330# Three
Decarboxylation is three years and three days old today.
I supposed to write this on the 17th of this month where it was the exact three years anniversary of this page and apparently i have forgotten.
Never mind, three years and three days isn't that bad too, double the three. And this is the 330th post too, double the three as well.
Can't believe i have been writing for this long. When i read back my old posts, those are so bad until i don't feel like reading it.
Anyway, people do grow. The past shows how much i have stepped forward until today.
Pardon all my language mistakes. When i read back, i realised that my language was weaker than i imagined. I hope what am i writing now is comfortable to read.
For those who have been reading since the very first day, i believe that you have noticed some changes in here.
I was in the denial stage. I had a lot of bad stuffs in me. I wrote them out as to curse kao them.
After the anger and depression stage, i have reached to the acceptance stage right now.
I accept what i have around me now and i appreciate it.
"Cursing the gahmen and people won't make you happy"
Therefore i decided to write something else which will make myself happy. About my friends, my batch mates and even about gunpla to share the thoughts with the other collectors and modellers out there.
Hope you will enjoy (?) reading decarboxylation and any feedback are welcomed.
Thank you for reading this and have a nice day.
PS: No visual in this entry, i feel kind of weird.
20.12.07
18.12.07
329# GN - 002 Gundam Dynames
329# GN - 002 Gundam Dynames
1/100 Scale model - Intro
I didn't expect to visit to the model shop again until the MG Unicorn is released.
It will be released in Jap tomorrow. To wait it to reach our country it may take from few days until a week or more.
Plus the owner of the model shop is going for Christmas vacation, therefore she won't be opening her shop until the 29th of this month.
And hence i decided to visit the shop on next year, 2nd of January of 2008, if the MG unicorn has already been available there.
Somehow, accidents do happen.
I have a friend who is turning 21st end of this year, so i decided to get him something. And i visited the model shop today.
Not only bought a model kit for him, i bought something which i planned below MG unicorn under my list.
1/100 scale model of Gundam Dynames was released in Jap on 13rd of this month. Hence it's reasonable that i'll spot it in the model shop, because it's already 18th today.
I told myself to buy it only after the MG unicorn, because an MG is surely more important and a non graded scale model. But somehow, i didn't feel like walking away without buying anything for myself.
Plus i have promised Chan to buy his Revoltech eva 00 from him. So... seems that purchase needs to be delayed again.
2300 yen in japan, and i bought it for 2807 yen. Usually buyers here has to pay extra for the shipping cost, tax and as well as the transport cost and stuffs like that. Anyway the price that we pay is approaching the price in yen price, so it's not too bad after all.
And those who staying at countries where there's no model shops, they will need to purchase online. They usually pay extra because of the shipping costs. But anyway it's still cheap for them, considering that US dollar worth 3 times more than our currency here.
Can't believe i'll be buying another high grade standard model instead of a master grade model. 9 frames only in total, quite stress-free to build. Although master grade model has more parts to build and it's more stressing, but that makes it more challenging.
Unlike model kit of this level (equivalent to high grade though), it's easier but somehow it is somewhere near master grade level, just without the inner frame which the latter does.
Seems that the beam rifle and pistols require extensive painting to reach their original color. One of the downside of being a high grade level model kit...
I remained the frames in the plastics, didn't bother to tear them out because i am not going to assemble them yet due to some reasons.
I will only assemble it probably the week after christmas, or after i get and assembled the MG unicorn.
Was asking for fun for the crafting knife and seriously the model shop has it. It's not a cheap tool because it costs me 913 yen. Sometimes the tool itself can be quite expensive, but it's worth to spend on if it's used for a long run.
In order to maintain the standard, all these are made in japan. If they were made in china, guess we could buy them in a cheaper price. But may have QC issues in turn...
What did i bought for my friend? It's not meant to tell though. He might be reading this.
Feel like going to collect all 4 of the main gundams in this series. I think most likely i will.
The coming up Gundam Kyrios to be released on January 2008 catches my attention too. Buy-able. And about the fat Gundam Virtue, hope they design it with the removable armor into Gundam Nahleeh.
Quite possible, since it's not going to be released in MG format, therefore they should make this design into 1/100.
I dragged chan along with me just now and apparently he didn't escape his fate of buying something too.
He was about to buy 2 SD models (those mini mini cute cute model) and some markers. But he put back the SD models after seeing this tanker, Gaplant of High Grade Universal Century model. And he slayed his wallet for this.
Both of us walked out happily with something. But it was pain deep inside our hearts...
