Blog 0.3 School of Ghrock Open day

Saturday night 9th January. The school of Ghrock opened its door to prospective students wanting to learn to become the next guitar heroes.

There was food

The school of ghrock does not encourage underaged drinking nor drink driving... or does it? muahahaha

In the picture below from left to right : IPKFF Current FIFA10 Australian champion, Mr. Nat "metroboy" Chan and ICCGH Current Guitar Hero Australian champion, Mr. P; Mr. Chan was invited by Mr.P to try his hand at guitar hero.

Mr. Nat Chan is holding my bottle of herbal chinese tea

Due to the school's poor promotion of its open day, no one turn up. So Mr.P invited his neighbours to the school's opening night. In the picture below from left to right : current LRM Makeup Australian champion, MAC; currently watching the street fighter match, D and current SFM Street Fighter Australian Champion, Chun Li.

Apparently Chun Li was in poor form that Mr.P fell asleep and amazingly, Mr.P managed to win their Street fighter match

Apparently D was also in poor form in Street Fighter, that when Mr.P awoke from his slumber, he took his hands off the game controller & started chatting with Mr.Chan yet he still amazingly won against D!

Unless you have been living under a rock, Street Fighter is a very popular fighting video game. As you can see from the picture below, green coloured mutants do not fight on the streets of Los Angeles but in the jungles of Thailand.

The green 'Blanca' just shot an electrical charge towards the grey 'Blanca' knocking him to the ground unconscious.

Then it was on to the FIFA10 football.

Mr.Chan proved to strong for both Mr.P and myself. So I won't waste my time talking about this. But I learnt a button that one can press to score goals from the 50 yards out, called the politically incorrect button.

Everyone having a good time, even MAC was playing guitar hero on the mobile phone.

This being an open day, there was no serious competition. However, I did have a friendly 8 song 'Pro-Faceoff' battle with Mr.P but alas I lost 3-5. For the record, Mr. P and Mr. Chan had been practicing at least an hour a day during the past 7 days on the guitar hero, and while I was busy polishing my Rock Band guitar for at least 5 minutes a day for the past 7 days. Mr.Chan while proved to be unmatched at FIFA10 didnt put up much of a fight to me and needless to say, Mr.P.

Gym 04

Shoulders

Dumbbell military press front of head.

Set 1 25kg 10 reps

Set 2 35kg 10 reps

Set 3 40kg 8 reps

Set 3 40kg 6 reps

Dumbbell front raises.

Set 1 16kg 10 reps

Set 2 16kg 10 reps

Set 3 16kg 10 reps

Dumbbell side raises.

Set 1 16kg 10 reps

Set 2 16kg 10 reps

Set 3 16kg 10 reps

Dumbbell bent over lateral raises.

Set 1 12kg 7 reps

Set 2 12kg 7 reps

Set 3 12kg 10 reps

Set 4 12kg 10 reps

Seated calf raise.

Set 1 50kg 10 reps

Set 2 50kg 10 reps

Set 3 50kg 7 reps

Comments :

Must avoid 'locking out' for dumbbell shoulder presses to keep tension on the deltoids throughout exercise.

Did not complete seated calf raise... very disappointed.

Today was a decent workout, glad that pushed myself to do 4th sets.

Gym 03

Chest

Inclined dumbbell press.

Set 1 20kg 10 reps

Set 2 45kg 8 reps

Set 3 50kg 8 reps

Set 4 60kg 8 reps

Dumbbell press.

Set 1 55kg 8 reps

Set 2 55kg 8 reps

Set 3 55kg 6 reps

Seated Flies.

Set 1 11kg 10 reps

Set 2 11kg 10 reps

Set 3 25kg 8 reps

Seated hammer press.

Set 1 40kg 8 reps

Set 2 50kg 4 reps

Set 3 50kg 5 reps

Seated calf raise.

Set 1 25kg 10 reps

Set 2 50kg 10 reps

Set 3 50kg 10 reps

Comments : Good workout. Tired out quickly than normal. I think is because I am still breaking in.

Build 3.1 Gundam Aegis SD

Ok this is not really a build, as you have seen him previously in my other posts. I am actually doing a paint job on this guy but for the sake of organising my posts, I will call this a 'build'.

I've been so into this paint job that I forgot to blogarise it :P

First things was to decide on a colour.

I asked colleagues from work for suggestions, and finally decided on the primary colour, purple with white/silver as the secondary colour.

Then I fired up the good ol' MS Paint.

Grabbed a pic of Aegis from the 1999.co.jp website. I have not bought from this site yet, I have bought an action base 1 from Hobby Link Japan but I reckon the best place to get gundam is still Walter hobby.

Then I painstakingly colour its pink bits to purple and from black to white.

Looks good on the screen and I really like this colour scheme. Sold.

So then its on to Mind games to get my paint. This store is located along Swanston street, in the city. You will have to walk all the way to the back and up the steps to buy the paint and brushes. I found that this place is currently the cheapest place to get paint and brushes. I beg you to please not buy your kits and supplies from a certain shop in the city featuring a rude asian man. He tends to throw your change at your face.

