somewhere to put the car and booya, there was a gap between two cars down the end. I pulled Shale around so I could reverse his sexy bum into the spot...this one guy looked at me like I was on CRACK or something...

...and BANG.

Turns out there was a badly-parked purple VR-4 there already. The entire carpark audibly winced as there was this almighty metal-on-metal CRUNCH echoed through the night air. With the lack of lighting, the badly parked Mitsi (it was WAY too far back) and the giant silver wing blocking people's heads, the spot looked empty. It WASN'T.

This dumb bitch had a go at me while I inspected the damage and apologised profusely to the guy with the car...it was just reg plate vs reg plate, so we both have a bent plate now. "Don't buy a car you can't handle aye" was the stupid hoe's comment after several other acidic remarks...I should have checked to see if she had a license at all since I could have done that in a mini, or on a fucking TRICYCLE, or even backing my own arse into it without looking. The hell? Get your head read woman.

Gave the guy 20 bucks to compensate for the...um...bent plate...and high-tailed it outta there.

***

So Saturday comes around and despite being shaken I head to the meeting place in DEEP SOUTH Auckland. The group meets...everyone heads off, and I'm taking up the rear with Shale. Several cars break off after a while so we're left with five cars; 0UTKST the white Lancer Cedia (think Evo 8 as a wagon instead of sedan), STRPTZ the green and black Honda Civic, a random Mitsi legnum, Pat's orange-pink Starlet (WTF??) and Shale.

Needless to say, I can see why people want to live in NZ despite its isolation and many annoying points. Kiwis will know what I mean. Seriously, for outsiders...you NEED to come here to see the landscape. It's truly a paradise! Tall, strangely-shaped green mountains and rolling green fields (blindingly deep green; such lush grass!), bodies of water cutting through the countryside and reflecting the perfectly blue sky; the only hint of human existence other than the flimsy little road making its way across the fields of green is the cows sitting behind electric fences. As stupid as it sounds I almost shed a few tears just watching it all drift by. It was truly beautiful.

After night fell on the way down, the guys in the Legnum txted me to tell me the other three cars were peeling off to see someone and that they were going all the way to Taupo...and to follow them. So I did. Five minutes into the following...they passed a truck. Actually, pass isn't really the right word. The kicked it down a few gears then boosted the living fuck out of their turbo so they could practically skid around the side of it. Needless to say...I wasn't following their example

10 minutes later I get 'Where are you? Catch up!' on my phone from them. Yeah, so I go a bit faster so I can...half an hour makes no difference, obviously they're way off. No surprise, though I was surprised the damn thing was still going at all. It was so low to the ground that bumps in the road meant their exhaust smashed against the ground each time and showered my car in sparks.

FINALLY got to Taupo on my ow... ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9450276/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9450276/ Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:23:56 PDT

Shall see y'all on Sunday! (Or Saturday US time)



...and after an incident last night I might be laying low with the car crowd for a while -______-; Urgh. My confidence got a whollop but my pride is shattered into pieces. ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9431046/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9431046/ Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:50:10 PDT

This time it did both to me at once. My GOD this job really does suck sometimes...now I can't even have my desk the way I want it any more, bosso #2 has decided she wants it HER way whether I work well in such an environment or not. I almost fucking punched her I swear -___-; I am EXTREMELY territorial. Rearranging my desk without my permission is bad enough, but telling me to back off while letting her? OY.

That aside, pay rise is coming of course, AND I have found a source for both the lights I want and the Spec C wheels at a bargain price. I've found someone who might buy the USDM lights, and someone who wants my bonnet. Another wants my bumper. Things are really starting to move, I tells ya! Only thing is, with change comes pain. I'll really miss the parts off Shale that I remove and sell...they'll definitely help pay for the new parts, but all the same, they're parts of his freakin' FACE. They're his FEET. The new ones look sexier...but heck, it's like saying 'sorry baby, your old face ain't good enough, you can have someone else's'. I'm rejecting what he is

I personify and intellectualise way too much

With every positive is a negative. What you do is based on a decision; which is bigger? The positive or the negative? Sometimes the negatives are so negligible there seems to be no negative. Other times, they're about equal...those are the hardest decisions to make.

I think I'm going through a phase where they're all equal and I have to not only deal with that but my instincts and desires, vs my sensibility and analytical mind. It's exhausting

But at the end of the day, this is the mantra that gets me through:

You only live once.

That in mind, why leave all the good stuff to another life? Sure, there may be such a thing as reincarnation...but if you can't remember a previous life what's stopping you from going round and round in a circle of waiting for the rest of eternity?

I think my brain is bleeding from overuse right now. ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9409436/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9409436/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:38:54 PDT [link] look at that yellow badboy. FYI...that's the wing I have, the front bumper and bonnet I have, and the wheels I so desperately want to buy. That yellow Subaru is the colour version of SHALE!



*

NZ Deviants...for those not watching ~Armageddon-Survivors, we are now getting the Armageddon DeviantART stall organised and ready to go. If you want to know ANYTHING about it (from seeing us to buying to becoming one of us) please visit the club and look at the latest journal.

There are a few of you I need to chase about a couple of things...you'll hear from me soon

***

In other news...bloody hell I STILL haven't got much art organised -______-;;

...and petrol is now 1.76 a litre...which means that mine is 1.81 a litre because Shale is on 95. Needless to say...if it gets much worse Shale is going to become a driveway ornament and I'm going to take the bus ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9400131/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9400131/ Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:12:46 PDT
Where's the dude with the moustache when you need him, goddamnit?

That is all. ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9378885/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9378885/ Sun, 16 Jul 2006 13:43:11 PDT
Got my car checked thoroughly today...every aspect of it is in perfect working order; it's not showing its age at all and is in perfect health.

But it failed its warrant on account of the new headlights

Apparently the damn things are for Left-hand drive vehicles...they shine in the wrong direction for NZ roads. They're not legal here.

So on go the old ones tomorrow...blugh. I need to source some proper NZ-new clearlights now.

So...uh...any Impreza owners in the US...if you want to upgrade your lights, I have a set for you If anyone over there knows of someone...drop them a line for me. I paid 400 bucks for freakin useless lights, demmit...

Edit:

Lol. It appears someone else has done the same thing as me. Some guy on NASIOC replied to my 'OMG PLZ BUY MY USDM LITES LOLOLOL' thread with 'Hey, wanna do a swap with the JDM clearlights I bought in Japan? '

This might cost less than I anticipated...because PartsWorld just replied to me with 'We can do you a set of genuine clearlights for 600 bucks...USED...'

Oh well. I'll see about this switcharoo thing. If it doesn't work then PartsWorld it is, but otherwise booya...a solution to the problem I'm a touch happier now.

Edit 2: o_o dude, I have THREE places now saying they have clear lights...the lastest one is $195 EACH. Why didn't I do this in the first place? XD Woulda saved some tears.

