Second Chance in Life (when Air is taken away from you)

Bout 3 month ago I cough a cough that should have been treated promptly. I took it lightly. Saying time isn't enough, and every one else seems to be of higher priority. Took me about a month until I realized that my cough didn't go away.

I was at a junction to see if I needed further medical help. I chose to go to the nearest government hosp to get treatment.

They promptly check my x-ray and instantly check for TB while treating me with antibiotics. Took about 2 weeks of treatment and at the same time going to work with a mask on my face to shield others. Results showed negative for TB and the coughing stopped during the day.

Until one night I started coughing and had a fever. There the question of going back to the government hosp or to get private medical attention. Its a one hour plus drive alone for me to get medical attention, but it would save my life. I arrived at the hospital's emergency room to quickly get a specialist view of my situation. The recommendation is for me to get warded. I tried to justify that I am ok but the the fact remains, I have been coughing for the longest of time and I have a fever on me.

Luckily I am covered by the insurance company so that didn't bother the doctor to test what needed to be tested. Standard were the X-Ray, phlegm and blood samples. All the things I did for the past 2 weeks at the government hosp in 3 hours. Later they recommended for CT scan, usually to get a better picture if there's any irregularities. Last they needed to put a scope into my lungs which needed me to fast for at least 8 hours before the operation.

Before the operation they gave me antibiotics through the drips. This was quite heavy and my fever continued even after paracetamol was given. Nebulizer help but it made me cough even worse until the point my ribs cant take it any more. To add matter worse the more I cough the heavier the head aches I get.

After the operation theatre things felt well until I was given two things, nebulizer and antibiotics. I start getting fevers and the doctor suggested to cut the nebulizer but it didn't reach the nurses that night. What happened next were a string of events like a sequence of dominoes dropping one after the other.

I start getting chest pains after nebulizer and I took all my meds one after the other, I started to cough very hard until my hands and feet start to feel numb. I had trouble breathing on my right chest and I keep my breathing rhythm but it was hard since I started to have a running nose. In seconds I cant use my nose to breath at all. Trying desperately not to cough anymore, I started to feel the numbness in my fingers grow up until my wrists, from my toes to my ankle. They checked my O2 levels which were showing I have sufficient levels of O2 in my blood. They recommend me to relax as the numbness will subside if I were not so anxious.

My situation was I can't exhale as much as I can inhale. This was the trouble that made me cough. My body desperately tries to release the CO2 in the blood but my lungs are not able to exhume as much leaving most of the CO2 in the muscles that moves the most.

Now when I couldn't breathe, my fingers and toes are numbing to the point that it cramps my fingers, a slight cough caused enough headache to knock me into cramps all through out my body, hearing nothing is wrong is plain out wrong. How could I relax? By this time i've been breathing heavily for over an hour, my heart was pumping heavily and I tried to relax slowly. This made the numbness climb up to my head and almost reaching all over my face. I thought that was it, this could be the end, I'm trying to relax and at the same time I can feel that things were tightening, from my arms and legs to my face. Some how I remembered all the things said before your soul is taken away from your body. The devils will appear in front of you in the form of your past family members, trying desperately to trick you to hang for this world and not the hereafter. Like a voice going through a checklist... I don't see any devils. I say to myself, its not your time yet then, things are going to be ok.

Started to hold my breath. felt numb almost every part of my body.... I asked my brother in law to assist me to the toilet. It took me 20 minutes just to find which nerves I need to control to take a piss..... Talk about the things you take for granted every time you piss.... later my numbness and cramps slowly subsides.... but it left me with the fear that I could have not been so lucky.

For the days that followed, doctor prescribed me another set of antibiotics and checked if they were going to cause me any reaction like what I previously experienced. It also helped that my lungs started to recover and the air volumed showed minor improvements but the situation improved tremendously. On the fourth day I had been discharged and on my way home with a huge bag of medicines for the months to come.

