Avalanche Exia 1/100 MG Model

After watching some episodes of Gundam 00 that Felix was watching I decided to get into watching Gundam. All the talk about building Gundams and stuff made me really want to get one. Today I finally decided to get one. I ordered it off eBay this morning so it should arrive sometime next week=D. I'm so excited, it'll give me something to do when I'm at home not doing much haha ^^.

taken from http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/3751/avanlancheexiacd5.jpg


I'll have a lot of fun building this Exia model heaps of parts to play with ^^. Hopefully I don't screw it up since it is my first time making a model haha.

In other news my laptop is dead...deader than dead...well not really, but my screen has stopped working, it seems that the back light isn't powering up properly. Everything else seems to work fine though, but I don't want to fork out any money for a new screen either cause I'll be getting my Macbook Pro soon ^^. Hopefully I get my tax back soon so that I can go out and get it, for now I'll just be without a computer for a while, which should allow me to get some assignment work done and stuff =P
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The Dark (K)night

Ahhh back to uni, it's kind of good to be back I suppose. It fills up my time nicely haha. It was a long day yesterday 10am - 4pm straight lectures with no breaks =\, but the lectures were good.

Today I had the day off so I went to the accountant to do my taxes..finally. After I got that out of the way I went to uni to do a bit of study, because this semester I have to be more studious, it got boring pretty quickly and I was a bit distracted, but I got something done haha.

At about 2pm I went down with Felix, Joy, Julie, Kit and his friend to see The Dark Knight. It was a really good movie, although it was long, it was able to keep my attention with all the events that were going on at the time. I highly recommend the movie and give it a 5/5 because all the acting was really well done and there was a fair bit of action as well, action can do wonders in a movie so can comedy ^^.

taken from http://www.cinematicwallpaper.com/movie-pictures/wallpapers/Batman_Dark_Knight_wallpaper/Dark_Knight_2.jpg

After the movie we all went our separate ways until I got a call from Felix saying that Joys car's battery was dead, so we checked Julies car for jump cables. Julie had her jump cables in her car so we went off to where Joy had parked her car. When we got to the car Felix and I got our muscle on and pushed the car out of the parking space so that we were able to connect the cables up to Julie's car. We caused a fair bit of trouble in the car park since we couldn't push the car to a place where there were no cars, it'd be too tiring =P. None of us new how to jump start a car so we had to wait for Felix's mate to come help, but a passer by gave us a hand =].

Photo Taken by Joy

While waiting for help we had a bit of a laugh with cars getting caught on the island in the middle of the ramp up to the next level of the car park. So many epic fails getting up there by cars haha. It was a pretty eventful night, as Felix said its was the "Jumper lead party" haha ^^.
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Big night out and the end to our holidays

Last night was the first big night that I've had in ages. I went to Felix's place with some of the other guys to have a few...or many drinks haha. The night started out with Tim, Tom, Julie and myself going to liquorland to pick up some drinks and other supplies, then we hit up McDonnalds for a late night feed.
We picked up a slab of these

taken from http://www.mealdo.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/coronas.jpg

I picked up a 6 pack of these

taken from http://www.unholylaboratory.com/stella_artois.jpg

And Felix got a bottle of tequila


It was a really good night playing Wii Sports for shots and then hitting up the karaoke with singstar. Quite hilarious haha, I wish we had more photos of the night, I think Kit got a few unexpected shots of us during the night. After a few games of donkey I was pretty tipsy drunk and decided to play a bit more singstar then a bit of Call of Duty 4 to finish the night of games off. As the night started to quieten down we watched Independence Day. Such a good movie haha, I haven't watched it in ages.

Time flew by and the clock hit 5am, So Julie and Tom decided to go, and I went with them because there wouldn't have been a way for me to get home today if I had stayed over, which was kind of a bummer, cause I wanted to stay over and pull an all nighter with the Felix, Tim and Kit. I got home at around 5.30 this morning, so exhausted I just went to sleep after I had changed clothes. All in all a great night, I had a lot of fun.

When I woke up this morning around 11ish I was sore from playing Wii boxing hahaha, that game made me use muscles that I dont' normally use to often lol. Didn't really do much today just bummed at home recovering from last night, and preparing myself for Uni tomorrow, I'm so excited....not really, but theres not long to go till its over for the year. Have a good week everyone.


