TIKAM!

got my tcc-mdis bursary award today lol. the reception after the ceremony was quite ok. i think the siew mai, sausages and laksa were the best. didnt really like the other food as much lol.
after getting the award, i went to suntec city coz it was near to the raffles city convention hall where the bursary award ceremony was held. i was sorta despo for the autographing lacus so i checked out the hobby point there. but den, had no luck lol. so i decided to give the capsule stations a try and see if i could get my lacus dat way. so i walked around the stations looking for hgif gsd 4. while i was walking, i found two naruto real collection 4 capsule stations lol. its most likely a reissue =)

the moment came for me to try to tikam the autographing lacus. a capsule rolled to my hands and i took a peek. i got... lunamaria...-___- when i saw it, i thought, "crap shouldnt have bought a lunamaria spare from the shop." so i prayed i would get dat lacus next. and i got.... heine!!! -_- in fact, two heines in a row... !@#$%
for the 4th one, i tikamed mwu. and den it was murrue. bleh... was about to give up. den i thought "maybe the next one..." so i went to change for more coins.
i came back, put 3 coins in, turned the knob, and out came a figure with pink hair. "AUTOGRAPHING LACUS FINALLY!!! WOOT!!!" i thought. as i happily opened the capsule, i took a look at her hands. NOOOO!!! its the normal lacus...wad a disappointment -_-
so i tried again... and got kira... ok... dis is still ok...
the next try was the 8th zzz... dis time a capsule containing a figure with pink hair came out again. i immediately took a look at her hands... sadly it was normal lacus again. den i decided luck was not with me today and went home after i overcame the temptation of wanting to try again. well looking on the bright side, at least i managed to almost get an entire set (of extras) and it'll be easier to sell them off coz they're in a set.

den in the evening, after i went to church, i headed over to suntec again to have a look again. as i looked at the hgif gsd 4 capsule station, i was a bit demoralised and decided to try naruto collection 4 instead.

dis time round, i brought a torchlight with me to help me look into the capsules in the capsule stations. though i tried to look into the capsule station, i couldnt really see anything coz i didnt know the method of doing it lol. so i gave up on dat and just put in the coins and turned the knob. out came itachi. i thought, "wow not bad lol". den i tikamed another time and got itachi again. i sorta started getting worried and decided to try look at wad was next. while i was trying to look into the naruto real collection 4 capsule station, a pro tikamer was looking into the station beside with skill. so i asked him about the method of looking into machines. he explained patiently while i listened. i didnt really get it coz i couldnt really see anything lol. den when he had to leave, he drew a pic for me and told me to try figure out myself. it looked something like dis:
(dis pic is drawn in paint by me lol)

he also helped me to take a look at the next two capsules and he said they were both itachi. luckily he was there, if not i would have gotten 4 itachis lol.

so i decided to move over to the naruto real col 4 capsule station at the other end. it was almost empty and was only left with a few capsules. i tried to apply my skills and i saw a naruto head for the 1st capsule. den i turned the knob and out came sasuke. crap lol, my skill in looking into the capsule station was quite bad... i think i must have seen the catalogue paper dat had naruto's pic on it and mistook it for the figure lol. but hey, the next one dat came out was naruto XD wad a coincidence lol. den i took a look at the next 1st and 2nd capsules, and predicted dat the 1st would be jiraiya, the 2nd sasuke while the 3rd would be haku. i thought dat i should get the extra sasuke for the sake of getting haku. so i tikamed all 3.
den i decided to count the figures i had and see wad i was missing. and i found out i needed a kakashi. i looked into the almost empty capsule station for him and there he was on top. there were 6 capsules left at dat time. so i shook the capsule station a little and the capsule containing kakashi fell into the 3rd slot. now came a tough decision, i had to decide whether i should get 2 more extras just to get a kakashi or wait for someone to tikam away the 1st two. to help me decide, i took a look at the two capsules before it. the first one was definitely sasuke- again =( i couldnt confirm whether the 2nd one was sasuke or naruto, so i prayed dat it was naruto. in the end i decided dat i was gonna tikam all 3 coz i didnt want someone else to tikam it away and end up facing the same situation of trying to find a spare, especially when naruto real collection 4 is an old set and may not be available anywhere else at all. when i checked the capsules the 2nd capsule turned out to contain sasuke =( oh well.

had 3 sasuke spares and 1 itachi spare in the end, but looking on the bright side, at least i managed to complete the set without many hitches. and wads more, i have mastered about 70% of the skill of looking at capsules =P