Yesterday my class had a field trip to Silver Ant studios. The studio is located at The Boulevard which was quite surprising to me. The company just moved to the block about 2 years ago, that was about when The Boulevard just launched.
We were welcomed by Raven (I don't know if that's how you spell his name). He first welcomed us and did a small introduction about Silver Ant, then he showed us around the place. First was the reception floor which consisted of a pool table, meeting rooms, library, gym, cafeteria and more. I have to say this first, the interior design is beautiful, it's modern Japanese themed mixed with some traditional touches. There is an impressive Silver Ant bust next to the reception counter and a fine collection of books at the library. The place is small but very nicely arranged to put all the places together.
One floor down the reception is the working studio. We got to have a look at the working environment but we were not allowed into it because of private and confidential stuff. We went back to the reception floor and into the little review room to watch Silver Ant's impressive demoreel. After that we went up to the N-Cube, which is Sliver Ant's management department, which is also called the boring department because of it's huge contrast of interior design to the bottom floor. There's a lot of meeting rooms and a mini cinema here, everything is cubic shaped, like minimalism. We watched some stuff in the mini cinema like the Seefood trailer and Silver Ant's current work, the Transformers Prime television series and the new KFC cinema rating clips.
Raven took us to the general meeting room and showed us the Transformers Prime workflow from pre-production to release of an episode stuff. We then had a Q&A session with some of the employees and after like an hour or more of questions and answers we finished the trip off with a group photo.
Silver Ant really appealed to me and I learned quite a lot of stuff about the animation industry. The competition here is quite high so if I were to try to land a job there, I most probably won't with my average skills, also, I would go as a CG modeler but it looks like they need animators more than modelers. I might try to sign up for the internship program. End of the day, the trip was a good experience.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Friday, February 22, 2013
Oral Surgery They Said
The other day I went to the dentist in UM to get the pain in my gums around my wisdom tooth checked. I eventually was sent to the surgery department because of the piece of gums (gum? gums?) or soft tissue (as the doctor or dentist or doctist whatever put it) is like a lid over my wisdom tooth and it's swollen or inflamed (as the doctor or dentist or doctist whatever put it) because of the irritation of my teeth and so on whatsoever something like that along the lines of that I think maybe somewhat kind of I guess probably.
So I have to go through oral surgery to rid of the gum/gums or soft tissue (as the doctor or dentist or doctist whatever put it). Also examining my teeth the doctor/dentist said that the wisdom tooth of my top right is growing in the wrong direction which is outward towards my check. My bottom left wisdom tooth has grown but is still embedded within the gums so it's not really out but out? Bah. Whatever.
So I have to go through oral surgery to rid of the gum/gums or soft tissue (as the doctor or dentist or doctist whatever put it). Also examining my teeth the doctor/dentist said that the wisdom tooth of my top right is growing in the wrong direction which is outward towards my check. My bottom left wisdom tooth has grown but is still embedded within the gums so it's not really out but out? Bah. Whatever.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Flowing
I don't know what I ate during Chinese New Year but I've got diarrhea and it's green in color. Ugh?
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Water Snake of Change
Like every year, my family will go up to Penang to celebrate the Chinese New Year. This year is the year of the Snake (water snake). This year's Chinese New Year is pretty different from how it used to be.
Day1
Early Saturday morning, we left for Penang later than planned at 4a.m. We had actually planned to leave at 3a.m. Through the whole journey up to Penang, I was asleep because heck, I lack sleep. We stopped in Ipoh to have brunch at a dim sum restaurant before continuing our journey. After settling into my grandparents' home, I helped my grandma set up the Chinese lanterns with help from my uncle. It was the first time our family went to a western restaurant for our reunion dinner. The restaurant was located at the new reclaimed land parts of Penang (I don't know the parts of Penang, don't ask me) with a fine dining theme which wasn't really fine dine. We went home after dinner and at around 10.30p.m. people started to release fireworks. My dogs were barking and whining in fright from the loud noise. Hahaha. At around 11.30p.m., there was a power outage. Five houses in a row lost electricity. Since it was dark and there was nothing to do, we went out to see the fireworks. By that time, the sky was filled with fireworks from every direction I could see from the porch. At least six houses had fireworks display, the nearest being the neighbor five houses down the road. The fireworks around filled the sky for a long time until 1a.m. nonstop. It was like an orchestra of fireworks played by a group of excited musicians. When the fireworks died down, we all went to bed.
The electricity came back on I have no idea what time. I was disturbed in my sleep when the electricity came back (my sisters and my dad were cheering loudly and the ceiling light was on) but I went back to sleep the second I woke up.
Day2
After getting dressed in the morning, I went down to the living room to spend time before my family goes out to visit our relatives. Several relatives from my mom's side of the family (actually my grandfather's siblings and their children) came to visit. Later in the afternoon, my family went out to visit my dad's brother (dad's 4th older brother, my 4th uncle). We learned that my cousin had a second child, a boy. During our visit, more relatives came to visit as well, they were a cousin and a nephew's family. The thing about visiting my paternal families is that the issue about 'what do our kids acknowledge each other' and as always, it's always nephews calling someone younger than them uncle, in such case, my sisters and me. My nephew has children already so that makes me a grand-uncle and my parents are great-grand-uncle/aunt. I think I've mentioned this before in last year's CNY blog post.
Day3
In the morning, more relatives came to visit my grandparents' house. My family went to my cousin's house (where my dad's 2nd oldest sister, my 2nd aunt) is living at. My cousins always has large buffet lunches at her house and invites everyone from my dad's side of the family to eat. Almost everyone was there and the house was so packed and noisy. After everyone has eaten, my nephews (yes, older than me) called everyone out to the porch to take a family photo. It was the first time we had a family photo together.
Day4
In the morning, we went to visit some of my grandfather's siblings. At lunch we took my grandparents to Sushi King. After lunch, my family went to my uncle's house (dad's 3rd oldest brother, my 3rd uncle). During the visit, it rained heavily so we had to stay longer than planned and had to postpone other visits because it got too late.
Day5
After breakfast, the plan was to go to my mom's friend's house but my 3rd uncle called my dad and told him about a monk going to bless the family and he invited us to get the blessing too so we rushed my slowpoke sisters and we got there in time. After the blessing and prayers, we had lunch and we chatted some more. After that we had to drop my mom at her meeting with her school friends whom she has not seen for the past 31 years. The rest of us went back to my grandparents' home and rested. I was working a little on my assignment and there was Caught on Camera: Disaster in Japan on tv. It was about the huge earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011. I always find myself brought to tears when I watch the clips of the disaster. There were several video clips shown on the program that I've never seen before like the footage from a tourist on the top of Tokyo Tower during the quake, the sailboats that got swept into the highways and devastated people looking for their lost families after the waters resided. After the show ended, we left the house again to pick up my mom after her reunion was over and then we went to visit my parents' friend. We were there until late in the evening, almost night.
Day6
While waiting for my family to be ready to go out, I was playing with Patches when I had to blow my nose. So I did and out came a lot of thick and clear mucus. It was so thick and clear it was like I had gel in my hand.
Anyway, we went to my visit my aunt (mom's older sister). After that we took my grandparents to Gurney Plaza to eat at Chili's. It's been a really long time since I last went to Gurney Plaza, like 10 years ago, I can hardly remember anything about that place. It's Valentines Day so there were a lot of couples around. While we were eating, it started to shower, because Gurney Plaza is by the seafront, the winds were strong and you could see all the rubbish on the floor being swept up and tossed around in the air by the wind. People sitting in the open-air parts of the restaurants and cafes around quickly went indoors before the rain came. After lunch we walked around the mall for about an hour before going to Tesco. I manage to exchange the SonicGear earphones I bought before leaving for Penang at Tesco Mutiara Damansara for a Philips one because the SonicGear one was too big for my ears, how the heck do people wear 15mm wide earphones? It hurts! The new earphones are not as good as my stolen iPod earphones though. Maybe I'll buy the new iPod earphones some time in the near future. My mom bought seven tubs of yoghurt because it was on sale and we couldn't fit them in my grandma's fridge so we all finished two tubs as dessert while watching tv.
Day7
We woke up early to go pray at the Guanyin Temple we always go to. The front part of the temple was under renovation so it was hard to go into the temple with the crowd. After we were done with the prayers we went to buy chicken rice to eat at home. We went around Penang for a bit because my grandma had some errands, we went to the Kwantung and Tengzhau assosiation building and the general hospital to collect medicine for my grandpa. After lunch, I did some assignment and watched some anime. My family went out because my mom had a dentist appointment and my sisters wanted to get their hair cut and my dad had to drive them so I stayed back. My grandma also went out soon after. I got tired and dozed off in the living room until evening when my family came back home.
That was pretty much it for my Chinese New Year holiday this year. It was a lot quiet because my uncle and his family didn't come back because my cousin was stationed for National Service in Singapore and my other uncle and his family went back early to their floral shop for Valentines Day sales.
Before we went up to Penang, my right wisdom tooth was growing so it was hurting and disturbing me a lot. It have already grown out of the gums but there's this part of my gum that is sticking out like an appendage and it bothers me a lot. Also, the right row of my teeth hurt a couple of times.
While going around Penang, we passed by a lot of places like my mom's primary and secondary schools, the school some of my uncle and aunts went to, the house my dad grew up in and my grandfather's birthplace. This made me realise that Penang is such a small island. My parents would keep remising the shops and memories when we go about the island, they remember almost every road in Penang, but the roads in Penang have changed quite a lot, so we got lost trying to find a house. Haha.
The one thing I don't like about Penang is the lack of internet. When I came back, this Harlem Shake thing went viral. Huh, The couple of hours I experienced the Harlem Shake, I never guessed it was the Flithy Frank guy who made it viral.
