Lakers still struggle

Another solid performance form Kobe Bryant 40 points came along with 10 rebounds
But how sinister for Kobe to have lost the game
A tie game, just 2 points to Indiana Pacers
come on
54 percent on the foul line, and 32 percent field goal
what happens to the others the bench
Kobe just outscored all his spiritless teammates(40 to 37)
The Lakers were like praying Kobe to make every single jumper, 3 pointer and layup
even without Nash still you got to work things out
Come on,
Lots of fans will be disappointed

The lone ranger

Malaysian Accent

"I like the way he speaks, his rebuttal makes you believe in his points, it is so convincing"
"You know I like the style he speaks also"
"The way he speaks has a very strong Chinese accent"
"It is nice to keep this accent you know"
"Rather than being too westernized"
This was the compliment that my English teacher gave to a very brilliant student after the debate
When I was a bit frustrated for not doing quite well
And this comment inspires me a lot
why should we talk like a westerner,
Imitating and emulating the accent of UK or US
We are Malaysian aren't we
We are commonly renown for our language ability
And it is also what makes us unique as a Malaysian
It dignifies us as a Malaysian

As for my teacher, she is kind of a localized English teacher
I know undoubtedly she can speak so well
But she has not any hesitation to use "lah, lah, lah" in the class

When I was admiring and jealous about how fluent, hasty and well another female classmate spoke spontaneously
This comment of my teacher had really twisted my thought
And I can agree more about this
come on lah, just speak like a Malaysian lah

Don't judge a book by its cover

We, people, seem to have the propensity to make a judgment based on what we witness with our very own eyes

Today I came across an incident that made me felt and agreed with the saying "Don't judge a book by its cover"

You know, I always moans that the shuttle bus service in my campus sucks
Actually I entailed this conclusion just based on my handful experiences with shuttle service
Cause I have my own Bike, seldom I take the bus
My grouse was those buses coming in groups
There is always a couple of buses coming in a roll at a same time
Why couldn't them have some gap between rounds?

But today, I understand the reason behind it
The time when I see the "Bus fellowship" is a time peak hours of the shuttle service
The time when most of lectures start
All the students are heading the the lecture halls
If there were only a bus at one time, it would be definitely insufficient, it could have been more complaints

So, I guess next time, I should have observed more and see more into detailed, before coming to a conclusion

Kobe remains tough

At the age of 34, even inflicted by some injuries
Kobe Bryant is still fit to score a prolific 38 points with a efficient 55% accuracy
Forget about the loss to Kings of that game

With such an outstanding condition, why he needs to relinquish his domination in the team?
He just prove himself a superstar, a sustainable and long lasting superstar

And it is indeed to my surprise that such solidly strong performance of Kobe comes so early in the season
you know it hints that there will be more coming on the way

God please let this guy stay fit for a couple of seasons more
And Dwight, he is waiting for your rock the city

I love this man's layup very much, if Lebron's Jam is a super pop, then this lay up is a old school classic

The road not taken

Just suddenly felt like writing something
Looking around
there are various types of people passing by in my life
At the age of 23, not considered very old, but I guess I have seen quite a number of people in my life
I bet, as graduation is coming around the corner, me and my fellow friends and other undergraduates have reached at a crossroads
A time where one of the toughest and momentous decision that we need to make
Our path to our future, the career path
whatever choice we take, it will greatly influence the manner and the way we live

Recall the poem "The road not taken" in secondary school
At this point of my life, my situation just fitly depicts what is said in the poem
There is a bright, clear, and straight road
A path where I used to think as what am I supposed to take
I had this thought may because of there are many people with a similar background like mine have chosen it
We human have the propensity to decide by referring to others
And to some, there are even society and family pressure, where the poor fellow is coerced to take the road
But
Do they really enjoy the journey?

Thanks God that, I am born without any disability
And in a decent family, not loaded but at least I have no financial pressure
There are someone around,
even someone I know, needs to think about his what to feed himself for the next meal
If they are unfortunate, then me as the lucky one,
should I appreciate my luck by doing what I am thought or expected to do by the society?
Is making a decision blindly hinges on the envious feeling towards the successors a smart way of choosing?

Whereas it is completely different with the other route
There are distinctly fewer "risk taker" have tried this road
Because it is unconventional, unlike a the other roads where someone in his or her right mind should choose
I am exposed to less knowledge and information on how it could be to choose this road
The decision to take this road is sure to be contentious
There will be disagreements against it
And I might be said to have lost my right mind for ever thinking about it

"Don't judge a book by its cover"
should it be taken into consideration?
What others say
Is that the option that there are more people chose a definitely right choice
Even if I am aware of this vague road leads me to a destination that might be congruent with my interest, what I want and more importantly what I indeed enjoy spending time on.