I am grateful that God had given me a second chance. God has shown me the value of the most precious gift.... the air and how fragile we are. We can fail even when we have everything working in place. Family and how they are there when you need them.... doctors and nurses who I cannot even afford to thank them enough for their dedication to their line of duty.

I now ask myself, I could have easily died that night. I was even embracing and waiting for my time.... the fact that God didn't take me away only means that I have not completed my task here just yet. I hope to know which task is that for me exactly.

Im back :)

Took me too long to stay under... I am going to start blogging again... we all made the decisions for the best reasons. Well me I had to make them for the ones I love.

Its been along while since Ive blogged. I guess.... Its time I start for my son's future reference.

"Harimau mati tinggalkan belang, Manusia mati tinggalkan blog".... bwahahahhahah!!!!

happy bday n thank you

Hi fellas ;)

Thank you so much for the birthday wish this year.

I wish this year would be filled with wonderful things to come.

Like I said earlier in my life its now how old is how young you feel ;D

Things are coming and I should be ready ;) i wish all of you a pleasant year ahead and do take good care of your health.

Once again Thank you every one ;)

Tick tick.... Was it that long ago?

Hi guys, hi fellas, Ive not have the time to scratch here for some time. Until that sumthing reminded me how long it has been. My Back is in pain again..... Weeee! This only means I have been pushing myself a little bit too hard. How hard could it get eh? What am I pushing my self so hard to achieve? Last time I had this much back pain, it took me serious time and discipline to get me up and running again. I remember how I got through it, but I forgot how I got into it. So if I recalled last time I had this was because I was pushing to get a journal publish. Well I achieved that, but frankly speaking, not much use has come from such pain staking hardship that I can sit back and say its worth it.....

But maybe not this time. This time its a far modest target, to built a family, it will be worth it. Start on the right foot, even though that my back is breaking today, I know it just means I have to adjust my burden and use effective force and pressure to hold the things I dear most, up high.

High in the sky,
high above my head,
Yet so close to heart,
I am not afraid to do the leg work,
The pay is so worth it.

Sacrifice is never easy,
But they will come some day if not today.
Shy out or keep on going?
Shy out is not my thing.

So bear this pain,
use the force,
Ill long for the day,
When I say,
I am yours....

Gut instinct rules!!!!

Last week and a few weeks earlier, Ive been debating with experts in the electronics field.. why? Coz they all have the same degree in Electronics. Sure Im not an expert... but heres a story where my gut feeling told me sumthing was wrong and guess what? It also told me where to fix it!

A week of work made me dream about the problem again and again, giving me stress. I admit any type of work has its own load. But mine was multiplied with 3 seniors engineers who each made the problem seems easy.... but the solutions is far from it.

My debugging skills told me that I did all the stuff correctly. Only a few minor glitches existed. This glitch was corrected only when I pointed the Signal 5 cm from the reciever. its like this....

You ask a friend to read the letters on the wall... A V E T C. your standing 5 meters away from the wall. And so is your friend. Then when he replies A B E T C instead.... you are puzzled! are your eyes wrong? NO... you walk closer and you confirm its a V! I ask my friend to come closer .... he says its B! so this is where you wonder.... Why cant he see its V?

It turns out that.... hes Japanese! they pronounce V as B! a minor error in the way the learn the alphabets from hiragana..... so there i was a week wondering are my eyes wrong or my ears wrong... it turns out the guy had a pronunciation problem! Argh! I didnt know until I made a tool to correct this problem.

My gut instinct pointed to how to correct it. every time he says B its a V! that tool was what my gut instinct told me to do and as we got it and test it.... it works flawlessly..... Proof that my gut knows more than what my mind could comprehend.

So today... im so hungry... whats for lunch???? I can eat a cow!

3 months payslip!

Weee I made it! I have 3 months payslip already!!!! thats one of the requirements to get a loan! oh wait???? I had a vision of not taking any loans ever! hmmm so how to do? I know that the more you loan the more interest you pay.... Oh well I believe in living withing my means. And I intend to follow it.

