323# AEON

323# AEON


The new jaya jusco mall in bukit tinggi klang is launched on last saturday.

I actually wanted to go during its first day but i didn't make it after knowing that almost the whole population of klang went to smell each other there.

Heard that the area's traffic was heavily jammed. Luckily i didn't drive there or else i'd be trapped in jam like the rest.





Yesterday, my friend asked me to go with him because he needs to go there for an interview. He's having a one month semester break therefore he decided to work part time in a restaurant there, where salary and food come together in a combo.

Finally i give myself a chance to see how does the mall looks like. Even though i'll be having exam in less than 1 week's time but i still dragged myself there.






Klang is damn diu-ed up in the sense that the whole population have only 1 place to watch movie, which is at the bukit raja mall. Now we have another option. Both TGV though, but i prefer GSC because its caremel popcorn taste better.

But anyway there's actually a cinema at centre point which shows 2 malay movies, 2 indian movies and sometimes, 1 english movie only - which only targetted for specific peoples. By the way, the cinema in there is dirty. I think explaination is not needed.





Another than bukit raja mall mentioned, we have the old klang parade, the even older central point which attracts all bastards and idiots with purchase power of zero, the new centro mall which has practicaly nothing, and this new bukit tinggi mall.

Plus 3 other hypermarkets, giant, tesco, and carefour, so i think it's kind of enough already though.

But what i really wanted is something like - mid valley, a place where can lepak and shop. Mid valley is still the best place to shop with somehow.





Alright, this new mall is quite big, from the outside.

Once i went in, i didn't fell that it's any bigger. Maybe it was too crowded that time. Oh damn, there's takoyaki there!

There are quite a few new shops which draw my attention. Sony centre, yamaha, game shops...

And i bought a guitar pick from yamaha - the only thing i bought from there yesterday lol.





Standard chained cafe restaurants expected there. Starbarks, Domp...

I've never heard of sake sushi though. My friend's going to work there and i may pay a visit there next time.

There's fish manhattan market as well. Something off, type "my111 manhattanfishmarket 22" and send the sms to 33365 you will get a voucher which entitles you to get a buy 1 free 1 fish and chips. Good deal, I'll be there next time.

By the way, the added number "22" in the codename is to vote for my friend's sister, MinLi in starceleb.





There's something i wanted to buy actually, but there are still a few shops which are still under renovation. Plus TGV cinema there is not launched yet.

But now i have a reason to call people from shah alam or subang to come down for a movie, instead of me travelling to them...

No need to squeeze in one mall for movies with the others already. Good.

And this mall is just 8 minutes away from my house, yeah man. Oh no, damn, i'll be moving soon in 1 month's time... Damn it.



Damn count: 4

322# Kolam

322# Kolam


"Kolam (Tamil: கோலம்) is a decorative design drawn in a variety of sandpainting using rice powder by female members of the family in front of their home, especially near the threshold. It is widely practised by Hindus in South India. A Kolam is a sort of painted prayer -- a line drawing composed of curved loops, drawn around a grid pattern of dots. They are generally symmetric.

Kolams are thought to bestow prosperity to the homes. For special occasions limestone and red brick powder to contrast are also used. Though kolams are usually done with dry rice flour, for longevity, dilute rice paste or even paints are also used. Modern interpretations have accommodated chalk, and the latest "technology" in kolams are actually vinyl stickers (that defeat the original purpose)."

All words above are copied and pasted from wikipedia.

For a moment i can't recall what does it called. I smsed a few friends for answer.

I didn't get any reply. Maybe they do not understand indian art culture enough to answer my question.

In the end i smsed Sree. Within minutes he replied me back. It's called as "Kolam".





Imu did one in conjunction with the diwali night. It was quite big. From the picture itself you can tell how big the Kolam is by refering to the size of the stage.

Too bad i didn't get to take close up shots of this Kolam. Wonder if it's still there tomorrow when i go back to uni.

Other than answering my question, Sree told me something more.