Oh well, let's just see what happens eh? I'm sure someone in the US will want my purdy lights, it's probably easier to just get some local ones and send the USDM ones off to someone who can make better use of them than me ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9355574/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9355574/ Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:56:12 PDT Haha. Made you think it was on me, didn't you? Not likely! (I like my boobies the way they are THANK YOU)

I'm in the process of deciding on an exact colour - all I know is I want grey of some form, but which sort of grey exactly is beyond me. I could go for a boring stock grey, but I'm tempted to do some mixing...any input here is welcome. I want it to be grey, as in GREY (that is, grey without a hint of blue, red, pink, ANY other colour) heading towards gunmetal, but there are so many pretty things you can do with paint these days. I'm not doing glitter, but I'm tempted to mix a really dark grey with silver so it really freakin' glows in different lights.

When he does get painted, all the new parts are going on all at once. All the new lights - there's a set that won't fit on the old bumper that's still sitting there. All the badges, plus another one hopefully; I have the Impreza badge, the WRX badge, the STi badge...looking into two more STi Subaru Technica International decals (not badges) for the sides, and a Subaru badge to go across the back of the boot. The new panels - v5 bonnet and v6 bumper. Possibly RPS exhaust...hopefully my new wheels, because I maaaay have found someone that has a set. The fog lamp covers I'm about to order, complete with STi Subaru Technica International decals...yeup, this is gonna be one HELL of a birthday present.

Not that I'll be left with any savings after all of this mind you...but frankly, I don't care. So the OE may have to wait a little while...yippee. I love my car and I want him to look absolutely fantastic...my dream car is the v6 STi, and I'll have one of it kills me. Why not have both? The car I love AND the v6...all in one car

There are so many things I wanna do with Shale...at LEAST another 10,000 dollars worth of work. At the VERY least. Such is the life of an enthusiast, eh?

On that note, next weekend, you won't be seeing me. I'm FINALLY going on a mini holiday...good fucking grief, I need it. My last HOLIDAY was a week (one week!) over Christmas 2005. My last overseas holiday was...Livid, Linkin Park...2003 if I'm not mistaken. I've been living and working in Auckland since then! I'm joining Chosen Few on a road trip to Taupo and back; NZers will know that involves FREEZING MY TITS OFF overnight since Taupo is COLD. Mum seems to think it's going to be a 6-8 hour drive. Well...with her bladder-holding skills and her TANK of a car laden with an entire family, it's possible to stretch it out to that long, but when it's a group of young people in fast and very capable cars, it's not bloody likely. As one of the guys in the forum said... "8 hours? Where are you going?"



Oh yeah. Tempted to take some time off soon so I can sit and draw. I'll take some random weekday so I have no excuse to go out and drive...all my car stuff is set to go so I don't need to worry about going to do that. I mean, Armageddon is coming soon! ARGH!!

Speaking of which...I wrote up a long-ass journal in regards to that to post on the club; I'll be posting that hopefully today so y'all New Zealanders that want to attend can have some advance warning. Please note that I can take UP TO FOUR PASSENGERS WITH ME! Shale is going to be attending this year and he's going to look like an STi with a showcar finish

So uh yeah...I'd better get my arse into gear over that one.

Still planning to go to the US...looks like I'll need 10,000 bucks to do that though, because that's the start-up deposit for an HSBC international bank account. Augh...where'm I meant to get that much money?! Maybe I'll have to really start selling my art and doing design commissions, maybe even get a second job. I have yet to discuss all of this with Josh, who I'll be staying with; he's always so ridiculously tired after work when he gets online

For your enjoyment...
Here is what Shale will look like in September: [link] (exactly the... ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9333291/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9333291/ Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:06:35 PDT
I have learned a valuable lesson

Edit: I just learned another lesson.

When you need to piss in the middle of playing footy, stick it down your shorts leg, squat down and let 'er rip. Especially if you're being broadcast live around the world.

My goodness, sport these days is just full of shining examples of human refinement and culture. ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9317645/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9317645/ Sun, 09 Jul 2006 23:08:31 PDT Edit: O_o wow...the otter that escaped from the Auckland Zoo a MONTH ago has finally been caught...un...the otter's name is Jin XD Spelled like that too.

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Wow...what a weekend. And yeah...only one person is going to know the significance of the title of this journal

I was up to no good...as you can all imagine. Yep...you can officially say goodbye to the good, 'nice' Amz you might have seen before because she is dead and GONE

I will warn you now...this is a) a long journal. b) about cars. and c) not all of what's discussed here is LEGAL ACTIVITY YO. If you feel like having a nosey in something you never thought I'd do...read on.


Friday

Well...that was a fizzer and a half. ~Infamous-Angel and I went off at about 10pm to the park up in town...no one there. In fact, no one was there until freakin' 11-11:30 or so! Even then, it was mostly randoms. A few of the Chosen Few rocked on up. And as usual, to my great frustration, nothing really happened because we ended up sitting in the car. I hate doing that...LONERS.

And wouldn't ya know it, the police trawled on through and told us 'If you don't move you get towed'...so we moved -.-; And as usual Amanda and I hooned off to fast to see where everyone else went...got stuck doing loops in town trying to find people!

Friday...sucked o_o

Saturday

Was definitely better. Got to the park up at a decent time...people started to trickle in slowly. Don't mind the lack of details in places...my head is still SPINNING from details I shall divulge further down the page. I forget bits...everything is a bloody rush at the moment.

HOLABK and MYRHYD where there in their matching WRXs...I was too chicken to get out and say hi as usual. I think I managed a pathetic wave. 0UTKST and her Cedia wagon were there, as was HEYBRO...he was the first to actually introduce himself to me since I seemed to be looking around but not joining in. And yep...Amanda was STILL sitting in the car (boy you love that seat don't ya? ). Got introduced to 0UTKST too (and yes, calling them by their number plates)...met Erron finally as well (OSiRiS, aka VR-FOE)...yeah, managed to get around a few people. Getting to know the Chosen Few somewhat. They're getting to know my car too.

Park up didn't last that long since the police kept on rolling through (keep in mind we're all perfectly legal, just some people being a little loud perhaps but it was ALL GOOD)...eventually everyone got sick of it by the looks of it and scarpered. Instead of getting lost this time...we followed.

Following, as I discovered, involves doing LOOPS to form a TRAIN o_O; Loops through the motorway bend down to the bottom of Parnell Rise, then a quick U-turn to head back up to the motorway again.

MY GOD the train that night was HUGE. That is...one loooooong-ass line of cars. We took off down the motorway heading south, eventually dropping out and heading through the back streets of Onehunga. Oddly enough it seems the old 'route' was still the same. At this point, I was actually so terrified my hands and jaw were shaking uncontrollably and it was warm inside the car; well, who wouldn't be scared? Turns out we were going to the drags.

I can't remember how many times we parked up, but every time we did we got shooed by the police or left anyway. The police were bloody everywhere that night...in fact, they'd even cordoned off the MOTORWAY to do LICENSE CHECKS. Yeah...I was close to puking with fear at that point x___X You're not meant to be out on a restricted license after 10pm unless you have a passenger who's had a full license for over 2 years. Amanda didn't have a full license for that long...but apparently the cop didn't want to check and let us go O_o He was remarkably polite too. Good on him.