A Capricorn is not interested in the show of wealth but wealth it self. Hmmmmm

Also there a popular malay saying taught to me from my mom..... "Ade dua jenis orang. Satu yang jadi kaya. Satu yang buat orang Jadi kaya!" hmmmm takle dua dua ker???? or nape kena jadi hanya satu? hehehhehehe

Oh well on the third month...... SPA called me for an interview. This is not something I planned. In short its an unexpected surprise. After talking to the people close to me... it turned out it could be a blessing in disguise. I have yet to see how its gonna be in my favor. But we'll see.

So far Ive checked my name is already expired in the SPA database. Then why the hell did I get this letter???????
Perplexing.... and puzzling! JPA out to HUNT ME?????? Oh hell no!

I think the Government is out to get me! ..... Argh why cant i run like in Japan.... when they police ask you anything in Japanese just answer.... "Watashi wa..... Nihongo wo TABEMASEN".... and they surely let you continue your journey....

Why? it literally translate as ... "I dont eat Japanese!" / "Bahasa saya tak boleh makan".... or the popular saying ... bahasa jepon saya tak boleh cari makan..... errr sumthing like that.... But hey it got me out of trouble more than once! kihkihkihh Artificial Idiot saves the day!

The Big Payoff - Journal of Advance Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics

I have to mark this down as a Milestone achievement.

It may just be one paper. But you'd never know how much of a payoff it is to see it in black and white.

For those of you who are unfamiliar to Journal papers, its the papers which are recognized by specialist in that field. Which will chose from a large group of prospective authors.



I came back last night. Seeing the envelope on my desk. "From Japan" was what I saw. Ah it finally came. I was so eager to open it. But instead I told my mother, Mom this is a tribute for you. With out your moral support Id never be able to accomplish this at all. My mom looked at me and asked "What is it?". "Open it, its a one year struggle in Japan with all of the money that I have ever saved on, to get this work printed in black and white." I replied.

My sister asked me whats so special about this work? I told her that this.... paper was doubted by so many, close to me, undermining me. I sacrifice and focus on the research for one whole year, starved and stayed as long as I could in Japan. Just to get a shot at publishing this work in a journal. To some its not even thinkable. For a few pages of paper, spending thousands. Professors have to at least write papers in conferences and then hope that one of it gets into a journal. And that takes a long time.

But me? I just want one paper to be published. Let it be that I did one thing. But make it count.

The story started when I was back in japan, Feb 2007. I was interested on how machine learning was able to do some thing far more than what was expected of the robot. Did a few simple experiments and got some rough results.

This was quickly undermined by my senior saying its too easy. No one will ever take this and use it for anything, let alone be acknowledge in a Journal.

My boss also shared his negative views every time I wanted to go back after working late at night. See I was working at a convenience store. And they had some unbelievable schedule for me to come to work. I had no time. I wanted to push my research. I had no money to save for my masters but I believe that this work will push me for my masters. I took a gamble. Quit that part time job. As much as I needed the money for my future. I concentrated on research.

My senior pushed me to do several writeup to enforce his papers for an upcoming conference. It was in hong kong. Sure he got the funding to go and present. Coming back he wanted to write a new paper. Asked me if I can help. I did. And at the same time I pushed for my research to be sent also.

The Conference was next year, after graduations. Our lab sent 7 papers, 2 from PHD students, 4 from my senior, 1 from me. surprisingly most of it got accepted. With mine also one of them. I was surprised and happy. But the problem was, Im running out of money. Time was not on my side. I had to pay for my mistakes of not collecting enough money to last me in Japan.

I was force to leave my study only to hear that my paper was selected for presentation in the conference. One I really wanted to go to. But I cant, Im no longer in Japan. Back in Malaysia I sought means to get some funding even going to the goverment and the Universities. They were strict saying that the paper ment nothing. They refuse to fund me.

The conference came and I sat at home... in Malaysia pondering what happens.

