Stronger, Faster, Better

Some of us may have experienced situations where we heard things about ourselves, but we paid no heed to it. Thinking that it is either irrelevant, that it's not important to our life, it doesn't apply to our life or just not true about us at all. Then we find out at a later stage in life that what was said was actually pretty true. Believe it or not, it happens to me every once in a while. Oh how often is that? It's just bad bad bad. But then again, not many people actually knows their flaws in themselves anyways. They may think they are the greatest singer, but then they are in reality just average singers. Some may think that they are great at writing, only to be defeated when they are joined with other people they have never met before.

Men hardly ever listen to their own advices. It's one of the reasons why friends are important, they are our moral compass. Whether they fulfill the role well or be the immoral compass is another case.We need people to tell us when we start taking wrong turns. A good friend will only intervene on what you're doing when you're doing walking down the wrong path. Life's complicating, and no one quote is always true in all situation. There are always exceptions. So just keep living and regret not your mistakes for that has passed and you had learned from it.

"Learn from fools and from sages."

REVIEW: Toy Story 3

Pixar has made quite a few good movies recently, UP, Cars, Wall-E and then they went back to Toy Story. If I have to pick anything, I believe I will pick Toy Story as my favorite film from Pixar, not just because it's my first movie, not really nostalgic, but honestly. It was creative, toys coming alive when you are not looking. Toys talking, socializing, having fun and running around in your room when you're not around. It's a child's dream come true!!

In 2010 we finally got Toy Story 3. The animation is definitely better than the first two movies. No doubt about that. The music is fitting and the pacing of the movie was just about right. Not too fast that you can't breathe, but not too slow that you'll wish it'll get to the climax already.

There are quite a few moments in the movie that makes you feel sad deep down inside though, and the ending is definitely tear-jerkish. I believe Toy Story 3 is a very fitting ending to the tale.

And a bit of spoiler on this one;
Only read this part if you do not mind the spoiler

Woody wrote something on a sticky note on the box at the ending, how I wish they would show us what he wrote. Knowing Woody and his reaction to Andy and his mom, I guess he wrote something like

"We'll always be there for you. -Woody."

Man I just LOVE Toy Story!!!

Stars in the Morning Sky

I had been looking at the stars in the morning sky lately. I looked at the stars on the bus, at the school shining brightly high up in the sky. Though some of the brightest stars in the sky are all alone, and all the moderately bright stars are all together near the moon. I can't help but to feel kinda sad about that. The stars seems quite lonely.

Melaka

Went to Melaka for the holidays from Wednesday until Friday night. It was fun! The place was pretty hot though, very very hot. Piece of advice to anyone else who's planning to go to Melaka and haven't have any experience yet, just pack t-shirts and short pants. It was almost a torture to wear jeans around the whole place, better to wear scandals too. Quite a few things about history there, the big ship and the forts and ruins just to name a few. I didn't erally get to see everything though. Didn't really have the time, didn't even have the time to take pictures. Should had stayed one more day, but then I didn't finish my homework in time. So oh well. It was fun though, very fun, exhausting but pretty damn fun to walk around jonker street. The ole-ole there are awesome and De Costa's Portuguese Food restoran's otak-otak are delicious! I haven't had a vacation in a pretty long time!

Motivation Talk

Today I attended a motivational talk by Mr.Martin Jalleh. First off, let me start of this blog entry by saying that Martin has a great sense of humor, I like him the moment he started to talk. Pretty glad that I'm in the monitorial board until this day or else I would had missed this motivational talk. This is by far, the most effective Motivational Talk Program I'd been to. The rest that had been organized by the school that I'd attended so far are lacking in my honest opinion, sadly. What Martin has said today actually made an impact on me, unlike other "Motivational Talk Programs" I'd been to. I really like how he handled the talk. I wasn't expecting someone as nice and fun like him and was thinking of someone more along the line of Mr.K for us Michaelians who knows who that person is. I hope that no matter whatever happens, me and others can have another section with him again, how sad that this is the last year huh? But oh well, time waits for no man.


I think I learned a thing or two here. Perhaps I can now try to make a few steps forward again. I'm learning, slowly, but definitely. My friend said a while ago that "it doesn't matter no matter how slow you go, as long as you don't stop." Hahaha, I guess that's true. Form six life has definitely change quite a few people that I know, including myself. But I guess that everybody learns and changes sometimes. That's just how life goes. There's one note by another friend of mine that made me think for a bit. I think I'm treating someone I know a bit unfair, I realized midway reading that Note on Facebook that, what I'm doing to him is exactly what someone else is doing to me, albeit that I didn't outright do it to him. Didn't I promise myself a few things? Am I forgetting those things? Perhaps I had been. Oh thank you my dear friends for reminding me of what's truly important. Beside the fact that "we shouldn't do upon others what we do not want done upon us" I think we all should give a helping hand to everyone that's in need. We may not be able to change the world, but never say never because we can still make small changes. Especially to a friend's or even a foe's life, and hopefully for the better.