There was a random Evo beside us on the motorway check, btw...it happened to be labelled 'TAADOW'. That would be Andge's car...the top dog in Chosen Few. I dunno why but I found that pretty cool XD

Ended up parking up at a petrol station for a while...it was cool, there were 4 silver Subarus in a row

Left there, took off to Drury (I think). We took the wrong turn and got lost...txted Erron and got set back on the right track again. Lol. By the time we'd gotten to this point we'd had several sti... ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9295021/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9295021/ Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:53:39 PDT
Something out there REALLY hates Shale. ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9273252/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9273252/ Tue, 04 Jul 2006 16:44:43 PDT

I'm seriously, SERIOUSLY considering doing a work holiday. Where, you ask?

Well, where do you think? My boyfriend lives in the US and has extra space

I'm stuck in a rut as you can all tell, and though I seem to sink in and out of it, I'm pretty much stuck by the seat of my pants at the moment. My problem basically stems with finances; there's such a great distance I want to go, but it's damn near impossible to do it right now because I'm stuck on just above minimum wage and Kiwi employers really do SUCK if you're not a 35-year-old white male looking for a job. I want to live in NZ, I really do. All the opportunities I want to take advantage of are sitting right here - a majority of them in Auckland.

But the fact is there is simply too far for me to run before I can get to them if I stay here, as far as I can tell. I need more money and more experience. I may just have to step out on a limb and do something drastic to make things happen; going overseas may just be what I need because my living expenses will most likely go DOWN since I'll be separated from my car, and the exchange rate here is so pathetic that transferring US funds to my account here will boost it significantly.

There's so much that's prompting me to make this decision. Yes, I want to live in NZ...I intend to come back here and most likely live here for a long time; it's Subaru heaven here and I'm really starting to get into the car 'thing'. But as all young people discover...some overseas time can be beneficial. To be honest I've always disliked America. So frankly...what better place is there for me to visit? I'm strange like that...

So, fellow artists and designers, especially those living in the US...where's a good place for me to look for jobs etc from over here? XD What's the employment climate like? I wanna know what mu chances are and ideally I'd want something set up before I went over there so I'd have a job to slide right into. Specifically I'd be in San Diego (or the suburbs outside it) but that's no biggie.

I'm aiming for a term somewhere between 3 months and a year...no longer than that. I'd miss my car and no way am I going over there to live permanently. The danger factor still freaks me out...NZ is so much safer, but I want to experience something different y'know.

Btw. Who wants me to visit while I'm over there? ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9248069/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9248069/ Sun, 02 Jul 2006 04:19:40 PDT
Might force myself summore tonight. All I can think about right now is cars, mods, Chosen Few, petrol and downtown tracks. Urgh.

I need my pen and paper. And some exercise. And my boyfriend. And...a bit of old school luurve. Maybe I should draw Kazuya.

That's what I'll do...I'll draw Kazuya. ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9229098/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9229098/ Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:22:59 PDT
Cruised into town (planted my foot of course) and played some games for the first time in ages...got pwnd at MaxTune AND DDR x___x; I found out why people don't dance in boots...they're slippery.

After two hours of games I made my way home...or thought I would. Instead, I became absorbed in what the car clubs were doing...trawling Queen St. Let me say the concentration of Subarus was quite high, and there were plenty of others out. What the heck...I just had to give it a go and thus ended up circling with them (non-Aucklanders: this involves driving up Queen St (main street in the city), through K'Rd, down Symonds St, back up Beach Rd then onto Queen St again).

Something sexy-sounding boosted past me...I turned to see the spitting fucking image of Shale screaming past in a blaze of glory. Yep...there it was, the finished version of my car. It has an identical wing, the same skirts only silver, and one hell of an exhaust system. I drove past them since I was in the other lane and grinned at the driver...and his three mates. They grinned back and hooted with their thumbs up...after all...very similar cars. Theirs was a '98 STi...mine is a '98 HX in an STi suit

Let's just say here that the next HOUR involved the two Subarus stalking each other...he'd get ahead and I'd follow them, then when I boosted past they'd follow me. Every time we passed they'd hoot and laugh and cheer and wave at me, I'd laugh and wave back and make 'drooling' signals with my finger running down the side of my chin. Seriously...that thing sounded like an orgasm on wheels.

Before I turned off toward my favourite onramp, I couldn't resist...they were up ahead, going the speed limit...there weas nothing in front of me...can you imagine what happened?

Yeah. Me = *PLANTS FOOT*. Yep...Shale roared into high gear and boosted past them at already above the speed limit. Seeing me go past...the driver of the STi just HAD to hoof it too and with the superior boost of the STi he managed to catch up. Well...not for long.

Feeling just a little bit drunk on sheer ecstasy of the moment I stamped down on the gas in my car too...for almost five seconds, the two cars (identical from behind...honest to god I wish someone took a video) were neck and neck, both screaming in absolute rapture as their owners slammed them as hard as they would go. That's some achievement...I didn't win our little race, but my god...I actually RACED.

I RACED AN STi.



It rocked.

Let me tell you I will NEVER forget that hour when I was stalking those guys. It must've looked so cool for traffic behind...two wildly designed nearly identical cars shooting around together. It doesn't come better than this!

Upon heading home...note, the onramp ROCKED. Yep...took my favourite once again.

Came home, told Amanda aaaaall about my little escapade...the fact that I was so excited I was literally, no joke, JUMPING around the house got her hyped too so we went out again...back into the city to join the crawlers. Couldn't find my Subie guys, so we followed whoever happened to be there at the time. This random Nissan (that was meant to be green but was brown cuz of mud...ew) shot past us and in front of an Evo (which revved at him XD), took off, and emitted this loud POP as it took off. Omg...the both of us were in the hysterics...the car fucking FARTED FIRE as it took off down Mayoral Drive My face and diaphragm hurt from laughing so hard.

A few pointless rounds following thin air had us try the parkers by Beach Rd. Note by now it's well after midnight. We cruised past several times having a nosey before driving in...the carpark was literally full to the brim of highly-modified, gorgeous cars (Carlos, you would have creamed yourself fifteen times over and fainted at what I saw tonight) all parked in rows. There were so many GC8 Subarus there I almost cried. And they were all checking my car out...lmao. Actually, some were laughing...I don't blame them, I mean the wheels and entry-level bonnet and all. I feel really bad for poor Sha... ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9225293/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9225293/ Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:16:19 PDT Edit: WHAT THE FUCKING HELL my insurance company thought it would be fun to cancel my insurance. I rang them up and had a shitty at them...looks like they didn't receive my cheque from TEN DAYS AGO and thought it would be a good idea just to cancel on me. Grr. The lovely lady that served me has set up a new policy for me so we can try again...this time I'm going to pay in a different way so hopefully it'll go through.

Maybe I should get a credit card so I can use that. Meh...

-_____- GRRRRRH.

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The mad scientist is at it once again and has fallen victim to temptation at the same time. >=J

WTH, you ask...

Well. I've been looking at ways to boost Shale's performance (OH GOD HERE WE GO I hear you all say, shrieking and running in the opposite direction of yet another car rant) and the most obvious to me, as a typical uneducated consumer, was to up the octane percentage in his fuel.

