"Being Howard Hughes"

"Being Howard Hughes"
by Gilbert Trillana

You wake up one morning,
And stare far away
Toward trees dying...
As far as eyes could see.
Having known your legacy,
You sit up straight,
And stare beyond the limelight,
Amidst the vastness of wings.

What paleness in spirit
Shallows the dreams of the meek,
Like you've never felt before.
No matter what happens,
You try to envision...
Wings that could go,
As long as Mir Solar Panels.

You poured all your money to it...
Gave it all you got,
Until nothing more is left.
Though times are hard to labour.
Dusk shall rule over the earth,
While dawn shall inherit the waters;
Still, it is time to fly.

A gust of wind wallows your face,
As you climb aboard your creation... Majestic as it seems.
People in awe and in disgust are everywhere, Like the ants that cuts leaves like madmen. You sit down and stare,
Throughout the watery expanse,
Of all that is noble and pure.
The sense of flight seethes like fire,
With every turn of your wheel.
Taste and see the light!

You went off the waters far and free,
Pulling yourself for everyone to see...
What joy and pain hath brought you forth
As you glide along the blues a few feet high. Twenty seconds, you then thought,
Is all it takes to change the world.
Twenty-billion people, then
Is all we need to change the planet.

Mighty ships go down with their captains, With nothing left to spare.
You then cross your fingers
and cringe in fear
While pushing down with care.
A gust of wind turns to a gush of blue,
The water slices you.
The morals of all that is impossible
Is now yours for the taking.


You then climb down,
Reluctant and proud,
Of mixed responses from the crowd.
You tip off your hat,
And walk away briskly...
Through the gates that no man sees.

Mirthful and champion,
Of all that is mundane,
You wave towards the people and sky.
Not knowing their hidden smiles
Of what life offers them,
You give them your best,
Regardless of your efforts
In goodness and in sin.

And the wings that you harness,
As light as a feather,
Glows brightly under the sun.
Welcoming the world
With open arms,
Of what it can do to change yourself,
Live either in cities or in farms.

What does one get
From an eccentric mind like yours?
An innocence like none other.
Perhaps that what lacks us all,
The dreams that we heed,
Of things no one can fathom...
Beyond the dismal,
Uncaring world around us...
The world reality brings.

G.J.

Alfa Romeo Nuvola

Alfa Romeo Nuvola Images, Specifications and Information

Alfa Romeo launched this Nuvola concept in 1996. The four wheel driven front-engined piece of art is powered by a 2.5 litre V6 engine, that produces 300 bhp. The Nuvola accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 6 seconds and goes on till 280 km/h. It was named after one of the best Grand Prix racers ever; Tazio Nuvolari.

25-9-2003
This car is awesome. How about producing it ? Alfa Romeo was once feared rival of Ferrari. A car like this will surely help Alfa to get back its past glory.

General specifications

Record last updated Before 12 / 01 / 2004
Country of origin Italy
Numbers built (Prototype)
Produced in 1996
Introduced at 1996 Paris Motorshow
Body design Alfa Romeo Centro Stile
Engine 60º V 6
Engine Location Front , transversely mounted
Configuration light alloy block and head
Displacement 2.492 liter / 152.1 cu in
Bore / Stroke 88.0 mm (3.5 in) / 68.3 mm (2.7 in)
Compression ratio 8.3:1
Valvetrain 4 valves / cylinder, DOHC
Fuel feed Fuel injection
Aspiration Twin Turbo

Drivetrain
Chassis/body glassfibre body on aluminum tubular frame
Front suspension double wishbones, transverse arms, coil springs,
telescopic shock absorbers, anti-roll bar
Rear suspension double wishbones, transverse arms, coil springs,
telescopic shock absorbers, anti-roll bar
Steering rack-and-pinion, power assisted
Brakes vented discs, all-round, ABS
Gearbox 6 speed Manual
Drive All wheel drive