My senior went to present his papers and also mine since I cant go there. When he returns he suddenly changed his whole opinion about my work. He was suddenly really interested in this one work. I asked him why?

According to him, The presentation received a huge crowd with interest in knowing more about it. And this has made him change his mind on the work it self. As a result of that conference, my paper got an invitation to the journal.

Today I check the list of papers accepted for the journal. It turns out only my paper was accepted! And not the other papers that my senior wrote :)
Im grateful that I am lucky enough to get a Journal paper with my first work, only paper in the conference and had been invited to the journal. Its by far a very big payoff to remind me that im redeemed for my efforts 2 yeas ago.

Those years were by far the hardest years of my life. And I am grateful that there so many kind characters who helped along the way. I may not be able to name each and every one of them and I hope Allah will bless them by lifting their burdens from their shoulders.

The moral that I learned is that perseverance will make it through! And no matter what people say, do what you believe is right. You will get the big payoff when you least expected it. All I can say is... REVENGE IS SWEET!!! hehehhehehe

http://www.fujipress.jp/JACIII/JACII00130003.html - the website
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAroMA4PUMo&feature=channel_page - the vid

Thank you all for your support ;)

First day As an Engineer

After some tight interviews and tired of explaining what it is I do best while I was studying, I finally got the confirmation of the post last Friday. I manage to ask them to consider me coming late after lunch, and it turned out my boss was taking a leave anyway. So I wasn't briefed at all what am I going to improve. But I guess thats for tomorrow. How ever I have worked out a propable flow from Kajang to my office. Its hard but I think I can make it :) Discipline is the key. Thats what I believe in.

I hope this time im not gonna sacrifice any thing more than some time. The rest I hope to gain and maintain. Im really2 happy to have her in my life, to have a job, and soon to built my family. Life as we know it is only worth the effort when we are happy. If we are unhappy, its no life. And How do you kill some one that has.... No life?

As a summary for today, I drive one hour to Wangsa Maju and back. At the end of the week, Ill have my sweetheart waiting to see me. Its worth the trouble :) I want the honey to pass the time. And im not lazy to work for it.

Ill see how Ill survive and strive this job.

My life is going to change Phase 3

This whole month, Love is in the air :p n I love it! So what does that have to do with my life changing? Big things are happening and things are "falling into place". Yesterday, the interview wasnt so hopeful, so its okay. I spent the moment after that to value my present with my significant other. So I spent it all, coz Im never sure about the future. Let God decide. Thats what I was doing and thats what Im going to continue doing.

Today I wake up fresh and drank my morning milo, read the newspaper, its been like a whole month of darkness. Drama in politics, the economy and reading the numbers of people who got retrenched. Not knowing how important today's interview is. I got my self ready. The funny thing is.... every day is a brand new day. I slip in the same shoes as I put on yesterday, felt something different in my left shoe... thinking it was my old socks.... I place my hand to grab it out. To my surprise! Its a frog! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa eeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww The cold blooded frog was like a slime! i threw the shoe to the ground... washed my hands and look at my watch... I have no time!
Now since I am running out of time.... I have to battle a frog for my shoe! Yeah right *sarcastic* but I manage to get the frog out and soon I see the cats are ready for their meal and frogs were on their menu. Good Luck froggy!

Got my shoe and drove to the interview! hehehe and now I got the job! Wee in this time of uncertain economic situations, I could still get a job. I consider that fortunate. Thank God its a post I wanted.
Syukur.....
And that frog might have been a test to see how I handle unexpected surprises.

Where have I heard this before?

Recently I've been counting my blessings. The best do come to those who are patient. I'm thinking here about what I've been through. I sold my car and came back nothing but a few piece of papers. I have felt the heat and regret. But now I'm being redeemed by what I wanted the most. A family.

My sisters coming back home. I'm happy, my mom is happy, Taufiq? im not so sure coz he knows he's gonna get more trouble from kakdee now! hehehehe. But the thing is Dee asked me about her AP and her car. Would it be better to just let the car there in UK or bring it back? A question that I once asked my self in Japan.

