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 Each person grows up being obsessed with something. It could be something that you're totally fine with sharing with people and exposing yourself with your obsessions, or it could be something you find completely embarrassing, so you try to hide it away from everyone else.

It could be plush toys, those toys that you can get by purchasing those kids meals from fast food outlets, Barbie dolls, etc.

Ever since I could remember, I was completely obsessed with the Japanese genre called "tokusatsu". Of course, back then I just referred to them as superheroes. For context about what tokusatsu is about - it's basically live action shows that feature costumed characters, such as things like Super Sentai (known worldwide as Power Rangers), Kamen Rider (Masked Rider), Ultraman, Godzilla, and so much more.

On special occasions like my birthday, or if I'm not mistaken - every single weekend, I was allowed to pick one action figurine and my dad would purchase it for me. Gradually, my collection grew. It halted for a long time though, until I started to get new exposure with the "Neo Heisei" era of Kamen Rider -  starting from Decade onward. Gradually, the obsession came back, and I began collecting those action figurines again. Not just action figurines though, but other things such as the devices used in the show to fight, transform, and all those other nerdy stuff.

It might seem ridiculous to many that will be viewing this post, even though I'm mainly directing it to a certain few people whom I promised this post will eventually be live - but do not worry, I still have enough lunch money to last me through university (I hope).

Without further ado, here's my terribly done photo shoot that I conducted yesterday; under terrible lighting, a very bad focus on my camera because it was extremely uncomfortable doing this shoot, and even worse post editing. Oh and they're also detailed at the bottom, just for additional context to those who aren't , toku savvy

 From left to right: Power Rangers S.P.D Ranger Morpher (Regular version), Power Rangers Dino Thunder Morpher (Three main Rangers), Power Rangers Dino Thunder Thundermax Saber (Blaster Mode with holster)

 From left to right: Power Rangers Wild Force Silver Ranger, Red Ranger, Blue Ranger, Black Ranger (with Savage Cycles) PS: Pardon the lack of the weapons on the bottom of each bike, was too lazy to bring them out

 From left to right: Kamen Rider Ryuki (Blank Form) with Ride Shooter, Kamen Rider Zolda (front: human form in Masked Rider Dragon Knight), Kamen Rider Scissors (front: Knight human form in Masked Rider Dragon Knight), Kamen Rider Verde, Kamen Rider Ouja, Kamen Rider Knight, Kamen Rider Raia

 From left to right: Magnugiga (Zolda) , Darkwing (Knight) PS: Lost the headpiece for Magnugiga

 From left to right: Kamen Rider Agito (Decade timeline : Final Formride Agito Tornador), Kamen Rider Decade

 From left to right: Power Ranger Jungle Fury Micro Animal Zord: Shark, Elephant, Bat

 Power Rangers Operation Overdrive Battle Fleet Megazord

 Gransazer Remls

 Top: From left to right: Kamen Rider Gaim: Pineapple Lockseed, Fresh Orange Lockseed, Melon Lockseed, Banana Lockseed, Blood Orange Lockseed, Kamen Rider Meteor Lockseed, Peach Energy Lockseed

 Kamen Rider Leangle card holster & Garren, Blade, Leangle cards. PS: I do not own all of the cards, but a bunch of them are in my second house. Those cards came with Blade's Blay Rouzer.

 Masked Rider Dragon Knight Vent Cards. Came together with the action figurines a few pictures back.

 Kamen Rider Raia's Evildiver Advent Monster

 Kamen Rider Gai's Metalgelas Advent Monster

 Kamen Rider Ouja with Venosnaker Advent Monster

 From left to right: Kamen Rider Gai's Metalgelas Advent Monster card, Kamen Rider Ouja's Venosnaker Advent Monster card, Kamen Rider Raia's Evildiver Advent Monster card, Kamen Rider Ouja's Unite Vent

 Kamen Rider Ouja's Genocider Advent Monster

  Kamen Rider Ouja's Genocider Advent Monster (with Final Vent card)

 From top to bottom: Kamen Rider Snipe mini Gashat, Kamen Rider Ex-Aid mini Gashat, Kamen Rider Brave mini Gashat. PS: These Gashats do not have the sound effects of the regular Gashats, instead they have voice lines from the actor playing the character.

 Power Rangers Dino Charge: Dino Chargers. Left: Megazord Chargers. Middle & Right: Previous Red Ranger Chargers

 From left to right: Kamen Rider Stronger, Kamen Rider Amazon, Kamen Rider 1 (Ichigo), Kamen Rider 2 (Nigo), Kamen Rider V3

 From left to right: Kamen Rider Accel (Trial Form: Blue), Kamen Rider W (Fang Joker), Kamen Rider W (Luna Trigger), Kamen Rider W (Extreme), Kamen Rider W (Cyclone Joker: Base), Kamen Rider Joker, Kamen Rider W (Heat Metal), Kamen Rider Skull, Kamen Rider Accel 

