Transformation is quite easy, the only prob is that the kibbles are kinda tight to bukak. My only complains for the bot mode, is it's big feet, nampak cam badut pun ada gak..ahaks! :) But still it looks good nonetheless. Powerlink with Prowl as the head looks good especially with all the weapons attached, they look like one mean artillery machine. As a whole, i'm pretty much satisfied with this dude, nanti nak try him as the main head lak. On top of that, someone is selling roadblock which isa repaint of inferno but with a much better color imo, so tgk le if pakcik terbeli lak this baby ;)
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Friday 27th - i've been terribly buzy these past few weeks but today surpringly, i dont know maybe it's a blessing in disguise or not, my pc broke down, and all my works been done by other ppl. Now my pc dah been fixed, i still got no work to do, my main printer's being heavily use by other ppl pun at the same time for some reason, so here i am writing away wondering bila le nak balik and when the heck i'm gonna post all these entries ;)
For some reason, my boss dok asyik hawking over me aje, giving me small talk on the job duty around, well i know he meant well le but seriouslly....rimaaaaaasssss le!!
normally i anti skit cite melayu drama ni, but for the series Aku, Dia dan Cape Town, i somehow terikut, partly becoz it got a good storyline imo, and partly thanx to my wife ;) Anyway last night was it's last episode, and let me tell you the ending sucks big time! feels like it's being rush, out of budget, freakin abrupt and all. Tak paham betul le aku ni, depa dok buat built-up for this cite baik punye, then suddenly the ending like tah apa2 tah.
I mean what really actually happened in the end? Bah!
Just when i state i'm gonna stop collecting TF for a while, suddenly got lotsa good offer for them...grrr!!! Just to list a few - Alt. Grimlock, E.Downshift, E.Rodimus, E.Wingsaber. Tgk le camne nanti ye..ahaks!
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TF - finally bought the reissue insecticons and finally the g1 tracks are staying home :) These two have nostalgic feeling in my heart especially the latter. Tracks was my first TF long time ago in a galaxy far-far away. What distance him from most of the other G1 cars, is the transformation which is different from the like of Smokescreen or Bluestreek. Car mode is just sleek and solid and the weapons are quite cool - double rocket launcher and a big black gun to boot. As for the insecticons, i only owned Kickback way back dulu, and he
still is one of my fav. tf and to be getting the other 2 bots is really a bonus. I'm beginning to grow fond with Bombshell too :) Takara include a few energon cubes for these guys. They're made of rubber and look quite realistic.
Looking at all these TF's in my room, feel like i have had enough of them for now. Seriouslly i think i'm gonna lay low for a while. Feels like i dont enjoy them as much as i was dulu. I saw some dudes trying to get these and that, competing with each other for completing these and that, trying to get some stuff desperately....blah! Good for them if they enjoy the toys as much but if it was just for the sake of getting coz everyone else has them...blah! Yeah, it's their money and they can do whatever they want with it. But imo, there're really
no pressure. If you really dont have that much commitment, take a personal loan, say 5-10k, and go on a shopping spree at ebay especially for those G1 stuff. Heh, but that's just me le. Enough ranting le, i guess what i'm trying to say, hobby's supposed to be fun, be it
exciting (in a good way) or in a relaxing way. Enough said.