Posted on 3:59 PM by Ben Sengsouvanh and filed under | 2 Comments »

Free from the bonds of first semester

It sure is a great feeling once you've finished your exams and holidays start, but then everything falls back to Earth when results are released. Our results were released today which was probably the most nerve wrecking thing. At 6pm the results were released I didn't want to look at them for the most part, but I just wanted to get it over and done with. I was relieved that I past all my subjects and lifted a great weight off my shoulders. To celebrate a bit I had a couple of glasses of wine, some Brown Brothers. Its some really good stuff =D.

Brown Brothers Moscato 2007
Taken from http://www.brownbrothers.com.au/images/wine/moscato_large.jpg

With all the major things out of the way now, I can just soak in the last days of freedom that I still have before Uni starts next week. I'm looking forward to this weekend, it should be really fun. Till the next time that I post sayonara.
Posted on 8:25 PM by Ben Sengsouvanh and filed under | 3 Comments »

Kung Fu, Panda style

I had a pretty sleepless night last night, you know the ones where you go to sleep but when you wake up it feels like you didn't go to bed at all. My sleeplessness was probably due to the fact that I found out some stuff last night that got to me. So I didn't get to "sleep" till about 2am watching Dexter and contemplating what I was going through haha.

At 1.20pm I met up with Felix, Joy, Anthony, Sophie and Paul, and we went to see Kung Fu Panda, well Paul didn't cause he'd seen it already. I got a call from my Mum while I was on the bus saying that Felix and Joy were at my place to pick me up, I didn't really know if they were still picking me up =S Sorry guys =[. I got a msg about 1-2 hrs later while we were getting out tickets from Joy saying that she was on her way to pick me up lol...Major delay in the phone network. The Movie was really good, I enjoyed it a lot haha. The next movie that we're going to see will be The Dark Knight. I'm really looking forward to that one, as the rest of the guys are.


Kung Fu Panda poster
taken from http://www.kungfupandatrailer.com/images/kungfupanda%20poster%202.jpg

With watching Kung Fu Panda I remembered that I filmed the pandas that I saw with my Mum and brother in Hong Kong. Heres the clip...Aren't they awesome ^^


Posted on 7:40 PM by Ben Sengsouvanh and filed under | 3 Comments »

Unimportant things to have in laptops

After using this MSI laptop at work all day today I have found some things that laptops just shouldn't have for the sake of being "complete". Having a full keyboard including a numberpad on the side isn't really necessary for a laptop. It's not like your going to be using it very much when your on the move, and due to the fact that a laptop has a full keyboard means that the more or less important keys on the keyboard become smaller. I've had to deal with a shift key that is so tiny that I'm constantly hitting the forward slash key by accident, which has been making my job of taking note of all things that need to be changed in the help file a pain.

This is the keyboard that I had to deal with...
Taken from http://m670x.msi-notebook.info/klavesnice.jpg

The other thing that laptops need more often than not is a less sensitive touch pad. Over senstive touch pads become a pain in the backside when you accidently touch it and move the cursor when your type. Annoying but it can be changed I suppose, but I couldn't find the driver software for the touch pad on the taskbar so I just left it haha =P. Have you guys experienced any problems like these with laptops or other mobile devices?
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Tangents with blogging

As of late I've been getting into blogging more and more and my other blog is becoming cluttered with stuff that isn't relavent to anything to do with videos or skating or anything so I decided to create this blog for all the other stuff that goes on in my life. In doing this I think both my blogs will be clean and relavent ^^.

I'm at work right now going through the help file for my boss's program that has been just updated and finding all the out dated stuff in the help and noting it down to be updated. Its more boring than it sounds lol. I must admit that testing for bugs in a program is harder than you think it is, and because its an update to a program that I've been using for a while its pretty hard to find bugs. It's a pain staking process trying to break the program every way possible from inserting picture files into a video action or a sound file into a image action. I've been able to crash the program a few times =P, but there haven't been to many bugs which is good. So thats been pretty much what I've been doing for the last few weeks at work, trying to break my boss's program =D
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