You should have heard them

So I was filling up the Polo the other day…

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Went to the Cameron Highlands a few weekends back.

Tea and Land Rovers as far as the eye can see.

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Storm's coming...

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Back to the track

Headed to an RCA organised track day at SIC last weekend to grab some shots. A seriously busy morning, tonnes of cars on track at the same time and quite a few red flags due to incidents.

More photos up on my Flickr.

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On the road once more

Finally got ourselves a car here in Malaysia, a Candy White VW Polo 77TSI DSG. Picked it up on Xmas Eve and have been driving around ever since. Below is a video of me driving into work for the first time in it on Monday morning, sped up x4.5 😁

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Malacca

We recently spent a long weekend exploring Malacca.

Highlights: best-cendol-ever (Gula Melaka!), walking Chinatown, A’Famosa and the quite incredible history of this place.

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S1K qualifying

Some shots from last Friday’s qualifying session for the 2010 Sepang 1000km enduro.

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Penang

Last weekend we took a short flight to the island of Penang to explore the UNESCO World Heritage City of George Town. We really liked this place.

Highlights: Assam laksa, ABC, cendol; the E&O; Chew Jetty; the historic buildings of George Town.

More photos up on Natalie’s Flickr, Facebook and my Flickr.

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Saturday morning coffee

White coffee is something of a local specialty. Super strong and often flavoured with sweetened condensed milk, perfectly complemented by a few pieces of kaya toast.

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Mmmmm

Did I mention how good the food is over here in Malaysia? There’s nothing you can’t get. From local specialties, really local hawker food, top restaurants and every fast food chain you could ever think of, except for Oporto (which is odd, but that’s entirely another story).

This past weekend we found a local representative of the Din Tai Fung chain and stopped by for some of their signature xiaolongbao and other dumplings. Whilst we’d previously visited the local Sydney branch, it was nothing compared to the experience we had at this one. The service was great, the food hot/fresh and mindblowingly cheap.

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So here we are

If you haven’t heard, we’ve moved to Malaysia for a couple of years.

Been here just over a week so far: loving the weather; finding the locals are extremely friendly and hilarious; work is both challenging and exciting; and the food is out of this world, there’s literally nothing you cannot get over here. Haven’t had much time to take too many photos (hence the recycled shot above), though plans are afoot to rectify this situation asap.

Stay tuned, stay in touch.

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Trackday at SIC

Spent a day out at the Sepang International Circuit on Saturday, checking out the local trackday scene. Unfortunately I didn’t bring along my long lens so only had a max of 55mm to play with, not the best for taking shots at a circuit with such massive F1-compatible runoffs.

Ended up walking right out to the end of what they call “The Mall”, between the main back-to-back grandstands along the two long straights, could not get over the size of this place. The trackday was being held on what is the full 5.5km F1 layout so that action was pretty spread out. That said, from a vantage in the main stand I could see the majority of the track, I just couldn’t reach it with my camera.

Lots of Lotii in attendance, along with a bunch of well sorted JDM Hondas, Subarus, a few (LOUD) Altezzas and a Veilside-kitted RX7.

The day itself seemed well organised, I only saw a couple of incidents - one Civic failed to secure its bonnet properly with obvious results, whilst another car (I think it was a Proton of some sort) stopped out on the circuit and brought out the red flags during one session. Overtaking seemed to be allowed anywhere and most, if not all, cars had passengers each time they went out. I can see how - with those two massive straights - the layout would suit big-power cars and can imagine that the big stops at the end of them, combined with the heat, would make this circuit pretty tough on brakes.

Perhaps next time I’ll get out on the track myself.

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