| 11:10am | To Japan I Will Return Again | | | | Yes, I’m back in Singapore. I don’t know what to feel now. The 17 days spent in Japan went by just like that. I’ve met a lot of people this trip, both Japanese and non-Japanese. Talking to strangers has never been my forte, but I actually did it. For example, while waiting in line... |
| 1:24am | A Quick Update From Japan | | | | I can’t be arsed to write any long posts of my trip while I’m still here, so I’ll just post some photos and let them do the talking. Those of you who have me on Facebook would already know what I have been doing. Where I’m staying at Suizenji Garden Tasty ice that doesn’t... |
| 2:15pm | In Kumamoto | | | | I love midnight flights as I can touch down early in the morning and still have the whole day ahead. At the same time, I hate them because I only get 2-3 hours of sleep. This flight was pretty awesome though, since they kept stuffing me with food. Just before landing After arriving at Fukuoka Airport,... |
| 11:13am | Off To Japan, Again | | | | My final paper for the semester ended yesterday, and I’ll be flying off soon to Fukuoka like I did last year, in a couple of hours. My flight’s at 1am, so I’ll be arriving at the airport at around 8am. No, the guitar’s not coming along What you see above is my baggage for 17... |
| 11:13am | Off To Japan, Again | | | | My final paper for the semester ended yesterday, and I’ll be flying off soon to Fukuoka like I did last year, in a couple of hours. My flight’s at 1am, so I’ll be arriving at the airport at around 8am. No, the guitar’s not coming along What you see above is my baggage for 17... |
| 1:03pm | Anime Festival Asia 09: News From The Press Conference | | | | Come 21st and 22nd November 2009, Anime Festival Asia 09 will take place in Singapore at the Suntec City Convention Hall. While it’s still a 2 month wait till then, the organisers behind the eagerly awaited event held a press conference today. Finally, something to soothe our throbbing curious... |
| 1:03pm | Anime Festival Asia 09: News From The Press Conference | | | | Come 21st and 22nd November 2009, Anime Festival Asia 09 will take place in Singapore at the Suntec City Convention Hall. While it’s still a 2 month wait till then, the organisers behind the eagerly awaited event held a press conference today. Finally, something to soothe our throbbing curious... |
| 6:45am | STGCC 2009: My Very Late Recount Of The 1 Hour Spent | | | | It’s been almost 2 weeks since STGCC. I’ve got everything ready to post about it; The few photos and the content I want to write all in point form in my mind. Yet, I simply lost the motivation to write anything. I’m not sure if it’s just laziness or just a burnout. Like LianYL’s... |
| 2:07pm | Soon, My First Live Band Performance Experience In Japan | | | | Finally, nearly a month of waiting, I finally got my hands on a ticket for Tacica’s live. Previously, it was sold out on the first day of the ticket sales. Even on auction sites such as Yahoo Japan Auction, the tickets for the Shibuya-AX live were rare, and the bidding often rose to double of... |
| 5:05am | The Image Usage Uproar And My Thousand Words | | | | If I want to blog about Evangelion, I’d like to use some nice images of Rei in the post. But WAH insists that I can’t use fanart or whatever without crediting. But it’s such work to go through all that trouble for a single image! I’ve seen a solution to this here, but I simply... |
| 3:32pm | I Didn’t Know Fender Released The Guitar That Koyuki Used | | | | I’ve been seeing quite a bit of news regarding the special K-ON! guitars that are to be released, and was wondering why there wasn’t one for BECK. My question was answered while I was browsing through the music magazine section in Kinokuniya. Holding up a copy of the August release of GiGS,... |
| 2:54pm | I Ain’t Keeping Up With The Otaku Scene No More | | | | Here are 5 reasons why I’ve geared out of the clockwork. 1. Too many movies that are rehashed versions of anime I’ve given up on counting the number of announcements for movies that are adapted from anime. Hold on, I shouldn’t even be using the word adapted here. The appropriate word... | | |
| 4:18pm | Chiaki’s “Onani Play” Criticism | | | | For those of you who have watched or read Nodame Cantabile, do you remember when Chiaki criticised Mine, that punky rocker violinist, regarding the way he plays? Chiaki used the words “Onani play”, which translates to masturbation play. In other words, self pleasure. I still remember how... | | |
| 6:30am | Dragon Quest Dai No Daibouken Is Good Shounen Manga | | | | Ever since I completed the main story in DQ IX, I began reading Dragon Quest Dai No Daibouken. It’s one of the few mangas that were adapted from the original DQ games, and while it has been completed in 1996, translated scans of it are still being released online on a regular basis. I must say,... |
| 11:03am | I Just Missed My Chance To Attend A Live Performance In Japan! | | | | I was planning to attend Tacica’s live at Shibuya AX on 12 September. The ticket sales would only begin today, and as I have a friend who’s currently in Japan on a holiday, I asked her to help me purchase a ticket from Lawson. I was really hopeful that I could finally catch a favourite band... |
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