vintage

gonna be a tiring week working 730am - 245pm 5days + 730am - 1pm saturday.

visited suntec city for some vege dinner and minor shopping for random + mandatory with shops like BIRD nike [cool i got $80 vouchers from my bravia purchase] + mandatory toys 'r us [my wife needed a vintage saga greedo] + mandatory simply toys [better see what's in store]. so i got a luke for kicks.

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the da vinci code movie was better than xmen3. am all eager for the upcoming movies like omen remake, silent hill and nun. me and my wife are such horror freaks.

bought my second xbox360 game yesterday :- projectgothamracing3. i am not a car enthusiast, more interested in car mods, perhaps i should have bought need4speed: most wanted on xbox360 instead, the game has option for car mods, but i do have it on pc which plays sluggishly, so to have a game on 2 platforms is bit wasteful .... hence a temp driving game choice [while waiting for test drive unlimited] but with more realism in car handling; pgr3 over ridegeracer6 on 360 option purchase.

tho i am not rich, there are bound to be regrets over our purchases over the years in our lives, but every successful buys or regretable losses = an invalubale experience. self console but ultimatley true. acquiring an item is always a great happy impluse.


bought my first ever futbol jersey with name n number printed. had to wait for close to an hour for it to be printed. was contemplating over no.7 with beckham name or no.4 with gerrard name. my wife suggested no.4 being my fave number and gerrard from liverpoolfc suits great. happy chaps.

we were late for a bad rerun of "infection" on dvd which i bought at gramaphone 2gether with "constantine" double dvd. i was skeptical over "infection", a code3 dvd, as i cant seemed to locate the code1 version now locally [when u need things they go disappear], but this rerun was bad makes it worth a waste on code3.

wore my jersey proudly like a kid for thai dinner at thomson. what's a good dinner or a good snack without a great company .... nothing beats having it with my wifey.

tension headaches

woke up at 2pm with another tension headache.

the constant change in shift working hours makes me dislike my nite duties.

havent got time to go into swg and my shop online is certainly soldout of droids. just lazy 2day.

my new LCD tv, swiveled not hanged.

the modified region free dvd receiver. now i can watch star wars saga in with 5.1 feature.

20year old hi-fi shelf from ikea. my mission speakers from my under-used hi-fi has to make way.

only 1 game loaded and some downloaded traliers and demos from xboxlive in the harddisk.

component connection is the only way to go.

oblivion

days of electronic gaming got revived in my life, tho in a very differnt form.

i've always been very much a skeptic of console games. my wife got me a psp last year and it was like the coolest gadget u wanna be spotted with. this year it's the year i gave up on pc gaming altogether. i might still have a relatively fast laptop running at 3.2GHz with 1G Ram, but my 128Mb VRam seems obelete and cant run FPS or realtime strategy in full glory. i love eye candy .... i need jerkless gaming .... even StarWarsGalaxies lags in Mustafar and it's deemed unplayable.

enter the new realm .... console gaming. i bought a Premium Xbox360 along with a 26inch Sony Bravia that comes free with a simple home theatre sound system. what i cant do on my laptop i can now on the new machine. the very sameday i got oblivion on 360 .... gone are the days of slowmo cut scenes and the rendering is awesome, not to mention oblivion is like the best game in town now. my next target .... PS3 .... now with the LCD tv running on component connections with HighDefn, life is never the same again. one set back is not the size of my room that cant "make cool" this Sony Bravia with the xbox360 combi but rather the free DVD receiver was Region3 fixed. i've sent it for decoding and hope it works, especially when all my dvds are Region1.

my last attempt on pc games is above, dreamfall: the longest journey. this game very much reminds me of my good ol favoruite pc adventure games like GabrielKnight3, Pantasmagoria, 11th Hour etc. i'm still at the early stage of this game and enjoying most moments of it, just like i find oblivion very intriguing. there's this ape doll that speaks with a low voice, he's a watilla doll by the name of wonkers. somehow it touches me, i can feel his lonliness.

