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):

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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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Despite my efforts to keep up April’s post count, and possibly improve it, i was being lazy slammed down with many BS which includes but not limited to – My PC being dead. So hey, might as well turn this into a blog post eh? I’ll promise to make this one good, so long you stick through it (oh and Solomon, ill definitely get those pictures processed >_<)

Anyways, PC just went down recently, and got restored with a new Motherboard. Basically, i overclock, and i have a light overclocking profile that have my PC running 24/7 for torrents. Considering the recent weather change for the worse, (read: burning) my old Asus Commando motherboard finally gave in, but that’s not all, it dragged the PSU’s 8pin 12v plug along /facepalm.

Its not all that bad i guess, i took the opportunity to clean up the entire casing and all of its fans and heat sinks that’s stacked with pitch black pile of dust. The crappy part is that i have to pay for a new motherboard. (about MYR750)

Speaking of the motherboard, its a pretty awesome Asus Maximus II Formula, and boy is it EASY to overclock with this baby.

There’s still about 20+ pictures of the process, and the board itself being hooked up with the IFX14 heat sink, and eventually inside the casing. Also showed some minor cable tidying work (yes i suck at keeping things tidy lol, but hey it ain’t that bad XD). Ill have all of those grouped up in a mini-Gallery just a little bit further down this post.

Anyways, i started rebuilding the PC like 10-11pm? It dragged on until 7-8AM i believe and i gave in to Horo and crashed out for the day. About 6ish AM i went off to grab a chilling Peel fresh apple drink loaded with ice and i thought, why not spend that time with mai waifu?

So after i finished my apple juice and some quality time with Horo, i continued on with the PC, and finally, it is done. Even mai waifu approves:

And the final touches – turning the damn thing on XD

And here is the gallery:

In a super slowpoke closing (some 3 months slow), I’ve got some pictures taken when i bought a new 1TB HDD. Some of you may have already noticed the additional 1TB increment from my PC specs page though, totalling 2.5TB on this PC alone

Enjoy them, along with a slightly related video (again, also slowpoke, so you’ve probably seen it) regarding HDDs.

Do take note that the above pics are 3 month old ago, and my PC was well alive at that time ^^;

Lastly, the video:

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About last 2 weeks ago(07-03-09), folks from The Figure Mall held a gathering at Valho’s place, for god knows whatever reasons. (I think it was due to monday being a public holiday, maybe. I knew i spent mondays sleeping instead of slaving working at office) Since my birthday just passed a few days ago(05-03-09), i figured that id throw up some self gratification surprise and secretly planned for my own birthday cake – a Horo Cake.

In the end it turns out that i was outplayed and got thrown a surprise cake by TFM folks as well. Oh wells, no harm in having more cakes right? especially when it doubles my age having twice the amount of candles stuck on both cakes LOL! Honestly, the Horo cake turned out to be better than i expected. Considering the sample photos the cake shop people shown me from previous works. (they were god awfully horrible lol) Obviously it will be off from the original anime/manga art, but heck, for something made out of syrup/cream, and the fact that the baker knows jack about anime, its all good.

As for the gathering pictures, this time we will be having pictures from Makie as well, a TFM member, with his Canon 450D (same camera as mine haha) taking shots of me, since i cant really snap myself My pictures will be watermarked while his are left without. The order of pictures will also be *slightly* off as its a pain to organize them along with Makie’s pictures XD

Without further delays, PICTAR TIEM!!111elevennipponbanzai~

The 2 Cakes for the evening

A Close up on horo

A close  up on the tiramisu cake

Time to sing that birthday song again~

Cake cutting time

Decided to fap at the speed of light before the cut, but canon 450D was too fast even for me

And finally the cake is sliced apart.

More pics within the mini gallery:

lastly, we even had some bullshit nice time at the local mamak restaurant with their mediocre food accompanied by some completely shitty more than friendly service… oh wells. Still, the cake was awesome, Orange sponge layered cake may seem ordinary, but it was definitely better than the tiramisu cake. Horo sweet syrup face aside, i suppose its mainly due to the overrated popularity of tiramisu cakes and most people are tired of it. Some fresh orange cake on the other hand (prolly it being “ordinary”) was actually very refreshing and definitely more satisfying.