In fact, Kolam isn't pronounced as "Ko-lam", which how we pronunce for the word "Ko-lam" for "Lake" in B.M.

It's pronounced as "Koh-lem" instead.

I didn't know that...

Now i learnt something new again!


Wonder why am i writing something which seems irrelevant and doesn't seem to suit my style?

Because i saw a bigger, huger, and meaner Kolam before.







That was like... Gigantic.

Giga is too small to describe (1,000,000,000). So called it "Teratic" (1,000,000,000,000) can?

From far it looks like a carpet. At close only i noticed that it was formed by billions and billions of rice particles.

In case if you are wondering, ya, you got it right. That was our darrien over there trying to climb across it.


Spotted that fantastic artwork at The Gardens few weeks ago, when i went to Mid Valley for a movie with my batchmates after our Reproduction Assessment at uni.

To be honest, that was the biggest one i've ever seen in my whole life.

It's not that i'm a frog in the well, of course they are even bigger ones somewhere out there.

I'm pretty impressed by how beautiful creativities can be. Wonder how long did it take to complete.

And wonder what will happen if someone with big lungs sneezed over there.

321# 1/100 GN 001 Gundam Exia - Part 3

321# 1/100 GN 001 Gundam Exia - Part 3


Sorry for my excessive gunpla post recently.

I think before i get the next MG, the MG unicorn, this will be the last gunpla post over here.

Before i leave exia to rest in standby mode in my room, i decided to take a few shots of it in aerial mode with its seven swords, since some of them out there required for some action photos.

View more and full size photo here.

For imu batchmates, you guys can skip this post. Lol.





Seven swords.

From top to down, left to right: GN sword, GN long blade and GN short blade, GN shield, beam daggers and beam sabers.

Only mobile suit i could think of who has such number of melee weapons.

Wonder why is there an 8th item? That's the GN shield. And not to forget, there's a beam rifle. But it's hidden inside the GN sword.





GN sword.

Huge, mean, excessive, aggressive. Main melee weapon used so far as we can see in the episodes.

I'd prefer this over the rest of the swords because of its big radius area covered.





GN long blade and GN short blade.

The pilot just received these blades last week according to the anime, lol.

It works with the vibrating particles on it. Same mechanism as the progressive knife used in Evangelion? Mounted at hips when not used.





Beam sabers.

Seems that beam weapons are made compulsory in nearly all the mobile suits designed since year 1979 to today.

Don't really like it since there are so many swords already. Mouted behind the arms when not used, at area between the tricep and bicep (?).





Beam daggers.

Didn't expect it to be used as ranged weapon. Because the theory of beam weapons' energy is supplied from the MS's hands doesn't seem to allow it to be throwed onto the targets.

After the discussions with the others and we came to this conclusion - the beam daggers act like the boomerang, where they have internal battery with them. Therefore the beam will still be active even they leave the MS for seconds.

Mounted at the buttock when its not used. I found this kind of funny though.





Beam rifle. Well hidden in the GN sword which i always forget its existence.

Hardly used in the show because it's still a melee combat MS indeed. By judging its gun barrel length (i don't think that's a barrel though) the ranged covered by the rifle shouldn't be very far.

And also the GN shield mounted at the left hand. Kind of small. The end looks sharp. Wonder if it could used to stab the target...





Exia with full weapons.

Kind of satisfied with this model kit even though it's not given any grade. But by quality wise it's equivalent to the High Grade. Look wise i'd day it nearly looks like a Master Grade.

The stand doesn't come with the model kit by the way. Sold separately with the price of RM23 - RM30.


For more huger and meaner pictures, they are all available here. I included some closed up shots as well. Take note that this is a Out-Of-Box product which only panel lining, stickers and markers are applied.

There's no putty, glue, sanding, crafting, spraying, coating or any kind of modification involved. Because i'm just a 1 year old collector...




Alright, taking a gunpla hiatus before i get my hands on the MG unicorn. Not too long actually. 3 weeks i guess. Now, concentrate for the Renal System.