HWM is a zine i keep stopping to buy. this issue features some LCD high Defn tv that i'm gonna be keen. last saturday there were 6 copies of oblivion guide, i was contemplating on purchasing it. 2day there's only 1 copy left so i had no choice to pay for it without my wife's kinokuniya member discount. ok 4 wave5 SW saga figures from Falcon's Hangar and kind Roy let off a Greedo to me to breakup his set. nice fellow.

more picutes of my bravia when my dvd receiver returns.

stop it and mission impossible

rather a mission impossible but we made it within time. s'posed to meet a buyer for my wife's bearbricks 1230 tiong bahru plaza. but since i was early, i went to pick my wife at 1210 and rushed down and buyer arrived on time. headed to tsuru tsuru for a 15min lunch at liang court; chilli pork udon and hurried to get tickets at the cathay for mi:3. too bad the speakers got busted so no digital sound but despite, the movie was simply absolute. all action from front to end .... i had to keep my pee til end of show and my wife enjoyed watchin every min when maggie q was on scene.


cathay grand looks much like a opera house ....

time to stop it! too many puchases again. 2x han ugh [ultimate galactic hunt], first magazine that i dont follow, bape spring/summer ver 1.1, hotsutff may, play may issue that features rob zombie and a anakin ugh. all from kino and taka liang court. we had too much at crystal jade la mian/siao long pao and head home happily.

heroes

due to the mayday .... my toys were delayed til 2day. here we go ....

opened 2 of the 3, one biker scout will be kept mint. a pity i didnt order greedo. didnt really like the sandpeople and luke in xwing outfit, only bought 2 out of 5 figures from this wave [double biker scout of cos, long live the empire!!!].

signs not coincidence

i was at HMV locating a cantonese cd and i popped over to the jap section and saw a HK version of the "beef or chicken" by terriyaki boyz and it's 1/3 the price i paid for a japanese pressed. i cant buy everything in this world, so many times i have to exercise ELIMINATION; and say if this HK version were there for me to choose from the japanese version at that time when i was contemplating on getting it, i might have picked the HK version and feel regret thereafter when this band sounds darn good .... and a jap pressed version is def a more superior quality, which i surely want .... that's what i seek in life -- quality baby!!!

ranking of CD quality (from best to worst) based on country of pressing:-
1. jap
2. US
3. UK
4. Sing
5. EU
* no comments on other not listed countries.

mee siam dry was not available from my neighbour provision kiosk this morning so i bought nasi lemak for my wife's breakfast. she had to bring this calender to work so she left the calender on the dinning table when we consume the earliest food. a grain of nasi lemak somehow find it's way on the calender and landed on april 13. april 13 was a thursday and i recalled we watched horror show that very day. but what else was significant on the number 13?

my wife sms-ed me while i was at work during lunch time. terriyaki boyz and nigo was in the Life section of 2day's papers. the article spelt the "beef or chicken" cd acheived great success in the land of rising sun and decided to release it in other countries. the article on on page 13.

koto

after visiting MSK SW corner again yesterday, my wife asked the sales assisant if she could take a close look at a kotobukiya Sandtrooper, and followed by the 501st clonetrooper, then one by one the rest. i've never been into kotobukiya products but i must say i am impressed by the detailing. a day later .... at china square flea market .... i bought a new toy ....

my father's been buying things

my father's been buying things since his retirement. he's worked hard and i'm glad i'm seeing him relaxing .... meeting void deck oldies .... hanging out .... and he's just got a new replacement cover for his mobile phone. sometimes when he asked if i like to eat certain food, i'll let him buy for me like when i was young. like my father, i understand him inside enjoying the service of "providing".


after my gym, clad in not very sporty outfit and SAF trackshoes, headed FEPlaza and got the above form SimplyToys.