Dimensions
Length / Width / Height 4286 mm (168.7 in) / 1859 mm (73.2 in) /
Wheelbase / Track (fr/r) 2600 mm (102.4 in) / 1577 mm (62.1 in) /
1602 mm (63.1 in)

Performance figures
Power 300 bhp / 224 KW @ 6000 rpm
Torque 387 Nm / 285 ft lbs @ 3000 rpm
BHP/Liter 120 bhp / liter
Top Speed 280 km/h / 174 mph
0-60 mph Acceleration 6.0 s

Honda Accord Tourer iCDTI Sports Study

Honda Accord Tourer iCDTI Sports Study Images, Specifications and Information

Honda Accord Tourer iCDTI Sports Study Images, Specifications and Information

Honda's genuine accessories department presented the 'Accord Tourer Diesel Sports Study Model', at the 2003 Frankfurt Motorshow. This distinctive sporty wagon with completely new front/ rear bumper, side sill garnish overfender, and big spoiler is powered by the Honda advanced, high performance diesel engine, thus guaranteeing agile handling, fuel economy and clean emissions.

General specifications

Record last updated Before 12 / 01 / 2004
Country of origin Japan
Produced in 2003
Introduced at 2003 Frankfurt Motorshow
Weight 1578 kilo / 3478.9 lbs

Drivetrain
Engine common rail Straight 4
Engine Location Front , transversely mounted
Displacement 2.204 liter / 134.5 cu in
Valvetrain 4 valves / cylinder, DOHC
Fuel feed Direct Fuel injection
Aspiration Turbo
Gearbox 5 speed Manual
Drive Front wheel drive

Performance figures
Power 140 bhp / 104 KW @ 4000 rpm
Torque 340 Nm / 251 ft lbs @ 2000 rpm
BHP/Liter 64 bhp / liter
Power to weight ratio 0.09 bhp / kg
Top Speed 198 km/h / 123 mph
0-60 mph Acceleration 10.0 s

2000 Mazda RX-EVOL V Concept

2000 Mazda RX-EVOL V Concept

Make Mazda
Model 2000 RX-EVOL V Concept
Powertrain Layout Front Engine / RWD

Dimensions
WheelBase 2720 mm / 107.1 in
Length 4285 mm / 168.7 in
Height 1350 mm / 53.1 in
Width 1760 mm / 69.3 in

Engine
Configuration Serial 2-rotor Renesis Rotary
Displacement 1308 cc / 79.8 cu in
Power 208.8 kw / 280.0 bhp @ 9000 rpm
Torque 208.8 nm / 154.0 ft lbs @ 8000 rpm
BHP / Liter 214.07 bhp
Redline 10000 rpm

Transmission
Type 6-Speed Semi-Auto

1981 Toyota Corolla

1981 Toyota Corolla

Alrhough at the most part, the 81 corolla maintained the same design as the early release of 1979 of the dx variant, some changes where made in the exterior aspect of the vehicle. the rounded headlamps were replaced with a pair of square lamps giving more of a modern look at that time.

Model
Toyota Corolla




General comments?
The excellent hardy machine, economic and powerful enough

Engine and transmission
1.3L, 4 manual transmission

Performance
60 h.p.

Reliability
At a high level

Comfort
Typical to most compact sedans during those days

Running costs (higher is cheaper)
Low

INTIAL D article

Initial D

Initial D (???D, Inisharu Di, Kashiramoji Di?) is a manga by Shuichi Shigeno which has been serialized in Kodansha's Young since 1995. It has been adapted into an anime series by Avex and a live-action film by Avex and Media Asia.

The anime and manga focus on the world of illegal Japanese street racing, where all the action is concentrated in the mountain passes (called Toge) and never in cities nor urban areas, and the drift racing style is emphasized in particular. Keiichi Tsuchiya helps with editorial supervision. The story is centered around the Japanese prefecture of Gunma, more specifically on several mountains in the prefecture and in and their surrounding cities and towns. Although some of the names of the locations the characters race in have been fictionalized all of the locations in the series are based on actual locations in Gunma Prefecture.

