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Nadine, Noelle, Kat, Ryan, and I drove up to Nor Cal last weekend for Drift Day 1. I had way a lot of fun… the guys up there were hella cool and there was hella drifting going on that day! Dean was driving his brother’s car, which had no oil in it, and there was hella rod knock when I was driving it. TJ was super super nice and let me drive his car all day long and I hella kicked the clutch, and his car hella kicked my butt. Seriously… I was being aggressive with the car, but the thing bit back! At the end of the day, my arms were hurting, and TJ stubbed his finger really bad. I’m not sure why he needed his right thumb to work, but apparently, he was sad about it. It was a good day… there was one run where I swear that I really used the max potential of the car and the course and it felt really really good.

Thanks to all the guys up there who asked for help and made my day worth while. I need to take road trips more often!

So Steve was really nice and helped me to take off ALL the stickers from my car. He also helped me wax it, after pointing out how totally destroyed my paint was. After running my finger across his car’s paint, yeah… I started to feel bad. Especially considering that my car was “recently” painted in 2000!

So after spending a half day with my car it’s back to “normal” with no stickers… it’s a pretty big shock! I drove the car to the supermarket and as I was walking back to my car I had flashbacks from way back when nobody knew what the heck my car was and what drifting was. It was a nice feeling to be able to drive somewhere without getting mass attention from everybody around me. Thanks for the help Steve!

Naoki and Will from Nitro 2 Go energy drinks got together and asked me if I wanted to be a demo driver for Rim of the World Rally on May 7th! I’m so excited… I can’t wait to get back into my racing suit and into the Yellow Thing so that I can throw up some smoke and make some noise. The best part is, Nadine and hopefully Ching Chong Alex will be there with me! I’m already choreographing in my head MUAHAHAH. I’m going to miss round 1 and round 2 of formula D and it’s been kinda depressing me, but this will be good and it’s going to be way more fun than competing, I think.

Picture of my car without the stickers!

Well, last weekend was a freakin BLAST. Nadine and I got our cars together for the Land-Ho & Just Drift! event. I haven’t been out to a Just Drift! event in a while now, and it’s mostly because I’ve been so busy competing or just because of time conflicts with other stuff.

It was good to go back out there and have care free fun. Nadine and I did tandem for the first time. She was really nervous when she was leading and would drift into a pretty bad understeer… so I started to lead and she didn’t have any problems at all. I was flooring it all the way into the corner and in 3rd gear on entry, and she was able to keep up just fine! JT told me that I would initiate really early and Nadine would wait a little… then initiate and catch up with me. Pretty cool! It was so much fun to be able to do that… drifting is just completely different when you are drifting along side your friends… it becomes more of a social thing than just a personal hobby.

My car was holding up fine… but it was a bit weird considering that I’m used to driving much faster cars. Driving my sileighty felt really really slow. My toe was also off since I didn’t get another alignment after Gushi san fixed my front end… so the car was understeering a lot. The remedy: kick the clutch right before I thought the car would understeer. It works! Haha!

I started to take the stickers off of the sileighty. It feels really good to be able to do that. Some of the stickers are FROM HELL and will not come off… I guess I’m just going to have to leave those alone. But I’m going to start making the car streetable again… I can’t believe I’m going to put my interior BACK IN!

Anyway, this summer will be cool. I can’t wait!