Tried Manu’s restaurant last night. Hard to expect expensive dining to be good in Sydney, it’s always hit and miss but the food was awesome!
Free plug!
Duck liver pate was great and scallop sausage was awesome.
Chef’s cut of beef with blue cheese sauce. You could smell it before it came out, very strong, very nice.
Lamb. This was my dish, up there with the best lamb I’ve ever eaten in my life.
The good stuff, this was a smooth one.
And Helloooo Manu! The man himself!
I’m still working for others! Got to stop, and concentrate on working on my own projects this year! I’ve just finished up this logo design for WebVine. I also did a web site design + card design too. I’m quite happy with it!
Garden crew came over to clear out the jungle today. At least now I can see it! Landscape design next!
Holy weeds Batman!
Sky high weed.
Welcome to the jungle.
Before
After
Before
Din Tai Fung. Yessssss Suga and I are still haunting the place!
Kinokuniya. Yeah I love haunting this place too (but my wallet, not so much!).
Sonny, a mate of mine, came over about a month ago with a Kona mountain bike. He bought it about 5 years ago for $500. It was red, aluminium frame, Suntour fork, Shimano Acera 8speed gear and in as new condition.
At the time he had ideas to turn it into a Transformers bike. Grey with a decepticon headbadge. Last night he came over with this:
I’ve posted the rest up here.
New owner…
… driving my ED away 
Since launching VWgolf.net.au with Suga last weekend I’ve been thinking about buying a Golf (obviously!) but there was no way I was ever going to even begin to justify buying one whilst still owning the ED Civic and the 2 Skylines.
As of today the ED Civic is no longer.
Shame as the ED cost me nothing to buy, nothing to run, it’s cheap to insure, great on fuel and it’s the only car we’ve got that can comfortably carry my bikes too. There really wasn’t any need at all for me to sell it except I couldn’t justify owning 4 cars to myself (not right now anyways, still dreaming of my 7 car garage though!).
So I put up an EOI on JDMST yesterday and my inbox was 100% full this morning. I had one kid that was offering a deposit on the car unseen as he’s been following my build thread and planning to buy it all along. A few people have PM’ed me along the way about the car too. Charlie test drove it last night and was convinced he was coming back today to hand over the cash but I got a call from a guy who came over earlier today and he took it, the car is now sold!
So I’ve been thinking about the Golf Project.
I am considering:
– MKV
– MKV GTI
– MK6
Direction 1
Concept: A track car for the road.
Loud when I want it to be (Varex?) a handling machine, responsive due to being light weight, dead clean stock car look outside, race inspired emotion inside.
– Manual or DSG: I’ve always been impressed with Hollinger gearboxes in real race cars. I look at DSG as a poor man’s version of it! (yes I have a vivid imagination!).
– Strip it. Aim to get rid of 150kg. Rear seats, front race seats, carpet, trims, spare wheel, tools, sound deadening tar removal, roof lining, lighter exhaust and wheels.
– Race suspension (also lighter) and semi slicks.
Direction 2
Concept: Slamburglar.
Less is more and it’s all about the stance.
– Airbag suspension so I can drop the car to the ground at car meets and for photo shoots.
– Debadge, desticker, remove rear wiper, colour code everything, super clean, less is more.
– Re-upholster all trims with custom fabric including roof liner.
Pong on Kay and Charlie!
Pong on Jon and myself!
1AM, over the pong, let’s get the Deathtrap going!!!!!
1AM Terror. The smell and sound of the 2-stroke that could was heard in the hood.
I only just got around to counting my red pockets today. Not sure how or why but far out I got heaps this year! Free Money!!!
Just made this flyer for the Inaugural VWgolf Get Together. It’s all happenin’!