1/100 Scale model - Intro
I didn't expect to visit to the model shop again until the MG Unicorn is released.
It will be released in Jap tomorrow. To wait it to reach our country it may take from few days until a week or more.
Plus the owner of the model shop is going for Christmas vacation, therefore she won't be opening her shop until the 29th of this month.
And hence i decided to visit the shop on next year, 2nd of January of 2008, if the MG unicorn has already been available there.
Somehow, accidents do happen.
I have a friend who is turning 21st end of this year, so i decided to get him something. And i visited the model shop today.
Not only bought a model kit for him, i bought something which i planned below MG unicorn under my list.
1/100 scale model of Gundam Dynames was released in Jap on 13rd of this month. Hence it's reasonable that i'll spot it in the model shop, because it's already 18th today.
I told myself to buy it only after the MG unicorn, because an MG is surely more important and a non graded scale model. But somehow, i didn't feel like walking away without buying anything for myself.
Plus i have promised Chan to buy his Revoltech eva 00 from him. So... seems that purchase needs to be delayed again.
2300 yen in japan, and i bought it for 2807 yen. Usually buyers here has to pay extra for the shipping cost, tax and as well as the transport cost and stuffs like that. Anyway the price that we pay is approaching the price in yen price, so it's not too bad after all.
And those who staying at countries where there's no model shops, they will need to purchase online. They usually pay extra because of the shipping costs. But anyway it's still cheap for them, considering that US dollar worth 3 times more than our currency here.
Can't believe i'll be buying another high grade standard model instead of a master grade model. 9 frames only in total, quite stress-free to build. Although master grade model has more parts to build and it's more stressing, but that makes it more challenging.
Unlike model kit of this level (equivalent to high grade though), it's easier but somehow it is somewhere near master grade level, just without the inner frame which the latter does.
Seems that the beam rifle and pistols require extensive painting to reach their original color. One of the downside of being a high grade level model kit...
I remained the frames in the plastics, didn't bother to tear them out because i am not going to assemble them yet due to some reasons.
I will only assemble it probably the week after christmas, or after i get and assembled the MG unicorn.
Was asking for fun for the crafting knife and seriously the model shop has it. It's not a cheap tool because it costs me 913 yen. Sometimes the tool itself can be quite expensive, but it's worth to spend on if it's used for a long run.
In order to maintain the standard, all these are made in japan. If they were made in china, guess we could buy them in a cheaper price. But may have QC issues in turn...
What did i bought for my friend? It's not meant to tell though. He might be reading this.
Feel like going to collect all 4 of the main gundams in this series. I think most likely i will.
The coming up Gundam Kyrios to be released on January 2008 catches my attention too. Buy-able. And about the fat Gundam Virtue, hope they design it with the removable armor into Gundam Nahleeh.
Quite possible, since it's not going to be released in MG format, therefore they should make this design into 1/100.
I dragged chan along with me just now and apparently he didn't escape his fate of buying something too.
He was about to buy 2 SD models (those mini mini cute cute model) and some markers. But he put back the SD models after seeing this tanker, Gaplant of High Grade Universal Century model. And he slayed his wallet for this.
Both of us walked out happily with something. But it was pain deep inside our hearts...
15.12.07
328# Tonight, the night
328# Tonight, the night
Friday night.
Tune in to the revolution waltz.
Heard that the logo was done by the pharmacy during microsoft paint [citation needed]. If that is true, that would be the best artwork made by microsoft paint i have ever seen in my life.
"Music is our novacaine, music is our escape, music is our ecstacy, we love music and there is no way you can stop us from playing our music". (Line from the event's booklet)
And the revolution began.
Dancers from our batch initiated the night with army attire for the revolution-look.
The idea of the dancers move out from the audience seats was quite brilliant though.
Didn't know taipomi can dance, lol.
We have zakhir and thazin as the master of ceremony.
Zakhir can act well and he acted on stage twice for the dwali night. And that summoned a lot of screams from the crowd, including the girls...
Thazin would be the tallest female mc i've seen so far. Her height even freaked Charlie Dark out. He came to be our guest lecturer for our literacture selective course on last tuesday.
I don't have any visual of my band's peformance because i was sitting up there with the drums so skip it.
Gary and Hanying performed Linkin Park's What i have done. No, not the rocking one. But they made one acoustic version.
While playing on the grand piano, Gary sang at the same time.
I'm not sure, but i guess he was about to cry while singing [citation needed]. Very full of emotion.
Hercules has been to more than a few "shows" and yesterday's fashion show wasn't that hard for him. I was kind of surprised to hear from siti the day before that, that he was going to strip.