Day1
Early Saturday morning, we left for Penang later than planned at 4a.m. We had actually planned to leave at 3a.m. Through the whole journey up to Penang, I was asleep because heck, I lack sleep. We stopped in Ipoh to have brunch at a dim sum restaurant before continuing our journey. After settling into my grandparents' home, I helped my grandma set up the Chinese lanterns with help from my uncle. It was the first time our family went to a western restaurant for our reunion dinner. The restaurant was located at the new reclaimed land parts of Penang (I don't know the parts of Penang, don't ask me) with a fine dining theme which wasn't really fine dine. We went home after dinner and at around 10.30p.m. people started to release fireworks. My dogs were barking and whining in fright from the loud noise. Hahaha. At around 11.30p.m., there was a power outage. Five houses in a row lost electricity. Since it was dark and there was nothing to do, we went out to see the fireworks. By that time, the sky was filled with fireworks from every direction I could see from the porch. At least six houses had fireworks display, the nearest being the neighbor five houses down the road. The fireworks around filled the sky for a long time until 1a.m. nonstop. It was like an orchestra of fireworks played by a group of excited musicians. When the fireworks died down, we all went to bed.
The electricity came back on I have no idea what time. I was disturbed in my sleep when the electricity came back (my sisters and my dad were cheering loudly and the ceiling light was on) but I went back to sleep the second I woke up.
Day2
After getting dressed in the morning, I went down to the living room to spend time before my family goes out to visit our relatives. Several relatives from my mom's side of the family (actually my grandfather's siblings and their children) came to visit. Later in the afternoon, my family went out to visit my dad's brother (dad's 4th older brother, my 4th uncle). We learned that my cousin had a second child, a boy. During our visit, more relatives came to visit as well, they were a cousin and a nephew's family. The thing about visiting my paternal families is that the issue about 'what do our kids acknowledge each other' and as always, it's always nephews calling someone younger than them uncle, in such case, my sisters and me. My nephew has children already so that makes me a grand-uncle and my parents are great-grand-uncle/aunt. I think I've mentioned this before in last year's CNY blog post.
Day3
In the morning, more relatives came to visit my grandparents' house. My family went to my cousin's house (where my dad's 2nd oldest sister, my 2nd aunt) is living at. My cousins always has large buffet lunches at her house and invites everyone from my dad's side of the family to eat. Almost everyone was there and the house was so packed and noisy. After everyone has eaten, my nephews (yes, older than me) called everyone out to the porch to take a family photo. It was the first time we had a family photo together.
Day4
In the morning, we went to visit some of my grandfather's siblings. At lunch we took my grandparents to Sushi King. After lunch, my family went to my uncle's house (dad's 3rd oldest brother, my 3rd uncle). During the visit, it rained heavily so we had to stay longer than planned and had to postpone other visits because it got too late.
Day5
After breakfast, the plan was to go to my mom's friend's house but my 3rd uncle called my dad and told him about a monk going to bless the family and he invited us to get the blessing too so we rushed my slowpoke sisters and we got there in time. After the blessing and prayers, we had lunch and we chatted some more. After that we had to drop my mom at her meeting with her school friends whom she has not seen for the past 31 years. The rest of us went back to my grandparents' home and rested. I was working a little on my assignment and there was Caught on Camera: Disaster in Japan on tv. It was about the huge earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011. I always find myself brought to tears when I watch the clips of the disaster. There were several video clips shown on the program that I've never seen before like the footage from a tourist on the top of Tokyo Tower during the quake, the sailboats that got swept into the highways and devastated people looking for their lost families after the waters resided. After the show ended, we left the house again to pick up my mom after her reunion was over and then we went to visit my parents' friend. We were there until late in the evening, almost night.
Day6
While waiting for my family to be ready to go out, I was playing with Patches when I had to blow my nose. So I did and out came a lot of thick and clear mucus. It was so thick and clear it was like I had gel in my hand.
Anyway, we went to my visit my aunt (mom's older sister). After that we took my grandparents to Gurney Plaza to eat at Chili's. It's been a really long time since I last went to Gurney Plaza, like 10 years ago, I can hardly remember anything about that place. It's Valentines Day so there were a lot of couples around. While we were eating, it started to shower, because Gurney Plaza is by the seafront, the winds were strong and you could see all the rubbish on the floor being swept up and tossed around in the air by the wind. People sitting in the open-air parts of the restaurants and cafes around quickly went indoors before the rain came. After lunch we walked around the mall for about an hour before going to Tesco. I manage to exchange the SonicGear earphones I bought before leaving for Penang at Tesco Mutiara Damansara for a Philips one because the SonicGear one was too big for my ears, how the heck do people wear 15mm wide earphones? It hurts! The new earphones are not as good as my stolen iPod earphones though. Maybe I'll buy the new iPod earphones some time in the near future. My mom bought seven tubs of yoghurt because it was on sale and we couldn't fit them in my grandma's fridge so we all finished two tubs as dessert while watching tv.
Day7
We woke up early to go pray at the Guanyin Temple we always go to. The front part of the temple was under renovation so it was hard to go into the temple with the crowd. After we were done with the prayers we went to buy chicken rice to eat at home. We went around Penang for a bit because my grandma had some errands, we went to the Kwantung and Tengzhau assosiation building and the general hospital to collect medicine for my grandpa. After lunch, I did some assignment and watched some anime. My family went out because my mom had a dentist appointment and my sisters wanted to get their hair cut and my dad had to drive them so I stayed back. My grandma also went out soon after. I got tired and dozed off in the living room until evening when my family came back home.
That was pretty much it for my Chinese New Year holiday this year. It was a lot quiet because my uncle and his family didn't come back because my cousin was stationed for National Service in Singapore and my other uncle and his family went back early to their floral shop for Valentines Day sales.
Before we went up to Penang, my right wisdom tooth was growing so it was hurting and disturbing me a lot. It have already grown out of the gums but there's this part of my gum that is sticking out like an appendage and it bothers me a lot. Also, the right row of my teeth hurt a couple of times.
While going around Penang, we passed by a lot of places like my mom's primary and secondary schools, the school some of my uncle and aunts went to, the house my dad grew up in and my grandfather's birthplace. This made me realise that Penang is such a small island. My parents would keep remising the shops and memories when we go about the island, they remember almost every road in Penang, but the roads in Penang have changed quite a lot, so we got lost trying to find a house. Haha.
The one thing I don't like about Penang is the lack of internet. When I came back, this Harlem Shake thing went viral. Huh, The couple of hours I experienced the Harlem Shake, I never guessed it was the Flithy Frank guy who made it viral.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
The Day A Part Of Me Died
A part of my life and soul died when someone broke into my dad's car this morning and stole my Nintendo DS and iPod earphones. My pride, joy and dedication of 6 years just disappeared like that in the 20 minutes my dad and I went to have breakfast at the usual kopitiam at Kepong. In my DS was my Pokemon White version which held a complete PokeDex, 62 legendary Pokemon, 20 shiny Pokemon and various rare event exclusive Pokemon which one cannot obtain ever again. It also had Pokemon transfered from the previous games, Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire, Pokemon Diamond and Pearl and Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver and also Pokemon of other various languages notably Japanese and German.
Today I made a few mistakes I've never done before. First was I didn't trust my instincts when I left the house with my DS, a nagging feeling in the back of my head started when I took my DS in my hands and slept in the back of my dad's car as he sent my sister to college. Later, we went to Kepong and had breakfast. I just woke up and was groggy so I put my DS and iPod earphones in the glove compartment, which I never do. If I want to leave anything valuable in the car, I would put it in the back pocket of the passenger's seat because it's discreet and if completely hidden from view. But I put it in the glove compartment with the door open, for anyone who wants to steal see. After our meal, my dad and I went back to the car only to be shocked to find that the passenger's seat window was smashed. My dad thought some rock fell and broke the window but being more observant I noticed that the shards reach all the way to the driver's seat, someone broke the window on purpose, but nothing was touched, my dad's wallet, money, handphone and various things were left untouched. I opened the glove compartment to be sure and the world around me smashed into a million pieces. 6 years, 6 years of hardcore collection, literally catching 'em all, my risky gamble of getting Pokemon I want through online trades, 6 years of climbing the steps to become the Pokemon Master, all crumbled into dust, leaving nothing behind but the emptiness of my heart. I felt so hollow and disappointed in myself. How could I have made such careless actions? And my dad, of all places parked behind the shops, no one would notice if someone was killed because no one goes through there.
My dad and I asked some workers in a kitchen if they saw anyone. The guy there said he didn't see anyone and told us there's a lot of bad people around the area, if they see something they deem valuable, they'll take it. But I know, this guy knew who took it but didn't dare to tell us because he feared his life, he's just a worker there and the people who stole my DS were gangsters or drug addicts. This thief must be a stupid person anyway, how is he gonna sell my DS? It's a console, not a phone, you cant sell consoles as easy as phones. I don't mind if he wants the console, I want my game card, it's where all my years of dedicated lies in.
We went to my mom's office where I couldn't hold it in and cried my heart out in the toilet. My hard work, the one thing I could be proud of, vanished and I don't know if I can find it ever again. My mom helped me talk to the kopitiam people and see if they can look out for my DS. Even if I can get my DS back, will the data in my game card still have my treasures? The DS, game card and iPod earphones were things I bought on my own.
Nothing can ever replace the treasures in that game card. The Spikey-eared Pichu, Japanese Meloetta, the special event Darkrai, everything. Those are the treasures only so few in the world has, I was one of them.
In the first time in my life, I know what it feels like when you lose something truly important to you. It doesn't sound as serious as it seems but, I lost my position as a Pokemon Master, the childhood dream I've only ever achieved. I lost a part of my soul and I failed myself.
This day is the day a part of me died.
Tuesday, 5th of February 2013 (5-2-2013)
Today I made a few mistakes I've never done before. First was I didn't trust my instincts when I left the house with my DS, a nagging feeling in the back of my head started when I took my DS in my hands and slept in the back of my dad's car as he sent my sister to college. Later, we went to Kepong and had breakfast. I just woke up and was groggy so I put my DS and iPod earphones in the glove compartment, which I never do. If I want to leave anything valuable in the car, I would put it in the back pocket of the passenger's seat because it's discreet and if completely hidden from view. But I put it in the glove compartment with the door open, for anyone who wants to steal see. After our meal, my dad and I went back to the car only to be shocked to find that the passenger's seat window was smashed. My dad thought some rock fell and broke the window but being more observant I noticed that the shards reach all the way to the driver's seat, someone broke the window on purpose, but nothing was touched, my dad's wallet, money, handphone and various things were left untouched. I opened the glove compartment to be sure and the world around me smashed into a million pieces. 6 years, 6 years of hardcore collection, literally catching 'em all, my risky gamble of getting Pokemon I want through online trades, 6 years of climbing the steps to become the Pokemon Master, all crumbled into dust, leaving nothing behind but the emptiness of my heart. I felt so hollow and disappointed in myself. How could I have made such careless actions? And my dad, of all places parked behind the shops, no one would notice if someone was killed because no one goes through there.
