F1 is loud!
Sunday, 28 September 2008
You just won't be able to grasp the speed and the noise of the F1 at home watching TV.
No, it requires you to be at the race track in person, watching the cars blur across your field of vision in less than a second. The roar of the engine is something to behold. From a distance of no more than fifty metres, the sound is literally deafening. You eardrums actually start to ache after the first few cars. And yet so many people, in their love(?) for the sport, stood right next to racetrack without earplugs. Like Martin said, they must have prepared for it by listening to their Mp3 on max volume for 10 hours straight. I bet they're all deaf by now.
Curiously, the first few times you glimpse the F1 zoom across, you're immediately overcome by the sleek beauty of it, fanning your inner speed demon. However, after 10 mins or so, you start to get bored. Really bored. You have no idea who's in the lead, which car is who(identification is hard at those speeds) and all you see is a small section of the track. You see the car for a few seconds at most.
All you see is a few flashes of turbulence in the air and the thunderous, high pitched whine of the engine as it approaches, enveloping you entirely.
We gave up after awhile and headed to the EA games competition in the main atrium. Guys will be guys, and we managed to watch Fifa 2008 as intensely as we would a Premier League match.
Each of us spent like quite alot on the arcade later, playing alot of physical games where we would try our best to outbody one another, causing the whole arcade machine to quake and shift. Our grunts of exertion and the shaking machine drew quite alot of bystanders. Including, as Yi Xuan and Martin kept on saying the entire night, "Wah hot!" " Which one which one?" "The one in the xxx coloured dress!" "Mmm yeah. Quite hot."
Guys horny talk.
Haha.
Sparing a glance every now and then, I had to nod my head and agree.
I'm a guy too after all.
I like girls,
They like me
They look so good
In they're Seven jeans
Want you to be the one
And my only
I want to be faithful
But I can't keep my hands out the cookie jar
@ 11:16