Nosebleeder's Composition

Life As Usual

2013-01-22T18:15:00.000-08:00

Rovin watching cartoons in my room in his favorite position. ^^

Album Art

2012-11-09T17:57:00.002-08:00

Rovin will surely hold a grudge on me when he grow up. From profile picture to blog banner, and now this.^^

Answered Prayer

2012-10-22T22:16:00.001-07:00

Some time last week, I was asked by my father to water the newly-planted duhat (indian blackberry) located a few steps from our backyard. Just when I was about to pour the water using an aluminum pitcher, I heard a honking sound nearby.

Armed with an outdated 2.1 eclair android phone, I took a picture of the noisy waterfowls. The honking didn't stop....and I assumed the geese was startled to see a caveman holding a pitcher and an outdated 2.1 eclair android phone. It's a disturbing sight for the geese I thought. As I turn and walk away, the honking continued. I simply put the aluminum pitcher on top of a shaky washing machine and went back to my cave. I turned on my jurassic laptop which took the usual 3-minute boot-up time.....waited.....plugged in the router....double-clicked Firefox and sat.

Who would've thought that the honking geese could have something to do with what I am about to see online. Perhaps it's a sign. After years of waiting, my prayer has finally been answered....the Master grade Tallgeese is now officially announced by Bandai, which will be available January next year.

photos from gundamguy.blogspot.com

The more slender shape of the upper torso and the smaller shoulder armor will surely help shoulder movement, but I'm not quite sure about the additional armors for the Tallgeese III....still hoping that it won't affect posability. The fatter thighs are just right for me. I think it's one of the Tallgeese's trademark aside from the mohawk head and the two thruster pods on its back. The smaller feet will also look better for aerial poses. The dobergun looks a lot better, and the shoulder attachment doesn't seem to differ much from the high grade.

photos from gundamguy.blogspot.com

One complaint though, I find the the shape of the upper thruster pods too pointy....unlike its HG counterpart. Maybe there's a good reason behind its pointy design....maybe Bandai want it to make look more aerodynamic....I guess.

I always tell myself not to be redundant when it comes to purchasing stuff...always be happy with what you currently have....that's why I'll be keeping my 1/100 HG kit and wait more months for the MG Tallgeese III to come out. It will be my master grade after two years of MG abstinence. Now is the right time to start filling my piggy bank again...because my most favorite non-gundam mecha deserves to be in my collection.

We Pee Zone

2012-09-16T17:44:00.002-07:00

Rovin:"It's the correct way of reading it."

Monkey Reflex

2012-09-14T18:54:00.000-07:00

There's one thing that comes in my mind when I see horses roaming around in our backyard: free buko juice. Lacking the monkey reflex to climb a coconut tree, buko juice isn't something that I can enjoy on times when I wanted one (despite few coconut trees planted around the jungle). I just look up thirsty and drooling....and it ends there.

Coconut harvesters still use horses nowadays. Few basketful of coconuts are worth about a few cigarette packs....father is always the beneficiary.^^

I think having a pet horse is a good thing. Horses eat weeds...weeds grow and needs to be mowed...mower needs gasoline to function.

The local term for coconut with hard meat (the one that usually hard to scrape from the shell) is called "magulang". The term "mura" is the one I prefer to eat with the juice. It has soft meat (mala-uhog) and can be easily scrape off from the shell.

Dividing these into halves isn't as easy as swiping your thumb on a smartphone. There's no such thing as Fruit Ninja in real life....only spies.

"♪If you eat too much you'll get very....very♫.............I forgot the lyrics.

1/100 HG Gundam Sandrock Custom

2012-09-02T18:35:00.000-07:00

After a few weeks' "hiatus" (ok...I swallowed my pride this time) I have finally finished my Sandrock.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/infrasmell/

I based the look of the Sandrock on the manual of 1/144 Sandrock custom. In my opinion, it is much better than the one pictured on 1/100's manual.

Just love those huge....curvy............heat shortels. I borrowed my father's slightly used Pylox silver spray can for the shortels.

I didn't able to make Quatre's eyes right...he looks like Sailormoon in a new hair-do.

Since this isn't a master grade, I did not bother coming up with dynamic poses. Aerial poses isn't Sandrock's strong point either.

