It’s 27th July for Malaysia, and guess what, its Starcraft 2′s release date!!! And yeah, as the title shown; This is my farewell post to World of Warcraft, and a Welcoming new dawn of Starcraft 2. I have been wanting to post this like ages ago, especially if you can see the date of my World of Warcraft subscription expiry:

Not to mention including a couple of cool replay videos from the beta. Well, the lack of time, laziness, and Fraps totally killing itself when i try to Fraps during Starcraft 2 and many other little things combined resulted in this huge delay.

Anyways i will try to keep it short on the farewell posting:

Yes, it is a reality, i am quiting World of Warcraft. No joke, no troll. If you still cannot believe it, i can’t and will not bother to further justify myself. I would also like to take the opportunity to apologize to the people from WoW that i have offended, as i sincerely would prefer leaving the game in peace despite all the trolling/hating i have done in the past. Not to mention apologies to my past/present guild mates for me mistreating them despite the support they have given me, and particularly to Misko/Rommorga for leaving so soon without a proper farewell. Hope that you may forgive me to those who are concerned.

Also i would like to thank everyone who have been with me since the creation of Death Infused guild. Particularly the folks from Australia/America, especially Febji, Menchi and Chiron (hope i am getting you guys correctly ^^;)  who came all over to Malaysia to visit us, and Inter for treating us to a very luxurious dinner over at Mandarin Oriental Hotel Kuala Lumpur. Last but not least, everyone from the HWL group, and my PVP arena teammates (Zulivan, Rommorga, Misko, Tocsitup, Spira for being the best teammates that i can count on regardless of what i may say in the past. All of you guys have been amongst the best WoW memories i had.

While this is the end of the journey for me on WoW, it doesn’t have to end entirely right all. I can always be contacted via email, IM, or even IRL/Phone call etc. You may get all the details from my about page right here: http://www.quazacolt.com/aboutcontact-me/.

Man, looking back on the 5+ long years i have been with the game and even my thread over at LYN here, it’s something that no money can buy. Thank you Blizzard Entertainment, for creating such an addicting game, and all the memories it had brought to me, and i will be counting you guys in the future for Starcraft 2 too! And again, Thank you everyone in WoW for all the good times i have had. I truly, and sincerely mean it from the bottom of my heart. To those i have missed out, much apologies as five years is a very long time to keep everyone in mind ^^;

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Now, moving on towards the future – Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty. The much anticipated Blizzard RTS, 12 years since the original Starcraft. Hell, its about time. And i will leave you with this awesome sc2 trailer clip:

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Just gotten Horo dakimakura and ‘datass‘ Himari figure from Chara-Ani last Saturday and i felt like doing a post about it, so here it is. Come to think of it, i have been leveling up quite a bit looking back at my previous Dakimakura post. With this new addition i will be having a total of 4 Dakimakuras lying around and while i wont be using 2 of them, 2 Horo able to interchange time to time to slow down wear and tear is definitely a good thing.

That said, i am not sure if i will even go back to the old polyester smooth knitt since the 2 way tricot just feels so much better. It does take a little bit of getting used to from the smooth knit, since its really smooth, though it doesn’t feel cheap like the non smooth knit polyester dakimakura would. As i have linked earlier, 2 way tricot is the general material you’d encounter on swim wears, so that probably would give you a good idea on how it may feel like.

The other 2 dakimakura i am having are single sided freebies from the Limited edition Sora no Otoshimono DVDs, and yes, they are using polyester. If i were to grade them, it would be 2 way tricot > smooth knit > normal polyester. Pretty much, already having Horo smooth knit dakimakura previously, i don’t see why i would want to have these angels take up more bed space than i can already spare. Seeing that they are angels in the first place, it is only logical that i let them fly

Anyways, lets start off with Himari from the anime Omamori Himari. Only reason i am liking her is due to her seiyuu being the same seiyuu as Horo – Koshimizu Ami. Pretty easy to figure it out, but yeah thought id make a mention anyways. And yes, her voice in Himari is very Horo-like

Yes, supposedly you get the limited edition if you pre-order early, and it includes another pair of pantsu lol.

Then we get some attached Chara-ani advertisements:

Really wanted to get this too as i like Misao, from Asura Cryin’.

Not sure who this is honestly.Someone from shangri la.