I guess I would just literally like imprisoning myself with the views from people around
what generally a person like me should do and what they might want me to do
It could be true that following my heart is the means to extricate myself from this jail, the life long jail
Otherwise I'll just walking in their shoes at the end of the day

But why?
Why? still I'm stuck?
I am still indecisive and doubt

This just picture just conveys what I don't want to be

Mike D'Antoni, the "Right Mike"

Just when the whole LA is talking about who will be the head coach of the Lakers
And when some rumor has that Phil Jackson the Zen Master
Shockingly to our surprise Mike D'Antoni has taken the post, out of all's expectation

I personally don't recognize the last Mike, Mike Brown as a good coach
When this starry hollywood lineup of the Lakers was formed, I was thinking that it was certainly a waste to have Brown to coach this roster
Firing Mike Brown has just allayed some of the worries and fears of mine and I bet the other fans

Okay, Stop criticizing Mike Brown.

Mike D'Antoni, a very vibrant veteran coach who has experience in the euro basketball (with even 2 euro league titles) is best known for his aggressive and spectacular attacking games
In spite of his average result during his stint in New York
He is now in L.A to bolster the confidences of the fans
Can you recall the Sun with Nash, Stoudemire, Marion...
Run and Gun
It is always exciting to watch his games
Although he has yet to win any title in NBA
but his ability to coach is indisputable and no one will doubt him to be fitter than Brown

Just like George Karl, his basketball belief has that attacking is the most effective form of defense
However, after decades of coaching career in NBA, George Karl is still longing for his first title

The worst opening of the season and the pre-season games of the Lakers has inflicted an immense disappointment to all the Lakers' die hard fans and me. They were just disappointing.
Mike D'Antoni has to turn thing up, the fans of Lakers are cheering for his reign in the hope that he could assist Kobe to another few or maybe the last trip to the final and conquer the league
And I also hope that he will break the refute the long standing phenomenon of " Offense wins applause and Defense wins the game"
Hope that he can attain something outstanding in Lakers

The collaboration of Nash and D'Antoni is inarguable and should bring some good impact on the execution of the game plans and the chemical effect of the team
As for Kobe, he is still fit to score and mark, he should be very grateful that Lakers enlists Mike D'Antoni as the last piece of the lakers complete team

Now the veteran Lakers has the height, the experience the clutch and the right coach
the only downside of this super Lakers is the bench
There is an apparent disparity between the starting line up and the substitute
It hints that the starting line up must stay healthy the whole season
Or something must be done to address it before the window closed

Lakers must reclaim the central stage under D'Antoni's Steer

The right "Mike"

This guy is another corner stone of the Lakers

cheers

Structured

I love things to be in order, organized and structured

that is why sometimes I have my own quiet moment of introspection

Fantasizing quietly and devising a method of how to keep my things neat and structured

I feel like cleaning and tidying up my stuffs every time I sense that I feel spiritless and energy-less

It could be those past experience and retrospective unpleasant happenings that trigger the spiritlessness and low motivation

It is proved to be workable too

By clearing all the mess and organizing my various belongings in a cellular form

I feel revitalized and recharged inside

However, thing that I need to organized the most is myself, ain't my stuffs

Panel lining Gundam Plastic Model Kit

I have collected a couple of Gundam plastic model kits.
Not HG, MG nor the new RG
I personally love SD (super-deformed) very much
their head is comparatively bigger and more detailed than any other grade
and they are just so cute man

Once finish building a gundam model kit
have you ever felt that there is something not right with your model
Like lacking of something
It doesn't come out quite alike what I expected from the image in the packaging
And felt like being cheated or buying a defective product

I am still a rookie in Gunpla
And soon I realized that building a nice looking Gundam model kit is not simply joining and assembling all the plastic parts in the runners
There are more, like painting, panel lining and coating

This time I wanna share a most effective way to make the model much alike the image in the packaging

Just do panel lining

I first show some picture of  before and after panel lining of  my Zero Gundam

It is nice but it is so plain before panel lining

After some panel lining, the whole model looks more detailed and lively now

A closer look at the difference before and after panel lining

May be my skill is not too good, but it looks shockingly good to me since it was the first time to do panel lining

If you google panel lining Gundam model kits, you will find that there are many ways to do it
But I think for a beginner like me
It is advisable to use the Gundam Marker
It is just as easy as drawing line on a plastic surface
And remember to get yourself a piece of fine rubber eraser
to rub off the ink in case if you made some mistake
I bet you will make lots of mistakes

This is the Gundam maker that I use

Lastly I wanna say that panel lining is not an easy job too
To make a perfect job it needs lots of patience too
but the result really pays off

I can't wait to panel line all my model kits
But after the Zero Gundam, I have an unbearable sore neck now

Astray Red

The Rules of the Games

The week is the exam week of the 2 monstrous lecturers' subjects

These few days I have been studying like hell

I thought I could burn the night oil yesterday, but I fainted in bed

I was just washed-out because there were presentation and life saving duty yesterday

