Japanese 'cosplay' draws huge following in Taiwan

I came across this yahoo news article which is very interesting. It seems that cosplay is a hit in taiwan. Well i dunno about that since i nv been to taiwan, but from the picture below (omg looks gay...are the two guys or gals?), i think it really is. Since there are quite a number of anime fans in singapore, why dun i see any1 cosplaying in the streets like Orchard Road, or creating a cosplay cafe (i thin there are some but i dunno where they are). Maybe like typical singaporeans they only download and watch free anime instead of buying anime costumes?? lol... i wish i have the guts to do cosplay, dressing up as Ishida from Bleach looks cool!!!


Here is the link!





Got this from the article...




Ishida!!!

Movie World!!!

yeah...today me, Selwin, Yuleng, Sally and her friend from Perth went to Movie World!! It has been a very long time (from sec 4) since i last went there. So first we met at Roma St Station around 8am and we took a train ride to Helensvale Station (1 hr, Zone 1-Zone12!!!). But then somehow the stupid thing is that i bought a single trip adult ticket when i can buy a concession one, i think i probably haven woke up yet...lol. (what a waste of money..it was $8!!). Then from the station, we took a short bus ride there. But the crowd wasn as packed as last time, maybe there are too many theme parks here in this world.. And we do not need to queue for tickets cos Selwin already booked them online ($54 each instead of $66....what a bargain!!!) But we almost couldn get in cos the barcode that he printed was on an inkjet and the staff couldn scan the barcode...lol...Anyway here is the schedule for the whole day:


10.00am : Entrance of Movie World
10.30am : Shrek 4D (The 4D thingy with the glasses)
11.30am : Police Academy Stunt (one of my fav attractions...though the stunts are the same as last time)
12.00pm : Lunch at Gotham City Cafe (Burger Set)
12.30pm : Shrek Live Performance (was late for this one, and its quite lame, i like the transgenic donkey though)
01:00pm : Scooby-Doo Coaster (wow queued quite long for this, enjoyed this one, like the reverse part [i was shouting "who say the ride very slack one!!!"], but we almost puked out our lunch after the ride)
01:30pm : Took some photos
02:00pm : Batman Ride Simulator (very tame, almost like a back massage)
02:30pm : All-Stars Parade (quite lousy compared to Tokyo Disneyland, took a lot of photos though)
03:00pm : Wild Wild Wet (I like the getting wet part, thats why i wore bermudas...haha...poor Yuleng say wanna take the third row but end up the japanese kio the seats so he have to take the front seats...and his shoes become all wet so he became depressed again as always...duh)
03:30pm :Raining (Eat ice-cream, double scoops=three scoops, only $4.50!!!)
04:30pm : Go Home lohhhzzz


This trip to Movie World was really eventful... Besides buying a adult ticket instead of a concession one, we rushed for the wrong train on the way back!!!. Turns out that we got onto the one towards the Gold Coast instead of Brisbane...duh...i was following Selwin so not my fault worzzz....dun blame me for all the transport mishaps hor Sally... who ask u go toilet so long until Selwin blurz and took the wrong train...somemore he knock on the girls toilet door when another girl came out...so paiseh until i laugh until stomachache....Anyway Selwin was complaining about the rain at 3pm...cos he left the best rides to the last (Batwing and Superman ride)...talk about anti-climax....at least i got onto all the rides that i wanted.


We then ate at this Gawa???(forgot the name) restaurant that serve Korean & Japanese cuisine. Our friend Russell have said that its not bad so all of us tried the Korean food (ordered a BimBumDo...lol strange name). I nv eat korean food before so aiyah just try lor...looks appetising but it was so spicy after adding the red sauce (cannot tahan spicyness...sorry...maybe due to recessive genes..), still i manage to ate all of it. But Selwin and Sally's friend rated the meal as 0/10....OMG!!! Selwin said Singapore's Korean Cuisine at Century Square foodcourt also much better...lol.. but they also ate them all cos all become hungry ghosts liaoz..

Ok heres the end of the day and here are some of the best photos that i took!!! (i got more so if u want just let me know...)




Group Photo at entrance to Movie World




Me at Lethal Weapon (didn ride as i have motion sickness, so i became the bag carrier)




Scooby-Doo Show




Cool...Scooby-Doo inside the mystery van




Police Academy Stunt Team




Look at the guy....he's flying!!! (its a dummy actually...) [Picture donated courtesy of Selwin...dunno how the earth he can take a picture when it is in the air]




Scooby-Doo Coaster Ride Building




Me and Austin Powers....groovy~




Me and Batman (he too dao already...after taking this picture, Catwoman joined in...argghhhhh dulanzzz...)




Group Photo with Scooby Team




Batwing (before the rain)




Superman ride (before the rain)




Parade (Mutated Tweety-Bird with giant head...)




Parade (Bugs Bunny and co.....such sadness as they didn appear for one on one photoshoot..Stupid Yuleng pop his head out when i took the pic...damn)




Parade (Shrek team...notice the transgenic donkey)




Wild Wild Wet (look how high it is)




Me and Selwin at the second row and Yuleng at the front row...dunno what is he doing lorz)




Cow squad....kawaii!!!




