Sunday, November 9, 2008

You and me, we’re going nowhere slowly…And we gotta get away from the past...There’s nothing wrong with going nowhere baby. But we should be going nowhere fast....
Heya folks. Just a quick update, and then Article the first (if you don’t count last times Article Zero… :q )


So I didn’t get the booster shots in the end. Apparently I didn’t need them. It was a bit of a wasted journey in the end. >.<

It was Guy Fawkes Night this week, our excuse to let off a whole bunch of fireworks. (Kinda like Independence Day, except we’re celebrating the failure of the worlds first recorded terrorist attack, not the declaration of Independence from Britain, funnily enough…)

Ironically, or perhaps not so much, the whole thing got overshadowed by a certain presidential election…go figure.


Also this week I received a whole bunch of new models… prominent amongst these are my new 1/144 scale GN ARMS TYPE D, which is HUGE. Seriously, the box is bigger than a 1/100 Master Grade kit. Its gonna take me a while to put that together. I also picked up 1/144 scale 00 Gundam, which is a nice little kit…when I finally get round to making my Tieren kit up, I’ll start on that.

I also received this morning three 1/42 scale Aestivalis kits from the anime Martian Successor Nadesico. These kits were originally produced between 1995 and 1997, and it shows…they’re so RETRO. Ha ha! They remind me of the old Gundam Wing kits…low pose-ability, lots of stickers and weird plastic colours. I willing to bet there is more technology in my 1/144 00 Gundam’s LEG then there is in all three of my Aestivalis Kits. Still, I’ve made one up already (that’s how simple they are) and it’s a nice kit all in all. ^^ I like it.


I seem to be breaking all my Type 2 flight stands though. this annoys me, cuz I now have a lot of 00 kits and they all seem best posed on a flight stand. >.<

Anyways, enough about models for now.


Work is going annoying as usual. Especially seeing as we got a humongous delivery on Friday and we HAVE NO FREAKIN ROOM FOR ANY OF IT. seriously, our stock room is full of crap that we don’t sell any more and our shop floor is full of crap that nobody buys. I’d like to send an email to the warehouse telling them to stop sending us merchandise, but I don’t think that’d go down well.

I also have to stay behind at work tonight to attend “Customer Service Training” in which we eat pizza and listen to our assistant manager tell us the correct way to greet and serve customers, and then the store manager will bitch at us for being incapable/forgetful/unmotivated/apathetic to do any of the stuff outlined by the Assistant Manager, and we’ll ignore him and go home. I think it’s a fairly simple, if inconvenient way to spend a Sunday evening.



This week also marks me starting to write my Christmas List. I know it’s still a little early to be thinking about Christmas properly, but last year I didn’t have ANYTHING for my list, so this year I'm being smart about it and putting down stuff that I see that’d I’d like instead of just buying it there and then. ^^;


So that’s the news.



Subject 001: History: The Making Of. (this article can also be found on my V.V. world…)


So, obviously the big deal of the week was the record breaking turnout to the American Election Polls and subsequent election of Barak Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America.

Now I hate to litter my blog with Politics, so I'm gonna keep this article short and to the point. Like him or Loathe Him, whether you say he’s black or Hawaiian or of Mixed Ethnicities, the point of the matter is that Obama is the first person to be elected President of America that isn’t an old white man. And whether you agree with his policies or whether you think he is going to fail miserably, it still doesn’t change the fact that HISTORY was made this week. And when future text books tell the generations to come of this monumental occasion, will you be proud to turn to your kids or grandkids or disfranchised youth and say “I was there!” or “I witnessed this point in history”?

The point I'm trying to make here is that you don’t often witness history in the making.
“Ah, but Darke!” I hear you cry, “Isn’t every moment we experience history? Doesn’t the mere acknowledgement of time passing itself the creation of history?”

Well, yes, its true that every moment passed is a moment consigned to history, but how often do you get to witness a social-political event that marks a turning point in the chronicles of the human race? How often do you experience something that will make the history books, will actually make a difference to generations yet unborn?

I don’t normally follow Presidential campaigns, but I followed this one because back in January I was certain that by the end of this year either a Black Man or a Woman would be elected President. That made it exciting. It made 2008 a crucial time in the first decade of the 21st century. Sure, 2008 might be remembered for other reasons too… the Beijing Olympics. The worst financial crisis since the crash of Wall Street in the 1930s.

But I'm going to choose to remember it as the year Humanity progressed. In as little as a Century a man like Obama has gone from “White Man’s Slave” to “Leader of the Most Powerful Country on Earth”.

It pleases me to think that Humanity is capable of advancing like that within 3-5 generations…it gives me hope for the future and the other things we might achieve.


Be proud. You witnessed the dawn of a new era. How many times will you be able to truly claim that in your life? Sure, I don’t know if Obama is going to live up to our expectations. But isn’t it fantastic we gave him a chance?


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I'm still on the lookout for more topics. Preferably stuff that makes you think rather then any old stuff you could look up on Wikipedia. XD


Anyhoo, have a great week! till next time!
















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