After a little research I discovered that it's alright to mix purities of octane...as long as you're sensible about it. Still, I let him drain down to a mere few litres before I topped him up with the good stuff. A little more research yielded some interesting results; 'premium' octane is named such because of the premium it costs to produce, not because it's better. It's developed for the performance cars - high octane fuel is actually quite stable and needs to be at very high temperature or compression to combust. The shit that takes up the 9% in 91 Octane is heptane, which is very unstable and explodes at a lower compression. Octane, surprisingly, has a lot more energy locked up inside it - hence why performance cars love the stuff.

So switching to 95% from 91% may or may not work, considering a car must have a high enough compression ratio in its engine to make full use of the upped octane levels. If it doesn't have the ability to unlock the power in the octane - ie, the compression ratio is too low - it will run like it's on 91 or worse. Essentially it's a big fat waste of money.

Most cars that use 95/96/98% octane are turbo cars because the turbo compresses everything BIG TIME - as I discovered, in layman's terms, it shoves a whole lotta oxygen-rich air into the engine to make fuel explode better.

My car doesn't have a turbo. So the question is thus: does the EJ20 engine Shale has have a high enough compression ratio to make use of the energy in higher levels of octane?

I stuck in 20 litres of 95 'Ultra Hi' from Shell (which cost me thirty five fucking dollars thereabouts...shale you PIG you'd better enjoy!!) to see what would happen. 20 litres...who cares if it's a waste.

For those that live in Auckland I topped up at the Shell on Beach Rd just before Parnell. Of course, fellow JAFAs (for overseas people: JAFA = Just Another Fucking Aucklander) can already imagine I turned left to go towards Parnel Rise. Luckily I was at the front of the lights.

I revved him up a little (I'm not THAT hot at launching yet so I'm not gonna sit on peak torque and risk ripping my clutch out YET) and blasted away from the crossing. First gear really didn't last that long - I was half-expecting him to choke on it and grunt up the hill considering the new fuel, but no. I found myself approaching the red line way faster than I thought I would! Second gear clicked into place with surprising ease, and to my horror I discovered I was doing 65km/h up the hill (which is in a 50km/h zone) without even knowing. Heh...luckily my engine braking is good

A quick cruise up through Parnell and down the waterfront again eventually got me to my favourite onramp back up Symonds St. This onramp is sheer SEX I promise you. Aucklanders: go down Grafton Rd from Anzac Pde/Symonds St, hang in the left lane and turn right (there are two right turners). Go up the hill to the State Highway 1 southbound entrance...and floor the fucker! There's a slight uphill bend at the beginning of the onramp, but from there it's dead straight with only a slight incline. The limit is 80km/h but no one ever uses that entrance most of the time...so who cares

Of course, you can imagine what I was doing while I was waiting for the lights to go green at that intersection. I had my left on the clutch, right on the gas, gear in 1st and hand holding the handbrake up. The woman behind me looked at me like I was on crack because I was holding him at a decent rpm...probably about 3000 because I was feeling generous XD Soon as the lights changed I ripped my foot off the clutch and shoved the handbrake down...

...and OH MY GOD. He did his usual lazy sta... ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9194392/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9194392/ Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:29:42 PDT

I was muttering about putting a turbo in Shale, just fir shits and giggles...and Mum just unleashed a torrent of anger on me O_o She ripped holes in her own argument as she ignored my statement that I'd wait until I got Blackie before I got a turbo. XD

Mum: You can't put a turbo in there, the cops will target you!

Me: Uh...how can they tell if I have a little metal snail at the very centre of the engine bay?

Mum: *sigh* the look of the car! They'll see it all suped up with the scoop and everything!

Me: Uh, the car is going to look like that ANYWAY! The cops will target me turbo or not!

Mum: You'll be tempted to speed if you have a turbo!

Me: Uh no...I'll be tempted to ACCELARATE because my car already goes fast, it just doesn't accelarate fast which is why you put a turbo in!

Mum: *silence*



Oh well. When I move out...nobody has to know

I fell in love with a set of Enkei rims as well. They would look like secks x 4 on my car! But I still want Josh's rims.

Speaking of whom, wtf where is he...>=\ I miss the bastard. Grr...*humps*

I hate my uterus. It makes me want to curl up in a ball of pain in the corner and feel sorry for myself D: I need schnuggles v____v; But at least I'm not a female that gets crazy anger >__>; You know who is pretty lucky like that.

It's fuggin freezing here. Shale was a furry snowball with a wing this morning...as soon as I defrosted the ice on the windows with cold water, they froze back over again. It SUCKED. My poor baby...

Anyhow. Enough whining from me...time to go do something entertaining ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9185326/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9185326/ Mon, 26 Jun 2006 04:11:02 PDT
Anyone wanna lend me a couple hundred thousand dollars? This is sheer fuckin murder seeing all these beauties around ;____; ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9174416/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9174416/ Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:46:58 PDT

Except for... thank you to the gals on Mousse Night for reinspiring me. Now all I need to do is pick up the fuckin' pen and get on with it!

I'm still gunna try and get a comic ready for Armageddon...and I'll be doing mostly marker work after my computer damn well crashed -_____-;;

Meh. Haven't seen Josh in over a week...I miss hiiiiim ;______;...

Anyhow. Amanda might be getting an STi at some stage (her Mazda is gonna HATE it) and...well, let's just say I'll be thinking of all sorts of lame excuses to 'switch cars' and take it for a drive Because believe it or not, I've never driven an STi. i'd KILL to. ARR. ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9133137/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9133137/ Wed, 21 Jun 2006 03:12:09 PDT
Oh yes...bought the new clear lighs for Shale. It makes the old bumper lights look like SHIT they're so orgasmic. Suddenly he looks like he stepped into the 21st century BIG FREAKIN TIME...they twinkle in the light :3

Amanda went with me to pick them up...then between the two of us we wrestled the entire front of the car off onto the garage floor (took a bit of elbow grease and a lot of filthy language), exchanged light bulbs, and ut it all back together again after a quick clean. In an hour we'd changed everything over without A MAN which felt...well...let's just say there's no other feeling like it. Doing it fer yerself in a man's world as a woman :3

I had to do a circuit in Mum's car to get it back into the garage...a U-turn in a 7-seater ain't fun on a narrow street...Amanda followed me in Shale so I could see the lights from behind (and so she could get him back in the drive)...omg. Seriously. You people would squee yourselves whether you like cars or not seeing that guy following you. Cat-like is the best description I can give; he's so low down, so small and the eyes are just so incredibly feline. With that huge wing (tail) on there too, and the fact that he actually literally purrs in idle, you'd be surprised to find that he ISN'T a stripeless tiger, he's a car o___O;

I am very, VERY happy. Today has been a good day! ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9111799/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9111799/ Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:33:06 PDT

Okay, get home and find out the computer's hard disk is dead. AUGH. I could possibly have LOST everything I've eve done because I didn't back up enough ><;

Saving grace...we have the old hard disk.

Might need to talk to dad's mate Iain, if I can't find anyone else that can help out here. Jen, is your brother any good at rescuing hard disks without losing data?

