Sprained Wrist~~~

Damn it~ I had a sprain wrist so didn't touch my laptop for quite some time.

Anyway just heard some good news that next summer we might have another Rurouni Kenshin Kyoto Arc Movies!!! Wooooooooooo! Now any guesses who might play the role of Seta Sojirou? or Shishio Makoto? or even Hiko Seijurou? (Hope he would show up or i would be damn pissed~~~)

Anyway, I going to miss Cosfest in Singapore due to work in Indonesia *sigh* Will update with some doodling during my days in Jakarta. hehe~~~

Cya on July~~

Weee Another goodies from Japan~~~

If some of you might remember I got a J-List $50 coupon from Anime-Source.com manga contest.... bought myself some goodies, Haruhiko Mikimoto Illustration Book, Manga ink pens and Shiseido Uno face wash (you can't find this face wash anywhere in South East Asia except from Japan, it used to sell in Hong Kong but not anymore *sobs*).

Also my pre-ordered "Yukikaze" figure made by Alter have finally arrived after a year. The seller from rakuten kept sending to the wrong address *slap head* no wonder it didn't arrive. In the end, I requested it to be sent to my office so everything was resolved ^___________________________________^  (A very happy man for past 3 days)

Kotonoha no Niwa (The Garden of Words) Review

Kotonoha no Niwa by Makoto Shinkai sensei~~~ Hope everyone of you had watch it!! For those in Japan might have watch it earlier but for us outside of Japan might be slightly later (lol).

The animation was just stunning!!!! Nothing to complain from Shinkai-sensei, just keep improving and improving... the  greenery landscape and raining background was just great. I really love it.

The story is good and solid but I believe can be better. The early and middle part was good very nicely pace and try to understand more about the two main characters life, troubles, past and reason for meeting each other. But the ending, I felt a bit rush and kind of open question unlike his other work "Byosoku Go Senchimetoru" which have a proper ending. I hope a manga would be drawn to give us more of the story.

The music "Rain" by Motohiro Hata really fit in well.... no complain! Just watch and listen to the song and ENJOY IT (^_^)

Thank you Shinkai-sensei!!!! For your hard work on making this amazing animated movie!!! Looking forward on your next project!!! I will be sure to support you!!!! CHEERS!!

Cure Festival 2013 (Singapore)

A very very late report on Cure Festival from me. I have been busy after uploading the pictures on my facebook album.

It was an outdoor event near the Marina Bay Sand hotels. The weather was cloudy and humid but there was always a slight brisk of wind blowing so it wasn't that bad. Except the back of my neck got burnt (>_<"). Well anyway because of the weather I should have used more flash on my picture taking or maybe edit it with photoshop.

The event was crowded as usual and a with wide range of anime character being cosplayed. Especially, being in Singapore you would expect quite a number of foreign cosplayers/visitor/photographer(?) attending the event. The main attraction would be JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Posing contest and Pitcha, Japanese Cosplayer that was one of the judge of the contest. Sorry that I didn't take much of the stage event. There were a few Kagura Cosplayers, Mirai Nikki's Yandere girl and I was surprise to see Dark from DN Angel (very rare to see DN Angel cosplayers since 10 years ago I guess).

I left early since I got other stuff to do but all in all a good and fun event. I manage to meet a cosplayer that added me on facebook last year. Hope to meet him again at other events. There was also an unoffical 2nd day for Cure Festival but I didn't attend. Seen some of the pictures and they were having so much fun.

More on Cure Festival:
https://www.facebook.com/COSFESTASIA

More Pictures I took:
Cure Festival 2013

Mint Museum of Toys (Singapore)

I found this museum by accident after finish my window shopping at Bras Basah Complex. It was across Seah Street with a brown sign pointing to the direction of the museum. The admission fee was $15, a bit pricey but for being a figure lover it worth penny of it. The building also have a Restaurant on the basement and Winebar / Rooftop bar that open at night. I am planning to try the restaurant when I have enough money to spend. So look out on my review of the restaurant, the ambient looks cool from the outside.

Now the main part! There are 6 floors for you to look around the museum from Disney characters to Atom Boy to Batman. Each floor have it specialty toys. The 6th floor is mostly toys from Japan (Atom boys and Doraemon) and Star Wars Movies. While 5th and 4th floor are more towards Western cartoon and action hero toys (Tin Tin, Tom & Jerry, Batman & etc). The last two floor are a mix of Western & Eastern old toys... It is a a bit hard to describe these two floor since I saw traditional toys, action hero figurine, Ultraman, Beatles and etc.

I took a lot of pictures with my iPhone so the quality of the picture is not that sharp so I would like to apologies first  (シ_ _)シ. By the way, flash photography is not allow.

Overall, it was fun! This museum is for those that love old or retro toys/figurines. I manage to see some very very rare toys and some toys that might be provocative to some. For example, the Dalee Toothbrush toys. I do hope that everyone would be open with this section of the museum. Do write something on my facebook page which is on the picture link.

Here is the pictures link:  Mint Museum of Toys (Singapore) Pictures

日本人の知らない日本語～～～

I finished reading日本人の知らない日本語 volume 1 & 2(roughly translated - The Japanese Language that Japanese doesn't know) and now going to volume 3 the last book. It is a 4-koma (Mostly) manga book about the life of Nagiko-sensei a Japanese language teacher and her foreign students. She would have trouble answering the students question about Japanese language and looking at their weird ethic and comments while in Japan.

Some of the chapter reminded me of my Language school days in Japan T__T. Good old fun days~~~ I am sure some of you guys and girls that studied in Japan language school would have a good connection with this book. ^^

  

OOoooh yeah!!! and also I got a present from my friend in Japan. Its FRAU-san from Robotic:Notes. 

WUAHAHAHA!!!! looove her so much!!! 

Konnichiwa Japan Postcard & Doraemon Credit Card

I am currently in Singapore and was in Liang Court to check out the Kinokuniya's Bargain Area. Along the way I saw these cute postcards made by the management group. They are trying to promote Japan's different cultural festival by using Onigiri Head mascot. I believe it is a good chose to promote Japan since in Japan agricultural history, rice was the most important staple food for the Japanese. In addition, the first time I arrived in Japan I ate sake(salmon) onigiri. 

While in Bangkok after the Japan Mania Festival, I went to a cafe for a rest and was browsing a magazine and found a Thai bank offering Doraemon Credit Card to their customers. Pretty neat yeah! Hope other countries would do these type of thing.