Monday, December 18, 2006
12:21 AM
~~ A mini guild to toys lover out there ~~
Chinatown Shopping Centre aka CSC, is a place for all toys enthusiasm to go and rot or let their "greens" filled wallet be drain by shop keepers. there offer a small varities of toy shops and flea markets, (note that the flea markets only open on sunday). even thought CSC maybe a hang out place for toy lovers alike, but it is so much smaller compared to the old Clarke Quay Satay Club House there. ever since Ministry of Sound invaded the place and made it into a dance club, the place was haunted by ah bengs, ah lians and music lovers around, no more young and innocent kids and adult there anymore.
still i think CSC is a pseudo toy place to go, the shop owners there are out to cheat people's money and most are not friendly at all, they only act sweet and courteous infront of you because of the rolls of money in your pockets they saw. so to play safe and not allowing scammers to cheat your money on buying toys at any places, here are some of the basic examples to do.
1. search for local auction websites, they usually offer slightly below market price because of the competitions in there. (advice, don't be a fool to place a bid on the items you think is cheap, try looking through the entire auctions for similar item before placing any bid.)
2. try to find out more toy shops in singapore that selling the toys you are looking for, because different shop has different specialty. example are, some may sell similar items cheap while others selling it expensive because the shop may not be importing the specify toy massively.
3. try not to go to pseudo toy shop like *"@tion City" to get specify toys like, Kubricks or 1/6th action figures. the shops are now moving out of those hardcore toys and changing into a japanese act-cute gifts shops, so the price for those toy may be slightly higher then average, besides you cannot ask for a discount too.
4. never be shy on asking for a discount for the toys you buy, even though you just buying one cheap toy, shop owners usually mark-up their toy prices up to two or three times higher than stock prices vary on size of toy to cover up their shop expenditures.
(* - refers to a shop of the same articulation, i cannot be too acurrate as there is an infringement of shop name law being applied here.)
so my final words for all toy enthusiasms, be smart and be sharp on buying toys, they may bring back your childhood memories but a burned hole in your pocket is an undeniable fact, so enjoy buying.
~Viva La Jouets~
Sunday, December 17, 2006
7:42 AM
right now i can't sleep since yestheday, and it's like 7.45 in the morning. i'm now very confused, confused over my future. what shall i do or be in future? i have not much plan, all i'm asking for is to be a great designer and have my own studio. even so, will i survive in such a competitive world of today? sometime i question myself should i even pursude my dreams to be a designer, or should just be like an ordinary singaporean, wake up early in the morning and go for work with a proper job, and stop fantasizing my dreams. i don't know, i really don't know. maybe i'm just lack of self confident right now, maybe i'm just being a paranoid. right now, all i'm asking for, is to get a better result and allows me to enter into my designer course in poly and pursude my dreams. and i really hope i can share my life with a girl i truely love.
but well, there is something i need to be glad about. i finally got my very first authentic Arsenal jersey. yestheday i went to Vivo City with my family, and i got my hands on an arsenal long slevees jersey at Nike: by B.I.R.D wow, it was way too cool to wear it! i felt so much energy and "arsenalistic" in me. the jersey cost $135, but lucky my mommy got a $100 nike voucher, so i just spent $35 to get the long slevees jersey. yeah, way too cool huh... =P
- sign off -
the very paranoid me
Thursday, December 14, 2006
8:32 PM
~~Eragon, a kid's fantasy movie with a twist of some starwars flavour~~
omg, yestheday i went to watch Eragon at Cathay Theater, the film was very hard for my to digest. almost the entire plot of the story follows very closely to Starwars classics, and i was totally disgusted by it because it's a copied work and idea. (for those who disagree with my words, can try watching starwars ep. 4 A New Hope, first then watch Eragon the movie, you will know why i say it ish similar.)
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even the characters share some similarity, so let me just mention some and shall see.
both Eragon (left) and Luke Skywalker (right) share a similarity of like to show of their bravery. they share the iconic mashroom blonde wavy messy hair, both were farm boy and was abandone by their parents, only to stay with their uncle in a small farm town.
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(Eragon on the left, and Luke standing in the right picture)
one of the scene from each film has their hero looking towards the sun set.
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in Eragon movie, Brom (left) resembles Obi-Wan Kenobi (right) from Starwars, in one of the scene both oldies were to give the young and inexprience lad their weapon. they also shared a similarity of being simply annoying.
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there are more characters in Eragon to point out the similarity with starwars classics, but i was too lazy to do so. all in all, the Eragon film was pretty boring, and cut-short, so i will advice people who still insisted to go for a go for this kid's fantasy, please go during the week days, save some penny for a better film.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
11:13 PM
Oh my goodness... oh my fucking goofy or what ever it is, recently im having a severe fever and a stomach flu, it's killing me like hell... i can't eat or do anything, what ever i eat, i will just vomit it out, for etc. i drank a glass of milo, i vomited milo and some chinese herb medicines. i drank nothing but a glass of water, i puked nothing but water in chalky brown color.
haiz, lucky today i'm feeling so much better and get to play my computer, kekex..
arrggghh, my head is aching again, ok... shall do a post another day, tsk!
Thursday, December 7, 2006
5:26 PM
today i came acrossed this band called "Birdy Nam Nam".. a very interesting french band, basically they produce turntable style music.. very hard to classify their music, but i will group them under trip hop..
perfect tunes and style, can't wait to get their album..
here's their webbie..
www.birdynamnam.com
or try their myspace site..
www.myspace.com/birdynamnam
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
1:56 AM
~ So long, so Sian.. ~
haiz. todae im still a jobless bastard laying around at home, doing nothing but playing stupid soccer game on my console. fucking sad life i have...
well, but at least there is something for me to look forward for today, which is the champions league matches later on at 3.30 am.. woo, gonna see FC Barcelona being trash by Werder Bremen FC, good good... so the last year's champion will be out in this year's top 16, muwahaha..!
anyway, im really too bored now. no gal gal for me to xian or whatso ever. arrgghhh, fine fine.. im just making so much grambles and never make an efforts in finding a job. ok, maybe i should just like the jobless people on dramas, buy a newspaper and a red marker, start circling on job advertisments. (i believe the money for that will sure be use for buying soccer newspaper or a can of coke)
hmm... ok, enough of filling up my blog with junk entire, i shall end my post here...
signed off.
Monday, December 4, 2006
1:37 PM
haiz, i am fucking pei cek over my stupid little computer. fucking people and fucking whore who created viruses attacked my sicked little computer, i curse them to hell and meet satan!
hmm.. currently i'm jobless and it is freaking boring to stay at home. i used to love to stay at home when im gonna have to attend to school, and now guess what! my dream has forfilled.. so any kind soul around, please let me know if there are jobs available.
todae i came across a very interesting anime directed from ben hibon, called "codehunters" (shut up for those who knew that show), saw it from Mtv channel and it look beautiful.
here's the webbie. http://www.codehunters.tv
the animation was good but the story was pretty messed up, but it worth my attention to look at it. hopefully i will get my hands on the dvd..
