Okay, Okay, So I've been a bit busy and lazy lately. With work and all and some other things. Anyways, let me share with you something personal. Yeap, I guess this will be where I'll be sharing (again) what I have been up to lately.

Here's what kept me busy the past weeks.
BIKING I don't know but I wanted to go biking. Maybe an excuse to ride on anything that is moving or my frustration in owning a car again. Anyways... I tried sourcing to some of my friends. Pestered them and asked a bunch of questions about which bike to use. At first I wanted to go for a city bike or some bmx type so that I could go on trails and bike my ass off. But I don't know what happened when I ended up liking a foldable bike. Maybe because I had this picture in my head that I'd go use the LRT and go somewhere like Marikina maybe. Anyways, my budget at that time for a bike was around 10-15k. But when I decided that I wanted to go biking and use a foldable bike, no one could stop me. I wanted the good bike brands like Dahon and Brompton. (They are damn expensive I tell you) But they really looked nice.

I decided that I want to try biking first and see how often will I be able to use it and if shelling out my 15k would be worth it. So I decided to find a surplus foldable bike first and see If I'd be able to use it. Other friends tipped me that Pier is the way to go and that they have some good Japanese surplus stuff there. So one weekend, with a bit of peer pressure from me, I asked Thom to tag along. He kind of wanted a bike also so its perfect. Anyways, we went there, sourced out some bikes and haggled.

The surplus bikes in pier ranged from 2000 (with out shift gears) to P 5,000 and even P 8,000. I was trying to work on the 3k budget per bike. I haggled and got Thom a really nice and sleek black foldable bike while it took me really long to choose which one, I ended up buying this one.

Here another one of me.

Here's us reaching our goal for the day.
Next thing I knew is I was sourcing the webs about lego, surplus lego etc. Timing that the LEGO Movie is coming up so I ended up buying this. Series 1 Naboo fighter. I'm guessing this is old old old. I saw some being sold in the malls are series 4 already at around  P 1k plus. I scored this at HMR Cubao for P200. They were on sale.

HMR is a nice place to buy. It's an American Surplus shop. Lower than usual, but not that low. I guess what's nice about this place is that some items here, you can't find somewhere else.

Here's a shot of the place and the toy section.

Saw some legos and some other toys there. The prices are lower that the ones in the malls, but HMR sells them on a As Is Where Is. Meaning, if there are some parts missing, Good luck to you. Because most of the items are being stolen, especially the miniatures.  (I think I'll comeback to this place and buy one of those when I have the money)

Then I started going through Japanese Surplus in Quezon City, Taft, Cubao, Aurora and other places you don't want to know in three days! I also started messaging some friends who might have legos. Man was I persistent. Well if you notice, I always end up looking at surplus shops, let me tell you why.

1. It is cheaper
2. There's a chance that what you find might be rare.
3. The thrill of getting an awesome item for a bitchin low price.
4. Thrill. Did I say thrill already?

Anyways, looking for legos in surplus shops are hard to come by. They are rare. You have to be persistent. Which going around, I purchased these Lego Movie minatures at Rustans. Yes I buy regular priced items too! :)

There's Ambraham Lincoln, President. Business, Emmet, Wyldstyle and Taco Tuesdays

Well after going around looking for some lego, I also joined a group in Facebook. Collectors and fans of lego and also joined a group of Bricksters which is a group that accepts collector of any brick out there. I started reading some threads which led me to looking around for these bricks.