BMW Sauber F1 Pit Lane Park & Paddock Lounge with Intel - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Intel kindly invited me to the BMW Sauber Paddock Lounge today for a cocktail party in the heart of KL, it's between the KL Mosque and Darby Park in the heart of Kuala Lumpur.
Basically the place is a mini F1 mockup with demonstrations of the various technologies involved in F1 racing.
It includes a mini-pitstop where you and your friends can race against the clock to change the tyres and refuel a real F1 car.
It also has some simulations and a mock-up of the F1 driver training area with some reaction testing equipment and weights.
I was there for a cocktail party with Intel, apparently Intel Core Duo is used in the computers controlling the F1 cars and helps to process the vast amounts of data that the cars churn out allowing the team to manage the car more effectively.
The party was fairly well populated with the usual suspects on show (X3, 6 series, 7 series and 5 series) plus journalists from most of the popular publications.
It was a really hot day, especially by the side of the mini track where they were having RC car racing.
And Joey G the Malaysian VJ was the emcee.
They shot a video of a professional dancer and edited the video live on a Core Duo powered machine to demonstrate the strength of the processor, 2 people were using the same computer at the same time with dual head monitor output on huge plasma TVs.
It was pretty impressive that the machine handled all the encoding and video editing without stuttering.
Timo Glock the BMW Sauber F1 test driver was there as the guest.
The best part was the guy on a massive kick-ass bike doing crazy stunts at high speeds, he was the man!
He started out with a front wheelie.
Why spend 9 years paying RM100,000 interest..
..to be another corporate drone driving a boring 3 Series BMW?
Even worse, why take a 9 year loan and buy a Kelisa? With the interest you can pretty much buy another car.
Yah I know cars are a necessity here, not a luxury, I know that, the public transport is so abysmal here I had to get a car ASAP or I was just stuck in the appartment festering, oh for good public transport.
I always wonder why people buy cars and break their balls to pay them off just so they can look better in front of their peers or something.
9 years of composite interest, the current rate is 4-4.5%, so let's say 4% for 9 years, that's 36%.
36% of interest, if it's a Kelisa, that's about 36,946, let's say 40,000 on the road.
36% of 40,000 = 14,400
That's huge, you can buy a decent second hand kancil for 15k.
You are being raped.
Then a BMW, that's a RM280,000 car for a decent 3-series.
36% of that? You don't want to know...a massive RM100,800, 100k you are paying to some shitty bank for an overpriced boring drone car to fit in with your peers.
100,000 RINGITT
Why do people do it, this whole Asian Face thing baffles me sometimes.
So they look good in front of their peers? So they can impress the girls? They break their balls paying RM3000 a month out of their RM5000 salaries so they can drive a BMW.
Then they drive the goddamn beemer at 80km/h in the fast lane because they can't afford the petrol to go any faster..
All of this adds up to Road Rage incident in KL.
Back to the point anyway, why spend so much on a car, why, what's the point? Why burden yourself, even with my 5 year loan I feel pain, that's why I took a lump sum and reduced it by a year..
20% of the value of my car, just for lending me the money to buy it, that's cut-throat man.
The necessity of cars and the poor public service allows the banks to become cut-throat loan sharks.
And the government with it's over inflated prices for overseas cars, it all adds up to a poor consumer at the end of the day, plus we still have to pay Road Tax for roads with holes in and tolls...The tolls which shouldn't even be there any more.
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