Me at the Station (the station where we alighted after finding out we took the wrong train...duh)




Me and Selwin (finally inside the correct train...)




My Korean Dinner...yummy

Life in the Lab...

Life in the lab is pretty tiring from my experiences. It begins from 10am and ends at 5pm, but it always usually end at around 3-4pm so not too bad. Im beginning to get the hang of pipetting and inserting samples into the gel... but its the waiting part that im irrittated of. Normally there is always an incubation for 1-2 hr so in the end we spend most of the time talking cock or taking a lunch break downstairs where there is a so called common room (secret area!!!). Strangely, funny things have happened lately to me, i dunno why, but yesterday Sally somehow spilt her eluted unwanted protein sample onto my logbook!!! I was quite dulanz about it as the pages were all wet, not to mention a reddish stain at my last page from the cover. Selwin and me was also trying to scan the gel photos at the social science library cos he said his scanner image too lousy, but somehow there are always people using it.Its as if the students are too poor to afford a 3-in-1 printer or something (its only $70 for gods sake).. He said that normally no one will use it...but i think we suay....Anyway we juz manage to scan just one image cos the other 1 looks as bad as from his home scanner (also due partly to the spillage where it became crumpled..)

Todays joke of the day, i was doing the spectrophotometer reading where we have to record the absorbance every min interval for 5min. So i put a cuvette with the sample into the meter, then i was really shocked to see the absorbance reading at 0 for 5min!! Turns out that i put a blank cuvette instead of the one with the protein sample....so no wonder the reading is 0 (it was a control)....wahhahahah. The readings are normally recorded in the meter, but i wrote them down on my book as a backup, but somehow i can write the wrong reading on my book. Selwin was laughing like hell...

And when we leaving the lab, they commented about the power of my singlish. Whats wrong? im being unique anyway....they even critisise my prononuciation of or-lun-do.Duh...

So tomorrow is the last practical, just finialising everything up... Hopefully i can really begin writing my reports...

Holiday Week!!!

yes its the holiday week finally...yeah!!! Unfortunately i also have 4 practicals for BIOC3002 for today up to friday 10am-5pm....such crappy timetable...its supposed to be a holiday week so that we can catch up with our reports....in the end it juz added up onto my workload. And the closed book quiz turns out to be quite stupid...i mean who would memorise the three amino acid coding for the florescent chromophore in pGEX-GFP (plasmid containing fusion protein of GST and GFP..). Hopefully i can get a passing grade consisting of 2% for the course...And the worse thing is that they gave a lab notebook to each of us when the manual said that we have to buy on our own... talk about waste of money....Luckily it turns out that the practical is quite fun for me as i have forgotten about all the PCR and gel electrophoresis stuff, only Selwin that goondu keep complaining that he did so many experiments in his Introduction to Research course until sianz ji pua....and i made a new friend called Sam from China...Hi!!! Somemore i wrote so much stuff in my new red notebook until i scared by the end of the pract, there will be no more free pages...oh well guess i have to write smaller from now on...

My gel photo turns out to be quite good at the end...i would like to post here but im afraid ppl would copy my image and use it for their own project...so too bad... Somehow i have an extra week holiday after the practical so hope i still have some free time to play my Monster Hunter Freedom 2!!!!...wahhahahah

Bleach: Memories of Nobody

Hi again....i juz watched the latest Bleach movie called Memories of Nobody, and its really good. This is set after the Soul Society rescue, which is in the time frame of the Bounto appearance. Interesting plot with new characters, with some of the captains in Soul Society in actioN!!! (Appearance of Kenpachi slashing that poor guy, and Sai Fung using her butterfly thing..and theres even an appearance of Ishida...so long nv see him...) I dun wanna spoil the whole plot, but then ill just summarise whatever i can.

So one day, there is the appearance of many so called white christmas tree-like souls with pixie hats called "Blanks", souls which lost their memories and are wandering around from another dimension called Valley of Screams. They were attacking Ichigo and Rukia when somehow this kawaii gal called Senna who is thought to be a shinigami kill the crap out of them. Unfortunatly she doesn have any memory of anything except her name. After a few uninteresting plot where she and Ichigo gradually become very good friends (or maybe she had a crush on Ichigo) and the part where he bring her back home and as usual, his dad and younger sister become curious (i like that part...), it turns out that she is a Memory Rosary where the blanks memories are all within her, and she should not exist. And some baddies exiled from Soul Society wanna revenge, so they captured and used her to destroy both the real world and Soul Society. As the two worlds are going to collide, the Captain Commander decide to use the kidou cannon to destroy the Valley of Screams Of course Ichigo went to rescue her first and even manage to Bankai and use his black aura and superior strength to rape the baddie boss.

However, in the end as expected, even after destroying the other dimension, the two worlds still continue to collide so she sacrificed herself so that Ichigo and the rest can live on....such sadness...almost cried at that part...and since the powers of the Blanks is fading away, so will his memories of Senna. But amazingly, her red ribbon somehow got onto Ichigo's hands and he vaguely remembers her, and theres even an image of her running past him...cool!!