 From top left to right: Kamen Rider Kuuga Mighty Form, Kamen Rider G3, Kamen Rider Ryuki Survive, Kamen Rider Faiz Accel Form, Kamen Rider Faiz Blaster Form, Kamen Rider Blade King Form, Kamen Rider Kabuto (Base, Cast Off), Kamen Rider Decade, Kamen Rider Den-O Sword Form, Kamen Rider Kiva

 From top left to right: Ultraman 80, Ultraman Leo, Ultraman, Ultra Seven 21, Ultraman Cosmos Luna Form, Ultraman Taro, Ultraman Max, Ultraman Agul V2, Ultraman Cosmos Space Corona Form, Ultraman Agul V1, Ultraman Gaia V2 Supreme

 From left to right: Ultraman Legend, Ultraman Noa

 I have no idea on what the names are for these monsters, sorry.

 Ultraman Belial

 From left to right: Evil Tiga, Fake Mebius, Fake Ultraman, Ultraman Mebius Infinity, Ultraman Shadow, Imit Dyna.

 Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue

From front to back: Gransazer Tarious, Impactor Logia

 From left to right: Blue Dino Thunder Ranger, Red Jungle Fury Ranger Jungle Master Mode, Silver Wild Force Ranger

 From left to right: Ultraman Nexus Anphans, Dark Faust, Ultraman Jack, Ultra Father / Father of Ultra, Ultraman King, Ultraman great, Ultraman Powered, Ultraman Neos, Ultraman Tiga Multi-Type, Ultraman Tiga Sky Type, Ultraman Dyna Flash Type, Tiga Dark, Ultraman Cosmos Corona Form, Chaos Ultraman / Ultraman Chaos, Ultraman Justice, Astra, Ultraman Mebius (with blade)

 Another angle of the previous picture

 From left to right: Ultraman Mebius (with blade), Ultraman Mebius Phoenix Brave

 From left to right: DekaRed (S.P.D Red), Kamen Rider Leangle, Gao Silver (Silver Wild Force Ranger), Kamen Rider Black RX, Kamen Rider Ryuga, DekaMaster (S.P.D Shadow Ranger), Kamen Rider Verde, DekaBreak (S.P.D Omega Ranger), Kamen Rider 1 (Ichigo), AbareKiller (White Dino Ranger), Alternative Zero, Kamen Rider Drake Cast Off Form

 Another angle of previous picture. Note: Yes, I do have duplicates of the Silver Wild Force, and Kamen Rider 1 (Ichigo) action figurines. I have duplicates for Ultraman Taro, Ultraman Tiga Multi-Type and Ultra Seven 21

 From top to bottom: Kamen Rider Ghost Eyecon : Ghost, Musashi, Nobunaga, Nightingale, Grimm, Specter, Kamen Rider OOO (Oz)

 From top left: Kamen Rider Wizard Rings: W Extreme, Kiva (green visor), Kiva (yellow visor), Black RX, OOO (Oz) PutoTyra, Beast

Ability Rings (Was lazy to look up all of them)

Kamen Rider Beast Rings

Kamen Rider Wizard: Flame Dragon, Land, Land Dragon, Water, Water Dragon, Hurricane Dragon

 Kamen Rider Fourze Cosmic State Barizun Sword

 From left to right: Gokai Red, DekaBreak, RyuuRanger Ranger Keys. Yes, that's all I have, because I'm not very interested in collecting the Ranger Keys just yet.

 Power Rangers RPM Engine Soul

 Kamen Rider OOO Core Medals (and one Cell Medal at the bottom center). Yes, I own a bunch of duplicates.

 Ultraman Cosmos Tecch Thunder 2

 Kamen Rider W Double Driver with Maximum Drive

 Kamen Rider W Gaia Memory: Xtreme (Bird) , Xtreme Cyclone, Prism, Xtreme Joke

 Kamen Rider Accel : Trial Gaia Memory (with module & without)

 From top left to right: Kamen Rider W Gaia Memory : Cyclone (Green), Joker (Black), Heat (Red), Luna (Yellow), Xtreme Joker , Xtreme Cyclone, Prism, Trial (without module), Engine, Spider, Riderman Memory, Kamen Rider Hibiki Memory, Kamen Rider Agito Memory, Kamen Rider Kabuto Memory (holographic print), Kamen Rider Kiva Memory x2, Televikun Memory

 Kamen Rider W : Spider Module watch with Spider Gaia Memory

 Kamen Rider Brave : Taddle Legacy Level 100 Gashat

 Kamen Rider Fourze Driver with around 110 Astro Switches. A few of them are Rider Switches, a few are alternate versions of the original Switches from the series. N & S Magnet Astro Switches do not have their Magphone Module attached, and neither does the Cosmic Astro Switch. I do not own Meteor Storm, or any of the movie exclusive Astro Switches.

Jeez, this post took me three whole hours to write...

Well, I hope you had fun browsing through my collection (as of the date this post is published). As time passes by, I will be expanding my collection, but I don't see any possibility of me writing down an updated list - because I'm a really busy person.

