F1 @ Sepang

an outdated entry written longggggggggggg time ago...

On Tuesday, Khalis emailed me and said that we're gonna watch F1 at Sepang this weekend. He got two free tickets but only for qualifying session on Saturday.
I wasnt really excited to go - the heat, the noise, the crowd.. but who knows, I might love it..

We got good seats - Mall Area, Main Grandstand North, Lower Tier. Block N1.20, Row G, Seat 27 & 28. The seats were covered. When he first told me that we were going, I tot - alamak..what if kene duduk kat Hillstand?? So naseb baek arh..
Other than live viewing, we were also entitled to free lunch and tea and transportation (naik bus from KLCC).

It was the first time for me watching F1 live (I wouldnt pay RM1,200 for this - pegi holiday lagi bagus!!) but Khalis been here couple of times already.

So on Sat, we gerak from home at 10am and arrived at KLCC around 1030am and at 1130am we boarded the bus to Sepang. We arrived at Sepang an hour later and it was so hot!! (well, not that I didnt expect it to be).. We jalan2 around first and checked out the merchandise sold. We got to our seats few minutes before the training session started. Our seats were right in front of the starting grid..Bosan2 takde nk buat ape, we collected our lunch boxes first. The food was prepared by Hard Rock Cafe and it was ok and still warm when we had it.

Then the practice session started. The noise was too hard on my ears (not just me, everyone!) so we went out halfway, pusing2 mall area once again and bought earplugs. By now, I was sweating like a pig and everywhere reeked of alcohol. Before we got in again, we bought ourselves ice-cream but it had no cooling effect on us. We were few mints late and missed the starting for Formula BMW. We watched the race till its finished and then we saw the rain coming. Yay!! thats a blessing for me! We were hoping for an early start, but it didnt happen. So we waited until 4pm for the qualifying session to start. I have no plan to write on the qualifying session coz its widely covered in the press.

We rushed to the parking lot as soon as it's over and boarded maybe the first or second bus out.
I dont find F1 as exciting as say, tennis. My FB status few days ago read "..jatuh hati dengan bunyi jentera F1"No, that wasnt me..Khalis hijacked my FB.
I dont mind going to F1 again...but not Hillstand tho..

The tickets
One of the very few photos of the cars (during the race) that we managed to take.
The podium

Project Pentium

Remember my old laptop which had served me well for 4 years? Well, Khalis and I tot that it had rested long enough and its about time we took it out from the closet.
Khalis decided to change the processor so we bought a new processor last night - COD at Jalan Pasar (the dodgy side of KL I never knew!! - Khalis said its not fair to say that its dodgy coz I was only there at night, during the day its quite 'meriah')..Its an old laptop thus finding a compatible processor was a slight headache.

Its quite an achievement even for Khalis. He had worked on hundreds of PCs but its the first time ever he installed a processor to a laptop. Khalis doubted that he would have the patience to deal with all the small parts and the process would be very tedious that we initially wanted to pay someone else to do the installation for us.

He started at 630pm and finished at 830pm

Old processor
New processor mounted on motherboard

Good thing about this new processor is that its intelligent enough to 'speedstep'

Idle mode~~
Working hard~~
We changed the RAM a year ago, today plak processor so next Khalis cakap tuka hard disk plak.. Tuka hard disk is easy peasy..but part nk kuar kn duit susah sket =P