Musha...

I had bought Musha Gekitou (Heavyarm) in the year 1995 if I am not mistaken. He is actually one of the member in a team of three. His other team members, I did not get to buy due to financial constraint at that time. Every time I went to the toys shop, I kept promising myself to get his other two members to accompany him. That wish gets to realize only in the year 2009.

I was surprise to find an SD Gundam from the year 1990’s at this one hypermarket at where I stay at the moment. The best surprise was to be able to get my hand on Musha Full Armor Gundam

as well as Musha Gekitou. Unfortunately, their team leader, Musha Eifu Kyujuuichi was nowhere to be seen. Never mind that, but to have few more Musha Gekitou and his friend is like a dream to me.

You see, I bought this Kazaguruma Hyakushiki and Zakrello set

few years after I bought Musha Gekitou.Need to paint them so they will look like the drawings…

In the set, they gave new set of armors for both Musha Gekitou and Musha Full Armor. With that, they can be changed into another form called Raijin Gundam and Fuujin Gundam respectively.

To be able to see them in their different forms, I need three of each SD Gundam. So I bought another two Musha Gekitous and three Musha Full Armor. It was excited to be able to built Musha Gekitou, remembering how clumsy and green I was at that time. I was disappointed that Musha Full Armor's face is not as good looking as Musha Gekitou.

I painted them right after I cut them off from their runner. It is easier to paint them before you put them together. I will also do the panel lining after painting the parts. This time around, I did not use a file to file down the bits left after cutting them off the runner. I started to practice using the hobby knife to make a clean cut. Not a bad job I will say so myself…

Here is Musha Gekitou and his buddy, Musha Full Armor. Each has a bazooka. Musha Gekitou has two katanas and Musha Full Armor only has one katana only.

Here is the power up Musha Gekitou and Musha Full Armor. If you do not have one of them, you can still do the power up form albeit it is not a full form. You need to do parts swapping to achieve the full power up form.

Musha Gekitou takes Musha Full Armor’s bazooka along with its shoulder armor piece to turn into his power up form.

When I look at him in this form, it somehow reminds me of RX77 Guncannon…

Musha Full Armor power up form takes Musha Gekitou’s shoulder armor piece and armed himself with his arm scissors and blade. He also put on his shoe pieces and donned a mouth piece.

Musha Gekitou is named Raijin Gundam and Musha Full Armor is Fuujin Gundam in their third power up form.

They put on magical armor that imbued with the natural element of lightning (Raijin) and wind (Fuujin). They give up their bazooka to don this new armor.

Raijin has new horns for his helmet shaped like lightning and a new right shoulder piece which also hold his two katanas. He also has a spear with his old horns attached to it as a new weapon.

Fuujin has new horns too on his helmet and a shoulder piece for his right arm with wind motif. He still retains his shoes with its extra pieces which also help him to stand straight while holding his hand cannon.

Here are Musha Full Armor and Musha Gekitou in their respective forms.

Lunula...

There this one area at the root of your fingernail that is called Lunula or Lunulae for plural. It is Latin for little itsy bitsy moon. It does look like a half of little white moon on your finger.

What is so special about this tiny part of your fingernail you ask?

Sometime, when people passed out or fainted, when we try to revive him or waking him up, we poke needles or pins and may also pinch him hard to get him to wake up.

Yes, the pain is good to sort of shock him to wake up. Just that, by doing that, you are also may endanger his health. Using unsanitized metal i.e. the needle, will not only pierce and cut him, bleeding him and exposing him to various contaminant but you may also pass disease to him. The needle point may be rusty and dirty with god-knows-what-sort-of-microorganism sitting there. You might infect him with even serious health condition.

Pinching might also work, but you may leave mark on his delicate skin. If you pinch with your fingernails, you might even leaves a small cut on the skin, exposing him to various contaminant and passes god-knows-what-sort-of-microorganism from your fingernails. Again, you might infect him with even serious disease. That person, if he revives, might also bring you to court for inflicting him with wounds.

So here is where Lunula comes in. All you have to do is apply some force using your fingernail on the Lunulaa.

This will cause a great shocking pain but leaves no traces of damage inflicted on the person. You save him and you are not adding more health problem to him. The next best thing, you are also safe from any assault claim.

