Today a huge box arrived with all the goodies which I ordered for the month of December!

Most of the stuff I ordered were the new nendoroids stands that Good Smile Company released last month.

Each of them come with extra pegs. One standard head peg and another rounded head peg. I actually have no idea what the rounded head peg is for. My guess would be for nen-puchis.

There are 2 versions of the stands. This is the clip version. You can use the clip to clip on surfaces which you want, like your hair for example, so you can have a nendoroid in your hair and show to the whole world how awesome your nendoroid collection is.

This is the suction cap version.

Not a real fan of suction caps. Got to have a really good glassy surface to stick them on, so I’d got Meiko here to test the suction strength on my glass cabinet, will leave her there for a few days to see if she suddenly flies down.

It’s no secret, I am a sucker for chocolately stuff. As you can see, I’ve a mini collection of choco stuff here on my table. Every time I walk into a shop, I come out with a chocolate something. Chocolate drink, chocolate candy, chocolate cake – you name it, I’ll buy it.

The darker the better, though there are exceptions like this kitty kay; Hmmm, actually I don’t really know if this should be considered to be a choco.

Today I shall talk about one of my most favourite form of chocolate in a liquid form. Meet Cadbury’s ‘Hot Chocolate Drink’. I stumbled across this when a colleague of mine gave me a packet. You could say it was love at first taste.

Just like any powdered choco drink, all you need to do it open the packet, empty it into a cup, bathtub or toiletbowl, add hot water and then begin your decent into choco land. Tonight I am extra happy because I consumed one cup =D

Unfortunately I couldn’t get the swirly whirlpool pattern on my cup when I made ):

But still, it’s amazing.

Yum!

In Singapore, we call the night markets around here ‘Pasar Malam’. The night markets do not have a fixed place to set up shop, instead they move around to another location after staying at a location and peddling their wares for around a week. The night market here sells all sort of cheap assorted stuff and food. In the past, these places would be bustling with people looking for some cheap deals like bags or pajamas. I remember my mum used to bring me to such places whenever there was one set up near our house.

It’s a great place for some night photography, capturing how this dying business is. Decided to take a look around for some plants and flowers for new year decor, and at the same time put the small and capable RX1 to the test. It does not disappoint!

Shot from inside the car. It started drizzling outside and the windows started to fog up!

2 old fellas around the fruits store. Thankfully no durians around.

The queue for the yummy Ramly Burgers.

A couple just walking through.

Flower power.

Fake plastic flowers, but lovely!

Miniature cacti, tempted to buy some home!

These were the most interesting ones of all. Plants in a snail shell. I think they are really beautiful!

Overcrowding in the pond.

Assorted stationery for school.

Didn’t want to go near these. I am pretty scared of breaking something.

KO-ed uncle.

Going back home in the rain

END!

The trip to Japan 2 months back was amazing, the sights and sounds of the foreign land was simply amazing. The people were great, the food was great, the atmosphere was great.

Touched down at Narita and we took the trains to Asakusa, which was where we lodged for the first leg of the journey.

Where we stayed really close to the the famous Sensoji temple, which was also the place for our first sight-seeing destination.

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The path to the temple was littered with small shops selling novelties and the atmosphere was just waiting to be soaked up! The big gate and the big lanters just there welcoming everyone.

le temple ground was amazingly big and the buildings were just majestic. There were so many beautiful details in the woodcarvings everywhere.

On the morning which we went, there were many school kids on going on an excursion. Seems like they were having a really great time!

Asakusa is really beautiful indeed!

Today, is another travelogue day. The sun was blistering even though it was relatively overcast. We went to the Gardens by the Bay which is is filled with creepy crawlies. Fortunately it was a exercise for the RX1 which is one amazing camera. So amazing the comrade Alafista bought it as well and it equally blown away by it.

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What is a travelogue without a good meal after that? Upon alafista’s recommendation, we headed to his favourite chicken noodles shop at Chinatown to indulge ourselves in a hearty meal. It was awesome.

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After that, we walked around Chinatown (it was an excuse to take shots with the RX1).

And  some soya pudding to end the day!

I am a librarian, but I don’t read as much compared to my other colleagues, but I think I read quite a fair bit, more than the average person. In my opinion, reading is one of the most important things a person should be constantly doing in his/her life. I don’t mean just reading forums, blogs or facebook book walls. One should read books, of genres that interest you.

When I was young, my mum brought me to libraries and bought loads of books for me to read. During my younger years, she also barred me from watching too much TV, so what do you do to kill time? Either you do homework or read books. I choose reading books. Ironically, I spent most of my recess time during primary school in the library. Unfortunately I stopped reading when I caught the internet bug during my teenage years. I think the only book I read during those years were the first few books from the Harry Potter series.

Thankfully, during my days serving National Service, it got so boring that I started to spend time reading in the army camp (though I had my fairshare playing Monster Hunter as well).

It started with lots of fantasy novels. I really liked reading about monster, knights and dragons. Most of the novels I read were from the Magic: the gathering series, a load of Warcraft and some random books which had nice covers. Truth be told, buying books are expensive! If my memory served me right, they cost an average of $15 when I got them from the 2nd hand stores. For some reason I never thought of going to the libraries to get my books.

Anyway, fast forward to present day, I read most of the time on my way home from work, and before my sleep. I read more non-fiction books nowadays as well, on topics which I have a general interest in, ranging from psychology to economics. Reading a wide range of topic expands one’s general knowledge and exposes one to many things which one may not know might be interesting. If you are only interest in one thing and don’t bother exploring the other cool stuff out there, it’s a real waste.

When I was younger, I thought the only thing I would like would be anime. But slowly as I got exposed to more things, I realised that I really liked child psychology, photography, eating Mcdonalds and a ton of other stuff which I am fascinated with, but not necessarily really into, such as music, dance, biographies and history.

One of the kind of books which I really love to read are children’s books. I think the authors of some childrens books are geniuses, they have so much meaning and morals behind the stories, and some of them are just amazing in cultivating imagination! “The book that eats people” is one of my most favourite books!

For those who followed this blog way back know about me getting a kindle a couple of years ago. I broke it with books from my bag though. Screen wasn’t too strong!

It got replaced with another kindle which I still use until today.

So what are you waiting for? Start reading today!

Here’s a quote for you guys as well!
“When you do what you love, you can pull back the bed sheets every morning feeling excited about beginning another day.”

Mouth too big! Not a fan!

This picture is my most favourite, was contemplating that I should just post this 1 picture!

This figure doesn’t belong to be but a good friend of mine, and it the huge ass box has been collecting dust in my house for the past year. Finally I decided to take it out and shoot it but this thing is RIDICULOUSLY HUGE. It’s bigger than me.

I’ll continue shooting tomorrow, haven’t finished the angles yet.

How many of you who read this was crazy enough to have bought this hugeeeeeeeeeeee figure?