Thats it again for another post. Hope you guys like this Horo cake i got made. Definitely isnt the first one done, in fact on some random googling, someone else made a Horo cake somewhere around 2008
Anyways, next post is almost done as well, so stay tuned

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Sorry for the missed out pagebreak to avoid the main page from being flooded. Sorta forgotten that, and when i realize it, wordpress/server/isp seems to took a shit and i couldnt get to edit the post… and im late for work -_-;

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Dakimakura, popular topic amongst otaku, very difficult to obtain depending on various situations or maybe blantant bullshit excuse, and, i got one. Thats right, journey through all 9 hells and the seven seas around 4 months of searching after hardening my resolve to acquire such an item, and around/over MYR700 in cash, yes. It is done. The irony of this post, or more accurately, post title? I actually had a pretty bad fever along with cough/flu altogether (on my friggin Birthday too /cry). But of course, my dakimakura is completed, and there she was, by my side as i recover from my sickness.

Now where should i start? While i had everything drafted, i just couldnt quite compile everything altogether into a decent write up for this post. Hell, to be honest it was supposed to be 2 post with the first one being the cover arrival and the other being the completed dakimakura as it took me about 3-4 days after my cover arrived to get the dakimakura body made. Oh, go die in a fire or something Valho.

Right! the beginning. Well, there isnt really one, ive ALWAYS wanted a dakimakura since i got hooked into the otaku world and things broadened with my paycheck, credit card access, and know-hows on online purchasing for anime merchandises. My excuse reason back then, was just simply my paycheck not being fat enough to be stupid and spend ~MYR400+ excluding shipping for a piece of cloth. That, and i didnt particularly had any character that im really really fond of to the point i want to hug her every night to sleep.

What happened down the road? Well theres Jcdish being a poisonous fiend spreading his dakimakura plague around TFM, and me having a promotion with a slightly fatter paycheck, some insanity, and thats it. Unfortunate that i couldnt be the first idiot in TFM to blow a few hundred for a piece of cloth, that obviously went to Jcdish. I do however got a nice idiot number 2 with a limited/exclusive dakimakura from Comiket 74/75

With all that said, i bring you the main event – PICTARS!

 The cover finally arrived around 27th Feb 2009

Why horo as my daki if you may ask? Quite frankly, i dont even know. Most likely from the anime? Good voice acting from Koshimizu Ami prolly played one of the most important factor in making the character “Horo” amongst my favorite. Anyways to continue the pictures…

Dakimakura body obtained on 03-03-09. The day i started feeling sick

And just like in the anime, Horo being the naughty girl she is, taking up half my bed and almost my entire pillow D:

Seriously though, with that kinda alluring pose beckoning, its just so hard to resist. Now if you would excuse me -

Originally i was half naked without a shirt, but halfway down that i figured i might as well get dressed so i dont scare away little of what my readerbase is.
All in all i was laughing so hard while doing it. And if you’re gonna ask, that was “Take 2″.
Special thanks goes to Jcdish for being a poisonous faggot,  Serena from ComicFiesta forums for all her help in making this happen, The furniture guy (i believe, carpenter? lol) for making the body which sadly, i dont know his name duh! (friend of my mom)

Some links of interest: 
http://forums.comicfiesta.org/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=315
http://honestlywhatevergoes.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/getting-a-dakimakura-body/
http://honestlywhatevergoes.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/shes-here/ 
Hope you enjoy this post as with the rest, and thats it for now. 

p/s: No Horo’s were harmed during the making of this post.