Here she is unboxed. What a nice pose

Naturally, the first damn thing after unboxing himari, would be to try out that elastic pantsu. I mean, Chara-ani figures are definitely a notch below the other figure makers such as Alter/MaxFactory/GSC/Kotobukiya, and the only damn reason to get her would be that pantsu gimmick.

Aww finger in the way. Well, if you’re wondering, no, it isn’t sculpted

Standard box, with the additional pantsu to change. One is your normal pantsu while the other is sorta a fundoshi/bikini pantsu.

This is the normal one. I actually had the fundoshi one put on and forgot to take pic. And since it was kinda hard to get it on, i’m too lazy to take it off again for the picture.

Here she is in the fundoshi, barely able to cover it

Look at that fancy kitty footwork. Was actually surprised that she was having her hands/feet perfectly placed on the keys as i first set her up.

Well, Chara-Ani ain’t so bad after all, i mean, himari is absolutely cute in this shot XD Well, could use better shading for her skin/hair, and better hair/ear/tail sculpting. Then again, for ~5-6k yen with a pantsu gimmick, this is actually pretty damn good.

Next up is my new Horo dakimakura:

The more ecchi side

The non-ecchi-less-interesting-clothed side. lol

Bottom end of the dakimakura, with the zipper shown.

Notice how the zipper is much wider, especially when compared to my previous dakimakura. And this makes it much easier to fit in the body.

As you can see on the above 2 pictures, very stretchy in material too, and again, makes putting on the cover a breeze.

Oh heh, gotten a little too far in demonstrating the cover material.

Comparing the 2 dakimakuras together. Notice that the new one is longer, yes, its 160x50cm compared to the previous standard sized 150x50cm.

Closer shot comparing the 2 dakimakuras. Wish i could have both at the same time, however bed space is limited, so i will just interchange them to reduce usage wear and tear.

Anyways, I’ve came across a recent upstart in people showing their affection to 2D recently, such as this from sankakucomplex.com (click below spoiler to show):

[[Visit blog to check out this spoiler]]

Lets not forget this from Atalude.net. Admittedly, i have already having plans for a having my own showing of affection to top off sc.com right after seeing it. Quite disappointed that shinn87 from atalude.net not only beaten me on posting it sooner, he totally 1up’d me for the stunt he pulled, and lets remember, it is in Ausfailia after all where DFC is banned wwwwww. Well, hope you enjoy the post, and do check out shinn’s blog that i just linked too, awesome comrade pulling awesome stuff.

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Following the previous ANIMAF post here (which also contains info of what is ANIMAF), the 3rd trailer and nominees video are up.

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I know, kinda late for the 3rd trailer, sorta had a lot of things going on and didn’t really gone through my emails thoroughly, apologies on that ^^;

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Seriously, this is the best i can do for the picture. sorry. (If you got the book/scan of a high res Malaysia, do let me know)

Yet more hiatus, and i am about to go through a month without a single post (dang!) until my colleague sent me a very hilarious email. Funny, and at the same time a little bit sad considering how true most, if not all of the below listed things are. Without further delays, enjoy your read of what is it like being a Malaysian:

This is Malaysia – What A True Malaysian Should Know
NATIONAL INSTANT FOOD: Maggi Mee (the cause of my rapid balding? D:)

NATIONAL BREAKFAST : Nasi Lemak (gogo Malaysian to the road of obesity)

NATIONAL LUNCH : Nasi Ayam (Chicken Rice, literally)

NATIONAL SUPPER : Roti Canai & Teh Tarik

NATIONAL EXCUSE FOR BEING LATE : Traffic Jam (oh boy lol)

NATIONAL CONDOM : None. Most Malaysians still feel embarrassed buying condoms. So they rushed into a 7-11, hurriedly grab the nearest pack, any pack, pay and leave before the cashier can even blink an eye. (come to think of it, I’ve yet to witness someone purchasing condoms, so this could be very true LOL)

NATIONAL FAKE ILLNESS FOR GETTING MC (MEN) : Food Poisoning

NATIONAL FAKE ILLNESS FOR GETTING MC (WOMEN) : Menstrual Pain (Really? lol)

NATIONAL EXCUSES GIVEN BY WOMEN WHEN REFUSING SEX : Headache, kids not asleep, maid not asleep,mother- in-law around, early appointment, food not digested yet, aircon not cold enough, aircon too cold, nail polish not dry yet, forgot to take the pill, sleepy, stomach cramps, period, haven’t remove make-up, haven’t shower, no water supply, going to watch ‘Akademi Fantasia’, depress, no mood, etc… (wow, i am quite impressed at the length)

NATIONAL EXCUSES GIVEN BY MEN WHEN REFUSING SEX : None. Malaysian men never refuse sex. (even for otaku/gamers? really?)

