Blog 3.2 AH AH AH AH AH

One random thing... AH AH AH AH AH (sounds of thunder and flashes of lightning)

I'm been wanting to do a youtube music video because ... a) I can b) I can somewhat play the guitar c) I can sing better than those people who got rejected on Australian idol. By the way I did come in 5th place in a chinese karaoke competition one time... and no, there was more than 5 contestants. So I got this song in my head... but the only thing that's stopping me is how to film it?

Two random thing... AH AH AH AH AH (sounds of thunder and flashes of lightning)

I was at an eletronic/dvd/videogames store, JB-Hifi in the city. I picked up Star Trek Voyager season 1 for AUD33. I'm not a big trekkie fan, but throw a female cyborg in a cat suit and you can beam me up anytime!*

Don't worry, I ain't gonna resist*....

ripped from blastr.com

The cyborg's name is Seven of nine. Speaking of seven of nine, I remember a cool song by a band called, Six was nine.

I really enjoyed that series, but I remember they showed it at weird times and some weeks it wasnt even shown... so I forgot about it and never got to know what happened in the end. So yea, according to wiki, there's like 7 seasons but at AUD33 a pop.... aint gonna happen. I love female borgs but I aint gonna pay that moolah.

(*You gotta at least heard of these two star trek phrases... and you'll know what Im talking about)

Three random things... AH AH AH AH AH (sounds of thunder and flashes of lightning)

Update on my calves

"Hang on", exclaimed a reader. "If my memory serves me well, I believe this was the same picture that Jaystin used in his previous entry"

In my response to that astute reader, I say, "Well done, astute reader... The picture is the same as before 'cos there has been totally NO improvement at all since August 23rd (the date of that blog entry... so it was pointless to take an update picture"

Yes, no improvement at all. I believe my calves are parts of a donkey (you know... those stubborn animals?). Someone must have swapped my real calves and implanted them when I was swimming or something. WHY wont you grow!!!

Four random things... AH AH AH AH AH (sounds of thunder and flashes of lightning)

My cat coin bank order has been cancelled because they've run out of stock. I hate asian sellers. I do hope I get my refund back... By the way, being an asian myself... gives me the right to bag other asians.

Five random things... AH AH AH AH AH (sounds of thunder and flashes of lightning)

What a lovely conclusion to this entry... a classic disney song...

Build 5.1 Gundam GP03 Dendrobium SD BB#207

Welcome to part 2 for gundam n00bies.... "How to properly cut off the gundam parts". I must admit all of my gundams has hideous scuff marks due to poor cutting techniques.

Thanks to guest commentator and gundam activist, Nat Chan.

Also with some interference from everyone's favourite rival©, Mr.P.

As you can see, even three guys that dunno anything about gundam can have fun putting them together!

Build 5.0 Gundam GP03 Dendrobium SD BB#207

Finally, my fifth gundam build . This time instead of pictures, I will be using youtube! Please visit my youtube page and be my friend :3

Taking my cue from other really popular gundam-ers such as prime92, vegeta8259 and rrobbert184. I will kick things off with part 1 - 'the unboxing video' ooooooh. Seems like its a must to unbox your kits, preferably when its just arrived in the mail. Unfortunately, I already opened and had a peek, but yea...

Mr. Nat Chan is guest commentator. So let's roll...

Ok for the cute gundams... they are numbered as they get released. The recent gundam unicorn was #360?! and this kit is #207... so its pretty old... but it has a gundam car!

Blog 3.1 Five things I hate/love about gym & gundam contest

I am starting out with 5 things for the moment until I discover more things that I hate/love about the gym.

1) The locker rooms - I love the electronic keypad lockers but dislike the wooden lockers... all dirtied and stained with black unknown substances. I have to bring like Aldi catalogues to line the locker before I store my change of clothes and stuff. :(

2a) Shoes ought to be banned from the locker rooms. People would bring in mud, tinea, urine and even possibly faeces on the floor. Hang on, you might say "You mighthaf, couldhaf bring them in too". Ah, but even if I did, it would be like minute-microscopic-bacteriasized dirt, lol, but the gym should at least get their instructors to mop the floor every few hours. They just stand around and chat most of the time - useless. I HAVE TO LEARN MY TECHNIQUES FROM YOUTUBE!!! WHAT?!

2b) Continuing from 2a. What grosses me out is despite the fact that floor is cover with all of the above mentioned, 80% of the guys would walk barefooted. YUCKS! Tinea much?

