During Train Ride @ 080912

Got nothing better to do, so tried out some apps on my ipod and immediately dazed by some of the filters of PowerCam.  Love the effects.

Dinner at Xin Wang, Plaza Singapore

Things To Do or Things Not To Do

Improvised from Johnny Cash's to-do list, here is my version. 

STGCC 2012

To me, the main highlights of this year STGCC are those realistic, high quality collectible figures from Hot Toys.  I came to know this Hong Kong-based production house through the series of ridiculously detailed Iron Man collectible figurines that I'd drooled for so many years.  How I wish i have the mean and space to collect and display them. Mark VII, est. ship date by end of 1st quarter 2013, can be pre-ordered at the exhibition booth. OMG! Very nice.

As I reached the exhibition hall quite late, almost 5pm in the evening, I didn't have the chance to meet some of the artists I have already heard of. But I did got to know other up-coming artists and their works. ^_^

Artist : Tristan Eaton

Have bought this lovely print (edition 20/20) by NY-based artist Tristan Eaton.

Too bad, this Yoda print is not for sale.

Artist : Ng Shi Kian

Get an A2 laminated poster of this beautifully executed black & white painting. Superb.

Free gifts from him.  Thanks.

Mighty Jaxx

postcard and sticker of Hell Lotus

I dunno if this special ed. middle finger pointing Hell Lotus is available for sale.

I'd also missed an old friend, more precisely ex-colleague from Singapore Press who is now a full-time comic artist.  I didn't know there was a book launch till very late.  His new book Ten Sticks And One Rice will be releasing this coming November. Congrats !!!

My First Watch

This was my very first watch since primary school.  It was a Casio which lasted quite a few years after secondary 4.  As for the spectacle, also my first and last.  Made during Primary 5 or 6, wore it for a week and then gave up.  Hated it so much.  Anyway, never wear a single spec, except sunglasses, till today.

Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy

Love the stories.  After a taste of the first book 'The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo', I simply couldn't stop craving for the 2nd and 3rd books. So despite the same-old-nothing-new busy schedules, I managed to finish the last book this week.

The titles of the 2nd and 3rd books are The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest respectively.

The narrator Lisbeth Salander is a young and skinny wierdo who has lots of tattoo over her body.  In actual fact she is a world class computer hacker. She uses her computer skills as a means to earn a living, doing investigative work for Milton Security. She has an photographic memory, and is skillful at concealing her identity, possessing passports in different names and physical disguises that she uses to travel undetected around Sweden and worldwide. COOL!

As for the plot, I wouldn't want to say much.  Can find the details in wikipedia.  Like the blurb at the back of the paperback, "Fans will not be disappointed: this is another roller-coaster ride that keeps you reading far too late into the night".  Yes! I wholeheartedly agree.

Too bad the author Stieg Larsson, a journalist in Sweden, had died suddenly and unexpectedly in Nov 2004, soon after delivering the manuscripts for these three crime novels to his publisher.  He did not live to see the phenomenon his work has become.

I may watch the film adaptations one fine day.

On Monday

A lonely chair outside there ....... with occasional companion, a cycle this morning, but what later ? How about tomorrow ?

Gardens By The Bay

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