You can also use it to really hurt somebody without leaving a mark on his or her body…

Use it wisely…

Kraken...

When the world was younger and when ships were the main vessels to cross the ocean, the word Kraken strikes fear in the heart of anybody on ship. As you can see why…

Nobody is sure yet whether Kraken was an Octopus

or a Squid…

But it was humongous and gigantic enough to sink a ship. I guess, he was one of the Sink the Ships game greatest fan…

Kraken was enormously fearsome sea monster that a gentleman dedicated this beautiful poem just for the it:

Below the thunders of the upper deep;

Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,

His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep

The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee

About his shadowy sides: above him swell

Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;

And far away into the sickly light,

From many a wondrous grot and secret cell

Unnumbered and enormous polypi

Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.

There hath he lain for ages and will lie

Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep,

Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;

Then once by man and angels to be seen,

In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

-Alfred Lord Tennyson

To me, whether the Kraken is an octopus or a squid, it will still be Calamari to me.

I love Fried Calamari, Octopus salad or Squid in Soy Sauce.

Owh, do not forget, Kraken’s tentacles are pure heaven in to the tongue taste bud when you eat it with Kangkung (kung-kong) or also known as water Convolvulus or Water Spinach. You pour sweet sauce, sprinkled with ground peanuts over the Kraken pieces and Kangkung. This heavenly taste dish is called Rojak (row-ja’).

Kraken is one of my favorite… Dish.

Pictures courtesy of image Googling Kraken, Octopus, Squid, Calamari and Rojak Sotong Kangkung…

Job...

I wish my job is capturing wild Pokemons…

And to battle my Pokemons with other trainer to earn money.

I wish my job is to kill monsters and demons…

Dead, they drop gold pieces and stuff for me to sell for tons of money.

I wish my job is to jump around the city…

And carry out mission (stealing stuff, assassination etc.) making me richer.

I wish I am working in a Gundam facality…

Building more Gundams or at least help with maintenance and repair.

At the moment, I am an Engineer stuck in this office room…

Wishing one of the wishes to come true.

Insert...

I love to build things, putting things together. In 1995 if I am not mistaken I found these paper models made out hard paper in a grocery shop. These paper models came together with these Japanese chewing gums. I did not really care for the gums.

There were ten different models all in all. My sister and I at that time managed to complete the whole set. Now these models are quite worn out and missing few parts too.

I guess it was a habit of mine to assemble and disassemble things. One of the reasons my mother bought LEGO for me. When I finished building the paper model, I took them apart and put them together again.

The model was really easy to assemble. Here is my first model that I bought, The Hamburger Outlet. Pieces of the outlet were printed and ready cut on 2 pieces of cardboard. You just need to push the pieces out and you have pieces to put together.

Then you just have to insert the paper stub into the slit.

It was very easy to assemble. The slits were designed to fit the stubs nicely.

The design on the model are quite detail.

Like the Hamburger Outlet have a real rubbish bin the fast food outlet style. The counter has menu on it. Behind the counter, there is the chips station. You can see stacks of chips ready to be served.

There are few props for the outlet too. For this model, we have a tray of burgers with soda. A small table with two chairs. Burgers and chips. The cash register.

The Hamburger Outlet is a nice cozy shop made of red bricks. The color of the shop is in harmony with each other and it is really eye catching too!

Three cut out figures came with the model too. The Hamburger girl and her two customers, a boy and a girl. They have two designs on them. On one side, it will show these:

When you flip it to the other side, you will see this:

And there you go, one of the oldest models I have unearthed from my drawer. Another cool thing is, notes and coins are also included. What you see here is a pile of notes and coins for all 10 outlet models I have.

Hygiene...

When I leave home to continue my study, my mother reminded me about hygiene...

I) Don’t share your towel with others.

II) Don’t share your nail clipper with others.

III) Don’t share your toothbrush with others.

IV) Don’t share your comb with others.

V) Don’t drink using same cup with your friends.

VI) Don’t share shaving blade with others.

VII) Don’t share underwear with others.

VIII)Try your best, not to share clothes too.

IX) Don't let other people sleep on your bed.

This is so that I won’t easily get disease from some random guys who you don’t know where they come from and you don’t know their health background.

Thank you Pikachu!