Instead of having a plain gray cloak, I decided to add a little brownish tone to it. I used the remaining gray and brown poster colors on the palette...soaked the whole cape in it (i used the spray can's cap to mix the poster colors) then waited for it to dry. I used a pair of scissors to add tear at the bottom edges of the cape.

I was tempted to use ballpen caps for the thrusters (something I learned from gmtristan.com link here: http://gmtristan.com/china-blitz-gundam-1100/) but I'm not particularly good at modding. I thought I will only mess things up if I only super glued the caps in place, so I decided to just spray it Pylox silver.

1/100 HG Gundam Sandrock Custom: WIP part 3

2012-08-27T06:17:00.000-07:00

still to add shading and linings

sprayed 3 coats of Bosny flat clear

sprayed the two heat shortels with Pylox metallic quick silver

Mood Shift

2012-08-11T23:25:00.000-07:00

For Rovin, overcoming life's hardships is like preparing chicken noodle soup.....it should be done in an instant.Mood Shift

1/100 HG Gundam Sandrock Custom: WIP part 2

2012-08-11T22:41:00.000-07:00

I'll resist myself from using the word "hiatus" for this post...because there's no pride using a word you just recently learned from google. I'm just being honest.^^

There's a saying that once you started something, you must finish it (even if you're an exhausted Wipeout contestant). Seems like the acronym WIP for me is "work-in-pahinga" instead of work in progress. It took me a month to acquire diligence again...as these hindrances to my gunpla-building are pulling the interest and nerdiness out of me...convincing me that there's life aside from gunpla.

Aside from almost two weeks of continuous rain...and two days of enduring stomach ache (curse those red salted eggs!)....these turn-based Japanese rpg's kept me from doing any gunpla-related stuff.

Finished Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis on my phone's GBA emulator

I made Rovin the main protagonist of the game.^^

Finished the game in 34 hours and 50 mins.

Also finished Final Fantasy Tactics Advance...205 out of 300 missions completed

The real culprit here is the continuous rain. The air is too humid to paint. No matter how many hours I've waited for it to dry...still few painted parts have moist...still thankful that our cave didn't experience heavy floods like what the capital region experienced.

Just like what I did with my heavyarms last decade...I mean last year, mixing colors is done by eye. No ratio whatsoever because I hate measuring. I mixed blue, white and purple poster colors for the sandrock's color scheme.

ugly painting error on the waist

Different shades of gray...the lighter shade is for the front skirts and shoulder armor, the darker shade is for the two heat shortels, knee and elbow joints.

GN Butt-zooka

2012-06-26T17:14:00.000-07:00

Rovin playing Gundam vs Gundam Next Plus on his PSP. He's using Gundam Virtue.^^

1/100 HG Gundam Sandrock Custom: WIP part 1

2012-06-10T18:29:00.001-07:00

I developed fear watching Manny Pacquiao's fight...because the last time I watched, he lost.

Yesterday was Bradley vs Pacquiao fight so I started doing the sandrock yesterday morning just to divert my attention and not to be tempted on taking a peek at the television (I'm doing Pacquiao a favor here^^). In the picture, I was currently in the most boring part: the sanding and masking part.

1/20 Quatre's figure ready for painting...only masked the hands and face. The American dubbed Gundam wing pronounces his name "Katrah"...but the tagalized version I used to watch when I was young pronounced his name "Kwatreh".

Only few parts were sanded and masked and ready for spray painting. It was lunch time and I got hungry...ginisang munggo and pork chop on the table. Unfortunately, our dining area also serves as entertainment room (slash Rovin's dancing area), so it is expected for everyone in the family to be there and wait for the fight to start. I had a bad feeling Pacquiao's going to loose because I'm there watching. I thought of closing my eyes and wear headset while eating but I realized I will only find discomfort doing it. (sorry for how my brain works)

From the way I saw it, I thought the fight should be draw. I'll be needing a stronger will to resist watching the rematch soon....because I want Manny to win.

Better than Chicken Dance

2012-06-05T20:37:00.000-07:00

It would be an awkward moment for me to be seen dancing by someone else, that's why dancing is no fun for me. Up to now, I don't understand those nocturnal party-goers why they consider dancing during nighttime fun (maybe the lights and drinks have something to do with it). I prefer (what others think what losers consider fun) playing TMNT on my phone's gba emulator....well that's fun....for me at least.

