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Name: Phong
Country: United States
State: Minnesota
Metro: St. Paul
Birthday: 10/23/1981
Gender: Male
Interests: Photography, movies and film, import racing, cars, cars cars, video games, pho, medium rare steak, mash potatos and World War 2 documentary fanatic. You know, just keepin it gangsta. haha.
Expertise: Thumb wrestling
Occupation: The Pimp formally known as P.
Industry: Entertainment
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AIM:  spartanic23
MSN: spartanic@hotmail.com
Member Since:
2/20/2005
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| Damn, this is what I'm talking about. Gotta get me one.
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| I had one of the coolest dream last night. Me and some of my family members took a trip to Japan and who did we visit? Opera Performance! Some of you might not even know who Opera performance is so let me give you a quick run down. The company performs chassis modifications on various Japanese automobiles to ring out the best performance of that vehicle. They are well known for their Opera S2000 which was featured in Gran Turismo 4. Sport Compact Car Magazine even featured their S2000, RSX and 350Z in their mag and showed the extensive chassis modifications that they put these chassis to. The owner of the shop is Yasuyoshi Yamamoto. This guy is so good he even did some work for Spoon Sports and other SuperGT cars.
Anyway, lets continue with my dream. So we finally arrived at Opera Performance and for some reason there are many tourists there. We made our way through the crowds and I decided to break away from the family and head down my own direction. I soon met up with Yasuyoshi Yamamoto. Oh yes, the owner of Opera Performance! He then took me on a personal tour of their facility. It was huge! Funny because Sport Compact Mag visited their shop and said it was as small as a garage. So maybe this means they'll move to a bigger facility?
Anyway, Yasuyoshi-san showed me around but for some reason I can't recall what he was showing me. I can't recall what the cars and tools where but I know he was showing me something. I remember I was so excited and I couldn't wait to brag to everyone back home. Turns out they have a baby fitter place built into the shop, it was literally apart of the shop. Weird. haha. Anyway, he continued to show me around and for some reason I felt as if I was starting to get in his way so I decided to slow down and let him go off to do his business but turns out he waited for me so I knew right there that he was koo with showing me around. haha. Yea corny. Anyway, we went outside and met up with Yu Pheng. They started to smoke.
And then before we took off to leave the facility I just knew that I had to take a pic with Yasuyoshi-san before we left so I asked everyone for a camera but Yu Pheng said that he left his back at the van. He then gave me the key and then I was like damn, I dont want to walk all around the building and to the van. But I decided to go anyway. Got damn it took me hella long to get to the van. The facility was so damn big! During the walking I kept thinking how I wanted to see more. My hunger was deep and I felt as if I haven't really seen the cars that Opera worked on.
For some odd reason there were people walking around the whole facility. Inside, outside and even in the back of the building. Weird.
Now that I think about it I don't think I ever made it to the van. My dream changed I was soon doing my own testing on metal parts to see how strong I can make. Damn, I never got to take a pic with Yasuyoshi, the owner of Opera Performance. That dream felt so real. I felt so motivated when I met the guy. It was if he was telling me I can do this too.
Maybe god is telling me that I can do this too if I really put my heart into it. I know I can. Its my dream and my passion. I have many obstacles to overcome both psychologically and financially before I am able to achieve this level of success.
Yasuyoshi Yamamoto standing in front of his creations.
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| Damn, I can't wait to see Iron Man in action. It looks like the Iron Man suit is faithful to its comic book counterpart but I have to admit that it looks so much cooler in real life.
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| Whao. The length of time between me posting here sure is getting longer and longer. The last time was August 16th! Ouch.
Dunno if anyone has seen No Country For Old Men but I definitely recommend anyone who is a movie buff to check it out. Javier Bardem's hair style may look odd in this one but you sure wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley. Not only is the acting superb but directing and editing is right up there with the best of the best. Who knew your whole life can change with a flip of a coin?
How do I rate this film? I give it a 9 out of 10. I suppose its my taste in movies so take it with a grain of salt. Go watch it now!
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| Damn, I'm sad. Why? Because now that I think about it, I never really got close and intimate with the ALMS race cars last friday. Everything is a blur. I spent more time behind the camera taking pictures than getting the chance to stop, stare and smell these machines. But I guess its hard to do that when there's so many things are happening around you and all your senses are on overload. Damn, I don't think I'll ever forget the smell, the sights, and the noise.
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