Dresden 888 Anniversary
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Of all the cities in Germany I visited, Stuttgart, Strasborg (French Border), Sindelfingen, Burg, Leipzig, Bonn, Koln, Dusseldorf, Wolfsburg, Hannover, Frankfurt, Damstadt, Waldolf, Nassau, Munster, Wuppertal.....Dresden is one of the most interesting place after Berlin. Given a high contrast of architecture styles...Gothic, Renaissances, Industrial, Communists, modern all rolled into one small city.
Here is an example where you can see the lay out of our hotel in the suburbs of the city. Ultra modern.
Then we cross over the river, not sure if that is the Rhine. We see a completely different picture. However, the streets of Dresden are still having the reminiscence of the harshness of communism for the 4 decades of neglect. Tram lines are still operational but little care was given to the cobble stones and other ammenities like street lighting and junction lights. So, we arrived at the time of the big clean up. Dresden was like Paris at the height of its glory and 40 over years of coal pollution has turned the city into a place of black limestones. As you will be able see as you venture through this article, there are evidence of restoration.
City square centre where building are being cleaned up, by now, in 2008, it should be sparkling clean! City Hall building as a long street behind it where a long painting was done in old wood block printing style in black and white with the borders in yellow. It tells some daily operations in the life of the hall in times past. Interesting! See the two pics below. Click on them to download bigger pics.
City square centre where building are being cleaned up, by now, in 2008, it should be sparkling clean! City Hall building as a long street behind it where a long painting was done in old wood block printing style in black and white with the borders in yellow. It tells some daily operations in the life of the hall in times past. Interesting! See the two pics below. Click on them to download bigger pics.
Across the long multi span archer bridge, I took some pictures resting my EOS on the limestones. Here is how one looked at night!
Town halls are well lit at night, however, some of the coal stains are showing to await cleaning. Pity. 
In this picture below you find the tram lines. I took the two pictures below from the bridge across the river that is about 30m wide and 200m long. Its almost midnight and the city centre is still abuzz with activity.
In this picture below you find the tram lines. I took the two pictures below from the bridge across the river that is about 30m wide and 200m long. Its almost midnight and the city centre is still abuzz with activity.
The view from Second Street behind the main facet facing the river. Street lighting used to the oil lamp but retained and wired for amber high discharge lamps which gives the city a beautiful hue. However, some buildings are given white Argon type HID. Colder look but the natural paintings display their colours. You find such an instance from the picture below.
Same building from the 3rd street from the river bankBuilding adjacent to the Opera Theatre had a long string of offices but interestingly, the statue in front seemed to be the French Hero Joan d' Arc?
There is another metal bridge nearby that crosses the river that leads to a small mountain where the super rich lives. Here we also find some model train shops. They even have a tram system up the mount which looked like a cable car. See the pictures below the bridge and you know what I mean.
The other type of building in Dresden were Communist origin, can note their posture on those murals. Like this Theatre/sports hall.
The other type of building in Dresden were Communist origin, can note their posture on those murals. Like this Theatre/sports hall.
Then there is the Renaissances type of building typifying the best of German artistic expression in construction like this one below.
The usual man powered taxis that sits 2. Never gotten down to asking the fare, not here, not in Berlin though! Must be one that one will maim a Kiam Ku Singaporean.
The streets behind the city hall facet is abuzz with pubs and retail outlets and numerous cafes and eateries too. Mainly Touristy type.
The Most exciting must be this place where Martin Luther and Guttenburg gave the bible back to the commoners printing them in huge quantities in Geneva and giving the word back to the people. His doctrine is all together pure, but what he did turned the tide against institutionalized religion, setting countless people free from the bondage of Rome. My kind of hero. To change the world, all God needs is only one man that will go with Him!
The building was bombed out in WW2 and flood took the rest of it. This is built at the site where the original building stood. You can see me with the Hero below.
Interestingly, horse carriages still ply the streets coming out from this place, never found out what it was.
Here we see the result of decades of coal burning. We can observe that they are staring to clean up, notice the yellow lime stones showing from the top of the building. They use chemical loaded high pressure water jets to dissolve the soot! Must have taken months to clean one building!
View from the City Hall front Veranda. We illegally parked the car below this building and disappeared for 2 hours taking pictures and eating Nutella Crepes!
