End of Year and 50th Post

Yoz, the people who come and don't tag. This is going to be the last post of the year. As well as the 50th post on this blog. So 1 year 50 posts. 2 years 100 posts. Cool. But slow. It's been quite a year. More downs than ups. So many lessons learnt. I really don't want to go through the downs. But finally the debt has been settled. Yay. The only ups were... The anime conventions I went to!!! Of course results, new class, blah blah blah... I haven't recieved my high jump trophy yet... Jumped 1.50m. I won, yet I didn't. Haiz... I haven't talked about it yet hor? So I'll just say it right now.

Wee. I jumped over 1.45m. So did Joseph. Then was 1.50m. I did it!!! On the 3rd try. But he didn't. Lowered to 1.48m. He did it. 1.49m. He did it. 1.50m. He managed to pass!!! Wtf. Not fair. More tries than me. 1.51m. I couldn't. Zzz. He did it. I lost. Oh well. He completed 1.60m in the end. Track & field member... Not fair. Well too bad for me. My first silver high jump trophy. And guess what. They didn't even have a friggin prize presentation. At the end of the year, they told us to collect our trophies. But they didn't have the high jump ones...

This post is short. Lol. Supposed to write alot of things but met a writer's block so dunno. Oh well. Today's Digital Life was the best. And Happy New Year!

Boxing Day & Photo Dump

Today is Boxing Day, the real day you are supposed to open your presents... but who cares. Anyway I'll start with photo dump. Very outdated ones. Starting with AFA 08.


First pictures I took. Official Bleach and D. Grayman art and my horrible photography...

Maid Rin from Hollow Ataraxia. Woot! On Display.

Nicely made Hatsune Miku.

Evangelion unit 02. Lousily taken by me again

Evangelion Unit 00, the Evangelion 1.0 Version.

AYANAMI REI!!!

Haven't watched the anime yet. Badly taken too...

Miku with Nanoha and Fate behind. + a little bit of kyon.

The Haruhi cast. Mikuru's hair looks green...

Cast of Lucky Star + Nanoha again.

Some Doujin Art.



Only recoginse Miku, Yotsuba, Tsuruya, Minami and Midori.

Tora Dora Exhibit

Shakugan no Shana Exhibit


D. Grayman Exhibit


And now for my updated manga collection...

Over-crowding... Omitted some as well.


Anime + albums+ Manga Magazines...

Finally a complete Chobits collection



Evangelion DVD

Chobits DVD


Shakugan no Shana DVDs




Burst Angel DVD. Haiz...




All DVDs. So few

Crappy VCDs



Fate/Stay Night Artbooks




Didn't take pics of my Melty Blood Artbook.

Tsukihime Manga

Ichigo 100% Volume 1-6

Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien. Wee! Finally got the DVD.

My Evangelion 1.0 figurines bought from AFA 08.

Unit 01 with positron rifle

Unit 01

Unit 00 with shield

Shinji Ikari in plugsuit

Ayanami Rei in plugsuit

All of them. Yay. Why so much empty space...

My (2X2X2)X3 Siamese Cube



And now for my Christamas presents

Megaminx after the first time I solved it

Pyraminx after solving it a few times. Really simple

And megaminx in a messed up state. Quite simple but tedious... Very. Confusing. Only had problems with the final layer. Cos it's 5-sided. Can solve it fine now.

Some random stuff

Look closely at 54. Wating time: 42min, 49min respectively. Wow. I waited that long.

Wondering why Duralumin? Lol. Cos of this. From Yotsuba&. Azuma is the king of random.



2D vs. 3D. I almost died seeing 3D.

Result: 2D wins hands down + a bucket of vomit against 3D

With that the photo dump comes to an end and Merry Post-Christmas. And Happy Post-birthday Arcueid.

Christmas

Merry Christmas! As White Len says. Or just Christmas Eve. It's just another day. Reminds me of the time that is passing. The closer it gets to the beginning of the school term. Very soon I'll be posting the Melty Blood New Year special screen. Posted a Len's birthday one not long ago. 3 months isn't long. Time is sad. Sadness is time? I like to do these type of things nowadays. Like 'Time is money. Money is time.', 'Nice from far, far from nice.' Basically switching words. It's some fun in a dull life like mine.

Hmm. No time for photoblogging now. Mebbe next time. Got lots of pics to post. Very outdated ones from AFA 08 n my updated manga collection n figurine collection. Another time then.

Shall talk about TPJC then. Ahh. What to say. Very memorable. What about it was memorable... The hour long bus trips resulting in being late almost everyday except the last, the auditorium, the band room. Memorable. Being called up to state the target for the band. As well as being the only flautist for the last few days of the festival. A pity there was only 1 masterclass. Sad. Wanted to get more out of it. Only about 2 hrs of masterclass for so many people. So little was done. Sad. Cos it's very, or kinda weird having only 1 flautist for the concert, it was great the alumni helped out. They showed me I got a long way to go. My 2 months of practising (or sight-reading)

Melty Blood Stuff now. Lol. Finally can do the Hisui's EX Dust Loop as well as Kohaku's Corner Loop. Also created an extension to Hisui's EX Dust loop. Loops as follows...
Controls as follows: 8 is up, 2 is down, 5 is neutral
6 is foward and 4 is back. 9731 are diagonals.

