Merry Christmas again…

Merry Christmas people. Lol. So few posts this year.

Got a Parker Pen for Christmas! Lol

AFA 09 Day 2 Part One

Forgot to take a photo of the 2 day ticket so juz took a photo of the ticket before I went in for Afa 09 Day 2

Afa 09 Graffiti Wall. Took them in a rush as both batteries were going flat.

Afa Day 1

Afa 09 is over!!! So sad. Well here's my coverage from day 1. Quite short cos I had to rush off at 1pm to go for band prac. Kinda lost track of the time due to queuing about 2 hrs to get into KKnM. But before that, the moment the gates opened, I rushed to get any Good Smile Company 1/7 Scale Saber Lily I could find. And in 10 min, SABER LILY IS MINE!!!! WOO!!! Pics in a seperate post. After that queued up at KKnM for 2 hrs. Met JH, ZY n friends. After queuing for about 40min JH queued with me lol. Talked about how our families accept anime and stuff, as well as where we keep our figurines. Oh ya. There was one otaku nee-chan in front of us. So when JH was talking about when he was crying when watching Clannad(most people do, even guys), she started laughing, trying hard to control it. lol. Took photos of some posters along the way.

Lucky Star poster

Can't be bothered to upload anymore cos it takes forever to upload photos. Finally after 2 hours we finally reached the start of the queue!!!

It was a loong long wait, comiket training perhaps. Lol.

Some bleach cosplay

Archer. Not bad. Apparently from our school too. Sadly I dunno exactly who.

Fate Team. lol

Since I only spent like 3hrs there I couldn't get much. Gotta rush off again.

National Day

Spent a few hours on this. Lol. Do something patriotic for once.

Majulah Singapura - Hatsune Miku
Spent quite some time trying to sync with the wind band. Realised the tempo never even hit 96bpm - as indicated in the score. Slightly out of sync in the middle but too lazy to change it. One of my first works with Hatsune Miku. Lol.
Lazy to upload National Day preview photos... Just this random photo of me.
The NDP preview ticket...
Happy National Day!

Cosfest VIII 2009 Videos

Credits go to Zeratul for the videos. I didn't arrange them in order though.


Cosfest 2009: Representative WCS Part 1: Pandora Hearts

Cosfest 2009: Representative WCS Part 2: Macross Frontier

Cosfest VIII Day Two (2009)

Finally managed to upload the pics... Here's Cosfest VIII Day 2.

Epic Gundam

Great workmanship.

And if you haven't realised, there's a guy in it. Poor guy. Sweating like mad. But great job.

Katekyo Hitman Reborn cosplay.

Cosfest VIII Day One (2009)

Well, long time no blog. Just gonna post the pics i took at Cosfest VIII (2009). Quite tired so not gonna rant much.


Halibel cosplay. Quite nice. Just that not black enough. Lol.

Final Fantasy Cosplay.


Poor Hatsune Miku cosplay. Bad facial expression & wtf! No thighhighs!!! The zettai ryouki is everything man.

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

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...

Was thinking about Franken Fran again. Chapter 2. My fav. So she tore and ate up the guy's intestines. That wasn't too disgusting for me. It was well... Nice. Anyway, when I thought about it again, she was eating his large intestines. Still, I did not have a problem with that. However, I realised that biological filth was in there. So I felt disgusted. Not that I have any problem with *cat, it's just that... Eating it directly from the large intestine, with 10% of the water content there, green-brown substance... A little eww.

These few days had maths remedial after school. And each time stayed back till 1630. Today had a mock test, a test to mock people who lack intelligence. Well, it did its job. But it was good revision. At least now I know how left behind I am. But anyway, also had Bio test today. I totally did not study. Not an inkling. Just used what I remembered from CA2. Wonder if I would fail... Bio is now at the nervous system. And the next chapter is about EYES!!! Yay! I became interested in eyes after reading Chapter 8 of Franken Fran, Beautiful World. I then learnt that the human eye has 3 light reception cells. And the mantis shrimp can see 16. Which means it can see from X-ray all the way to radio waves. Microwaves are low frequency by the way. For an easier way to see the diff, microwaves are thwe size of a human, Infrared light is about the size of a pin point and X-rays are about the size of an atom. Really interesting stuff. Love it. Can't wait for bio to reach that topic. If not, at least the eyes.

Cos I've been coming back late these few days, I've been too lazy doing ERP, and wasting time on the com instead. I'm so dead. Must chiong today and tmr. Tmr also have a Chem test. Fri SS test. So dead. Better do something now.

Addicted

I'm really addicted to Franken Fran. I think this addiction is bad. I can't wait for the next chapter to be released, but it would be in 1 month's time. I really can't wait. This is bad. Why I like Franken Fran. Cos it's unique. The stories are quite refreshing and some quite funny. It's new to me. And it's not your typical horror style manga. It's a light-hearted one. Fran is a lighthearted person. She' not the cold blooded killer type. She does operations on what she think's is right, but slightly not in the right way...

If I start cramming next week, I wonder what would happen. I've never studied for more than a weekend before an exam(if the exam is on a Monday). So if I start studying next week... Hmm... Not gonna say anything...

