Breaking News! - Attaku!

In response to the threat posed by North Korea, Japan has unveiled it's top secret project against the communist threat. "We were forced to speed up this project as the north korean's missile launches have destabilised the peace in the region" says Japan's Minister for Defence, General Amuro Rey.

Codenamed "GUNDAM", this 18m tall robot is poised to go active anytime soon, and hopefully will kick Kim Jong Il's keester into the next world! :p

... but seriously, check out the real thing here, it was built to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of Gundam... man, it'll be a sight for sore eyes!

That's Life...

Well, weekend has come and gone reeeal fast! WTH, Din go anywhere on Sat cos the weather was too DARNED HOT! Buzzed my chopper for a bit, have a phobio of crashing the darn thing, but i told myself, wtf, if i keep kiddy-gloves on the chopper, i'll never learn! So i pushed it a bit more and tweaked the gain a bit... and at LEAST managed to have a few seconds of hover! Not very good, but slowly... slowly.. :p It's a beyotch to wait for the battery to charge though... need.. more.. packs..!

Sunday was spent visiting my grampa, who has been in hospital for almost a month. From the first day he was admitted till today, he has made a amazingly marked improvement; his speech is more coherent and his sentences make a bit more sense now, he can chat and carry out simple conversations... and sometimes say funny things... :p it'll take some time for his motor skills to come back, and rehab is needed. He'll prob go to THK hosp at AMK for a month or two. For a man of 82, who's gone through so much in life, it's sad for this to happen; he wanted to travel to a few places still. But regardless, we'll stand by him...

Life's like that, you never know what surprises there are around the corner, and we always 'never have the time' until you realise it's too late... I guess it's the human condition.. or is it complacency? Well, hope this week will be fine.. it's just another week again though! Time ticks away....

Go PSP!

Eegads! Rumors of a PSP2 were not unfounded as pictures of the new PSPgo were leaked 3 days before E3 started. :p Read more about it here. So the PS3 slim ain't too far away then!

To Boldly Go...

Caught the new Star Trek movie today by JJ Abrams, decided to watch it after generally favourable reviews... plus i find TNG and Enterprise pretty cool to watch anyway. :) (No, i'm not a trekkie!)

This movie IS a reboot from the original series, without too many spoilers, i can say that it's an alternate timeline or reality from TOS. They've also got a new younger cast for the crew, chief of all is Chris Pines as James T. Kirk and Syl... uh, Zachary Quinto as Spock. Most of the other characters are ok, maybe a bit overacted ( esp. Uhura who was like a stuck up beyotch in heat, and Leonard "I'm a Doctor, not a physicist" McCoy.)

But the pacing was good, and the action non-stop. This took away the smaller flaws in the movie and made it immensely fun to watch. Thumbs up, definately more interesting than wolverine, i'd give this show a 7.5/10.

Shoryuken!

Ok, i suck at SF4, so dun challenge me k? :p There's a certain depth to 2D fighters; and i'll always be amazed at how ppl throw out the moves so easily! :D

Was on leave today, so had lunch out with my wifey. Weekend was spent at a preview of the circle line... yes, rode the train from Serangoon to Bartley, then to Marymount and back to serangoon... It'll be good when it opens this week, at least it'll be easier to go back home from Bishan! :)

Caught Wolverine over the weekend, so-so show, the effects are nothing we've not seen before. Pacing was ok, but man, was gambit gay! And the bone claw thing... always found the idea cheesy... :p Well, it's gonna be a short week, office is closed this Friday for "Eat (with) your family day"... ;)

Dreams?

Ah! I reminded my self to put this down before i forget! Had a wierd dream two days ago, but real vivid; i was (of course) in some other place, i now can't remember the details, but it was this old house which is kinda like a farm, you know, those thachted one with clay and all, i think it had two floors... anyway, in one part of the dream, there were a lot of poor/tired people suddenly approaching the house, so i started preparing the kitchen and getting drinks for them...

... anyway, next thing i knew, i was looking across something like a savannah, i can still remember what it was like, it was dawn, and there were some animals in the foreground. There was something like a river in the distance, and beyond that, there were two trees.

Both trees had a beautiful shaft of light shining down on both of them at an angle. I told myself i had to take a picture, so i took out my cameraphone (yes, my phone :p) but before i could take the view, the light shining on the tree right in front faded away; there was still light on the other tree.

But the large tree now had a backdrop of thousands of stars against a purple sky... man, it was beautiful... i could almost smell the clean air.

Am i going crazy? I dunno, but it was all so vivid and real.... :)

Monday post!

Ah, another week begins anew! Din really have a fab weekend; most of it was spent sleeping off a fever i caught on Saturday... and myteriously as it came, the next day i was fine! Still, din go out much, and rotted at home. :P

Brought my King 3 up to "flightworthy" status, so decided to fire it up for a bit, darn thing kept spinning in circles! Then realised i had the tail belt reversed. After that was fixed i throttled up for some flight; highest i got was like 2 inches off the ground as the was twitchy as hell!

Robo on the right is the 1/60 scale VF-11B from Macross Plus, just released about 2 weeks ago. This is the latest iteration of this toy, previous ones were in 1/72 scale, and weren't too sturdy. This one is not too bad, except the arms go only to 90 degrees (why not double jointed like the VF-1's?) Anyway, lucky i decided to open it, as i discovered a major problem; they gave me TWO of the fast packs on the legs of the same side! WTF, sure touch 4D lor, anyway, managed to make a swap, so all's well!