Stubbornness

This post is for my dear friend, who sounded pretty upset the other day. Being stubborn I think is really subjective. If you are insistent on your point or stand over a certain issue, against all others and refuting all other opinions that comes along, you are labelled stubborn. However, it is no longer termed as stubbornness but termed persistence, if at the end of the day your efforts paid off when you deliver the end results. Results matter most, and it has been delivered. Enough said. Subtly put, stubbornness converts to persistence with results else it is just plain stubbornness. However if results aren't delivered in the end, it is just plain stubbornness as you cant make a claim of persisting till the end. In the end your claims are just viewed as stubbornness. You will then have to face peoples' unpleasant yankings of "Yeah, see I told you not to be so stubborn" and all the other crap that comes along. So most importantly its again the reality of life where the end results is important.

Along the way when you are insistent in your point and stand, it is not easy to go against all odds and against all others. I for one is also plain stubborn in my beliefs and my ways of doing things. I want something I will get it my way. I refuse to bow down to certain rules and restrictions. The more you restrict me the more I will go against you. I believe I live my own life and control my own destiny. I need not answer to anyone in my actions or my thoughts or maybe at the minimum my parents. Else, fuck this shit about how people think about you or their opinions. You live your own life and you control your own fate and destiny. Why limit yourself due to some shallow views and opinions, as you answer to only yourself. Give no damn to all other shit. Believe in yourself strongly and bash your way through.

When you do things against the normal flow, it is unavoidable that you are not only termed stubborn but silly or crazy or insane. Look at the salmon which swims up stream just to get a better nesting ground, it takes much more effort and strength to go against the slow. So most importantly trust your own feeling and belief and stay strong and fight for it with no regrets and end of the day deliver the results to make those who disagree to STFU..

Bowen Red Hulk

gotten this Red Hulk statue by Bowen then and I think it looked really good, though not a very dynamic pose, I loved the bulging muscles and with the veins along with the colour red, it makes him a fearsome character..though i'll have to think of who to match with him

A brief intro of Red Hulk or known as Rulk, it a gamma radiating Red coloured Hulk which is different from the normal Green Hulk. It has the strength of Green Hulk along with the brains. He was was created by writer Jeph Loeb and artist Ed McGuiness

statue uncovered, looks a little dark in this pic

Red Hulk unleashed

from the rightfrom the left

backview of the hulk

Upclose of Red Hulk, check out the veins! as well as his pearly whites lol

the base which the non sandy part is to place the gun

the Red Hulk actually uses gun. yeah so this is the gun to be placed on the base

Well let Hulk or rather Rulk smash through the walls of rules to allow us emabrk on a silly and stubborn path.. Hope you are feeling better ha..

NYDC

Met a friend for dinner the other day and a long time. Went around shopping for a while to Kinokuniya to shop for a birthday card and could not find at Kino so went up to this book store 2 levels above which in there, amanged to find an interesting birthday card. But what was more interesting was that they sold this mini wax stamp at the shop. Like those in the olden movies which they will use it to seal letters. Wanted to get 1 but think it was too small and only had a letter on it,so passed it but think will hunt for a customed 1 ha. Really think its pretty cool, reminds me of those chinese calligraphy stamp as well.



Went to have dinner at NYDC after not going for a long time. After the whole thing, was kinda disappointed in the standard of the food now. Still recall when I was in JC, their oven baked was only $9.90, it used to be a round plate and I love to order the Three Amigos. Well that visit that day to NYDC at Wheelock, I find that the taste of the food is no longer as good, price have increased over the years till today's $13.90 and not all baked rice is the same price now. And the round plate size has changed into the same as Pizza Hut's size of oven baked rice. The whole place decorations have changed and the menu is different now as well. At least the mud pies is still not too bad ha.

Got this as a gift from Japan from my friend, its like those soda sweets in the trading boxes but she thought it was many tiny sweets in 1 box but well its 1 per box lol. So only 3 sweets inside ha.. So much for all the packaging and all..

Gotten these as a X'mas gift for my friend but its long overdue, pass Xmas and CNY

Bought a Shen Long keychain from Doll Inz at $10. zZZ think its pretty expensive to think about it now.. not that fantastic as well lol..

Well wanted to catch Alive in Wonderland but the timing was not really good plus my friend didn't wana watch in 3D so well next time then.. For better food and a movie..

Got this at Toys R Us for at $10. Lelong item again with 2 3.75" figures plus a motorbike. Really good price..

Marvel Comics pack wave 1

Spiderman & Thunderball

Captain America & Klaw

Wolverine & Human Torch

Think these will go on lelong soon from the abundance of these overflowing on the shelves, though I find the Wolverine & Human Torch pack not too bad. Well seems like this would be the end of this line locally as most based on past experience, poor sales will lead to stoppage of the newer waves.

