Lego 79100 - Kraang lab escape

Kraang, after all these years, the name is still fairly unique. A brain with a face and tentacles...

aww, our hero, trapped. Can you guess which turtle is this?

time to drop some delicious food, luckily I have pizza making skills. Even when I'm trapped

come closer.... and closer.... looks like orange slice to me

whooops! now trigger the ever so obvious switch that he can just lean down and grab, hey, not to spoil the fun for the kids ya?

yay, I'm freeeeee

let's do this Kraang, taste my nunchucku

the entire cast for the performance, only someone had switch places.. hehe

Well, managed to haul up this set when we visited the cheap Lego store in Prangin mall. Lego is still considered a niche product here, getting a small set is all I can muster for now since it's smaller as well. I just wanted the minifigs...

pondering

Got myself this tiny little bear to decorate my cabinet's top. Cute isn't it?

Swatch - Body and Soul

Waited for 2 years... finally caved in and bought it today. 1st Jan 2012.

Swatch - Body and Soul... fell in love with it instantly the moment I saw it from the shop 2 years ago... didn't pick it up as it looked a bit small. It's an automatic, skeleton watch (can see the internal gears from the front face).

In an advance age such as today, one really doesn't need a watch to get by as most of us is carrying a smart phone. It has grown from a time telling piece to a decorative item.

I remember where I used to look at my watch every moment I need to know the time. If I forgot to wear watch out one day, I would still feel weird if I hold up my wrist to look.

I stopped wearing my old watch cos I did not remove the strap to adjust the size as it can't fit my arm anymore and felt a bit loose, previously it was too tight that it gripped my wrist till it's all red and sweaty.

After 2 years from then... when I looked at it, I still liked it.. a lot. So, after much hesitation, I bought it. Hopefully it will last me another 10 years. I'm still having the Guess watch my mum bought for me 10 years ago.

10 years, the price is justifiable. :) more pics to come if I can get a good macro lens and snap nicely at home... for now, this is a post to mark the date of purchase.

Happy New Year everyone...

The Perfect Bait

The other day came back from work and found this parcel at my desk.

Upon seeing this address, I know what it is....

Haha, Art work... well, it's something related to art work but definitely not one. But nevertheless thank you for their handling and care on that.. Appreciated!

Here's the book I've been waiting for, from 1 of my favorite artist of all time - Bobby Chiu. It caters mostly for start up artist who wants to be inspired and motivated to attract clients to sell their art work to or even provide service. However, it contained more than that, including years of experience accumulated by Bobby himself and also from the artists he met along the way and their advice as well. All, bundled into a few chapters in this book.

I've finished reading it and thought it's a very nice book, to fully take it into effect one must really learn and embrace Bobby's advice.

Well done Bobby, and thanks for sharing!

Book details : http://theperfectbait.com/about.php

Buy the physical book now and stand a chance to stream the audio book read by Bobby himself at Schoolism.com as well http://www.schoolism.com/

RG - Aile Strike Gundam

Managed to snagged this up... thx to Julian who spotted it on another store... :) my 2nd Real Grade Gundam - Aile Strike. Hesitated a bit to pick it up, but you know, he passed the squat test of mine so... harder to resists.. :)

Back pack from skygraspher

Shield with beam rifle action

dagger holster

Daggers strike!

Looked slim without his backpack... :)

Usually this decides 70% of the purchase for me, the ultimate test of articulation... he passed most of it.. :)

Dual wield beam sabers

Both RG side by side.. :) another nice collection if i could say so myself... price also cheaper than MG. saves room space as well :p

Jack Sparrow LEGO

ahh.. another small collection I spotted in Austin at a local Best Buy store. just 1 single figure in simple plastic packaging.. $9.99. not too bad if I could say so myself, immediately snatched up this excellent minifig!

very nice hairdo.... really authentic Jack Sparrow Lego.. :p

movement of his arms are a bit hampered by his fixed hairdo but nothing major here... worth the trade off... gotta take off his hair piece to shift his face though... notice the individual hair strands on his face as well.. hehe.. nice touch..

Just checked the official Pirates of the Caribbean Lego product page and it didn't have this version of Captain Jack Sparrow.. luckily I've spotted it... hehehehehehe... I am Happy... ^^v

LEGO Cars 2 Lightning McQueen and Classic Mater

Only bought a few stuff for myself, including these 2 irresistible LEGO cars from CARS 2 from Pixar's animation... :)

never thought they'd release this on LEGO and since the price out of here is cheaper around 50%, just grab it straight away.

Loved the cutesy... with big big eyes... Mater even has his cute mouth with the bulge tooth! hehe..

Cute isn't it? so far it has not reached here yet... :) goes into my cabinet to avoid dusts.. :)

i've got it... ^^

Finally, after months of waiting, weeks of stalking and days of planning... I finally got it....

Rounded metallic buttons replacing previous volume rocker

aluminium bands around the side of the phones... picture here the so called "antenna gate" death grip.. haha...

Headphone jack, what's that tiny hole beside it? it's a 2nd mic for noise cancelling

Ah... finally... flash.... ^^ haven't used it yet...

Delicious retina display... one of the main selling point of this phone for me

Macro lens zoomed all the way in to discover the pixels... look at the density... it has around 70% of iPad's 9.7'' screen's pixels all fitted into 3.7'' screen of the iPhone... iMPRESSIVE

Example of an app whereby developer updates the app to support retina display's high rez. Check out that icon of Pano app. And the update doesn't just stop at the icon's appearance, in app graphics are also high res. :)

And this one, freshly updated to retina display support. click on each image if you need a larger picture.

Safari, on older models of iPhone

Safari on iPhone 4

Overall, I am happy... ^^ of cos there's a whole new set of improvements in other areas as well such as the CPU and memory but not going into detail here. :)

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