Gerri's birthday... :)
Sylvia is officially the first person to wish me happy birthday this year; I got her SMS at midnight, haha. :)
Also, messages from James, Kristy, my Rachel-mei, Beatrice and Pamela. :)
Had dinner at NYDC the night before with my sisters, my cousin, Joseph and Ben; good food, and Joseph ordered Hoegarden beer, so I finally got to try it. :D We even bumped into Wai Xin as we were leaving the place. :D
Special mention for my lovely kor, who remembered it's my birthday and called all the way from New Zealand this afternoon. :) I hope you find a cheaper way to send those cookies for your sis's birthday. Lol.
So...I spent the whole day with Joseph today; I think baby's getting smarter. Somehow. Haha.
A crazy idea popped into my head last night; I wondered if I could ask that Joseph take me shopping for my birthday, but I kinda nixed that, coz that was followed with "What do I wanna buy?" and I didn't know what. :P
But baby met me at Orchard MRT this afternoon and he tells me: "Your surprise today is... shopping trip! Buy anything you want."
Mildly freaky, but pleasantly surprising. :)
My mum says I'm becoming transparent, but really, I don't think that's it. I don't know how he managed to hit on what I wanted, but I guess it's a good thing. :)
And well, me being me, the first I did with my "shopping spree" was to walk into Borders and get two books. :P
Baby wanted to get me clothes, but he discovered my problem with clothes firsthand today. I have rather broad shoulders, so in the event that the tops do fit, they're too narrow at the shoulders, and they bunch up in an ugly way if I raise my arms. And if they fit the shoulders, they're too baggy around the torso. Sigh.
Sorry if your shopping experience with me was a rather disappointing and discouraging one, baby...
In the end, I only bought one item; a long, black cotton blouse from GAP. Looks kinda semi-formal, which is good coz that means it has use for multiple occasions.
Thanks for spending today with me, baby. ^_^
Friday, July 13, 2007
In addition to special term stuff, Gerri actually has two other "projects" going on at this period of time.
One is really very hush-hush and everything; shall not blog about it here. All anyone needs to know is that it's been ongoing for the last two months now. It's taking far longer than I expected. Probably partly because I'm kinda lazy at times. -_-
Aside from that, I have another one.
My dad bought me a model plane for a birthday years ago, but because I had no idea to go about fixing it up and no one around me knew how to either, it's just been lying in its box, gathering dust all these years.
But, now my cousin's come to stay with us coz he's studying here, and he recently brought a few of his unfinished Gundam models down from Malaysia, so he has the know-how that I don't.
Turns out that the process is really quite simple; all the little parts are labelled; you just need to cut them out and put them together as shown in the booklet that comes with them.
The hard part is when some of the pieces are so tiny, or when you're sticking on so many tiny parts at a time that there's just nowhere for you to hold onto as you put them on and try to get them to stay where they are.
So now, for pictures. The model is an F14 Tomcat plane, by the way.
This is the first part of the plane to be put together: the cockpit:
Some of my "tools" can be seen in the background; plastic cement, super glue for the metal parts, and thinner.
The inside of the cockpit. I had to cut out and stick together every piece that you see in there. My thumb is there for you to get an idea of the size of the thing. :D
The wheel! The small parts were all painstakingly stuck on by me. No tweezers were used because I didn't have any at this point in time.
This is the body of the plane; half-completed.
Left: The turbines. Right: Close-up of propeller detail inside.
These are the back wheels. If you look at the top left part of the picture, you can see the assembly that was required for them.
The mostly-complete main body of the plane.
One of the best-looking parts of the whole model: the ladder leading up to the cockpit. The ladder was actually optional, but I chose to do it, thinking that detail would be good.
The left picture is a view from the top (and you can see how small it is in relation to the cockpit), and the right picture is a close-up. Each individual rung, step and the two metal sides were all very painstakingly, carefully put together.
And here's where I stopped: the wings.
As for my other project... Does anyone know where I can find nice, big, simple-looking glass containers? I might need one with about 2 litres capacity...
One is really very hush-hush and everything; shall not blog about it here. All anyone needs to know is that it's been ongoing for the last two months now. It's taking far longer than I expected. Probably partly because I'm kinda lazy at times. -_-
Aside from that, I have another one.
My dad bought me a model plane for a birthday years ago, but because I had no idea to go about fixing it up and no one around me knew how to either, it's just been lying in its box, gathering dust all these years.
But, now my cousin's come to stay with us coz he's studying here, and he recently brought a few of his unfinished Gundam models down from Malaysia, so he has the know-how that I don't.
Turns out that the process is really quite simple; all the little parts are labelled; you just need to cut them out and put them together as shown in the booklet that comes with them.
The hard part is when some of the pieces are so tiny, or when you're sticking on so many tiny parts at a time that there's just nowhere for you to hold onto as you put them on and try to get them to stay where they are.
So now, for pictures. The model is an F14 Tomcat plane, by the way.
This is the first part of the plane to be put together: the cockpit:
Some of my "tools" can be seen in the background; plastic cement, super glue for the metal parts, and thinner.
The inside of the cockpit. I had to cut out and stick together every piece that you see in there. My thumb is there for you to get an idea of the size of the thing. :D
The wheel! The small parts were all painstakingly stuck on by me. No tweezers were used because I didn't have any at this point in time.
This is the body of the plane; half-completed.
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Left: The turbines. Right: Close-up of propeller detail inside.
These are the back wheels. If you look at the top left part of the picture, you can see the assembly that was required for them.