3a) To solo or not to solo. I am a solo gymer. This is because I wanna be in and out of the gym and make my routines quick yet effective. One of the ways to achieve this is to have 30 seconds intervals between sets. Now, if I were to gym with Mr.P, the chances are we would be talking about Nat Chan's tight jeans or his bogan haircut... meaning we would take probably 40-60 seconds intervals or even longer. That's why I try not to make friends at the gym.

3b) I'm not saying don't make friends, I personally think that it wastes time.

3c) If you do decide to have a gym partner. Do yourself a favour and find someone who is on the same strength level as you are. There is nothing worse that gym-ing with someone weaker than you. A fine example is when I went with Mr.P to the gym. We had to keep changing the plates on the barbell for the bench press... waste of time!

4) People who come to the gym in thongs... no, not undies (that would be gross depending on the gender) but as in slippers. Again the gym instructors are not around to chase these people out. WHAT?!

5) Guys who emphasize on using too heavy weights rather than technique. Frustrates me to see guys thrusting their pelvis when doing dumbbell curls. WHAT?!

A perfect world would be walking into the gym and seeing all buffed guys doing perfect techniques and its dead quiet except for the music playing. Nice.

I noticed that since my last gym update that I have been stuck in a plateau for the last 3 weeks so today I upped my

dumbbell bicep curls from 25kg to 30kg

seated calve raises to 35kg to 40kg

seated dumbbell shrugs from 30kg to 35kg

dumbbell bench press starting to include 1 set of 70kg

dumbbell shoulder press up to 40kg

There is really no place like home gym.

Finally this is my video response to a Gundam contest being held on Youtube.

You really need to watch this guy's video to understand why I made my video the way it is.

Click to see this guys sample video >>HERE<<. He starts off all his videos with his trademark opening theme song and his robots spin around.

and here is my video response... hope I win!

Foodview 2.7a Pancake Desert House, Melbourne

Back in the 90's I loved running, even went on to represent my school for 100m sprints. Of course I never won anything due to many, many factors but it had been a passion of mine. I'd watch every olympics and IAAF championships. Now in the 10's, that passion has melted like ice on the streets of Sunshine on a fine september day. Speaking of September, I really want that Mr.Men showbag just simply because I never wore a light blue cap.

And back to running, there is this marketing ploy that Nike is promoting, the Nike City Run 10K. Basically, its a challenge between two warring South East Asian countries (Malaysia vs Singapore). Those not familiar with the history of these two countries, ummm, well let's say their animosity for each other is like North Korea vs South Korea or Mr. Unicorn vs Mr.P.

So the city that runs the most km's by a certain date... will win lots of money donated to their respective charities. Being a neutral-former-south-east-asian-kid-now-residing-in-Melbourne, I hope Malaysia wins! One plan that is sure to guarantee that Malaysia wins is as follows

Plan of destruction of Singapore (at the Nike challenge of course)

1) Fly Mr.P a.k.a Mr. Calves, the current Australia distance running champion to reside in Malaysia (probably beg a couple of friends to let him bunk beds with them)

Image ripped from Dr.Clay

2) dress him like a Malaysian

Image ripped from Bigdotdot

3) do his thang... (his thang is that he loves running) and win! muahhahaha :|

Onto the foodview... BUT BE WARNED... THE FOLLOWING PHOTOS ARE GRAPHIC IN NATURE. READERS WHO HAVE A TENDENCY TO FAINT OR GET NAUSEOUS AT THE SIGHT OF GROSS OBJECTS SHOULD NOT CONTINUE READING. (Photos contains pig intestines. Rated 18+)

Located at Midcity Plaza, somewhere along the corner of Bourke Street and Russell Street in Melbourne CBD. The famous Desert house. There are a few dishes that lots of people would tell you to try. So today's foodview is on the Hong Kong Style Noodle Soup.

After promptly getting my seat, a menu is shoved in my face. Gotta love the Hong Kong service

No I cannot read chinese. But a great tip is to pretend that you can especially if you look chinese. You might not get free chinese tea but its something to do :| Oh yea, this dish cost AUD8.80

So many options, oh what is a boy to do? ewwww Pig's blood curd? gross

After selecting 3 of the options, you will be rudely asked what type of noodles and sauce and whether you like your noodles in soup or with sauce.

I picked

1) Wonton

2) Pig intestines

3) Pork spare ribs

4) Thin egg noodles

5) Beef brisket sauce

6) In a soup

Yummy these pig intestines are quite fleshy and CLEAN. I've been to restaurants where its not clean and you can find objects in there... such as marbles or a australian 5 cent coin

TIP: When going for dishes like this, Please dont waste you money on processed foods like fishball or spam. You can get these at the asian grocery store or Safeway. Go for things like real meat or prawns or chicken wings!