After reading reading and reading

A thought popped up in my mind

I agree with the statement that Learning is by no means Memorizing

I guess this is what an ordinary student does

Loading gigabytes of facts and theories and throwing them up in the exam hall

And if you ask him afterward, he'll tell he has forgotten about them

 

The exam oriented type of education is doomed to be failure 

Until a turnaround change in this edu system, it is only manufacturing memorizing machines

What I want to say is application learning is the rules of the game today

You suck if you can't apply the concept you learnt in your text

To apply you need to fully understand and comprehend what you have learnt

It could be called knowledge only if you understand them

As for the prevalent memorizing, it is only a means of understanding

It could be fun to dig, dig and keep digging a piece of knowledge

If you figure out your interest in it

Someone in our society must really called a halt to this exam oriented education

to extricate the students from the burdens of studying 

and start to produce thinking individuals

Environment for studying

A suitable place to study is always not in my list of concerns about studying

I used to think that a desk or a bed especially will do

But now I started to feel that studying environment is very imperative to encourage and motivate us to open the books

It could be because I was brought up in a decent family, my mum stressed us a lot on studying 

Though we are not rich, my parents have tried the best to provide us a souvend environment for studying

Therefore since secondary school, I would not ride down to the town deliberately just to get to the library or McDonald to read

I was wondering why can't they just study at home?

Is it necessary for them to take a long ride just for a space to study?

May be the air conditioner is cool attractive, but does it make a lot of differences?

But later on, I realized that I was so naive to have the perception that everyone had a decent place to study at home
Furthermore, outside with friends, they could chit chat a bit when it became too boring.

Thanks God for what I have and given by my parents, not everyone share an equal fortune.

In my tertiary education,  the external environment of having a suitable, comfortable ( with air conditioning or midnight), or quiet place to study has become a key for me to study. My productivity is at peak during mid night. Especially someone takes part in activities or joining any society, club or organization, the poor little guy just have inadequate time for them to study in the day time.

In addition, a very convincing reason, that is when I am apart from my laptop my effectiveness and productivity of studying can go staggeringly higher.
God damn, it is so true for people like me who is not pretty good in self-discipline, self-control, self-management, or self-whatever. 

Aside from these external and physical kind of environment, however, the intangible kind of environment plays a more prominent role to "lure" us to study.

For instance, the type of friends that you hang around in the class, are they the sloppy one or aggressive type, or the type of your lecturer, strict or lenient. 

Definitely, in an environment where you have aggressive friends and strict lecturers is more favorable if we are talking about getting good grade, it has a positive impact for us to feel pressure for studying hard. 

Just imagine that one of your lecturers is strict and very demanding, he assigns tests and pop-quiz in class relentlessly, and at the same time all your fellow classmates are so aggressive in studying in order to trample on those do not study well, then someone n this environment is so likely to be hard working as well. 

It forms a kind of aura of hardworking and engender pressure and reason for us to contend with other students. 

You know, human being is born to have a mindset of winning and may be we are pre-engineered to love winning over others. What a sad scenario.

But you know, learning should be fun, find my interest in the topic and I think being curious and interested can make learning lot of fun. This is the most powerful and strongest environment of studying, perhaps. 

Barrack Obama won Re-election

Congratulation to Mr President
It is so impressive that Mr President still attracts the voters very well
Even though in the past 4 years there were some economic issues
I really thought he would lose to Romney(I am one of his supporters)
Whatever so he did it
this time the first black to win re-election

Part Timer Life Guard

For sure we have heard of being life guard as part time as a student in the movie and novel so often
But now I am actually doing the same thing
To earn some pocket money I take a part time job to be a life guard in Prince of Wales Island International School
The paid is quite lucrative but just the distance is a bit too far, Balik Pulau
Anyway I think that the school is very nice and i must be a very good place to develop a student, as I can see the attitude of the students are far more proactive and sociable you know

This is my work place

The school is not very big, but it contains a lot in it

On my way back I have a chance to enjoy this beautiful sunset scene on a hill top

This my equipment that I found there

This is a welcoming stone, similar to the one in USM

SD (Super-Deformed) Gundam

Recently I got a new interest

Gundam plastic models

I want to start collecting gundam models

I personally love Super Deformed model,

they are just so cute and can be so cool too

Through surfing online, I have learnt about many knowledge about how to build and paint a gundam plastic model

I really can't wait to start doing some panel lining on my gundam now

Just the case that at the moment I am so busy with study

I show some of my gundam without panel lining and painting

This is 0 Gundam

I personally like Zaku very much

A white Zaku, I am actually looking for a blue SD Zaku

Force Impulse Gundam

Force Impulse Gundam

Freedom vs Force Impulse Gundam

Yeah, 00 the coolest among all, I think it will need some painting to be more presentable

I think after some decent amount of panel lining and painting and coating of course, they will be looking far more cooler =P