1) Pump up your tires.
Keeping your tires inflated is one of the easiest and most important things Saving petrol means saving money one can do to improve fuel economy. If a range is recommended by the manufacturer, the higher pressure should be used to maximize fuel efficiency. Deflated tires run hot and jeopardize safety. It will also cause the tires to wear out prematurely, affect the vehicles adversely, and hurt the fuel economy by increasing the rolling resistance.

Tires lose about 1 psi pressure per month due to air loss caused by the tire hitting holes, bumps and curbs. Therefore, the tires should be checked at least once a month. Just 1 tire deflated by 2 psi will result in a 1% increase in fuel consumption.

2) Drive at moderate speed.
Avoiding high speeds on open roads results in safer driving and better fuel economy. In highway driving, over 50% of the power produced by the engine is used to overcome aerodynamic drag. Drag and thus fuel consumption increases rapidly at speeds above 90km/h. On the average, a car uses about 15% more fuel at 100km/h, and 25% more fuel at 110km/h compared to when it is
doing only 90km/h. However, this should not lead one to conclude that the lower the speed, the better the fuel economy – because it is not. The fuel consumption of an average car increases sharply at speeds below 50km/h.

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I started working at Cyberjaya. Cyberjaya, in one sentence; “It’s damn far from my house”. Travelling 100km/day and paying RM6/day for tols, petrol and tols really costs me a lot.

I find that the best route to Cyberjaya is from Duta. Any one of you reading this also travel from Duta to Cyberjaya??? At first, I was thinking of going to Cyberjaya by NKVE. But the tol costs alot, around RM4.40/trip. I have tried few routes.

Go to Cyberjaya (2-way trip)
Duta > Sprint > Seremban Highway > Serdang > Uniten > Cyberjaya
This route is in total – 51km, have to pay RM6 tol at Sprint exit and Serdang exit, no jam at all, smooth driving.

Duta > Hartamas > Phileo Dmnsara > LDP > Puchong > Cyberjaya
Total of the route is 45km, have to pay RM5 tol at Phileo, Puchong, Puchong Jaya. It’s jammed up at SS17, Damansara Jaya, Kelana Jaya, Sunway.

From both of this routes, I think the best to take is the first one. No jam, I think if I escape from jam, will save some petrol, better than jam in a bumper to bumper crawl. I think it will cost more petrol, even it’s a 6km difference.

If you know any short cuts, please share with me and other readers.

Besides that, the work place internet connection is extremely bad, it’s sad to have such badly managed/routed internet connection. My house connection is much better than that. Furthermore, have to online with TMNet Hotspot in order to get away from the Jana server firewall. Everything is blocked except http connection.

Now, I really appreciate TMNet Hotspot service, or else I can’t ssh to server, I can’t ftp to server, my vmware connection cannot work, I can’t smtp pop/imap to email, can’t online msn/yahoo to communicate with developers out from space, can’t even download any manual/zip/tar.gz online, which makes my life suck during working hours.

I love you TMNet Hotspot.

*p/s: alphademon and spoonfork said using corkscrew for ssh tunneling, but it lags extremely!

I am back with English postings. It’s not exactly a come-back but I have started posting in English due to a request from my Indian Brother in UK who wanted to read and understand what’s been happening to me recently. Besides that, a graphic guru in my ex-office also can’t read mandarin. Furthermore, my mum started to learn how to go online, and browse my little blog here, and she also can’t read mandarin.

All in all, I’ve come back with my english post, and my english teacher also has to spend some time proof-reading my badly written ing-lish. Thanks buddy.

Finally, Final Destination 3 is showing now on Cinema, I really love GSC, can book online, doesn’t need to suffer for waiting in the long queue.