In Rovin's case, dancing is his way of expressing himself...whatever music he may come across with....and he does it effortlessly.^^

Looks like he's wearing a tapioca pearl (sago) shades.

Even though I hate dancing, that doesn't mean the music meant for it will be hard for me to appreciate. Don't get me wrong, during college, I used to listen to Daft Punk and Chemical Brothers. It's just that I'm getting sick with pop songs lately and needed something new that will keep my ear entertained no matter what others think of me having a bad taste in music. (naks!) This guy named Calvin Harris is the one responsible for my sophisticated head banging lately. I didn't know if he's really that famous in the western civilization but his collaboration with Rihanna's We Found Love is what made him to be recognized by a caveman (I'm pertaining to myself just to make things clear)...and he sings too ala Depeche Mode and The Human League. I'm currently hooked with the song's instrumental version also with Let's Go featuring Ne-yo...thanks to him I realized that club music isn't that bad.

Three DJ's doing one track will make an overload of good sound. Unintentional nodding is what you will get if you play Swedish House Mafia's Greyhound with high quality headphones. (nodding is not considered dancing...technically.)

"You shoot me down but I won't fall...I am Titanium!"

If I download an album, I consider it free and not unpaid.^^ No bragging rights for me...but at least I'm doing something to promote the album.

David Guetta's Titanium really is meant for people with low self-esteem...a song meant for me I guess. Few of my favorite tracks from the album are entitled Sunshine and the Little Bad Girl instrumental edit (both from the 2nd CD)...really nice.

That's all about it....another reason for me to do the repetitive nodding....and another reason for others to mock what I have just posted here. ugh!

Pug, Beagle or Xperia Ray?

2012-05-31T17:16:00.000-07:00

Ever since Stampede's death, I thought of buying myself a new pet...a pug or beagle puppy....looking online for sellers, I didn't expect it to be very expensive. (about the same price if you buy a brand new xperia ray^^) I want either one of the two really bad.

What's Latest?

2012-05-21T17:29:00.001-07:00

----Solar eclipse happened yesterday

----Jessica Sanchez vs. Phillip Phillips on American Idol

----Chief Justice Renato Corona will testify on his impeachment trial

----Philippine bananas were rotting in Chinese ports

----Lady Gaga sang "Judas" on her concert last night....(./!?)

----a new gunpla kit for me (and no one cares).

What if my father owns an Iphone 4s?

2012-04-30T18:17:00.000-07:00

"Siri, anong tumama sa jueteng?"

Drink and Drive

2012-04-29T01:48:00.000-07:00

Early this month, Petron's The Avengers Promo will require you to purchase a minimum of 1000 peso worth of their "distilled dinosaur juice" (oil for short) just to avail one tumbler...that means if you don't own any kind of vehicle and doesn't know how to drive, you are obliged to undergo driving lessons first, buy a car so that you can have something to fill up, and purchase a total of 4000-peso worth of "dinosaur juice" just to complete all 4 tumblers......or am I overly exaggerating?

In my opinion, I think this promo was very well thought of...not because majority of jeepney drivers in the Philippines are Marvel fans or toy enthusiasts....but because the tumblers can be used for drinking "lambanog" after a long day of work.^^

Thankfully, I won't have to deal with my unimpressive reasoning just to complete all four. I got all four tumblers for 240 pesos only with the recent promo....for 4 marvel figures that's really cheap!

(60 each minus the car, the driving lessons and a few liters of dinosaur juice).

I captured these using Nokia N8 plus the usual editing. The Iron man figure looks and feel cheap. It may look nice in the picture because I enhanced the color, but in actual it's dull red. Go here for bigger resolution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/infranose/

Since I don't drink...I might give these to someone who does.....or maybe I should learn how to.^^

Flickr's April Fools' Day Offering

2012-04-01T17:45:00.005-07:00

The "ugh" symbol

Yesterday, I checked out my flickr account and noticed an unusual "ugh!" symbol at the lower right corner of the page. I clicked it out of curiosity...I heard a beep and then the whole page changed showing only the "ugh!" symbol....then back at my previous page. Everything was changed into old style...even the font. I thought at first maybe it's a virus but thanks to google...I learned that it was only flickr's way of saying: You've been fooled!

