Toys Adventure Eps 8: Captain Mike save the day

Uncle Blue is on his way after work without realising Mr. Bad guy is waiting for him right at the corner.

Mr Bad guy: “MONEY OR LIFE!!! CHOOSE ONE NOW!!!! Or I gonna shoot lah”

“No so fast” said Mike

“What the!!!?” said Mr Bad guy

“Captain Mike!!!” said  Uncle Blue

Uncle Blue: “Thank you so much! Captain Mike”

Once again Captain Mike has saved the day.

To be continue…

PS: Somehow after I done this, i feel like I think and though like a kid! Is my intelligent dropping? XD

Toys Adventure: Back with Light

 

After a long vacations, Captain Mike has once again show up!!! “Back with light years ahead!” said Captain Mike.

Impressive Stop Motion Movie by PatrickBoivin

Just run across this youtube by PatrickBoivin, real impressive stuffs!!!

 

By the same guys, he also make I shoot your ex-girlfriend, short & hilarious. What will I do if I’m in that situation? I think I will be totally clueless XD

 

And here is another one, Bruce Lee vs Iron Man

 

If you have some ideas with movie capture /  photography / 3D editing you will know how impressive and how much work he have put into the video. Even with just a short 1 mins clip, I think will take at least few week to pull it off?

Anyway, highly impress by him. Great stuffs!!!

Eps 6: Welcome Ezekiel Emmanuel Tan Ngee-Ern 陳義恩

My 3rd brother Victor & Sis in law Edith just born a son on friday night!!! It is the first born son for my 3rd brother and all of us are rejoicing and exciting about this new born child. So for now I have 3 nephew and 4 nieces, and I believe the number will continue to grow!!! >w<

Once Captain Mike heard the news, he is so excited that he wanted to do something about it. So he made a red egg which Chinese usually use it for birthday and also mean to symbol a new life. Welcoming Ezekiel Emmanuel Tan Ngee-Ern to Tan family and also to this world. Pray and believe that you will have a wonderful, blessed, and fulfilling life under the care, maturing of Victor Tan family.

Congrats and well done to Victor & Edith \(^w^)/

My Room entertainment system

Previously I posted about my purchase of Sony KDL – 40w5500, which is almost 2 week by now; I am still pretty happy with it.

And this is how it look in my room atm

To give you a better perspective the size of a 40” tv, a quick shot of me with my TV. Those Starwar toys is from my brother who are in New Zealand at this moments, helping him to keep it while decorate it in my room.

Now, it has officially turn my room into a media entertainment paradise, with my pc act as the media central with the abilities to play video, music, internet + games with 5.1 surround sound. Technically we called it Home Theatre Personal Computer in short HTPC. It doesn’t mean that normal pc with PC monitor cannot be called HTPC, it is just that having a bigger screen make watching movie so much more enjoyable compare to my previous Samsung 19” LCD.

Recently I also installed a program called XBMC, it is a front end media program  similar to Windows Media Centre. The installation is pretty easy, but configure the contents with video information took me a huge chunk of time (might be due to my slow internet connections?) But once you start setting up and saw the result of it, you can’t really stop. . .

This is how it look like With some extra feature like weather broadcast, hardly use it for me, but good to have it. If you look carefully, it also support for music & pictures, but personally  I feel that iTunes is a way better music management programs while Adobe lightroom is my default pictures management.

It display my anime collections with wonderful wide banner ^w^

It will display Movie information if available, but not for this case . . . . . Movie information with display resolution, audio information and movie rating base on where you query the database. It can also display individual TV series episode informationCurrently I still fine tweaking this program and trying to update my content information one movie at a time, if I can get hold on bigger HDD for storage, I might even start ripping some of my DVD collection. Since it gonna took me a long time to do it, I don’t see myself doing it any time soon (too lazy) :p  So if you guys wanna drop by my place (room) to watch movie? Do let me know.

Sony KDL-40w5500 in the room!!!

I been wanting a HDTV in my room for quite a while. Easily over 3 years? Some how this year I really feel like getting a LCD for some reason, so I have been doing quite a fair bit of marketing and research around the Brunei market. Since getting a LCD oversea wasn’t a smart move at all even though they might be cheaper.

After all the research, marketing, reading review etc, I have finally pull my plug on the 40inch Sony LCD.  When the kid found out that i got a 40inch HDTV, they were like “OMG!!!” “WTH!!!” “How can this fit into your room!!?” “I so jealous!!!” etc etc.

