an otaku fan of all things moé
Ok now that I have my blog working once again, I can finally post about this. Today I received two packages from HLJ. One was sent two weeks ago and the other arrived via EMS. But to my very surprise was not that it arrived just before the Christmas weekend, but more to the sheer size of the box.
So what do you expect to be inside this xboxer sized xbox of a box?? Scroll down to find out.
Continue reading ‘And you thought the Magical Girl Rin figure box was huge…..’
Yesterday was quite an event for me and it could be one of many things that may affect my life. As you know I have a shiny camera and with my mother’s wedding coming very close, I ended up being the camera man, well for the random stuff, not pro. Having nothing planned yesterday, I tagged along to the pre-wedding photo shoot to do some of my own photos, and my mum asked me to. But there was also a professional photographer who is a friend of my soon to be stepfather. So I seized the opportunity to talk to him and learn a few techniques in photography.
So going around to many places of Sydney that I have never been to, it was pretty awesome. I saw many places that gave me ideas for figure photography and even for regular photographs. All this making me curse that i live so faraway from the city. Below are a few locations I went to.
Watson’s Bay, which is east of the Sydney CBD.
Harbour Bridge from Observatory Hill.
Set of stairs near Observatory Hill.
The Opera House from The Rocks.
Well they aren’t exactly spectacular photos since these are more of snapshots. I took some really awesome photos of the wedding couple, but the pro photographer had a go at my camera and took even WAY better ones than I did. It really goes to show the difference in experience and it’s not always the equipment. He himself has the Canon 350D, which is the model lower than me, but he has really good equipment. Even lent me the 430EX Speedlite to try out, which taught me a bit about Speedlites.
Though this is not the main reason of this post. What I wanted to rant about is what the photographer was talking to me about at the end of the day. Pretty much throughout the day he was asking me many things about myself and so forth, and me asking many questions relating to photography. So at the end he told me that if I wanted to, I could become his assistant, teaching me many more things about photography and get paid for it.
Now this was really surprising to me. As some of you know, I’m currently looking for a full time job, since I graduated from uni. Ever since yesterday this has got me thinking not just about my current situation, but also my future. The many paths that I can take from this point onwards could change my life forever. If I do decide to take up this offer, it defeats the purpose of me studying at uni. But with my current luck of finding a job within the IT industry hasn’t been exactly great (but I guess being Christmas and all doesn’t help either). Now that the 2nd semester has also finished, I will be competing against new graduates entering the job hunt.
But that isn’t all. With my recent trip to Autosalon earlier this month, I came across a recruitment company as well as a games development training school. Though if I decide to go take this path it would require me to move to Melbourne as the campus is based in Melbourne and Canberra. Frankly, I’ll prefer Melbourne over Canberra any day. So thus I’m torn between 3 decisions that could change my life forever. Take up photography as a job, continue the hunt for a Web Development or Software Development job, or go to the Games Development school which requires moving to Melbourne?
Each have there pros and cons to them and honestly, I have no idea on which option to choose. But lets focus on the photography part. Photography to me is a hobby that simply spawned from another hobby, and that is buying figures. Much like the same reason how Moe Moe Rabu came about. Now I didn’t exactly tell the photographer that I photograph figures, I mainly told him that I do a variety of photos but mainly of macro photos of toys and flowers, though I’ll probably mention it more next time I see him. But yes, photography to me I see as a hobby and nothing else. But how something that started from a hobby and has grown to a lifetime opportunity is surely something surprising. But is it really something I want to take further? Like I can see the benefits of being an assistant and learning the tricks of photography, but is it something that can excel me to greater opportunities? But I guess this applies to the other two options, but not as heavily.
So the choices of life are laid before me, but as to what path I should take I am unsure at this point. For the photography job I have till next week to give him my contact details. As for the Games Development school, they are accepting applications for next year already, so it seems I’m running out of time for such things. Oh how time is short these days.
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The day starts with Yuuichi, Akiko and Nayuki in Makoto’s room. Everything packed up neatly, Yuuichi asks Akiko if they could keep the room as it is, and she and Nayuki agree. Walking to school, Nayuki asks Yuuichi if he remembers anything from his past, since he remembered about Makoto. Unfortunately not as he only remembered the things about Makoto. Since Nayuki has a day off from her track club, she and Yuuichi promise to walk home together.