Funny, But Will Drive You Nuts

2012-03-16T18:50:00.018-07:00

There are things in this world that we often question its value and usefulness, like a youtube video for example. There are plenty of uploaded videos that you don't know exactly why it was made in the first place, usually unusual and weird, repetitive that causes it to be easily imprinted in your memory. (If you think I'm pertaining to Justin Bieber's Baby video, you're wrong.)

Here are some youtube videos I'm talking about. After watching a few minutes of it, it will leave you either laughing or with a wrinkled forehead.(just don't watch the full length of each videos if you still want to retain your sanity)

If you want to grow eyebags, watch this straight:

Keyboard Cat 10 Hours

Ineffective? Try this one...it's more intense:

Keyboard Cat 50 Hours

As one youtuber commented, a sequel is being planned which will be entitled "Jon Counts to 100,000 Backwards":

Jon Counts to 100,000

It got a movie trailer, the divine music is really funny:

Jon Counts To 100,000 - Movie Trailer

If ever there's someone who manages to finish the video, please let me know if he really reached the top.

Super Mario 10 Hours

Try recommending this to someone you don't like or burn a cd of it and give it to someone as a peace offering (ideal for April Fools' day). The guy looks like Super Mario:

Tunak Tunak Tun 10 hours

With million hits, who am I to question its purpose? It doesn't bother anyone. It is there to entertain. No more questions.

If Rovin Will Behave Nicely

2012-03-07T16:54:00.008-08:00

Since Rovin aspires to be the next King of Pop (video here: Birit), I came up with funny conditions that if he will behave, he'll be rewarded with something that will help his dream become a reality.

1. The Anti-Gwavity Shoes

If he will behave nicely, I'll buy him a pair of MJ's famous anti-gravity shoes so he can do the "leaning-forward-without-falling" move.

2. Spotlights and Fainting Audiences

If he will behave nicely, I'll buy him spotlights that changes color and fainting audiences that faints if he tells them to do so.^^

3. Rocket Man Finale

If he will behave nicely, I'll buy him this just like MJ's rocket man finale in Live in Bucharest Dangerous Tour.^^

Just Pure Coincidence

2012-02-27T16:40:00.016-08:00

It's a little weird that late last year up to last month, everything I have, watched, bought, planned, and played has something to do with the color orange. Even Rovin's singing added confusion to my unanswered questions: What's with orange lately? Is there a hidden clue to it that needs to be solved? Or maybe it's just pure coincidence.

The only gunpla model kit that I have in orange color scheme is this. I haven't watched any episode from the Universal Century timeline yet, that's maybe the reason why I thought of selling my MG Zeta A1 plus last December. But now I changed my mind. I think I'll keep it...for now.

First movie that I watched for this year is Orange County. I haven't watched this movie until last month and I was surprised that it was released exactly ten years ago...only found out when I googled it. (it's what I usually do when I enjoyed a movie) It's a great movie. For me, it's the second funniest starring role of Jack Black after School of Rock. There's this one scene in the movie that I could relate to wherein Colin Hanks was asking Jack Black (they're brothers in the movie) not to go out of his room because he's an embarrassment. That scene was really funny. I also don't got out of my room when there are visitors around...the only difference is that no one tells me not to got out, I make the initiative not to go out because I know I'm an embarrassment. Just kidding.^_^

I also find the movie soundtrack great though finding all the free tracks in the web a bit hard. Youtube was my best bet. I downloaded the flv and converted to mp3. The only track I'm familiar with is California by Phantom Planet. The rest of the tracks were new to my ears.

I don't buy phones and consider it as status symbol. All I care is its functionality. Last month I bought my first touch, android and walkman phone. The xperia-x8 recolored and walkman-branded Sony Ericsson W8. I chose this over Samsung Galaxy Y because this one got better camera and screen resolution. As you can see, it's orange.[ugh!]

I know it's a low end android phone with outdated 2.1 eclair, no multi-touch, no flash player, no equalizer on walkman player. In spite of missing key features, I have no plans of rooting this....yet, maybe next year when I get bored with it.

After almost two months of use, I realized that smartphones aren't meant for dumb users like me. These are my few dumb experiences with it:

----I don't like the default four-corner shortcuts and took me a while before learning about Go Launchers.

----My alarm clock doesn't work because I forgot to include it in ignore list in the task killer setting.