Reasonable.
That was the first time i saw him strip on stage. Although i have seen his "body" before from magazines, but yesterday was the first time i saw it in front of my eyes. Freaking cool...!
Siti's performance showed not much of difference compared to last year. But it was still cool enough to slaughter another first price for the fashion show.
Jive by Joe and Jenny.
I have seen Dr. Francis singing, Dr. Sri Kumar on drums, Dr. John on guitar last year.
But i had not witness Dr. Joe and his wife, Dr. Jennifer to dance.
That was a good one. Dr. Joe explained that that dance has 3 styles in it. From sri lankan to cha cha and back to sri lankan style [citation needed].
Dr. Htin Aung performed a Burmese song too. That could be his last perfomance in imu because he is going to retire on next year.
I was wondering who was M106 Powah.
Okay, now i know. But the bassist was imported from the semester 3 though.
Pity him, he was one of the 3 bassist only for that night where he helped almost all bands on the bass guitar.
And i nearly forget that jeremy can play the drums. He should have replaced my position in our hokkien song.
"Cannot la, i play for fun only..." he said. But that is already good enough then me to perform.
Something which was not from our batch...
Was it the first time of imu's history having a band performing heavy metal songs? I know the band Testament, but i have never listen to them. Just found out that Nicholas Barker (one of my favourite drummer) played with Testament before!
The lead guitarist was really fast and accurate. The bassist was wonderful as well because he could sing and play at the same time, which most of the bassist find it hard to do.
We shouldn't be sitting while people were playing that. Therefore i clapped by hand like mad for them like the rest of the people.
Rupert was asking around because he wanted to perform a chinese song.
Due to the unfortunate technical difficulties faced that night, he forced to tell us a few lame jokes. It was funny, not the jokes, but he himself was funny when telling those donald duck and durian jokes.
His effort of memorizing the mandarin lyrics was not wasted. Too bad there was no eye contact with ling wei because he was busy reading the romanised lyrics.
Very sweet song. Jackie Cheung's Love and Promise. Lingwei's voice was very sweet. But i could not catch what rupert singing though.
The last performance from our batch we have han chung's magic show.
I have seen him playing close up tricks in front of me, but i was yet to see his stage perfomance.
It was a girl who wished for teddy bear and snow. The magician (or would you prefer illusionist?) was trying to fulfill her wish by cutting her out a snow on a paper.
She rejected.
He then gave her a teddy bear, armed around her, and raised his hand up.
Snow fly out from his hands then.
Yesterday's event was the first one which i stayed until the end.
That was how i show my support to my batchmates, who in charge of this year's friday night.
Unlike my friends, those fellas just never show up even though i was about to perform that night. Mou Yi Hei.
Thanks to all the commitee who worked hard for this event, and also those who came for support. Great job.
PS: Did anyone taped our performances? This isn't a full report of the event because i didn't take all the photos for all performances. Plus, i already forget some of them...
This post on Friday night is a stub. You can help decarboxylation.blogspot.com by sending him more photos and details.
Friday night.
Tune in to the revolution waltz.
Heard that the logo was done by the pharmacy during microsoft paint [citation needed]. If that is true, that would be the best artwork made by microsoft paint i have ever seen in my life.
"Music is our novacaine, music is our escape, music is our ecstacy, we love music and there is no way you can stop us from playing our music". (Line from the event's booklet)
And the revolution began.
Dancers from our batch initiated the night with army attire for the revolution-look.
The idea of the dancers move out from the audience seats was quite brilliant though.
Didn't know taipomi can dance, lol.
We have zakhir and thazin as the master of ceremony.
Zakhir can act well and he acted on stage twice for the dwali night. And that summoned a lot of screams from the crowd, including the girls...
Thazin would be the tallest female mc i've seen so far. Her height even freaked Charlie Dark out. He came to be our guest lecturer for our literacture selective course on last tuesday.
I don't have any visual of my band's peformance because i was sitting up there with the drums so skip it.
Gary and Hanying performed Linkin Park's What i have done. No, not the rocking one. But they made one acoustic version.
While playing on the grand piano, Gary sang at the same time.
I'm not sure, but i guess he was about to cry while singing [citation needed]. Very full of emotion.
Hercules has been to more than a few "shows" and yesterday's fashion show wasn't that hard for him. I was kind of surprised to hear from siti the day before that, that he was going to strip.
Reasonable.
That was the first time i saw him strip on stage. Although i have seen his "body" before from magazines, but yesterday was the first time i saw it in front of my eyes. Freaking cool...!