My dad and I asked some workers in a kitchen if they saw anyone. The guy there said he didn't see anyone and told us there's a lot of bad people around the area, if they see something they deem valuable, they'll take it. But I know, this guy knew who took it but didn't dare to tell us because he feared his life, he's just a worker there and the people who stole my DS were gangsters or drug addicts. This thief must be a stupid person anyway, how is he gonna sell my DS? It's a console, not a phone, you cant sell consoles as easy as phones. I don't mind if he wants the console, I want my game card, it's where all my years of dedicated lies in.
We went to my mom's office where I couldn't hold it in and cried my heart out in the toilet. My hard work, the one thing I could be proud of, vanished and I don't know if I can find it ever again. My mom helped me talk to the kopitiam people and see if they can look out for my DS. Even if I can get my DS back, will the data in my game card still have my treasures? The DS, game card and iPod earphones were things I bought on my own.
Nothing can ever replace the treasures in that game card. The Spikey-eared Pichu, Japanese Meloetta, the special event Darkrai, everything. Those are the treasures only so few in the world has, I was one of them.
In the first time in my life, I know what it feels like when you lose something truly important to you. It doesn't sound as serious as it seems but, I lost my position as a Pokemon Master, the childhood dream I've only ever achieved. I lost a part of my soul and I failed myself.
This day is the day a part of me died.
Tuesday, 5th of February 2013 (5-2-2013)
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Looking To A Positive Tomorrow?
I don't remember what drove me to disable the comments for my blogposts but I've enabled them because I just have this feeling.
I Am Good Surgeon!
Today I watched Pewdiepie's new video playing Surgeon Simulator 2013. So I downloaded the game as well for my Mac and I had a go with it just now. The goal of the game is to perform a heart transplant. You basically just get rid of the ribs, throw away the lungs, cut out the heart and toss the new heart into the the big cavity you made and 'Success! It looks like he'll survive.', when it clearly looks like he'll not, which makes the game extremely funny when not taken seriously (Who would?).
The keys controls are fairly okay but it's hard to grab stuff and control the arm. I played six times and I only manage to successfully complete the operation twice. The first success, I had a hard time getting the heart out because I accidentally swept most of the tools off the table. When I manage to put the heart in and get it in position (for some reason it didn't end when I put the heart in), there were three scalpels, some broken beakers, a little spoon thingy and little pieces of ribcage in the cavity. The second time, I played around with the saw too much (spammed it literally) and the patient was loosing blood fast, I couldn't cut out the old heart with the saw (because lungs and broken rigs were swimming around) so I just grabbed the new heart and tossed it in and after the mess of organs rolled around for a bit, I unexpectedly completed the operation (when it clearly was a fail).
The other times I failed I spammed the hammer and another was the patient ran out of blood because I dropped a lot of the tools and it was hard to pick some up. Overall, I think the game is more humorous than it's actual intention. I guess I'll keep it on my Mac for maybe a month and then I'll delete it.
PS: I don't think this end section should be called 'PS' in a blog post. Anyway, I haven't completed Slender since the day I attempted to play it. Still can't get the memory of screaming in my friend's house out of my head.
The keys controls are fairly okay but it's hard to grab stuff and control the arm. I played six times and I only manage to successfully complete the operation twice. The first success, I had a hard time getting the heart out because I accidentally swept most of the tools off the table. When I manage to put the heart in and get it in position (for some reason it didn't end when I put the heart in), there were three scalpels, some broken beakers, a little spoon thingy and little pieces of ribcage in the cavity. The second time, I played around with the saw too much (spammed it literally) and the patient was loosing blood fast, I couldn't cut out the old heart with the saw (because lungs and broken rigs were swimming around) so I just grabbed the new heart and tossed it in and after the mess of organs rolled around for a bit, I unexpectedly completed the operation (when it clearly was a fail).
The other times I failed I spammed the hammer and another was the patient ran out of blood because I dropped a lot of the tools and it was hard to pick some up. Overall, I think the game is more humorous than it's actual intention. I guess I'll keep it on my Mac for maybe a month and then I'll delete it.
PS: I don't think this end section should be called 'PS' in a blog post. Anyway, I haven't completed Slender since the day I attempted to play it. Still can't get the memory of screaming in my friend's house out of my head.
PC's Not Home
It's been about two weeks since I sent my PC for repairs. I haven't been able to play any games and I wanna do some digital painting but yeah. Now I simply pass my day doing assignments or doing nothing. I'm bored..
Monday, January 21, 2013
Felt like the good ol' days
Last Thursday night I spend the night in college with Kai, Wilson, Chia, KW and JL. I didn't really have anything to do, I just did my own work while the others have to do their final rendering for their graduation project. Just that night, the countless jokes we pulled felt like the good old days (Just two years ago actually) when we were all together. That night we didn't do much, we were pretty engrossed in the iSketch game with Mal (who was at home) and I watched Wilson and KW play Ghost Recon Online. I wished we can hang out together like that again some time.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Birthday Mail!
A special parcel came in for me today.
After class, my dad picked me up from college with my sobbing sister who couldn't go to some K-pop concert in Sepang. On the way home, my dad told me I got a parcel delivery today and he was joking about how he thought it was a bomb. While he was making those jokes, I already knew what the box was but I didn't know what was inside.
There was only the three of us tonight so we went to have dinner at the new hocker center opened near my house. After that we went home and my dad passed the parcel to me. The parcel was a birthday present from Wei Mae. It wasn't wrapped though and it was a Zalora box with the words, 'It's here!' on it which made it fitting. I was gonna take the box to my desk and open it but my sister wanted to see what was inside. Since I was in a good mood, I opened it and inside was an M&M's dispenser, named Blue Caesar (which looks purple to me). Inside was an envelope as well wishing me a happy birthday and other joyous stuff.
Thank you so much for the birthday present Wei Mae! It's 10 days late but it's worth the wait. Thank you again!
After class, my dad picked me up from college with my sobbing sister who couldn't go to some K-pop concert in Sepang. On the way home, my dad told me I got a parcel delivery today and he was joking about how he thought it was a bomb. While he was making those jokes, I already knew what the box was but I didn't know what was inside.
There was only the three of us tonight so we went to have dinner at the new hocker center opened near my house. After that we went home and my dad passed the parcel to me. The parcel was a birthday present from Wei Mae. It wasn't wrapped though and it was a Zalora box with the words, 'It's here!' on it which made it fitting. I was gonna take the box to my desk and open it but my sister wanted to see what was inside. Since I was in a good mood, I opened it and inside was an M&M's dispenser, named Blue Caesar (which looks purple to me). Inside was an envelope as well wishing me a happy birthday and other joyous stuff.
Thank you so much for the birthday present Wei Mae! It's 10 days late but it's worth the wait. Thank you again!
Thursday, January 10, 2013
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Recently my desktop has been unable to boot so I would force it to shut down, start it again and perform a Startup Repair, that usually does the trick. But yesterday, it wouldn't boot at all. Startup Repair tells me that it can't repair the problem and it won't boot. I've already look for solutions but they don't seem to be working. I haven't tried replacing the hardware yet because I feel that it's too risky. I guess I should start looking to buy a new desktop. I need a good one for my type of work anyway, this guy can't handle the number of polygons and graphics all that well.
Monday, January 7, 2013
Featured!
If you have been to my deviantArt page before, the first thing you'd probably notice is this awesomely delicious looking photo of a bowl of noodles simply named, "Pho". Yes, it's a picture of a bowl of Vietnamese noodles and no, it's not a photo. It's a painting I did about a year or more ago for a pointless class called South East Asia Culture & Society class. If you haven't seen it, it is here, that means you click on the word, 'here' but not this 'here' here nor this 'here' right here or even this 'here' here but the first 'here' mentioned.
The painting I did was featured on a Vietnamese Community Facebook page called Vietnam Community that started out early this year. In all honesty I am happy but not so happy to the extent I am joyful. Currently I'm working on a 3D model of my original youkai, Taiko-obake and Hitome-bachi. Yay. That's it.
Wow. So many links.
The painting I did was featured on a Vietnamese Community Facebook page called Vietnam Community that started out early this year. In all honesty I am happy but not so happy to the extent I am joyful. Currently I'm working on a 3D model of my original youkai, Taiko-obake and Hitome-bachi. Yay. That's it.
Wow. So many links.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Some random updates
I just realised that at least more than half of the blog links to my friends' blogs have either been removed or been set private, etc. Which made me come to a further realisation that I have not been really updated with what is happening to the people I know and of course, not updating my blog frequently. I can say my deviantArt page is worse, as I have hardly ever upload any art work because I was so busy in college, seriously, something has to be done. What kind of life threatening lifestyle is The One Academy nesting?
So I spent little time on reading some my close friends' blogs and I decided to make my New Year's resolution. First, I will update my deviantArt and blogger accounts at least monthly. Do some quick sketches, or simple paintings, single panel comics, whatever, and short blog posts, reviews (I used to review movies, anime and manga, unprofessionally) and whatever's on my mind, stuff like that.
I just updated the thing that was on my mind just now in the previous post, out of frustration, depression and irrationally demanding pity. I was so upset I left the game before it ended and shut down my computer without saying anything. But behind all those negativity, I learn a few things, I think, I might just be saying this because I might want to be pitied, maybe.
Even thought it's just the start of a new semester (or trimester, whatever), I'm starting to stress over my final assignment because we already had a brief idea of what we have to produce and I've already seen what my friends have done and I wanna do something outstanding, which I know I will along the way be half-hearted, discouraged and shit but will might somehow do it.
There is one thing for sure. I have too little time and too many things I want to do.
