Neon Genesis Evangelion 1/6 Scale Pre-Painted PVC Action Figure: Asuka Langley (Plug Suit Version)
This will be the last figure review of 2010 and what better way to end the year with then with the final Asuka figure I have that has yet to be reviewed. Truth be told I still have a lot of figures I want to do photo reviews for, but I just haven’t been able to motivate myself into getting around to them.
Merry Christmas and a Happy new year!
Merry Christmas and may all your stockings be filled with goodies and loot. What will I be doing? Eating, sleeping and playing PS3 (in no particular order. Preferably all at once. ). Hopefully Santa brought for me some nice goodies, if there are anything nice. I'll do a review though if he brings me a lump of coal I would still be happy with the skyrocketing price of coal today, I bet I could sell it off for a quick buck! XD. Anyway, here we have the girls of Toradora as Santarinas~~~~~~ droollllll
Comic Fiesta 2010 (Cosplay report)
While Danny Choo was nowhere to be seen (except for his doppleganger Wisemen) we do have Mirai here.
Sadly, this will just be a cosplay report of this year’s Comic Fiesta 2010 at Berjaya Time Square (ballroom at the 14th floor) since I didn’t think of bringing a wide angle lens. Instead I just stuck with prime lenses.
A mistake I sorely regret since the event was surprisingly much better than I had anticipated when compared to other anime conventions I had been to around West Malaysia (hint, not low-keyed)
Alter Kos-Mos swimsuit version 1/6
I know this is long overdue but I had some time recently so I decided to finally do a short photoshoot for this figure. I also decided to try something new by using skylight bulbs for this shoot along with my flash. In retrospect I should have gone with the old light tent I usually use. But heck it was a good learning experience.
Kuala Lumpur International Motor Show 2010 Day 3!
rNope, that title is not a mistype. This article is for the third day of KLIMS 2010 which was a Sunday. Though this time the number of models were a lot more than Friday. Sadly nothing else has improved especially for the batmobile and bumblebee where a lot of people were cursing at the crap imitation.
A word of advice to people planning to go to this events. This is NOT family event! Please don’t bring:
1. Your grandmother or any member of your family using a walker.
2. Your grandfather or any member of your family using a wheelchair
3. Your 2 hour old baby child right from the bloody hospital along with your wife who just gave birth.
4. Children below the age of 14.
For crap sakes! If you still insist on bringing them along then leave the DSLR or camera behind because you cannot take photos while looking over your family.
Don’t delude yourselves and think that you can. You will lose something when you try. Either a chance at getting a good shot or worse, losing your child.
We saw numerous incidents at that day alone where children or old folks separated from their families because Daddy was too busy chasing after models.
Get either a babysitter or have your spouse look after your family while you come out and enjoy or something but DON’T bring them all together! The event is as crowded as it is already.
I could understand if it was a teenager son who isn’t an idiot. Or the father who is actually fitter than yourself. But why oh why do Malaysians want to bring everyone to an event clearly not family oriented?
Kuala Lumpur International Motor Show 2010 Day 1!
The Yellow Camero! AKA BUMBLEBEE! Sadly the 1:1 scale robot there was piss poor when compared to the car. If anyone is going to see the transformer robot version, be prepare to be VERY disappointed. You're better off just admiring the car instead.
Creators Labo #026 Neon Genesis Evangelion Pre-Painted PVC Figure: Soryu Asuka Langley
Here's another figure review, this one came during the weekend I was in Singapore for AFA X (so I guess that technically makes it 2 Asuka on the same weekend). I'm starting to see a very dangerous obsession with Asuka.
Asuka Sohryu Langley Maid version by Kotobukiya 1/7
Today I'll be reviewing one of my purchases from AFA X. I had been looking for this Asuka for a while now when I came by it during AFA X. This is the original red maid outfit version which I feel was a lot better than the yellow outfit that was later released as a special limited edition. As it keeps in line with the Asuka's fiery temper. The yellow one felt like it lacked the associate of the outfit with the personality of the wearer.
AFA X 2010 Singapore Day 3 (cosplay report!)
And here we have the final installment for AFA X cosplay report! So enjoy the photos~~~!!
If you just want to read about the day event then go here though please forgive the short report as I didn’t attend most fo the events that day and instead focused more on the cosplay.
AFA X 2010 Singapore Day 3
Date: 14th November 2010
Here we are again with the report for day 3, I should have taken a Monday off that way I wouldn’t be in such a rush.
Anyway, we were only planning to attend the Regional Cosplay Championship for a short while then continue our way checking more cosplayers. So we paid a nice visit to Kinokuniya at Takashimaya.
Though due to my fault, I thought they would be opening at 9:30am, we arrived 9am. So we kinda wasted our time instead just checking out the surrounding location.
But anyway let’s skip to the Cosplay championship
AFA X 2010 Singapore Day 2 (Cosplay report!)
Alright! Time for the cosplay report as promised! While the morning was exciting and fun but there was so many cosplayers and really GOOD ones, that I had to do a special article on them!