320# 1/100 GN 001 Gundam Exia - Part 2

320# 1/100 GN 001 Gundam Exia - Part 2


This took me longer than i thought.

For the first night i started to work on this at 10.30pm. I started to do panel lining while the parts were still on the frame.

Before i done all of the lining, since some parts can't be reached before i cut them out, it was already 12.30am.

I spent 2 hours just to line some of the parts. Some of them only!

I stopped lining and started to assemble. By 1.40am i only able to finish the upper torso.





Yesterday i continued to work on this.

8.30pm to 1.30am... And finally it's done.

Spent total of 8 hours to assemble this 1/100 scale model. If plus those times taken to adjust ti and that, photos and everything, it nearly took me 10 hours in total.

Never knew it will took me for so long. The last 1/100 scale model i assembled was the 1/100 Legend Gundam. And that took me only 1 night to assemble, line and marker.





Did some trick at the generator. I used the green highlighter to color the inner part of the clear plastic part. Of course it's not even, since the highligher ink can hardly adhere to the plastic. But it does give some cool effect though.

This is the 4th 1/100 scale model i have assembled so far. I have 6 Master Grades instead because i always think that investing in MG is better than an ungraded model.

Other than the 1/100 Legend Gundam mentioned, and also this Exia, the other two 1/100 scale model i have is the Astray Red Frame and the Astray Blue Frame second L.

The Astrays are good in terms of articulations. But this exia seems to be superior than the Astrays.





Assembling the legs of Exia. It gives me that the feeling of assembling the MG strike. Pseudo inner frame of Exia. Looks very MG-ish. There are 8 points of articulations on the hip, knee, ankle and foot!

The proportion, articulations, details, gimmicks are all near MG level. The only downside i found from this model is the joint stability.

The polycaps used can't really support the joints well. Especially the hip joints, the legs will be pulled down by gravity during the aerial pose.





Since it's so detailed, i think i actually spent equal time, or even more, in lining this model than lining the MG Destiny gundam which i've just built recently.

Gosh, it's just a 1/100 scale model, but the parts to line with is more or less about the MG level. Having said so, there are 3 parts, or even more, to be lined with in each of every piece of them.

Plus the pieces to be lined are incredibly small. Usage of old liners are not recommended if the tip isn't sharp enough.

I used the old liner to line the large lines where the new marker to line the fine parts, since it's still new and sharp.





Beside the hardwork needed in lining, there are a few parts need to be colored.

The waist, arms, feet and GN sword are not moulded in grey where they supposed to be, but remained white instead. Anyway grey color stickers are provided for those parts, but somehow the grey part for GN blade isn't given.

Why do i need to rely on the stickers since i have the marker? I markered those parts carefully. But no matter how careful i am, accidents do happen.

The tip of the marker isn't fine enough and i screwed up the white parts at the GN sword. Had to use the pen knife to scrap those exceeding parts off...





"Seven swords" of Exia. GN sword, GN long blade, GN short blade, Beam saber x2, Beam dagger x2. Stole the polystyrene from the store room temporarily to make this shot.

Now my problem is that i have no space to display this completed model.

All 13 of my revoltechs are backed into box. 4 HG 1/144, 3 other SDs and 2 more 1/100 scale models have to be kept in their respective boxes due to the space restrictions. Display only 6 SD on the book shelf, all 6 of the MGs plus 1/100 Legend and this 1/100 exia only right now.

Therefore i have 8 of 1/100 size models plus those 6 small SDs on display . Displaying 14 of them is a lot since my room is so small.

Will get 2 glass shelves from Ikea once i move. Now i just have to bare with the space and the dust. Don't even have space to keep those boxes now...




MG 102, Unicorn Gundam. Coming soon on December. Should be right after our Renal assessment. Getting this MG for sure after the exam.

2 more weeks to go for the exam. No more gunpla, study.


PS: Headache now, slept for 4 hours only last night because of this model kit. Gosh.