NATIONAL CURE FOR DIARRHEA : Cap Kaki Tiga. Down one bottle with warm water and you are all ‘dried up’. (“cap kaki tiga” = 3 legged brand? XD)

NATIONAL CURE FOR HEADACHES : Panadol. The ‘cure for all’. If it fails we have another secret weapon – Tiger Balm.

NATIONAL CURE FOR DIZZINESS: Minyak Angin Cap Kapak. (“axe brand wind oil” lol direct translations are fun)

NATIONAL CAUSE OF DIZZINESS (FOR YUPPIES) : Happy Hours.

NATIONAL INSTANT CURE FOR DIZZINESS (FOR YUPPIES) : The sight of a police road block.

NATIONAL RICE COOKER : NATIONAL Rice Cooker (literally, lol)

NATIONAL RUBBISH DUMP : Anywhere… As long as it is not your house.

NATIONAL MOST MIS-PRONOUNCED NAME : Carrefour. Sometimes even pronounced as Carry 4!

NATIONAL ANSWER FOR ‘WHERE ARE YOU’ ? : - on the way lar.

NATIONAL OFFICIAL TIME FOR BEING LATE : - 10 minutes

NATIONAL REASON FOR PRICE INCREASE : Petrol naik lagi kawan… semua barang pun kena naik ler… inclusive chicken meat? (“petrol increase again friend… all items also have to increase”)

NATIONAL REASON FOR PETROL INCREASE : Still cheaper than other country la….

NATIONAL EXCUSE FOR CAUSING TRAFFIC JAM : there was accident on the other side of the road.. of course must slow down and tengok-tengok, kaypoh-kaypoh lah! (“of course must slow down and see-see, busybody-busybody”)

NATIONAL REASON WHEN REJECTING INVITATION : ’I got some work to do la..u all go first la..’

NATIONAL MINISTERIAL REASON FOR INCREASING TOLL RATES : Orang cakap mau naik mesti mau naik lah! Lu ingat ini jalan saya punya bapak punya kah?! (“people said want to increase, sure must increase! you think this road belongs to your father?!” rofl man)

NATIONAL EXCUSE FOR JUMPING QUEUE (TRAFFIC JAM OR WHAT EVER QUEUE) : Everybody doing what lah…….

NATIONAL EXCUSE NOT PAYING SAMAN ACCORDING TO DUE DATE : Relax ler… government will give discount one of these days

NATIONAL EXCUSE TO BRIBE (ANY CONDITION) : Give them minum kopi lar (“Give them drink coffee” lol, i never really ever understood why coffee and not tea, or other beverages )

=update=
notes and reference links updated

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Heh 1 week of lagging before i get to post this up. Ill put up a later post to give you an insight on all the lagging, however for now, we’ll focus a lil’ on last week’s VGL – just simply awesome! Almost a week has passed since VGL 2010 at KL Malaysia, yet the memories of it is still very fresh making it seemed as if it just happened yesterday. With your childhood gaming memories being evoked altogether while you indulge within a live Orchestra being performed, it’s no wonder VGL being a success over a long 5 years since its debut at the Hollywood Bowl on July 6 2005.

When i first enter the Orchestra hall with Sichiri, the seating we picked was quite perfect with ample leg space as there is a walkway separating our section from the front most section. The feeling was grand and i immediately had the satisfied feeling of a well spent hefty MYR250. While the seats are being filled, as it is almost 8:30pm, a short music video is being shown and oh boy, not only it is hella hilarious, the video immediately brings back a lot of memories be it gaming, or even anime. (do let me know if any of you guys can remember the title of the video, kinda wanna re-watch it and look up the lyrics ^^;)

Initially i was sorta in a bind on how to write up this post, as words can hardly describe the feeling of an Orchestra performance. Thankfully video recording is allowed such as these here so long you don’t interfere with the performance and/or the audience so it would be easier for me to just link them instead of figuring out how to write it up in words. While i personally do not think those videos do the performance justice, however to those that are unfortunate to miss out VGL 2010 Malaysia, that’s the best you can get, sorta a ‘better than nothing’ deal, and hopefully, you’d be convinced to not miss out the next VGL near you.

