Games...

Before I have all these…

Giant board games…

Great card games…

Grand electronics games…

I had to make do with just paper, pencil, eraser, glue, scissors, ruler and my imagination…

Thus I came up with my own games. Using papers drawn with squares and some sort of snakes and ladders style, I created different board games with different challenges.

I even cut my erasers as square as possible for the dice.

The counter can be anything but usually I will draw some sort of characters onto pieces of cards to be used as counters. Usually I will use the cereal box.

I also made some sort of games to mimic the electronic games (which was very expensive at that time) by using a piece of hard paper. Then lines were drawn on it. There were games where I had drawn monsters, traps or hazards to avoid.

Both side of the paper were folded into fan.

This made the paper springy. Then using a small eraser piece as the counter, you just need to tap the springy side of the paper to move it around.

Just tap tap tap to guide the eraser piece around… After a while though, the paper would be worn out and a new piece had to be made…

Glorious time for the creative and imaginative brain of mine…

Family...

I love my family from my Grandfather to the youngest cousin. I bear no hatred and I am sure, no sane soul does either.

There are times you are not pleased with your family member. It is irk actually. It is not hatred.

Probably because we are too close to each other, small itsy bitsy matter will lead to war with each other.

Probably because we are too comfortable with each other, words splash so easily on each other without much thought of the effect on the feelings.

Probably because we do not really communicate well enough with each other, we do lots of assumption instead without actually trying to communicate to understand better.

Probably because we stay too long with each other, we remember past more that we forget the past had been left behind and now, the present is a new different matter.

Probably it is easier to consult with other friends and stranger that we forget that there are boundaries on what you should say and should not say to people outside of your family.

Probably sometimes we forget that, your family, is also human being with feelings and should be understand as an individual with different and unique needs and behavior.

No matter how weird my family members are, I still love them. It is just that I don’t have all the money in the world to show how much I love all of them because I have to buy load of gundams, comics, manga, nintendo ds, ds games and kamen rider figures.

Together we will be able to face the whole world…

I rewrite this entry because after reading it again and again, it just does not feel nice. I actually find it hard to filter my own feeling out and write its true meaning. Just some thoughts to be shared with all of you about family and probably these thoughts will make us a better family member…

Escape...

There were times when I was chained up.

I was experiencing difficulties that I felt as if I was chained to the problem itself.

Life sometimes would make it exhilarating by loosen up the chain and let me escape. Then I would embrace the so call freedom.

I looked back and realized I was still chained. Excitement all drained and freedom tasted stale.

I wanted to escape. I wanted to exit the world of hardship and pain. I wanted to enter the world of easiness and enjoyment.

I felt empty then.

Expecting all that, I had kept myself chained.

I could not escape.

I came up with excuses upon excuses on why I was still chained.

Even enduring those long period of exhausting trial did not open my eyes just yet. Exalting my own woes, I was eluded from my escape for long and maybe forever.

Only then I found enlightenment. I was my only enemy to be defeated to escape. By executing ways to defeat myself, I was enabled to face my other challenges.

I was entirely in control.

I felt so eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious to finally emprise changes that allowed me to escape…

I felt as an empowered emperor ready to exterminate everything in my path.

That was then.

The old chain is gone, epulation is over and I am now facing another enemy…

I am now chained to another problem.

Here we go again…

Exciting photos courtesy of my Neon Genesis Evangelion

Unit 00 and Unit 01

with their enemies, the angel

Sachiel and Shamshel.

Deathscythe...

I had finished this Gundam for a while now but never get to put him on my blog. So here he is, Gundam Deathscythe Hell Custom.

He is one of the five main Gundams in Gundam Wing Endless Waltz OVA. This model had been around for quite a while, but I manage to get hold of him just last year. Better late than never!

One of the main things I like about Deathscythe Hell Custom is his grim reaper motif. Designed by Katoki Hajime, Deathscythe Hell Custom looks creepier and grimmer compare to his television series design.

One thing about Katoki Hajime design is his Gundams are usually shorter than the other Gundams. As you can see, Gundam Astray Red Frame and Gundam RX-78-2 are slightly taller than Deathscythe Hell Custom.

The hand, although movable, cannot really hold the scythe well. I had some difficulty trying to get him hold his scythe in different positions.

Not much details on his body, but painting his face is quite a challenge because there were lots of details on his face.

The three red stripes on his cheek really test my skill with the brush. Should have painted the eyes with metallic green so that it can appear as if the eyes are glowing… Maybe I will do that.

Overall mobility of this model is not really that spectacular. His knee cannot really bend much and thus his poses are also quite limited.

All in all, the model is quite plain. The wings especially could probably look better with some details…The wings can be folded to cover his body.

I will probably get the Master Grade Gundam Deathscythe Hell Custom and compare how technology can make a difference.

Camera...

Photos capture moments in your life. You may remember those moments but with photos they can be clearer.

Photos can also be windows for others to see what you saw. Like in my case, when I was studying at this one place, my mother asked me to take lots of photos. Then when I came home, I will tell them what I saw in my surrounding, where I stay, how I go around, people I had met and so on. Those photos made my storytelling easier and it is easier for the listener to relate and figure out.

This is my first camera

and at that time when I bought it, digital camera was very very new and very very expensive.

Photo taking using films is very precious because it is expensive to develop the photos later.

There was this one time when my father agreed to let me use his camera. I went trigger happy with the camera, taking photos of nearly everything I saw and trying lots of stuff with the camera.

