Marc's Hobby (Just a suggestion)

Being a 1/6 military freak, I'd and probably should influence Marcus into my income depriving hobby. Till date I think I've spent way over 7k in my 1/6 hobby alone, with the latest being a RM345 purchase of SS CIA SAD ops figure. That's nothing compared to 1.75k lump sum spent acquiring a retired 1/6 collector. And I'm itching over another retiring collector's collection of 6 boxed figure for 1.1k which I'm trying hard to resist. After all, I'm broke >.<

Getting into any collecting hobby, the first thing that one need is a good display case. Yes, get the case first before getting the figure. The cheapest case is always self assembled bookshelf form Tesco/Carefour/Giant hypermarkets. Without a proper display case, your collection are exposed to the hazardous, value depriving substance called dust.

After getting that, only proceed in buying whatever collectibles.

Other then 1/6, I've collected die cast metal scaled cars, 6" Street Fighter II action figures (from SOTA toys) and gashapons. One thing about those PVC gashapons is how dust seems to like them. And it tend to get sticky after years in the shelf, probably due to reaction to the Malaysian heat. Which is also why I sold off my gashapon collection before it deteriorate any further.

Here are some less wallet damaging collectibles. Articulated figurines!



Pics from XL-Shop

Should I start a hobby in model kits? Mmmm.

Just suddenly felt the urge to start this. Maybe model kits of WWII/military stuff, or perhaps collecting some anime stuff like nendoroids such as in the pic below (image from xl-shop.com).



I'd be interested to start purchasing like a variety of R/C stuffs but Alex and WK seems not to like them (although it'll most likely be temporary... like until I get bored =p). Haha. At least now, Alex is a kaki of 1/6th figures already; so maybe starting a hobby in model kits is not too far off. lol.

Or what other hobbies can one get into besides all these? Please don't mention tech gadgets or phones, as I'm almost sick of all of them already!! @.@

Shout Mix Chat/Shout Box

Added Shout Mix chat widget.

Bukit Tinggi Sunday Drive Ver 2.0

As Alex has did the well-documented itinerary of what we did, it's now picture spamming time!

Let's start with our breakfast at a McDonald's drive-thru along the highway to Bukit Tinggi.
Nothing beats having hashbrowns in the morning. It is so fulfilling~



McD Big Breakfast set



Welcome to Berjaya Hills (inside Bukit Tinggi).
Makes you feel like you're somewhere in Europe in this picture!



More western feel here. The drawbridge entrance to the place.



It feels different there. Sorta like you are in Venice (without the water).



The castle-like convention centre in the vicinity.



The tower where we can walk up to have a great view of the entire place.



We tooked some pictures there of ourselves too!

WK doing his modelling pose. xD



Alex and Lian Chee here.


Marc & Cherry here.



When we went down, there was a moat-area which had some nice swans. Two blacks and two whites.

One of the white ones looks the way he is. Very angry!
It wanted wanted a piece of our hands as we tried to touch it. =.=''



One of the black swans. Somewhat more elegant looking, and polite too! Alex fed it some groundnuts and it seemed to like it. Haha.



The buggy that goes to two places: The Japanese Tea House & The Rabbit Farm.



Check out this sign. World's first Japanese Tea House in the Tropical Forest.
Now, who'd want to build a Japanese Tea House in a Tropical Forest in the first place? Hahaha. Anyway, it's pretty interesting.



One of the tea houses in the place. Nice ambience.



As part of the Japanese theme, we have Japanese koi fishes as well.



Waterfalls here and there and some nicely-made Japanese-style terrace, steps and bridges.



Next, the rabbit farm. It's a petting zoo where we can actually play with the rabbits as we like. However, these baby rabbits (which was off limits to visitors) caught my eye. Cute~



For some reason, there were some donkeys there too. lol.



After the whole ordeal, we were pretty tired and haven't even had lunch! See WK here feeling really bored and gone a bit nuts. Haha.



We went back to Kepong, KL for some local food. Here's the prawn mee that we had. Slurpp~



Should we go again? It's a pretty good way to spend time on a Sunday (including the winding uphill/downhill slopes!) :D

Now, where are WK's pictures from his high-tech phone??? ^_^

Bukit Tinggi Sunday Drive

It was more then just a drive up Bukit Tinggi. In the end, we ended up sight seeing (which cost each of us RM16 entrance fee).

The drive was set back an hour later for Marc to get some extra snooze. But everything else went according to plan, we had breakfast at McD Gombak Stop, then shoot for Bukit Tinggi via Karak highway. Traffic was minimal. There were vehicles here and there, but traffic was smooth flowing and surprisingly, no road hogs and I was cruising 120 all the way till 1km from the Bukit Tinggi exit where I slowed down with indicators on to beacon Marc.