Shark Tales sucks, Oscar is weird looking. Spongebob the movie rocks; enough said :)
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Friday (20/5) - Watched SW3 semalam. Guilty as i am, taking leave just for the sake of catching the opening was worth it. Of course i did sent my wife for her checkup early that morning :) Anyway proud to say i've seen all the opening of the first 3 prequels as well as all the special edition sequels at the cinemas :) Semalam tgk kat TGV Bukit Raja aje, morning show, the crowd was biasa aje probably due to it's been a working day and all, so the hype was not all there if you know what i mean. But i'm sure kat MidValley the hype was a different story all together :) As a bit dull as it was, me and the guys brave through the mundom crowd wearing our SW-Ts..nak jadik cite hujan lebat lagi smlm morning. But all that aside, the audience was all hooked up to the screen once the opening screen came up :)
Comparing with the last 2 prequels, this one to me is a little better than SW2 which i think is just awesome. SW3 was just full of action compared to all the SW episodes. Hard to concentrate on all of them as there're just too much too absorb. Best scene in SW2 for me is the duel between Yoda and Dooku. In SW3 i like the softer scenes between Anakin and Padme (!) Weird? Go figure, but i think with all those ka-blam! going on, the mellow scenes
were very much welcome emotion and all. The sceneries around were breath taking; Anakin was brutal indeed though i wish they showed what really happened to the younglings ;) Hmm..what else to say...tgk sekali mmg tak puas. I'll wait for the dvd later on la instead of another trip to the theater. About the negative part on this movie, my friend mentioned that some parts kinda hanging or tergantung, well to me it feels more like abrupt especially towards the end. Like how did 3po and R2 memories got erased? *Shrug* But that just makes you wanna see the movie again to find clues and more clues ;) Well, enough said la, surely one of the must-see movie of the year, go watch it!
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Saturday (14/5) - rent a couple of movies yesterday as well as bought a 2-in-1 dvd (Shark Tales and Spongebob the movie :). The Intepreter was a slow-drama cum thriller, more focusing on the characters development which built up to the thriller towards the end. Ok aje le imo, kalau nak tgk watch with a bunch of ppl, coz you might fall asleep waiting for the climax. Not to say the whole movie was slow, it has its moment but dont expect any high-thrilling drama if you know what i mean.
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Hullo world - tinggal about 2 months maybe less lagi before my wife will give birth to our first kid. Seram ade, nervous pun ade, but mostly cannot help feeling kesian of what she'll go through soon. Sekarang ni pun nampak susah semacam aje ;) Baru ni she was admitted to demc for having premature contractions. Alhamdullilah takde apa yg serious. Nothing much i can do but to give her lotsa tlc and of course doa2 bebanyak :)
On a lighter note, dgr hari ni (the 12th of May) , the cinemas dah start selling tickets for the opening of Episode3 which will be shown this 19th. So hurry hurry hurry and get your tix ready. I've had good memories watching the opening of both Ep1 and Ep2, and insyaallah hope to see the opening for this last pre-parter as well. My kuncu is getting the tix for me tday ;) The hypes are everywhere in the medias, hopefully the movie
wont dissapoint me nanti.
Still on movie - saw the trailer for Chronicle of Narnia, which looks macam best aje :) Tu pun kena tgk gak tu. All i know about this movie is it was taken from the best selling Narnia novel series. Yup, expect part 2, 3 and so forth on this flick.
Movies seen - Jim Carey's Series of Unfortunate Event - not bad a movie, worth a dvd. Stories of 2 orphans being led to an extraordinary adventures finding the perfect home after their parents died in an accident. House of D - a touching drama, an a good one too. Can't remember the main actor's name but this movie also features Robin William, Tea Leoni and David Duchovny in supporting roles and surprise2 that the latter was the director for this movie. Hats off to him for delivering a good one here :) Story about a boy's journey
in becoming a man - his best friend, his part time job, girl prob, his mom, his dream...kira semua more or less well covered la. Seriouslly susah dah nak carik movie camni imo. Go watch it if you're into dramas etc. Triple-X 2 - action movie starring Ice Cube and Samuel L.Jackson. Mindless action movie - ter-over in parts pun ade gak..ahaks...just fun for a one time watch i guess.
