Unboxing my Iron Man happiness

This happened before CNY (I know it took so long but seriously the excitement still overwhelm me!). I have no idea since when I become an Iron Man fans. Not those die hard comic book fans but I really like Iron Man, just doing some sewing of Iron Man dolls, painting a canvas of Iron Man himself and owning some Iron Man stuff and go crazy once in a while if I saw anybody with Iron Man tee, or random Iron Man figurine (I've tried once to snatch from a kid, just the urge to, I didn't really do that because Iron Man won't do something like this!)

Long story cut short, I was so sick one day and wandering at Sunway Pyramid, out of sudden I noticed that the DC shop has turned into a Marvel Superheroes shop.....BEST THING EVER HAPPENED! No offend to DC fans, I'm actually thinking to buy one Green lantern tee. I was at 39 degree Celsius and with puffy eye due to allergy that day, imagine that condition which mean at any moment, I could have hug random people in the mall thinking that they are Robert Downey Jr or Tony Stark himself, well basically it's the same thing.

Then I hop into the shop and feel like I was landed at the island in Lost which I feel I have cured (I'm not a Ham) the moment I step into the shop and try on one of the Iron Man tee I fell in love with. After that, I was going to pay for that but then I flip the price tag and immediately put back and hop away (We knew what happened right?).

The Marvel Paper Bag that almost make me cry!

Few days later, my mom ask me to go to my room immediately...where I still suffer from depression over that Iron Man tee. And I saw a bag!!!! A Marvel bag, Marvel paper bag, with awesome artwork on it!! Inside the bag was another bag, oh man it's like the Russian doll where surprise get better and better. It's another bag, but with Iron Man artwork on it.....

Super cool, right?

Inside the Iron Man bag, is two little cute tiny box, it's Iron Man tissue box! So cute, I will never use it! But my mom suggest that I can use the tissue and keep the box since the tissue got nothing Iron Man on it. Mom's advice always the best but I still didn't use it. And coolest thing is inside the tissue box is Tony Stark face. Oye, almost fainted! Sooooo adorable!

Tiny little Iron Man!

That's not all yet. There is a paper wrapper inside, something similar to bacon paper wrapper but we ain't got any bacon in it BUT.....it's the Iron Man limited edition tee in it. (Now I want the new Iron Man tee, human is always begging for more!) This is what my parents did, a surprise for me. 

All the things, there is some sticker too!

To me, my parents is close to, maybe better than Iron Man. Okay they are better. This meant so much to me and my happiness meant so much to them! And I just want to tell them, "I will protect the one thing that I can't live without, that's you, mummy and daddy!"

Iron Man 3: My Way

From the day he said, "I'm Iron Man." I knew that my life change and now I have a reason to continue living in this awfully cruel world live my life better by having Iron Man as my new crush!

And knowing that Iron Man 3 will be hitting the cinema soon, with all the armors taking action together (SPOILER! *Pepper*Iron Woman as well.....that's mine!), the Mandarin and RDJ as Tony Stark, I HAVE TO BE THE FIRST ONE TO WATCH IT IN CINEMA (Geek!)! 

Iron Man 3, can't wait for it!

Well, Good Guy Nuffnang offer us a chance, and of course we have to kinda work hard, at least to think hard to grab this chances! The task is to customize my Iron Man suit and make it special enough to stand out from others and on and on and on. 

Make the suit in my own way! Hell yeah!

After a long abandon of my brain, I've make a big sacrifice to collect it back and work it just for this! 

I kinda love the idea of Japanese samurai and ninja and BIG BIG LOVE for Iron Man. My Iron Man suit will be a fusion of the western and eastern technology and culture *peace*. And, I'll name it as Iron-Musha! (*Musha means warrior in Japanese! Arigatou~)

Iron-Musha, limited edition.

So, I make a sketch of it. Sorry for the bad colouring and THIS IS NOT AN UNICORN!

I'll just describe it from part to part.

The Head/Helmet

I have no problem with Iron Man armor from the beginning till the end just that sometimes I thought the eyes might look a lil' bit cold and cool so I'll make mine a much gentle eyes. For gents if you think that it's too gentle, think twice (what!?) cause' in the dark you will only see the blue light of the helmet which make the helmet quite scary!

I'm modifying the Iron Monger into a simple version of Kabuto with neck guard. And I shall clarify again the horn doesn't make my Iron-Musha a Unicorn! Okay I admit, every girl love unicorn so it's secretly a unicorn It resembles leader, the "unicorn thing" and what works best, it work as an electric or thunder receiver, so it can power up the Iron-Musha armor instantly. For example, Thor using his Mjolnir and thundering around, Iron-Musha got charged up real fast and become more powerful!

