Metrojaya coughed up a RM10 voucher which led to me and YY buying ourselves each a Keroro Gunsou model set. I got the keroro mecha while she got a Giroro model and we spent an afternoon putting them together. It wasn’t easy. There were tons of little plastic bits which we had to assemble as well as tiny stickers to paste on. It was tough especially when you have sausage fingers like I do.

The mecha had totally pose-able joints and a little detachable ship. It’s gun and shield were interchangeable and… well it was totally awesome. Metrojaya had them on sale but the normal price was about RM26 per box model.

I personally thought it wasn’t all THAT expensive especially when compared to some of the other stuff on sale. I saw some stiff ugly superhero figurines that were going for RM80 and above. I find that really ridiculous. Aren’t toys for kids? How are any kids going to save up their pocketmoney and buy an action-figure when they all cost so obnoxiously much?

Giroro had a little problems with his mouth but he had changeable hands and feet. Even his eyes could change! Damn the Japanese are masters of the model building world. YY managed to beat me at assembling her Giroro but I blame it all on my sausage fingers! It was an unfair advantage and I insist on a rematch.

I’m definately thinking about collecting the set.

It’s really second-hand news as he passed on on Tuesday, aged 69 but I figured this was something worth mentioning.

For those that don’t know or don’t really care, Gary Gygax was the father of Dungeons & Dragons. Big deal you might say, but I’m a huge fantasy fan and this sorta thing was what spurred my interest in the whole games, reading, drawing, etc. Those of you that know me can testify to my nerdiness.

Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings might have been the pinnacle of fantasy writing but Dungeons & Dragons was what made the whole thing fun. It’s a pity but I guess the guy led a jolly long life filled with gaming. *Envy*

Election is not far away and already the disease of flagitis has spread and infected the neighbourhoods. I never did and never will understand the need for the millions of flags portraying party loyalties and posters of candidates littering the nation. I honestly feel all parties should be banned from hanging up their rubbish and inconveniencing society. There are better ways of doing it.

Instead of a 10,000 small flags, why not just a few big ones? I understand these flags are a boon for printing houses everywhere but isn’t it a massive waste? You spend millions on an ineffective campaign method and in return, you don’t really help anyone. You have flagpoles falling down on roads, strings of flags obstructing the view of drivers, flags falling down all over the place and making an outright mess of the place. Even the ACT of hanging up flags is reason enough for violence in opposing parties.

How many times must you see a candidates face before it sticks in your mind like diseased blutack. How long until you start to despise the face you see daily, grinning all around, hanging from trees and signboards. How long until I snap and whip out my pair of industrial scissors and go on a flag butchering rampage?…

Another stupid thing is, these forms of branding actually cancel themselves out. They love (or have to) hang opposing parties’ flags around each other. It is like some sort of pattern, Barisan, Opposition, Barisan, Opposition, Barisan, Opposition… Anyone that actually votes based on the number of flags they see has got to be majorly irresponsible or a plain doofus.

What is worse, candidates are normally quite ugly (to be blunt). I’ve seen some with pretty doofy faces not realizing that these posters are counter-productive for them. I feel for most candidates, they should let their deeds do the talking cos the face really isn’t helping much.