This is so annoying. This has thrown my commission's deadline out the window T__T

My lifesaver...Amanda is crashing at my place for a week or so until she can find a new place. She has this flash new laptop (which evidently I can't type on) that's hooked onto our network...so I get to check my emails and DA and such.

So just so you know...there is a possibility that I have lost EVERYTHING because my computer no longer works. I could be a very unhappy lil bunny for the next few days. -_____-; Oh well, we'll see if we can't rescue it.

But yeah, come next pay, I'll be getting a super-cheap entry level laptop that'll service me while I do up the car and save for a real computer. Hopefully that means I can be on more regularly (~_^) without the risk of failing backups etc. I'm going to get a portable HDD for backup while I'm at the laptop game too.

So yeah. This is one way of advancing forth and taking some bolder steps. Pity my pay is CRAP but hey. Meh...I'll get by

So yeah. Random, RANDOM times for me now. Amanda's good tho, since we let her use our net she lets me use the comp. w00t.

...BUGGAH.

Minor update - buyinga laptop tomorrow...similar to the one I'm on now (Amanda's) but a touch smaller and cheaper And then begins the process of salvaging what we can off the old computer Becky's cracked out her crappy old laptop, Mum's using hers, and Mandy's on the old riceburning shitter upstairs XD I've stolen Amanda's (gawd it's crazy with two people with the same name in the house) for the time being since she's out seeing friends...

...so yeah. So much SHIT has happened to me lately I just stand there waiting with a mop and bucket for the next handful to hit the fan. I can't believe how CALM I am over all this. Maybe it just hasn't hit yet...o___O; trying not to think too hard about it. ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9091808/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9091808/ Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:51:01 PDT

It appears that as time has gone by, people have all but completely forgotten telecommunications etiquette in their escapades both online and in real life with more traditional technologies.

I think you all know what I mean. Frankly I was reduced to screaming swearing ball of anger today when someone finally added the final straw on the camel's back and tried to call me three times while I had my head under the bonnet of the car and mud all over my shoes and was hence unable to run inside and get the phone (cellphone note). When I finally answered, he didn't get the hint to FUCK OFF -____-; And yes...it was Dad, checking up on me from overseas.

This in mind, I have finally decided to crack down on the volume of people that seem to be so obsessed with gaining contact with someone that they don't even consider the fact that the person they're contacting isn't available.

For those that see me on messengers (both Yahoo and MSN) PLEASE TAKE NOTE, this is IMPORTANT. If I have no away message, you're free to contact me. If I have an away message, that means I'm not free to be contacted.

Message: 'Be Right Back'. This means I am away from my computer, hence the message 'Be Right Back'. Please don't message me unless it's an emergency, especially if you intend to CONSTANTLY FUCKING MESSAGE ME WITH 'HELLO?! HELLO?!' OVER AND OVER AGAIN. If it says BRB, don't message me!

Message: 'Away'. This is more likely to mean I'm out of the house, as in not by my computer, as in not able to answer your message. So please don't bother.

Message: 'Busy'. If you message me when I have this up...I will have to KILL YOU. It means I'm BUSY. As in...BUSY! Honestly, this is the one single away message I get the most interruptions on. If it says I'm busy, it means I am busy...as in, I DON'T WANT TO FUCKING TALK TO YOU. DON'T INTERRUPT ME.

For those that know me in real life, there's less of a chance that you'll be interrupting me like online...but after today, I think I need to state the obvious.

If you ring my home phone and there's no answer after 10 rings, it means there's no one home. I have on occasion been rung when I'm home alone early in the morning and have been sick in bed...25 rings is the longest I've heard. I have to say...what, are you fuckin' stupid? How in god's fuckin' name does letting it ring for half an hour ensure someone will answer? Doesn't it occur to you that if it keeps ringing perhaps, just maybe, there's a tiny chance NO ONE IS HOME? Goddamn. If it doesn't beep after 8 rings, it means there's no answering machine either, which is the case at home.

If you ring my cellphone and it doesn't answer, then there are a range of things that could have happened considering my phone is a dinosaur.

1) When it's not been charged that day, then sometimes it turns off after the second ring and refuses to stay on once I've turned it back on. If I seem to randomly 'hang up' on you, no, that'd be my phone biting us both in the arse Ringing me back immediately, unfortunately, is not going to help. Just wait for me to contact you again, or try back in 5 minutes. Leave a message on my voicemail so I know who you are because it doesn't keep record of who cuts out.

2) I've forgotten it somewhere or can't find it in my bag. Uh...ringing repeatedly isn't going to help here. Sorry Again...I hate voice messages myself but either leave one of those, or send me a txt. I'm more likely to get back to you that way.

3) I don't want to be disturbed. If it rings for eight and then goes directly to voicemail, chances are if I've not lost it somewhere, I don't want to hear from you...sorry. Don't flood me with 45837689537 re-calls in an attempt to get back to me, PLEASE! It'll make me more likely to jump in my car, drive over to you and fucking POUND YOU SENSELESS you prat. (If only I could send Dad this message!) Leave a goddamn message somehow...voice or txt. Quite often people forget that I work 8-5 on we... ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9072805/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9072805/ Thu, 15 Jun 2006 22:26:28 PDT

1) Car plans...urhm, interesting. My connection with the paintjob is going through a rough time so it might be on hold, not sure. At any rate, I've just been COMMISSIONED for a DESIGN JOB and am going to charge...one set of NEW CRYSTAL HEADLIGHTS! Both sets...front and side! WHOO! The entire front of my car is being changed over now. Since I have better insurance now, I can do a few mods...I might be getting a new stereo soon (since Josh is dead-set on sending me his, so it seems) as well as a new set of wheels...

2) Dropped the suggestion of the Essential Auto guide to the bosses at work...they're thrilled to bits with it. I might just hang around to make it a reality

3) Gunna be busy the next two weekends...this weekend I'm hanging out with a good friend and helping her sort her stuff out...weekend after that is MOUSSE NIGHT! That is, the awesome foursome get together and indulge in random desserts whilst bitching about life in general. Goood fun. That and my commission is due by Monday so I have to work work work my butt off to get it done. Gotta love corporate IDs, eh? Oh well, it's worth 400 bucks

Okay I'm done now o_O

Edit: NO I'M NOT NO I'M NOT!!

OMG.

Play, y'all know what the 22B is, right? One of the most rare Imprezas and by far the most sought after. They are HAND BUILT and there are only 400 on the planet. They're extra wide-body coupes with bigger engines than the standard STi. They're incredibly fast and are by far the sexiest Impreza TWO DOORS around. They even have their number engraved into them...eg: # 329/400.

There are about 7 in New Zealand. That's one of the highest numbers outside of Japan.

TWO yes TWO of them are FOR SALE. I'm about to die right here. I want one so bad...this here is one of my dream cars. I would die happy if I had one of these and a black version 9, seriously I would. My life would be complete.

[link]

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Seriously. You have to admit...that car gives you tingles down south.



ONE DAY I'll get rich and buy one of those babies...restore it to its former glory and give it all the loving it deserves. ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9058912/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9058912/ Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:27:26 PDT Edit: DUDE you have no idea how hard it is to be a good girl. I'm trying to get Shale insured with Comprehensive so he's completely protected...yeah, AMI, AA and State won't have anything to do with your Impreza if you're under 21. Apparently it's a 'high performance vehicle' even if it's a non-turbo. Actually I'd agree with them. He's a monster of a vehicle, I gotta say.