The Body

The interior of the body part is layered with light weight metal leathered chain piece to keep warm and for extra protection. The blue line on the arms are the repulsor blade that resembles ninja knife throwing, only that this one is unlimited source with smooth beam of destructive rays. Chest and palm are armed with repulsor as well. Extra : Iron-Musha can turn into invisible mode like ninja! Hey-Ya!

The Lower Body Part

With the Japanese upper leg guard, crossover between Iron Man technology and traditional samurai armor give an edgy flawless fashion sense! (It won't be that uncomfortable like Iron Man's cause' it works like the concept of a skirt but it works in a more macho manner like a warrior!)

That's my Iron-Musha! It can be a warrior, a killing machine, a cute looking robot, an unicorn  and it can be nothing~(when it's invisible!)

So, Tony Stark, if you're interested in my model of Iron-Musha, please liaise with me by shooting me an email in case you wanna work together. My Shitsuji will take care of that. Shitsuji is something similar to your Jarvis btw.

Ooh My Gas Liquid Nitrogen DIY Ice Cream

How much do you know about molecular gastronomy? Basically, to simplify it, it is the combination of food and science, using science technique or material or instrument to cook a cuisine. To be honest, with a science background myself, it sound unacceptable to me when I know about the existence of molecular gastronomy (probably I'm the old fashion science lad) but the whole thing really trigger my curiosity!

Stop the babbling and I shall let you guys know what it gotta to do with Ooh My Gas Ice Cream (OMG! Ice Cream)! The ice cream is made from the instant freeze using liquid nitrogen which is quite fascinating and you can see the crew doing the ice cream freezing on the spot, the kitchen will be just like a dreamland with lots of fog around.....like Silent Hill *kidding*!

OMG! Ice Cream!

Customize your ice cream!

The next coolest thing is that you get to customize your ice cream! First you have to choose your base, gelato, ice cream or soya~ I chose gelato and cream cheese flavor (Cheese stink me please!), have some marshmallows, and I pick red color (super cool, because you can choose your ice cream color), like I'm customizing my game character!

Crew freezing my ice cream!

*Tada* My Cutie Ice Cream!

Close up.

I have no idea but this post make me feel so cute, probably of the whole color tones it present. *out of topic* Seriously, I'm not a fan of pink color. I've ordered red color somehow it came out pink (NOOOOO!!! How can it be!?) But then I thought probably because of cream cheese came in creamy yellow white so when it blend with red color (*whisper* I'm Picasso~), here you go, pinky pink!

The biggest difference between normal ice cream and liquid nitrogen ice cream is........*ehem* from the view of a scientist, liquid nitrogen instant freezing will break the fat and water into smallest particle and it will gives you a better texture aka the ice cream go smoother~ So, you won't have those icy crystal in your ice cream. 

*The following is me trying to sound like a scientist* My statement is that, the ice cream texture is really smoother and much creamy, in another words, I feel like the ice cream is lighter in weight inside my mouth. (o_0) That's really how I feel! But to be honest, I prefer ice cream in those thick and heavy texture, like turkish ice cream because liquid nitrogen ice cream tend to melt faster. The taste could be heavier, the cream cheese saltness plays well with marshmallow. Ooooh, and you can choose your sweetness level for your ice cream too. I'll suggest go full sweetness as I order medium level and I don't get the sweetness ohm I usually get eating ice cream~

And.......Ooh My Gas Ice Cream is located at Pavillion, go and have a try!

Burger Bakar Pioneer Abang Burn: What is the HOT factor?

"You're not a Malaysian if you never ate a burger bakar before!", quoted by HY aka me, the author. Yeaaaa~ You gotta accept the fact that burger is the new trend and instead of doing the franchise fast food burger and fusion burger, BURGER BAKAR is something more local and to me it's more REAL (hmmm since in Malaysia we are more familiar with roadside burger since we were young, or maybe only for me....*sigh*).

I give it a shot to Burger Kaw Kaw last time, overall I like it so much that I start to look for the traces of other burger in town and I found Burger Bakar Abang Burn, rumors said, "Pioneer of Burger Bakar". So, can't help but to go for it and the tempting part is that they have lamb patty. GGGGAAAHHHH, kill all the lamb (violence alert)!!

Burger Bakar Abang Burn.

Good thing to know that Burger Bakar Abang Burn has built their colony around KL area and Johor so I don't have to go all the way to Nilai but just to stop by Kota Damansara to get a bite of Burger Bakar.

Prepping.