City Square, the Opera Theatre is behind me, here the cobblestones are relaid to retain the look of the city centre. Bad for tires though!
Then we headed out to the outskirts where I knew the place where the VW Phaeton was first show cased. This is a privately owned and maintained SCHLOSS! It has a river running alongside and a good 1km driveway in a two way carriage way lined with Maple and a garden in the middle to boot! The photo below is arriving at the left wing, it has 3 round abouts for carriages. The building in the middle is the dining hall of this very rich feudal lord of times past.
This is the right wind building below.
View from the left edge of the central roundabout for carriages showing the dining hall and the right wind building. There are a few other buildings behind the front reception area which is also the dining and entertainment arena.
This land mark lamp sculpture marks the 500m mark of the 1km drive way in. Picture taken from the centre garden. Left is the way in for 2 carriages to ride side by side, the right is the way out, symmetrical.
The one way carriage way for two carriages to ride side by side lined with trees of the first portion, the second portion is lines with maple trees.
Me in the middle for sense of scale.
Halfway point garden landmark
Right wing building, now an art gallery for rental for functions.
Then Finally, we went to the famous Volkswagen Glass Factory which had less than 10% workforce on as the people went for their famous month long summer holidays. Then, the home of the Bentley and Phaeton still looked good and prestigious.
Here you find the same glass parking towers of completed cars for delivery. If you order your Bentley or the Phaeton, you can visit the factory by appointment and see your car being build on grease free wooden floors. It was said that the flooring alone was about 200 million Euros!
As with all VW factories, it must have close proximity eating places to cater for management, crew and customers who visit the factory. After all, its Germany's national car company, a public icon.
Norman Lim on 5:48 PM
Old Diorama
It all started with this Diorama 2 years ago where I painted and built it within a rush time of 9 days for the First Tamiya competition. My return to model making after 15 years of break. That opened the way for me to enter into the hobby again. It was a scene where the French brokered the peace deal in the early eighties in Lebanon.
The Merkava was one I built in 1982 and weathered it all over again. The figures are Verlinden, Dragon, Tamiya and Academy.
House was Verlinden clay type I bought from Mok from Orchard Store in 1981 for $11.90 then. Which was huge money for plaster of paris parts.
Foreign Legionnaire is from Dragon kit. Arab is from Verlinden.
Stowage from scratchbuilt and Italarei.
Interlocking stones mat from Tamiya, the 106 gun is from AFV.
Table is from Sylvania House. Table cloth and curtains made of lead sheets. Stones and reinforced concrete made from epoxy putty and wires.
yawning tank crew is from Academy
RPG gunner from Dragon set modified
Tank Commander is from Verlinden
This tank commander is from Tamiya kit original
Stone driver is from Academy kit
Won one of the prizes, lost to the one with the Molotov cocktail of a scene in Iraq with the Japanese crew. Only thing, the guys there are Mujaheedin, which are Afghans not Iraqis.....so much for arm chair warrior accuracy....sometimes you lose because you are not a brother. That is why this year we boycott it. Call it sour grapes whatever, if you do not uphold justice and good standards, the competition will lose meaning, quality and lastly profitability.Norman Lim on 1:53 AM
Time For Modellers again
Its been brought to my notice that the blog needs to get back to Model Making.....Okay, okay....On this trip, I came across a town in East Germany that had very old buildings and running on cobble stones. Its BURG.
You see here the cobble stones? The Medieval times steeples of an old church, survived the war, had some bullet holes in its walls still. Probably from the battles fought with the Ruskies.
Typical road round about and a road sign of stone in times past, her Panthers, Tigers met T28s and T34s. That is why some buildings are new, built during the soviet days.
Another old Medieval church, Gothic architecture for the diorama buffs. Make sure you see the green moss, from times of flooding and also different stone and brick tones.
This is what it would have looked like when new, bright orange in colour, so some dioramas should have new buildings too to make them more authentic.
Some pre-war old shop houses. This is typical of Germany. Especially those who wants action in the years 44 end to 45.
Old cobble stone roads. These are very different from the disorganised ones you will find in France or Italy. These were organised in a pattern. Germans are different from the rest of Europe. They pride themselves in hardwork and quality.
Here you can see the old meeting the new/ Cobble stones have various tones and the pavement sides are not as high as we all thought them to be, these are not Singapore pavements which punish old people, here, cars drive and knock down old people if desired! Hahaha! Maybe, in Germany, not so many CHEW CHENG Foreign Talent drivers! Kill someone then run away, how convenient.
