xirallic* , a registered pigment effect from Merck.. create exellecent glitter and sparkles in your car paint - http://www.merck-chemicals.com/merck4pigments
what is it?
well first..let me tell you a history of car colors...
once upon a time.. o..wait.. i'm not telling a story to my daughter... hehe..
it was begin in 1920's, when henry ford created the first line up mass production for cars.. (before, they use horse/cow/anything- carriage) .. you can have any colors you like, as long as it black...
yes... during that time, all cars were black! -so you see, not because the old movie was black and white, but actually the car was black!-
then.. they start to create white!! I heard that white first came from Japan! Yeah.. Japan.. in a world exhibition.. *go Asia!*
after that.. you will have colorful paint.. like red, blue, green, yellow.. but with no effect a.k.a. solid colors..
then.. carmakers begin to add some effects.. first, they add metallic particles.. it is an aluminium flake and you can mix them with other colors such as silver and blue.. there are some particle sizes, from fine to coarse..
in metallic particles, you can only see white/silver reflection from its particles (silver sparkle)...
after silver.. then pearls.. with pearl particles, you can see color reflection.. like red pearls, you'll see a sparkle red... blue pearls - some sparkle blue and a little bit yellow.. white pearls - like your mom's pearl necklace, you can see rainbows reflection from it.. green pearls, gold pearl, bronze pearls.. and lots of it!
but.. the sparkle wasn't enough.. they want to have bigger sparkle and brighter!! so.. this is where xirallic came up.. to fill in the blank... almost have the same effect like pearls, but when you see them under direct sunshine.. you can tell the difference! pearls has softer sparkle compare with xirallic..
to car users, the cost of new cars with pearl or xirallic paint might be the same.. (maybe because they were mass production!).. but for paint-repair.. xirallic has higher cost than pearl.. (new technology always come with higher price, right...) especially if you car does not have an insurance.. but this does not matter if you have car insurance.. you will only pay 'own risk' to bodyrepair, which is 100rb for car insurance before nov 2007 (if i am not mistaken) and 200rb for car insurance after nov 2007..
Saturday, July 5, 2008
3 coat Pearls and Xirallic!!
as part of my job, i have to know the new trend of car-paint from manufacturers.. since our beautiful country is dominated by Japanesse carmaker, so our carpaint's trend look up to Japanesse' trends which is very very hi-tech compared with western carmakers..
Like the 3-coat effect pearls.. you'll find it often in all new white cars.. in the past, white is only solid colors, means you can not have any effect on white.. just plain white.. simple white.. why? because white pigment has very good hiding power and if you mixed them with particles that gives effect like metallics or pearls.. white pigment will cover them.. so you can not see the bling-bling..
so.. to make you can see the bling-bling or sparkle particles.. the carmakers do it in 3-coat ways : 1st coat : solid layer -> usually simple white solid
2nd coat : pearl layer, sometimes if the carmakers want a bigger sparkle, they will use xirallics!
3rd coat : clear layer (varnish)
Becareful, not all bodyrepair can re-paint this kind of car.. so you gotta choose the right bodyrepair.. better the authorized bodyrepair (or ATPM we called in here).. or you can go to an expertise in modification, because this 3-coat system already been used a lot in car-modification world..
Like the 3-coat effect pearls.. you'll find it often in all new white cars.. in the past, white is only solid colors, means you can not have any effect on white.. just plain white.. simple white.. why? because white pigment has very good hiding power and if you mixed them with particles that gives effect like metallics or pearls.. white pigment will cover them.. so you can not see the bling-bling..
so.. to make you can see the bling-bling or sparkle particles.. the carmakers do it in 3-coat ways : 1st coat : solid layer -> usually simple white solid
2nd coat : pearl layer, sometimes if the carmakers want a bigger sparkle, they will use xirallics!
3rd coat : clear layer (varnish)
Becareful, not all bodyrepair can re-paint this kind of car.. so you gotta choose the right bodyrepair.. better the authorized bodyrepair (or ATPM we called in here).. or you can go to an expertise in modification, because this 3-coat system already been used a lot in car-modification world..
How much did you spent today?
today, i went to "arisan" with my basketball friends from Trisakti University.. I spent like 100rb for the arisan, and payed another 100rb to back-up my sister's part.. then, I spent more than 200rb for the lunch (chicken noodle & strawberry juice for aisha, bbq chicken & water for me, fish & chips & greensands for my husband).. the arisan & lunch was took place at Urban Kitchen, 5th floor @ Pacific Place, a nice =somekind of= food court where they gave you a card (you can not loose it or you have to pay 300rb!), then the foodstand will swipe the card when you ordered your foods, then they have a bar where you can order your drinks.. you can go out from urban kitchen for a while to take some money from ATM (to pay for arisan, for example, 'coz I forgot to get some cash before the arisan), but there has to be someone stay inside the urban kitchen -to make sure that you will pay your bills-.. the place was great, pacific place has a nice restaurants section in 4th and 5th floor.. 4th floor is where the boat is (I heard someone said that to the lift-guy..), and 5th floor is where you still can see the small fountains below but becareful with your little one..
From arisan at pacific place, we moved to Plaza Senayan to met my brother in law with his gf.. we planned to play bowling there.. but when we got there, he has not arrive yet.. so I was craving with ice cream then we went to Hagendaz, we ordered chocolate brownies (8 pcs of small brownies) with chocolate fudge and chocolate ice cream & choc choc chip ice cream.. we waited the ice cream for about 15 minutes.. and we finished the ice cream for not more than 10 minutes.. (blamed my husband, he always took a big chunk of the ice cream!).. it wasn't enough for me, so I ordered one scoop of belgian chocolate to go... 95rb (62rb for the brownies ice cream, and 28rb for one scoop.. plus tax...)