tom and jerry

the zombie family [currently comprises me n my wife] "the cathay : picturehouse" over the weekend for a arty show. b4 the show we drove thru the carpark and there was jerry the mouse and tom the cat. the building isnt completely functional hence the reason for rodent and feline to special guest as occupants for the time being.

eh, my new R2 from Toys R Us b4 my petrol top up this evening. my craze for SW toys has completely revived but still on the mode of subjective purchase [opposite of completetist].

anyway, great plans for the weekend so far ....
1) another test trip to my wife's new work place
2) boy eats girl, movie
3) msk, the return of
4) chelsea vs liverpool

guess i'll need to visit fareastsquare and the flea market for my usual rounds and hopefully some good sun for our digital shooting again.

think i need some supper 2nite.

msk

my first visit to the cathay to watch "hostel" .... all bout sex, gore and vindication.


also my first visit to the infamous MSK .... metrosengkang. nice of them to have a replica/bust corner catered for the adult boys at the toys section

daddy cool

would have brought my dad to the cemetry to visit his buried relatives. but i had some things to attend to 2day, maybe next week. his on his way via bus.

these items would have got them monday but due shipping problems finally arrive 2day.

3 figures including a UGH vader and cody. already bought obiwan locally due temptation. :p

a silver boba instead of the normal blue holo

rebelscum

from OG Chinatown. been visting strange departmental stores of late.

pucking all the time, i dont want to ....

me and my wife visited jalan hang jebat estate [colonial 2storey walkups] and was surprised by a empty unit that we could pop in for a view. 3 bedrooms, 1 kitchen, 1 common room, 3 toilets, 1 patio. will checked on its rental.

also, to the budget terminal for a little tour, am surprise the amount of checkins via tiger to hanoi, what's the thrill in vietnam really??

next to OG [oldgirls departmental store] Albert and OG Orchard for my toyhunt. more starwars toys. crazy.

more

more things

musuem piece

this is like a life achievement purchase. a museum piece. would wish to concentrate on next, my wife's turn, her very own musuem piece and the plans are laid.

#502 of 600. my 327th Star Corps Clone Trooper Helmet by Master Replicas.

and there were cats near the wake last nite

5hrs is not my usual sleep hours on my off day. feeling little groggy as i input this blog.

my grandfather passed on to be with the lord on 6april06 in the morning. my mum was busy the whole day for funeral arrangements til late at nite. my wife and i popped over to the wake for a brief visit and we saw my grandfather lying in peace in the casket. his neighbourhood used to call him "neow cik", translated to dialect hokkien as cat uncle. he had this green female cat that lives in his provision shop i remembered. and there were cats near the wake last nite ....

some of my recent purchases [not again] ....

above is the republic gunship. been trying to hunt down for a week for any of the 4 versions, and i found this ROTS design at the flea market. ok, figures sold separately.

above is the MR scaled weathered version of "ben" obi-wan kenobi's lightsaber from SW EP IV. used to sell as an exclusive now it's reproduced for mass public.

a SWShop exclusive Covert Ops Clone Trooper still in the star case.

.... "i am very happy with my purchases"

at the end of the shopping, my wife will usually say .... "i am very happy with my purchases" . 2day it's just my turn.

above are things i got at "watto's curious", a shop at the singapore science center, sells souvenirs for the "art of star wars" exhibtion. i made my 2nd and last visit alone this time to pay homage to my "religion" b4 the show goes away on 2april.

contemplated on these 2 figures about a month ago, now finally tracked em down at earthX on consignment prices. i needed them after all.

eh .... kenner looking milo tee from miklio fareastplaza. this is a must bape item for me !!!

big mac

collected my brothersworker big mac 12" figure after work that i won over yahoo auctions .sg, seller was nice to have shrinked wrapped the item.

the last supper

after a few weeks of clone trooper sourcing, i have acquire about 14 clone troopers to date. here are 12 of the many having " the last supper " with vader.