Bbandit
10-03-2002, 02:34 PM
alright
i keep forgeting to tell you guys how my internship went last summer. now i have the time to tell the story... <img src="#/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'>
once upon a time....(j/k)
as y'all know..im an international student here at texas A&M
im a junior taking a mechanical engr major...
last summer i went home to indonesia(my home country) for the first time after 3 years of hard studying here in texas..
i went home for 3 months and while at it.. took internship program at CALTEX (chevron texaco) indonesia.
it was fun actually.. i saw their oil fields and i saw how organized their managements are and the funny thing is..
i met a LOT of UT austin (longhorns) graduates there... they are working for caltex also...
well lets just say i have a chat with most of them and ended up with quite a furious talk around football..(haha)
enough about the internship thing... now im gonna tell you the interesting part...
guess what... while i was there in indonesia...
for a whole 3 months.. i saw 5 units of R34 skyline (white, blue, black, yellow, and silver), i saw 1 unit of R33 four door.
i saw 2 ferrari maranello, 1 ferrari testarossa... and a whole lotta cool cars...
but i didnt see a single S13, S14, nor S15 (strange)
to tell you the truth, i was surprised...
with monetary crisis and all other problems that indonesia have right now.. i think its impossible to see those pure japanese sport cars...
and i was even more surprised when my cousin (his dad is a general in the indonesian army) ask me if i want to buy an imported R34. i was like.. whatt??!?!? i cant afford that!!
and he was like... yea i know its expensive but its worthed believe me...
and i asked, how much is it anyway here?
he answered, around Rp 300,000,000.00
note: US$ 1 ~ Rp 10,000.00
do the calculation and you get a used R34 for US$ 30,000 !!
i was like..
<img src="#/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/crazy.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':crazy:'> <img src="#/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/crazy.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':crazy:'>
it cost like around 50~90 grand to bring a used R34 to US (saw the price on skyinegtr.com)
no wonder i saw 5 skylines there...
oh yeah and i also see a couple of illegal midnight racing there (yes they have one)
and everytime i watched the race...
the unbeatable winner is almost always this black EVO VI (yes.. LANEVO)
but thats because all of the other racers drive integra type R, a LOT of civics, Mazda astina(RWD), and more lancers
and thats about it.. just wanna share my experience over the summer with you guys...
now im back and i have 3 exams this week.. i need a lot of good lucks from y'all
later
i keep forgeting to tell you guys how my internship went last summer. now i have the time to tell the story... <img src="#/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'>
once upon a time....(j/k)
as y'all know..im an international student here at texas A&M
im a junior taking a mechanical engr major...
last summer i went home to indonesia(my home country) for the first time after 3 years of hard studying here in texas..
i went home for 3 months and while at it.. took internship program at CALTEX (chevron texaco) indonesia.
it was fun actually.. i saw their oil fields and i saw how organized their managements are and the funny thing is..
i met a LOT of UT austin (longhorns) graduates there... they are working for caltex also...
well lets just say i have a chat with most of them and ended up with quite a furious talk around football..(haha)
enough about the internship thing... now im gonna tell you the interesting part...
guess what... while i was there in indonesia...
for a whole 3 months.. i saw 5 units of R34 skyline (white, blue, black, yellow, and silver), i saw 1 unit of R33 four door.
i saw 2 ferrari maranello, 1 ferrari testarossa... and a whole lotta cool cars...
but i didnt see a single S13, S14, nor S15 (strange)
to tell you the truth, i was surprised...
with monetary crisis and all other problems that indonesia have right now.. i think its impossible to see those pure japanese sport cars...
and i was even more surprised when my cousin (his dad is a general in the indonesian army) ask me if i want to buy an imported R34. i was like.. whatt??!?!? i cant afford that!!
and he was like... yea i know its expensive but its worthed believe me...
and i asked, how much is it anyway here?
he answered, around Rp 300,000,000.00
note: US$ 1 ~ Rp 10,000.00
do the calculation and you get a used R34 for US$ 30,000 !!
i was like..
<img src="#/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/crazy.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':crazy:'> <img src="#/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/crazy.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':crazy:'>
it cost like around 50~90 grand to bring a used R34 to US (saw the price on skyinegtr.com)
no wonder i saw 5 skylines there...
oh yeah and i also see a couple of illegal midnight racing there (yes they have one)
and everytime i watched the race...
the unbeatable winner is almost always this black EVO VI (yes.. LANEVO)
but thats because all of the other racers drive integra type R, a LOT of civics, Mazda astina(RWD), and more lancers
and thats about it.. just wanna share my experience over the summer with you guys...
now im back and i have 3 exams this week.. i need a lot of good lucks from y'all
later