Just that I thought that my pre-teen and teenage years are tough. I was wrong, it gets tougher and tougher every stage of life. My college days have its own struggles and now my career. So far God is like teaching me that you can plan all you want in life, but don’t hold too tightly on it. Like my family and previous relationship. And most probably now my business. He is teaching me to invest in Him rather than things that can vanish anytime.

you can plan all you want in life, but don’t hold too tightly on it

Last Sunday sermon, an email and camp’s sermon are so timely. It realign my mental and emotional state back in order. Although I still feels like don’t know what to do next for my business. I can sense a certain peace during my drive back home from Desa Park City and meeting a client over dinner. A peaceful and quiet one.

Thank God for timely words and people that He has prepared to support and encourage me during times like these. He never fails to send help in my time of need.

I should go to bed now. Gotta go into office tomorrow morning and work on my future.

Verse of the month:

Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint;
   but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s instruction. Proverbs 29:18

Living a life with lies to keep you going.

Although I want to believe it, but when the fire place is not open to you, you can never find comfort there. It is just a temporary feeling which fuel you to dream the dream you used to dream. You are able to relive a certain part of dream that you long for but can never taste the warm because the fireplace is not open to you.

when the fire place is not open to you, you can never find comfort there

I have to walk out of this fire place which I like and let it finds its own rightful owner or even let the fire place replenished with more fire wood and be warm again. At least I won’t feel that cold for the whole journey I traveled.

My journey continues as this familiar feeling I used to find hard to accept take place, and soldier on to face tomorrow by myself hopefully the right fireplace I will be, well at least that’s what I can do.

These are the memories that build me once to move ahead, then it become a hindrance, an obstacle to stop me from progressing. Yes, although I’ve grown in different areas, I’ve mature as times goes by but it is a maturity in another area in my life. I have come to realize that these are the memories that is kept away and it is not being replaced yet. And they suddenly resurfaced or probably I started to think too much too.

The problem is not that I hold on to these memories dearly, it is I think I’m crippled in TRUST again that I’m afraid to grant my heart to someone once again. I already have a particular person that have attracted me to but yet it is another test all over again. I feared, I really fear.. I want those memories to be overwritten by the new ones. I want to be able to move on and grow out of this area of my life.

Being a man is MORE THAN completing your responsibilities or task as you grow in life.

To have a clear picture of what is a real man we can turn to this scripture

“Jesus kept increasing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men” Luke 2:52

If you study closely this scripture it tells you that Jesus grew to be what is described as “Being a man”. As He grows His WISDOM (Knowledge), STATURE (Character), FAVOR WITH GOD (Spiritual Life) and FAVOR WITH MEN (Social Life). These are the four main aspects in our daily life we need to monitor and keep track.

The true meaning of being a man is mastering these four aspect in our lives, but most of the time we are able to master 3 out of the 4 and often keep Spiritual Life out of the picture.

My computer finally gave up!

Yes, it gave up after serving me faithfully around 6 – 7 years (That’s a long long time!).

Such a torment when you know you have work to do but you can’t do the work. Most of the files are still stucked in my old computer’s hardisk. I need to get em’ out of there. To the new notebook I’m going to use (which is on it’s way).That would probably take a few day I hope.

So what can I do at the moment? Well here are a list of things which is can do.

1. Read up The Knowledge Vault (My twit-list on all the research and studies I’m doing).
2. Research for ideas and technical answers to some of the projects of Damnfamous.
3. Time to reflect on my own strength and weakness.
4. Plans for DF studios / Damnfamous
5. And some quality time with the God-almighty!

On the other hand, waiting for my new companion in work to arrived.

Yup, it’s the new Dell XPS.

If you are wondering why of a sudden I am blogging about Alfa 156. I was doing a research on this car due to some of the choice in the future. The shortlisted rides I am eye-ing on are:

BMW E36

ZX 16v

Audi A4 – B5 1.8T

Alfa 156

These are the shortlisted continental cars I am considering. Most of us will be thinking why continental? They are expensive to maintain, especially on the servicing and parts. The same question pops up at my head. Here is one of my research on one of the listed ride.

The 156 is one of the better looking overall package compared to the list this is because the year of manufacturing is newer then the rest.

Here I am going to list down some of the problems I need to take note of so that I can compare to the rest of the rides which I have shortlisted.

What you need to take note of…

I have try to search for the reliability for 156 on google and I have stumble upon these common issues most of the owner of 156 is having.

Gear Box Issue (Selespeed)

This is a great improvement done by Alfa. The selespeed gear box is like a semi-auto gear box. As I have google through I have notice selespeed gear box have a common issue of 2nd and 4th gear skipping /missing when the gear box life span reach a certain mileage. And also the 3rd gear crunching.

It is great gear box for cruising and for driving but definitely not good when you are stuck in the traffic jam, most of the drivers of 156 Selespeed finds the gear changing is not smooth and it jerks. So is either to live with that and enjoy a great weekend long distant drives.

Most of the mechanic will advice to avoid Selespeed gear box at all cost.

Upholstery

This is another common problem on most the 156. If you are considering getting 156 you should be checking the upholstery within the car. If you are lucky you might get a good owner who maintain it well. Drivers find squeaking sounds after 50,000 – 60, 000 miles. I stumble upon this article to check the upholstery especially those are below the dash.
Reference Link

Bonnet Catch

Owners of 156 have to take note of the bonnet catch of the car. A lot of accidents are caused by the negligence on the bonnet catch.
Reference Link

Conclusion

These are the main 3 pointers I want to point out. There are some of the very detailed problems. To read more you can refer to Carsurvey to read about the owners problem with 156 Selespeed.

Overall this can be a good looking package to consider. From my research and findings this baby here can be an expensive one to maintain as well as a very sensitive ones. ECU and all are pretty fragile, if you are a 156 owner try not to jumpstart your car, because it might fried some of the components of the ECU.

This is a summary of my findings you can correct me if I am wrong. Comments are welcome.

Derek and I both got ourselves this tee from Threadless, finally got it shipped over. It’s all sold out! Glad I got mine, despite of my lost of wallet.

Via Threadless

Over the weekend, artist Eric Haze took his show on the road to Los Angeles as he presented a series of Stussy-inspired work at the Known Gallery. Over the last few months we’ve seen a steady flow of Eric Haze x Stussy products that bring together two heavyweights in their respective realms. The show featured some re-interpretations of the Stussy logo as well as some graphic design that was directly utilized in the creation of the visuals for the Stussy collection.

Via: Hypebeast

Notice anything interesting?

:P

Via: Chris Wallace