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