Pre War buildings. See the slope and how they built their foundations? I saw a documentary once on a sherman sliding down the slope and knocking into soldiers and tanks in snow on cobble stone streets like these.
Typical Pre war fountain for drinking water. These you can get and paint those by Verlinden or Italarei. Note the slope and how the construction of the foundation is done to level out the slope! Details ....details bros....this year, I boycott the Tamiya competition because of crap judging. So, concentrate on own collection and magazine articles and promoting the hobby amongst the young and training my son to be one of the top model makers if he can be one. Basically, a kick ass modeller!
Rail and tram tracks, typical for WWII scenics. Make sure you see how they organise it.Norman Lim on 1:13 AM
Berlin Part 3 - 2006 World cup fever
I visited Berlin in 2006 and visited the company that I just left, VW. It was a memorable trip as I embarked on this invention trip that made me a globetrotter over night. Sometimes I regretted it due to lack of resources, others, exhilarating due to high adventure of new discoveries.
Berlin Tower in the shape of a Football or FUSSBALL
To get to the exciting parts, you have to master the art of being an asshole and park in the carpark in the middle of the road and pretend that you are a construction worker. With our Touareg, there is little problem with that. Meaning, the asshole part!
This is where we parked, quite smart eh? Don't know and we don't care, just chuck and siam quickly. Simple! Ugly Singaporeans in action. Got enough practice from the Ponggol Nasi Lemak stall adventures training for 5 years, we can disappear and reappear quickly!
It was said once that the new Berlin was built on the back of women! True, with millions of their men dead from the war, the women built this city not on rock and roll, but rock on rock, one piece at a time, albeit, under the watchful eyes of the commies.
The fountain of Neptune. This is between two large churches, it is amazing that the place where the Gospel Reformation first took place had mythology in their midst. By and large, Europe has not heard the Gospel, not at the way we know it today from New Creation Church.
Sat down and drink coffee. Here, inside and outside, same price, unlike Paris, which cost 1.90 Euros if you stand at the bar and 2.60 if you sit inside, and then almost 3 bucks if you sit outside.
Sculpture inside the Opera Theatre.
The Opera Theatre next to the river, the statue that I took with is at the arch entrance below the bronze statue.
One of those lost heroes of Germany's great past. If you ask me, who is it? I don't know, forgotten to write down. Moral of the story is, write down, it is more useful than you think. Some Federic something....see, now nobody believes you are there, see? Write down, won't take too much effort, but goes a long way.
Hall of the great people, I think this place is one of those Hitler places. Big open space in front to have a nice "SCARE YOUR PANTS OFF" Parades. The shout of a million soldiers here is good enough to turn anyone's blood cold with intimidation!
They are celebrating Germany, the land of great minds. Strange, at one time, people with the word STEIN and BURG at the back of their names where painted with stars of David and shuffled on to trains to places of no return! E=MC2 was Albert after he ran off to America to be in the Land of the Free and Brave.
JER SIAO, as always, tickling the fellow outside the Opera.
The Canal that runs through Berlin is a treat, asked about the boat ride and it said "26 Euros" gave us marching orders to think about alternative modes of transport. For the three of us 26 Euros each meant that we have to cough up almost 100 bucks just to sit in an old ferry. Fat hope....typical Singaporean in action and proud of our own legs! Ain't no kwai lowes gonna con our dough!
Views of the Supreme Court where many untold thousands were condemned to death in the Commie years I think. Not sure about the history though, but with all that coal marks on the court, I am not surprised.
Teach your children these and you will bet your last dollar that you will lose them and to God be a loss. The Laws of Moses were for God to sit on under His Mercy Seat, but to flaunt it begets rebellion! Cain killed Abel and left God, he was before the Law and he was not condemned, yet the first person who went out to collect fire wood on Sabbath after the Law is given was condemned to die! The Law is God's part, ours is reliance of His Mercy and Goodness which will hunt us down all the days of our lives.
