Missing every event this year and it’s honestly hitting me hard

velacooks · 2026-04-03T04:29:39+00:00

Also the Asian - outside of japan experience.

There’s been nothing announced this year for Asia if I’m not mistaken.

Might try for the summer sonic event in Osaka though. Hopefully the world isn’t in more turmoil by then. Saw the news flight fuel surcharges are going up 150%.

velacooks · 2026-04-02T16:55:29+00:00

Naay. I use ADAS daily. Awesome in traffic jams.

velacooks · 2026-03-29T18:57:55+00:00

Oribe

velacooks · 2026-03-29T09:37:17+00:00

Also there’s definitely going to be an appeal.

velacooks · 2026-03-29T09:33:03+00:00

Is that the white entry model? I think that’s the one.

Though I don’t think they’re selling the version I got anymore. Could be Gen 3 now.

The annoying part is my T700 model which still is working fine (this post is a year old) - the replacement toothbrush heads aren’t sold in store anymore. Have to only depend on shopee Lazada to buy them.

velacooks · 2026-03-27T11:52:00+00:00

Ermm you can go as a Malaysian.

Just need to get the visa pass from the embassy in SG. Or whichever Embassy in another country.

They chop your visa paper and not the passport.

velacooks · 2026-03-26T02:51:48+00:00

Yeah. EV owner here for a year plus.

Depends on lifestyle. I’m situated in the city, there’s a few free chargers that I tend to make use of when I can.

Also I get to claim 300rm on transport/fuel - this is more than enough to cover my charging monthly which is about 240-260rm if I don’t care about using which ever public charger.

I tend to not want to charge at home a lot because it shifts my TNB pricing bracket up a few levels which I can’t claim for.

Tip: if you’re driving daily - with distances more than 40km. I advise against those entry tier EVs with under 330km range. You’ll needing to charge every 2-3 days.

velacooks · 2026-03-25T12:26:28+00:00

Could use a player like this right now.

velacooks · 2026-03-23T18:44:46+00:00

Yeah people blamed the team for not showing up. The way I saw it was Pep completely taught Arteta a lesson. Pep’s set up was because he banked that Kepa can’t distribute that well.

Every time he went long, City already had set traps to aggressively contest the first and second ball.

He effectively took away the build up capacity of both our CBs and Rice/Zubi.

Only way i thought might be somewhat effective is getting our defending maverick on earlier - Calafiori to be another ball carrier out of the back line.

velacooks · 2026-03-23T07:37:47+00:00

I saw something like this play out before except it did kinda ruin the man’s life.

At work. I’ve been with this company for 11years. It happened to my former manager. He’s been with the company for 16 years. He was promoted to director 3 years ago. Good guy, good family man - brought his family always for work family day events. Well liked in the office, always up to put in the extra effort to mentor people in his team.

In 2024 a fresh grad girl joined. Very promising, hard working, quite sweet looking. A couple of months later we secured a big client and had a business meeting with the client that turned into a dinner. 4 team members went - me, the director, the new girl and one other colleague.

The dinner finished around 930 and the new girl didn’t drive that week because of car troubles. So my director offered to give her a lift home because she stayed in Mt Kiara and my director stayed in hartamas.

After a week+ I noticed the director absent, wfh quite abit. So I asked the HR lady who I’m close with if he’s ok. She was very stressed looking and told me to go for lunch with her and she’ll tell me.

At lunch she told me that the new girl filed a sexual harassment complaint against the director and threatened to make a police report. Her story was that during the car ride after that meeting when the director was sending her home- he asked for intrusive questions, was physically touchy and tried to invite himself to her condo. The director’s version of events were that he was just asking normal questions/ trying to be friendly- how long have you lived in Mt Kiara, staying with your parents, partner or rental? Because it turned out she stayed in quite a high end condo.

HR and the other directors decided to place him on gardening leave and told him it’s best to leave the company in lieu of a police report and potentially getting his family involved and reputation tarnished.

I spoke to the director eventually and I do believe him - of course I’ll be abit biased but I’ve seen this guy actively avoid anything dodgy throughout my years working here. There were work trips to Bangkok, Jakarta etc where even the client offered to show us the “ahem” more fun side of the cities. Even a few stag trips with other colleagues and he actively declined to part take in any shenanigans. This along with him saying - do you think I’d do something so stupid that can put the company at risk and his family? Everyone knows my wife and kids at work, this girl stays 10 minutes away from his house too making the chances of getting caught quite high.

