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 160×50cm compared to the previous standard sized 150×50cm.

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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Wow, managed to drag this post for like… an entire friggin month based on the EXIF data lol. So that Saturday i was supposed to go for a haircut, while my mom went shopping at a local mall. With my lol luck, the barber is closed and i ended up joining my mom for shopping instead and we’re only shopping groceries. Out of a sudden thought, i just felt like having spaghetti, and its been a while since I’ve had some nice creamy Alfredo/Carbonara spaghetti.

Eventually that thought evolved into cooking some nice Alfredo Spaghetti for myself out of the random, and usually its a rarity for otakus being tied with cooking, as instant (and cheap!) food stuff would be the general preference (such as instant cup noodles). And on the day itself – Sunday, the whole idea of taking photos and even making a blog post about it never even occurred to me until the idea of taking some pictures of the spaghetti for my sister that isn’t coming home this week (lives at her university dorm) just to tease her.

From there, I’ve gotten myself some nice pictures, and of course, i decided to write up about the whole recipe and process on preparing this dish. Don’t worry, its really simple, just time consuming and takes up a bit of cash XD So if you’re interested in preparing yourself some nice spaghetti, read on after the fold.

So lets start on with the ingredients!

• 6 pieces medium sized onions
• about 1 or 2 pieces of garlic
• Leggo’s Alfredo Pasta Sauce 565g
• San Remo Reg No5 Spaghetti 500g
• sugar/salt to taste
• Fresh milk
• Olive Oil
• Chinese Parsley aka Coriander (you can use other kinds of garnishing/flavor enhancers such as parsley, or even
• Cheese for the finishing touch. Typically people use Parmesan. I’m using mozzarella for this heh. Also to note that butter is also used in this, however i missed it out

Optional stuffs (up to your preference, feel free to add/change them):

• half a pack of Ayamas Premium Black pepper cocktail sausages 500g (this is up to you)
• a pack of sliced ham (up to you also)
• about 500grams of sea prawns/shrimp
• about 200g of canned button mushrooms

References from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fettuccine_alfredo

So to begin, slice and dice the ingredients! (lol) and once that is done, i started off by heating up the wok and pouring some olive oil into it, and then some chopped garlic, once it gets slightly golden in color, i pour in the prawns to give them some good frying. Prior to that they are marinated with just salt and sugar. Same method applied to the sausages, after both items fried to satisfaction, i take them out of the wok and proceeded to pour in the premade Alfredo pasta sauce:

Before pouring the sauce, I’ve had some garlic and onions fried with olive oil, to get that extra aroma/taste out for it. Once the onions and garlic gets slightly cooked (very noticeable with the strong aroma coming out) i just pour in all of the sauce along with some milk and sugar/salt. Below is a picture on the fried prawns and sausages:

Once the sauce thickens a little, just proceed to pour in the cooked spaghetti, and let simmer for a minute or 2. Lastly just pour in the rest of the ingredients such as the mushrooms, prawns, sausages and ham. And its done:

So lastly, all that’s left is to sprinkle some cheese and Coriander and its finally done:

Pretty simple ain’t it? Well, considering the delayed post, and I’ve already went on and cooked up a second Carbonara dish, i guess ill post it up too! So for the ingredients:

• about 2 pieces medium sized onions
• about 1 or 2 pieces of garlic
• Prego’s Carbonara Mushroom Pasta Sauce 300g x2
• San Remo Reg No5 Spaghetti 500g
• sugar/salt to taste
• Fresh milk
• Olive Oil
• lots of black pepper powder
• Parsley
• Parmesan Cheese! (got it right lol)

Optional stuffs (up to your preference, feel free to add/change them):

• half a pack of Ayamas Premium cheese cocktail sausages 500g (this is up to you)
• Some sliced pork, forgot its quantity, so you’ll can just refer the below pictures.

References from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonara

Ok I’ve gotten a little lazy for this particular dish, then again, the original recipes i referred from the Internet is much simpler, so why not just keep it simple as well? The only slightly “challenging” part was trying out how to cook the sliced pork differently, which i will explain. First off, the pork is marinated in salt and a LOT of black pepper, with an egg mixed into it. I start with the usual garlic in the wok, and then in goes the pork. Once the pork is somewhat half cooked, i pour in some milk and let the meat absorb it. Once its drying up, i sprinkle some Parmesan over it, and of course, putting them aside on a plate. The aroma and taste was surprisingly good after tasting a few pieces of it ^^

The rest was pretty similar to the above dish, frying up the sausages as well and then taking them out again. The sauce on the other hand had some slight difference – LOADS of black pepper.

And finally, the result:

Sprinkle some Parmesan cheese and parsley, and it is finished. Hope you guys like the above recipes/pictures. Feel free to ask away if you have any questions pertaining the dishes above.

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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:

Click here to view the embedded 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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The pictures are actually taken a few days ago from this blog post, but not much had been changed since anyways. One thing to note is that i will not be having full resolution pictures for this. “Why?” you ask? Simple, shit pics, are shit. I seriously dont have the patience to snap down my room with a proper capture using tripod and what not. Even more so with the detolf as i either get noise, or flash, and ruin the damn picture since the glass cabinet would wildly reflect the camera’s flash light.

Ill keep this short (lol its 2:30AM anyways when im writing this) especially for you impatient ones. Holla to the TFM folks and again, apologies for delaying this longer than it should
Without further delays, i present you, my room: 

Yoko poster given to me by Sichiri (thanks again ^^)
Figured id at least take a snap at this too, ok ok my room, right!

On the slight left mid ish side, you can see my Detolf glass cabinet from Ikea, and on top of it, stack of gundam plastic model boxes along with Yoko and Enma Ai boxes
Within the cabinet, would be housing my various gundam plastic models and japanese anime figurines and to its left would be my mirror i do my sexy pose with. (ok lol maybe not)
Mid-bottom would be the table i work with my gundam plastic model, and yeah thats Dynames
And on the center of the picture… yeap, you guessed it, my pc, where i write this blog with. Its open as i was installing the 8800 ultraSC graphic card that came back from RMA from EVGA USA. On its table, you can also spot the ever-so-moe Yami-chan~* thats also featured on this blog’s header image

And lets not forget my Lightbox Studio! ( where the photos of Lala were taken)

You can see some batteries, and those damn expensive rechargebles GP 2700 series along with its pretty cool looking charger (hidden behind the lamp lol). Also some tack-it, and shit tripod that came for free with my Canon Powershot A530.

Over this side, you can see the new non-shitty tripod i bought, kept inside its carrying bag.

And heres my bed XD

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