Avex has released the anime in several parts called Stages. One noticeable feature is that it uses Eurobeat music as background music in race scenes.

Games
The manga and anime have also been licensed by TOKYOPOP for an English release. Many fans questioned TOKYOPOP's intent when it changed some characters' names and gave others Americanized nicknames. For instance, the main character, Takumi, became Tak (this is a nickname many Japanese-American change their names to), and his best friend Itsuki became Iggy. Some characters, such as Takumi's father, Bunta, retained their original names. These name changes were to reflect the name changes that Sega implemented into the western releases of the Initial D Arcade Stage video games {see below} due to name lengths. Viewers are able to view the episodes with the original Japanese 5.1 track should they wish. In addition, TOKYOPOP cut out a character's enjo kosai relationship with another character and edited sex scenes in the manga. In addition, "street slang" has been interlaced in translations (a drift is described as "slammin'", for example), and there have been accusations that Tokyopop has put out incorrect spec sheets on the characters' cars in the manga. The company also changed the music from the series' staple eurobeat tracks to originally developed tracks of rap and hip-hop via an in-house DJ called DJ Milky. (Complete Initial D Eurobeat Song Selection.) The massive editing has been attributed to rumors that TOKYOPOP was hoping to cash in on the growing Import Scene brought about by The Fast and the Furious with edits that would conform to American broadcasting standards (Americanization) on TV.

Large numbers of fans have reacted negatively to the changes (particularly the renaming of the characters), preferring the original version of the series. Fans have accused both TOKYOPOP and Avex of "selling out" and betraying classic anime fans in favor of money feeling that the changes in story line were done in bad faith for the purpose of "dumbing down" the series for a broader casual audience.

As a result of these alterations and the ensuing dissent by fans, a number of fans have opted to obtain illegal fansubs in boycott of the TOKYOPOP releases. Normally the use of fansubs is considered acceptable by most fans only if there is no licensing of a series by an American company or announced American release or translation plans. Tokyopop and its employees have responded to fans' concerns several times with regard to these changes. On the Tokyopop forums staff members explained that censorship moves were made with plans to reach a broader audience and hopefully air on American television. However, this idea of Americanizing the series might have backfired on Tokyopop, as the show was reportedly rejected by Cartoon Network in 2003 due to the radical changes Tokyopop did to the show. The anime airs on Adult Swim in Australia.

FUNimation announced that it would be distributing the DVDs of the series (since TOKYOPOP's original distributor went bankrupt).

The manga was also subject to the same name editing as the anime; the street slang was toned down and TOKYOPOP has been leaning toward the Japanese names in later volumes.

Synopsis
Set in the late 1990s in Japan's Gunma Prefecture, the series follows the adventures of Takumi Fujiwara, an eighteen year old who helps his father run a tofu shop by making deliveries every morning to a hotel on Akina with his father's Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT-APEX. It is revealed that Takumi has been driving on Mt. Akina every morning to deliver tofu to the summit 5 years before he even had his license. As a result his skills are highly honed and he is also skilled at driving in adverse weather conditions. In mountain pass racing, power is not the only key to winning. Balance, skill, and courage are what is needed to win. Mountain pass racing (also known as "touge") is divided into two areas, downhill and Hillclimb (Uphill). The hillclimb relies more on the car's power and the driver's acceleration control. The downhill depends primarily on the driver's braking and steering techniques, and requires less raw power from the car..

First Stage
The story begins when street racers of the Red Suns, a team from Mt. Akagi, comes to challenge Mt. Akina's local Speed Stars team to a "friendly" race. After seeing how skilled the Red Suns are, the Speed Stars treat it as a race for pride, determined not to be humiliated on their home turf. However, the Speed Stars are left in a bind when their team leader and primary downhill driver Iketani has an accident during a practice run.