Actually my car is totally different than Kak Dee's car. Why? its a two seater, kak Dee's a 5 seater. So better, in short, its worth it. About the repair... its a lot. Im not joking. The tax, at minimal coz its an old car. The worth of the car has already depreciated and not bought at a high price here lately. But the transportation cost, container from UK to Malaysia is surprisingly at its lowest. Not only that she could fit in alot of other things in there making the container worth the trip.

So of course in kak dee's mind shes weighing the cost to usability issue. But honestly, if my car was transported here. I still think Its worth the trouble. The car was still reliable, in good condition and no major repairs needed.

Is the car usable? Yes. Is the cost to transport high? No. Is the tax expensive? not likely considerable coz its an old car. The car is in good condition? It has already changed its Chain once. So theres still more mileage here. The spare parts are also here.... to a some extent.

Finally... I think its a good choice to bring the car back. The burden of dollars and cents are a lil high. But definately on last resort the car can still be sold. Of course thats the last resort. Only if all else cant be helped. If Dee had the chance I say Go for it. Dont make the same mistake I did. Thats my advice.

Manage your Week(weak)! or the week(weak) will manage you!

Hmmm its been a while. Its been good ;D. Im happier, I have so much coming in from all sides, like my investments, my PC repairs, my web designs, my image editing, my research, my teaching, my relationship :D. So much to be thankful of ;)

So where do I start. Ok for starters Id like to share my Experience being shot to death in a classroom.... I mean literally ... I almost lost my mind. I had to substitute teaching science for year 4 and 5 elementary students. I know Ive taught some japanese students at the same age group. But teaching that night... was a like micromanaging questions and suplying answers. So it wasnt that hard eh? Well try explaining what a dynamo is while some one in the back is farting out laud.... and since the room is air conditioned .... it didnt help. The kids are smart. They ask a lot of questions... problem is .. EVERY ONE ASKING AT THE SAME TIME!!!! I felt like shouting.., 1 At a time please! For an instant I felt how it was becoming the Speaker for the Parliment. I mean his words to describe members of the parliment all are like small school kids.... Ill say hes right.

At the end of the day I have increased my respect of school teachers, and I acknowledge that They are far superior than Lecturers dealing with "Intelligent and Morally sane" Students :) .....or I could be wrong....

Thank you :)

I woke up, feeling like staying in bed the whole day. I dont know why. But when I did woke up, drank my morning Milo, I saw a figure from across the room, across the road, on the wall of the hill. A black long snake just dangled down the wall. I didnt take it seriusly, my eyes could be playing tricks with me in the morning. But later on the screams of my neibours confirmed my suspsion. There was a snake moving about. How big it is, remains a question. If I can spot if from 10 meters away, between the leaves, Its got to be longer than 1 meter. Black means its not a phyton, worries me even more. Phytons dont bite, But cobra does.

Took me a while to get to the office. But when I did arrive, I was greeted with a cake! How toughtful :) I didnt expect it at all. Friends made the day worth waking up to. So in short Id like to express my gratitude and to state that some times, you'll never know what happens in a day. So many surprises.

Cikgu Fizik?

A Busy Day?

Bangun early, I didnt even had time to see what was wrong with my mother. Instead, I had to rush to UKM, ridiculous. Stayed there today didn't get much done. But it seems some smart guys thinks this is the best way for them to monitor our progress.

Enough about that. At 5 I went out.

Did some revisions on what to teach. Boy things changed. Last time I did physics was in Bahasa, then Japanese now.... English. Honestly I dont understand half of the words. They are just another way to say some thing we already know.

At 6 im back home. Ate and went back at 8. And the class started.

I was nervous at first... of course. These kids wants what they are paying for. And I was honestly scared I cant deliver. I taught that the sylabus was short, I might finish it in one class instead of 4. Boy was I wrong!