So I spent little time on reading some my close friends' blogs and I decided to make my New Year's resolution. First, I will update my deviantArt and blogger accounts at least monthly. Do some quick sketches, or simple paintings, single panel comics, whatever, and short blog posts, reviews (I used to review movies, anime and manga, unprofessionally) and whatever's on my mind, stuff like that.
I just updated the thing that was on my mind just now in the previous post, out of frustration, depression and irrationally demanding pity. I was so upset I left the game before it ended and shut down my computer without saying anything. But behind all those negativity, I learn a few things, I think, I might just be saying this because I might want to be pitied, maybe.
Even thought it's just the start of a new semester (or trimester, whatever), I'm starting to stress over my final assignment because we already had a brief idea of what we have to produce and I've already seen what my friends have done and I wanna do something outstanding, which I know I will along the way be half-hearted, discouraged and shit but will might somehow do it.
There is one thing for sure. I have too little time and too many things I want to do.
Nothing is more frustrating than losing in a team match against the team members you always play with.
What's worse is when you lose against them twice.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Game as Presents
My birthday is just around the corner, like really next to the corner because it's tomorrow. And before it even comes, I got myself birthday presents already. Both of them are games and one is from myself and the other one from Vincent.
I got myself Bastion. A game which I can only remember it for it's epic narration. Steam was having a sale and Josh convinced me to buy it. It was already tempting enough after I watched Josh play it last year. So I got that.
Vince got me something better. Poker Night at the Inventory. I had it in my Steam account wishlist for quite some time and he bought it for me. I'm so moved! Thank you so much Vincent! I really appreciate the gift. It doesn't mater if it was on sale either, it's the thought that counts.
Time to get myself a bunch of Team Fortress 2 promotional items.
I got myself Bastion. A game which I can only remember it for it's epic narration. Steam was having a sale and Josh convinced me to buy it. It was already tempting enough after I watched Josh play it last year. So I got that.
Vince got me something better. Poker Night at the Inventory. I had it in my Steam account wishlist for quite some time and he bought it for me. I'm so moved! Thank you so much Vincent! I really appreciate the gift. It doesn't mater if it was on sale either, it's the thought that counts.
Time to get myself a bunch of Team Fortress 2 promotional items.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
SCANDALous!
Last month, news about SCANDAL coming to perform live in Malaysia reached my newsfeed in Facebook. Being very excited, I went and bought early-bird tickets for me and some friends, Amanda, Weiss and Atticus after asking a group of my friends who want to go. Unfortunately after purchasing the tickets, Weiss and Atticus couldn't go. Weiss manage to sell her ticket but Atticus couldn't. The concert was held at KL Live Life Center on the 1st of December.
So yesterday after a horrible morning at college and some sleep time in the afternoon, I headed to the Life Center to meet Amanda for the concert. I got there at around 8pm plus and there was a long line outside heading into the stage. Amanda got there a little later than me and we went in together. By the time we got in, there was the opening performance already by some national artist singing Japanese songs, some which I feel that I've heard before.
After the opening, we waited excitedly for SCANDAL to make their appearance. When they finally came out, the crowd cheered like there was no tomorrow. Unfortunately for me, they performed quite a number of songs I haven't heard before. Fortunately, they played three of the four songs I hoped they perform: Shunkan Sentimental, Harukaze and Doll.
The amazing moments where when SCANDAL performed Shunkan Sentimental, where the whole crowd, sang along with them, also during Shoujo S. There was the usual talking to the fans and a couple of short talks in between songs. SCANDAL performed a new song they said, I didn't quite catch the title, it was something joyful or something like that. After they finished their performance, the crowd cheered for encore for about 5 minutes, the encore cheer were like, "Encore!", "Mou ikkai!", "Enkoru!", and of course, "SCANDAL!". They came back out and performed two more songs, the last one being Doll. It was freaking epic.
My third concert in my life and in this single year and once again I had a blast. When are ONE OK ROCK, Base Ball Bear, Abingdon Boy School and Orange Range coming to perform live in Malaysia? Or Singapore if they can't? (MAXIMUM THE HORMONE?) Haha.
So yesterday after a horrible morning at college and some sleep time in the afternoon, I headed to the Life Center to meet Amanda for the concert. I got there at around 8pm plus and there was a long line outside heading into the stage. Amanda got there a little later than me and we went in together. By the time we got in, there was the opening performance already by some national artist singing Japanese songs, some which I feel that I've heard before.
After the opening, we waited excitedly for SCANDAL to make their appearance. When they finally came out, the crowd cheered like there was no tomorrow. Unfortunately for me, they performed quite a number of songs I haven't heard before. Fortunately, they played three of the four songs I hoped they perform: Shunkan Sentimental, Harukaze and Doll.
The amazing moments where when SCANDAL performed Shunkan Sentimental, where the whole crowd, sang along with them, also during Shoujo S. There was the usual talking to the fans and a couple of short talks in between songs. SCANDAL performed a new song they said, I didn't quite catch the title, it was something joyful or something like that. After they finished their performance, the crowd cheered for encore for about 5 minutes, the encore cheer were like, "Encore!", "Mou ikkai!", "Enkoru!", and of course, "SCANDAL!". They came back out and performed two more songs, the last one being Doll. It was freaking epic.
My third concert in my life and in this single year and once again I had a blast. When are ONE OK ROCK, Base Ball Bear, Abingdon Boy School and Orange Range coming to perform live in Malaysia? Or Singapore if they can't? (MAXIMUM THE HORMONE?) Haha.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Screw You Spam Bots!
If you frequent my blog (which is highly unlikely) you'd see that my chatbox is filled with spam by bots everyday, every hour of the week, month and year. So I removed it. That is all.
El Psy Congroo.
El Psy Congroo.
Anime Festival Asia 2012
From the 9th to the 11th of November, Anime Festival Asia or better known as AFA was once again held in Singapore at the Singapore Expo and it is it's 5th year running. It's biggest event was the Electric Groove: I love Anisong concert featuring 11 artists all the way from Japan divided into three days. I regretfully didn't go for any of the concerts due to inconveniences but I still had my share of excitement at AFA.
Months before, Cheryl, Misaki and I planned to go to AFA. During that time, I just got to know Snow who happens to be studying in the same college as us. With her friends Shusuke and Geraldine. Snow had arranged a group to go down to Singapore for AFA so Cheryl, Misaki and I just hopped in their group, I later learned that Laura wants to go as well, which was quite a surprise for me. After booking our accommodation and buying our bus tickets, all we had to do was wait for the exciting day. The total in the group are 9 of us excluding one guy who couldn't make it before we bought the tickets. Which comes down to what I had feared: I was the only guy, again. I was going down to Singapore with 8 girls and worst part is, more than half of them are yaoi fans.
Our bus leaves on the 10th, Saturday morning. We had to miss Day 0 of AFA. It's the day when event tickets are sold and the night where Electric Groove: I love Anisong's Electro Stage comes to live with the full solo concert of the truly amazing T.M.Revolution. Weiss had been screaming about going to their concert and she described herself as 'crying like a witch' after the concert. She was seriously overjoyed. The bus we were taking is the One Coach which takes us from One World Hotel to Singapore (not exactly sure where). The night before, Laura and I slept over at Cheryl's place and in the morning, Misaki came to pick me up while Cheryl and Laura waited for Cheryl's dad to get ready to bring them to 1Utama. We had breakfast at McDonald's the four of us together and then we headed to One World Hotel where our bus takes off. There I meet the others, Rosa and Julia; Rosa being the oldest and Julia being the youngest in our group. Long story short, all I did on the bus was watch anime and sleep (and listen to conversations).
We reached Singapore in 4 hours where to bus dropped us at the One Coach agency outlet. The rest of the building was pretty much deserted, closed, like everyone went on a holiday or something. We made our way out and took two cabs to our hostel, the Betel Box Backpackers Hostel in Joo Chiat. When we went to check in, problems arrise. Turns out that the hostel had rules about not letting people share beds. We had earlier thought of saving some money and sharing beds but we can't do that. So the five of them, Snow, Shu, Geraldine, Rosa and Julia took the room we booked (6-persons mix dorm) earlier and the remaining four of us, Cheryl, Misaki, Laura and I took the 20-persons mix dorm. We had some bad beginnings with the hostel but later on we find it splendid. One night in the hostel is $20 and you get a $3.90 coupon off any one meal at the Betel Box Cafe downstairs. There were lockers you can use, television you can watch, they had a pool table, free wi-fi, kitchen with a fridge, hot water and mugs, and computers that you can use for only 30minutes a day. They also provide activities and sightseeing brochures and other hostel locations. The beds in the 20-persons mix dorm are double-decker beds and all the bottoms are taken so the four of us chose the four closest beds and settled on the top bunks. So Misaki and I are on the same row while Cheryl and Laura are opposite us.
By the time we finished settling down, it was pretty late at around 6pm. We went down to the cafe to have dinner and we planned what to do after. It was too late to go down to the Expo for AFA Day 1 and Anisong's seconday day concert, the Jump Stage featuring Babymetal, FLOW, fripSide, LiSA and m.o.v.e. was about to start. We then decided to locate the MRT station near the hostel so that we know where to go the next morning. Using the map the receptionist gave us and with his guidance, we followed the map to the MRT station and back.
Back at the hostel, Cheryl, Misaki, Laura and I got to know Jeffrey, a Malaysian in his 50s working in Singapore. He told us various things, stuff like other good hostels, his life and his work. After his storytelling, we took our baths and we went up to Snow and the other's room. I just chilled around while the girls chatted (rather, squealing with excitement) about yaoi stuff while trying to keep their voices down because the whole hostel could hear them. Laura, being the only girl who's not a yaoi fan decided to play Team Fortress 2 on her laptop, to my dismay because I wanna play too!!
After all the hoo-hah, the four of us left the room and brought our laptops to the lounge and started doing our work. We can't really take a break on our trip because it's not even our holidays yet. Ugh. Misaki and I went to bed first. Our plan was to wake up at 5.30am and then get ready to go to the event at 7am. We had planned it for 6am but we found out that public transports don't start running until 7am on Sundays.