Iketani learns that Keisuke Takahashi of the Red Suns had apparently already been defeated by a myterious white AE86 in a chance encounter on the mountain, and traces the car back to a local tofu shop. He discovers that the shop's owner, Bunta Fujiwara, was a street racer of great repute in his younger days, Iketani appeals to the older man to take his place in the race against the Red Suns. Iketani is confident that Bunta will come to save the day. But when the race day comes, Takumi appears with his father's Toyota Trueno AE86 instead. Although at first reluctant to let Takumi race, Ikatani relents after it is revealed that he is actually the "Ghost of Akina," the one who outran Keisuke while on one of his delivery runs. Takumi proceeds to defeat Keisuke Takahashi and his Mazda RX-7 FD3S, causing considerable astonishment in the local racing community and putting an end to the Red Suns winning streak.

Originally apathetic about the notion of racing, having only raced Keisuke on the condition his father would let him have the car with a full tank of fuel for a day to use on a date, Takumi begins to grow more interested as he receives other challenges. He begins to understand the concept of a street racer's pride when everyone advises him to duck a challenge from a driver of Mt. Myogi's Night Kids team who drives an extremely powerful, technologically advanced Nissan Skyline R32. The competition against another member of the Night Kids, Shingo Shoji, becomes personal for Takumi after Shingo attempts to wreck Iketani and later forces his friend and co-worker Itsuki to crash when he mistook Itsuki's car for Takumi's. After this came a duel with a female driver/navigator duo team hailing from Mt. Usui known as Impact Blue and their Nissan Sileighty.

Each of the races presents seemingly impossible odds to overcome. The opposing cars are almost always much more powerful than Takumi's AE86, and the race against Shingo is a "Gumtape deathmatch," in which both drivers' right hands are taped to the steering wheel, a format which severely limits ability to steer and highly favors Shingo's Honda Civic EG-6. The race against Impact Blue is the first for Takumi outside of Mt. Akina, in the completely unfamiliar environs Mt Usui, the SilEighty team's home course.

While Takumi races others over the course of the summer, Keisuke's brother Ryosuke Takahashi, who is the leader of the Akagi Red Suns, formulates what he refers to as his "perfect plan" to defeat Takumi, relying computer simulations that he has formulated. As summer draws to a closer, Ryosuke challenges Takumi to a race and is defeated when he is overtaken by Takumi on the last turn before Akina's finish line. Ryosuke tells Takumi not to "be satisfied with Akina's small stage" and to seek out bigger challenges.

Second Stage
A group of street racers called Team Emperor, led by the professionally trained driver Kyouichi Sudou and all Lancer Evo drivers, appears in the Gunma Prefecture. They move through Gunma challenging and defeating the best team on each mountain they arrive at. However, Kyouichi's real goal is to have a rematch with Ryousuke Takahashi, whom he does not know has recently been defeated by Takumi. When he discovers this, Team Emperor challenges the Akina Speed Stars to a race in the hopes that Takumi will compete in his 86. Takumi becomes the first person in Gunma to defeat a member of the Emperor team on the downhill when he bests the Evo team's second best driver, Seiji Iwaki.

Kyouichi then challenges Takumi to a match to “teach him some things” and as a sort of cover event for his race with Ryosuke. Although initially uninterested, Takumi eventually decides to go to Akagi. During this race the engine of Takumi's 86 is blown and effectively destroyed. Kyouichi, who does later lose to Ryousuke, lectures Takumi on the disadvantages of using such an old car in a modern street race. Yet the loss was not due to the 86's lack of power, as Ryosuke explains, it was due to the fact that Takumi had not driven on Akagi before and didn't know the entrance speeds or anything else about course that he could use to his advantage, basically leaving him driving blind in front of a power mongered with the Misfiring System (anti-lag). If Takumi only knew the course even a little the race would have probably ended differently

Bunta, knowing that the engine in the 86 was about to give out, had already bought a new engine - a high-revving, race breed variation of the standard Toyota 4A-GE 24 twin cam engine, which is used for Group A Touring Class races in the WRC. He installs the engine without a new tachometer to teach Takumi the importance of learning mechanical knowledge and understanding why the car behaves as it does. Takumi encounters a fellow 86 driver by the name of Wataru, who after reacting with great surprise to Takumi's lack of mechanical knowledge explains that the engine is an extremely strong powerplant and requires several new, gauges including a high-revolution tachometer, to be useful.