There are 3 variety of patties, chicken, beef and lamb. And you can choose normal, burn cheese, burn cheesy to burn special on the burger you choose. Basically, the difference is on the cheese and cheese sauce. Since I'm in hurry (and still I went to try out burger bakar....*applause*), so I just take away my burger instead of eating there. But the place there is okay for dine in as it is in Tanjung Village Food Court at Kota Damansara. Surprise that I don't need to wait long, just one customer before me......man is this a bad sign? I order a Chicken Burger and Burger Bakar Kambing Burn Cheesy. 

And my piece of advice is, don't take away the burger, eat on the spot!

Lamb burger all flooded in sauces.

Burger "goreng" Ayam.

Chicken Burger side view.

The lamb burger is flooded with sauce, that's the only disappointment in it. The patty is sooo huge, love it only that if they can marinate it more. Chicken burger is less impressive compared to Burger Kaw Kaw. Not marinated and good thing is that they have fried abalone mushroom in it but bad thing is that there is too much dough around the mushroom causing it taste a little soggy and oily. Perhaps if I ate it on the spot it will be different.

Overall, the lamb burger is okay, worth trying but the chicken burger is so so, would highly recommend Burger Kaw Kaw chicken burger. That's it my burger adventure!

The Big Day : Baskin Robbins Flavor Election

I've gotta say I'm eager to know when is the next election and yet our PM still haven't announce the date yet. However! Baskin Robbins knows it and guess what, they have an election themselves and THIS MUST BE THE BEST ELECTION EVER!!! Ice cream flavor election! The Baskin Robbins Malaysian flavor election! *applause*

Level of coolness to the max~SERIOUSLY!! For those who were there, they know why, because we were given the chance to vote AND WE GET TO EAT FREE FLOW OF BASKIN ROBBINS (Yea, you can jealous me now~)!!!

Bloggers, bloggers and ice cream everywhere~

We have five celebrity bloggers there representing each flavor which are mocha, world class chocolate, berries, praline and cookies and cream. Each flavor has a campaign and for the flavor that won, the campaign will go on for a year~

Our flavor representatives~

Well, other than he voting and ice cream, they have giveaway too, like voucher and key chain and nothing is free, you will need to pay play to get it! The host is a great entertainer, he can sing, he knows how to interact with the crowd and he's funny!

You'll need to roar to get the voucher! This gal won!

They have a ice cream eating contest too at that freezing cold night where you get the balance of coldness inside out or outside in whatever~One thing for sure, you will get brain freeze!

Gulp down the ice cream!!!

The winner for Blogger's eating competition, Sixthseal!

Girl's power!!!

The gentleman~

And the winning flavor goes to, Praline n Cream. Not my favourite among all the flavor but the campaign is the best among all! The rest of the day was just eat, eat and eat all the ice cream after the voting!

Tempting isn't it?

Praline, a little too sweet for me~

Pretty much enjoy the event, vote and eat, who doesn't enjoy that? And I'm lucky enough to get the limited edition BR keychain~

Tada~

That's it. The end of the election. Now we should wait for the real deal, our country election.....(how good if they serves some ice cream too~)

Nuffnang First Comic Bloggers Gathering

Went to Nuffnang very first Comic Bloggers Gathering last week that was held at CAFFEine. It was more like an eyes open event to know better what is Comic Blogger and the comic blogging's trend going on in the social networking world nowadays.

Our doodle and drawing on the canvas. Spot mine? Better don't haha.

It's really glad to have Ernest , CheeChing and Sarah Joan to share their experience and knowledge on drawing and comic blogging (Seriously I'm inspired by them, nice talk!!).

Ernest from Bro Don't Like That La Bro.

Chee Ching from CheeChingy.com. 

Sarah Joan, I like her comic drawing~

It's a really nice event, where people with passion on the same thing gather around and chit chatting, exchange opinion and drawing~(Tho I'm not a comic blogger but who knows, soon to be one...maybe.) I've gotta say that Ernest and Chee Ching are really cool, they can just draw in anywhere, any time like just squad down there in front of the laptop (no kidding) and draw using mouse and *puff* DONE!

The talented groupie of 3.

And thanks CAFFEIne for the food and drinks....

FOOD!

It's really awesome to get different bloggers together and gather. And thanks Ernest and Chee Ching for drawing a portrait of me~

Credit to Chee Ching. 

Credit to Ernest.

Hmm that's it. And guess what, guess what, I'm in serious thought of starting a comic blog! Till I get things done and have some free time to doodle and I will announce it here! Prepare for lame doodle of mine!

MaGaCon 2012 @ Publika

What is the best way to spend your weekends? Well, normally I will spend my weekends going swimming, cook some nice food to treat myself (one of the reason why I'm getting cuter chubby than before*sob sob*), hanging out with friends or family, read a book....etc. But guess what, I've cancel all my routine weekends activities and have an awesome "geeky" weekends by attending the MaGaCon 2012 that was held at Publika last week (Publika is like my second home now, kind of.).