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Happy new year 2009 to everyone from DMM! And since it is the year of the cow/moo/ox/things that gives milk, i hereby present you a random cowgirl image! Hope you guys enjoy that haha. Many things happened in 2008, namely the creation of this blog? LOL! Ive thought of providing some highlights of anime and what not, but thats pretty much covered by many many other blogs, so didnt feel like the right thing to do at the moment, especially with so many blog drafts to clear. (like the AFA/CF ones lol) MAYBE id do it sometime later but most likely not as by the time i got around it, it’d be meaningless

If you still would rather read up on those right NOW though, you can check out these 2 posts from wakarimasenlol and atarashi prelude from linkinstreet/shin respectively:
http://wakarimasenlol.com/2009/01/05/the-best-and-the-worst-of-2008/1508
http://www.atalude.net/archives/2008/12/31/the-final-say-my-anime-of-2008/

Moving on! Year 2008 ended in a big bang with the epic Ayaroll’d that I’ve so happen to participated in XD Pretty much left Malaysia in a bit of a spotlight attention thanks to Sankaku Complex.  Good or bad attention, now thats another story, as they say in showbiz, any PR is good PR

For more info/recaps on the epic that is Ayaroll, refer below links:
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/891946
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/892539
http://wakarimasenlol.com/2008/12/31/aya-in-malaysia/1484
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/12/31/otaku-stalk-aya-hirano-%e2%80%9chunt-her-down-bite-her-meat%e2%80%9d/
http://kurogane.animeblogger.net/2009/01/01/the-epic-rickroll-of-aya-hirano/

Got myself some Spice & Wolf Horo artbook, and a Haruhi artbook in hopes for Hiranomon Aya signature. While im a bit sour for the $$ pocket bleed, i had LOADS of fun on the hunt itself with the TFM/AS members on TFM chat room, and LYN /AS/ thread. Even bumped into some /AS/ folks at Kinokuniya bookstore. So much thanks to Aya Hirano for ending my year 2008 in a very memorable way

Also just recently i bought a bottle of Nippon Ringowork apple juice from Isetan KLCC. Im sure Horo would love it and i have plans for this beautiful bottle. (Honest to god i seriously bought this apple juice cuz of the bottle. Hail Japanese poisons)

Check out the above items’ gallery below:
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High Quality Full resolutions, click the spoiler for them:

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Earlier Christmas i even celebrated christmas with TFM folks at Aiko‘s house at PTJ. Far, i know, but the cake was not a lie so it was worth it. Maybe…

Even earlier, i had my 2nd Yami shipped… along with MAI WAIFU – HORO PILLOW COVER XD

Shes like… so very soft, and fluffy, and very good to hug with. In fact, after bringing my pillow to the gathering at aiko’s place, i instantly poisoned Aiko and Loonsave into getting their own Anime pillow. Great success? Id say so myself.

Last but not least, I got my new blog cards printed! They get some minor touch up with some minor changes here and there. Overall they will look *slightly* better and people get to know my IRL name in case they somehow feel uncomfortable addressing me by my online nick XD
Not putting them up this time around as im rather lazy and there isnt that much of a change since the last one honestly. If for SOME reason you think im wimping out from my RL name being posted, all you need is a whois to my domain and thats it.  You can refer to my previous post for the card pictures here: http://www.quazacolt.com/events/2008/11/acf08-coverage/

Considering the lateness of this post into 2009, i have to mention this rather epic and misfortunate happening to jolt up my year 2009. On 05-06-2009 night, i was very tired for having almost no sleep from Sunday. While hugging my Horo pillow, i just fell asleep around 11pm-12am ish. It was very early considering my usual sleep times and with that, i woke up to a very pleasant morning considering the hours ive slept through.  On 06-01-2009 morning, after i parked my car at the Kepong KTM train station, while on my way to the station itself, i encounter some 2 indians (IN B4 RACIST) and an indian lady crying and begging them. There was quite a crowd of almost 10 people watching the show so i thought it was your usual “house drama” and decided to ignore and just move on. Before i even know it, there was a maschete thats at arm’s length and also rusted, pointed to my arm and one of the indian demanded my money and belongings/handphone.

At that moment, that pleasant morning was totally shattered and “o shi-” + “FUCK!” was all that was in my head. Thankfully im pretty much a poor person (no seriously, lol), and only had like 50+MYR on me, with me showing the robber my wallet (the one i used since primary school, like over 12-13 years ago? lol) is completely empty and im still using a Nokia 3310 handphone and upon taking that out, the robber got totally uninterested and just took my cash, leaving me unharmed.