So I've moved to a random company that specialises in insuring high-risk vehicles...their quote is reasonable and the fact that there is NO LIMIT to mods is really freakin nice. The excesses are sheer MURDER, but of course they are considering what I'm doing here. I'm 19, I'm on a restricted license, and I want full cover on a vehicle that looks just like the most stolen car in the country. At the end of the day it's worth it...because without the insurance, it's not a bit of a buttrape for my bank account, it's complete and total LOSS.

As for damage repair...that's why I'm keeping old parts

Well, that's one mountain conquered for the day.

*

Snitched from ~Olsie

1. Do you like animals?
Yep, me likey animals...being a biologist and all And some are yummy. Yes...I like cow.

2. Have you ever met an online friend in person?
Heck yes. It's called ARMAGEDDON! X3 Kylie, Ginge, Murk, you guys so kick butt. And so do all you folks that visited the stall!!

3. Are you athletic?
Pffft no. But I'm so workin' on that. Gym tonight!

4. Are you: thin, fat, athleticlly built etc:
A bit of extra baggage there. I don't like the word fat but there's truth in it. I'm basically an over-dramatised hourglass.

5. How much do you weigh?
None of your goddamn fucking business My fat is very dense because it's on the lower half of my body, AND I have a very weird body for a female in that I build muscle extremely easily. I weigh a lot more than I look. I build muscle just looking at a steep hill! LMAO. I have man-muscles on my shoulders >< And the biggest calf muscles I've seen on a non-islander girl. XD Cuz those gals so kick my butt.

6. What's your height?
5ft 1 (YAY SHORTIE!)

7. Shoe size?
Size 8 NZ (different in other parts of the world)

8. Girls- are you tomboyish, girly, normal, etc?
Uh...I'm in a class of my own. I would rather walk around naked than wear a skirt or dress, but I'm not dykishly tomboyish either. I wear form-fitting shirts and t-shirts with a low dip in the front cuz I'm proud of my chest, but they're always in dark or strong, vibrant colours...never, EVER pink or anything femme (aside from one purple shirt). I wear flared jeans that sit low on my hips...yet I don't look girly. I dunno. I'm somewhere between femme and tomboy that's so smack bang in the middle I'm neither. Oh well, Josh thinks I'm sexy for some reason so that suits me fine X3

10. How old are you?
19...nearly 20. So I'll say 20...sounds more respectable.

11. When's your birthday?
September 16, 1986. Year of the tiger, plus virgo...that means calculating, rationalising and bloodthirsty plus stubborn and slightly obsessive-comulsive at times. Ooooh boy.

12. Do you like to receive giftart?
Heck yes. It's even better when it's gift art of my own characters! But I need to finish my story and character profiles before that'll ever happen

13. Are you sociable?
When I want to be. Sometimes I'm a bitch that's best left in her cave. Other times I can't get enough of people! ^___^

14. Do you have many friends?
Not too many, but those that are, are really close. You people online count! Trust me. The reason I have a small number of friends is because I'll be there for you through thick and thin no matter what. I don't want to spread myself too thin with so many people to be completely and utterly loyal to D:

15. What's your race?
LOL that's a good one to ask me. I'm what we call a MONGREL. Or a MUTT. Or a MOG! Specifically I'm half Chinese half Pakeha (white NZer for all you overseas people); my Dad is from Malaysia, but his family hails from sout... ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9052191/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9052191/ Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:32:17 PDT
This one I'm dealing with can never take blame/responsibility for anything, and can't resist getting angry at other people for things that are not their problem/fault. I'm starting to get sick of it again.

Remember these rants from about 6 months ago? They're starting again

GRRRRRUGH.

*strangles*

At least it's only about 3 months before she can finally stop using the excuse 'you're a teenager too' when I say I fucking hate them. Uh, last time I checked, just because I AM something doesn't mean I'm not allowed to hate them. I fucking hate Asian drivers. Uh...I drive and I'm Asian...let's put two and two together here. I hate teenagers more than I hate small children...and I'm 19. But then again, explaining logic to someone who lives on pure emotion isn't an easy task, is it?

Sometimes perhaps my logic, rationale and objective thinking just has no place in this household =\ The only person that thinks like me is usually overseas...Dad and I think in such similar ways it's freaky, but my sisters and Mum are all clones of each other in that rationale doesn't exist in their vocabulary. It's rather frustrating.

But hey. That's why I'm looking for a better job so I can get a better wage and MOVE OUT to somewhere I won't get in trouble for looking for new wheels. Demmit my car is art. They didn't get pissed off when I bought 250 bucks worth of markers, but then again, they can't see the link there before they're too FUGGIN DENSE.

Ah well.

Randomly, my Dad as a Chinese is really into Feng Shui. He looked into my schnookums and I Feng Shui styles in relation to our birth dates...the result is 'perfect couple' with plenty of similarities surprisingly. A match he approves of o_O Amazing how much you can stalk someone with a mere birthdate. I'm quite scared actually XD He'd be even more scared I imagine >__> Kinda creepy. Dad always said that every freakin' boyfriend any of us girls had he'd go over with Feng Shui or whatever. He wasn't lying...he just asked for Josh's birthday and booya o_O

Lol. ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9040413/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9040413/ Sun, 11 Jun 2006 19:41:40 PDT
Drove to work in near darkness even though it was getting close to 8am...horrible windy rainy day, almost no one on the road. Until I got to Ngapipi Rd...yeah, that's where Auckland was. Got stuck in the queue, chugging up the hill in fuckin' 1st gear until I got to Mission Bay...

...cop cars everywhere, diversion and everything. THAT was the source of the hold-up.

Why?

Waves were exploding across the causeway (which is what Tamaki Dr is), across the road and on top of cars. Unfortunately, I had no choice but to go...so in the rain and the near-darkness (by now reasonably light but way too dark for daytime frankly) I chugged through the flooded road in 1st gear, getting my poor baby battered with salt water. Thank god it was bucketing down on the way out once I'd got past the waves cuz salt + car = rust.

Wind and rain continued till I got to work...10 minutes in, BOOM. There goes the power. We sat there for a while till we decided to go home...nothing you can do in the dark with no computers and no telephones.

Traffic was CHAOS going back...everyone else was going home too. Took the way home that took the least number of traffic lights...after all, only 5 of the 300 or so major intersections were manned by police since they were busy dealing with emergencies, trying to get their stations back online and steering people away from the coastline.

Sat in silence with the family at home for a few hours until we figured out our diskmans and iPods worked without power (freakin' idiots!)...then card games and music kept us entertained. Yay...what a waste of a monday.

