:: Old memories ::

i was at home packing all my stuff because my brother intends to refurnish all the furnitures in our room. as i was packing my toys, alot of fond memories recurred back to my mind. they are really one big pile and i have nearly 200 of them; BB warriors, Gundam Wing, Bomberman and Gundam Seed~!~!

i started collecting them since i was in sec 2 till sec 4 for BB warriors, where i felt dat there are far too many of them for me to collect, but ended up with 100+ of them. they are really short, cute and all comes with big big eyes. BB warriors are divided into 2 main classes, those from the main stories and those from the side stories. those dat are from the main stories are very much nicer and unique. as for side stories, they are exported from gundam and looked pretty weird to me. i remember i combed all the toy shops in orchard rd, from forum to PS and from metro to isetan and from big to small, and got myself lost dere. i even went as far as tampines to look for the missing models dat i lacked to make the story complete. often i got myself mocked by my sec sch frenz becoz i was really too crazy for them. however, they are more than toys to me. they are like my very own creation. thru them, i sorta understand how can things be held together without screw and nails. i also got scolded by my dad for flooding up the whole room with all my model kits, so i have to threw away the boxes. another thing i like most is the colourful comic page dat comes together with the manual dat shows us how to fix it, sadly they are all in japanese. So i can only use my imagination to complete the story, using the pictures and kanji characters(at dat point of time, i regarded them as chinese words...haha...). once i was telling my fren on how great BB warriors was at OG toy department in chinatown, then an auntie mistook me as a promoter for it...haha...so pai sai...in the end, i stopped collecting them because i got no more racks to store them, they all collected alot of dust and there are too many for me to buy.

until poly year 2, i started collecting gundam wing models. i feel dat they are the best among all gundam models, coz the rest r not so nice in appearance. i received 2 gundam model kits dat i dont really like, as my birthday presents. now, they are still into the box with the shrink-warp over it. often i would tell my frenz that those nice model kits were already bought by me, so dat the same thing wun happen again. i tried to paint 1 of them and the project failed.... :( furthermore, it's my favourite one among all gundam model kits, dat is the death gundam.

there are not many nice model kits ard for quite some time except for bomberman, but they are too expensive. i bought one for $20, but they are so small and not valued for too. i can easily complete one within 15-20mins. Unlike gundam, i can enjoy the construction for 1-2hrs. on one lucky day, i visited the bomberman supplier shop at arab street and found them selling at only $3-5 each, hence i invested my almost my 1 month pay and bought 1 of each model. unfortunately, i have only left 2 model(VA-12 and VA-16) to complete the entire series and i dun think anyone can find them on sale in singapore already. for bomberman, i got a total of 31 of them. to my surprise today, i got abt 5 of them still attached to gates and sprue (some polymer technology terms...haha...dun 4get wat diploma dat i'm holding, they are the connectors to hold the framework of pieces together).

then i moved on to gundam seed and so far, i only own 3 (No. 1, 2 and 5...hint hint...:P). No. 5 is still inside the box waiting for me to construct it soon. i was very impressed by the whole injected framework of pieces for this series of model kits. they are able to manufacture a framework of polymers (polystyrene and polycarbonate blend) consists of more than one colour and the precision of each pieces is much better. as a diploma of polymer technology holder, i must really bow to them, maybe my knowledge is still shallow...actually, i tried to work out how it can be done but the process is too long and not very productive too.

model kits is the main reason for me to venture into polymer technology for my diploma and i really got to know much more abt it thru some modules, especially mould design and fabrication, which i got distinction for it. it's quite simple for me becoz i looked at it from the aspect of model kits...haha...i think my luv for model kits will continue till a long time... :)


+ BL updated @ 4:29 AM

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