Berliner Taxi anyone? We did not bother to ask the price, one look at the female rider, we know, the seat ain't for CHING CHONGS from Singapore, only the RING CHING CHONGS from China! You will be surprised, the biggest watch retailer here, CHRIST, had staff, GERMAN Ang Mors who spoke perfect Mandarins, not of any wonder, I was standing next to one and bought only a Maurice Lacroix for my wife, the guy next to me, the real CHING CHONG, bought an Austemeur Picquet (can't even spell it correctly....okay okay...AP) Off Shore Rose Gold and a Lange & Sonne Lange 1! No match, same skin, different wine skins!
They have this save the planet Bear Campaign, Frankly, the only one that can save it is the One that created it. Man, with all that talk cannot get over one thing, GREED. Now there are GREEN GREED marketing campaigns.
Norman Lim on 12:11 AM
Berlin Part 2 - PORTSDAMER PLATZ
Where the Berlin Wall separates, we find the line on the ground and the remnants of the actual wall. Here is a picture of me standing in front of a remnant and behind the wall is the place where this posting is about.
The place where we got off and parked our Touareg illegally! Never paid a cent....why? We are foreigners who knew not better! Hahaha....
Behind the building where we parked in Potsdamer Platz....the "in" place in Berlin. At the background is the Ritz Carlton hotel. This is the DB station.
Buildings at Potsdamer Platz is about who is who. The number on lights on after dark is also phenomenal. There was even a video wall that took the whole building as the screen! If you want green earth, you won't find it here, not in this part of Germany!
A shot I took of the HQ of Deutsch Barn, the train company, the lights are full on and a delight to watch. Not the electrical bills though.
The sexiest building of them all with the most power consumption has to be the Sony Centre.
At the back of the Sony Centre is this in build space with shops and restaurants even a cineplext with a parachute type of design for a roof! This is beautiful when it gets dark. It also has a basement where you can find shops of various retail lines.
Almost can get glimpse of the basement!
Two more detailed views of the roof
There is this shop that has the change of colour every few seconds, more of a gradual thing. Very intriguing to the eye. I don't know what it sells, the attraction is good, but you do not know where the entrance is! As with most parts of crazy germany, shops are closed when you get off work and opened when you work! Any wonder why they go bust?
Another view of the Sony Centre in all its splendour.
Birds also want a part of the action.Norman Lim on 10:02 PM
Berlin Part 1 - The Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall is somewhat a oxymoron to me.....it is a wall set up by the turncoat, ex-Nazi ally Josef Stalin to keep people of the Imperialist Capitalism out....yet also to keep people from freedom. What was created to keep people out became a place where people longed to get out over to the other side.
From this photo, you acan see the paradox. Here we see the western visitors, in sections of the walls not made to be robust looking to find out whats it like to be imprisoned over the other side, which the soviets had built solid concrete walls that can stand really a lot of beatings. From this picture, you can tell the difference in construction between the two sets of walls.
Nearby, there is a memorial on people who did not make it. It is sad to see that there are some who were shot just less than a week before the wall came down! The quest for freedom and its advent being so sudden kept the world intrigued and stunned at the same time.
This place where Hitler once stood to review the million troop march past enroute to conquest of Poland, a deal struck with Soviet Stalin. This is separated from the Hindenburg gate just meters apart behind this. This stood west Berlin, the side of the good guys.
The separation line between the west and the east, between progress and demonic oppression. Here I am standing on a section of the wall remaining on the eastern side, the western wall is easily removed, unlike this one. Behind, we find PORTSDAMER PLATZ, the new "in" of this glowing and growing Metropolis, called BERLIN.
Here we see a photo of the wall that separates riches from rags, sanity from madness. One side people are rewarded for their hard work, the other side, people get to live if the work hard, or find themselves on the wrong end of a Makarov of Kalashnikov. Up to today, the symbol of oppression - to those who are free, and of freedom - to those who are brainwashed and hypnotized, is one of the Kalashnikov.
Even in the free world, once too free, no one is free remaining. The freedom of some has taken its liberty to limit the freedom of the rest in society. This is weakness and polarisation of human rights. Some human has more rights than other right humans.....ironically, in a human rights arena a true reflection in a public voice speaking louder by this sign!CHECKPOINT CHARLIE
Checkpoint Charlie has always been a place where James Bond movies gets its fuel of excitement from. Here we find that we turn back the clock where thousands lost thier lives looking for freedom.
Plague showing honour to Leonid Breshnev at the entrance of his house, the murderer of millions and the empowerment of the KGB.