Power just came back on again, nearly 7 hours later. Not sure what else this day has in store for us. After all, there's a huge fuckin' storm blowing up from Wellington that's already left Christchurch not only completely buried in snow but cut off from the rest of the country. Between the storm system and the power boo-boo here, not only has Auckland been without power all day, the majority of the country has too. The storm's due to hit soon...it's already crazy windy here so I'd hate to see what it's gunna be like in a few hours. x.x;

At least I discovered how handy it is having that monster whaletail on the back of my car. It actually kept it pinned better than usual. Because my poor Impreza is a lightweight, I could still feel him being shoved across the road...scary at 80km/h, let me tell you. The old wing didn't pin him as well though, so I'm grateful for the vain modifications there. They helped a buttload today.

Anyhow. If I randomly disappear whilst talking to anyone...that would be the power going out again

To quote Garfield...I hate Mondays -____- Oh well, at least I was off work X3 ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9023901/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9023901/ Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:58:20 PDT
...WANKER! Mmm, new vocabulary. You're not really a wanker. To the best of my knowledge.

Lmao.

< And that'll happen for real someday.

*stalked*






...in other news, to those that care, Shale's nose lift is being postponed for a bit...not sure what the story is but seems this weekend is gunna be a tad difficult. Hopefully there'll be an update in regards to this tomorrow or so, but I can't be sure. Oh well, it'll happen someday All I know is Saturday and Sunday 24 and 25 are OFF LIMITS because MOUSSE NIGHT is in order! The awesome foursome are getting together again for gossip, booze and large amounts of stupidity! WOO! ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9015191/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9015191/ Fri, 09 Jun 2006 04:25:44 PDT
Half of me is worried (he has an STi...the temptation to do silly things is bad enough in my car let alone THAT) and the other is lonely...I miss him already T_____T;;

Omfg I'm such a fangirl. He should count himself lucky.

AUGH.

*whine* D:

EDIT: YAAAAAAAY! He logged on at a random-arse time today, musta gotten home from work early. Turns out he's just been tired these last few days...new strange hours at work and talking to this random hoe from NZ to all hours of the morning till it's not early no more...that'd do it x___X *OMGCLING* ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9005585/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9005585/ Thu, 08 Jun 2006 04:57:15 PDT
How are you, how's life treating you? Things good, bad?

SUP, my pretties?!

I know I did this on MySpace too. I should do it on LJ as well.

Go on...days later, whatever, unleash This is your time to shine! ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9002581/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/9002581/ Wed, 07 Jun 2006 19:21:42 PDT
My new headphones are the SECKS. You know the song Homecoming by Greenday? You know how it has that awesome kick-in as the intro develops into the main song and BOOM it's all guitars? Well, with these headphones...I almost literally had an orgasm it's so good O_____O;; And I am serious. It's called MAJOR TWICHSPASM...XD OMG I LOVE BASS. And GUITARS. And I'd better clean up my mess here X3

So why'd I go get a hundred-dollar set of Sony head-SPEAKERS? We have ONE set of slightly usable headphones at home. They're crappy and have a short cord. The computer is a long way from the seat at home. Headphones = not an option.

And I'm getting sick of hearing feedback all the time from Josh's voice bouncing back and forth cuz the mic can hear the speakers. So...new headphones it is. Besides...I've been wanting a set of REALLY GOOD headblasters for a while now. Years in fact. The budget for this month allows...so yeah. I get to 'gasm over the awesomeness that is Greenday (ZOMGBILLY!!<3) AND talk to my freggin' boyfriend without being deafened by feedback.

Pity I can't use these in the car That would be highly dangerous and STUPID.

Man, only one more day till the weekend. Life is good...soon I will have a new car practically (facelift changes a LOT), I have a boyfriend FINALLY after ALL THESE YEARS (princess trapped in tower syndrome?), I have access to half-decent sound for the first time in years, and...well, still no sign of relief on the job front but all this wicked NEW STUFF really eases the pain :3 Retail therapy = psychological aspirin.

I really need to learn to take my pinky off the shift button more often. Caps just ain't cool. ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/8994415/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/8994415/ Tue, 06 Jun 2006 23:03:29 PDT

I wound up waking up late but only got a few death-glares and mutterings and mumblings...Josh, on the other hand, was three hours late to work and got a good bollocking for it. If he'd gone to bed when my computer crashed, he should have gotten enough sleep...but apparently not.

Ouch ><

I have a feeling he's not going to be in the greatest mood for the next few days...

Edit: He's okay *BIG SIGH OF RELIEF*

Edit 2: WEBCAM SOLVES ALL! He likes The Twins *pokes chesT* X3

OMG HE CALLED ME SWEETHEART! <3 *melts into goo* ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/8980103/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/8980103/ Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:12:22 PDT < Grr. Ahhhitbuuuurns!

Aside from that I'm still remarkably happy. ^^

Had a nice long conversation with you-know-who last night. He was filling me in about all the upgrades he's doing to his car (now I know how everyone here feels about my ramblings, let's say XD I KNOW YOU READ THIS JOSH! I'm not tech-savvy, but you KNOW you lost me last night...). One of the many mods is this...computer THING...replacing the head unit (yay, new word!). Mmmm, 70GB of music. I don't even have 70GB of music o___o; I whined about my CD player not playing CDs and my radio not picking up local stations...

...and he randomly said he'd give me his old head unit o____O!! I take it that means sending it across the ocean from the US to NZ. DAYUM. Here I was budgeting for a new system XD PWND. I'm getting excited now...I might be able to listen to music in my car! LMAO. This totally kicks arse. Even if I misinterpreted that offer completely and he meant he'd help me fix my existing system...that still suits me fine Anything's better than what I have now aside from a stolen unit.

Man. Everything else is moving so freggin' slow it's not even worth talking about. The SEEK issue is particularly slow. Is it just me or is it culture in business now to only contact people you're interested in employing? EMPLOYERS: for GOD'S SAKE would you learn some etiquette and at least say 'thanks but no thanks' to the people you rejected? CVs aren't a buffet you know. I know when I start employing people in my own company I'll be sending polite notes to everyone I've passed over. It's called common courtesy (read: UNcommon courtesy). Call me old fashioned but manners get you everywhere.

Meanwhile, Shale's still on the cards for a respray this coming weekend, and I'm thinking of financing my wheels. Amanda, Baz, I should talk to you about that next weekend I want something 22B-esque or similar to the version 9 wheels of course, in silver or grey...I've got a few possibles in mind. I need to know what the situation is for finance...I should just give up the pride thing and go for it, I reckon X3 After I've..uh...re-insured and re-registered the car -____-;

My sister's so shitty at times. Before she got shitty at me for talking about cars (supposedly endlessly...nooo, endlessly is what I do on DA. a mention every now and again is not endless!) and now that I've changed the topic to boys (or men, lmao) she's still shitty. There's just no pleasing some people. Is she just jealous or selfish? Her conversation with Mandy is mostly 'your mom' jokes and random nonsensical statements...they don't seem to -talk- as much as make noise. So what, I'm meant to indulge in incoherent jibberish? Goddamnit, I didn't get 134 on my IQ test to end up speaking PREP.

Meh.

Man. A new job is gonna cure everything...

Btw. I worked out my mpg from my last trip. Shale can get 35mpg!! Pretty impressive for a 2.0L AWD monster flexing his muscles. That's bordering on econobox...econobox is 40mpg

w00t.