For those who got tons of question marks popping out around their head now, stay cool, I'll explain to you what is MaGaCon. It's called Malaysia Games Convention which is like the fun fair version of digital and analog games. Awww~ I love to play games and how can I not to attend this event.

*Tada* Gamers everywhere~

Different gaming platforms at MaGaCon.

There were variety of games available, Assassin's Creed, FIFA, CoD, and etc. But I'm diggin' all the board games, call me a frog under the well (direct translate from the proverb) but all I know is Monopoly before I went to MaGaCon. I've played the chicken memory game, chop the tree bark and I was really craving for the ghost card game (I don't know what is the name but there are few objects available and the people with the fastest response grab the piece and he/she will get the card). Just a personal opinion, I thought more interaction will be involved by playing analog game, good for youngster nowadays. 

On the other hands, I HEART JUST DANCE 4 SOOO MUCH (as a loyal fans of Sony PlayStation, Just Dance 4 just shake my loyalty and I'm thinking to get Xbox 360 kinectic just for the game, NOOOO~)!!! I've tried Street Fighter X Tekken and I wonder why my Hwoarang will be defeated by Kuma (Shame on me!). Played FIFA 13 with a little boy and lose to him (Double shame on me!! My life is ruined by a little boy, I shall quit gaming~ No, the reason is that I play Winning Eleven all the time and I never touch a Xbox console before in my life. EXCUSES!) 

Of course, that is not all. There were some quests to be completed and you will have the chance to win some awesome prizes. I didn't took part in the quest because IT'S WAY TOO DIFFICULT I'm in for the Nuffnang Quest so I thought of not to grab the chance for the other person from the public to win *Ehem* (well, the kind hearted side of me). I mean seriously POP THE BEANIE quest is almost like mission impossible where you need to pop the beanie bag from Freeasy (It's leather and it's so firm.), somehow I think we have some warriors manage to complete the quest as well (they must have brought a blade or AK with them to "pop" the bean bag.). There is a cosplay session as well and I saw Link!

Pop it!

Cosplaying!

Rilakkuma rilaksing and gaming at MaGacon.

And we were given a task too for Nuffnangers, the few chosen one to complete the Nuffnang Quest. Our quest is CoD4, Jenga and challenge a game with the public.

Giving a brief for us.

CoD 4, no eyes see at the result.

Our Jenga piece! So tall!

I was in OMG mode when they let us know that one of the quest is playing CoD. Yes, no surprise at all but the thing is that I never play CoD before and I seldom play PC game (I play console game and MoH, totally unrelated~). Without any doubt, search for a quick briefing on how the control button work and the rest just count on luck, seriously (T___T). The coolest part is I brought my dad as my game partner and he MUST play that game (He never go near to the PC in his entire life and I need to teach him how to play CoD on the spot, imagine that!). I was kinda laugh till I roll on the floor when I guide my dad playing. Below is the conversation between me and my dad during the game.

Me : "Turn around, turn around, enemy at your back."
Dad : "How, how?" (He start pressing the move forward button...)
Me : "NONONONONO, drag the mouse, I mean turn around the gun position, move the mouse~TURN AROUND TURN AROUND~" (In very kan cheong aka nervous mode where the enemy start shooting at him.)
(Look at the PC, still in the same position)
Dad : "Okay, okay, is it like this??" (The following part I ald burst out laughing and tell him it's okay, nvm we just try our best in Jenga.)(Because he position the mouse in the opposite's direction and flip it upside down as I ask him "Turn around".)

We end up at 8th place in CoD which is quite good (REALLY!?) if you will like to know there are 8 teams in the Nuffnang Quest. We did okay in Jenga and we didn't win in the quest but we were having so much fun.  I'm a bad daughter as I really can't stop laughing at the CoD Mouse issue.

Finally, it's over!

I met someone at MaGaCon that kinda made my day! Guess who?

It's Dark Vader! Trying to control the Jenga piece using his force.

Yea, I like Obi Wan but kinda fancy Dark Vader as well. I think they should have more cosplayer at  MaGaCon. Overall, it's a really awesome event. I hope the next one will be organised at a larger place, with more gaming device for the digital game section (difficulty walking around and more chance for other people to try out the game). The analog section is doing good! And I hope they provide some drinks and energy bars if it's possible (a little greedy but gamers need them)! Last but not least, more prizes for lucky draw~ Oh and thumbs up for the staff at the event (Thank you for teaching us how to play a game~)!

Me, joining the dark side.

Probably the happiest moment of the day, holding the lightsaber and slashing other players. The End!