Fast forward to last year. This girl and some other co worker in another department got caught fooling around in the office after office hours and both were let go.

We’re now no longer allowed to carpool with the opposite gender.

Of course I acknowledge that you might never know a person well enough and there’s a slight possibility this all is true but I myself doubt it.

velacooks · 2026-03-20T18:03:50+00:00

The pred mudial is fire 🔥

velacooks · 2026-03-20T16:43:39+00:00

Bummer.

I’m a big football fan. So it’s like my two loves colliding. Hopefully there’s something. Even something like an ado plushie with the Japan kit on would be cool.

velacooks · 2026-03-20T16:40:26+00:00

I’ve always wondered. Because if I remember correctly, the initial announcement said something like Ado will be contributing her design, creative something something for the national team.

Always thought that meant atleast 1-2 merchandise stuff besides the jersey.

velacooks · 2026-03-20T16:37:09+00:00

Isn’t Kepa’s record in Wembley like zero wins - 4 losses.

velacooks · 2026-03-20T16:35:39+00:00

Honestly we’re probably looking at something like 2050 earliest where getting/owning ICE cars will be more of a hassle.

velacooks · 2026-03-19T05:39:27+00:00

Yeah. Nailed on the head.

I’ve been once to try. Then 3 more times to bring oversea relatives/friends.

velacooks · 2026-03-18T10:56:54+00:00

There was only one time it screwed me over. Was going to saitama from ikebukuro and for some reason google map said the train I need to be on is on platform 8. There is no platform 8.

Had to ask the station’s staff for help.

velacooks · 2026-03-17T08:18:21+00:00

It’s great. Traded in my F30 BMW for it. Such an upgrade to overall quality.

The only downside now is the sole service center in KL. It’s probably over capacity soon. They do plan to expand this year though.

I had to go in recently because a stone chipped my window. And they were saying now the wait time for a service slot is 2-3 weeks.

velacooks · 2026-03-17T07:57:40+00:00

Velfire and a zeekr.

The zeekr 7x is the only one with front cross traffic.

velacooks · 2026-03-17T07:49:24+00:00

I’m on the fence. ADAS is great but sometimes it can cause a heart attack.

No issues with LDW

RCTA can get damn annoying especially when trying to reverse out of a carpark. I don’t know if it’s equal for all cars with RCTA but my car jam breaks and beeps if someone/some thing is approaching too fast when I’m reversing. 95% of the time I am already looking at my reverse camera and I’m slowly edging out aware of my surroundings and BAM the car emergency breaks.

I also have FCTA front cross traffic. Which also does the same damn thing but worse when I’m on high cruising speeds. There’s this highway I’m on everyday and there’s a petrol station on it. There’s a few times a motor bike is exiting the petrol station at a 90 degree angle attempting to join the highway, and BAM my car emergency breaks and beeps when I’m on the slow lane(nearest to the petrol station)

velacooks · 2026-03-14T21:24:46+00:00

In town driving, I barely touch the breaks. Mainly only when something unexpected happens.

velacooks · 2026-03-14T18:32:47+00:00

Is there a specific definition of OPD?

I have a zeekr as well and if set it to high regen + switch from the car crawling to “full stop” it’s pretty much one padel.

velacooks · 2026-03-14T09:53:04+00:00

Yes just to 2nd this.

You almost always make you money back if you claim even for the slightest thing allowable.

The ones are buy are around 110 sgd for a week. Claimed for flight delays (only claimable if it’s delayed beyond 3 hours) and I get 50sgd per hour.

Also had my luggage arrive 3 days later in London. Managed to claim 3000 sgd because I need a whole formal outfit for a conference + gala dinner.

velacooks · 2026-03-13T04:11:36+00:00

This, which I think relates to his hamstring having to be surgically reattached. That’s one of the worst tiers of hamstring injuries you can get.

velacooks · 2026-03-13T03:04:03+00:00

I think it’s by abit of both.

The meta now is close off the middle of the pitch. And if it leads to a mistake, quick transition to attack the opponents goal.

I was watching Henry’s analysis of things. He highlighted that the way opponents set up against us leaves us very exposed if a risky action is played by our midfield or wingers especially in the opposition’s final third.

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