He was really mad after we developed the films because I took quite lots of photos which to him were a waste.

Still, knowing that films photo taking is expensive, I cautiously took photos for them to see. I envy those who had digital camera at that time…

Then, my mother was able to get me a digital camera.

I was really excited because I was able to go trigger happy on photo taking. I could take photos of clouds in the sky, leaves falling, rubbish bins, cars, weird graffiti, strange people, every inch of a building, my room, stuff I bought etc… In another word, I can just take photo of everything in this world!

The next best thing is, you don’t have to be afraid to make mistakes. If the first photo is not good, snap another picture. Snap a hundred if you want and get the best. You are given the freedom to explore different approaches and styles in photo taking.

I am still using this digital camera of mine until now. Most of the photos you see here in my blog are compliment to my digital camera.

One or two years after digital camera is easily obtained by lots of people in my country, it was common to hear this joke:

“Wow, you are taking quite lots of pictures… Aren’t you worried that you will run out of films?”

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

If you do that now…

“Dude, seriously, are you really from this century?”

Brainless...

I had interesting experience few nights ago. I let my cute cousin practice her driving skills while I was running my errands. Our first stop was the bank, because I needed to withdraw money.

So we drove there in the “I-just-got-my-driving-license” style. When we reached the bank, there was this one empty parking spot. Right next to it was a car parked as if “I-do-not-know-how-to-park-my-car-because-I-do-not-actually-have-a-driving-license” style.

Anyway, because there were quite a space so I asked my cousin to drive in as far too the right as possible. Apparently, it was still quite close to the car but I could still get out of the car.

When I opened the door, it bumped slightly on the car body. So when I walked past the driver, he looked quite mad, glaring at me like a dragon which had just lost his entire treasure hoard. I signaled with my hand that his car was poorly parked and went into the bank.

As expected, the sore driver lowered his window and looked so eager to have a pleasant chat with me.

Thus when I walked back to the car, the fuming, glaring driver started his remarkable chatting:

Brainless: Why did you bump my car with the door?

Me: Well duh, you didn’t park your car properly and I don’t have enough space for me to open the door…

Brainless: Can’t you open the door carefully?

Me: I did try my best… But you should park your car properly…

Brainless: Poorly parked? The car on the other side didn’t have a problem.

Me: Duh… (Of course the other car had more space than mine; obviously… Refer to the above picture…)

Brainless: Now my car is dented, so you think you can pay for it?

Me: Hey man, look carefully, there was not even a scratch! It was just a bump!

Brainless: This is Vios! Do you know how much a Vios cost? You don’t know how to take care a car is it?

Me: Errrrr… No damage done? Unfortunately, your brain is not up to Vios level…

Brainless: Why can’t you just park there instead? (Where the white car is parked in the picture)

Me: But we have a parking space here…I mean, parking spaces are for cars to park right?

Brainless: Then,why didn’t you let the girl (my cousin and also the driver that night) get the money instead?

Me: Uh… My account? My money?

Brainless: You dare to talk back! You have never got into trouble is it?

Me: Errrr…

Brainless: This is the problem with our race, why can’t you just say sorry?

Me: Well, you shouldn’t park this way in the first place… You should say sorry too… But, I’m sorry for arguing with a dumb guy like you…

Brainless: See, so much easier isn’t it? Why can’t you just do that?

Me: Like I said, why can’t you park your car properly?

Brainless: You really have no manner! Why can’t you just say sorry?

Me: Fine… If that is what you want.

SOOOOWWWWRREEEEEE! SOOOOWWWWWRREEEEE!

More or less the content of our charming chat together.

He was not really pleased and happy with my apologies.

Anyway, I need to do my errands quickly and my mother did remind me not to argue with a brainless idiotic stupid moronic dumb guy like him else I will be at his level as well…

Apparently from the way he talked, he was and I am sorry to say, very very very stupid.

APRIL...

It is APRIL again!

Do you know that April used to be the second month, earlier in the Roman calendar but pushed to be the fourth month when January is used as the first month. People in the world are still not sure where the name April derived from. It may derive from the word aperire which is “to open” in Latin, being the season when trees and flowers begin to “open” is in this month. It is also possible that April is named in honor of the Roman goddess, Venus.

Aprilis was suggested to be originally her month Aphrilis, taken from her Greek name Aphrodite (Aphros) or from Etruscan name Apru.

The fourth month in the year in the Gregorian calendar is the month I was born in and shared with few other favorite characters of mine.

Kamen Rider debuted on the 3rd 1971.

We will be watching Kamen Riders 40th Anniversary Film on the 1st of April this year.

Super Sentai appeared for the first time on 5th 1975.

Their film will be out this year to commemorate 35th Anniversary.

Gundam series started on the 7th 1979.

Here is a link to this webpage I stumbled when I did research on the month of April. It is a list of celebration in the month of April. I love to read and do craft. Thus I am proud to say that:

National Card & letter Writing Month

National Decorating Month

National Poetry Month

National Library Day is on the 12th

DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) Day is on the 12th

Poem in Your Pocket Day is on the 28th

You can read the rest of celebrations they have in April in the link I had provided here.

It is interesting to know that McDonald’s Day is on the 15th.

I just had a very good experience with McDonald recently which I will blog soon.

My first entry of the month… Happy April!

Facts on April gathered from Wikipedia…

McDonald outlet photo taken from here.

Pictures taken from websites after googling their names...

There this one cute girl that I know of and her birthday is on the 10th.