AFA08 update on May’N concert

Hi again everyone, apologies for the lack of updates to the blog recently. However fear not, for i am bringing you an update (though a tad bit belated, especially if you’ve been following AFA08 news and updates) that would definitely interest you should you be going to see May’N on this coming AFA08 at Singapore.

Mixed feelin- i mean, raged and despair being the major emotion thats being stirred, head over to the AFA08 May’N concert ticketing details page: AFA 08 May’N Ticketing (that includes a short video of her saying hi for you to fa- i mean, drool at)

If its TLDR for you, again, fear not, as i will be providing you with a summary of the update (though you have to excuse my horrible photoshop scribbling out of rage) right here:

 

Event time/date: Sunday, 23rd November 2008, 7pm
Vip passes: Yes!
 

Layout of concert:

T&C uptight shit for the event:
– This ticket admits one person to AFA08 for two [2] days – both Saturday 22 November 08 AND Sunday 23 November 08
– This ticket admits one person to designated VIP area for the May’N concert on Sunday 23 November 2008.
– All sales are final and no refunds will be entertained.
– Entry will be refused if tickets have not been purchased from the organizer. <– lolwut pirated tickets?
– The Ticket Holder voluntarily assumes all risk and danger incidental to the event whether occurring prior to, during or subsequent to the actual concert, including any death, personal injury, loss, damage or liability. <– soo, if May’N decided to pull an euphemia at us, we’re screwed while shes innocent? lulz
– Singapore law shall govern the sale of all tickets and all Ticket Holders agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Singapore courts.
– Strictly no photography, audio and video recording is allowed during May’n Live Performance. <– So no one to capture that glamorous moment of me shaking hands with May’N should i manage to acquire the diamond VIP pass? NOES! (╬ ಠ益ಠ)
– The organizer’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entertained.
– Details mentioned above are confirmed as of now, however the organizers of AFA08 reserve the right to update the situation should there be changes in planning and schedules.

 

On the bright side guys, the concert ticket for everyone else is still the same AFA08 entrance fee (consider it “free”? lol) , so its not all that bad. As for myself, i will definitely try to get the diamond vip pass to secure an autograph. I mean, i have already gone as far as to buy the original singles from her, might as well go all the way and get the autograph as well 😀

Until then, see you till the next update (i have 2-3 updates drafted, havent finalized them for publishing XD)

Server connection stability

Recently there has been quite frequent drops of connection to my server due to a poor quality router provided by my ISP. Today I got a call back from one of their technicians who told me that if I wanted to attach my own router, they would reload my connection to allow it to access their systems.

Well, it worked instantly and the connection was faster and more responsive than ever, but it caused my IP address to change so the DNS had to be changed, causing a bit of delay for this site to be available. I pointed ports to my new server and had to leave for work. Sadly I was in too much of a hurry as I failed to notice the ports were also routed to my old server, so some of you may have gotten a weird login page.

Anyway, quick fix once I got home and all runs smoothly and this router is rock solid and doesn’t crash every day 🙂 Hope it gives a better experience on this site.

AFA 2008 & Macross Frontier CDs bandwagon

If you have been paying attention to recent anime convention scenes, you most likely will come across the announcement of a particular convention being held at Suntec halls 403-404 Singapore this 22-23 November and that is the Anime Festival Asia 2008. Check out the official site: http://www.afa08.com

You must be thinking: “Why this particular convention?” Simple, because the singing voice for the character “Sheryl Nome” – May’N from the anime “Macross Frontier” is coming to Singapore’s AFA08 event! To give you an idea of what this girl can do, i present you 2x youtube poison clips:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBLYzESrEPM[/youtube]
Diamond Crevasse, skip the interview until 2:05 if you only want the performance.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjjE3D4xxg4[/youtube]

Northern Cross, skip the interview/show until 3:40 if you only want the performance.

I am DEFINITELY going to see her, annual leaves approved and what not 😀
We have a Malaysian anime community gathering attendees for the event here, albeit small, but who knows if there are MANY others going but doesnt participate in either one of the groups listed from that list.

Many other notable appearences would be:

  • Mr. Kunio, notable for his mechanical designs for gundam, especially in Gundam Seed Destiny and the latest Gundam 00 animes.
  • Bandai themselves. Which probably doesnt need any introduction.
  • Studio 4C as well, to showcase their latest Genius party works. Further info of Studio 4C can be found here. (do click, you’ll be very surprised! guaranteed)
  • Various major Japanese Figurine companies list as you can see from here. Notable appearence would be: Alter, Kotobukiya, Good Smile Company.
With so many big shots attending, how could you miss this? Are you going to this event? Give a shout out in the comment section if you are! 😀
To show how crazy some of us folks at TFM are, we’ve purchased the Music CDs from Macross Frontier, mainly from Sheryl Nome (May’N), in hopes to get autographs from the “Galactic Fairy” herself 😀
I present you readers, teh lewts:
Thats all for this entry folks, as i am rushing to Valho’s house LOL!
Dont forget to drop by a comment if you are going to AFA08! 

Quazacolt’s room

“FINAL EFFINLY” is what been goin on ur mind when you see this blog title? I hope the wait wasnt too long for this “repost” (i seriously posted my room pictures a couple of times before i swear lol), or more technically an update to it 🙂

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

Japanese figurines coming alive!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCCx7zANsGE[/youtube]
Just when you think it cant get any better
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5ytkOgEaMU[/youtube]
2 Cutie pie violating teh meido

 

Im sure i wont be the first blog to blog about the newly released virtual figurine, but ill do it anyways for the sake of hopping on the hype bandwagon. As you can see from the 2 youtube videos above, its exactly what it is, a virtual figurine. Basically you have those sensor cube thingies, along with a webcam, and you get to play with your figure, in your PC! Its that simple.

