Happy Chinese Valentines Day! (ღ˘⌣˘ღ)

Happy Chinese Valentine's Day! Yes, today is the 7th day of the 7th month on the Chinese calendar and the Chinese celebrate The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd 牛郎織女 (ngau long jik neui)... 

Instead of me explaining the myth, here's a wonderful YouTube video I found that explains it all!!

七夕快樂！情人節快樂！^^

a LEGO comic

I have been inspired!

Inspired by The Guardian's LEGO animations of the Olympics... If you have not watched them, watch them here. They are pretty cool... 

And so, what did I end up doing after when I went to LEGOLAND? I made a comic out of LEGO figurines that I purchased on the day :D... Heheheheh... My friends probably think I'm a bit too geeky as they haven't commented about it so far :( (so heartbroken)... T_T

Here's my comic which is in 8 frames in 8 pictures. I tried to combine it all together, but unfortunately the font size in the speech bubbles is too small to read, and I figured it would be too hard to read as an all-in-one comic. I used a free photo editing software called PhotoScape (www.photoscape.org)... I have a feeling it's Korean ^_^

Enjoy!

Hobby Terrain: Basing Miniatures

Well this is a basing miniature tutorial I did a while back but it was one of my more popular ones. I had decided to go through and show how to create some simple bases for miniatures. The one step I did not mention is that I have figures already attached to the bases before I begin. I used blank bases in this case just to show the examples easier. My other basing tutorials show the miniature attached.
Cheers,
John...

Origami OT

So I haven't done any origami for about 2 months. ¬_¬"" Just being lazy, studying and really just couldn't be bothered... Well that means origami OT (overtime)! I spent 4 hours creating all these pieces and there are some that I skipped because it needed 1 dollar bills (which I couldn't be bothered to get up and find) or printed paper... So fast forward to all these other ones... :D I am now up-to-date (actually a day ahead!) with the origami calendar.

Sweet Swallow

Offering Stand

Heart Place Card

Wedding Noshi

Boutonniere

Motorboat

Basket

Ladybug

Snail

Snake

Party Hat

Day Lily

Buffet Napkin

Catamaran

Catamaran x 2 = Flower

Goldfish

King Arthur's Crown

4-Pointed Star

Message in a Bottle

Pagoda

Cat

Panda

Modular Unit Ball - had to use paperclips to hold the pieces together!

Raccoon

Windsor Castle

This is going to be a fairly short post. As I went to Windsor, I took a picture of Windsor Castle on my way home to share... The Queen was not in by the way :P

Side view of Windsor Castle

Here's also the shopping arcade. Miss Pinky wants to go back there in September to start her Christmas shopping!!! :( It's almost Christmas already!!!

Windsor Royal Shopping Arcade

LEGOLAND - Windsor

LEGOLAND. Originally from Denmark (which I didn't know until a work friend pointed it out!). I actually never knew LEGO came from Denmark... (that shows my ignorance on where things come from!). I have never been to LEGOLAND before, but an opportunity struck when Miss Pinky's little brother, Master H, had to write a 50-word summer project for his school! (Yes, you read right, 50 words!). (This paragraph contains 73 words in total!).

Forgot to take a picture from the front!!

So you could imagine what Master H wanted to do during this summer. Yep. Go to LEGOLAND! And that's where we went. If it's your first time, expect to be spending around £100+ per adult (entry fee, train ticket, food, drinks and most likely LEGO toys in the end!). But if you can find special vouchers - then definitely use them! National Rail has a special 2 FOR 1 voucher where you just pay for one adult fee plus rail tickets. Get it now before the offer ends towards the end of the year!!!

Saturday 18th August had to be one of the hottest days of the year in England! :( And queuing for rides in this heat is not fun! Plus it was the weekend! And of course it's the summer holidays for school children... Master H and I went on 6 rides, and Miss Pinky decided to skip 3 of them and continue reading her book... So I did most of the babysitting! :P

Ride 1 - not very good, sprinklers wasn't working! :(

Ride 2 - an ok experience, it will get your tummy swirling around

Forgot to take a picture of Ride 3 but that was a really fun one!

Ride 4 - This was fun! 

By Ride 5 I was exhausted and didn't like this 90 minute wait (it was about an hour) for a 3 minute ride to get splashed!

Ride 5 - 90 minute wait!!!!! Not impressed!!!

Ride 6 - Short but sweet

Here's some pictures of around LEGOLAND...

Star Wars ^_^

R2D2

Massive Dragon!

The Pirates!

A Knight and Dragon

Don't forget to recycle!

Miss Pinky was so happy with this PINK LEGO...

£6 bottle that you can get refilled all day long!

Fire Station

These guys are funny :)

The loo signs! Hahahahah

Miniland!!

Miniland - Covent Garden

Miniland - London!

Unfortunately we didn't go everywhere, so I missed out on the driving and loads of other parts of LEGOLAND.

Finally, all three of us were hungry, and we ended up eating at one of the cafes. This is my shoddy Goats Cheese and Mash Pie meal for £7.95. It was not worth its money. Crust was too hard, and the knife couldn't even cut the crust!!!!!!!! I think I have had better pies than this!

Goats cheese pie 'n' mash

My geeky rating (for experience): 3.5/5 (I know I don't usually rate shops and other stuff, but in this post it definitely deserves my rating)

Good points:
Free refills if you purchase a £6 LEGOLAND water bottle

Bad points:
Long queues for a measly few minutes ride
Bad hot food experience
Toys are too expensive :(
Shuttle bus to LEGOLAND is also expensive :P

Website: www.legoland.co.uk
2For1 offer: http://www.daysoutguide.co.uk/

Nearest Station: Windsor and Eton (when you come out of the station, go up to the traffic lights, turn left towards the fountains (you'll be beside Windsor Castle), then go up the small hill, you will see a bus stop. These buses take you to LEGOLAND!.

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