Post by shidoamano on Oct 18, 2008 11:36:31 GMT 8
:)Hi Guys, I just want to share this because I was trying to find a 1/144 models kit zero custom and suddenly I realized why I am having a hard time looking for it right now.
Here in this group, being infected by the virus of being a gundam builder or collector, etc etc is maybe one of the greatest thing that we did experience in our lives. Craving and being addicted for more plastics,paints,markers,stickers. I suddenly realized, what if you were infected by this what we call virus and you dont have something in your pocket to feed your hunger?
I remember a friend of mine back in my school, FEU. He was a scholar in our school and that is the reason why he was able to continue his college studies in our school. He was also a gundam addict, well I am mentioning the TV series such as GW Gundam G and Seed. His father was a soldier who died in the middle of the war back in 2001 in mindanao
, and mother who works in a small restaurant near in Quiapo church. He always had this interests in model kits but doesnt have the resources to have one. having an allowance 50php per day which includes his fare for the public vehicles, he wont be able to earn for just a single 1/144 model kit. Back then, I did not tell him that I was also into these kinds of stuffs because I dont want to hurt his feelings, that he might think, that his dreams for gundam are insect for me, which really is not true because I also strive to have 1 single kit of mine. ;D
Then a day came, He showed me 600 pesos. He told me its enough to buy a model kit. Yes I know it was enough. To buy GW model kit 1/144, i know it was enough. If it is not, then maybe I can lend him a small amount of money for him to buy his kit.
That day came and we went to toy kingdom, because that is where we want us to buy a kit, I cant tell him to buy in GT or in other Toy store where the can get the toy for a lower price because he might realized that " hey, why does this guy know this toy shop?" So we went to TK. When we reached TK, He saw that the thing he wanted to buy is a hundred peso more expensive than what he had in his pocket. I can't lend him money that time, because a hundred is too much for me because I am also short of money that time.
Then we had no choice, he went home, I told him to buy the tallgeese but he doesnt want it so what can i do, I know the feeling, whats the sense of buying something that your dont even want. Then his mother came home and he told her the prob. Then here mother told him that she can buy a models like that in divisoria for 140 php, my friend
wondered but i can't tell him that there's no such thing or else, he will know. He was too excited to buy that He gave his mother the money and we waited for her mother to arrive. After an hour or 2, heres his mother with a plastic bag, and I was a lil bit sad of what will my friend react after seing what his mother bought for him. Just as expected. Her mother bought 3 pcs of the immitation ones. But what can he do, her mother doesnt know anything about these kinds of stuffs. Looking at these, my friend just smiled and said, thanks ma i never thought you had my taste smiling at her, but deep inside, I know what he felt. 
Looking at these scene, I know I can however do something, I cannot buy him a model that time for I also have no money to buy a new kit for him, but what I can offer to ease the pain is to give him what he deserve. I gave him the model he wants, of course, in exchange for those immitation ones from divisoria. I dont want him to wonder why I am giving it away or I dont want to look like I am feeling pitty on him, I want it to look like I am after more toys than my Zero Custom. Then he agreed. I also needed those toys for me to remember that, a collectors heart is not on the price of the toys, but is in the will of the collector to collect what he wanted to collect. He really is something, after the term, hent in our house to visit me and there he discovered that I was really into gundam. I cant deny it coz he is there and I just smiled. Now that I am working, He is still in my mind. Whats making me feel sad right now is not the fact that its hard to find a zero custom of 1/144 these days, but the question asking, "will that be the 1st and last gundam he will ever have?"
Some of us here doesnt even cherysh the moment when we 1st bought our models kits, some people here doesnt even remember how they struggled to have one. The thing I realized in this experience, is that I have to treasure every kits that I have ugly or not, failure or success, because for some people, these trash maybe the only thing that will make them smile for a long time.
SHIDO REPORTING FOR DUTY SIR!
next time, I'll post the pics of the gundam kits that he did exchange for his zero as a tribute to that friend.