Siti's performance showed not much of difference compared to last year. But it was still cool enough to slaughter another first price for the fashion show.
Jive by Joe and Jenny.
I have seen Dr. Francis singing, Dr. Sri Kumar on drums, Dr. John on guitar last year.
But i had not witness Dr. Joe and his wife, Dr. Jennifer to dance.
That was a good one. Dr. Joe explained that that dance has 3 styles in it. From sri lankan to cha cha and back to sri lankan style [citation needed].
Dr. Htin Aung performed a Burmese song too. That could be his last perfomance in imu because he is going to retire on next year.
I was wondering who was M106 Powah.
Okay, now i know. But the bassist was imported from the semester 3 though.
Pity him, he was one of the 3 bassist only for that night where he helped almost all bands on the bass guitar.
And i nearly forget that jeremy can play the drums. He should have replaced my position in our hokkien song.
"Cannot la, i play for fun only..." he said. But that is already good enough then me to perform.
Something which was not from our batch...
Was it the first time of imu's history having a band performing heavy metal songs? I know the band Testament, but i have never listen to them. Just found out that Nicholas Barker (one of my favourite drummer) played with Testament before!
The lead guitarist was really fast and accurate. The bassist was wonderful as well because he could sing and play at the same time, which most of the bassist find it hard to do.
We shouldn't be sitting while people were playing that. Therefore i clapped by hand like mad for them like the rest of the people.
Rupert was asking around because he wanted to perform a chinese song.
Due to the unfortunate technical difficulties faced that night, he forced to tell us a few lame jokes. It was funny, not the jokes, but he himself was funny when telling those donald duck and durian jokes.
His effort of memorizing the mandarin lyrics was not wasted. Too bad there was no eye contact with ling wei because he was busy reading the romanised lyrics.
Very sweet song. Jackie Cheung's Love and Promise. Lingwei's voice was very sweet. But i could not catch what rupert singing though.
The last performance from our batch we have han chung's magic show.
I have seen him playing close up tricks in front of me, but i was yet to see his stage perfomance.
It was a girl who wished for teddy bear and snow. The magician (or would you prefer illusionist?) was trying to fulfill her wish by cutting her out a snow on a paper.
She rejected.
He then gave her a teddy bear, armed around her, and raised his hand up.
Snow fly out from his hands then.
Yesterday's event was the first one which i stayed until the end.
That was how i show my support to my batchmates, who in charge of this year's friday night.
Unlike my friends, those fellas just never show up even though i was about to perform that night. Mou Yi Hei.
Thanks to all the commitee who worked hard for this event, and also those who came for support. Great job.
PS: Did anyone taped our performances? This isn't a full report of the event because i didn't take all the photos for all performances. Plus, i already forget some of them...
This post on Friday night is a stub. You can help decarboxylation.blogspot.com by sending him more photos and details.
13.12.07
327# If you want to win, you must "bia"
327# If you want to win, you must "bia"
I never feel something like this.
Through out my whole life, i have encountered different kinds of stress, although almost 90% of them are caused by exams.
But this something totally different. This stress has totally swallowed me up.
Not only stressed, now i'm tired, both physically as well as mentally. My sleep is disturbed because "it" is beating within me. My body is in ache especially my limbs, due to the lactate accumulated result from the anaerobic metabolism in me.
I always wanted to do something in the imu before i left to seremban campus. I can't do any kind of sports therefore i didn't take part in the imu cup for the previous past two times. I only joined the art competitions and i didn't win anything.
I can't dance, either. And i don't expect myself to get involved in cheerleading too. Therefore a music performance would be the only thing that i am able to do before i leave imu bukit jalil to imu seremban.
Our band manager, asked me to handle the drums for the performance during the friday night. I was glad because finally i have the chance to perform for my very first time. But too bad that i'm still very new in drumming.
Practice during the morning.
I could be the noobest drummer in the history of imu who is going to perform.
The only time that i actually touched drums was the time i picked drums as my elective during my first semester in imu, which was August of 2006.
The intensive course which i took was just a month of 4 classes, 30 minutes each which make up the 2 hours in total.
I can't image that i'm going to perform on stage with the 2 hours of lessons and experience that i only have. To make things worse, i have not been touching drums ever since that, which is already 16 months!
Practice during late evening.
In a band, other than the vocalist and the bassist, the drummer is important in maintaining beats. And apparently i failed to do so. Practicing the song which we are going to perform in 84bpm was very hard to me, because i'm used to timing of 140bpm or above.
