BAKUC Challenge 2007 in Sungei Wang

BAKUC(Bandai Action Kit Universal Cup)!! is back... there is a exhibition held in sg.wang.it's all about Model,Gundam, this time i finally have my camera phone with me. hahaha (last two exhibition.. haven't got my camera phone yet, else i missed it..) i like their gundam competition. why? the creativity of their D.I.Y. their own piece of work. let's have a look.

So many aquarium? it's all about gundam inside!! Gundam Model, ok.. some people said it a "Toy!" oh.. it's just one of the hobby. if you're PRO, you can made a realistic ART out of it.


if you think taking the part's out of the box, assembly it, give it a posed and join the competition? that only made u win when there is no body else in the competion.


nice paintwork. nice posed. nice Aquarium. :P


Strike Gundam and.. Gundam....Strike Noir?


sometimes u need extra paint work to get more attrative and score during the competition. like this? erm.. i dunno what to say.... nice paint work.. but look a bit weird... haha


Do you think u can get this gundam with the same colour out there? better paint it by your own. is all about paint work here.


Creative!Paintwork!Attrative! is needed to win the competition. previous exhibition i went.. i saw a lot of Realistic piece of work, some just made me stand there and stare it for quite a while... and this 1... made my jaw drop.....i wonder which gundam/zaku is it husband? Zeta and Zaku?lol.

Okay, this one's for real...

We have a crying disease at our house.

I seriously have 2 kids that cry all the time. Okay, not all the time, like they lead miserable existences, but like, if they don't get want they want, then they just cry. And cry. And cry. And cry.

Until, I honestly cannot remember what they were crying about in the first place. Seriously. I will realize that Seth has been whining and crying in my vicinity for upwards of 30 minutes and I will try to figure out what started it. And half the time I can't even remember.

This is what I've tried:

1. OBVIOUSLY: addressing the problem. With the 4 year old, she's usually just mad because she has to do a job, or can't do I want, so she begins to wail. And I usually can't give in so what then? With the 2 year old (despite above average verbal skills) he usually can't or won't tell me, what the problem is...

So this doesn't work all the time.

2. I try the Positive Parenting method of: only reinforcing the GOOD behavior--so I just ignore them. I pay no attention and hope it goes away. But the next 20-40 minutes of having a whining sobbing snotty blotchy kid in your ears, is really REALLY hard to take. (And then I go to #4) I do try to notice and compliment when they react without crying, but it doesn't seem to be working.

3. Ryan sends them to their rooms ("If you need to cry, you need to do it somewhere else.") It sort of works, but I feel like I'm stifling emotion and teaching them they can't express themselves? And plus, half the time, I don't want to stop what I'm doing to remove them. And then I just hear them crying from up there anyway.

4. Yelling "STOP CRYING RIGHT NOW!" Guess what? That doesn't really work, either.

So any ideas? Send them my way. If you don't want to put in in the comments section (OR YOU AREN'T COMMENTING WHEN YOU VISIT--how rude!), you can email me at jessicaromney@hotmail.com.

Thanks!

Michael Wong Live Concert?!?! OMG!

Michael Wong? there will be Guang Liang concert soon? are you kidding me? the previous concert really breathtaking! i still looking for the Concert DVD. can't see any yet... now he start a concert again? that really a good news. yippie!! got concert to go liao. but this time is held in genting.Cool! genting wor! dunno can fit all his fan's or not.. hahaha, anyway. i'm going for sure. who going to join me? kekekeke, anyone?

NEXT album going to launch on next month, his ex-partner also launched his album recently.gosh... can't wait to go for the concert :P, who can help me get cheaper ticket? kakakaka

Adobe Developer Connection

This is a new RIA from Adobe Developer Centre

I have just had a look to it and think the main purpose is to do contacts (or die!) I had seen before this kind of application used in congress so as to locate people for business. Here you can do the same for busines or just to meet someone. But in this case you don´t have the position of the others by GPS (I haven´t tried it on an iPhone yet!) but from the similar skils you have.


These skills are divided in four groups:

- Professional Focus/Background
- Adobe Technologies
- Other Technical skills
- Personality


After you have completed all the register process the application puts you on the middle and locates similar profiles depending on your skills.

The warning has been brought to you by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

I've got a troubling announcement to make. It seems that here at the Romney house...we have a disease. It is rare and un-named, but worrisome nonetheless. We've taken to labeling it

Bunny-earitis.

