Saturday, September 04, 2004

Oh... no...

Woke up at 8 this morning... Got up at 10 to 9... dressed, ate breakfast... open car bonnet, check water - empty. Filled up 3L bottle of water into radiator, still not full. Then looked under car. LEAKING! Seems some part had rusted badly and started leaking... *sobs* poor car... its incontinent... :P of course, its made in 1989, thus its around 15 years old... in car terms thats middle age... :P Of course, we do try to do the maintenance on it once in a while, but still, its pretty bad. So I drove with my mum to the local car repair shop... (speaking of which its still there right now). He looked at it, and knew what part was leaking straight away. Thats very good. Then he said that it'll be a while before he can fix it (got about 4 other cars there.) Thus, we leave the car there and hopefully he'll be able to fix it. Costs will be around $160 or so... damn... I'll be poor now :(. Coming home, bro also was doing his car maintenance. He bought a car hydraulic jack for $30, jack the car up, drained the oil, change oil filter, getting his arm all oily and black, and then re-capped the oil, filled it up, and its ready for a few more thousand kms... Also told me that I wasn't the only one neglecting his car. His friend's car also made funny noises. Turns out he never even bothered checking his car's oil or water. No oil left (practically). Thus its kinda funny... They scraped all the gunk off the oil inlet, and filled it up with some oil. Voila its sounding much better... Why doesn't he get rusted parts on his engine? I don't know, maybe his car is newer... oh well... hopefull the car'll be fixed by today, or tomorrow (don't know if it'll be open tomorrow...). I watched Gokusen Live Action today... its almost true to the anime, well casted girl. And she's short too... Just like the manga. Heh.. funny, yet she's crazy... :P

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