An aspiring artist and author

A Soldier named Titus

I got a new watch on November 30th, thanks to my beloved. It is the Titus Soldier series. Titus Solvil doesn’t seem to have a website so I can’t find any nice product photo. I couldn’t get a good shot of the watch. This was the best of the crop of poor shots I took. [...]

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Failed NaNoWriMo attempt

NaNoWriMo 2009 ended half a month ago. Unfortunately, I was unable to win in my first attempt at the annual writing event. I was confident of doing well with only minimal planning for the settings and characters. And I was amazed by how ideas just kept flowing from the pen. As I wrote, new ideas [...]

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Christmas wishlist 2009

Since I was a kid, I’ve had a habit of making a Christmas wishlist. While I rarely got what I wanted, I would go to sleep on Christmas Eve filled with excitement and anticipation of what Santa would give me. My father even got the address of Santa Claus in Finland from his friend, and [...]

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Make models, not war

While surfing figure.fm, I came across this fantastic diorama by Francesco Coriglione from Sicilia, Italy. The piece is entitled “fate il modellismo, non fate la guerra”, translated as “make models, not war”. The theme of having a Gundam making gunpla models caught my eye immediately. Upon closer examination, you will notice that Francesco put in [...]

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Gundam Fiesta Singapore 2009 – Gundam girls

This final entry will wrap up my coverage of Gundam Fiesta Singapore 2009. In the previous entries, we talked about the history of Gundam and gunpla manufacturing. In this post, I will let the images do most of the talking. Gundam girls are models who dress up as Gundams. The highlight of the show was [...]

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