However, I expect something to go down soon, a person I dislike a lot is going to be producing something and I have a feeling I'll be forced by the team's president to buy that product. I wonder would I lose anything from refusing to buy. I'm learning to let go of my pride, when it's best to let go, but there are times like these that I just can't, no it's not just the matter of my pride, unfortunately I see this as me not preforming well enough and losing to such a person. But oh well, I guess I will just have to see what happens next.


Regardlessly, time to take steps forward. Maybe I should have a chat with my friend about that last paragraph. Hm. Oh well. 

"As long as there's someone who understands me. I'll be fine." 

SIC Volume 56: Kamen Rider Kuuga

This review is mainly going to cover on Kuuga;

SIC Volume 56: Kamen Rider Kuuga, this new version of a SIC-fied Kuuga has a more humanoid look compared to the previous one. It comes with a few accessories and has only one alternative form which is Amazing Mighty to change into, as compared to being able to change into every form for the previous Kuuga. The accessories are;

a pair of opened hands

one hand for the henshin(transform) pose, and one thumbs up hand. For what would make him Kuuga if he doesn't have a thumbs up now that he has a new pimping body?

Oh and he also comes with a Kamen Rider Decade belt, I don't have pictures of that however. The hand guards(not sure what they are called) can be changed, which makes me wonder are they doing this because it saves Bandai the money to make a few more hands for Amazing Mighty or did they do this so that we can play around with future releases of other forms of the new Kuuga?

Now that we are done with the talk on accessories, let's talk about Kuuga's companion, Gouram the horse armor. 

At first when we got news of that this volume is going to come with yet another F.F.R.(Final Form Ride) gimmick, I set my mind to skip this one, no matter how painful it was to not get my hands on a Kuuga SIC. Later, we found out that Gouram can be displayed even without the help of Kuuga, unlike the Kabuto Zector, and this time the figure is not required to split in half or be folded. Regardless of whether that caused problems for SIC Kamen Rider Kabuto is another story. I was surprised by the details on Gouram, especially on the back of the wings, and all the little details on Gouram. The writings especially.

However, my Gouram's front legs are very loose and can fall off any time, not to mention that the joints weren't produced very well, took me a while to actually put the piece of plastic that attaches the two front legs. The back of it is all hollow so that Kuuga can sit inside it. the back of the horns on Gouram were painted badly on mine. the paint basically ran to everywhere. Sorry that I don't have photos, but I mainly played with just Kuuga, since Gouram's front legs were too loose for me to also play with him. 

The red paint on Kuuga doesn't look very impressive in real life. But he's hella photogenic. Cameras are said to put on pounds for people, but the camera sure pimp up Kuuga's colors.

Due to the shoulder pads, his arms can't more than 90 degrees. But that's only bothersome if you're nit-picky about everything. This figure can pull off lots of great poses. I seem to have problems with pulling off the kicking pose that is on the back of the box however. I couldn't make the leg go up that high, I'm not sure have anyone else tried this out though. So don't quote me on that. I also have some complains about his arms being a bit on the loose side though.

Also, the hands are using pegs like the one above, probably for articulation reasons, but the problem with that is the peg might not be strong enough for lots of swapping. So it's best not to play around with the hands. I take deep breathes everything I change the hands when I was taking pictures. 

Next up! Amazing Mighty Kuuga!! At first I didn't think I'll like Amazing Mighty much, but looking at it in person, it gives off a very royal vibe from it. The chogokin shin guards, almost the whole lower parts of the legs are made of chogokin. Mighty has a mighty sweetass red paint job, and Amazing Mighty deliver this amazingly classy feel.

The details on Kuuga himself is pretty nice too. Many of us had complained about the face sculpt before, but it looks pretty good actually. 

Overall, I give this volume a 9/10. Good articulation, amazing details, fair price, very nice packaging, I strongly recommend this volume! More pictures can be found at this link below;

http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a175/TyCKenshin/SIC%202011/SIC%2056%20Kamen%20Rider%20Kuuga/

War War War

Hm, there hasn't been anything to blog about recently. Been having a test these few days. Phew. Not going to expect good results. Good news is that I can do a trapezium rule question on maths and I'm handling volume 2 quite well. Need to work more to perfect my understanding and skills, but I'll get there. I didn't make a timetable today. Oh man I'm procrastinating, bad thing, very bad thing. Let's take this chance to keep pushing, like how I started to consistently jog everyday after the first sport practice I had. Speaking of that, I'd been skipping a lot lately. Need to get back into the schedule starting from tomorrow. Now that exam's are over, and my photoshoot section with my beloved SIC Volume 56 Kamen Rider Kuuga is over(gonna write a review on the figure soon, with pictures included!)

Anything else? Hm, I don't think so. Till the next time then!