Updated Transformers

As of now I have added appropriate paint jobs to Ironhide and Arcee, giving their faces more expression with silver and black paint, and protected my four Autobots with a full coat of hardcoat gloss from Games Workshop. The gloss itself was only $5 AUS, which is very cheap for Games Workshop standards.

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Melbourne Life

Melbourne life in winter is very cold. It’s not very Aussie, rather, it’s got a particular European feel to it. It certainly fits – old style buildings, shopping districts with expensive products and European cafes and chocolate shops everywhere, and even a headquarters of the Melbourne Theosophical Society! Interesting, interesting.  But aside from that, living [...]

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13,000 hit special: Uni, Melbourne and Transformers

13,000 hits means I will address 3 separate topics tonight. Let’s start with Melbourne first.
Hoo boy! It’s just our luck. I still remember watching the weather report at Jord’s uncle’s house: turns out the period we were in Melbourne for was the single coldest snap period they had for more than a decade. And [...]

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Dharma-inspired movie review

Read this for an interesting take on the Transformers movie.
And as always, Melbourne is a great place, but it is one’s constant interests that inspire one not only to think outside the box but also to develop the box itself further.
Koko Black: the shop for chocolate lovers. Coming soon…

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I am back from Melbourne!

What a blast! From last Monday to this Friday, it was the coldest period in Melbourne. Ever. Not even Melbournians had experienced this freeze period before.
It also happened to be the period my buddy and I visited the city.
Ah, what’s a southern Chinese young man, whose mellow temperament is more suited for similarly mellow climates, [...]

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I need some advice!

To any and all who possess small sculptures/statues of any material for the sake of aesthetics, meditation, or spiritual practice:
How do you guys take care of it? I have a Lion Pillar carved out of wood, which is extremely precious because this carving can’t be found very often; in fact, it took me a long [...]

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A Rider, not a Driver

I am lazy.
I don’t like to do mundane things actively. I PHILOSOPHIZE actively, I MEDITATE actively, I READ actively, I COLLECT TRANSFORMERS ACTION FIGURES actively. But when it comes to transport and road trips? Now to me, that is mundane, and not what I see as interesting or important (unlike car fans or those who [...]

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Thought of the day: New hobbies

It’s nice to start new hobbies. Unfortunately it always involves spending money. It’s amazing the lengths people will go to have something to do. Like me. See, but finding new hobbies is great. It’s really good to have a passion that you pursue without giving two hoots about what others think. It is liberating, and [...]

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Limit your protein intake.

Don’t you get annoyed when vegetarians claim that somehow they feel ‘cleaner’ after a meal where they ate no meat? That somehow that they feel more pure and easy-going afterwards?  That they suffer little bowel problems later?
Well, they’re right.
From personal experience, please don’t eat too many eggs/meat (beef especially)/dairy at one sitting. Not only do [...]

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