After the class I drove back with a relief that I did a job well done. But tomorrows a brand new day! And what will be there instore for me tomorrow?

Happy Birthday me :) - day 4

The clock strike 12 and we were on the bus approaching Gambang. I check my phone to see if the phone was working. It was. then there must be sumthing wrong with it. Its so silent. I didn't wake up my mother or my brother beside me. They look sound asleep in the bus. I looked at the window outside. So calm and peaceful. Then I saw my birthday present from above.

A clear starry night! I saw Orion ontop of me, and thousands more stars filled the clear night sky. I knew its a natural delight made for me at the stroke of midnight. Said to myself, "Happy 25th birthday Indra".

When the bus stop at the R&R mother woke up. I wispered to her, "Your son is now 25 years old". She looked at the clock and smile ;) "Oh yeah happy birthday!". Alas, I had to remind my mother, but better late than never.

So it was my birth day and I planned not to make a big fuss about it at all. Since I am 25 years old... I do feel old. At one time some where when I entered my 20s I had a string of phone calls and smses as the clock strike 12. But know I understand that it wont happen again, its been 5 years since any of those thing happen. But I did get a few smses from my friends, later in the morning when they woke up for work. Yeah every ones working now. Thats the big difference.
Plus there was a fact that I hid my Birthdate from my friends on purpose. :) so I dont really mind about the birthday wishes. Each and every one of them is a gift by it self when my friends remembers.

As I was transfering pictures into my laptop, my 5 year old cousin asked me who's birthday was it in those picture. I replied that it was our 7 year old cousin Fikri, hes birthday was last saturday. Then she saw the cake. "Waaa best nyer cake tuh" ..... I took a look at her young face, and said "Do you want a cake? Today's is my birthday!". All of my cousins looked at me in disbeliefe! They rush for my mother. "Maklong! Maklong! betul dok ari nie birthday Abang I?" My mother replied "Haah hari nih lar kenape?". They shouted, "Yay! Abang I nak beli kek!".

So we got the cake, I chose no candles, on the basis that the cake will be filled by siliva if the children tried to blow the candles out. We had a small party that night, a nice one indeed. Filled with my close family and children asking lots of questions. So I asked my cousin how old does she think I am. This one coming from a 5 year old.... almost got me a heart attack. She screamed "100!". My mom also almost had a heart attack as she heard that! "Uish tua nyer kalau camtuh Maklong brape umur?". My cousin paused. She screamed "150!" hehhehehe and we all laughed. Still uneased with the age she gave the both of us, we asked her how old are her parents? She look at her mom and said "Mommys 27 and dad is 28". Which carved a smile on my aunts face :)

Young kids... they are really fun to be with. They light up day.

My sister called that night ;) I was expecting that. I knew she didnt forget my birthday :) Although I was expecting some ones phone call, but then when I checked my email, Yoong did send me a birthday wish on time. She also havent missed a single birthday since we were school kids. Some times there are things you can expect, and some you'll never know what they are.
Like the phone call I got for the job interview, that was totally unexpected. Seems that the best presents arent in material, but more in the spriritual aspects of life. Family, friends, a nature gesture, and luck. What more can a guy ask for?

Okay a ferrari or two would be nice. :p But my red satria would have to do for now.

Happpy Birthday Indra :)

Thank you 2008, Welcome 2009!

Happy new year!

I noticed one thing about 2008, its a perfect Sine cycle in my life, why? I'll tell you why.
If my initial entrance to 2008 was taken as a benchmark, the 0 level, I had my first quarter of the year going really well and waited for my graduation some where in March.

Then things got bumpy, and the graph of achievements went on a downhill curve.

I could see around June I was bailing things out, selling my car, selling all I had for a ticket home to Malaysia, I was back when I was in terms of anticipation and hopes, I lost them all.

The cycle went all the way till September where I learned my work had been accepted for publication, but it was the lowest point of the year knowing that I can't go to the conference.

Things got better as I entered October, with money coming in, friends showing up, and confidence started to build.