After leaving the scene i tried to call 999 (our police hotline) with my handphone and i get “the number is not in service” crap. like, lol. So i end up going to Kepong Police station to make a report and upon reporting, then they started sending out patrols. Like seriously, at that time, i think the robbers are prolly in their homes or something lol’ing over the EZ cash, or perhaps hating me for being such a piss poor victim. I mean, with so many bystanders watching the show, with some even within the safety of their own homes (as that alley is between 2 rows of houses), considering the number, versus just 2 robbers, not only they did not help, they didnt even pick up the phone to make a police report? Fantastic! I hope the robbers next target would be those faggots right in their own homes.

Ending this, as usual, doing my best to get the pics out, so stay tuned for them
Many thanks to those who continue to stick with DMM ^^

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- Fixed wrong link on Aiko’s blog (lol sorry aiko XD)
- HQ links posted in spoiler plugin
- pictures rotated on the standard gallery and HQ links
- Havent really ran through QC passes on this posts so if you found any errors dont hesitate to let me know via commenting or IM/emailing me.

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As usual with the slowness of updates for the site(nothing new here i believe >.>). While it is *somewhat* true that im a big slacker and more or less would munch up any amount of excuse for slacking to play WoW watch animes, it just happens to me that a chain of unfortunate events befalling towards the blog myself.

Just to give you guys an idea:

• 2 posts planned for AFA 08: Me slaving for my workplace leading a network security upgrade project. Having me slaved through weeks (3+ weeks to be a lil more precise) of late nights having just about few hours of private time every weekdays. And for weekends, it usually involves me hibernating sleeping  for countless hours. (at least thats sorta over now)
• 2, or possibly 3 more posts planned for Comic Fiesta 08: Server is DOWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN. /le sigh. Distributed all my blog cards during the event on the very FIRST day itself, just to disappoint people to log on to a “page not found” or w/e internut error blank page. I was am in despair. (refer: http://www.quazacolt.com/site/2008/12/server-is-back-up/)
• This god damn post (and the things associated with it, like, WP upgrade): Underwater cables… again? Jesus fucking Christ. And no I’m not joking either, it is simply too unfunny to joke about it. What sucks is my site happen to be in the crossfire (Denmark) of all this disaster. /despair moar. You can also link the previous 2 post attempts to this one as well. Trying to access my blog at retarded slowness is just… mood killing for ANY intent to blog.

Refer to:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/technology/2008/12/is-the-internet.html?%3F
http://www.streamyx.com.my/whats_new/whats_new.php?id=article_20081220
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/881293
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Underwater-Data-Cables-Severed-by-Ship-Anchor-100642.shtml
http://legacy.macnn.com/articles/08/12/19/asia.cut.off.due.to.break/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/3904377/Underwater-robot-working-on-severed-internet-cables.html

Anyways, as you may or may not notice (don’t think you guys would as its mostly back end stuffs), WP has been upgraded to the latest 2.7 ver. The theme (i friggin love it, WS/dynamic resolution support is GODSENT) remains the same, not much cosmetic upgrades minus probably some changes here/there. But yeah, it. is. done.

Oh yea, some of you may have noticed the new web icon as well  That would be Horo, which is featured in our banners and now the site’s icon. It was really hard to make a decent 16×16 sized icon file but there it is. Still a little unsatisfied with it as the “DMM” word and Horo is barely visible at all, but with 16×16 size, there isn’t much i can do. It would be much better if i have an actual logo like most sites use as their web icon and since i don’t, id have to settle with this. Do post a comment on any suggestions you guys may have, along if you guys would love a variable sized icon file(for example, saving a bookmark/page onto windows and the icon for the file is in 32×32)

The upgrade may have posed some more additional minor downtime and for that i apologize
I also got next post prepared for Monday, so long that one last thing needed for it doesn’t get delayed (sorry no CF/AFA yet T-T)

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