Once Takumi has made these modifications, he challenges Wataru to a race on his home course of Shomaru. The race becomes one of endurance, lasting several rounds, until Takumi capitalizes on a change in the course's environment brought on by their many high speed passes and passes Wataru on a stretch that was previously too narrow for him to do so.

Extra Stage
Capitalizing on the popularity of the all-female street racing team known as Impact Blue which appeared in First Stage, this OVA focuses on Impact Blue's dynamic duo of Mako and Sayuki rather than Takumi and the usual main cast.

As Extra Stage begins, Mako is battling emotional wounds from her breakup with Iketani when Sayuki's childhood friend Shingo (of the Moyogi Night Kids) and his teammate Nakazato arrive to warn them about Team Emperor, which defeated the Night Kids on their home course just as they have so many other street racing teams from around the region. Mako's driving has been adversely affected by her preoccupations, and she worries about her ability to measure up to Emperor's challenge in her current emotional state. But when a pair of Emperor drivers arrive to scout out the street racers of Mt. Usui and dismiss Impact Blue because of their gender, Mako and Sayuki challenge them to a race. On the downhill run against the Emperor Lancer Evo, Mako is able to transcend her heartache and reach a new level in her driving, easily defeating the Team Emperor driver.

Though Mako decides she doesn't need a man in her life for a while, she gradually develops a relationship with a friend of Shingo's named Ren after Shingo and Sayuki discreetly play matchmaker. Ren is a street racer himself, but he intends to give up racing because he believes he has reached the the highest level he personally can, and with no chance of progressing further he has lost interest and intends to move on. Mako feels differently, knowing there are many drivers better than her whose level she wishes to attain. As Mako and Ren grow closer, Ren reveals that he wishes Mako would quit racing also for her safety's sake, because if she was his girlfriend he would be consumed with worry for her each time she raced.

Third Stage
Ryousuke approaches Takumi with an offer. Ryousuke has been putting together a racing team featuring the best racers of the Gunma prefecture, and would like Takumi to join.

Takumi doesn't want to decide whether or not to accept the proposal until he settles his score with Emperor driver Kyouichi Sudou. He arrives at Kyouichi's home course of Irohazaka, and after driving the course once, challenges Kyouichi to a race. He prevents Kyouichi from passing him, and finalizes his victory on the last turn on Irohazaka before the goal. After defeating Kyouichi, a local driver by the name of Kai Kogashiwa who had previously been planning on defeating Kyouichi, rises to challenge Takumi instead. He turns out to be the son of Ken Kogashiwa, who was once Bunta's rival and ultimately lost to him in the final race that counted between the two of them. Kai takes Takumi by surprise by taking the "one guaranteed line" his father told him about before the race. He passes Takumi by cutting a hairpin corner short and jumping the ledge. However Kai mistimed his strategy and this allows Takumi time to recover and catch on. He emulates this line in order to keep up with Kai. As the race approaches its finish, Takumi utilizes the environment of the course, making use of the gutters to end up side-by-side with Kai, and later, forces a lucky pass on Kai before the finish line.