----I used to activate battery saving apps only when using the phone.(which should run always in the background.)

----and the most epic one is I didn't know what to press when I answer an incoming call for the very first time.

Battery performance (juice defender activated, flight mode at night, 25% brightness):
-2 days 8 hrs. stand by (no call, text, wifi, gaming)
-1 day 12 hrs. moderate use (call and few texts, 20 mins wifi)
-6.5 to 7 hrs. continuous gaming

One good excuse if you don't own a PSP or Nintendo DS is this: "I'm a retro gamer."

I don't know if this game is suitable for my age (or for my level of intellect)...but who cares. I enjoyed this one a lot. The primary reason I bought an android phone is that I can install gameboid on it. Being deprived of handheld gaming console when I was young, I thought this is the best way for me try those what they call gba classics. This game I can say is my cup of tea, and it doesn't rely on flashy graphics to be called enjoyable. This game stands on its own because of its unique battle system.

The final mission was insane as it took me 8 hrs. to beat Sturm. I kept losing on first and second try but gained advantage on my third attempt (and that 3rd attempt alone took me 8 hrs!). I know previous hardcore fans can do better than that.

So where's orange in this game? Guess what's your primary nation called in this game.....it's called Orange Star. Pure coincidence.

This game called Ancient Empires II is what I used to enjoy during my use of a java based phone. It got the same game mechanics but not as complex compared to Advanced Wars. Still enjoyable to play in my opinion. The last mission of this game took me 3 hrs. before winning.

Two titles I am planning to play. Fire Emblem got the same battle system with advance wars series. Just hoping both will not force close on the gameboid. Not all gba titles are compatible with the gameboid.

That's all about it...another senseless post. The color orange will surely hunt me these coming days. And I'm readying myself for another paranoia.

p.s.
I was drinking orange juice and wearing orange shirt while typing this post.

Stampede Remembered

2012-02-12T16:29:00.001-08:00

RIP Stampede
January 2006 - February 2012

"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate."

-----Sigmund Freud-----

Kung Hei Fat Choi!

2012-01-22T16:11:00.001-08:00

Polar Bears are Safe

2012-01-19T18:49:00.000-08:00

First post for this year and sadly I got no gunpla kit to mess up. Just checked out my flag counter today until I found out that I've been committing a crime without my knowledge. Aside from my terrible English....I've been spreading nonsense to the world all along! From the way I see it, the best way to avoid my senseless posts are first: be computer illiterate and second: live at the northernmost part of the world.

It's nice to know that there are few people from other parts of the world who finds my senseless posts interesting in spite of my lack of creative and informative writing. Just share your thoughts with people with common interests.

Smoked Ham

2011-12-29T15:59:00.001-08:00

Yesterday was the day I got myself into something physically demanding. To welcome the coming new year with cleaner settling area, I decided to do some sweeping at the eastern part of my cave.

50 percent dried mowed weeds, 35 percent mango leaves, 5 percent jackfruit leaves, 5 percent coconut leaves, 4.5 percent unknown leaves, 0.5 percent dead skin cells that came from me.....an estimate.

Already mowed by my younger brother...it's time to do my part.

This unknown plant is blocking my view.

So let's pretend a jobless nerd knows how to use this...(borrowed it from my father's weapons vault) I wish beam sabers were already invented.

Success! [checking my fingers....still complete].

BURN!!! [sadistic laugh]

At the end of my ordeal...despite of it all, I was pleased with what I accomplished.[naks!] The eastern part of my cave is cleaner than before. Last thing I did was taking a bath. My armpit smelled like vinegar dip and my clothes smelled like smoked ham. Happy New Year everyone!!!

Action Boldness!!!

2011-12-15T16:09:00.000-08:00

Last Saturday, we went to Clark Pampanga for a family get together. We made a stop at Puregold Duty Free to look around for something interesting to buy.

If I'm not mistaken, I think it's the same place where the talented flute vendor performed his famous Justin Bieber act. Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDx6BOd5VSg

Every time I go out to malls or retail stores, I usually go to toy section. Giving the place a quick scan (because Rovin is doing a push cart driving and I was asked to look after him), I stumbled upon a toy that resembles the OO Gundam. It was labeled Hero Universe Super Robot. Just reading the package put a smile on my face....ACTION BOLDNESS!!