Read Type-moon Complex X 1,2 & 3. Not bad I must say. It's a doujin from Crazy Clover Club. Shiro really has no chance against Shiki. It's like your foot against an ant. Eyes of Death Perception rocks.

Franken Fran

Woo. Franken Fran rocks sia. I'm not gonna write the sypnosis here cos it may freak people out. Anyway, Chapter 9 was hilarious. No spoilers... Chapter 12, gory catfight between the same person. This rocks.

What to say... Today went to school earlier than usual. Today like got alot of free periods: English lesson, Chinese lesson, RME + 1 period (Teacher was doing TPC with some students). So we were talking about alot of crap. Really alot. This is the 3rd week without assembly already. Probrably cos of the prelims.

Changed the pic to a Bleach gif on the request of someone...

Week 1 Over

Wow. Week one is already over. Actually, this week was quite long. Many things happened. And I forgot many incidents which have happened...

Saturday, went to Malaysia to attend another rich person's wedding. It's a sort of business wedding. Had to cross the causeway twice for rich people's weddings already. And I'm so familiar with these weddings that I know the order of food which comes out...
1. Cold dishes
2. Soup
3. Chicken (Usually roasted)
4. Fish
5. Prawns
6. Mushrooms and Vegetables
7. Buns (Usually those fried ones)
8. Dessert
Common trend. Just nice an 8 course meal. Then there was karaoke. I was petrified. When I first heard that of course. But the uncles and aunties sing very well... In comparison to the Maris+ Talentime held on Teacher's Day...

Today, hmm... Went to Ang Mo Kio for tuition, bought Frontier magazine. The shop which I used to buy the manga magazine I used to buy has been gone for 3 weeks. And the current store which I bought the Frontier magazine from supposed to sell the same magazine, but more expensive. Sadly, the magazines they sell are outdated for like a month or more. Haiz...

Watched Bleach: Diamond Dust Rebellion. It was ok. Not fantastic. That is after overlooking the problems with the sound synchronisation of the Veoh version. The ending was not grand. Hitsugaya up till now doesn't seem powerful to me. Not quite what I expected. Inuyasha movie 3, Swords of an Honourable Ruler's ending was what I called a grand ending. The Bleach ending was like, Soujiro was so easily killed; Hitsugaya just needed Hyorinmaru to coil around Soujiro and Ichigo just needed to use Getsuga Tenshou. Talking about Getsuga Tenshou, Inuyasha's Kaze no Kizu seems much more powerful than it lor. Not to mention bakuryuuha. Oh well. Gotta go...

Mooncake Festival

Mooncake Festival is tomorrow. Most likely I would not blog tomorrow, cos morning I have band, afternoon, tuition, night, go to malaysia to sit in for some dinner in place of my grandfather. So full day out. Better sort my band file. Getting too heavy and filled with scores I do not need.

There's this thing about the instrument care kit which is kinda compulsory for all band members. I reject it. Cos it's like $30! And they didn't even say what was in it. Actually, I got all the main things needed to maintain my instrument: Silver cloth($15), Cleaning Cloth($5?), Cleaning Gauze($4?), screwdriver($?), tone hole cleaner($?). I don't see why I really need to buy it. It's $30 you know. + Band Camp fees($20), is a total of $50. My holiday pay is like totally gone if I have to pay it using my own money. $4 is already gone for breakfast by the way. I'll try to persuade them not for me to buy as much as possible.

SAs are just a couple of days away. And here I am starting to watch DearS. Haha. Completed Shakugan no Shana II. There wasn't a moment of doubt as I knew that a Season III is sure to be released. It's so obvious. So many loose ends to tie. The ending of II was a little rushed, but quite ok.

September 11

It's been 7 years since the terrorist attack... Brings back memories of my primary school life...

Oh. Tomorrow is the Chemistry test. And I totally forgot about studying for it despite many reminders by classmates. I think I should cram tomorrow. Its testing the Periodic Table. Should not have much problems with that. Must learn to be more humble...

PE was softball again. I totally cannot bat. How sad... Nothing much really happened today. Except alot of jap stuff. This half-korean was like so obsessed with the Song of the Fourteenth(D. Grayman) that he wrote out the lyrics. With the pronounciations in korean too... So he just kept singing and when he forgot the tune, I refused to tell him. haha.

Aquired the D. Grayman OSTs 1 & 2. As well as the ED themes. That was when I realised I can't stand low quality songs in my mp3 player. Seriously. I rather have a 20MB version rather than a 1MB version of song despite the lack of space in my mp3 player. Of course it is not possible to have a 4 min 20MB song. The largest size I have for a 4 min song is about 12-13MB. And if the song is 1MB, either it is corrupt or it is just really short. Talking about MBs, remember the old floppy disks. Wow. Nostalgic. Imagine. Currently 1 floppy drive can't even hold one song. Shows the size of files nowadays. 1 floppy is about 1.4MB by the way.

Woah! Shakugan no Shana II episode 21 rocks sia! I was at the edge of my seat! Oh well, 2 more episodes to go...