Cheryl woke me up at around 6am after the three girls were ready. In less than 10 minutes, I got ready and we went out to the lounge to meet the others. They were all in cosplay already and had most of their makeup done. Cheryl, Misaki and Laura decided to go to the event to get dressed instead. At around 6.30am, we all got up and left for the MRT station. We had to take the MRT down to Tanah Merah and then interchange to the Changi Airport line. The Expo is the station before the airport and when we were entering the Expo's station, we could see the whole Expo. It was really huge!!
AFA was held at Hall 7 and 8. The concerts are held at the Max Pavilion. When we got to the event entrance, we saw crowds sitting in front of the entrance waiting for the doors to open and we were relived to see that the que for the tickets were empty. After we bought our tickets, the girls all went to look for a toilet to get changed and put on their makeup. We went all the way to Hall 9 because the other toilets were locked. I sat outside and waited for them. I felt like forever! To think that I was so excited when we were walking towards the event and then, I'm bored like dried fish. Snow and the others came out first because they were done. However Cheryl and the others were not. So I followed Snow's group to have breakfast at Subway.
After a satisfying breakfast, we went back to the toilet to find that Cheryl and the others were not ready. Weiss was also there getting ready. Snow and the others decided to go in first so I followed after putting on my Cardboard box Gundam costume on (click on the link to learn more!).
In the event hall, wow. It was exciting at first but then, I got bored pretty fast because it was like any other ACG event hall, just more stuff to see. We went around the Sword Art Online booth, the Bandai booth, some other booths and then, I spotted it, the booth I planned to go to after seeing the map while waiting for the girls to get ready! THE POKEMON BOOTH! I ran over while the girls were looking at figurines. But to my huge disappointment, like finding a toothpick in a huge birthday present, the Pokemon booth was sad. It was only featuring Japan's newest Pokemon arcade game and some merchandises. Where are the DS battles? Where are the TCG battles? Where? I was disappointed. I went back to the booth the girls were at and took a final look at the Pokemon booth. A television displaying various advertisements about Pokemon games and TCG were running and two (probably hired) cosplayers as the Pokemon Plus Nobunaga no Yabou (or the lame English name, Pokemon Conquest)'s main hero and Oichi. The girls were done and continued to walk on. As I followed them, I looked over to the Culture Japan booth (as usual it's bright orange with Mirai everywhere, ahh~) which is next to the Pokemon booth and among the few people I spotted Yun Hann. Like a natural reaction, I ran up to him and greeted him. He was clearly surprised. If Yun Hann was here, Jun Ee would definitely be as well. Yun Hann pointed him out over at the Pokemon booth. He was looking at the Pokemon posters on the back of the disappointing booth. Worried that I would get separated from the group, I excussed myself and went to find the Kuro no Basket cosplayers but I lost them so I went back and met up with Jun Ee and we started chatting. Jun Ee and Yun Hann got to AFA on Friday and they went for the TMR concert. Jun Ee discussed about his experience at the event so far. He was also disappointed about the Pokemon booth. Of course we would, we both grew up playing Pokemon TCG together. We had our own Pokemon games too. We were Pokemon fans! After chatting we walked together. Jun Ee gave me a brief run-through of all the booths in the event hall. Half-way through, we saw a crowd standing gathering at a booth. The booth was the Babymetal booth (featuring a little fox shrine and a group cut-out photo thing), seemed like they were coming so we stood there as well to try to get a look at them. For some reason, as we waited, we got pushed further behind until a wall of photographers were in front of us. Jun Ee was joking that they're a group of pedophiles waiting for the little girls to come out. Hahaha. We went to wait at the next booth were LiSA was gonna make an appearance. While we waited for LiSA, Babymetal walked pass behind us. I got to see the three members of the unique J-pop mixed heavy metal group in person but I couldn't take any pictures when they posed for the cameras because all the 'pedophiles' were blocking.
Anyway, after Babymetal left, LiSA's manager, Nishihara-san came out and talked to the audience (us). We were not allowed to take pictures and videos when LiSA comes out so I didn't get any. Sad. Jun Ee was saying how during AFA'11, LiSA was like a nobody, when he was fanboying over LiSA, everyone didn't know who she was. Now, because of Sword Art Online, LiSA suddenly became a boom and he said that he has to graduate from being a LiSA fan because she has become mainstream. Haha. I know how he feels, it goes the same for me with manga, especially when the manga becomes an anime and gets popular from it. We got to see LiSA in person and they were discussing about the concert and Singapore and future projects. When given the audience one question, a guy asked when will LiSA be coming to Malaysia (Yes! Good job whoever you are!). LiSA asked what's good in Malaysia and the only thing the Malaysians present thought of were our food. It was funny. After the little appearance, everyone dispersed from the booth and as the three of us left, we caught FLOW waking pass (without any bodyguards). A couple of fans who saw them quickly ran up to them and got their autographs and photos with them with the help of a Japanese staff member.
LiSA was going to the Sword Art Online booth to sign autographs and take pictures so I parted ways with Jun Ee and Yun Hann. I had no plans of getting stuck in a group of crazed fans in a small booth. We went around to see other booths and find the girls. I was lucky to find Cheryl and the others. Because I pretty much had looked at all the booths, the event was boring for me already. I did get some excitement seeing cosplayers cosplaying my favorite characters and a tall slenderman (a female cosplayer in stilts). The rest of the day I was the girl's lackey. Helping them carry their stuff around. We went for lunch in the food court in mall next to the Expo (I don't remember what mall it was). We went back and continued the usual stuff. I ended getting really tired. We met with Jean and the twins (I still don't remember their names... I only know the two of them as Hayashi Kirin, as one). We went around the doujin booths many many times. Unfortunately for me, I didn't have anything I wanted to buy and when I did, it was sold out. Hachioji-P's electric love feat. Hatsune Miku... Sob.
So I was running low on money so I didn't buy anything for myself. I bought a badge for my sister and that was it. Later the five of us went out and got out of cosplay. Cheryl, Misaki, Laura, Weiss and I sat outside Hall 9 and chatted. Soon, people started queuing up for the last night's Anisong concert, the Diamond Stage featuring Hachioji-P, May'n, Minami Kuribayashi, Sea☆A and Sphere. When the que started to go into the Max Pavilion, we decided to go back. After taking a photo with Weiss, we parted ways. The four of us took the MRT back. Earlier we had discussed with Snow and the others that at a specific time we should have gone back already so we thought Snow and the group had went back ahead of us.
When we got back, we were shocked to find that the others were not back yet. While I was worried, Cheryl said that it shouldn't be a problem because Snow's pretty responsible and Rosa's the closest to being the adult of the group. While we were unpacking our stuff (Me? I just sat around looking through the brochures I got). A man walked out of the bath and when we greeted him, he asked us if we felt cold last night because he was feeling very cold. That eventually lead to a conversation with him. The man was Christober from Spain. He loved Asia so he's been around looking for a job and a place to settle in. We chatted for a while but because I was tired, I rested at my bunk. When Snow and Shu walked into our dorm, I was really relieved. Being the only guy in the whole group puts a lot of responsibility on me (me putting them on myself really). The four of us decided to have dinner down at the cafe before it closes after bathing. While the girls when to bath, I fell asleep on my bunk. I'm not sure how long I slept and I forgot who woke me up but I took a quick bath and we went to have our dinner.
After filling ourselves with vegetarian curry and rice, the four of us went back up and we find Snow and the others at the lounge eating snacks and instant cup noodles. Cheryl, Misaki and Laura went back to the dorm to get their stuff but they got absorbed into listening to Christober's stories. I just at at the lounge passing the time. I was only waiting for the right time to buy a can of beer to enjoy because before the trip, I promised myself a can of beer because why not? Later, the girls came out of the dorm with Christober and they joined us. While most of were doing our work, Christober was very impressed and awed by Autodesk Maya. I eventually got my can of beer, a tall one because the hostel didn't have any of the normal cans. I think I got a little drunk? When I went to sleep, I didn't stay awake the moment I hit the pillow.
I woke up to the sounds of Cheryl and Misaki talking. I went to clean up and got changed and when Laura was ready, we went down to the cafe and had breakfast. Snow and the others just finished their breakfast so we arranged to meet at the lounge after our breakfast. Like I promised myself, I had the Betel Box Big Breakfast (or also known as the B4). It had a hash-brown, grilled mushrooms, grilled cherry tomatoes, fried bacon, sausages, scrambled eggs (to my favor of style), salad and a croissant. While we enjoyed our breakfast, we talked to the kitchen staff present at the cafe today. He talked about all kinds of stuff with us.
After our breakfast, we went back up and Cheryl checked out for us. We put our bags in the lounge after informing the receptionist about going sightseeing before coming back to get our luggage. After Snow and the others came down and checked out, we all headed out to the bus stop outside Joo Chiat Complex. We were heading to VivoCity Mall. Snow and the others wanted to go there and so we did. At the mall, we split into our two groups and we went our ways. First, Cheryl and Laura went to the toilet and then we went to a pharmacy because Laura had to buy stuff because she found out she had the 'whoosh'. We walked around seeing the shops.
We eventually came to a toyshop called ToyTag. At first glance, you'll see that the shop sells a lot of unique board games and sort you don't normally find in franchising toyshops like Toys'R'Us. I didn't see any Scrabble or Monopoly there. Very neat. They even had hobby gifts like Rubik's Cube mug, t-shirt (The Minecraft shirts attracted all of our attention), etc. After I was fascinated by a disk-ball toy, I spotted a Rubik's cube on the casher desk, but it wasn't the Rubik's cube that only caught my attention, I was drawn to the cube next to it that was just placed on the desk after I spotted the cube, it wasn't just any Rubik's cube, it was white and pillowed and I know of only one company that makes cubes like that. I kept my cool and examined some other board games while I kept taking short glances at the cube on the table, it was no mistake, that is definitely a V-Cube3. I walked up to the casher and had a look at it to confirm myself. The cashier turned around and greeted me. He saw I was looking at the cube so he started to promote it. "Oh, this just came in today. Cool right?". In a flash, all sort of excitement filled my head. I asked if I could try it out and the cashier said okay. Oh my god, it was like some kind of heaven, I've never felt a Rubik's cube so firm and so smooth turning in my hand. I did a quick mess up and a quick solve as Laura asked the cashier some questions regarding international shipping followed by introducing where we came from. The cashier probably saw the sparkle in my eyes and talked to me about the Rubik's cube. I told him about how I was always looking for V-Cubes and asked if they had the V-Cube6 and he said "Yes, we do. They all came in today.". My brain started to work, should I buy it? I have my debit card, it's international, I can purchase it, I didn't buy anything from AFA so if I get this, I won't go back empty-handed. Cheryl and Laura alerted me about the Giant GummyBears on display in the fridge display thing (that bakeries have to display cakes). I saw shocked, it was those Giant GummyBears that Vat19 had advertised before! And they had the Party Bear too! And then I realised that the shop itself was selling quite a number of things I've seen on Vat19, the Robot Ice Cube Maker that Cheryl picked for her brother was one of them! The cashier came back with the cube I always wished for. I asked for the price and he gave me the price for the Pillowed V-Cube3 and V-Cube6. I did some thinking and after Cheryl's purchase I took my debit card out and purchased the V-Cube6, with so much joy I felt like crying. I kept saying, "I don't care how happy you are today, I'm the happiest now!".