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Went to Melaka weekend baru ni, visiting my mother in-law. Sempat singgah Jusco kat Ayer Keroh tu. Ingat nak scout for a Tf or two. Tgk2 depa ada King Atlas aje...muahahaha..pathetic betul la. But they do got those real-like energon k.o. ;) Real-like here means the main color are exactly the same, except for some minor details and they
can be superlink as well. Pastu drop by a couple of cd shops, ingat nak beli the May special edition cd which i heard is going for 20 bucks, but to no avail either. But surprise2, i terjumpa the best of SP cd. This one is the 2-disc version. Last time i totally ignored this album, now nak carik skit la punye susah, kalu ade pun yg single disc version. So dah terjumpa ni, terus grab aje le. Plus the price is the same as the single disc version. The extra bonus cd is called Judas-O featuring bsides and rarites. After listening to the accousticaly lovely Sparrow and the cool studio version of Saturnine, i know this one is a keeper. Fav. tracks so far is the two songs mentioned, and Here's to the Atom Bomb (from SIYL single ke TTT, gua dah lupa daa..). I'm sure there're more but at the moment ni takde time sgt to spend some quality times to really listen to the album ;) Man, i really kena betul kan my cd player at home.
As for the best of cd, well what can i say, seriouslly it's hard to amik this and that of sp
songs and churned it to a best of album. Most of their albums are good be it their singles, rarities and wat not. I bought this cd pun for the sake of Judas-O aje and took the best of album as a bonus cd for casual hearing in the car...ahaks! But this is coming from a fan, so tak le fair sgt my take ni :) Getting back to the cd, imo, from the Gish album, they left out Tristessa and of course I am One. From Siamese, they left out Mayo!! Tak caya betul aku. From MCIS, they left out 33 which is quite a suprise since it's an official single unlike the other
songs i mentioned tadi. Muzzle was also left out. From Adore - they left out To Sheila and from Machina, This Time. But i guess they probably did this due to 1) mana la nak muat satu cd ;) 2) I guess b.c wants the new listeners to find out for themselves all those hidden gems and for the old fans, maybe it's for the remembrance. There're no lyrics or notes from the band or billy himself, just pictures and more pictures. Especially luv the siamese twin collage on the last page :) Chewing Gum..The Last Song...Soma...Mouth of Babes..Pennies...Take me Down...Snail...Shame...Age of Innocence...Far from Home ;)...Jelly-Belly...Luna...Farewell and Goodnite...thanx guys.
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Weekend baru ni i re-organised my tf display collection. Managed to squeezed in all my energon in one place, my r.i.d. in one place, my miniscule g1 plus alt in one place and misc. bots in one place. Misc bots are basically my rm plus universe plus beast machine/wars bots. Fyi my collections are all towards bots which imo are cool lookin. And seriouslly apart from 1-2 bots from G1 reissue, Energon and RM, i think i'm pretty much done with the whole thingy.
For G1 - there's always something cool like the base-bots and such to collect but currently which is within reach is the insecticons reissue. Just gotta have those man :) R.i.d - proud to say, i have all the 3 coolest (imo) lookin bots in this series - the car brothers, black convoy and galvy not forgotting prime. Armada - the only sole Armada i have is the Micron Legends Screamer. Unicron is cool and so is Overload but somehow not that anxious to get them.
Energon - Downshift and Sluggy left me think in the cool looking department in this series
Misc - rm screamer period. Not much eh, now that dah dpt dead-end, i think no more alt for me, series yg. lain tu kalu terjumpa, amik, takde no hal..ahaks..plus thinking of taking out my misc bots and put it someplace else coz macam tak kena aje dlm display case i tu.
