I'm not letting go of the Cressida, this is my final thought on that subject. This job has given excellent insight of how new cars drive these days and only a few have managed to grab my interest but I still feel the 22 year old Toyota is better. That leaves me with a problem, eventually it will get to the point where the Cressida will be very old ( Read more... )

Its been nearly a month now working and I have noticed there are some cars which I can only describe as...generic cars. Cars which don't really have true faults to them but crucially have nothing thats actually good about them. Bland essentially. I actually thought Toyota was the king of bland, it seems only the Corolla and Camry cars are this way ( Read more... )

I'm now working for a car rental place. One of the big advantages of working in a place like this is that you get to drive far more vehicles than the vast majority of people. The cons are however you might end up getting a crappy car to drive. I have definitely past the previous 4 cars I've driven. Funny enough despite driving a whole bunch of 2007 ( Read more... )

This is the first of two posts I'm doing today. I recalled that I did mention my views on Gundam SEED Destiny even going as far to review the episodes myself. I actually managed to keep my promise to not view beyond the first 10 episodes if I hated the series. I'm very glad I didn't go beyond that, somehow I knew it was going to be crap having only ( Read more... )

Every time I say anything regarding Canadian politics its never something very positive about any political party. I honestly think they're all crap, from the left NDP to the right with the Conservatives. Nationally the Canadian public has absolutely no say in who should lead either Conservative, Liberal or NDP party leaders. What happens is ( Read more... )

I get the sense that Nintendo's strategy of expanding the appeal of its Wii console to non gamers is working extremely well. On New Years eve, my parents held a party for my relatives on my dad's side since they are a lot closer than those on my mom's. This is probably the only party I've been to where the adults were more interested in playing ( Read more... )

Today on the road I encountered a driving instructor's car on a Kennedy which is a main road. You may or may not be familiar with the stereotype that "chinese drivers can't drive". This tends to refer to drivers at Pacific Mall/Market Village the majority whom are chinese, are absolutely hopeless at driving properly. Now I am a chinese driver but I ( Read more... )

I had back problems since elementary school although I wasn't sure exactly what it was. Indeed I ruined my back by carrying much heavier things on my back since I honestly couldn't carry them with my hands. At first I thought it was just because I lifted heavy things, later I get random pain even when I haven't carried anything heavy. The pain ( Read more... )

I was quite disappointed with the last reading on my scale and afterwards looking into the mirror. I have decided this was my limit and now my goal is to lose roughly 30 lbs or at least just lose the belly. I was thinking about this last year but with procrastination nothing ever happened and the problem is getting worse. With enough incentive like ( Read more... )

Since most of this journal has since become about me and my old Cressida I started wondering because of how much I love this car what would have happened if I said yes to scrap it. I know what the "replacement" car would have been, my mom's choice of car because I have no say. A 2006 Toyota Corolla LE. So I started looking at how much gain or loss ( Read more... )