The Christmas holiday approaches and Natsuki surprises Takumi at his house, and celebrates Christmas with him and Bunta. On Christmas Eve, Miki, a former student at the same high school Takumi attended who Takumi once punched over Miki's bragging about his supposed sexual exploits with Natsuki (seen in a flashback from 1st Stage), arrives at Natsuki's workplace and threatens to make a scene if she does not get in his car. He takes her up Mount Akina with the intention of having sex with her, but after she reveals her feelings for someone else, he flies into a rage and attempts to rape her. She escapes his car briefly and calls Takumi. When Miki hears Takumi's name, and realizes that Takumi is the one Natsuki has feelings for and that he will be coming to save her, he forces her back in the car and speeds down the mountain pass. Takumi quickly catches up with them and turns around to tail Miki. As Miki tries to get away he enters a turn too fast in the snow and loses control of his car, crashing into the guardrail. Takumi then takes Natsuki home.

As spring comes, Takumi tells Ryousuke that he wants to request another battle with him, this time on Mt. Akagi, before making his decision regarding the team. It is unclear who actually wins the race, but during the race Keisuke reveals to the other members of the Red Suns that the race is not really about who wins or loses. As they approach the finish, side by side, Takumi decides that it is his desire to remain with Ryousuke and join the team.

Fourth Stage
This series focuses on the exploits of the new team founded by Ryosuke, Project D, which is comprised of Ryosuke (leader and strategist), Takumi Fujiwara (downhill specialist), Keisuke (uphill specialist) and a staff consisting primarily of members of the Akagi Red Suns. The team travels the region, challenging other teams and posting the results of the battles on their website. Each race is intended by Ryosuke to develop a specific area of his drivers' skills.

Takumi matures slowly into a more confident and knowledgeable street racer, while Keisuke improves on his technical driving skills. Takumi instinctively develops many new techniques through his own ingenuity after some prompting by Ryosuke, such as passing with his headlights off so that his opponent is unable to see him coming and block him, and using weight shifting to execute maneuvers similar to the gutter-hook technique on Akina.

Project D's opponents get progressively tougher. Their first adversaries are members of local racing teams, but then they progress to facing students at a professional racing school and then actual professional racers, first when the school enlists one of their graduates to avenge their defeat and then when a street racing team they had previously faced calls upon a rally driver to race Takumi in an ultra-lightweight car.

As Project D's quest to conquer the area's street racing scene goes on, new relationships and old enemies complicate things for the team's members. Keisuke struggles with his attraction to Kyoko, a female street racer and fellow FD driver who he met by chance shortly before they ended up facing each other in a battle, as he fears having a girlfriend would take away too much time from his driving and cause him to lose his focus. Meanwhile, Takumi's old rival and fellow 86 driver Wataru watches Project D's exploits with interest, looking for a way to bring about their defeat.

The team encounters yet another different kind of challenge as a new set of opponents turn to deceit and intimidation rather than skill for victory. They damage Keisuke's FD, and he borrows Kyoko's to defeat them.

Eventually Project D face off with the senior members of the Purple Shadow Team. One, known as "God Foot", is a driver known for his magnificent footwork (able to make his Skyline, a very heavy and wide car, accelerate without lag naturally instead of through the use of a misfiring system) and possessed of an uncanny ability to maintain his concentration. He screams loudly while driving to release tension and prevent himself from making an error due to stress. With his amazing combination of skills, he's able to make his 4WD Nissan Skyline GT-R drift, a feat normally nearly impossible due to the fact that a stock BNR34 has an anti-slip system correcting the car's column if it were to begin to lose control. His counterpart, "God Hand," is a driver known for driving skillfully with one hand using a Honda S2000, reminiscent of the "Gumtape deathmatch" forced upon Takumi when he raced Shingo in First Stage. With his one-handed technique,he can limit countersteer and perform an ideal drift, conserving his tires while still gaining speed on corners. The overall theory for the one handed driving is that in doing so one is able to choose easily between the infinite driving lines possible in a race. "God Hand" spent all of his recent years trying to find out the limits of the technique, and in his studies after the race he teaches Takumi the theory of one handed driving. Though he doubted that Takumi would start driving with one hand, he did believe he would master using the infinite lines to his advantage in future races.