A couple of highlights i would love to personally make in no particular order:

VGL Pre-opening video clip

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VGL Rockman medley

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I was a bit sad when i couldn’t guess the answer from Tommy’s hints, more sequels titles than the rest, yeap, Megaman. (or its japanese name, rockman) This totally brought back a lot of childhood memories as i was a huge fan of the old rock/megaman series. Having it played from the old famicom/SNES cartridge consoles, to the playstation 1 CD based console, recognizing the stages and the bosses of the old games when the background video is being played, really moved me. And being an anime fan as well, having known of nico nico douga, a japanese online video streaming site, sorta like the “Japanese version of YouTube”, there is a rather popular nico nico medley (which i am including below) which featured a portion of the music from rockman and fans were quick to chant it out during the performance. Mainly from the ComicFiesta people I’d assume heh.

Nico Nico Medley Orchestrated version

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Okkusenman (English Subtitles)

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VGL Warcraft Suite

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Of course, the ever popular Warcraft with its latest MMORPG game having well over 11 to 12 million subscribers. The moment the video started with the “Ten years” prior to “of Warcraft” introduction, almost everyone in the hall knew what was coming – Warcraft suite from VGL and the hall totally went crazy with the cheering and clapping. It mainly features the parts from the WoW/Warcraft 3 games such as Legends of Azeroth from the first WoW login screen music, first WoW Trailer music and “a call to arms” from Warcraft 3 trailer linked below.

WoW first trailer

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Warcraft III trailer

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Very satisfying performance, and to add in the satisfaction, when Tommy went asking “horde or alliance”, horde chants were very noticeably louder. FOR THE HORDE LOL and to add towards the injury, Alliance got boo’ed by the overwhelming horde XD

Norihiko Hibino also captured the audience with his Saxophone, playing the very smooth Snake Eater from Metal Gear Solid 3:

VGL MGS3: Snake Eater

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Finishing their performance is the ever so popular One Winged Angel from the Final Fantasy 7 franchise. Well, with the earlier Kingdom Hearts performance and this OWA performance, the conclusion of it is that Square (now Square Enix) are just shit heads for not granting the rights to VGL for the videos. First we have Kingdom Hearts showing various Disney pictures, now we get “Cosplay FTW!” for Final Fantasy’s OWA, kinda kills the mood lol. Notice the middle part of the video with the chocobo and the end of it:

VGL Final Fantasy 7: One Winged Angel

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Of course, whats a great performance without encores? VGL brought us with not one, but THREE encores with the Castlevania Rock, Chrono Trigger and to me, the best moment of all, Chrono Cross opening. I wasn’t quite expecting this until the first tune played right after Chrono Trigger, and wow, with Tommy and Jack playing on acoustic guitar, Norihiko with the Saxophone, Laura with her flute (aka Flute Link heh), backed by the National Symphony Orchestra, it was just totally breathtaking.

VGL Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross

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And lets not forget the original game opening:

Chrono Cross game opening

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note: Credits goes to the respective uploaders to all the above videos on YouTube, as well as their respective games/titles, and to Video Games Live of course.

Just like any game, victories must be accompanied with epic loots, for me, it would be the VGL Volume 1 CD signed by Tommy/Jack/Norihiko/Laura personally on the spot shown below:

Special thanks to Solomon aka Wisefreeman for the autograph session tip off. Else me and Sichiri had to go through the long line and risk missing this out. Thats all for now, i hope we will get another round of this, and just for the sake of it, FASTER than the Singaporeans too! LOL

No doubt, i will be attending it again should that happen

=update=

updated to include the Okkusenman video with english subtitles
and i just got the pre-opening vid from a figure.fm comrade XD

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Whoopsie, long time no post! Been really tied up at work recently, and even my WoW play time is basically reduced to weekends. Much sadness D: Hell, i even just had a 2 weeks straight of overtimes. (at least i still get to have my weekends, i guess lol) Oh well, at least the money would be worth it.

Looking back on the initial draft date, it dates back to 5th of February, wow, 2 months of lagging for this post to come out rofl. Even the VGL inquiry email was dated on March 14. /endrants

Anyways, It is just less than 2 days till Video Games Live for Malaysian Music/Orchestra/Gaming fans, so here’s an informational post regarding the event.