After following the girls to buy some chocolates, we headed back to the meeting point, the entrance we came in from and we headed out to the bus stop to catch the bus back to Joo Chiat Complex. It took quite awhile for the bus to arrive and time was running short, the others were getting worried. The bus finally came but later on the ride, we overshot our stop. Time was really a factor now, lucky for us, there were three cabs at a cab stop nearby and we quickly got in them to get back to the hostel. Shu's parents were gonna pick her up from the hostel because they came down to Singapore so we kept two of the cabs waiting and we grabbed our bags and headed to where the OneCoach bus we were taking was gonna leave. The cab driver in the cab I was in said that the cab Cheryl took was going a long way. So Misaki, Laura, Geraldine and I got to the place first. We were not sure if Cheryl, Snow, Rosa and Julia were already at the place already or not but we saw a OneCoach bus waiting so in desperation, Laura and Geraldine went up to the office to check and request that they wait for us. While Misaki and I were waiting for the two of them, Cheryl and others got there. Snow had all our tickets so after checking with one of the workers by the OneCoach present, we find that it's our bus, we quickly put our luggage into the bus. Because Laura and Geraldine were not down yet, Misaki went up to find them but after about two minutes, the two of them came back out without Misaki. Things were getting bad as the person in charge was urging us irritatedly to get on the bus and take off even after Cheryl's explanation. Lucky for us, Misaki got down in time and we departed feeling awkward.
After passing through the customs and on our way back to 1Utama, I immediately scrambled my V-Cube6. After about an hour and 45 minutes, I solved it using my knowledge from previous cubes. Luckily I didn't come across any parity errors. When we reached 1Utama, it was pretty late at around 9pm because of the Damansara jam. While everyone went home, Cheryl, Misaki, Laura, Rosa and I went to have dinner at Sakae Sushi. My family were still in Penang so I went to stay overnight at Cheryl's place as usual. Laura's family were not at home either and she didn't drive so she also stayed over.
My first ever AFA experience, I guess I'm a little disappointed in it. Because we've been to so many events the stalls and the ambience are becoming mundane. But I always look forward to them so the upcoming Comic Fiesta better be swell. Coming back from AFA I have one problem: I am broke.
Months before, Cheryl, Misaki and I planned to go to AFA. During that time, I just got to know Snow who happens to be studying in the same college as us. With her friends Shusuke and Geraldine. Snow had arranged a group to go down to Singapore for AFA so Cheryl, Misaki and I just hopped in their group, I later learned that Laura wants to go as well, which was quite a surprise for me. After booking our accommodation and buying our bus tickets, all we had to do was wait for the exciting day. The total in the group are 9 of us excluding one guy who couldn't make it before we bought the tickets. Which comes down to what I had feared: I was the only guy, again. I was going down to Singapore with 8 girls and worst part is, more than half of them are yaoi fans.
Our bus leaves on the 10th, Saturday morning. We had to miss Day 0 of AFA. It's the day when event tickets are sold and the night where Electric Groove: I love Anisong's Electro Stage comes to live with the full solo concert of the truly amazing T.M.Revolution. Weiss had been screaming about going to their concert and she described herself as 'crying like a witch' after the concert. She was seriously overjoyed. The bus we were taking is the One Coach which takes us from One World Hotel to Singapore (not exactly sure where). The night before, Laura and I slept over at Cheryl's place and in the morning, Misaki came to pick me up while Cheryl and Laura waited for Cheryl's dad to get ready to bring them to 1Utama. We had breakfast at McDonald's the four of us together and then we headed to One World Hotel where our bus takes off. There I meet the others, Rosa and Julia; Rosa being the oldest and Julia being the youngest in our group. Long story short, all I did on the bus was watch anime and sleep (and listen to conversations).
We reached Singapore in 4 hours where to bus dropped us at the One Coach agency outlet. The rest of the building was pretty much deserted, closed, like everyone went on a holiday or something. We made our way out and took two cabs to our hostel, the Betel Box Backpackers Hostel in Joo Chiat. When we went to check in, problems arrise. Turns out that the hostel had rules about not letting people share beds. We had earlier thought of saving some money and sharing beds but we can't do that. So the five of them, Snow, Shu, Geraldine, Rosa and Julia took the room we booked (6-persons mix dorm) earlier and the remaining four of us, Cheryl, Misaki, Laura and I took the 20-persons mix dorm. We had some bad beginnings with the hostel but later on we find it splendid. One night in the hostel is $20 and you get a $3.90 coupon off any one meal at the Betel Box Cafe downstairs. There were lockers you can use, television you can watch, they had a pool table, free wi-fi, kitchen with a fridge, hot water and mugs, and computers that you can use for only 30minutes a day. They also provide activities and sightseeing brochures and other hostel locations. The beds in the 20-persons mix dorm are double-decker beds and all the bottoms are taken so the four of us chose the four closest beds and settled on the top bunks. So Misaki and I are on the same row while Cheryl and Laura are opposite us.
By the time we finished settling down, it was pretty late at around 6pm. We went down to the cafe to have dinner and we planned what to do after. It was too late to go down to the Expo for AFA Day 1 and Anisong's seconday day concert, the Jump Stage featuring Babymetal, FLOW, fripSide, LiSA and m.o.v.e. was about to start. We then decided to locate the MRT station near the hostel so that we know where to go the next morning. Using the map the receptionist gave us and with his guidance, we followed the map to the MRT station and back.
Back at the hostel, Cheryl, Misaki, Laura and I got to know Jeffrey, a Malaysian in his 50s working in Singapore. He told us various things, stuff like other good hostels, his life and his work. After his storytelling, we took our baths and we went up to Snow and the other's room. I just chilled around while the girls chatted (rather, squealing with excitement) about yaoi stuff while trying to keep their voices down because the whole hostel could hear them. Laura, being the only girl who's not a yaoi fan decided to play Team Fortress 2 on her laptop, to my dismay because I wanna play too!!
After all the hoo-hah, the four of us left the room and brought our laptops to the lounge and started doing our work. We can't really take a break on our trip because it's not even our holidays yet. Ugh. Misaki and I went to bed first. Our plan was to wake up at 5.30am and then get ready to go to the event at 7am. We had planned it for 6am but we found out that public transports don't start running until 7am on Sundays.
Cheryl woke me up at around 6am after the three girls were ready. In less than 10 minutes, I got ready and we went out to the lounge to meet the others. They were all in cosplay already and had most of their makeup done. Cheryl, Misaki and Laura decided to go to the event to get dressed instead. At around 6.30am, we all got up and left for the MRT station. We had to take the MRT down to Tanah Merah and then interchange to the Changi Airport line. The Expo is the station before the airport and when we were entering the Expo's station, we could see the whole Expo. It was really huge!!
AFA was held at Hall 7 and 8. The concerts are held at the Max Pavilion. When we got to the event entrance, we saw crowds sitting in front of the entrance waiting for the doors to open and we were relived to see that the que for the tickets were empty. After we bought our tickets, the girls all went to look for a toilet to get changed and put on their makeup. We went all the way to Hall 9 because the other toilets were locked. I sat outside and waited for them. I felt like forever! To think that I was so excited when we were walking towards the event and then, I'm bored like dried fish. Snow and the others came out first because they were done. However Cheryl and the others were not. So I followed Snow's group to have breakfast at Subway.
After a satisfying breakfast, we went back to the toilet to find that Cheryl and the others were not ready. Weiss was also there getting ready. Snow and the others decided to go in first so I followed after putting on my Cardboard box Gundam costume on (click on the link to learn more!).
In the event hall, wow. It was exciting at first but then, I got bored pretty fast because it was like any other ACG event hall, just more stuff to see. We went around the Sword Art Online booth, the Bandai booth, some other booths and then, I spotted it, the booth I planned to go to after seeing the map while waiting for the girls to get ready! THE POKEMON BOOTH! I ran over while the girls were looking at figurines. But to my huge disappointment, like finding a toothpick in a huge birthday present, the Pokemon booth was sad. It was only featuring Japan's newest Pokemon arcade game and some merchandises. Where are the DS battles? Where are the TCG battles? Where? I was disappointed. I went back to the booth the girls were at and took a final look at the Pokemon booth. A television displaying various advertisements about Pokemon games and TCG were running and two (probably hired) cosplayers as the Pokemon Plus Nobunaga no Yabou (or the lame English name, Pokemon Conquest)'s main hero and Oichi. The girls were done and continued to walk on. As I followed them, I looked over to the Culture Japan booth (as usual it's bright orange with Mirai everywhere, ahh~) which is next to the Pokemon booth and among the few people I spotted Yun Hann. Like a natural reaction, I ran up to him and greeted him. He was clearly surprised. If Yun Hann was here, Jun Ee would definitely be as well. Yun Hann pointed him out over at the Pokemon booth. He was looking at the Pokemon posters on the back of the disappointing booth. Worried that I would get separated from the group, I excussed myself and went to find the Kuro no Basket cosplayers but I lost them so I went back and met up with Jun Ee and we started chatting. Jun Ee and Yun Hann got to AFA on Friday and they went for the TMR concert. Jun Ee discussed about his experience at the event so far. He was also disappointed about the Pokemon booth. Of course we would, we both grew up playing Pokemon TCG together. We had our own Pokemon games too. We were Pokemon fans! After chatting we walked together. Jun Ee gave me a brief run-through of all the booths in the event hall. Half-way through, we saw a crowd standing gathering at a booth. The booth was the Babymetal booth (featuring a little fox shrine and a group cut-out photo thing), seemed like they were coming so we stood there as well to try to get a look at them. For some reason, as we waited, we got pushed further behind until a wall of photographers were in front of us. Jun Ee was joking that they're a group of pedophiles waiting for the little girls to come out. Hahaha. We went to wait at the next booth were LiSA was gonna make an appearance. While we waited for LiSA, Babymetal walked pass behind us. I got to see the three members of the unique J-pop mixed heavy metal group in person but I couldn't take any pictures when they posed for the cameras because all the 'pedophiles' were blocking.