Characters
Initial D contains a myriad of characters, many of whom appear in a very small number of episodes, usually to race one of the main characters or as a teammate of another racer. The most frequently recurring characters are the protagonist Takumi Fujiwara, his love interest Natsuki Mogi, his father Bunta, the members of the Akina Speed Stars, and the members of the Akagi Redsuns (later Project D).

Games
There are several games that are based on the anime. The most famous is probably Initial D Arcade Stage published by Sega, which is for arcade.

Almost every stage offers wet/dry, day/night and either uphill/downhill or inbound/outbound options. The only exceptions are Akina Snow and Happogahara, which are both always at night, and naturally there is no wet/dry option in the snow.

The arcade machines runs on a system where information is saved on a card. The player may keep tuning his or her car with points earned based performance, which are tracked by the card. The game features a player vs. player interface, so that two players may choose to battle each other for points and reputation.

Currently, the game is in its Third Version, though there are consistent rumors of a Fourth Version. Sega also released Special Stage for home use on the PlayStation 2. The Arcade version has some characters and cars from at least one stage farther in its numerical equivalent in the anime. As such, the 1st stage game features Happogahara, which does not show up as a course until much later in the anime, presumably fourth stage.

Sega also recently released a PSP version of Initial D called Initial D: Street Stage on February 23, 2006. The game is loosely based on Ver. 3.

Despite the game's realism praised by its fans, many cars in the game are excessively faster than even a modified AE86 in real life, so the stats of the higher-performance cars (such as the Nissan Skyline GT-R, Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution and Mazda RX-7) are watered down heavily to create fair races (in reality, most of the high-end cars can reach speeds of up to 260 km/h). This makes the game unrealistic to a point, and creates a situation where making the game more realistic would make it unlikely for the game's flagship car to win much.

The Toyota Trueno AE86 from the series also appears as a special car in various Japanese racing games including Shutokou Battle (1999) and multiple Battle Gear and Gran Turismo games, badged as the AE86 Shuichi Shigeno version in the latter. The car features the same exterior modifications as the car of the anime (the Fujiwara tofu store sign on the side excepted), as well as an upgraded engine, also similar to the one from the anime series. Also featured in the game is the Sileighty, a car conversion in Japan, somewhat popular with drifters, made by fusing the front end of a Nissan Silvia with the rear of a Nissan 180SX.

Movie
A live-action movie based on Initial D was released on the 23rd of June, 2005 in Asia. The movie was jointly produced by Japan's Avex Inc. and the Hong Kong Media Asia group. It was directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, whose credits include the 2002 Hong Kong Blockbuster Infernal Affairs and 1999's The Legend of Speed, a previous street racing melodrama. The movie featured Taiwanese star Jay Chou as Takumi Fujiwara and Edison Chen as Ryosuke Takahashi.,

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Planet Pop
... Like many Hong Kong stars, Chan juggles singing and acting careers. His screen credits include Initial D , Throw Down and Shopaholics. ...

What’s in a name?
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JASMINE'S ARE FOREVER

updates INTERNAL RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATIONS

last September 2007, a client came to IRI for assistance to investigate a her former lover after he borrowed 80 million pesos for a telecommunications project between Beijing and Manila.

investigations are still active to this very day

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EVERYTHING IS YOU

Everything Is You
Ronald Noel V. Reyes

I’m sure you know by now
Why I love you so much
Why I am in a daze
With just one thought of you

Everyday I’m with you
I know everything is right
Being by your side
Is enough for me to cherish that moment with you

You’ve given me the best things
My heart could only dream of
You’ve made me feel
Like nothing I ever felt before

Spending time with you
Has and always will be the best days of my life
Words escape me
When I try to say how much you mean to me
Because your are everything to me

A GUY NAMED PHIL

"A Guy Named Phil," Part II
based on the short story of the same title
by Gilbert Trillana

Now where was I?

