Up, up, and away~!
Really busy with work at the moment so here’s an outdoor shot that I took this morning of Alter’s Miyafuji Yoshika from Strike Witches. As expected, she really looks like she belongs in the air…
Kaiji Live Action Movie Coming to Malaysia, March 11th
Just received a press release from UIP Malaysia that they will be bringing in the Kaiji Live Action movie this March 11th, 2010. Sweet! With the Eva 2.0 movie also screening in the same month and an upcoming May’N concert, it looks like March is going to be an entertaining month for Malaysian anime and manga fans.
Hiiragi is OLEV
I had the same reaction as the male kid watching how awesome Hiiragi is. Plus she totally sticks up for gamers too!
The space opera anime parody at the end was made of all sorts of win.
Happy (New Year, Birthday)
An actual update? Good grief, what is the world coming to?!
But I digress. A lot has happened to me over the last few months. From getting new responsibilities at work to ending a relationship, it seems one thing came after the other and soon enough, I felt overwhelmed; I was too tired to update my blogs. But I miss blogging about my life and what I’ve done so far. Although Twitter is nice, I often felt limited by Twitter’s 140 characters limit.
So what have I been up to lately? Good question. As you can roughly guess from the above picture, I’ve recently bought myself a new figurine cabinet. Previously, most of my figurines were either lying around collecting dust or in boxes. I felt a little sad for my figurines for neglecting them, so I decided to buy a proper display cabinet from Ikea for my beauties.
I like the cabinet, though the initial setup was a hassle. If you’ve been following my tweets, you may have already read of my problems encountered with Ikea over some missing rubber footers for the glass panels. Thankfully, the parts aren’t crucial to its installation, so I just went ahead without the rubber footers. The Ikea Klingsbo is a decent glass door cabinet (definitely sturdier than the flimsy-looking Detolf model) but it’s a pity I can’t accommodate my Igniz and Iroha figurines - they’re too tall for the shelves. So that’s why I moved them to the top. Looks like I’ll have to dust these two figurines more often…
I also bought for myself a full Nendoroid Petite: Vocaloid #01 set, which stars the all-stars cast of the Vocaloid series. Normally I don’t buy full sets but they’re just so gosh darn adorable!
Although I’m going to be more busy with my work due to my increased responsibilities, I’ll try to update my blog more often. I have a visual novel review that’s still work in progress, and I’d like to do a podcast of the said review. Again if you follow my tweets, you may have seen (and heard) of my brief 30 secs talk of Family Project ~Kazoku Keikaku~ (NSFW). But it sounded too stiff, so I’m going to redo it with a more natural tone.
Oh BTW, Happy 28th Birthday to me. Gosh, I feel super old already.
120GB PS3 Slim Confirmed, US$299.
Sony has officially confirmed that the 120GB PS3 Slim will be coming this September…and it’ll cost US$299 (~RM1100). Incidentally, that will be the same price for the old PS3 Phat beginning from tomorrow. Apparently the model design is the same one that was leaked back in May.
The question that now remains is when will Sony Malaysia bring it over to Malaysia, and how much it will cost; the console is currently selling at RM1599 (~USD450). When the PS3 Slim eventually comes to Malaysia, I estimate that the unit will likely be priced around RM1300~RM1400. I’ll see if I can dig up some answers from Sony Malaysia in the following days…
I’ve to admit - I do feel a tinge of regret for not holding out longer for the PS3 Slim. But I don’t really mind. I still got my PS3 Phat bundle at a great price (USD310), and the console itself look mighty impressive in my living room alongside my Xbox 360. Not to mention I still have an old PS2 Phat from yesteryears, so it’ll complement each other.
KOFXII Patch Update lolwhut
lol whut? 772 MB for a ‘patch’? That’s a whole freaking PS1 game! The worst part is that if the patch download fails, I need to restart ALL. OVER. AGAIN. WTF?
As much as I love KOF, this game was clearly released unfinished. And I don’t understand why it took them so long to release such barebones gameplay features when BlazBlue has tons more stuff in it…and more eye candy too. Perhaps they were too busy spending their resources on Witch Tits Touching 2.
The huge patch update is giving me Summer Days deja vu.
6 Endless Eight episodes…WTF
Tonight’s episode of Endless Eight sees Kyon failing to stop Haruhi repeating the summer. AGAIN. That means next week will be Endless Eight. AGAIN. Next week’s episode will make it the 6th episode dedicated to Endless Eight. Will it be the last? Who knows.
I can’t imagine any producer or studio ballsy enough to reanimate the same episode 6 freaking times (or to be exact, 5 times since the gang doesn’t realize it until the 2nd episode). I’ll be both impressed and disgusted if they actually go and do a whole 8 episodes of the same story. It’d be worse than a standard Naruto recap episode. But with the new Summer episodes already out, I already have better things to watch. Let me know when they finally break this ridiculous time loop.
The Back of a Bafta Award
Sure, everyone knows that the British Academy Film and Television (BAFTA) Award looks like a theatrical mask. But have you ever wondered how it looks from behind, or why nobody bothered to show its back? No? Well, who’s to stop me from indulging you with some worthless trivia that you can use on your snooty friends and relatives who think they’re so smart? I managed to capture the surprising truth behind the mask when Codemasters Malaysia brought back the award last month to highlight its win in the Best Sports Game (2009) category with Race Driver: GRID. Click the jump for the shocking truth. Continue Reading »
PlayStation 3 getto da ze!
Earlier today, I took part in a mini Rock Band competition which was held at Sony’s booth at the Games & Gadget event in MidValley. I came in 2nd place, so I won myself a Sony PlayStation Portable. Since I don’t really game much on the go, I asked the prize sponsor if I could sell back the PSP and get a discount instead for a Sony PlayStation 3 instead. Luckily, Sony PS3 Evangelist Teoh Wah Keong was there and I managed to get a discount for the Sony PS3 bundle, which was selling at RM1699. I bought inFamous for RM209, and they threw in a free DualShock 3 controller.
Total cost? RM1088 (USD310). That’s some massive savings there for a brand new game console which can also play high-def Blu-ray movies. I can’t deny that if I weren’t a videogame magazine editor, I probably would not have gotten the discount. So many thanks Sony Malaysia and Tan Electronics! I’m now off to set up my PSN account and start playing inFamous! :3
Update: My PSN name is FatCatLim. Add me!