Later that morning, Yuuichi meets Shiori again. Shiori explains that it was boring at home not being able to see him, but her stomach ends up growling. Yuuichi tells her to go home, but Shiori refuses. So Yuuichi asks her what she wants to eat and is surprised to hear she wants ice cream. He ends up getting it for her. Sitting down, Yuuichi suggests that they go inside, but Shiori says that if she is seen by a teacher, she’ll be in trouble. She also starts to say something else, but says that it’s nothing.
With the end of the Autumn Season approaching in a few weeks, it’s time to look at some potential shows to watch and possibly blog about. At this point I’ve only select a few out of the 37 (according to moetron), but this may change within the first few weeks of the new season. The Autumn Season has taught me many things in relation to anime blogging, ranging from the usual anime episode blogging, to the fiasco of not enough editorials, and even my own figure photography posts that it takes a lot of time to do such things.
Thus with the Winter Season I’m planning on changing my blogging style. Hopefully I can blog more than 2 series this season along side with Kanon still, so this will mean less summary, and possibly less screenshots. One other part is that I may now start resorting to fansubs than raws in some cases, as it is also very time-consuming for me to sit and translate into something that I feel that could be wrong.
Anyway, here is my selection for the upcoming season in no particular order:
Date: 22nd December
Well it’s another Rozen Maiden series, so why wouldn’t I watch it? With it slated as a 2 episode OVA focusing on Suigintou is enough to get me interested in this. Plus being an OVA means higher level of animation quality.
Date: 11th January
Art school and lolis must = WIN. From the looks of things, could be a slice of life, which I surely enjoy watching nowadays. From the looks of things there isn’t a male lead, so could this be another ARIA? Well we’ll find out next month.
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Karen and Tatsuya are heading towards the Moon, but come across a patrol group. But Karen simply flies off ahead of them before they could be apprehended. Flying by above the colonies, Tatsuya and Karen talk about their impressions of seeing the Moon and Earth for the first time.
In the Royal Palace, Jurgen and Lyones are with other royalty faculty members discussing about the relation of them with the Earth and the situation about Feena. But a soldier comes in to report that Karen’s ship passed the patrol group and is making her way to the Moon. So Jurgen orders the army to fire upon her ship. Over at Karen’s ship, her radar picks up hostiles and is suddenly fired upon. She easily dodges them and is about to return fire, but Tatsuya stops her as he doesn’t want to cause a conflict. Feena notices the explosions and looks outside the window, only to recognise Karen’s ship, and realises that Tatsuya is with her. But all she does is stand there blaming herself, with Mia behind, staring with a serious face.
Continue reading ‘Yoake Mae Yori Ruri-iro Na ~Crescent Love~ - 11′
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Yuuichi heads to school in the afternoon, after leaving Makoto in Akiko’s care to meet up with Mishio. He tells her how Makoto won’t talk anymore, laugh, or get angry. The only person that she accepts is him, so he wants Mishio to meet with her. Agreeing to meet her, later Yuuichi brings Makoto out, and Mishio introduces herself. Yuuichi encourages her to go ahead, so she does into Mishio’s arms, and finds it comforting due to Mishio petting her. Mishio successfully gets Makoto to say her name and then Yuuichi’s, with him glad that she remembered. Although Mishio warns that it is only temporary and she will forget again soon, reminding him the next fever will be the end. With that Mishio tells Yuuichi to grant her anything that she wishes for.
Continue reading ‘Kanon - 10 (tribute to Makoto with a Makoto artbook)’
Last night was my sister’s birthday dinner. With dinner being in the city gave me the opportunity to head out afterwards for some nighttime photography, which I was dying to try out. So heading from Golden Century Seafood Restaurant, armed with my camera, tripod and a full stomach, I headed out towards Martin Place.
Martin Place has a HUGE Christmas tree. I learnt about this from icie’s post and I thought it would be the best place to start. Now I headed there roughly around 10 p.m, which was good as there weren’t as many people around. Upon arriving I saw other photographers there taking pictures. Though looking at their equipment puts mine to shame. I talked to them for a bit and then proceeded to take photos.
F/22 with 15 sec exposure