I should get back to work...-____- ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/8971278/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/8971278/ Sun, 04 Jun 2006 18:10:07 PDT 3

Today the sun is shining, the sky is blue, and the weather is surprisingly not too cold!

Yep, gotta love public holidays because today is a MONDAY! And I'm enjoying wasting sweet sweet time (and petrol and money) just touring around, doing a whole lotta nothing. I'm sick with a heavy cold right now, so the 'fresh air' (aka window wound down) should've done me some good. The last three days in fact have been wasted doing practically nothing but pudging and driving o_O

Serious bonding between me and my boy I luff you Shale.

He's been a good boy too...topped him up 60 bucks on Saturday (He was SO HUNGRY), drove around over 200km, and discovered that it took only 17 litres out of all that gassing up onramps...lmao. That's some SERIOUS fuel economy. I'm still stunned.

If I wasn't sick and I had a certain someone with me (Joshy-poo!) life would be perfect as of right now. There's not a cloud in the sky, the weather's remarkably summery, it's a holiday and OMG it's just so awesome.

*SQUEE*

Bye bye depression! ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/8964966/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/8964966/ Sun, 04 Jun 2006 02:37:02 PDT

Demmit I've never been this MUSHY before...but it feels good!

...he's so lovin' this as much as I am. ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/8950830/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/8950830/ Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:01:28 PDT
Dude. Managed to get to talk with Josh again last night. Pissed me off that it was pretty late, because I got to go home early from work (which was a plus cuz I'm sick at the moment...throat bug with a stuffy nose) but spent most of that 'extra' time waiting for a computer.

This time there was less car talk and more personal talk...seems like he's digging to get to know me better. I'm getting to know him fairly well too, though he doesn't say much.

He's starting to slip in a few little snippets of dirty talk every now and again...normally after at least an hour or so. Well, last night was no different...so I poked and pried a bit and discovered that I'd given him a raging tent-pole for the latter half of the conversation.

THAT would explain things.

He's still such a litle cutie...still reasonably shy, but it's interesting to see this side of him now. I thought I'd never get anywhere =\

Oh, and as it turns out...I hit the jackpot in that he's NOT a homophobe! YAY! That just makes things more fun

Other than the obvious dirty conversation that cropped up here and there, there was lots of talk of overseas holidays...that was fun...plotting a road trip around NZ might just become a reality someday. I mean seriously, for two Subaru fanatics ('Subaguru' as he calls himself, lmao) what could be more fun than screaming around the mountains in NZ (at barely legal limit of course, KTHXBBQ, I ain't no boy-racer) with the Boxer Burble cackling behind you the whole way? YUM.

...in other news, still waiting for a reply back from BOTH these new jobs now. Grr. HURRY UP AND HIRE ME! I want oooooout of this nuthouse! ;____; ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/8934222/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/8934222/ Wed, 31 May 2006 19:45:46 PDT
I sure didn't.

But my boss spotted my car on it. In fact, it was the shining star of the article (funny, it has stars on its nose).

So if anyone saw Fair Go last night...the silver STi on there was my car. :3

*is desperately trying to find a copy or replay now* ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/8926609/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/8926609/ Wed, 31 May 2006 03:10:39 PDT

*SQUEE*

By some stroke of luck I managed to catch him online again. It's so hilarious...he says he's an introvert and I believe him. He so seems like he's exploding at the seams to make it more than a friendship but just -can't-. Every now and again he'll make a strong of smileys that tell a story (you know how it goes) or will border on hinting at something. He randomly asked if I had my mic nearby so he could hear my voice before he went to sleep :3 That ended about an hour and a half later cuz he couldn't tear himself away.

And as you all know I'm a fucking tease. I'm passive-aggressive and enigmatic...I let someone else do the hard yards, then I make them my bitch >3 So this is interesting to say the least. I wish I saved the chat instead of shutting the window because...well, it was so damn cute. It's almost as if he's waiting for me to ask him out or something :3

But once again...I'm passive-aggressive. If he wants me he can come get me.

OH MY GOD I FEEL SO GIDDY! ^___________^;;

Omg I wish he didn't live so far away -_____-;

Man. After stepping out and dropping samples of my work off at a potential employer's office (it impressed the shit out of them that I did it), and after chatting to you-know-who on voice chat, I was on such a damn high I was bouncing off the damn walls...so I went down to Mum's work and thrashed myself silly. Mum is a trainer at the gym :3 I'm currently b0ned and in pain, but it was worth it. I'm going to sweat myself sexy!

I can't remember the last time I was so HAPPY! BYE BYE DEPRESSION! Thank you Shale, gym, Graphic Impact, all my friends and family and JOSHY-POO for making me feel on top of the WORLD! <3<3<3 ]]> ~miraikazuya http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/8912059/ http://miraikazuya.deviantart.com/journal/8912059/ Tue, 30 May 2006 03:27:46 PDT
Okay. So somehow through the mountains of soft pr0n, emos and boy-racers I managed to find this one guy that had himself an STi but wasn't bothered with putting up useless videos of him racing. The one video of his car kinda proved it...it was of the start-up sequence (fancy dials etc) of a stock STi when you turn the ignition on. Not donuts. XD

After a little while we really started to get talking...you know the drill, find out we have lots in common, similar interests, etc...

He makes me giggle so... :3 Wtf, I don't 'giggle'.

The tiger had been tamed

We stayed up to all hours of the night last night audio conferencing on Yahell...he could barely get through my Kiwi-isms most of the time The accent was fine cuz he's used to Aussies...but he didn't even understand 'gobbeldigook', imagine what it was like for him getting through the 'sweet-as bro' Kiwi colloquialisms. And then there was Mum wanting to burn a disk RIGHT THEN for her gym class the next day but she put on songs that didn't work...he sat there laughing his arse off as we spat at each other trying to get the disk to work cuz she was getting shitty. Forgetting that she was on mic!! An hour, three restarts, two destroyed disks and an internet failure later, we got back to talking.

So I'm bombed this morning...1:30am as a bedtime doesn't work for me when I get up at 6:55 (or attempt to). But I am at peace knowing that he is equally as scr00d over because he has a timetable almost the same as mine since he does the graveyard shift and got as little sleep as I did :3

Omg. does the great fierce untouchable Obsidian have a CRUSH? ¬____¬ Or is it just because his car is identical to my dream one? I've had a few guys fishing around after me irl before, but since they were shy guys they were too terrified to make a move. Lmao. Those that only know me online can probably picture me as an extrovert and such. Yeah...I'm like this IRL except maybe not QUITE as OTT with the verbal insanity. So one can imagine guys just aren't interested or are scared of me.

So all of this is a new experience. Very few guys can make me giggle...this is an interesting sign >___>

Edit: Oh my FUCKING god I need to stop waiting up to all hours of the night to see if he'll come online or not -______-;; SLEEP IS GOOD AMZ. *headdesk*

Btw...turns out I actually did faceplant on my keyboard this afternoon...Elena laughed her head off at me trying to zonk out on my computer.

10:30pm...early start tomorrow...but must...stay...awake...o.@;

I'm so glad he doesn't come to DA. I'd look like such a loser. -_____- ]]> ~miraikazuya