Happy April Fools Day!! Further Updates to Previous Post.

I'm sure everyone had enough April Fools Day jokes for the year, even I'm getting bored of it, too much just kills the fun, but still wishing everyone a Happy April Fools!! Hope no one has killed anyone from getting "pissed" at being the joke of the day. I never really liked pulling pranks on others, and at times I do get abit irritated at their constant efforts to make everything a joke. I'm also now paranoid at any news on this day, never knowing what's real and what isn't.

I don't think it's much of a joke if the girl you're dating turns out to be a guy. Hamaji Yakumo from H2O: Footprints in the Sand. Still want?

Remember the Freeze Video I posted yesterday? Today, another 200+ people were "frozen" in Queens St Mall in Brisbane, Australia, in which one of my friend Calvin (also the one who went to Japan last Dec with me) participated in. His coverage of the event isn't out yet, but a video taken by his friend is posted. He's too lazy to post now and I'm hijacking the video first ^^, but tune to his blog sometime tomorrow or the day after for better coverage.

Brisbane Freeze Day 2008 (View from my friend's friend videocam, awaits official video)

It looks real fun, and I'm planning to participate in a similar one taking place right here in Singapore too. And yes there's going to be one here sometime in May, and they're also currently looking for more people interested (have yet to mail them my interest too). However I'm not posting the link to their "details", in fear that information might leak out into public. For those interested could mail me at hirito at gmail dot com, or you can add me to your MSN thru hitokirib_kenshin86 at hotmail dot com (I'm too lazy to change my MSN address to my gmail account).

More updates from yesterday, Panther had posted the details to this weekend outing. I'll be going for this outing, and this will also be the first time that I'm actually meeting people I've come to know from blogs/blogging, and I'm abit nervous, but I'm sure we're all nice people no?

Proper post will come tomorrow (I promise! Not a April Fools joke!!), and I already know what to be typing for that. Stay tuned and I'm out.

If this was real, it's scary.

End of March. Some Updates.

Last post for the month of March, and I also don't know what title to give this post. But either way another month is going to pass us by and my freedom (ORD) is now getting even closer, 2 months to go!! I initially had something I wanted to post, but it just slipped my mind for the moment, maybe if I do remember I'll get it up tomorrow.

I'm sure some of you might have seen this before, but a recent chat with Calvin over it got me engrossed into it again. Having multiple people suddenly frozen in time for 5 mins while life goes on really stands out in public, and this was what some 207 Agents from Improv Everywhere did at the Grand Central Station in New York City.

Video of the Freeze Event.

After that event, many others from around the world had also attempted to replicate this in their own countries, a listing which could be found here. Besides the Freeze events, IE had also did lots of other fantastic missions which I would love to be part of, one of them is this Mp3 Experiment, which I found was really cool. Would love to see one in Singapore, but most likely they'll think it's a protest and get the whole riot police department (if that many people came) to come down to chase us away.

Moving on from IE, a fellow SGblogger Panther is going to organise an outing to La Tendo (his past coverage of this Figurine Store in Singapore is found here), and maybe KKnM this Saturday, 5th April. As of now it's not yet confirmed, but I assume he'll be confirming it and doing a proper post on it tomorrow, so for those who are interested might want to drop in on his site's chatbox (or mine which seems to be ongoing, and no idea why lol?). As for my loots during the weekend? Sadly there's none as I decided to save the money and spend it in Japan instead...which leads to the next part...

My trip to Japan is confirmed! My friend booked the air ticket last Saturday, and I'll be going from the 7th to 16th June. I'm thinking of the possibility, in the event that should anyone from SG wants something, whether should I take orders or not (still pending). I'm also worried for my own luggage weight, but I'm on tight budget this trip so I wouldn't be getting much neither. Also looking at the anime-related event schedules in Japan, it seemed that there's going to be a Sunshine Creation 40 on the 15th June @ Ikebukuro Sunshine City. I'm thinking of going to take a look (my friend doesn't know yet, but once he does I think he'll scream), so might have a coverage on that too. Currently I don't know what else to add, so I'm signing out for now. Bye ^^.

Just wanted to post a picture up, so here's one of Kagamin ^^.

News Highlights for the week.

A misleading title, but it basically highlights the more important news to me. A big anime-related event called the Tokyo Anime Fair 2008 was held (and still ongoing) on the 27th to 30th March 08 at Tokyo Big Sight (Ariake!!!!!). Sadly, I'm not in Japan now and I can't do first hand coverage of the event, but for those interested, there are others who did and here's links to their coverage. AkibaHobby, Mikatan, Akihabara News and Dannychoo.

To me, the only thing which really highlighted this event to me, was the Figma and PVC Hatsune Miku. I was basically screaming "YEA FINALLY" when I saw the photos. I'm still waiting for my Nendoroid Miku to be sent to me, but this piece of news really made my day. Time to start saving funds for them. *I'm still screaming like a Miku fanboy* (Calvin, you'll be screaming with me when you read this news ^^.)

All 3 versions of Miku! PVC, Figma and Nendoroid.

Another shot of the PVC version by Good Smile Company.