Then we went to bowling place, and book a 50 minutes game that cost 198rb.. 5 of us played like 1 hour (aisha also played too..)
It was like 7-ish when we finished.. dinner time!! Aisha wanted noodles again.. so GM was my choice.. although when we walked to GM, I met my friend and told me that GM was very full and he told me to go to foodcourt.. but foodcourt also full and hot too..
So we want to take a look first at GM.. and hey... it was not that full.. we only waited for 5 minutes to get seated.. then we ordered noodles.. by the way, dont forget to bring cash to GM... they only accept cash, and if you have debit card, you have to order more than 200rb.. There I was.. calculated how much money I had in my wallet.. the waiter took our order and repeat it, then he told me.. 126rb.. hehe.. I had 50rb, my husband 50rb, and then my brother in law with his gf add 30rb..
Not finishing her food, Aisha got a little bit jumpy.. She never wants stay still when taking her meals.. I guess that's because I never make her use to it in the house.. So I took her to go to get some groceries in hero (just across the GM) and she also remind me to buy her milk.. "susunya aisha udah abis ya bu..."
I bought some apples for my breakfast juice (promo price), then some eggs to make some brownies, then chocolate cooking, and flour, and strainer like the one I saw in my cooking book, spatulas, egg beater, candies, ponds clean & shake, sand toys, birthday hats, coca cola zero, nyam-nyam, then... sustagen chocolate and vanilla.. (this is why shopping list is very important!!!!).. I spent more than 500rb for the groceries, payed by credit card which still has overdue credit from previous months.. hmm....
Really.. I know that we need to organize our spending, but.. I dont know... it was kind of hard to be rupiahwise..
The only answer to my problem is : Discipline..
My dilemmas :
1. not every weekend we went out like this..... me+my husband+my daughter.. so I want to get loose a little bit (get loose to spend 1 mil rupiah in a day??!)... yeah.. I admit not a little bit...
2. cashflows distraction -> hopefully I can manage to reduce some spending for the next 3 weeks...
One more thing.. do not get tempted by the discounts and sale during Jakarta's anniversary... It's in June & July!! Where you have to save your money for your child's education.. no bonuses given in June or July (in my company), not even THR yet...
Well... the bottom line is.. it doesn't matter how much money you made if you dont have smart spending fund.. they gone like the wind!! fast and almost no trace at all (except when you received your credit card bills....)
From arisan at pacific place, we moved to Plaza Senayan to met my brother in law with his gf.. we planned to play bowling there.. but when we got there, he has not arrive yet.. so I was craving with ice cream then we went to Hagendaz, we ordered chocolate brownies (8 pcs of small brownies) with chocolate fudge and chocolate ice cream & choc choc chip ice cream.. we waited the ice cream for about 15 minutes.. and we finished the ice cream for not more than 10 minutes.. (blamed my husband, he always took a big chunk of the ice cream!).. it wasn't enough for me, so I ordered one scoop of belgian chocolate to go... 95rb (62rb for the brownies ice cream, and 28rb for one scoop.. plus tax...)
Then we went to bowling place, and book a 50 minutes game that cost 198rb.. 5 of us played like 1 hour (aisha also played too..)
It was like 7-ish when we finished.. dinner time!! Aisha wanted noodles again.. so GM was my choice.. although when we walked to GM, I met my friend and told me that GM was very full and he told me to go to foodcourt.. but foodcourt also full and hot too..
So we want to take a look first at GM.. and hey... it was not that full.. we only waited for 5 minutes to get seated.. then we ordered noodles.. by the way, dont forget to bring cash to GM... they only accept cash, and if you have debit card, you have to order more than 200rb.. There I was.. calculated how much money I had in my wallet.. the waiter took our order and repeat it, then he told me.. 126rb.. hehe.. I had 50rb, my husband 50rb, and then my brother in law with his gf add 30rb..
Not finishing her food, Aisha got a little bit jumpy.. She never wants stay still when taking her meals.. I guess that's because I never make her use to it in the house.. So I took her to go to get some groceries in hero (just across the GM) and she also remind me to buy her milk.. "susunya aisha udah abis ya bu..."
I bought some apples for my breakfast juice (promo price), then some eggs to make some brownies, then chocolate cooking, and flour, and strainer like the one I saw in my cooking book, spatulas, egg beater, candies, ponds clean & shake, sand toys, birthday hats, coca cola zero, nyam-nyam, then... sustagen chocolate and vanilla.. (this is why shopping list is very important!!!!).. I spent more than 500rb for the groceries, payed by credit card which still has overdue credit from previous months.. hmm....
Really.. I know that we need to organize our spending, but.. I dont know... it was kind of hard to be rupiahwise..
The only answer to my problem is : Discipline..
My dilemmas :
1. not every weekend we went out like this..... me+my husband+my daughter.. so I want to get loose a little bit (get loose to spend 1 mil rupiah in a day??!)... yeah.. I admit not a little bit...
2. cashflows distraction -> hopefully I can manage to reduce some spending for the next 3 weeks...
One more thing.. do not get tempted by the discounts and sale during Jakarta's anniversary... It's in June & July!! Where you have to save your money for your child's education.. no bonuses given in June or July (in my company), not even THR yet...
Well... the bottom line is.. it doesn't matter how much money you made if you dont have smart spending fund.. they gone like the wind!! fast and almost no trace at all (except when you received your credit card bills....)
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