This paint is actually a brand from 'the Games Workshop'.

I took apart my aegis and have been painting the parts purple over the week.

Most of the left side is the completed side and the most of the right side of this picture are the inside of the pieces will which when put together won't see the light of day. Just thought be nice to include 'before (pink) and after (purple)' shots.

I started painting the pieces silver only on the head but haven't completed it because I realise I have not been blogging about this paint job. So let's roll...

Here is the head in silver and purple.

And artistic shot no.2. Reminds me of the helmets that the characters in Lord of the rings wore.

After this build, I will commence Gundam Freedom SD.

Gym 02

Tonight got in early 9.35pm didn't have much time as the gym closes at 10.30pm. So on to it

Biceps

Alternate Dumbbell curls.

Set 1 20kg 10 reps

Set 2 25kg 10 reps

Set 3 30kg 10 reps

Set 4 20kg 10 reps

Standing E-Z Bar curls.

Set 1 30kg 6 reps

Set 2 30kg 5 reps

Set 3 30kg 5 reps

Concentration curls.

Set 1 7.5kg

Set 2 10kg

Set 3 10kg

Comments : Wasted time doing Concentration curls. Should have went for fourth set of the E-Z Bar curls instead and gone home earlier. Must make a note to go up weights for Concentration curls at least 12.5kg. Finished 10.05pm

Gym 01

First day of gym for 2010. I intend to only journalise my gym progress. So no reviews or rants but if exercising is one of your resolution for the year, maybe, my gym entries might motivate you. A very good place I found to learn weight training techniques is online with Joe Tong, but there are tons of sites and tons of gym instructors. However, it all comes down to what exercise you are happy with. So lets roll.

Back to the gym after 12 days break. Decided to do light exercises working major parts to 'break-in'.

Back

Seated cable rows.

Set 1 30kg 8 reps

Set 2 40kg 8 reps

Set 3 40kg 8 reps

Shoulders

Dumbbell Military press front of head.

Set 1 20kg 8 reps

Set 2 30kg 10 reps

Set 3 35kg 8 reps

Biceps

Alternate Dumbbell curls.

Set 1 20kg 10 reps

Set 2 25kg 10 reps

Set 3 30kg 10 reps

Chest

Dumbbell bench press.

Set 1 20kg 8 reps

Set 2 30kg 8 reps

Set 3 50kg 8 reps

Blog 0.2 Resolution

The telly was showing Lord of the rings on new year's eve that I missed welcoming the year by xx seconds. A bloody good movie too bad its xx years too late for me to review it.

Ok new year means new resolutions that I will most likely give up before February starts.

1. To make every gym session effective. Some days I will miss gym for 2-3 days and then guilt starts setting in, and I go just to make the my conscience happy but the body knows! Oh does it know me well. On these days, no matter how hard I push the weights, my body wont be sore or tired ( I define a good workout by the how my body feels after ) at the end of the workout meaning I wasted my time at the gym (when I could be at home painting my gundams). So work hard! Fight! This all depends on the next one.

2. Managing my time well. Sadly I must divide my time between gundams and gym and possibly swimming, seeing that summer is around the corner and that I also bought a new+sexy swimming trunks.

THIS is not what I bought. I am just showing what I have been using since 2000.

I love this trunks. There is even a zipped pocket! It can fit things like a passport-sized photo or a SD memory card.

3. This flows onto this third and final point which is to beat Mr.P at his own game, Guitar Hero. There is no other that is more dedicated to a particular video game title than Mr. P, He practises for at least half an hour every weeknight. No one hates losing especially me and even especially when my rival is Mr.P. So with combining resolution points 1 and 2, I will get a more buff body which will make me look extremely good in my victory pose (which pose?... I am still working on that) when I defeat Mr. P. The key is to focus and concentrate at hitting those bloody notes!

Resolutions aside. I have been busy repainting the Gundam Aegis SD (which was a Christmas pressie from Teresa). I decide to do a repaint on all my cute gundams and make them look sexy. The aim of these paintings is to prepare me for the big build that is the Master Grade Gundam Astray Blue Frame 2nd revise. My goal before I totally give up on gundams is to have at least one Master grade gundam that is so professional looking that if I ever enter one in a competition I can get at least an honourable mention ;)

Before shot. I forgot to take a pic of it before painting. Doh!

I got the paint from mindgames located along swanston st, melbourne. Purple and silver. I havent painted its bits in silver yet.

Lastly the case for mine and metroboy's nintendo dses have arrived. I plan to show detailed step by step photos to change your nintendo dsi or dslite case on your own. Every other site, I've been to is just too vague to understand and/or skip important details.

Check this out. Top is going to be metallic red, inside top: green, inside bottom: black and bottom: gold. The ultimate customised DSlite

Here is Metro's DSi. Black to a cool light blue case. OR will it be black and blue? hmmmm.

Who knows what 2010 will bring. I know that the past cant be change but my future can be changed (No more losing in bloody Guitar Hero). I will end here by wishing all a Happy New year and to make the most of it.