My Desktop

Found it while searching for Tony Taka’s work. This is one of the few SFW wallpapers/images ^^; Somehow, its kinda hard to look for something that actually fits my resolution. Usually images I find are 800×600, whilst I’m on 1280×800, hence I often make my own (crappy) wallpapers. Or maybe I just suck at finding wallpapers.

I like my desktop clean and neat, with all my frequently used stuff on the desktop itself.

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Currently my 2nd semester in class is getting somewhat hectic with the addition of something called the “workcheck”, which means the lecturers making damn sure we aren’t leaving our assignments to the last minute. Which most of my classmates and myself are guilty of.

And I am about to be broke as well, what with EoY coming up (I’ve ordered my wig, but haven’t gone to tailor my costume), the Alter KOS-MOS(Swimsuit Ver.) costing around 180(thanks again to Panther for helping me preorder) and other miscellaneous stuff. I seriously need a job, and its time to stop being lazy to look for one.

Prayers ARE answered.

I am finally convinced that there is a god.

Allow me to explain.

Last week it was announced to us that we would be visitng Mediacorp studios, the local broadcasting station, to see how they film, watch how the pros work. I was excited to a certain extent, since I knew nothing of what we would watch, who we would see.

Just yesterday, I was telling some friends via in-game chat that I was praying Fiona Xie would be there.

She was there, which is why I am convinced there is a higher lifeform who grants wishes to random anons, such as myself.

Know your Memes

After conversing with several people who have never heard of 4chan, /b/, memes, the Rickroll etc, I’m starting to feel kinda sad. Especially 3 days ago, when I Rickrolled my class. Only 2 or 3 people got it, the rest laughed because I did the gay hand actions. In an effort to make memes more known to the unfortunate fool layman who enters this blog, whether by chance or intentionally, I shall list some of the more popular memes here. Most of these memes originated from 4chan, the most random imageboard on the planet. Or at least, /b/ is. Obviously.

Team Blue Figure Shoot coverage + New header image UP!

Begone, ugly image header! Hopefully this looks nicer

Yesterday I went for the Team Blue Figurative Story Fantasy shoot @ Japanese Gardens. Present were Panther and his photographer Justin, chibihien, FarizAsuka and his brother Infestor51/TheFuzzy, Feidamu-san, wcloudxkumo, Yumeno and of course, me.

Panther brought a total of 6 figures (Blanc Neige, Elwing, Mao and Kureha from Shining Wind; Suzume from Sengoku Lance; Shigyoku Lynx from Animal Girl Tandem Twin); chibihien brought his Fate Testarossa from MGL Nanoha, the biggest figure there yesterday because of her cape; Fariz brought his Saika S. Farnese from Pastel Chimes Continue; Fei brought Liu Mei Feng from Shuraki Trinity and Takamachi Nanoha from MGL Nanoha; kumo brought Yami from To-LOVE-Ru and Takamori Haruka from Beat Blades Haruka; Yumeno brought a little shit his figma Nagato Yuki (not in theme), and I brought Kasumi from Dead or Alive (also not in theme, but I thought it would be nice to take a few shots of her in Japanese Gardens ^^;)

Ugly banner is ugly

But I am working on a new banner which is hopefully better than that temporary piece of sh-

Also, I’m going for the TeamBlue Fgurative Story shoot later, so expect a post on that + pictures either later tonight or tomorrow.

EDIT: Just got back from the shoot, here’s a teaser shot

More to come tomorrow! Gotta do some color correction, levelling, shooping etc., so stay tuned~

BlazBlue @ TGS08 – New trailer!

With this, I am hazarding a guess that the game is probably 80-90% complete with final touches being put in place *cough*BALANCINGTHECHARACTERS*cough*. As mentioned in my earlier post on the game, the game is done by Arc System Works with their trademark hand-drawn sprites and over-the-top intricate backgrounds and effects. Shame GG2:Overture wasn’t true to tradition and became a wierd Dynasty Warrior-ish thing.