Here we see a photo of President Ronald Reagan visiting Checkpoint Charlie during the 80s.
A typical watch tower, aptly, should be named the shredder, here we see a position where machine guns were mounted to shred all those who thought life is better off with freedom. I saw another photo in the midst where a soldier from the east jumped the barb wires in a dash to freedom even in uniform and full loaded gear!
This is what I am talking about. Even the guards needed to be guarded from escaping to freedom, the shooter risking being shot himself. The price of freedom we so easily taken for granted.
View from American side, entering the domain where freedom ends and the mission of 007 begins.
Street where the Jewish monument was placed. 6 million Jews perished under Hitler, but few people realised that many more perished under the Soviet tyranny.
The Jewish Memorial
Me at Checkpoint Charlie Museum where many lost their lives.
Check Point Charlie, the Soviet side, see the lights that shines into the cars so that none can escape, also the sand bag bunkers for firefights.
Norman Lim on 9:20 PM
Stuttgart Winter Wine Market
Stuttgart from the mountain top view. Snow capped and very cold. Drive like an idiot with no wheels in the snow on summer tyres all the way to the top only to find that they have a subway station there???? Duh????
This is the traditional place and event in winter for Germany, the Christmas Winter Wine Market. It is a world famous festival with traditional goods up to 4 km long!
Town Centre of Stuttgart, the concert hall in the background I think. Here we see people feeding ducks so that the animals will shit all over the place till it is ugly.....who does this, the TURKS....who live off the tax payers.
Me at the scenic view. Make no mistake, the lake is frozen, the matte finish is ice! Not snow. The background mountain is full of nice houses and there is a subway train all the way to the top.
The City Town Square. Here alot of students come here and lots of other street performances and pigeon feeding in summer time.
Rathaus, the city hall of Stuttgart. I chance upon the winter night market by chance, borne chaunce as the french calls it. In my walking, came along a long way and found it! Never thought it existed before that????Duh????
Goodies for the holidays, bought one enbedded candle here, purely transparent, like glass. Kena whack 14 Euros for it, but never mind, very nice.
When hungry, can get 14" sausage, almost 1 kg in weight.....until jelak! But always come with bun. Go for the curry wurst, best in the woollagum.
Nice flowers for the door, the $20 Euro whackers! But very nice handiwork and patience, like Calvin Tan on his leaves!
You call hobby....they call us sissy....look at their hobby! Machine a real super powered 1:10 scale steam powered train! That is what I call a good hobby....a million dollars of equipment anyone?
Nativity Scene. Real animals, but fake humans in the scene.
Eggs used as art craft!
Traditional Wood Carvings of Germany
Ginger Bread and smoked meat, bought some ginger bread for my kids.
Hungry and cold....but happy.Norman Lim on 6:15 AM
Visit to Porsche
Me at the gate to spy on the production of the Cayman....jut came back from Leipzig where the main plant was. This is Stuttgart, home of Ferdinand Porsche and Ferdinand Piech, the chairman of VW and Porsche, the grandson of the founder of both brand, of which I worked for for some time.
Delivery gates
Me with the GT
The one who dominate the Le Mans series for some time.
My son's favourite car of choice for rallying in X Box, the Porsche 959 Gruppe B crazy series in WRC. This car also won the Paris to Dakar rally at one time. The most advanced 4X4 Porsche at one time! Millions a piece!
Norman Lim on 5:47 AM
Lorraine and Champagne
I moved on to Loraine. This is a very nice Northern France province, rich in agriculture.
Here you see me with the early Barley. The fields stretches for square miles!
The map on top of the hill where a big statue stood, it belongs to the church here.
Me, at the back of the church on a windy 6 deg C day, hazed down with cool smock, thanks to pollution and still air.
View from the hill, really liked the air here, the valley a little smog, but up here, its really good bros.
At the valley where the grains traditionally were stored in fortified barns where the feudal lords keep for their armies.
Me at the entrance of the church, which is normally a refugee centre in Medieval times during war times.
An Arty Farty shot.....not bad eh? See car breaking the law? Get the composition...story....what I was getting at???....oh, never mind.....art is the good marketing for a bad mistake anyway.
The town where they sell produce from the caves....mainly, wine and cheese!
Wind shield and areal map for this look out.
The statue, don't know what he is point about?