Thank goodness i'm not a g1 junkie cam my cousin tu. but my cousin collect loose/non complete g1. I on the other hand tak gemor sgt with non-complete stuff ni. All my tf, i'm proud to say even my loose e.landmine with no box are complete with it's accessories. But hat's off to him for manage to find some good g1 stuff non-complete or not :)
Dead-End - Dead n luving it..muahahaha. Standing him bside my Meister is like watching the best of both world - black and white - yin n yang...hehehe..but seriouslly i dig this guy. Transformation is easier than the Meister, only problem is to get the kibbles and wat not in places. It's not so articulative as the Meister, how i wish the waist can be move but the
bot-mode is cun in it's own way especially his posture, even my wife pun like him though i know she likes the Mazda more ;) Dead-End reminds me of a samurai of some sort with its's hood at the back mimicking a samurai get-up, black color and all. Good posture, good colors, totally opposite transformation from the mazda, which i like btw :) Just to add - the basic transformation is the same as the G1 tracks only of course this one has much more kibbles and biscuits :) Do i regret buying this one? Definitely not and if i have extra moolah to burn, probably get the BT version (shuddder! ;), the paint job is just awesome.
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Movies update :-
The Pacifier - wonder why the heck movie ni earn more than usd 100m. To me it's just another pop-corn flick that's worth watching kat rumah aje.
Constantine - Ok aje...ala End of Days. Can give it a miss imo, i much prefer the latter compared to this one.
Are We There Yet? - Another comedy flick. This one by Ice Cube. Much funnier than the Pacifier ;)
The Village - yeah, can you believe it i just saw this movie yesterday? I thought The Sign was teruk but this one pun equally teruk gak ;) At least the Sign punye ending ade le jugak skit thrilling dia but The Village reminds me of Cerekarama daaa...
Latest Haul :-
Got me a Batman Begins figure - the one with the battle-gear case. This one is totally beli on impulse. Do i regret it? Well, a little. Coz it's just an action figure. Nothing else. Tak leh transform ;) But i'm a long-time batman fan, and seriouslly i kinda dig the new suit. This figure comes with his batarang, target-goggle and grappling hook. Poseable at the neck, waist, both arms and wrist as well as thighs and knees.
TF - Alternator Dead-End. Not yet transform. Just got it yesterday. Nice menacing car, too lowered for my liking. Gotta say the BT version is much more sleeker due to it's die-cast paint compared to the alt version, but at rm90, i'm a ok with it :) Things noticed compared to my meister - looking at the bottom side of the car, revealed no details of the bot-mode which is cool. The tyres are a bit thicker also. My only compaint is that the viper logo's color
embedded at the front hood kinda tak kena. I would much prefer it in dark blue/purple or even blood red than the current orange. So which car do i prefer, the mazda or the viper? Well, at the moment ni i like the mazda more due to it's not so ketrampilan looking as the viper :) But tgk le satu-dua hari ni, mungkin my vote will shift to the viper lak ;)
Will let you know more on how my take on the bot-mode nanti.
Dvd - oh yeah, got me AVP and The Incredibles dvd - just excellent :)
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Good morning people and hope it to be a good day too :) How's everybody's weekend? Mine was ok..kinda relaxing. Saturday pi cari langsir for the new appartment. Go to Klang, the kain there is cheap, can bargain somemore. Where exactly is the place? If you know where that shopping mall, the one with the GSC cinema in it, park near there, and the place is just a short walking distance away. Ask anyone there where the place to buy kain n langsir and i'm sure they can point you to the right direction. It's actually a row of shophouses and there is a much nearer parking spaces right in front of the shops but usually it's filled up pretty fast.
Langsir shopping, a few baby shopping, earlier b4 that pi pasar tani lagi, pi Jusco sat later on and me and the wife dah ready to call it a day lar :) Semalam morning lak, my good friend and his family datang menziarahi rumah baru kami. They bring breakfast lagi! :) Allah bless them. Oh ya, on both days i managed to drop by cyber-cafe, my victory saber gallery are up...finally :) plus the farewell gathering pix with my ex-collegues also dah up. Sorry for the lateness ye kengkawan smua ;) Now kalu pakcik larat, pakcik amik le gambar si meister tu nanti and my new aquired galvy. Movies - Hostage - latest by bruce willis - a good movie for sekali tgk if you know what i mean, kinda disturbing skit though . A little ala the Negotiator but with a different twist.