For those who just want the report about the event, go here
AFA X 2010 Singapore Day 2
Date: 13th November 2010
Saturday…..the second day of AFA X…..if I had to describe how did this day go I guess it could best be summed up in 1 word, it would be “AWESOME!”
After CrossChannel finally arrived last night, we all decided to turn in for the night without delay as both of us were dead tired. Although the next morning I found him diligently working on his notebook @_@…..
I had initially wanted to update about the event at night but the internet at the hotel was total crap, it was nothing like what I had heard about from people who had reviewed about the hotel and it was not cheap either, SGD 5 for 2 hours of Internet connection. It was a total ripoff!
We both quickly made our way to Suntech convention hall thinking we would be early and the crowd wouldn’t be too big, oh how wrong we both were >_<
AFA X 2010 Singapore Day 1
Date: 12th November 2010.
This is me at the airport waiting for take off. I had wanted to take Friday off so I could go to and see AKB girls but because I had only recently started work, I was unable to get a full day off and instead opt for a half day instead.
Though for this trip I wasn’t alone, I would be meeting CrossChannel from Penang down at Singapore later that night.
Flight was rather boring and tiring, I shouldn’t have opted for the 6pm flight. Next year I plan to take Friday and Monday off.
Anime Festival Asia 2010
Yup folks, I’m heading down to Singapore this weekend for AFA X! I’ll be bringing down my macbook along with my camera and hope to see the rest of you anime fans as well! For more information about AFA X you can look it up here at their about page.
Girls with cameras: A pictorial book.
Japanese books, even if you cannot read a single word in them, the ideas they present can still be very interesting.
Like this new book today, which is apparently a book reviewing the latest cameras as of 2010 but instead of using photos of real models holding cameras like other magazine, Japan has decided to use the power of moe or anime to promote the cameras.
Which is rather shameless when you think about it but speaking from a business point of view its rather ingenius. Take one part nerd camera, one part moe, with a dash of basic tutorial and you have a book that could sell considerably well in Japan.
Simply Beautiful photographs
Here is something different for a change. I picked this some a few weeks ago but only got around to reviewing today.
But of course anything by National Geographic is always good. I’ve been a big fan of their work as well as they contribution to charity as well as environmental work.
This is one of their latest coffee table photo books show casing another dazzling collection of photos from the archive chosen by Annie Griffihs. Each work is commented by her and credit is given to the photographer.
What your choice of DSLR/camera says about you….
This was taken originally from Shutterfinger
Happy Halloween 2010!!
Its that time of the year where the ghouls and fiends come out to play.
Where witches chant and brew with whatever they find and need.
KL photography festival 2010
For those of you who are wondering there will be a photography festival at Mid-valley starting today(29th October) till Sunday (31th October).
Bored at work.
I know I only started working at my new job but already they have nothing for me to work on. I mean I managed to complete my previous program in time for testing and all but already after that they seem to have nothing else to give me except more boring reading.
“Here read up on something regarding memory debuggers”. They tell me.
“Valgrind.” Was my reply, best memory debugger I’ve seen so far and its Open Source. “If you don’t like that, then use mpatrol but be warned it requires we insert special codes throughout the program while Valgrind doesn’t and works with debugger information instead.”
and what was their reply? “Research memory debugger nonetheless….”
Aside from that they also want me to look at some codes regarding IPC made by their China branch. Which sadly has no documentation nor comments and the function names are no better. What’s worse I only have the header files and compiled library, in short I’m flying blind here………. >_<
I’m so bored…..no actual coding work to do……only reading source codes……..
When does it get ridiculous?
When companies want to sell you camera gear that is only one step away from becoming a borg with your camera.
That’s when you know its gotten ridiculous. Seriously, if I wanted to go this far with video photography, just get a freaking video camera rather than a DSLR.
Who actually goes this far?
Matsuhara Hidenori Illustration Works
Ever bought a book solely on the cover artwork? Sometimes the title sells it but most of the time its due to the artwork. (So why do Danielle steel novels sell so well every time a new title comes out?).
Selling on title and synopsis is always the best idea for written novels but when it comes with artbooks, cover artwork always sells!
Such as this one I picked up at at Kinokuniya KLCC which was going with 20% discount with another item.
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto Collection “Carmine”
Now this one is currently selling at Kinokuniya with a 20% discount with another item of any price. So I just couldn’t resist buying this!
Though whether or not you should buy this is matter of opinion, first of all this is an artbook consisting of most of Yoshiyuki Sadamoto‘s anime artwork whether its was artwork mean for the actual anime or promotional poster. If it was done by him, its probably in here.
“How to pose guide” from Kinokuniya (Mandarin)
I know its rather odd but it does happen. I do occasionally find myself in the mandarin section at Kinokuniya Malaysia and they have some really great photobooks and the best part though is that I have never seen mandarin books censored before (or at least I haven’t had the luck of coming across one).
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