Lego Ferrari - by Shell

Suddenly saw this the other day on the morning paper and immediately jumped up with joy.

Went around the cube to check with people who could help me to acquire them as I could not possibly buy all at once. You need to spend at least RM40 on fuel and have Bonus Link card in order to buy one of these set for RM12.90.

Total of 6 sets to be collected...

they package the cheaper Legos in one of these plastic wrappers

what's out of the package for the F1 set

fully assembled trios!

naturally the F1 takes center stage here, notice the stickers galore. No 5 is actually tied to the blue studs, they gave another yellow ones and accompanying #6 stickers for the front. Maybe some die hard fans will collect 2 sets and put them up side by side? not me :) 

side view, check out some of the side stickers, generally they are of similar length

surprise visit from stars of Cars! Lightning McQueen and Mater

Towing

the happy cast with 1st wave, more to come later on

Thank you very much to those who has helped me to collect this 1st wave. I couldn't have finish the 1st collection without you guys.. =) 

Cheers!

Mid autumn festival 2012

laying it all out near cafe area where they put up sofas, notice each of us put up our Chinese name on the wrapper

I think we missed the celebration last year, either that or the celebration was small. Wanted to make this an annual affair, I've kicked started the invitation, blasted out the email and got the gang buying moon cakes literally 3 days before the actual event. :)

I'm glad I did.

mine! it tastes nice as well, from Tai Tong

Moon cakes, the gathering! this is what I have in mind, colorful moon cakes, the herbal eggs supplied by another colleague to add variety

finally, posing before sinking our teeth into the moon cakes

Thanks guys for the support! it was fun event as we get everyone together and the theme for dress code is red, at least red for most of us. =)

My Art - Dark Knight Rises

painted with Sketchbook Pro on my iPad - Bane, the man who broke the Bat

painted with Sketchbook Pro on my Bamboo Fun tablet - "girl's gotta eat" - Selina Kyle

One of my highly anticipated movie hit the screen last week - Dark Knight Rises. Went online, grabbed a few reference pics and started painting away... the only thing missing? Batman... that could come.

Mirrors Georgetown - Mural paintings 2012

one of many, from Armenian street. Almost missed this one as I was searching for the famous painting below, this is a bit more subtle but nice nevertheless

Mirrors Georgetown 2012 - a collection of mural arts around Georgetown Penang in conjunction with Georgetown Festival 2012 by international artist Ernest Zacharevic.

They are slowly painting this throughout the city in June - July 2012.

More info could be found here…
http://georgetownfestival.com/node/99

this is the most famous piece of them all at the moment and I can see why

another angle, noticed that the bicycle is actually embedded into the wall.. :)

 more to come as I collect more of them.. :)

Belkin stride 360 slim backpack

The picture showed the front compartment used to store some sort of eReader. I wouldn't bet my money on it to store my iPad. Not that it would fit but, nah, a slight accidental press on it and there goes the screen

Okay, been wanting a nice and simple backpack to replace my current Sony one which I got from free. Not that it's bad or anything but I just want something much padded with sponge for extra comfort and simple design.

Requirements:-
1) simple design
2) smallest design for a backpack (to fit a laptop, I found this 14")
3) enough space for me to fit my Macbook Air, charger, cables, perhaps mouse even, water bottle
4) cheap/affordable enough

Today I simply went in to one of the local IT hardware store and browsed around. Found this backpack from Belkin (the brand I like for accessories and backpack/pouches). Took out the stuffed papers inside and check out all the compartments, was happy with it and the price is not too bad (RM170).

The size is just right, 14", although my Macbook Air is 13" but it'll do.

nice and simple frontal design, chose gray color instead of black for that added special touch

this is actually interesting, I found out when I look at the little paper thing attached to the backpack. It's actually magnetic earbud holder which can technically latch your earbuds like so. I have a small problem with one of the magnets though as the position is the same as my earphone's so they reflect each other but the right side one seems fine. I don't really mind as I have yet to see the practical use of it. Perhaps when I travel a lot eventually. We'll see but it's a nice touch

there, the main attraction itself. Nice and tight, warm and fuzzy inside, there is however missing piece which I tend to look forward to to latch on and secure the notebook but lately when I compare most of the laptop bags, they do not feature this anymore so I would have thought it's the current trend. 

Overall, currently satisfied. I'll put it through it's paces and see how it does in the coming weeks/months.