Anyway, after Babymetal left, LiSA's manager, Nishihara-san came out and talked to the audience (us). We were not allowed to take pictures and videos when LiSA comes out so I didn't get any. Sad. Jun Ee was saying how during AFA'11, LiSA was like a nobody, when he was fanboying over LiSA, everyone didn't know who she was. Now, because of Sword Art Online, LiSA suddenly became a boom and he said that he has to graduate from being a LiSA fan because she has become mainstream. Haha. I know how he feels, it goes the same for me with manga, especially when the manga becomes an anime and gets popular from it. We got to see LiSA in person and they were discussing about the concert and Singapore and future projects. When given the audience one question, a guy asked when will LiSA be coming to Malaysia (Yes! Good job whoever you are!). LiSA asked what's good in Malaysia and the only thing the Malaysians present thought of were our food. It was funny. After the little appearance, everyone dispersed from the booth and as the three of us left, we caught FLOW waking pass (without any bodyguards). A couple of fans who saw them quickly ran up to them and got their autographs and photos with them with the help of a Japanese staff member.
LiSA was going to the Sword Art Online booth to sign autographs and take pictures so I parted ways with Jun Ee and Yun Hann. I had no plans of getting stuck in a group of crazed fans in a small booth. We went around to see other booths and find the girls. I was lucky to find Cheryl and the others. Because I pretty much had looked at all the booths, the event was boring for me already. I did get some excitement seeing cosplayers cosplaying my favorite characters and a tall slenderman (a female cosplayer in stilts). The rest of the day I was the girl's lackey. Helping them carry their stuff around. We went for lunch in the food court in mall next to the Expo (I don't remember what mall it was). We went back and continued the usual stuff. I ended getting really tired. We met with Jean and the twins (I still don't remember their names... I only know the two of them as Hayashi Kirin, as one). We went around the doujin booths many many times. Unfortunately for me, I didn't have anything I wanted to buy and when I did, it was sold out. Hachioji-P's electric love feat. Hatsune Miku... Sob.
So I was running low on money so I didn't buy anything for myself. I bought a badge for my sister and that was it. Later the five of us went out and got out of cosplay. Cheryl, Misaki, Laura, Weiss and I sat outside Hall 9 and chatted. Soon, people started queuing up for the last night's Anisong concert, the Diamond Stage featuring Hachioji-P, May'n, Minami Kuribayashi, Sea☆A and Sphere. When the que started to go into the Max Pavilion, we decided to go back. After taking a photo with Weiss, we parted ways. The four of us took the MRT back. Earlier we had discussed with Snow and the others that at a specific time we should have gone back already so we thought Snow and the group had went back ahead of us.
When we got back, we were shocked to find that the others were not back yet. While I was worried, Cheryl said that it shouldn't be a problem because Snow's pretty responsible and Rosa's the closest to being the adult of the group. While we were unpacking our stuff (Me? I just sat around looking through the brochures I got). A man walked out of the bath and when we greeted him, he asked us if we felt cold last night because he was feeling very cold. That eventually lead to a conversation with him. The man was Christober from Spain. He loved Asia so he's been around looking for a job and a place to settle in. We chatted for a while but because I was tired, I rested at my bunk. When Snow and Shu walked into our dorm, I was really relieved. Being the only guy in the whole group puts a lot of responsibility on me (me putting them on myself really). The four of us decided to have dinner down at the cafe before it closes after bathing. While the girls when to bath, I fell asleep on my bunk. I'm not sure how long I slept and I forgot who woke me up but I took a quick bath and we went to have our dinner.
After filling ourselves with vegetarian curry and rice, the four of us went back up and we find Snow and the others at the lounge eating snacks and instant cup noodles. Cheryl, Misaki and Laura went back to the dorm to get their stuff but they got absorbed into listening to Christober's stories. I just at at the lounge passing the time. I was only waiting for the right time to buy a can of beer to enjoy because before the trip, I promised myself a can of beer because why not? Later, the girls came out of the dorm with Christober and they joined us. While most of were doing our work, Christober was very impressed and awed by Autodesk Maya. I eventually got my can of beer, a tall one because the hostel didn't have any of the normal cans. I think I got a little drunk? When I went to sleep, I didn't stay awake the moment I hit the pillow.
I woke up to the sounds of Cheryl and Misaki talking. I went to clean up and got changed and when Laura was ready, we went down to the cafe and had breakfast. Snow and the others just finished their breakfast so we arranged to meet at the lounge after our breakfast. Like I promised myself, I had the Betel Box Big Breakfast (or also known as the B4). It had a hash-brown, grilled mushrooms, grilled cherry tomatoes, fried bacon, sausages, scrambled eggs (to my favor of style), salad and a croissant. While we enjoyed our breakfast, we talked to the kitchen staff present at the cafe today. He talked about all kinds of stuff with us.
After our breakfast, we went back up and Cheryl checked out for us. We put our bags in the lounge after informing the receptionist about going sightseeing before coming back to get our luggage. After Snow and the others came down and checked out, we all headed out to the bus stop outside Joo Chiat Complex. We were heading to VivoCity Mall. Snow and the others wanted to go there and so we did. At the mall, we split into our two groups and we went our ways. First, Cheryl and Laura went to the toilet and then we went to a pharmacy because Laura had to buy stuff because she found out she had the 'whoosh'. We walked around seeing the shops.
We eventually came to a toyshop called ToyTag. At first glance, you'll see that the shop sells a lot of unique board games and sort you don't normally find in franchising toyshops like Toys'R'Us. I didn't see any Scrabble or Monopoly there. Very neat. They even had hobby gifts like Rubik's Cube mug, t-shirt (The Minecraft shirts attracted all of our attention), etc. After I was fascinated by a disk-ball toy, I spotted a Rubik's cube on the casher desk, but it wasn't the Rubik's cube that only caught my attention, I was drawn to the cube next to it that was just placed on the desk after I spotted the cube, it wasn't just any Rubik's cube, it was white and pillowed and I know of only one company that makes cubes like that. I kept my cool and examined some other board games while I kept taking short glances at the cube on the table, it was no mistake, that is definitely a V-Cube3. I walked up to the casher and had a look at it to confirm myself. The cashier turned around and greeted me. He saw I was looking at the cube so he started to promote it. "Oh, this just came in today. Cool right?". In a flash, all sort of excitement filled my head. I asked if I could try it out and the cashier said okay. Oh my god, it was like some kind of heaven, I've never felt a Rubik's cube so firm and so smooth turning in my hand. I did a quick mess up and a quick solve as Laura asked the cashier some questions regarding international shipping followed by introducing where we came from. The cashier probably saw the sparkle in my eyes and talked to me about the Rubik's cube. I told him about how I was always looking for V-Cubes and asked if they had the V-Cube6 and he said "Yes, we do. They all came in today.". My brain started to work, should I buy it? I have my debit card, it's international, I can purchase it, I didn't buy anything from AFA so if I get this, I won't go back empty-handed. Cheryl and Laura alerted me about the Giant GummyBears on display in the fridge display thing (that bakeries have to display cakes). I saw shocked, it was those Giant GummyBears that Vat19 had advertised before! And they had the Party Bear too! And then I realised that the shop itself was selling quite a number of things I've seen on Vat19, the Robot Ice Cube Maker that Cheryl picked for her brother was one of them! The cashier came back with the cube I always wished for. I asked for the price and he gave me the price for the Pillowed V-Cube3 and V-Cube6. I did some thinking and after Cheryl's purchase I took my debit card out and purchased the V-Cube6, with so much joy I felt like crying. I kept saying, "I don't care how happy you are today, I'm the happiest now!".
After following the girls to buy some chocolates, we headed back to the meeting point, the entrance we came in from and we headed out to the bus stop to catch the bus back to Joo Chiat Complex. It took quite awhile for the bus to arrive and time was running short, the others were getting worried. The bus finally came but later on the ride, we overshot our stop. Time was really a factor now, lucky for us, there were three cabs at a cab stop nearby and we quickly got in them to get back to the hostel. Shu's parents were gonna pick her up from the hostel because they came down to Singapore so we kept two of the cabs waiting and we grabbed our bags and headed to where the OneCoach bus we were taking was gonna leave. The cab driver in the cab I was in said that the cab Cheryl took was going a long way. So Misaki, Laura, Geraldine and I got to the place first. We were not sure if Cheryl, Snow, Rosa and Julia were already at the place already or not but we saw a OneCoach bus waiting so in desperation, Laura and Geraldine went up to the office to check and request that they wait for us. While Misaki and I were waiting for the two of them, Cheryl and others got there. Snow had all our tickets so after checking with one of the workers by the OneCoach present, we find that it's our bus, we quickly put our luggage into the bus. Because Laura and Geraldine were not down yet, Misaki went up to find them but after about two minutes, the two of them came back out without Misaki. Things were getting bad as the person in charge was urging us irritatedly to get on the bus and take off even after Cheryl's explanation. Lucky for us, Misaki got down in time and we departed feeling awkward.
After passing through the customs and on our way back to 1Utama, I immediately scrambled my V-Cube6. After about an hour and 45 minutes, I solved it using my knowledge from previous cubes. Luckily I didn't come across any parity errors. When we reached 1Utama, it was pretty late at around 9pm because of the Damansara jam. While everyone went home, Cheryl, Misaki, Laura, Rosa and I went to have dinner at Sakae Sushi. My family were still in Penang so I went to stay overnight at Cheryl's place as usual. Laura's family were not at home either and she didn't drive so she also stayed over.