Hisui's EX Dust Loop: 5B 5C/5[C]> 623C (delay) 5B 5C (delay) 5B 5C (Delay) 2B 5C 2C 6C 5B j.BC j.BC Airthrow
Kohaku Corner Loop: 2A 2B(2 hits) 2C 5C 236[B] (2A/5A(Delay) 5C 236[B])X how ever many times you want.
My Unpractical EX Dust Loop Extension: 5B 5C/5[C] > 623C (delay) {5B 5C (delay) 5B 5C (delay) 5B 5C > 236C (delay)} x2 5B 5C (delay) 5B 5C (delay) 2B 5C 2C 6C 5B j.BC j.BC Airthrow. Does less damage than the normal EX dust loop due to damage proration but its fun. Lol.

AFA 08

Long time no blog. Not that I care anyway. Got alot of stalkers. And the last tag was by me, more than 2 months ago. Ain't that sad, me?
So many things happened, and I dun wanna bother talking about everyone, so I just say the main events, since I'm just passing my time here anyway.
Thursday got band camp. And like every other year, I'm not really looking foward to it. Got the section competition too. Haiz... Depressing. Some people haven't reply me yet. Die la. Seriously think we are gonna mess up.
AFA 08 was fun. But can only go for 1 day. Took lots of lousy pics, like every other festival I went to. Haiz... Anyway, the morning queue was friggin long, from 1 end to the other end + a couple of loops just to get tickets. Expected it to be crowded but not this crowded. Otakus think alike I guess. Go at the same time. The Maid Saber was SOLD OUT!!! And I know who bought the last 2... About $60+ I think. So all that was left was the Maid Rider. Both from Hollow Ataraxia. Oh ya. At about 11am there was this 5 second man. At first I didn't know. Then they start saying like 4.46 seconds and all those "close" to 5 second timings. I didn't bother to find out the result. Anyway, the 5 second man looked friggin stupid. He looked like some red ****** with the number 5 imprinted on his face. Stupid. Then went on to take photos of figurines. And obviously I did a horrible job again. There was like ayanami rei, Eva Units 00 and 02, Chibi Shana & Ryoko Asakura (Which I took pictures of very horribly). There was also maid saber, which I took even more horribly. Getting depressed over it... Also maid Rin was blurry, Miku was fine, but not that good. The rest nothing much to say. Haiz... Quite a few cosplayers. Some bad, some good, some sloppy, some gives u sore eyes. I didn't take any pics of cosplayers this time round. Went around, looked at merchandise. Bought Evangelion 1.0 character figurines, the whole set. Gonna take photos and upload next time. Also bought manga from Chuangyi. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 2 and Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol. 11. Both AFA 08 releases. Then I got the chance to win some stupid prize by throwing something on a board or something. I din noe wat it was so I tikam throw. Then tio the consolation prize. It's some pooh fridge magnet. Wtf. Also queued up 1hr+ just to get in to KKnM. And bought what I went to AFA 08 for. EVANGELION A4 FILE WITH REI AND ASUKA!!! Yay. Expensive...
There was an MBAA machine there too. Yay! Didn't play it cos it's way too popular. My hamachi mbac friends were there. lol. I'm still noob at it. Even after playing it everyday for a month. Haiz... Mebbe the band camp is a good break from mbac. May get better when I come back. Hopefully.

Results

It's strange why I'm not happy with my marks. My family is rather happy about my marks but I'm not... I really don't see the happiness in it. I really don't know why. I should really be rejoicing, but I'm rather sad, or maybe even angry or disappointed. Something's going wrong with me. Maybe it's because I have so few friends. By my definition maybe only have 1 or 2 friends. No one to share the joy with. No one who cares about me. Even if I say my marks, people wouldn't console me, wouldn't congratulate me. Is that why? Or maybe I'm selfish. I see people getting high marks everywhere. I'm not happy. Is that why? Either way, I'm not really happy. Maybe I need to see a psychiatrist. I can't get happy these few days. Well, I got an A2 average. Wow... not too happy. Wonder why...

Back

It's been about 3 weeks since I last blogged. Done so much within these 3 weeks. Almost memorable. First, purchased some $60+ earphones, cos my current ones spoilt. A connection problem apparently. Left earpiece again. Same thing happened to my previous set. Haiz...

Exams. Nothing much to say. But I only activated Shinkai(Bleach) for like the first week. Second week started to slack already. Melty Blood cramming. My best character is currently Ciel. Curry-sempai. Haha. Not that any of you would know anyway. Type-moon is also coming out with a new anime. Can't get enough of their artwork. Shikabane Hime the anime has been released by Gainax already. Lots of pantsu I think. Haha.