Oh, yes, alright then…

So then, lemme tell ya 'bout ol' Phil.
He's now having his nose fixed by a plastic surgeon.
The surgeon's a Stanford graduate,
But was a Harvard fellow,
And was a Princeton alumnus,
Then practiced at Cornell,
Shifted to Yale,
And earned his degree at Yukla. (UCLA)
He knows.
He knows.
He knows!
He just saw his credentials hanging on the wall.
"Now aren't you a natural in medicine." Phil said.
"Oh, not really; it's just my hobby." Said the surgeon.
"Whadda 'ya mean 'not really?' Look at all yer diplomas!"
"Aw, them's nothing.'"
"They's aren't nothing!"
"Really, they are."
"Hell no, doc, what about that Stanford?"
"Economics."
"Well what about that Harvard?"
"MBA"
"And that Princeton?"
"Education."
"And that Cornell?"
"Liberal Arts."
"The Yukla?"
"Accounting."
"Well where the hell's your doctorate?"
"Right over there, on that desk."
"I can't read it, what's it say?"
"Burma."
…
"Oh! They must be very good
at this thing, so you went there."
"Yep!" the surgeon said, "Haven't heard from
them Rangoon quacks for a long, long time!"

Well lemme tell 'ya 'bout ol' Phil.
He got out from the doctor scot-free.
Except for his nose.
His nose ended up looking like a pear.
There's nothing wrong with that.
All noses look like pears.
Except for him it was a HUGE pear.
His nose was mistaken for one in a grocery store.
No wonder he often gets hungry.
"Gad, what will that pretty woman think of me now?"
And he kept on walkin…
And he kept on walkin…
And he kept on walkin…
'til he tripped over a stone.
It nearly broke his 'spankingly-new' nose.
'Til someone stepped by him and said;
"Son, you don't have to eat that; it already fell!"

And so he went out again one day with his mails.
Poor ol' Phyllis.
He walked slowly and slumped as ever.
Quite ashamed over his ordeal.
He passed by the pretty girl's house again.
Without the dog, now.
He climbed up the porch and
dropped her mail inside the door.
The door with the mailslot.
He was about to trod in disgust, away from the lady,
Until she opened the door.
"Wait," she said, "I have something for you."
So Phil went back at the porch, accepting her offer.
It was a letter addressed directly at him.
She smiled and said, "See you later, Phil."
And then went back in and closed the door.
The door with the mailslot.

Everyone knows what happened to him.
It's all in the papers.
But then he doesn't seem to care anymore.
So he opened the letter and read its content.
Phil looked up afterwards.
He read it again…
And again…
And again…
Until he began to smile-
The happiest of all smiles.
There's a reason for Phyllis to be happy.
Perhaps it's not the nose after all.
Perhaps it's something else.
I don't know what,
But I don't read other people's letters.
It's unethical.
It's improper.
It's insane.
…
…
Well… sometimes.


So Phil went off again with his work-
The happiest man alive.

So the moral of the poem/story is:
"Never read other people's mail until told.
And don't use drugs."


'There was once a Guy named Phil.
And Phyllis was his name.'



G.J. =D

LESSONS IN TIME

LESSONS IIN TIME
Ronald Noel V. Reyes

Time…
Time to fulfill our promises and realise
Time to start a future in our lives
Cause the only constant thing is time

Now it’s time
Time to say our final goodbyes
Time to initiate a brand new life
Cause this is a brand new chapter
A new beginning
In our lives

Now we’ve got to face our challenges
Break the chains of innosence
The future is here
There’s nothing to fear

lift our arms and rejoice
We have given our choice
For a brighter tomorrow
Yet we shall never forget
All the lessons we learned
From the joys and the pains
of life

Now it’s time
Time to pack our bags and say goodbye
But don’t you cry
Cause we shall always have the past
And the memory of you and I
[1]

THE 2008 NISSAN GTR

june update

I can't believe it's june already. time truly flies so fast

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