My first ever AFA experience, I guess I'm a little disappointed in it. Because we've been to so many events the stalls and the ambience are becoming mundane. But I always look forward to them so the upcoming Comic Fiesta better be swell. Coming back from AFA I have one problem: I am broke.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
JOTI 2012
This year I experienced my first Jamboree On The Internet (JOTI) ever. Held on the 20th and 21st of October, I didn't go as a participant, which is quite unfortunate because I can't get that experience, I went as an officer instead. Met new friends and got to briefly know some scouts (participants). Experiencing JOTI as an officer was quite a challenge though different from a participants point of view. Because I was in the Mac room, there were quite the number of problems with the IP addresses, password errors and sort. Some scouts kept asking questions and some just kept their questions to themselves, when I made my rounds I would catch a pair struggling to solve a problem (usually print screen) and they didn't want to ask until I approached them. The girls were more open and hence they were the ones to ask a lot of questions or communicate when I check their logbooks. Mr. Tony and I were in charge of the International Understanding Phase. There were six phases for the participants to choose and complete in order to get their JOTI badges. Based on the JOTI feedback on scouters, I have a feeling that most of the scouts mistook me for Mr. Tony or think that there are two Mr. Tonys. Hahaha. I sure am looking forward to next year's JOTI.
AniManGaki and Taylor's Asaban Fest 2012
This is gonne a be a fast post because both events were last month and I forgot to post them hence the post before this post because I forgot, I mentioned that I forgot, see how important forgetting is? I'm not making sense. Don't matter anyway, nobody reads this blogs besides bots who spam my chatbox.
AniManGaki
This year's AniManGaki, I was really excited because I would be cosplaying as Kumagawa Misogi from Medaka Box for the first time. Because you don't know because I don't update my blog, Kumagawa is my favorite character from Medaka Box (until the most recent chapter of Medaka Box revealed Hanten's face, now Hanten is in first place). Okay. Before the event I went to Amanda's house to work on Kumagawa's costume, got my screws done and my uniform sewed but it was incorrect but we didn't bother because it was the next day to debut. Blah!
I got to AniManGaki pretty early and met up with Amanda. We suited up and bought our tickets. Wooh! So excited! We went in, ventured around and then went back out. Excitement level drops down to zero. Amanda dragged me with a photographer and we got some photoshoots. Oh yeah, AniManGaki was held at the Sunway Pyramid Convention Hall. Okay. Long story short, two days, boring. Second day I cosplayed as Hanbei again together with Chery and Weiss. Boring boring boring. We talked about how ACG events used to be so fun but now it's all the same thing and it's boring already. Wow! I'm typing this really fast it's like words are flowing out of my head like a waterfall! Okay. I met with Mae Yen again, yay! Nee-chama~ Okay. End.
Taylor's Asaban Fest
This year's TAF was a week right after AMG. BAM! It was really small. Okay! First day I didn't cosplay because I had bought tickets to JRock no Tamashii 3.
-Intermission- "Oh would you look at me, I saved this as a draft and forgot about it again."
I had planned so that I would spend the time at Asaban and then go for the concert. Because of a few things (which I forgot, or was it because I had class? No, that can't be right? I guess?) I went in the afternoon. There, I met with my old pal Jun Ee, lecturer, Charmaine (who was selling her old cosplay stuff with some friends), and others, to my dismay, I can't remember (or was it because I only met these few people?). For the first time after two years, I meet Atticus in person. We've been trying to look out for each other at events but no such fate. There was nothing much at Asaban honestly, Jun Ee was kinda down (and very very tired) because he was the current president of the Taylor's Anime Club (Lakeside). I was in time for band performances, to my surprise, metal bands. Jun Ee was surprised too because he didn't think that the president of the Taylor's Anime Club (Subang) had arranged such bands. The first band was okay. I've heard of their name before (which my memory fails to recall).
I spent my time walking around and around. I stopped at Starbucks to use the internet (and help myself to a Java Chip). Evening came and I got together with Jun Ee again. This time I meet (or rather meet again) with Yun Han. We were in the same class in primary school so yeah. Reunion!
Anyway, we had dinner at Face to Face. Jun Ee was really, really, very tired. Poor guy, he didn't sleep a wink and because he was president, he was called to solve problems that occur and greet guests and stuff. After dinner, we headed back to the hall for the concert. I met with Grace again, someone who I haven't really seen in two years and her friend (again, my memory fails me). We went in and I got front seats! Okay, there wasn't really any seats because it was all standing. So, I got front standing!
So a bunch of Malaysian J-Rock bands performed, time passed, I met Pamela, David (Pam's brother) and Alexander in the concert hall. Then finally, HaKU. Who? Same question I asked when I bought the tickets but despite not knowing anything about them, I was so so so so so curious about their music and I did not regret going to the concert at all because HaKU is freaking awesome. A four men band consisting of 3 guys, vocals and lead, second guitar, drums and 1 girl for base guitar. I was in total awe. Their music was 'WHOA' and the basist (the girl, duh) was a bigger 'WHOA'. She was literally into the music, swinging round and round, jumping, skipping and twirling non-stop, jamming on her base guitar, song after song. Now that I think about, I wonder if she had one too many Red Bulls. Anyhow, HaKU, awesome band. They're new even in Japan so it's no surprise I couldn't find them in Google (in English sites).
So the end. Finally.
Notice the difference of writing styles? The speed and details? Yeah, procrastination does that to you.
Oh. I forgot about Day 2. Guess what? I'm just gonna continue from the end of this post.
Day 2, I went to Asaban in the afternoon again because my mom went shopping and dragged me with her. I went there, met Cheryl, Greg, Za and Erika. Cheryl helped me with my Kumagawa cosplay. Then she went back with Greg. I spent the rest of my day there with nothing much to do. At night there was the omatsuri. Yeah. End.
AniManGaki
This year's AniManGaki, I was really excited because I would be cosplaying as Kumagawa Misogi from Medaka Box for the first time. Because you don't know because I don't update my blog, Kumagawa is my favorite character from Medaka Box (until the most recent chapter of Medaka Box revealed Hanten's face, now Hanten is in first place). Okay. Before the event I went to Amanda's house to work on Kumagawa's costume, got my screws done and my uniform sewed but it was incorrect but we didn't bother because it was the next day to debut. Blah!
I got to AniManGaki pretty early and met up with Amanda. We suited up and bought our tickets. Wooh! So excited! We went in, ventured around and then went back out. Excitement level drops down to zero. Amanda dragged me with a photographer and we got some photoshoots. Oh yeah, AniManGaki was held at the Sunway Pyramid Convention Hall. Okay. Long story short, two days, boring. Second day I cosplayed as Hanbei again together with Chery and Weiss. Boring boring boring. We talked about how ACG events used to be so fun but now it's all the same thing and it's boring already. Wow! I'm typing this really fast it's like words are flowing out of my head like a waterfall! Okay. I met with Mae Yen again, yay! Nee-chama~ Okay. End.
Taylor's Asaban Fest
This year's TAF was a week right after AMG. BAM! It was really small. Okay! First day I didn't cosplay because I had bought tickets to JRock no Tamashii 3.
-Intermission- "Oh would you look at me, I saved this as a draft and forgot about it again."
I had planned so that I would spend the time at Asaban and then go for the concert. Because of a few things (which I forgot, or was it because I had class? No, that can't be right? I guess?) I went in the afternoon. There, I met with my old pal Jun Ee, lecturer, Charmaine (who was selling her old cosplay stuff with some friends), and others, to my dismay, I can't remember (or was it because I only met these few people?). For the first time after two years, I meet Atticus in person. We've been trying to look out for each other at events but no such fate. There was nothing much at Asaban honestly, Jun Ee was kinda down (and very very tired) because he was the current president of the Taylor's Anime Club (Lakeside). I was in time for band performances, to my surprise, metal bands. Jun Ee was surprised too because he didn't think that the president of the Taylor's Anime Club (Subang) had arranged such bands. The first band was okay. I've heard of their name before (which my memory fails to recall).
I spent my time walking around and around. I stopped at Starbucks to use the internet (and help myself to a Java Chip). Evening came and I got together with Jun Ee again. This time I meet (or rather meet again) with Yun Han. We were in the same class in primary school so yeah. Reunion!
Anyway, we had dinner at Face to Face. Jun Ee was really, really, very tired. Poor guy, he didn't sleep a wink and because he was president, he was called to solve problems that occur and greet guests and stuff. After dinner, we headed back to the hall for the concert. I met with Grace again, someone who I haven't really seen in two years and her friend (again, my memory fails me). We went in and I got front seats! Okay, there wasn't really any seats because it was all standing. So, I got front standing!
So a bunch of Malaysian J-Rock bands performed, time passed, I met Pamela, David (Pam's brother) and Alexander in the concert hall. Then finally, HaKU. Who? Same question I asked when I bought the tickets but despite not knowing anything about them, I was so so so so so curious about their music and I did not regret going to the concert at all because HaKU is freaking awesome. A four men band consisting of 3 guys, vocals and lead, second guitar, drums and 1 girl for base guitar. I was in total awe. Their music was 'WHOA' and the basist (the girl, duh) was a bigger 'WHOA'. She was literally into the music, swinging round and round, jumping, skipping and twirling non-stop, jamming on her base guitar, song after song. Now that I think about, I wonder if she had one too many Red Bulls. Anyhow, HaKU, awesome band. They're new even in Japan so it's no surprise I couldn't find them in Google (in English sites).
So the end. Finally.
Notice the difference of writing styles? The speed and details? Yeah, procrastination does that to you.
Oh. I forgot about Day 2. Guess what? I'm just gonna continue from the end of this post.
Day 2, I went to Asaban in the afternoon again because my mom went shopping and dragged me with her. I went there, met Cheryl, Greg, Za and Erika. Cheryl helped me with my Kumagawa cosplay. Then she went back with Greg. I spent the rest of my day there with nothing much to do. At night there was the omatsuri. Yeah. End.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Untitled
There was something I wanted to blog about but I forgot what it was so I put this empty post instead as to at least update my blog once in a while.
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