New socks…

You know it is time to ditch your current socks and get a new pair when it is not doing this anymore…

Sticking to your ankle.

I somewhat do not like to have my socks slipping down my ankle all the time. I really need to get new socks because it keeps on slipping down my ankle every few minutes. That mean I had been wasting few minutes of my precious time while wearing the socks to pull it up. Say if I wear the socks for like 8 hours per day and it keep on slipping down like every minute, and it takes me like 5 seconds to pull it up…

8 hours is 480 minutes. That mean I pulled up my socks for 5 seconds x 480 times which is 2400 seconds. Thus I wasted 40 minutes during my whole 8 hours working in the office just pulling up my socks. Don’t you just love math…

Anyway, to avoid wasting that precious minutes so that I can surf the net, write for my blogs, laugh at people blogs, search for Gundams or look for stuff to buy at Amazon be an efficient worker, I need to buy myself new socks. So there you go.

I don’t like to have my socks sliding down my ankle and rest underneath my feet sandwich between my shoes and my feet. The most uncomfortable feeling for my feet…

I BOUGHT LOTS AND LOTS OF GUNDAMS!

When my cute petit sister came back for semester break, I asked her to buy me these three Gundams, 00 Gundam Seven Swords (which if you count properly, is actually eight swords), Gundam Throne Zwei and Gundam Throne Drei (I had wanted the Thrones badly for so long…).

I started to buy the HG plamo because of XN Raiser unit i had received from my friend in Japan. Thanks Reikochan! The XN Raiser was given together with the magazine as customizable parts. Anyway I was curious with how good HG is nowadays…

Near Christmas, the magazine gave out this Mobile Suit Hangar as prop for the Gundams. I am tempted to get myself an RG RX-78-2 now…

Then this huge one day sale came… And I bought these… 3x 0 Raisers, Gadessa, 0 Gundam, Astraea Gundam and Gundam Exia Avalanche Dash. I just looooove 0 Gundam!

Just last week, there was another sale! WHOAH! Some of the Gundams were sold for 50% off! That is why I have this new pile of mobile suits… Gundam 00 QanT and 3x Tierens Ground type. Thus my Exia linage is now complete and I have Tierens for the Gundams to bash up now!

All the Gundams that I had not build yet… A lots of them…

I have not even touched my MGs yet…

My Astrays are sitting on the board games. Do not worry, all completed years ago. Yes, I like Monopoly… My PG Astray still waiting there patiently…

So, I have a mountain of Gundams waiting to be built… I had completed like only 10% out of the whole thing…

Balls Juggling...

One of my goals in life is to master juggling. I had started to train when one of my Pilipino friend taught me to juggle. I did try before that but doing it just from reading books was not really a good idea. I still need a teacher.

Don’t ask me why I like juggling. It is just like asking why the sky is blue. I am not really sure why… but I just like to see those balls bouncing from the juggler’s hands without falling. Maybe I grew up in the time where circus was still rampant and I read a lot of books on circus.

So now I am still trying to be a better juggler. Hopefully I can juggle three balls for one hour straight soon… Well, I still need to work on juggling those balls for at least a minute for now…

My Office...

Lately my boss is getting to hype up with people getting into the office on time. Maybe he wants to get his money worth… Also maybe it is because he just gave us a raise, he regret that action and this is a way to get that money back…

Anyway, he is so obsess with it that our punch-in system is going to evolve with few rules and regulations. Before, we just have to punch our card into the errrrr… punch machine.

After that we have this security system, where every worker has to have a card each for them to enter the premise and punch our card into the punch machine.

Whoever comes in late will get a red punch card. Which mean certain amount of your salary will be deducted. He does not want us to do banking, sending mails or other stuff during working hours. Understandable… but even if there are no other stuff to do in the office. With that he provided an answer: Get half day leave if you need to do all that stuff. Just another way to finish up your precious leaves and if you have none, another saving for the company! Nice one boss!

Seeing that we can still get away with the punch card system by asking a good colleague

To punch-in instead (a good colleague who come early that is), he then devises another plan. Get a watch dog! He gets another worker to take up part time job as a guard, guarding so that a person can only punch-in once and not more than that.

It is good to come in on time. It is your responsibility as a worker. It is also not every day we come in late. There are these everyday things that you cannot control. Like the traffic, weather and other unplanned, random events (such as the need to go to toilet, driving people to other destination, fill up the car petrol, etc). So at times, it is nice if he can be a bit understanding and tolerate. After all we are not very late, just few minutes late (by few minutes, it range between 5 to 10 minutes). And to make thing worse, we do not really have lots of stuff to do.

So I heard, he will have fingerprint scanner installed in the future. How soon it will be implemented, hard to say. But he is very keen to have that. Then he will not only foil the-ask-your-buddy-to-punch-for-you-in-the-morning technique but also will be able to catch those who came in late after morning break and lunch break. With that, he will also be able to monitor each and every person movement in the office. Sneaky…

In the future, I will not be surprise if he even gets us implanted with chip so that he can track us using GPS. Or to make it better, he get a helicopter for the company and get a guy to hover around the city where I live. Then, if we come in late because of the traffic jam, he will be able to show the photos of every route taken until 8am and confirm that we are stuck in the jam or lying.

It is time to look for another company then.

This is really fun!

New Year Resolutions!

Happy Gregorian calendar New Year to all of you!

Last month was the New Year for Muslim calendar. Next month will be the Chinese calendar New Year.

So happy happy happy new year to all!

A friend of mine asked what will my New Year resolution be?

Honestly speaking, I do not have any New Year resolutions. But I do have goals to achieve within a time frame.

After all some of my goals changes with where I work and where I am at the moment.

I do have some long term goals. Some of my goals will not be affected greatly by my location, my work or even my marital status.

One of my goals is to finish building my PG Astray Red Frame…

Fingers Splitting Fun...

Owh yes, I did not tell you that I had my first experience with Gundam modification…

Owhkay… I did not exactly do the modification on a Gundam. And the mobile suit is not even mine, it is my brother’s.

Anyway, what happened was, the material for clear part, which in this case, the Garazzo’s hand with finger beam, does not tolerate thinner well.

This might be because he tried to separate the beam on each fingers apart. Then he paint the beam yellow for the clear part is orange in colour. But the yellow look horrible on the orange clear part. And when he tried to get the colour off by using thinner, the material turned soft.

This was probably because the part where he sliced did not have any protective coating to endure thinner corrosiveness. The hand then looks horrible as if my kitten had bitten it.

So we left the hand to dry and harden a bit. As it gets harder, I cut off the fingers from the hand.

Separated, the fingers were easier for me to file and make them look smoother. The fingers look better after filing.

I also took the liberty to sharpen the end of the beam.


After that, I just glued them back to the hand, each finger slightly apart.


I am so sorry that I lose the photos of the work in progress...

Trying to LOL...

Once in a while, my colleague crack jokes in the office. This is one of them:

DarkErebus,
Pls convert to PDF and revert back.

Thank you.

Koalemos / sales man

He sent me a document that needs to be converted to PDF. That could be understood well enough…

But, revert the document back? Back to the original form?
Huh?
Seriously?
What was the point you sent it to me then?

Now that is funny…