Norman Lim on 4:35 AM
Trip To Champagne
The trip to Champagne was the most memorable, as its my second trip in 2 years. This time, we went to all the smaller routes without taking the A4 from Paris.
We went through potato fields where winter harvest was going on and visited several vineyards. Tatlinger, Moet Chandon and the most memorable is Castellane. This Champagne mixing plant has 16km dug out below them on tunnels and had sparkling wine dated back to 1642! They said they opened one for Napoleon, one for Charles De Gaul and recently to Mitterand...that is it, still got about 400 bottles to go, about 18,000 Euros a shot!
Here is one of the best moments, sampling a freshly pulled glass in the ambient temperatures of the tunnel itself, about 14 deg C! Nice, the tour guide also drink, he does a few tours a day! In a few years, he will patronise the Indian body parts market for a good stolen liver! At the rate he is going! Suicide!
See, here is one of those crazy bottles they use to christen their nuclear subs! Enough to drink 20 bulls under the table!
Castellane do not export their Champagne, 100% domestic sales only, that is 1.4 million bottles a year and 70% consumed in Paris. This is with the exception of it being used in Formula One races.
At the country side where they planted the vine yards. You can see them in rows in the background. This is the valley area, about 8 degrees C, not too cold, but you can see, I have a T shirt one, one pull over and one, spanking new rip off vest by Camel Active Wear that I was forced to buy in Rue De Rivoli in Paris due to sudden down turn of temperatures!
I like country side small towns like this one, they are not Frenchy like the fake Africans in Vous Vous Votre Paris! Shit crap! These are the real French people, loving, hospitable and very happy to see foreigners like me, they never saw any since they aren't in the tourist belt. Here I was just about to go to their local Bonbons to buy some nice deli and sweets over some coffee, albeit at under 50% the price you pay in Paris.
This is a Chinese Restaurant that served French Food! Its called the little chinese! What a surprise! A lot of truckers eat here. Just round the corner from Castellane on your way to the local Carrefour to stock up my groceries. In EU, you better have a good stove and cook or else, you pay top dollars for food that will make you sick! Home sick that is for this CINA BIANG!
Sweet country side with launch place for water sports like canoes and kayaks! Good place to live, nice and quite, can make a lot of models. Get the summer shrubs here in Autum for free, no need to buy Preiser!
Some see this as ARTY FARTY shot, I see it as a good supply of twigs to make Dioramas! Beauty in the beholder!
Another Arty Farty shot of the country side. I got off the car, walked through cold wet sod to get this shot, pity, its a little hazy for a good view. Photo did not do justice to the real thing, was really breathtaking. No Canon EOS can capture your 2 million MB eyeballs can, only lens and CMOS system made by God!
Waited for some time to get this shot. Ran to the middle and took this shot before kena nearly honked down by a trailer truck who wasn't happy. That chap must be from Paris, people down here are nice. I tried very hard to take a shot, yet a few cars stopped and asked if I wanted them to help me take a picture of me! Actually, I wanted them to leave me alone to have this shot taken! Imagine, the 504 thundered through here, must be very terrifying then! Some of the houses still had bullet holes in them!Norman Lim on 4:02 AM
Mercedes Technology Centre Lecture
Recently, was invited to Mercedes Technology Centre to give a lecture on new car body armour systems. This involves liquid ceramics, resin-less UD material through mechanical process treatment of fibres, NanoRepel flame retarding properties. Security is top secret, cannot even bring in hand phone! Only Photo can take is outside the building! Alamak....inside can see Pope wagon etc. We are working on new lightweight B6 and B7 armour systems.
Outside Mercedes Technology Centre in down town Sindelfingen, near Stuttgart.
This place outside my hotel in Winterbach serves very good original Blackforest cakes. 1 pc 2 Euros but 1 pound worth, not like our 7 Euros Hotel cakes, enough to stuff my front teeth gaps.Drove from Paris, in Snow! on an Opel Meriva on Summer Tires! Looked like my old rally skills came in handy. Went with Hon Swee Sen's (late Minister) family member.
The New Mercedes Museum, opposite the old one, not far from Porsche Strasse where I went next and got a big cut on my eye brow! But got some free gifts in the end. Talk about blood gift! The red on those calipers were blood, nor paint! My blood that is!
Super Cruising high speed Mercedes One off!
Norman Lim on 3:45 AM