UPDATE

 Gokai Mobirates Cellular Morpher with Ranger Keys (March 17, 2018)

Well, 2018 certainly did not start off the way I expected it to, but that timeline has passed and it's done with. It was also the time where I anxiously wait for my previous semester results to come out, so I can progress in my education.

After a long and extremely hard road to pave through, I made it out of Diploma and I've placed myself into Degree. To top it all off, I really didn't expect my results to be as good as they were. I guess extensive praying before, during and many days / weeks after the exam really helped on a large margin. Truth be told, I really did butcher one of the exams really badly and I was seriously counting my lucky starts that the paper would not be the one to set me back a semester..

Diploma lasted from May 2015 all the way to December of last year, and throughout that timeline, too many things happened. My 10-member batch didn't last as long as I expected it to go, with the (glue) of the group leaving Malaysia to head back to her country as she was getting married and was settling down. From there, Semester Two, things got really shaken up with the entire batch.

The batch got separated into four different groups. One group was the lone wolves that operated on their own and then branched out to people in the other batches, another stuck together like glue and then branched out, the third was pretty inseparable (mine), and the fourth was just an individual who decided to gain some authority around the campus and assert dominance towards the people she disliked.

Semester Two was also a rather expensive semester, as I got to learn about video editing in a general basis, and photography as I was taking those classes. Through that I now own a DSLR camera and a MacBook for my editing stuff (which I always delay). But, I'm extremely thankful for those two, and I've had a ton of fun with them over the past two years.

My third semester was when I met my ex, which was a pretty fun thing to recall about right now as I've really grown since then in terms of understanding that the reality of relationships is nothing like how Hollywood depicts it in their movies. Either way, it certainly was the best thing that came out of Diploma, followed by a few things I'll enclose. Would there be a possibility of a reconciliation between the two of us? Certainly. It's just up to her if she wants it. But considering her recent Tweet that was indirectly pointed at me, I'd say the chances are slim. Whatever.

Around the fourth or fifth semester was when my previous Lenovo laptop decided to officially die off, and coincidentally an MSI booth was in my campus and there were a lot of laptops on display. I tried some of them out and instantly fell in love with them. In the end, I managed to get an MSI as a replacement for my previous Lenovo laptop.

Throughout that time, only one thing really haunted me - and that was the semester that I would have to take my internship. I have zero working experience, which is a terrible thing as early exposure to working life is highly recommended for teenagers so they can earn some money. Even working as a barista is working experience, so that counts. Eventually, the semester where I had to take my internship came around, and - you can read that experience up for yourself : here

Many people know my relationship with the higher ups in my university, so rather than that working as an advantage to make new friends, it really backfired and worked against me instead. Some individuals believed that everything was handed to me, and that I had to put in zero effort to earn the grades that I got throughout my time, and I was in some way, abusing the power I had through my connections.

i-City Shah Alam. A place that could definitely strive and would be a great family getaway, as the facilities there aren't all that bad. However, it seems that no one even bothers to go there. Perhaps that area is underpopulated, and people would much rather head to Sunway Lagoon instead (which doesn't surprise me). 

The receptionist at the ticketing counters can rap as fast as Eminem, and they speak in Malay. It's not a problem as I'm a local, but it's not exactly my native language. It would take me a few seconds to translate what they're saving to me back to English, then translate my response from English, back to Malay once again. My dad has to do the same thing as well, and he can't exactly pick up extremely fast spoken words so he struggled to understand the receptionist. I guess she got irritated because when my dad asked her about the pricing for the third time, she raised her voice.

Clearly, that's not the ideal way to handle your customers. With an attitude like that at the ticketing counter of all places, no one would fancy visiting a second time. Well, godspeed to this 'theme park'. Facilities are quite literally the same as it was around two years ago, which was the last time I visited. I believe the management spent all the money in decorating the exterior of the attractions, and forgot that the interior design of those attractions are the real things that would appeal towards the people paying money to visit this place.

Like most theme parks, there is a rate of payment for locals and for foreigners. I honestly don't think the foreigners ticketing prices are even required to be up on the board because I can guarantee - if the locals don't even want to visit this place, would the foreigners even bother? A good example would be that the employees there would even ask the visitors if they're local or not, when you can clearly define their nationality by just looking at them.

Another issue is why on Earth would they even promote and advertise a second wax museum, when the thing is barely even built. There are banners all over the place directing you to the second wax museum, which is presumably larger than the first one - which is nice and all but it's not even built. It's written on the boards that the opening would be on August 2017, but I believe that they misspelled "Will be starting construction" instead. Adding on, it's not even connected to the first wax museum. You would have to walk under the sun, a pretty long distance, and walk across the road just to reach the second wax museum. No thanks, I'll pass. Honestly, a murder could occur at this area and no one would know, because it's that empty.

But, I did manage to get some decent pictures from the trip there today, which serves as a good outcome amidst all the complaints I have towards this so called 'theme park'.

Some pictures that I've filtered out for archive purposes. And also because I don't want to have these pictures take up space on my laptop, but on the Google servers instead.