Chinese New Year

Recently didnt update blog for a long time, yet again, thus collected all the toy pics together. Quite troublesome to upload and slowly arrange and group them up. Well an update on the recent Marvel stuff mainly Marvel Select and some Marvel Fury line.

Marvel Universe -- Ironman and Goliath

gotten the yellow version and missed the other red version, local retailers did not bring in this piece yet again due to what ever reasons, think big figures are always more popular as compared to those small ones

Captain America vs Skrull Giant Man

Captain America looks not bad as chromed version and I think this piece the Skrull looks pretty decent, no variants for this piece though

Now to Marvel Select starting with Spiderman

Seriously I think this piece looks pretty bad, Spiderman looks ugly and the smashed up car looks like some green goo shit so don't get this piece if you hada choice get the older version. It looks much more decent and nicer than thisDaredevil (masked)

Daredevil I find it too skinny, plus he cant grab around the cross although it looks good.

His stick is also part of the figure as a piece which means you cant detach from this hand, wth right? zZZ

the short-packed unmasked variantfrom the back of the box we can see Abomination coming up, which is a big, heavy and value for money figure ha..

First Appearance Sabertooth

This piece is actually an exclusive piece and I think it looks really good, especially the face

Sabertooth

This is the normal version of Sabertooth, which don't look so bad but some how when placed beside the 1st appearance it kinda fades in comparison

Unmasked Wolverine

this is in the old Brown coloured costume

Bigbadtoys Exclusive Masked Wolverine

think this looks pretty much the same as the one above in the brown costume just that its wearing a mask but it comes with a nice Samarai bust thingy. Well think really enough of Wolverines from Marvel Select, other characters please.. Marvel Girl unmasked version seriously I think this piece really looks ugly, not only the costume don't really look that nice the face sculpt is really horrible the only redemption part is the gate diorama that comes with it, get 2 of it and u can form a full gate

Masked version

3rd Captain Marvel variant Kree version

well at least this piece is not so bad, repainting the whole thing rather that just the head I think the colour looks not bad ha

Firstly Happy Chinese New Year! When I was young, I used to look forward to CNY, not only for the red packets, but also the fun and the goodies. I still recall that when I was young, there was a chance that my birthday would fall on on CNY and I would get a double ang pao ha.. But as I get older now you do not have the same kind of expectations anymore. People will start asking about what you are doing, are you seeing someone, are you planning to get married soon and all. Minus all these, however I get to meet some people that I haven seen for a long time which we probably only meet once a year which is during CNY.

1 thing my family have yearly is steamboat for reunion dinner. There would be my family and 4 of my relatives so it'll be a dinner for 10! There would be lots of food, mean from pork to chicken to fish to prawns and to roast pork and duck, then vegetables, mushroom, abalone, fish maw, different kinds of fishballs n meatballs and many more. Forgotten to take pictures of it. Must remember to do so the next time round ha. This year had one more steamboat when my sister's friends came along and they brought a dish which my family seldom buy which I love -- beef! Ha i had lots of it.. And its one of the rare occassions which I love the soup.

Previously, during CNY I would have so many places to go but nowadays things are different. Or perhaps its me who have lost the feeling of going visiting. Perhaps don't really feel like answering the standard questions which people will usually ask when they haven't seen you for a long time. Well I grew really close to my neighbour over this period of time, a man in his late forties with 5 beautiful daughters and a son,yeah 4 daughters. We drink together pretty often and many times talking about things that I do not even tell my own parents. I do not know if its due to the beer or he is an easy going person or what reason but we can get along well. I know most of his relatives and his friends and at times some ask how come a young man is hanging with an old man. Ha well I think he isn't really that old and he looks much younger than his age. I always feel that for men, its easier to talk over a drink. There are no boundaries and barriers just like smoking ha..

Was supposed to meet someone for my birthday that day but due to some reason the person cant make it so ended up with no plans. Then went down to grandma's place with my mum and had 'yu sheng' with my relavtives. Came back during late noon and joined my neighbour to one of their friend's place. It was a 3 or 4 storeys high semi-detached which they got the Lion and Dragon Dance troupe to come perform. There was 4 Lions and 1 Dragon and when I was young I really loved the noise and excitment about it. Something interesting was that the hosts actually opened I think at least $100 worth of $1 coins mixed with those gold coin chocolates and while the lion was lying down peeling the oranges, it would throw or 'spit' out randomly the coins and there would be a scramble for the $1 coins. Ha.. It was a rare occassion that you would be hit be money lol.. I managed to get a few $1 without moving about much ha but some of the kids collected quite a lot ha.. End of it all, it was time for some gambling! Ha so get your money down and may Lady Luck be with us all..