The mostly-complete main body of the plane.
 |  |
One of the best-looking parts of the whole model: the ladder leading up to the cockpit. The ladder was actually optional, but I chose to do it, thinking that detail would be good.
The left picture is a view from the top (and you can see how small it is in relation to the cockpit), and the right picture is a close-up. Each individual rung, step and the two metal sides were all very painstakingly, carefully put together.
And here's where I stopped: the wings.
As for my other project... Does anyone know where I can find nice, big, simple-looking glass containers? I might need one with about 2 litres capacity...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Watched Transformers on Saturday with baby.
Was good; only pet peeve was that Megatron had a strange way of addressing Optimus Prime as "Prime" in the movie; as far as I can remember from the cartoons, *no one* ever did that. It was always either "Optimus Prime" or just "Optimus". Ugh; "Prime".
Bumblebee is the cutest car ever. I want a voice-controlled car too, which can transform itself into a Maserati Spyder. XD
The only autobots that I recognised from the beginning were Bumblebee and Optimus Prime; Bumblebee coz, well, no other Autobot had that much yellow on him and Optimus Prime, I recognised him coz I remember he was the truck. That big red and blue truck. Ooh, but they gave him blue paint and red flames in the movie. Snazzy looking.
For the Decepticons, the only ones I remembered were Megatron and Starscream and Bonecrusher.
Why are the bad guys always cooler, man... Starscream's mid-air transformation from robot to fighter jet and back again (twice!) was so damn cool. XD
And did anyone else think Frenzy (the little radio-Transformer) seemed like he was on crack??
I found this especially funny, considering that earlier in the film, that police officer and Sam had been asking each other, "Are you on drugs?" and here comes a crazy, fidgety little thing whose limbs seem to flicker out every which way; and as he sits in the police car and reads off the patrol car's screen he twitches and nods and yammers to himself.
I thought the robot was on crack. Seriously.
Megatron... okay, I've already mentioned my gripe about that. Oh, but the whole "I am the emperor of the universe, bow down before me" attitude was quite firmly in place. Yeah, this guy's head is so inflated, you'd be surprised it's still made of hard metal and not a super-stretchy balloon. XD
All in all, a good film. Not really something to watch if you want thought-provoking stuff; leave your adult brain at the door and unleash your inner 6-year-old. Wahaha.
Ooh. And I was just thinking, last week; the Transformers cartoons are seriously old stuff; not even everyone who's my age or older watched them, and my sister who's 5 years younger than me hasn't even seen them!
So I was thinking... Doesn't that mean that hundreds of teenagers are going to walk into cinemas to watch Transformers without even knowing what it really is? Not even knowing it was originally a cartoon? Sad to think of it, really.
Was good; only pet peeve was that Megatron had a strange way of addressing Optimus Prime as "Prime" in the movie; as far as I can remember from the cartoons, *no one* ever did that. It was always either "Optimus Prime" or just "Optimus". Ugh; "Prime".
Bumblebee is the cutest car ever. I want a voice-controlled car too, which can transform itself into a Maserati Spyder. XD
The only autobots that I recognised from the beginning were Bumblebee and Optimus Prime; Bumblebee coz, well, no other Autobot had that much yellow on him and Optimus Prime, I recognised him coz I remember he was the truck. That big red and blue truck. Ooh, but they gave him blue paint and red flames in the movie. Snazzy looking.
For the Decepticons, the only ones I remembered were Megatron and Starscream and Bonecrusher.
Why are the bad guys always cooler, man... Starscream's mid-air transformation from robot to fighter jet and back again (twice!) was so damn cool. XD
And did anyone else think Frenzy (the little radio-Transformer) seemed like he was on crack??
I found this especially funny, considering that earlier in the film, that police officer and Sam had been asking each other, "Are you on drugs?" and here comes a crazy, fidgety little thing whose limbs seem to flicker out every which way; and as he sits in the police car and reads off the patrol car's screen he twitches and nods and yammers to himself.
I thought the robot was on crack. Seriously.
Megatron... okay, I've already mentioned my gripe about that. Oh, but the whole "I am the emperor of the universe, bow down before me" attitude was quite firmly in place. Yeah, this guy's head is so inflated, you'd be surprised it's still made of hard metal and not a super-stretchy balloon. XD
All in all, a good film. Not really something to watch if you want thought-provoking stuff; leave your adult brain at the door and unleash your inner 6-year-old. Wahaha.
Ooh. And I was just thinking, last week; the Transformers cartoons are seriously old stuff; not even everyone who's my age or older watched them, and my sister who's 5 years younger than me hasn't even seen them!
So I was thinking... Doesn't that mean that hundreds of teenagers are going to walk into cinemas to watch Transformers without even knowing what it really is? Not even knowing it was originally a cartoon? Sad to think of it, really.
Monday, July 02, 2007
...At which period in time Gerri is kind of all alone. Sigh.
Coz kor has left for exchange to New Zealand already (remember to send back gifts for Joseph's and my birthdays! XD); Joseph and I had dinner with him and da-sao, Christine, on Friday night, and on Saturday evening, we saw him off at the airport.
And this morning, Joseph went back to camp for reservist, so I'm temporarily without any bitching partners.
Sigh.
Coz kor has left for exchange to New Zealand already (remember to send back gifts for Joseph's and my birthdays! XD); Joseph and I had dinner with him and da-sao, Christine, on Friday night, and on Saturday evening, we saw him off at the airport.
And this morning, Joseph went back to camp for reservist, so I'm temporarily without any bitching partners.
Sigh.