As for me, i am pretty excited and happy to finally get one of my dream setup done in my room. So gonna move on with life and full fill my other small little dream step by steps. Of course I want to thank Him for the provision and guidance (I think I am more like those kid that forcing my dad to buy for me even though He don’t want to >w<)

Thought i already found some inconveniences with using such a big HDTV, nevertheless I am still pretty drill with it. I may provide a more in depth personnel review, but for a more professional review for this beast, google is still your best bet. ^w^  

FFVII Advent Children: Cloud & Fenrir

If I am not mistaken, Final Fantasy is one of the first JRPG that I played in SNES, FFVII is the reason that I bought a PS one, FFXI is the one that officially bring me to the worlds of MMO, so final fantasy franchise always hold a special meaning in my life.

I believe most of you have watched Final Fantasy Advent Children in one way or the other, I honestly feel that Square Enix should have launched Advent Children as their first movie title instead of Spirit Within (maybe they learned from their mistake?) It is one of my favourite anime movie to date (especially the Blue Ray edition)

When Square Enix launched Play Arts Action Figure with Cloud & Fenrir few years ago, I been wanted to buy this. I actually come across this figure a few times when I was in Singapore or even in Brunei, but I decided to turn it down and feel regard later on. So when I saw this again KL, I finally decided to get it , although it actually took me quite some time to make the final decision :p

The quality and the workmanship for the toy is pretty good, there are some part I feel that it can be better but can’t really complain about it; for the additional detail I like to have it would jet up the price at least 2x

If they ever produce a driveable version of Fenrir, I may tempted to get myself a motorbike driving license in order to drive this beauty.

Do I wish it better? Yes

And I happy with my purchase? Oh YES!!! XD

Eps 5 - Sunset with Sea Turtle

The same day when captain Mike meet with Captain De Luke Chap, he also meet a sea turtle. Knowing that sea turtle is an endanger species, he decided to spend a little time with sea turtle for not knowing when he will ever meet sea turtle again.

To be continue. . . . .

Toys Adventure Eps IV – Captain De Luke Chap

Captain De Luke Chap is a fearsome pirate that travel across various sea to hunt for the secret & deepest treasure that has yet know to man. Together with his sub coordinate, he parked and step foots to a new land to search for a new adventure.

Behold!!! He have found something that has yet to be know by other pirate!!! CAPTAIN MIKE!!!

To be continue…

Toys Adventure Eps 3 - Bird house

As Mike continue to explore, he found a bird house. So he stood in and found two birdy there, and decided to sit down and share his story and adventure with them.

Overjoyed with meeting the famous star “Hello Kitty”, Captain Mike can’t help but request to take a photo with her.

To be continue…

Toys Adventure Eps 2 - Foods hunting

As Captain Mike continue to explore around the place, he saw this bowl of laksa in front of him. As he been use to those food concentrate tube, it is his first time see and smell the real laksa in his life. Then he continue to explore and found this big white container, and decided to take a look inside…

To be continue. . .

Toys Adventure Eps 1 - Captain Mike arrival

Captain Mike has been travelling various galaxy and decided to pay a visit to Brunei, to show his friendly intention he even bring along a Brunei flag.

Captain Mike is amaze with the green pasture Wanted to take a better view from high places

To be continue…

Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC acquired!!!

Remember few post ago I mentioned that I gonna look for an UWA lens? Now here I am, can happily said that I have acquired Sigma 10-22mm F4-F5.6 EX DC!!! Btw my first sigma lens also :p

Some of you may ask me why this lens? I actually set my mind to get Tokina 11-16mm F2.8 once I save up enough for that, but when I saw this lens for sale in Brudirect classified with such tempting price that I just can’t resist. 

When I first hold this lens, the first thing that come to my mind is that it is heavier than my other lens, almost as heavy as canon EFS 18-200mm. AF is really fast and silence compare to my other non USM canon lens, and full time manual is really a fantastic feature. Too bad the zoom ring is turning the other direction compare to canon, so I may get confuse when I am using it? Gonna look out for a 77mm ND filter to accompany this lens for my sunset shoots.

Other stuffs I like about this deal is the freebies that come with it, Kenko 77mm UV filter, Sigma lens hood and even a Sigma lens bag!!!

And here it compare to my other lens

Canon EF50mm –> EFS 55-250mm –> Sigma 10-20mm

So why UWA lens? Here is 2 snap shoot of my home, 1st is 10mm and the 2nd is 17mm. From here you can actually see how wide you can cover compare to the normal zoom range.

And one panning shoot So I have completed the range from 10mm to 250mm, and started to wonder when & what will be my next lens purchase. A 17-50mm F2.8? Macro lens? However, I know really well that I gonna have lot’s of fun with what I have and can’t wait to see how’s the result will be.