Without further ado, the trailer~

This trailer focuses more on the character stages, which have been truly excellent in the previous GGs. The insane amount of detail on the stages for BB is simply astounding, way better than everything ever done in the whole Guilty Gear series.

Arc has impressed yet again with beautiful visuals, and if the music tracks on the trailers are any indication, the music will be superb as well – yet another staple from Arc.

BRB, robbing a bank so I can go buy a PS3. (I’m joking. REALLY.)

Go Japan Matsuri: Yet another fail event.

Seriously, the standard of cosplay in Singapore seems to be dropping drastically.

I went for the Go Japan Matsuri @ Central with Yumeno and some other friends yesterday, and safe to say, it was exactly like GCA: made of fail.

The event itself is something like a promotion to get people to go to Japan. There was a cosplay competition, a singing competition (Japanese songs, of course) and some other stuff that I can’t recall and didn’t stay for. The main attraction was of course, the cosplay. Sadly.

For those who want to see pictures, check out SGCafe’s cosplay pictures section here.

But amongst the fail there were a few epics. Of all the cosplayers I saw there, 2 were, IMO, the best there.

1. Agnus from DMC4

Picture from here, credits to Greenzaku on SGCafe.

Spot on costume, and very in-character. He joined the competition, but didn’t win anything, which sucked. Some of his poses were so alike that I lol’d for half a minute straight.

2. Simca from Air Gear

Photo taken from here, credits to Usagi-san on SGCafe.

What can I say, other than “<3 Simca”? Hothothot. (P.S.: SIMCA IS MINE. Hands off, Yume.)

Needless to say, the Naruto/Bleach/D.Grayman/Code Geass/Vampire Knight cosplayers were there in full force. Boring. Seriously. Even though one or two were good or half decent, they get demerit points for cosplaying the most overdone anime.

Did I mention there were over nine thousand Ls?

Come on, gimme some Sekirei at AFA… please?

Ikkitousen: Eloquent Fist

Based on the Ikkitousen anime series, Eloquent Fist is a sidescrolling hack-and-slash for the PSP, released on the 2nd of October.

I don’t know exactly how to describe the genre of this game; Wiki calls it a “hybrid between fighting and adventure”, but my description is more accurate… sort of. To give you a better picture (pardon the pun):

Its like I said, a sidescrolling hack-and-slash, similar to those arcade games you find where you choose some Chinese character and bash your way through numerous enemies, beat a boss, and move on to the next stage.

There are two main modes that you can play; Story mode and Arcade mode. Story mode is divided into three parts, each with characters from the different schools. So far, I’ve only played the Nanyou Gakuin story; it was divided into 6 stages, though I’m not sure if all the three Stories are of same length. Arcade mode is divided into 7 stages. So far I’ve only completed Chouun Shiryuu’s Arcade mode, currently playing Kanu’s.

The four PSP buttons are assigned to Attack, Sweeping Attack, Burst Attack and Jump(I came up with those names as I don’t know the proper names for them ) . The right trigger makes your character run, the left trigger activates a temporary powerup buff. Each character generally has a standard attack combo (corrected by Ina), and an Attack+Sweeping combo. Sweeping Attacks do exactly as they say; they hit everything in front of the character within range and knocks enemies backwards. Burst Attacks hit enemies around the character and drains a little bit of health. The buff thing improves a character’s attack, but lasts only as long as the energy guage below the HP guage has anything in it.

There is also a Super attack, and an Ultimate attack (once again, names given by me), which does a large amount of damage to enemies on-screen. Super attacks take up 1/2 of your energy guage, whilst Ultimates take up 3/4 of the guage.

The game looks decent, plays quite well and is good for the general male (and minority of the female) population.

Nothing particularly special about the gameplay, its exactly the same as the arcade games. I’m only playing it for the fanservice; pantsu, ripped clothes, the staple of Ikkitousen. If you don’t like the arcade ones with the Chinese men and occasional woman-wrapped-like-a-dumpling, you may enjoy the fanservice, but if you’re one for gameplay, don’t expect too much.

Edit: I got my… ahem, permanent demo version here. ^^;