Batman+Lego=Totally awesome

Well, Gen and I had a fairly quiet weekend at home. I played some football at the Tsing Hua University with some Vietnamese guys on Saturday and we went to church where their was an adult baptismal service on Sunday. It was really encouraging to hear the testimonies of those being baptised.

On Sunday, we also went for a walk around our neighbourhood in search of a water gun, preferably a Supersoaker for Gen to use for a Kindergarten fun day/ water fight this Thursday. We ended up going into a toy shop, where I discovered this awesome cache of Lego. My attention was particularly drawn to the Batman Lego. If we had had the money for it on us at the time I would almost certainly have bought it.

Batman Lego combines two obsessions, one recent and one from childhood. I don't think I'll ever be too old for Lego and seeing so much of it on offer, I got to thinking about how much fun I used to have building it up. I was particularly interested in the knight series when I was younger. Now to my more recent obsession: Batman. Ever since reading my first Batman comic, Frank Miller's "Dark Knight" and watching the most recent movie, I have been interested in Batman. He is not a lame superhero as he is intelligent, not relying on some experiment-gone-wrong, toxic spill, or nuclear explosion for his powers.

Therefore Batman+Lego=Totally awesome. I might be scraping together some cash to buy the Batmobile some time soon!

Incidentally, I have also downloaded some digital comics and a digital comic reader, so I have been reading through all the classic Batman tales in readiness for the forthcoming movie which screens in Taiwan on July 17. You can rotate the images and turn the Macbook on its side to read the comics, so that it is almost like reading the actual book and is fairly similar in format.