Here in this group, being infected by the virus of being a gundam builder or collector, etc etc is maybe one of the greatest thing that we did experience in our lives. Craving and being addicted for more plastics,paints,markers,stickers. I suddenly realized, what if you were infected by this what we call virus and you dont have something in your pocket to feed your hunger?
I remember a friend of mine back in my school, FEU. He was a scholar in our school and that is the reason why he was able to continue his college studies in our school. He was also a gundam addict, well I am mentioning the TV series such as GW Gundam G and Seed. His father was a soldier who died in the middle of the war back in 2001 in mindanao
, and mother who works in a small restaurant near in Quiapo church. He always had this interests in model kits but doesnt have the resources to have one. having an allowance 50php per day which includes his fare for the public vehicles, he wont be able to earn for just a single 1/144 model kit. Back then, I did not tell him that I was also into these kinds of stuffs because I dont want to hurt his feelings, that he might think, that his dreams for gundam are insect for me, which really is not true because I also strive to have 1 single kit of mine. ;DThen a day came, He showed me 600 pesos. He told me its enough to buy a model kit. Yes I know it was enough. To buy GW model kit 1/144, i know it was enough. If it is not, then maybe I can lend him a small amount of money for him to buy his kit.
That day came and we went to toy kingdom, because that is where we want us to buy a kit, I cant tell him to buy in GT or in other Toy store where the can get the toy for a lower price because he might realized that " hey, why does this guy know this toy shop?" So we went to TK. When we reached TK, He saw that the thing he wanted to buy is a hundred peso more expensive than what he had in his pocket. I can't lend him money that time, because a hundred is too much for me because I am also short of money that time.
Then we had no choice, he went home, I told him to buy the tallgeese but he doesnt want it so what can i do, I know the feeling, whats the sense of buying something that your dont even want. Then his mother came home and he told her the prob. Then here mother told him that she can buy a models like that in divisoria for 140 php, my friend
wondered but i can't tell him that there's no such thing or else, he will know. He was too excited to buy that He gave his mother the money and we waited for her mother to arrive. After an hour or 2, heres his mother with a plastic bag, and I was a lil bit sad of what will my friend react after seing what his mother bought for him. Just as expected. Her mother bought 3 pcs of the immitation ones. But what can he do, her mother doesnt know anything about these kinds of stuffs. Looking at these, my friend just smiled and said, thanks ma i never thought you had my taste smiling at her, but deep inside, I know what he felt. 
Looking at these scene, I know I can however do something, I cannot buy him a model that time for I also have no money to buy a new kit for him, but what I can offer to ease the pain is to give him what he deserve. I gave him the model he wants, of course, in exchange for those immitation ones from divisoria. I dont want him to wonder why I am giving it away or I dont want to look like I am feeling pitty on him, I want it to look like I am after more toys than my Zero Custom. Then he agreed. I also needed those toys for me to remember that, a collectors heart is not on the price of the toys, but is in the will of the collector to collect what he wanted to collect. He really is something, after the term, hent in our house to visit me and there he discovered that I was really into gundam. I cant deny it coz he is there and I just smiled. Now that I am working, He is still in my mind. Whats making me feel sad right now is not the fact that its hard to find a zero custom of 1/144 these days, but the question asking, "will that be the 1st and last gundam he will ever have?"
Some of us here doesnt even cherysh the moment when we 1st bought our models kits, some people here doesnt even remember how they struggled to have one. The thing I realized in this experience, is that I have to treasure every kits that I have ugly or not, failure or success, because for some people, these trash maybe the only thing that will make them smile for a long time.
SHIDO REPORTING FOR DUTY SIR!
next time, I'll post the pics of the gundam kits that he did exchange for his zero as a tribute to that friend.
I'm planning to give him a gift, but I dont know when, because purchasing my last months kits gave me a hard time to buy new clothings. So for this month, 1 kit only....I hope he understands if I give him the gift a lil bit late from his bday..LoL
and the other one sell it for a really cheap price. I got another gundam from each of them again after. These were the GundamWing 1/144 kits back then. I think it's REALLY nice what you did to your friend. 
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