Pork spare ribs is always nice.

Wonton was especially nice. I saved it for last.

Cabbage?

Taste : 5 out of 5

Value : 5 out of 5

Comments : Very satisfied, not really filling, can be cheaper but I love it overall! Highly recommend!

Blog 3.0 A new gundam

I got a package today! Actually... I didnt... I had these photos for quite awhile and I was busy weeding. :|

The Dendrobium! Woot! The only reason I got this was because batman cant be batman without his batmobile... so Gundam cant be gundam without his gundamobile!

All the plates out of the box

Oh my gosh... look at the size of these parts! Its gi-normous-gantous-huge-big.

And thats it folks. As usual, I will colour it to some weird colour which will end up taking months to do. So for now... adios!

Foodview 2.6a New Laksa King, Flemington

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Image is ripped from Gundam wikia

A new series from the Gundam universe, Gundam 00.

Image is ripped from Mr.gundam.

This is the new robot from that series, Qan[T]

Personally, I hate it. Its very boring. Bandai needs more creativity. Please don't whack a shield type thingy on the robot's shoulder and give it a cool name... that doesn't work with me.

Anyways, Mr.gundam reported on his super popular blog news site... that an super cute version of the Qan[T] will be coming out... Now that is something of interest. I was getting worried that Bandai wont ever release more cute SD versions of the gundam... well, the actually do but they make like samurai gundams which I hate very muchly. On to the foodview...

I have finally made one of many upcoming foodviews on the King of Flemington (dare I say King of all Victoria? Queen Victoria might object to that...), Laksa King located on Pin Oak Crescent on Flemington, Victoria.

A classic dish, Combination Crispy noodles. Basically this dish is thin egg noodles which are fried til very crispy, then a thick sauce is poured over it with meat of all sorts, usually seafood such as calamari, fishcakes as well as pork and vegies, bok choy and mushrooms.

Taste and more importantly quantity has been sacrificed as presentation seems to have taken priority at the new Laksa King. HULLLLO! I am an asian and I want value for my money!!!

Usually the prawns are de-veined. Not today though but there are no crap in it. LUCKY! :|

The sauce today was a bit salty for my liking.

The calamari or squid as usual, is too rubbery for me chew. My false teeth keeps falling out when I attempt to chew them.

While it taste and looks as the same as when Laksa King was at its old location, one big shocking change to this dish is the TINY amount of noodles. Its like the amount you get in 2-minute instant noodles. NOT HAPPY, Mr. Laksa King.

Overall comment : Sauce was a bit salty, the amount of noodles was not enough - there was more at the old location, for the price this dish calls for, I expected more. The amount of meat was standard... at their old location where one can peer into the kitchen, I saw the cook count the number of squid he allocates to a dish, 4. Knowing this, I wont complain about the meat, but cutting down on noodles is unacceptable. Tastewise - nothing spectacular.

Value : 2 out of 5

Taste : 3 out of 5

Build 4.0 Freedom Gundam SD (FINAL)

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Building this gundam as well as painting it took forever. I am starting to wonder if I really hate or love gundam robots. Anyways this is not a Bandai original but a knockoff. Enjoy!

Blog 2.9 Foodview dump!

Play this song whilst reading... anything! This singer's soulful music is a 5 out of 5 stars.

So I am desperately trying to clear my backlog and reminding myself to stop taking photos of foods that I keep coming across. So lets get into it.

Minifoodview 01

Pepperidge Farm®Milano cookies.

This is an American product that one will never ever see on any shelves in any supermarket in Australia. This and my other American favourites such as Captain Crunch and Reese's pieces - that were readily available back in my hometown somewhere in South East Asia. Actually, I think I've seen Reese's pieces being sold here but at a really outrageous price. Moving forward.

Suzuki the resident keyboardist in my band, bought these back with her after touring the States with her own band, The Suzuki Swifts.

I cannot comment on the price as I did not purchase this product but I imagine this would be very expensive.

Taste : 5 out of 5 stars

This cookie is a must taste. Its unlike anything cookie I've ever eaten. Very very very yummy. Portions is not alot. I don't imagine I will be buying this product if it did ever come to Australia.

Minifoodview 02

Kellogg's® Special K® Chocolatey Bars

Special K is a cereal that is market by Kelloggs that can or may help one to lose weight. *coughliescough* These bars are new products from the Special K brand, It was on sale at Woolies for AUD3.00. They look really nice on the box but its anything but.