If only it can be like those futuristic sci-fi stuff you see from tv or the movies, having those cube thingies projecting a holographic image directly instead of it being displayed on just your monitor. That would the ultimate win.

As for myself, ill give it a wait on getting one for myself as the price is a hefty around/over rm450. That, and it is currently in japanese language only. Installing it in japanese would be one problem, while the fact that all the controls/commands in japanese would sorta take out quite a number of fun with your new plaything 😛

Imagine:

Me: “lol undress”

Meido: “Hai?”

Me: “Clothes! Off!”

Meido: “Wakarimasen lol!” ┐(‘～`；)┌

Me: /facepalm

If you guys noticed on the above youtube’s comments, our great faptastic country – NIPPON! (Japan) is finally allowing us to actually viola- i mean, INTERACT with our figures, resulting in a lot of nutbladder explosions. ヽ(´ー｀)ﾉ
If anything, i enjoyed a bit more in reading the comments than watching the actual youtube 😛

So in closing, heres to hoping for an international release for us moonrune disabled weaboos. And NO! i do NOT mean dub. Like, maybe subtitles or some shit, english installation and controls/commands. Thats all.

WoW 3.0 Arena ESL Tournament and personal thoughts

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D70Hxro_agU&[/youtube]
Celex losing himself after a loss on the final match, out of very SMALL mistakes.

 

Now, before you guys start jumping on the gun and point fingers calling him some emo-kid and telling him to kill himself, this whole chain of event that ultimately led to this sad outcome was due to the last final match-up at the Intel ESL WoW 3.0 arena tournament and before that, numerous World of Warcraft LAN tournaments such as the MLG that also resulted in their team a second place winning. So close, yet so far just couldnt sound any better right now. 

If you have been paying attention to the new patch 3.0, or watched the Intel ESL tournament that just recently concluded, it is basically a blow up gibbing fest, and for team gravitas (the team Celex [mage] is in) the last few matches came down to a mage + priest mirror fighting off each other as both team’s rogues (mirror RMP [RogueMagePriest] agains team SK-gaming europe) exchanged KnockOuts early on the game almost as quick as around 20-30++ seconds of the matchup upon engagement. In the last particular final game deciding match, 5-5 tied sk-gaming and team gravitas, celex and ely (priest) of team gravitas had made minor mistakes here and there, however, i personally think the biggest, out of those small little mistakes, is celex accidentally moved during an evocation channel, resulting him to be oom (out of mana) the entire time and being non-stop preasured without the ability to fight back. At that point in my opinion, they had already lost.

I just have to say that its a real pity that team gravitas lost that last final match, they had been together for a very long time, scoring numerous 2nd place finishes. My advice? Just stick through it, and eventually who knows, if team gravitas’ infamous RMP team might eventually take home a first place finish, not only redeeming themselves, but also a much needed american victory over the much heated argument of america vs europe in WoW tournaments, in which case europe is currently having the lead.

As for WoW 3.0 itself, patch 3.0 as we all know, had been around for a week, and its more or less a mixed feelings for almost everyone, including mine. To sum it up, its a blowup fest, everyone is dying in a matter of seconds, heavily resilience geared or not, it just gives you a couple extra seconds, or, avoid that dreaded 1 shot kill that some of the newbies are facing with the recent patch 3.0 changes.

Just like previous pre-TBC (TheBurningCrusade) release, they had patch 2.0 for the level 60s to play with and oh boy was it crazy enough. And now with 3.0 on level 70 high end gear (note: pvp gear that involves a lot of burst dmg over pve’s sustained dmg) everyone is killing everyone in a blink of an eye. My rogue had pretty much the best of the best gear minus a few not-so-crucial pieces, and i am dying to the hands of those dreaded Retribution Paladins in a matter of 1 HoJ, (Hammer of Justice) which is a ranged stun for aproximately 7 seconds. Granted retdins were hotfix nerfed pretty quickly, they are still pretty damn game breaking especially in a 1v1 situation.

Thankfully though things hasn’t gotten TOO FAR out of hand to the point where healing wouldnt have mattered. They still do, and i have been blessed to have PUG healers keeping me alive for the slaughter. An IRL (In Real Life) friend of mine, that plays a priest in WoW with the name Haruhii, was healing me earlier tonight before this post. And see for yourself the result:

(Thanks again Sichiri aka Haruhii in WoW)

Later on i also played some arenas with my guildie Spira, except that its on his retdin (Retribution Paladins), and… yeap, matches are lasting no more than 20-30 seconds after engagement LOL. I have to say, while im not entirely liking it, it is kinda fun in a way – Gib or be gibbed. You’ll pretty much only see Retdin + x (where x are usually mage/rogue)  in the 2v2 now, as any combo without immunities is just asking for a free lose. That aside, arena servers are sitll buggy, and not to mention a lot of random and occassional lag spikes/delays. Totally NOT fun having a gib fest when you need to cast Divine shield. In case you didnt know, divine shield is instant-cast, so you kinda get what im implying here, yes, really BAD lag.

We’ll just have to see how this shortly interesting 3.0 will play out before WOTLK (WrathOfTheLichKing) hits on november 13. Until next time, ill be off to catch some anime thats been pending for a bit at 1:15AM 😛
And for the folks at TFM that ive been promising my room pictures, it’ll just have to wait till tomorrow’s update. Much apologies ^^;