On the way up (past the first guard house), we passed a group of yellow and white skylines and RX7 who were calmly exiting the hill. My initial guess was Eugine and his group of friends, and true enough it was them, since he blogged about it. When the super cars passed, and no one in sight I floored it and charged up hill. It's been a really long time since I last touge. And with the seasoned 1 year old PP2 tires on my Neo, I wasn't loosing much traction. Although I did lost traction mid corner a couple of times, but I didn't loose control at all. Traction was easily gained the moment I corrected my slip (weather over or under steer). But I do need to have my front suspensions looked into since I heard a dull thump from the front suspension pillars twice mid corner and once on the camouflaged speed bump.

After that short but fun rempit session, we bought entry tickets to access Berjaya Hill Resort attractions, The French Village, Japanese Village, Botanical Garden and Rabbit Park. It was Marc and WK first time there, so sweetheart and I became tour guides and camera man for them. We took allot of shots at the French Village and enjoyed the cool breeze at the look out tower, opposite the clock tower. The Japanese Village is next via tourist truck/buggy ride. Its actually a lorry fitted with seats at the rear to ferry passengers (like those in zoo negara). It was inadvisable to touge up this smaller, narrower, steeper road with much more blind spots and heavier traffic since it will be accessed by the tourist transport vehicle every 30 minutes. Furthermore the visitors carpark is quite a walk away from the entrance. Many more shots were taken at the Japanese garden as lighting conditions were pleasant to the sensitive skin, but enough to take clear and sharp images. Sweetheart and I fed some fishes while at it. We did not enter the Botanical Garden though since none of us are interested in plants.

After that we drove back down to the Rabbit Park cum petting zoo to molest some rabbits before heading back home. It rained on the way back, forcing me to reduce speed dramatically. and be gentler in the corners. But that didn't stop me from overtaking slower moving vehicles.

Only Marc and WK brought cameras and camera phones. My phone doesn't come with a camera :(

so, please post some pics guys.

So simple, yet so delicious!

There's just something about fried rice that is nice. I don't know why I just love it. I could eat it everyday. :D

Here's the fried rice that my maid cooked recently. She's pretty good at frying rice. With a little bit of eggs, onions, chilli padi, salted fish; we have a perfect combo!

Bukit Tinggi Drive

Marc confessed his rempit obsession. Since I'm a spirited driver as well, lets play at a nice beginer's touge route, this sunday (21 Sept). This month will be the best time since the road will be clear during fasting month, and it has been sunny the past week except for one or two showers. Unlike the previous month, when it rains, it pours.

Agenda
RV point: LDP (damansara) toll
Leave RV point: 8.00am
ETA (bkt Tinggi): 9.00am (inclusive of breakfast stop)
What to expect: Speed bump midway through the course, look out for sign. the bumps are unpainted.

Can you be as cool as this?

Oh yea. This guy is like ultimately cool. Some kind of guy who wants to be a statue. Just sat there in a fixed position without any movement whatsoever. Fantastic (as this is the first time I've seen it here in KL). Alex and WK was there too.

Gave him RM1 for the effort. :D

Diablo 2, anyone?

So, I've installed this 10 year old game last night. There's not much computing power in my laptop for crysis, and Alien Shooter doesn't have co-op multiplayer.

Yes, i'm thinking of playing this old classic again, multiplayer style. XD

[Discussion] Theme Change

I think I'll implement a few new stuff. Like a discussion blog post. The rules are simple. Just post your reply here in the comment box below.
Lets start our first discussion, samadpalz theme need to be changed. so, what are your suggestions???

I've started with the dots theme for my 1/6 blog (yes, i'm blog whoring) and then modify it extensively to include custom images and such.

Secondly, i really like tags and tag cloud format for a label widget. My friendster WP blog has it, but i wouldn't want to re tag every single 200 over post in that blog. Since this blog is "new" with very little post, how about changing it into tag cloud format? I've scanned through the widgets but couldn't find it just yet. have yet to use the search function.

It's about time! (quoted from SC2 trailer!)

Yeah.. It's about time. Haha.
OMG... 2 years?? Good thing you said something about this the other day, Alex. Hahaha.
Ok. Time to start posting again now... errr..wait.... in the next post =p haha.
Will update .... tomorrow! xD

Now, on another note, how do we 'nudge' WK to start posting here regularly. LOL!

Yes, I'm Rusty

This blog has been sleeping for way too long. 2 years man. WTF?
It's like the dark lord has unleashed his reign of terror upon us.

So, why dig up an old grave?

I got all hyped up when friendster finally upgrade their blogging engine to Wordpress 2.6 about a week ago. So, yesterday, on an outing with Existenz and Shockk, I brought up this matter to them. Shockk is more then willing to contribute again, and Existenz is as usual, need a nudge before he agrees.

Before this, I wasn't much of a blogger until the Samsung giveaway contest.

So, it can be said that blogging is going to dominate much of my time. There is one more blog that i'm planning to revive. My 1/6 blog. I'll be working on the theme first, then will need to borrow Shockk's tripod for some photo shoot of my army man and woman.

Till then, signing out.

Alex a.k.a. Rusty