Again, if you haven’t gotten your tickets for the event this coming Saturday 17-04-2010, you may head over here: http://www.ticketpro.com.my/jnp/concert/new-age/376848-vgl.html which lets you purchase the tickets online, as well as rough details on VGL, and a promotional video. There will be a noon and night session for VGL, and as of 12:54AM 16-04-2010 GMT+8, below are the current seating’s for each session respectively with grey = occupied

17-04-2010 2:30pm

17-04-2010 8:30pm

For more detailed information, kindly visit the following from the official website:

http://www.videogameslive.com/index.php?s=dates

http://www.videogameslive.com/index.php?s=info

And as i have mentioned earlier on the VGL inquiry email, ill just provide a pretty straight forward Q&A for you guys:

- Are we allowed on photography or any video recording during the performance?

in terms of photography and video recording, it is strictly not allowed during the concert.

- Is food/drinks allowed?

Food & drinks are also not allowed into the premise.

- What is the current track list for the performance?

The tracklist will not be revealed as it would be a surprise for all the Video Game Music fans who will be coming to the concert. But we ensure you that it’ll be most enjoyable for all.

- How long is the performance expected to last including the break time if any? If there is a break time, how long is the break?

The total showtime will run for 2.5 hours with 20 minutes of intermission time.

- Is there any required dress code for attending this event? for example, are guys required to wear long pants or just casual shorts would do?

There will not be any particular dresscode for the event. In fact, you are welcome to dress as a cosplay character if you want to.

Should be simple enough for everyone, and consider this a small personal request to everyone attending: PLEASE abide by their rules and regulations and not considering yourself doing anyone a favor by recording the orchestra with your crappy phone cams and most certainly not feeling proud after being caught and/or escorted out the hall. (yes i am talking about the few certain people during the May’N concert)

Speaking of the May’N concert, lol that was drafted forever, but yeah, will be up soon enough (lol). Until then, hope you enjoy this yet another informational post by DMM.

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Ok since my information on the FAQ are a little outdated considering it’s from March, according to our VGL guy (lol?) right here:

So to sum it up:

OK on photography/video recording, however no pro stuff. So, bring your noob gears i guess.

more updates:

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Well, lol much at the late post, to the point my ‘extra’ birth day plans/planned birthday post went gg, still, doing it anyways as some people may have miss it regardless.

Starting off: To all ticket holders purchased before 23/02/10, your ticket stands a chance to win an autograph from May’N. Simply put, 80 lucky draw ticket holders will be getting an autograph on the exclusive May’n BIG☆WAAAAAVE Asia tour poster. Whats more, one lucky winner will be getting an Exclusive Sheryl Nome figure by megahouse. Refer post by linkinstreet on LYN: here. As well as the facebook fan page here: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4205065&id=261617925333

quoting the most important detail:

Q: How will I know if I am the winner?

A: If you are one of the 80 winners, your 4-digit serial number will be published after 26/02/10 on the official May’n Facebook  Fan page.

And as you’ve probably guessed on the post title – yes, i am one of the winner too lol.

Lastly:

May’N will be having a special appearance at AnimeTech L-1.23 at Sunway Pyramid later on today, 06/03/10 Saturday at 4PM. Concert ticket holders will stand a chance to win the above listed giveaway prizes. To those who have not yet gotten their ticket, now is your last chance to do so, and guess what, AnimeTech members get 30% off the ticket price, and renewal is only MYR10 while new membership costs MYR20.

That’s all for the updates, see you guys tomorrow at Sunway as i will be there and most importantly, Sunday at KL Live for yet another awesome concert by May’N.

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Long time no post lol, (1 month absence, pretty much) well heres an icebreaker – Last Saturday morning i had a Blazblue gathering with Lowyat forum Blazblue players at V-Station. Attendees were: Myself, Sichiri, Reis, Susanoo, Incx, and Edmundsiew.

