This morning, I found myself still awake at around 7 o’clock. I was so bored that I decided to tweak the Fish a bit.

I run a pair of stock Randal R-II 125mm trucks which was pretty stable but I wanted to put more “life” to it; I wanted it to carve even easier. So with my skate tool in hand, I removed the trucks and started to disassemble it. I was reading a thread on Silverfish and I found out that the stock yellow Randal bushings had a durometer of 92a. Since I wanted it to carve better, I decided to open up my Khiro Big Bad Bushing Kit; I put the white barrel bushing on top (extra soft, 73a) and the orange barrel bushing (mild soft, 79a) on the opposite side – I feel it’s okay for me to use the softer ones because I only weigh around 98 lbs. After installing the bushings, I also flipped the cup washers of both top bushings. 

before: top/bottom bushings -> Randal yellow

I haven’t tested it out on the street yet, but the board definitely feels better. I don’t know how to describe it but it “turns better” without having any wheel bite.

With the stock bushings, every time I shifted my weight, the wheels on the opposite side would “rise” but with the Khiros, they stayed on the ground. I think this is safer as it would reduce the chance of me falling of my board.

I might try out other bushing combinations in the future, but for now the white-top/orange-bottom feels okay for me; my brother stepped on the board a while ago and said, “Wow! Ang lambot, parang walang bushings.” (“Wow! It’s so soft, it feels like it doesn’t have any bushings.”)

after: top bushing -> Khiro white

after: bottom bushing -> Khiro orange

I haven’t posted anything here in ages so I decided, the other night, to sort of transform this into “Gabby’s Longboard Adventure Blog” or something like that.

I’m fairly new to longboarding and I just want to have something to “record” my progress in. Hopefully, a few months or years from now, I will be able to look at this blog and see how far I’ve gone; keyword: “hopefully” hahaha!

Anyway, I shall be re-posting previously published entries from my other blog.

Gub-bye! =D

Since Kate, my brother’s girlfriend, came from the U.S., she got me a zip-up hoodie as her pasalubong (it’s a Filipino term which can be loosely translated to “gift”). My first reaction was, “Wow! Mukhang emo!” (Wow! It looks emo!); but it’s nice and comfy. 

New Hoodie

Anyway, let me back track to the events of this afternoon. First off, we had lunch at Green Valley over at Annapolis, Greenhills. The food we had was awesome! I didn’t memorize what we had but I can say that their fried pigeon was superb… actually, everything we had was really good.

So after that, we went straight to Shakey’s E. Rodriguez for my niece Carol’s first birthday; my nephew Liam dominated the party games – he just won nine out of ten games. I spent about fifteen minutes playing in the FunZone, the mini arcade inside the restaurant.

When we got home, I realized that I had to go to Gilmore to buy a new keyboard since I thrashed the last one I bought and I had to return my brother’s. So I got myself a Logitech Classic Keyboard Plus and here’s the feature I like the most… *drum roll please!* it’s spill-resistant! And I got it for  less than three hundred bucks.

Moving on to other current events, classes resume tomorrow. I have five subjects with PE 132 (Taichi) being the first one at 7:00 am. I guess I better rest early tonight. I shall start cramming now! *lol*

This is somewhat a continuation of my previous entry about the smoky new year. So as far as I can remember, this is the first new year when it was drizzling, at least where I lived. So anyway, the smoke was so bad that we didn’t stay that long outside; in the previous post, you could barely see our faces, but the smoke was very apparent.

Anyway, moving on to the current events in my life, I spent the whole afternoon over at Eastwood. A lot of things happened. Had semi-late lunch with Janine at Teki Boy. Yum! Check out the pictures!:

Tendon & Gyu-Yakiniku Don

 (I miss Teriyaki Boy’s Gyu-Saikoro Don. I wonder what happened to it. It’s been out of the menu for months now. *sigh*)

Salmon Sashimi

(Salmon sashimi is just plain love. Need I say more?)

California Maki

(Janine ordered this; I still prefer Temaki’s.)

Anyway, another highlight was that I got a perfect score while singing Spandau Ballet.

Spandau Ballet - Gold

So, more stories tomorrow. I seriously need to readjust my body clock now. Only one more day before classes resume! *gasp*

Gabby + Kuya + Ninang, New Year's Day celeb @ 22

That’s how thick the smoke was.

Anyway, I’ll blog about that tomorrow.

So before I get sleepy, I would like to say that I want to revamp and resuscitate this blog. Since it’s the start of the new year, I shall start working on this blog again in the coming days – I barely have time since the Christmas vacation is about to end. 

Anyway, wish me luck.

Happy holidays!

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