Maybe its possible to lose weight with Special K, because you don't really eat anything. A 7-cm bar that's the world's shortest bar. Sigh

I've never been a fan of cornflakes as a bar. Look at the thin layer of chocolate.. you can tell th cornflake bar was pressed over a layer of chocalate. I suppose since its aimed for those wanting to lose weight, one shouldnt be eating too much chocolate.

Value : 0 out of 5 stars

Taste : 1 out of 5 stars

Taste is nothing spectacular. I have taste better bars than this. The tiny size of the bar is really what put me off.

Mini foodview 03

Homebrand Cup noodles from Woolworths.

If you want no-fuss, cheap and with no-asian writings of any country written on your cup noodles, head into Woolworths and buy Suimin - don't worry for the xx years that I've been eating Suimin, I've not eaten any metal bits.

Nat Chan and myself were in Woolworths the other day, and between us, we only had AUD0.80 (Nat Chan had 30cents and I had the fity cent). After much begging, Nat Chan loaned me his thirty cents, which allowed me to purchase the following...

Homebrand cup noodles! For only 80cents! Normally people would avoid eating the generic versions of everyday foods but that day I was penniless. Thank you Nat Chan!

Opening the beef flavoured noodles, you can see the noodles right at the bottom of the cup... that's a long way down

Dehydrated veggies - Only non-asian companies include corn with their noodles..... seems like Aussies like corn in their noodles.

This is super cute! The seasoning has pictures of cows! Like cute!

After a couple of minutes, this is the product. Saying my prayers and leaving my gundams to Nat Chan in my will, I took my first bite and had a sip of the soup.

The taste of the soup was neither beef nor anything I had ever tasted. I would definitely not call it beef. Must be a new kind of taste that has been mistakenly called beef. Maybe this new flavour should be called FEEB. I was really loss for words while eating the noodles. The noodles were actually pretty good and the soup wasnt too salty.

Value : 5 out of 5 stars

Taste : 2 out of 5 stars

I seriously still cant put a finger on the flavour of this cup noodles. Though its cheap, I wont eat this again, unless I become poor again like on that fateful day.

Gym 34

Ok this isnt really Gym #34 it might be #40 or something like that. Thanks to laziness. Been focusing more on the calves, as well as my trapz and lats. Mr.P then says he is doing his abs... So I wanna do it too. Too many muscles and too little time!

Anyways since #34. I have become much stronger. Evidence of this is as follows:

So I am like waiting to use the pec decks because two semi-buff asian doods are using it. Buff dood 1 is spotting buff dood 2.

Buff dood 1 : Hello

I was looking at a super massive buff dood.

Jaystin Unicorn : Oh... Hi

Buff dood 1 : Hi, I am Wailing ( I didnt really catch his chinese name )

Buff dood 2 : Hi, I am Dr. Wilson ( I believe this guy is a doctor as I overheard them talking about heart attacks)

Wailing : You look pretty big, do you do sports?

I'm thinking : DUH, like gym is a sport!

I smile as a I replied : Oh no I dont do anything really.

Wailing to Dr. Wilson : He looks like he does sport.

Dr. Wilson : Maybe he does kungfu.

I just smile and wait for my turn.

-END-

Jeez Louise! I hope I dont speak like that to strangers! Sigh to the max. Anyways, I was quite happy with that compliment (I don't care if it wasn't a compliment). So on to my results

Tricep rope push-downs

Set 1 20kg 10 reps

Set 2 20kg 10 reps

Set 3 20kg 10 reps

Set 4 20kg 10 reps

Up from 15kg!

Dumbbell curls (Combined)

Set 1 25kg 10 reps

Set 2 25kg 10 reps

Set 3 25kg 10 reps

Set 4 25kg 10 reps

Dumbbell bench press (Combined)

Set 1 60kg 10 reps

Set 2 60kg 8 reps

Set 3 60kg 9 reps

The previous session I managed 1 set, 10 reps 65kg dumbbells combined. Woot!

Seated Pectoral Flies

Set 1 25kg 10 reps

Set 2 25kg 6 reps + 18kg 4 reps

Set 3 25kg 5 reps + 18kg 5 reps

This is a good finishing exercise for the chest. Love it!

Seated Cable Rows

Set 1 50kg 10 reps

Set 2 50kg 10 reps

Set 3 50kg 10 reps

Nice to perfect this technique.

Dumbbell Shrugs

Set 1 60kg 10 reps

Set 2 60kg 10 reps

Set 3 60kg 10 reps

Set 4 60kg 10 reps

Set 5 60kg 10 reps

Need to so perfect this technique