Meh I've been wheezing and snivelling for the past week and a half. Am terribly not happy.
Chinese new year passed like any other day with the exception of a couple of angpows and two massive pig eat outs. That was good. I'm really really thankful that while the mucus leaks on without relent, I've not lost my appetite and my sleeping patterns are still normal (read: mild imsomniac).
Work's been rather quiet of late with lots of repetitive activities that bore me down very badly. While it can understandably get like this quite often, this time round seems to be an all time low, what with the general feeling of unwellness and related anger. Rawr.
Recently, I've gotten back to building models...
Tre-sama gave me a kit over Christmas and I've already ordered the majority of the paints needed for it's completion. Shall slowly take my time over 2009 to build it up. In the meantime, work is also being done on a previous kit. A '99 spec RX7 by Fujimi, which I've primered last weekend. Shall clean up the burrs and dags this weekend with Mr. White Putty! Nyaha.
Am going to die...
*gets Chee-kun to help me get more drugs*
Currently listening to: Do You Remember by Jack Johnson
Work resumed on Monday and after an eventful night's sleep, I made my way to St Pancras without as much as a hitch. 'It was going to be a nice day after all', or so I was lead to think.
At the ticket office:
81 pounds please
Oh it's gone up in price... from 75.50. Rather steep eh.
*Shrugs*
I thought 'okay maybe they need money for making the trains run on time or maybe the extra heating for winter'...
Btw, the First Capital Connect don't heat their trains. Or if they did, it's probably optimum temperature for penguins. Bastards.
About a month or three ago, I was in the market for a road bicycle. You know, them things with the weird looking bent down handlebars? Yahah so anyways, I gave up looking for one when there was none with the specs I wanted at a price ceiling of £450.
A few weeks later, this turned up on Ebay, at a price too good to resist:
£129.99 lighter in the wallet, the frame duly arrived 3 days later. A piece of paper was whipped out of thin air and a list of the parts needed to build a bike was made up. Back then, I was torn between either mixing and matching bits and pieces or going for a complete groupset. In the end I decided to bite the bullet and go for the all singing and dancing Shimano 105 10-speed group, which was released about 2 - 3 years ago.
Initially, the plan was to buy the bits one by one over a few months to lighten the financial load. I also enlisted the help of the BFF who was back in Malaysia then to help me purchase the groupset as it was cheaper. That, sadly, fell through the roof and crashed many many floors down, much to my dismay.
Hence a new budget was set at £600 with the aim of building it to be under 8kg. Parts were then purchased from CRC, Wiggle and numerous other online vendors as well as the good people at rock&road , addiktioncyclesand Birmingham City Cycles.
Much to my dismay once more, it shot the budget roof by £189.77. I haven’t weighed it yet, but it feels to be under 10 kilos. Which is abit of a good news. It was supposed to have had its maiden ride last Saturday but yours truly decided to lie in and die on the bed because it was cold outside. Sniffle.
The spec list is as follows:
2008 Giant SCR4 frame – 46cm
Brand X aero carbon wrap front fork
Shimano 105 BR5600 front brake and Shimano R650 rear brake
Shimano 105 10-speed gear levers 5600
Shimano 105 10-speed front and rear derailleurs
Shimano 105 10-speed 12-25 cassette
Shimano R700 crankset 34-50 (170mm)
Shimano 105 Hollowtech II bottom bracket
KMC 10-speed chain
Shimano Dura-Ace shifter and brake cables
PRO PLT stem, 80mm 10º, silver
PRO PLT drop bar, 42cm width, silver
PRO PLT seatpost, 27.2 x 280mm, silver
PRO bartape – Floral Baby Blue
Charge Ladle Ladies saddle, black with baby blue trims
Shimano RS10 wheelset, black
Shimano A515 SPD pedals, metallic baby blue
Vittoria Rubino Tech Pro 120 TPI tyres and inner tubes