The location is at SS2 Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, on a dreaded ~11AM Morning. Me/Sichiri/Reis arrived a bit earlier and had breakfast at a restaurant beside the place. Once the rest arrived, we just went in, with myself/Reis/Sichiri bringing in our own Arcade sticks and Incx with his own controller, Susanoo with his own BlazBlue game, and off we go firing up the game:

Patching only took less than 2-3 minutes, and you can see Reis can’t wait start the game lol:

So while we wait i got around taking pictures, obviously without myself (/gg):

Susanoo was supposed to take pictures for this gathering i suppose, until i whipped out a DSLR lol. STILL! videos are much welcomed and i am not sure if Susanoo recorded any nice footage, like the parts where we were cheering on anyone against Sichiri’s Tager rofl. Oh and heres a better view on the “station” itself:

Onwards to the games, heres a heated match between Incx’s Hakumen vs Sichiri’s Iron Tager:

And this one should be Reis’ Ragna vs Incx’s Noel:

Well that’s it for the lazy write up and pictures lol. We finished our session after around 3ish Hours. It should’ve been MYR50 per hour for the room during weekends, however since we brought our own controller/arcade sticks/game, we got a nice discount for weekday price of MYR30/hour and it netted us MYR90 and after the split its MYR15 per person Definitely enjoyed this session and looking forward for more. Learned a lot more about the game from everyone and especially Incx since he plays Hakumen just like i do too

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If you haven’t heard about this news from Danny Choo long before, well here is the slowpoke update by me heh. May’N is having her Asia tour for 2010 and coincidentally, her Malaysia stop is on the same week as my birthday. Needless to say, especially from my previous postings of May’N, i am definitely going to this concert and no doubt ill be attempting to score first row seating’s again. I mean, i did it for AFA 2008 and 2009, gotten her signature (oh lol whiteboard rage), gotten a couple of her singles, might as well already right? rofl

Anyways for those who doesn’t know who May’N is (oh how could you ) visit her official blog/website here, and the official tour website which also contains her profile.  She is going to be making 3 stops for her Asia tour which is:

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: March 7th

Hong Kong: March 19th

Taipei, Taiwan: March 21st

And the following press release quoting from danny choo.com:

(18th January, 2010) The organizers of Mayʼn BIG☆WAAAAAVE!! Asia Tour 2010 are excited to announce Mayʼnʼs first ever concert tour of Asia, which promises to deliver the latest hits from her chart topping repertoire of successful music releases. Her first concert of the tour is scheduled to take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on the 7th of March 2010, while her concert in Hong Kong will be taking place on the19th of March 2010, followed by the concert in Taipei, Taiwan on the 21st of March 2010.

“After my Budokan, to come to Asia again is a great honor for me. I love Asia and look forward to be connected with everyone all around the world through my music. I look forward to meeting everyone! Letʼs sing together!” Translated quote from Mayʼn.

For her Asian tour, Mayʼn will be delivering a full concert experience, featuring specially choreographed dance moves and exclusive performances. Extremely popular with the Asian audience, Mayʼn has performed to sell-out concert audiences of over 5,000 twice at Singaporeʼs annual Anime Festival Asia event, and full house audiences in South Korea and Guangzhou, China.

Set to perform to a full house at Japanʼs iconic Budokan Concert hall to an audience of over 9,000 on January 24th this year, the concert follows suit her latest chart topping releases of her latest album “Styles” (Debut at #7 on the Japan Oricon Charts) and her Anime Macross Frontier mini-album “Universal Bunny” (Debut at #3 on the Japan Oricon Charts).

For the full official press release, visit here.

Speaking of slowpoke though, i am quite disappointed in the fact that concert details for Hong Kong (which is taking place on March 19th) is already out while Malaysia that’s taking place on 7th March is still lacking any info at all, be it location, or ticket pricing. I guess its built within Malaysian blood for slow poking literally everything? oh wells.

Anyways from Danny’s post itself, see if you can spot me(don’t cheat XD):

Also having a Lowyat.net thread, Linkinstreet from wakarimasenlol got a picture of her AFA 2009 concert from Music Japan Japanese broadcast(IINM) which i also appeared in:

See if you can spot me in this lol. If the resolution isn’t helping, the original size is available here, from the LYN thread post here.

Hope to see you guys in Malaysia (or hey, you guys over Singapore/Thailand, or anywhere for that matter! ) going even if you’re not a fan. Supporting this concert is indirectly supporting other artists that may potentially come over to Malaysia depending on how successful this concert goes. Will most likely make a new post or updating this one once we get info for her Malaysia concert, here’s to hoping for a good pricing/location for her Malaysia concert. ^^

=update=

Ok ticketing information are out and below are the details (damn flash, seriously):

Doors open: 7pm
Show start: 8pm
Venue: KL Live, 1st floor, Life Centre, 20 Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Google map here.
Ticket price: MYR 198 for outlets, MYR 218 at the door.
Ticketing starts: 9th February 2010 (Also available online)
Enquiry:
Phone: +65 6325 9871
Email:  info@mayn.asia
note: This is a free standing event, entrance to the venue will be granted on a first come first serve basis (wtf?)