At the end of December, I got news my scholarship with MOSTI was approved. Things are looking upward for me this year it seems ;)

Here's a short graph on how it looks :) in 2008

















Any way, wishing everyone a happy new year :)

"Drive your History, Don't let History Drive You!"

Ahhh today's post is a short and simple one. I wanted to write this for a long time. Esp after the fuel hike, fuel has been quite a problem to many of us. Most of us are turning green, in order to put some greens into our pockets. But me? Well I choose to take a different view of the situation by looking back at the "Carts" I have driven in my short life. The first thing I had the pleasure of driving was the all too famous "Kancil". It was from the driving school, and I learned what can and cannot be done with a car. Nothing cool, but it was the first 4 wheels that I was given to drive. Thankfully I avoided any type of collision until I was given the task to drive my first 2 doors sports car, the "Satria Merah".
This car, has been really helpful in transporting my friends in UM. Here and there, any one I see walking towards Kolej 11, I would give them a lift, as long as I had space to spare. It was a basic 1.3 cc NA engine. Really nice car. I have had two accidents with this car. One was really-really stupid, I'll admit. I wanted to kill a mosquito and as I was smacking the window on my right, I felt like I smack the window too hard which caused a bump. It happend that the car slipped and hit the van infront. I went out, an looked, there was no scar or damage and I got out of it with out paying a cent. Lucky me.
The next one, I was hit from behind as I was coming out of the junction at Kolej 11. The student who hit me was pale when I stare at him, I could see why. He had no sticker and he would be in big trouble if the accident was reported. Again... I went out and checked the car, no visible scarrs so we went home free.
As I got to Japan, The fist car that I drove was a small car much like the "Kancil" used for sending newspapers in the morning. Then I was given the task to drive the communitie's estima. Then I drove Honda Civic aka bullet. Then from there there was one time I drove the mazda roadster. Thats when I had a taste for two seaters. They just feel different from driving other cars. I was also assigned to drive the serena a couple of times. Then the Honda Odessey. This type of van, I had about 3 different Odesseys driven in the short time I was in Japan. And then I also drove the Honda Fit. Small car but nice and decent interior. Hit about 140 km/h in the tunnel. But it wasn't my cup of tea.
After several attemps I finally got a chance to drive Honda Integra typeS. Nice lovely car. Its really cool, but I really wanted to taste the performance of TypeR. Then later I was the proud owner of a Toyota 1995 MR2 NA. Even with out the turbo, I can feel the car's performance. Made me wander about the turbo versions. Driving a car like the MR2 really make all the other car's driving experience like a walk in the park. The mid engine means its really easy to skid of the road if you aren't carefull. Its fun! Plus you have the best tight turns with that car. So after selling the car, I had one last experience in driving another Honda Civic, this time it was the newer version. And now Im back here driving my old saga, which I consider like driving a tank. Its metal shells protects me from other drivers who just knows that if they collide with me, my car wont scratch, but their shiny car will >:)
As we think back on what we have driven, we tend to see that people start with big cars and then get smaller. But unlike other people, I have the experience to drive some of the best cars, while I had the chance to. So when your thinking of the fuel cost, just remember the fuel is going to get expensive. Thus lowering your odds to drive a bigger car in the future.
My advice is... Don't think about the fuel! Just drive and enjoy the adventure!
So below is a summary of the cars I have driven:

Kancil
Kelisa
Mira
Satria
Saga
Waja
Wira
Odessey
Estima
Serena
Fit/Jazz
Civic
Roadster
Integra Type-S
MR2 NA & Turbo

Those were the cars that I have driven, I haven't listed out the cars I ride along the way, some include the powerful turbo Subaru WRX, Nissan 15, and others but I just can't remember.

I have also been on other vehicles, including flying a glider and steering a sailboat. So in short you can say I have completed the Sea, Air and Land (SEAL) driving experience! Weee Hoo!
Wonder what type of vehicles I get to drive next?