Vacation part 4

Holy crap there's blue sky today!!! It's about time!

There's something called kpop world festival on tv. Pretty much people from other countries coming to Korea to perform covers live (dance or vocally) and they're pretty good. Well obviously since they got to go.

Went to a nice sushi place for dinner. Turns out that fish here are significantly more expensive. Makes me appreciate Australia more.

It's almost the new year which means more resolutions! I don't feel like sharing some of them, but if you really want to know then ask me (no guarantees).

Fun fact - if it wasn't for some of my 2011 resolutions I would have probably never gone to CO and be where I am today.

Tomorrow I leave for Vietnam. So this may be my last post till I get back. That's IF I get back. Chance I might not make it back alive. Anyways have a happy new year!

Vacation part 3

Went to the art science museum today. I got to see 2 exhibits, the Cartier time art and the Titanic artifact exhibition. The first one was about watches and clocks, the Titanic one was obviously about the Titanic. They had artifacts and recreations of rooms of the shop. The Titanic gallery was much bigger than the Cartier time gallery but I kind found the time gallery more interesting mainly due to the technology and precision in the making of the watches. Looking at the absurdly tiny pieces was really cool.

Afterwards we went to a fancy tea place for lunch. Though the way I ate my sandwich was anything but fancy. Naturally I ordered the green tea. The sencha meicha and the emperor sencha to be precise. It was nice. And fancy. I feel like doing a Japanese tea ceremony one day.

Also for those interested, my access to the net comes from the hotel wifi but for some reason my phone bypasses the page where you have to pay to access it. Mwhahaha

Vacation part 2

There's a scale model of the titanic in the middle of the mall. My brother and I thought it would be funny to attract tourists to it by taking heaps of photos and acting really interested. It worked and we got people to take pictures of it themselves.

I like how MTV does kpop mvs. If only they did it back in Australia too.

We're eating dinner at a seafood place at the beach. Too bad I won't be able to eat most of the food. Across the restaurant is another place and it has an animatronic Tyrannosaurus Rex. I see I've made the wrong choice here.

Vacation time

I figured I should blog while I'm on holidays as it would make it easier to remember than to do it all when I get home. At least this would be an easy way to stay connected with the guys at home. I managed to download the blogger app which is how I'm writing these. I could've brought my laptop but I'm pretty sure I'd be glued to it the whole time. Anyways right now I'm just waiting for my dad so I've got plenty of time to write.

Thursday
On the plane I wasted no time and tried to watch as many movies possible. I watched Green Lantern, Cowboys and Aliens, and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I didn't get to finish Cars 2 though which was sad. After arriving at Singapore airport we taxied it to our hotel which had its own amusement park. Universal Studios to be precise.

Friday
Naturally we went to Universal Studios. The area was split into themes based on popular movies/shows, there was a Madagascar area, Shrek, the Mummy, my favourite was the Jurassic park area solely because it played their theme music. Ride-wise it had to be the Battlestar Galactica area, only that one had a real rollercoaster. The best part was the waiting line was at most 5 minutes. Sadly the Mummy one we waited heaps for, we waited ages and once we entered the next room it was filled with more lines! The ride was okay but not worth waiting in line again. Unfortunateness struck as it started raining. Being the adventurers we were, we continued to go on rides. Biggest mistake. Not only were we wet, going at extreme speeds made the rain feel like being stabbed constantly. At the end of the ride I proceeded to spaz in my seat repeating "why?!" and break down dramatically.

Saturday
Not much happened. Though the rain effectively made my shoes unusable I had to go around the city in sandals. Went to see if I could buy replacement shoes but none of the stores had anything worth buying. At the hotel room I got to watch music bank for the first time in its entirety. It was pretty good, watching kpop bands doing their latest songs live as well as Christmas collabs. The best part was at the end with a performance from the the Wonder Boys doing Be My Baby. Yes the Wonder Boys. Shin Dong was in it. Enough said.

Sunday
Today we're moving hotels because my parents didn't like the previous one, and we've already done their attractions. Also my shoes are back to normal! I'm with my brother and mother at a cafe waiting for my dad with the hotel room. We waited for ages, enough time for me to write this whole post.
Some of you may have seen a picture of me ice skating in the middle of a food court. Well I've returned. However things change. The ice skating rink in the middle of the the food court is now Narnia the exhibition.

That's all for now, I've got a Christmas to spend. Merry Christmas to everyone back at home! Hope you guys are doing well.

it's been a while

Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning.

 

 So it's been ages since I last blogged. The video turned out well. I'm satisfied given the time I put in. I just wish youtube wasn't so punishing. So the next project is Troublemaker... by Troublemaker. My feelings about this one are mixed. Honestly I don't think it will be as good as the Cry Cry project. And I believe LOEN ent. is going to ban all videos with the song unless we change it. So the music might put people off. Though I can see it getting views solely on it's popularity. My verdict is a "meh" let's just do it anyway.

Today was mostly a day at home. I finally finished Skyward Sword. The moments up to the end were really emotional. I give kudos to games that can do that. Then I decided to do some sit up training! I couldn't go through one whole song with out taking a break. Man I suck. I'm pretty sure I do better at Crossover. Maybe it was the floor or something that made it harder. Abi kept distracting me as I did my sit ups. I should train more often, it was really satisfying to improve on something.

We went out for dinner at a Japanese place in Star City. Personally I don't really like it because it feels like they're making Jap food seem too fancy. That's about it folks. Blog finished.

Oh and thanks Whitney for the hospitality on Saturday. It was really nice!

Being a nerd

So back in January when I was in Japan, I picked up one of those Robot model kits, called Gundam. I didn't touch it for months and when I actually started building it, I took ages. Now it's December, and at 3 AM at night I've finally finished the whole body.

Finished building the crotch

Legs

Cool looking torso

Looking sharp

Now combine all the pieces and we get this!

and I've still yet to build the weapons...

popping time

haven't posted anything in a while... my bad.

So far I have taken 2 popping classes. Though it's mainly because there was no kpop today and last week's song wasn't interesting for me. I feel like I'm learning how to dance for the first time. It's a totally different experience to kpop. I'm guessing because kpop's just about the routine, of course making it look good depends on how much effort and skill you put in, in the other class there is no routine (except small demo routines), only the style itself. I have to make my own routines/freestyle it. Which kinda sucks for me. Oh well hopefully I'll get used to it. Anyways the whole point of this was to learn some new fundamentals. I picked up a few but I think this one was the best.

Work hard and step out of your comfort zone. 

If you only keep at the level you are comfortable with, you won't really improve.

So push harder to the point higher than what you're used to even if it looks messy, then comes practice to make that level clean. Then repeat. I think as a practical start, the whole crew should push to do all the push ups in Jaye's warm up.

We've been hanging in the playground near Darling Harbour a lot now. I remember when we used to stick around World Square before. I understand why we go to the playground seeing as its so much more pretty and fun.

Still playing Skyward Sword. I don't know what more I can say. It's really good. The music, art style and everything. 

Also this made me laugh.