It has struck poor Jane the hardest:

Symptoms seem to include bony finger-looking nodules that grow out of her head (resembling the ears of a bunny) whenever a camera opportunity presents itself. It doesn't seem to cause her much pain, but MANY times she seems highly irritated by it.

It seems to be very contagious. Those we love and spend time with seem to present the same symptoms, without any warning:

We don't know where WE caught it ... but we suspect the dirty Daines:

Luckily enough...Gabe has been immune to the disease (It seems to strike everyone and everything but him).

Until recently.

We've done our best to warn you. All we can hope is that this dreaded disease doesn't strike you.

Quick Quote #13

We were driving in the car listening to "Little Mermaid". It was Ursula's song. Jane comments: "I love this one, Mom." Mom asks: "Why?" Jane replies: "Because sometimes I just like to follow Satan's way."

Poor unfortunate soul.

Sunday Summary

(This is a big old copy from my friend Celia. This is how she assuages her guilt at blogging like crazy. Not that I have guilt. Not that I blog like crazy. I just thought this would be nice to do.)

Emma had a soccer game, activity girls and piano, as usual. She also elected me as her illustrator for her Terracotta Warrior book. (I was so honored. I love doing homework.) I ran into her teacher at school last week and she was glowing about the similes Emma was coming up with: "As white as the pearls and diamonds my mother wore on her wedding day." She has just started really enjoying chapter books (yay!) and reading into the night...she felt very proud when she finished two in one night last week. And also she got 100% last week on her spelling test (thanks to her father's Nazi quizzing: "Are you sure?! Cause if you're wrong, you're going to bed." Truly.), and 100% on her spelling pre-test (obviously trying to avoid any special daddy-daughter time)this week. Emma also got a clothes shopping date this week...she's such a fun shopping buddy.

Gabe got invited over to his favorite place this week (the Daines' house). He hadn't finished his homework and was about to die of sadness, as his sisters were ready and leaving, so I took him over there and made him promise to do it before he played. He did. (Is that the most unbelievable thing you've ever heard?)

He also didn't think he needed to wear shoes to Emma's soccer game , "cause I'm not playing, Mom", which I discovered halfway there. It was 50 degrees and raining. Of course people were horrified and glared at me...like I purposely didn't put my kid in shoes? I'm hoping he learned his lesson through frostbite. He played later that day and did well.

He was also unfortunate in the game of Life this week...salesman, making $20,000, yet still landed on the plastic surgery square, as well as opting to sponser a golf tournament. But he decided to be a good sport, and continued playing (with tears running down his face) until the end of the game. How sad/sweet is that?

Jane looked forward all week to our "date" on Friday: "Mom, what if I forget to get dressed on Friday for our date?" "Mom what if I'm still sleeping and you leave on our date?" "Mom, what if you take me to playgroup with Seth and don't take me on our date?" Luckily, we avoided all those possibilities and truly enjoyed our morning together--and got the cutest stuff.

Jane lost Bunker Bear (the fun toy they send home from preschool to stress Moms out) 4 times over the weekend, but managed to find him, by knocking on our neighbor's door at 7am and retrieving him. Phew.

Seth does nothing...and everything. He's talking like CRAZY. I honestly cannot believe the stuff that comes out of his mouth. Right now, he's in my face (literally) asking, "Hey, mom, where's dad...he's talking a pone?" He loves nursery and runs away from us when we try to pick him up. He's obsessed with his ow-eys, Dora, and his little plastic horse. He gets dragged to everything and anything and is a pretty good sport.

He was really appreciating the sacrament today...as he went back for a second handful of bread and blew bubbles into the water cup. When he was done with that, he enjoyed the choking hazard/noise-maker that is the not-returned plastic cup.

We enjoyed the end of our visit with Greg and Christy. We slept little, ate much and enjoyed talks and games late into the night.

Ryan put the finishing touches on his Masters' Thesis defense (boring!), and took the kids to the school movie night on Friday. And didn't purchase Jessica a camera.

Jessica went to "Sisters in Service", a night sponsored by a woman in the area. We attended a cooking class and then spent the night putting together napkins and quilts for the local community center.

We went to a play at the local community college for our date on Saturday. We tried to seem educated and appreciative of the social commentary that "Antigone" was. But we were mostly bored. We came home, made cookies and were not bored by "The Office" and "Survivor". Judge if you must.

.

Maybe this is boring for you, but this is what I'll pull out years from now, when my kids come home from their therapists and want to discuss my blogging obsession. ("Stop your whining...here's proof I was involved in your life.") Thanks for indulging/vouching for me.