For more info and further details for the ticketing outlets, don’t forget to visit the official website: http://www.mayn.asia/

=2nd update=

Ok i have sent an email some time ago to further clarify some things, which went:

Hi There,

I wish to inquire more details regarding the May’N Concert in Malaysia on the 7th of March. First off:

1) It is mentioned that the ticketing starts on 9th Feb, does this mean that on 12AM Sharp 9th Feb i am able to purchase the tickets?
2) I have heard that the online purchase is only for Singaporeans, is this true? Why can’t Malaysians purchase via online method?
3) Also please clarify regarding “entrance to the venue will be granted on a first come first serve basis”, does this mean even if i have a valid ticket, and the event is full i am denied of entry?
4) Considering this is a free seating event (why do this in the first place and not have priority seatings for people willing to spend more/buy early?), are we allowed to camp early for the event so that we can have front row ‘seatings’?
5) Also, based on past experiences, just to be sure, are photography/video recording allowed?
6) Will light sticks be provided?
7) Is is possible for an autograph event/fan session after the concert?

And finally they replied a short while ago before this update:

1. Yes the ticket sales starts at 12am sharp on 9th feb
2. No, Malaysian can purchase the tickets online too
3. No, every ticket holder will gain access to the venue, that sentence means that people who comes first will be more likely to get better spot at the concert as they go in first (front rows)
4. You can come earlier to queue for best spot but regarding camping we are not sure is it allowed for KL Live, we will suggest you to wait for our confirmation before you start camping there
5. No photography and Video taking is allowed in concerts, action will be took to anyone who is caught recording or taking photo in the scene
6. Light sticks will not be provided
7. Regarding the autograph even/fan session, it is not decided yet, please wait for our further announcement

So there you go

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From Spice and Wolf II Blu-ray special 01 i present you: Sleeping Horo! Ain’t she adorable? :3 Seriously though, Death Meets Moe just went through some rather major updates and optimization and the most apparent one would be the site’s loading improvement. (which i am still working on improving it further)

Out of random: Time to time, and especially lately, I’ve been randomly getting comments/praises/questions if I’m a designer or something, I’m really flattered to say the least, and thank you for the kind words. However not to disappoint (idunnolol), i work as IT support and my creativity is by no means anywhere the level of an actual designer would be. The site, and everything on it (be it my photography) is entirely my hobby/passion, and I have received a TON of help from my Danish friend Jesper (Aphexdk) upon creating this site. If you want to get to know an actual professional designer, you could probably check out Valho’s site.

Anyways back to the actual news post, I am sure frequent visitors would’ve noticed the occasion side bar breaking and comment section going bonkers on the colors etc. Well that’s all done (for now anyways heh) and the sites fully updated with the latest word press 2.9 and having its theme and layout tweaked a little. Not to forget, as mentioned above, i have moved all the site’s counter/statistics plugins/widgets to another isolated page so it will not load/called upon on any pages and its resulting in huge performance improvement to the site.

As quoted from the new ‘DMM Site stats‘ page if you haven’t been there already: (do pay it a visit, it’ll be a little surprising )

note: This page works fine with Firefox and Chrome but for some reason IE 8 (I am not even going to bother on anything lower than 8 now, sorry) will not display the right sidebar showing some weird ’Message: ‘gadgets’ is undefined’ error. You can go compatibility mode to get it out, however it just completely ravages the sidebar/site layout which is pointless. It only happens to this page and things will go back to normal once you navigate away by clicking ‘Home‘ or the title above the header itself (which im even linking it within this note too.

If you happen to know a fix, do let me know via: http://www.quazacolt.com/aboutcontact-me/

while (LayoutFuxored==1 && browser==IE) {changeBrowser()}

Of course, this wouldn’t be happening without a few great people helping me along, and in no particular order, i would like to thank Exiled_Gundam, Jesper (Aphexdk), Dominik, you guys have been great help for sure, so again, thank you very much. (and Happy belated birthday to Exiled Gundam ^^)

=update=

If you are still encountering layout/css errors/problems, do refresh your browser as it is most likely using an old cache. Oh and somehow the ‘read more’ function decided to broke on this post, which i fixed it manually later oTL

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