Moving on to other news, which are also figure-related, Resinya (Figure company of Cospa) is releasing figures of Shana and Noumi. I'm now trying find another source of funding and may need to rob a bank to achieve the capital required to acquire these babies. But even if I do want to get them, I'm only interested in the GEE!Store versions of the figures, so I'll have to find some way to get my hands on them.

1/6 Scale Noumi Kudryavka from Little Busters! (GEE!Store Version)
Maker: Resinya
Retails for 7,800 Yen
Release: July

I'm still waiting for a release date confirmation of Little Busters-EX (Ecstasy). Can't wait for the release.
1/6 Scale Shana from Shakugan no Shana (GEE!Store Version)
Maker: Resinya
Retails for 7,800 Yen
Release: July

I'm also thinking of getting this other figure of Shana, but based on my current financial state I could only afford one (or none of them). As a fanboy of Shana, I'm sadden at the fact that I don't have a figure of her. Choices choices choices....
1/7 Scale Shana from Shakugan no Shana
Maker: Griffon Enterprises
Retails for 6,500 Yen
Release: June

Enough on figures. As for anime news, nothing beats the fact that knowing Kyoani will be doing Clannad ~After Story~!! *More fanboy screaming around the house* We'll now be having a proper closure of the series after the current season ended last week. Would really love to see the way how they'll end the full story, going the path of the game best ending, or the kind of ending of the movie (but then it wouldn't explain the mysterious world this way). Let's hope Kyoani would make it a truly epic series that will make me brawl my eyes out. News taken from AnimeNewsNetwork. Now all we need to know is when it'll be coming to our screens. That's about it for now, and will be trying to make some time tomorrow to head to KKnM to grab some Lucky Star merchandise (nooo more money going gone) too, and hopefully they're not sold out. Will post photos of those loots up if I do get them. Signing out.

Trailer of Clannad ~After Story~ aka Season 2. Ushio is moe~!!

Vocaloid Spotlight: Kagamine Rin Series 1.

This artwork style kind of reminds me of Honey and Clover (review to come?).

With the amount of vocaloid videos that I watch every week and enjoy, it's nearly impossible to post them all up individually (though it does makes for post count). Now instead, I'll be posting them in batches of 2 or 3, so that I can cover more ground on good vocaloid songs, unless it's really too good which deserves an individual post (or I got lots of things to talk about it "eg: Miku's Sakura no Ame").



OSTER project feat. Kagamine Rin - RING x RING x RING.

The same group who brought to you Chocolate☆Magic (found in my Valentine Day post), comes a cute single of Rin. I really love the art and the way they "animate" the video, makes it really cute.
Mp3 and Lyrics can be found here (to download you'll need to be a member of the site though).



Kagamine Rin - Kokoro. Music and Lyrics done by Toraboru.

A song of a robot being born without a "heart", on a road to self-recognization, to understand feelings and to know it's purpose for existance. There's another Rin song done by Toraboru but doesn't really ring along with me, just posting the youtube link if you're interested.
Mp3 is found here, while Lyrics is here.



Kagamine Rin - Yotsuba no Clover (4 Leaf Clover). Also done by Toraboru.

I first came across this song from a video where someone was self-singing it, and I liked the song. Eventually went to search for the original which is this. However I think I found the self-sang version alot nicer, sweet sounding girl too. Throwing that version below this. I couldn't find a youtube version of it thus not putting it up. But if anyone requests for it (especially non-nico users), I'll rip it off nico and host it on youtube for you.
They seemed to have taken down the mp3 link for this song (it's an old song), but there's still the lyrics which is found right over here.


Another version of Yotsuba no Clover (someone else singing it).

Going off-topic. Been too occupied with Shogun that I didn't do any post on the blog, but since I had completed my Imagawa campaign I had some time on hand to do this post. However I had just installed Rome Total War, so I might "forget" to update the blog again. Will try not to go down that path but no guarantee. My Sawatari Makoto figure had also arrived about a week ago, but have yet to take her out of the box and do a photo shoot. I'm thinking of a few places to bring her to take some photos but not sure where yet (Botanic Gardens is one place). *Wonders where in Singapore has lots of flowers and is not a tourist location, and no I'm not going Changi Airport for that, nor standing in the middle of the stretch of road that is along the way to the airport taking photos.* Anyway, until next post. Signing out.

Happy Easter!!

Oh no! I've been so engrossed in playing my Shogun Total War (Yes it maybe an old game, but it's still one of my favourites, even spending 2 months running around game stores to find an original copy last year) that I forgot that it's Easter Day!! Hope I'm not too late!! Sadly down here at the Equator, we don't hide easter eggs in the gardens for the little kids to find cause they'll all melt in this scorching heat (usually chocolate eggs). Either way, Wishing all a Happy Easter Day! Signing out. (Alt + Tab back to Shogun)

Here's one for everyone. Hinamori Amu from Shugo Chara (Cool & Spicy!). There are Guardian Characters, and they come from Guardian Eggs... so does it count? ^^ The chibi art work is done by mirai (Reason). Click the name for alot more chibi art. It's moe~ overdose!