I really appreciate the chance of being able to perform on stage. But i'd be glad if i could handle the position as the lead guitarist. I've been playing the electric guitar for 4 years full. Even though i've stopped playing for 2 years ever since i entered to imu, but at least i have more experience in guitar than drums.
Plus the lead guitar part for this song is relatively easy for me, because i'm used to play melodies instead of chord-strumming.
I feel very sorry to the rest of the band member because i always tend to play faster than what i supposed to be. Being the core, once if i screwed up, the rest of the members will screw up too. That explains why am i in such a different stress.
Just came back from the rehersal, i think i have done the best that i could, and hope i won't cause the rest to screw up on tomorrow's performance.
Please don't boo at me or beat me up if i play out of beat ok?
1 vocalist, 4 backing vocalists including 1 keyboardist, 2 guitarists, 1 bassist, 1 drummer, 4 violinists, 1 flautist and 1 trumpeter. 15 of us in the band, i could we could possibly be the largest performing band that you would see on tomorrow night.
I have been carrying my electric guitar around recently, although i'm not playing the guitar for that performance. Because the rest of the band members have no electric guitar therefore i have to borrow mine to the rhythm guitarist.
That's some reason why i try not to carry out my guitar around. However, accident still happened. I forgot to lock my hardcase and i carried it up. The guitar just rolled out and the body knocked at the hard case's edge.
There's a dent at the edge of the body of the guitar. Heartache, really painful.
PS: I actually controlled my walking speed in 84bpm after the practices.
(Andante - walking pace of 76bpm to 108bpm)
I never feel something like this.
Through out my whole life, i have encountered different kinds of stress, although almost 90% of them are caused by exams.
But this something totally different. This stress has totally swallowed me up.
Not only stressed, now i'm tired, both physically as well as mentally. My sleep is disturbed because "it" is beating within me. My body is in ache especially my limbs, due to the lactate accumulated result from the anaerobic metabolism in me.
I always wanted to do something in the imu before i left to seremban campus. I can't do any kind of sports therefore i didn't take part in the imu cup for the previous past two times. I only joined the art competitions and i didn't win anything.
I can't dance, either. And i don't expect myself to get involved in cheerleading too. Therefore a music performance would be the only thing that i am able to do before i leave imu bukit jalil to imu seremban.
Our band manager, asked me to handle the drums for the performance during the friday night. I was glad because finally i have the chance to perform for my very first time. But too bad that i'm still very new in drumming.
Practice during the morning.
I could be the noobest drummer in the history of imu who is going to perform.
The only time that i actually touched drums was the time i picked drums as my elective during my first semester in imu, which was August of 2006.
The intensive course which i took was just a month of 4 classes, 30 minutes each which make up the 2 hours in total.
I can't image that i'm going to perform on stage with the 2 hours of lessons and experience that i only have. To make things worse, i have not been touching drums ever since that, which is already 16 months!
Practice during late evening.
In a band, other than the vocalist and the bassist, the drummer is important in maintaining beats. And apparently i failed to do so. Practicing the song which we are going to perform in 84bpm was very hard to me, because i'm used to timing of 140bpm or above.
I really appreciate the chance of being able to perform on stage. But i'd be glad if i could handle the position as the lead guitarist. I've been playing the electric guitar for 4 years full. Even though i've stopped playing for 2 years ever since i entered to imu, but at least i have more experience in guitar than drums.
Plus the lead guitar part for this song is relatively easy for me, because i'm used to play melodies instead of chord-strumming.
I feel very sorry to the rest of the band member because i always tend to play faster than what i supposed to be. Being the core, once if i screwed up, the rest of the members will screw up too. That explains why am i in such a different stress.
Just came back from the rehersal, i think i have done the best that i could, and hope i won't cause the rest to screw up on tomorrow's performance.
Please don't boo at me or beat me up if i play out of beat ok?
1 vocalist, 4 backing vocalists including 1 keyboardist, 2 guitarists, 1 bassist, 1 drummer, 4 violinists, 1 flautist and 1 trumpeter. 15 of us in the band, i could we could possibly be the largest performing band that you would see on tomorrow night.
I have been carrying my electric guitar around recently, although i'm not playing the guitar for that performance. Because the rest of the band members have no electric guitar therefore i have to borrow mine to the rhythm guitarist.
That's some reason why i try not to carry out my guitar around. However, accident still happened. I forgot to lock my hardcase and i carried it up. The guitar just rolled out and the body knocked at the hard case's edge.
There's a dent at the edge of the body of the guitar. Heartache, really painful.
PS: I actually controlled my walking speed in 84bpm after the practices.
(Andante - walking pace of 76bpm to 108bpm)
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