This is probrably my first free weekend this year. And probrably my last in a few months. Cos next week got band. Haiz... I feel like writing an emo post about band. I think I can rant about it forever. But I'm not gonna do that now. Mebbe the next post. Hard to believe I was scouted for badminton for DSA for a secondary school, even though I wasn't in the primary school badminton team. And now I'm worse than ever. How sad. Why I joined band? Cos I quit badminton. Now I dun see the difference between the two. Both requires alot of time. Haiz. I'm tired of all this.

Oh ya. So much happened that I forgot to reupdate my Rubik's timings. Now my fastest time is 0:32:84 on the 3X3X3. Haha. Beat that. But I still got a long way to go. I'm irritated. I'm annoyed. Even though I may be good at quite a few things, I'm really pissed I can't be the best at something. It's like so near yet so far. Like the reflection of the moon in the water.

Ok. It's anime time. Most of the below stuff are anime stuff. So dun bother if you dun care about it. Watched School Days and Clannad just after the exams ended. The School Days ending was quite good. I'm pleased. And I'm not purposely trying to be sadistic here. What I was pleased at is that Itou got killed. He really deserved it. To atone for his sins. Actually, from episode 5 I couldn't bear to watch on. I just did for the sake of it. Another reason why I was pleased with the ending was that it ended with what it started with; About Itou noticing this girl, on the train, always reading books. That is called a good ending.

Clannad time. Ya. It's really very late to watch Clannad. I've been like in anime for 1 year now. Yet I only watched Clannad now. So I'm trying to atone for it. Kyoto Animation's art quality never disappoints. The quality of Clannad was one of the best I've seen for Game-turned-anime. Really great story. Dun need to emphasize on this right? You already should have watched it. This is also one of the few times I watched through the entire OP to ED of all 24 episodes. I think I can already memorise the Dango Song. The song's a little grand. If there was such a show, I think it would be the ED theme of Dango Daikazoku. The OP would be from the movie. Clannad the After Story is also out. The second episode was released yesterday. Watched the movie too. The quality left much to be desired. It was obviously done by another company. But I'm glad the voices remained the same. Love them all. At least this harem had a non-loser male lead. That's great. Just started playing Tomoyo After ~ It's a Wonderful Life. Not to be mistaken by the Clannad doujin game Tomoyo Fighter ~ It's an exciting life. Anyway, Tomoyo's voice remains the same. Yay! Also read the manga. Quite a sad story. The Tomoyo After manga of course. Only 4 chapters long. Well, it's a great story. Always had high expectations of Key's works. Just started watching Kanon too. The 2006 version. The 2002 version was only 13 episodes long I think. And the quality is haiz... So ya.

D. Grayman ended. But there will be a continuation maybe 1-3 years from now, at the rate the manga is progressing. Cos if they continued, the anime would have caught up with the manga in 2-3 episodes. That wouldn't do. Zero no Tsukaima also ended. And I missed 3 episodes to the end!!! *emos for a while*. Now they replaced it with Tora Dora. Fine I guess. Neo Angelique also ended. And I missed the ending yet again......... Haiz.......... Not that it was a nice show to begin with. Replaced it with Casshern Sins. Boring. The art isn't that good to me. But. The composer for the BGMs is none other than Kaworu Wada, composer of BGMs for D. Grayman and Inuyasha as well as a few others. Could recognize his works in Casshern Sins. Not sure what the show which replaced D.Grayman is. But seems ok. And you know Okto? The new channel which is channel 8 on Starhub cable and replaced channel i (If you still remember). I think it's gonna replace arts central completely. Give more time to Vasantham. They need it.

Watched the Lucky Star OVA. Wonderful as always. They are even in a game in the OVA. Real good. Also found some MAD of Lucky Star. Gonna post them here sometime.

Oh ya. In Japan news, this foreign guy, who speaks spanish, jumped into the moat of the japanese castle and swam there... naked. Wow. I was lmaoing at it la. Since there was a nude foreign man, I won't put the video or link here. But if you are interested you can ask me, not that you actually would ask me. There was also this case where this guy went around smelling females' armpits and was sentenced to 14 years in jail in Singapore. It's either it hasn't been published or I haven't been reading the newspapers lately. Comments from netizens from other countries say it's a little too strict. Apparently this guy is a little mental. But I can understand his fetish. Ahaha. Sore ja.

Tests

No more Franken Fran in this post. Haha. Anyway, this week, I had a total of 4 tests, all of which I did not study. 2 Bio, 1 SS and 1 Chem. I'm sure I failed SS as I totally wrote the wrong points. Haiz... Bio, not sure. But won't get a high score for sure. Haiz... Quite sad now, but not sad. Anyway, school is getting more fun for me. Although I'm not really making any new friends, I use them to indirectly talk to other people, like talking about anime and manga. Can talk non-stop, from H-games to doujins to well, the original... Recently been renting out my manga. Earned $1 so far. I'm renting $1 per book. Quite cheap really. Supposed to get $2 but someone hasn't paid yet. Gonna bring Vol.2-5 of Magister Negi Magi to rent. So that's another $5. Good money. And I have 100+ manga. I think after the exams I need to rearrange my manga cupboard... It's too full now, with 3 Fate Artbooks... I'm probrably gonna take photos of my updated collection...