Gundamaniac

get married on saturday… back to work on monday!?! ah yes. no rest for the wicked. just a little tip on people planning to get married soon. plan your honeymoon at least a month before the wedding, and leave the country as soon as possible! cuz no matter how you slice it everyone and everything is gonna try to catch up on both of you as soon as you get back to the world. paperwork that you left while planning the wedding is gonna come down on you like a plague, all these different office problems are gonna hound you to death, hearty well wishers would want to drop by to to give you their …erm pardon the redundance… welcomed well wishes, all that many differnet happy celebrations and eating is gonna shove even more calcium deposits down your arterial veins. etc. etc. etc. All in all you’re well on your way to forgetting about that special honeymoon plans. so I guess soon now I have to act fast… forget work, and start rummaging on those vacation packages before me and my wife scum down to honeymoon oblivion. lol

oh by the way, I forgot to apply for a broadband connection at my new place, so now I can’t update my blog all that often. I’ll try to do some updates as often as possible. but even now I’m waaaaayyyyy behind on gundam news. ^^ hopefully I’ll be able to catch up soon hereafter. ^^

getting married in a few hours. am I nervus? probably yes, since I’m spelling nervous wrong. lol. but I do feel more excited than anything else. as the cliche goes: its a new chapter in my life. can’t wait til later when I turn the page.

Doing preparations for a wedding was hard enough even with a coordinator around, but planning for a Chinese wedding is like having ten thousand chopsticks stuck up your nose then smiling like there’s nothing blocking your nasal airways. All you’ll ever hear are traditions this and traditions that. Believe me, if you had to follow everything by the letter, you’d end up forgetting about what a wedding is supposed to be, simply just hate yourself for being Chinese or worst end up without a bride or groom! I wonder if people in China actually still do all this stuff. Quite frankly, I’d imagine that most of these traditional hooplas are kept alive by shrewd opportunistic Chinese deli and specialty store owners in Chinatown. to ensure business would stay as they are even with the changing times where superstition and old beliefs are being pushed aside for purpose of practicality and common sense. Just to show you an example: a shop traditional Chinese specialty store owner would tell you that you’d have to buy a piss bowl and have a family member bring it up to your home. You’d ask yourself what in the name of heck is a piss bowl and what am I gonna do it?!? But he’d tell you that it’s to bring you luck and tells you that you’d have  to do these traditions so as to remind you that you are Chinese. WTF! If I needed luck I’d just buy a rabbit’s foot or horse shoe. And if I needed to be reminded that I was Chinese I’d just have to look at a mirror!
However don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that these traditions are bad. Most of them may have been born out of practicality during the time of its conceptualization. All I’m saying is that the age old formulas should be changed or modified to suit the times. And most of them are to be followed only if it’s practical to do so. Don’t force it to be done if it is to the point of impracticality. Believe me; you just might end up killing yourself before you walk down that aisle.

 PS. I apologize if I haven’t been able to answer most of the comments lately or make new posts. I’ll try to get to it as soon as I have more time on my hands.

I was looking thru some of my old stuff then I found this! an old Gundam Poster Jigsaw Puzzle.

I remember pestering my dad to buy it on Sogo or Daimaru Matsusakaya when I was just a wee lad. ^^ At first he didn’t want to buy it because he felt I was too young then for a 500 piece puzzle. but in the end it was probably my teary puppydog eyes that won him over. although now after all these years it now a 499 piece jigsaw puzzle. 
And though having this puzzle makes it look like I’ve been a gundam addict for the longest time, the truth was I didn’t know what a gundam was back then, all I knew was it was a picture of a robot that glowed in the dark. ^^

The 1/400 Dendrobium finally had a bit of time to build it over the weekend, although I wasn’t able to put in the most of the stickers. I have to say the details on it seem to give it enough aesthetic quality that it would look good even without the complete set of stickers. although I wonder what possessed Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hajime Yatate to name the Gundams after flowers (Dendrobium and Gerbera). ^^

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