Ok thats all...heres the best part....the pictures!!! But sadly i cant find Senna's picture, so ill have to search for it and when i do ill put it up!





The promotional poster for the movie!!!





The bad guy...forgotten his name...hate him...

Imeem Anime Playlist

Some updates on the blog -> I have added my favourite anime songs to my Imeem playlist, there are 19 of them...hopefully it wont take long for other ppl to upload the page.

Info:

1) Raison d.etre (Claymore OP)
2) Gravitation (Heroic Age OP)
3) United Force (Gigantic Formula OP)
4) Binetsu S.O.S (Idolmaster Xenoglossia OP1)
5) Alones (Bleach OP6)
6) Bouken Desho Desho (Suzumiya Haruhi OP)
7) Hare Yukai Yukai (Suzumiya Haruhi ED)
8) God Knows (Suzumiya Haruhi Interlude 1)
9) Lost My Music (Suzumiya Haruhi Interlude 2)
10) Scramble (School Rumble 1st Season OP)
11) Sentimental Generation (School Rumble 2nd Season OP)
12) Feel like a Girl (School Rumble 2nd Season Interlude 1)
13) Girls can Rock (School Rumble 2nd Season Interlude 2)
14) Heroes Come Back (Naruto Shippuden OP1)
15) Cruel Angel's Thesis (Neon Genesis Evangelion OP)
16) Hesitation (Sabre Marionette J OP)
17) Sokabasu (Samurai X OP1)
18) Heart of Sword (Samurai X ED3)
19) Karma (Tales of the Abyss Theme [PS2 Game])


Hope all u anime music lovers like this...!!!


My Imeem Profile is here

Happy Birthday to Me!!!!!!

Yes guess what... today is my birthday...and im 22 this yr...time flies really fast. Sadly im in Brisbane so i cant celebrate with my friends back in Singapore. Oh well. This means im staying home and blog the whole day...well at least i have some chivas to drink. Yesterday Sally asked me to go over to the guys house to celebrate...but i dun really feel like going there as it takes 1 hr to travel...and the bus frequency during weekends is damn slow...well u can also say im lazy...but who wants to go out on such a hot day...(Spring now...) Even when im sleeping at night, im only wearing a tshirt, not my black jacket anymore....

Update...

good day mate...long time no see...anyway im too busy to update my blog...too many reports to do liaoz... anyway my human molecular genetics mid sem exam was a killer...i think cannot make it...hopefully the end of yr exam would be much easier...but i really dun think so, as i dun really know anything about Unit 4 Human Genetic Variation....die die die...

anyway this sunday is my birthday...so Happy 22nd Birthday to ME!!!! i was hoping for a party just like last yr's chalet cum drinking session... 8 Tequillas at 1 go...woohoo...but since im in Brisbane....guess i wont be doing anything fun this yr....

Brisbane River Festival

Hi again...this time i would like to talk about the annual Brisbane River Festival....which me and my 2 friends Yu Leng and Sally went to on Saturday... Though it is named the river festival...its actually nothing to do with any water body or any performance on water...instead i heard it starts with a flyby from a fighter jet...dunno whats the model (F something...) and 30min of nonstop fireworks.... (quite stupid...they should just call it the "Fireworks Festival" or something).....Anyway I arrived late though as i need to finish my stupid eco report and as typical singaporeans, they went to chop a place at South Bank 2 hrs earlier (started at 7pm...). Although i arrived quite early by my standards....i was quite shocked to see tons of people there...and i couldn find them until 30min later (saw CCM members on the way...Hi guys!!!).... So while we were waiting for the fireworks to start....they want me to try their $1 bread that they bought earlier...(i sense something sinister but i tried it and well...it sux). Can't understand why they like it....maybe they nv eat bread for a long time....

So the fireworks started and well, its kind of good (at least better than NDP...but pales in comparison to tokyo disneyland...). After that, we kind of like stuck in the middle at the end of the performance.... and i even have to use my low wall technique in SOC to take a shortcut and to avoid the crowd. My day ends with an $8 fish and chips pack (10% fish, 90% chips)....


Here are some pictures:



Stupid Bread....




Group Photo....




South Bank....




Fighter Jet (Just see the flame...)




Fireworks....




More Fireworks....




Last Fireworks....

Animes!!!!

Yup...as every1 who knows me....i have an anime siao guy....so even when i come to Brisbane im still dling the new animes such as Claymore (gruesome anime), Heroic Age (the pic at the top of my blog), Lucky Star (kawaii!!!...no plot....Konota rulz!!!), Gigantic Formula (Robot Wars..) and not forgeting Naruto and Bleach.... However im really sad as some of my animes that i brought from Singapore are gone due to my external hdd partiton corrupting.....so Adrian if u are here...pls remember to help me dl the animes that i told u.......thanks heaps...(just dl lah...dun scared that u will kn caught....)

I will post some of the animes screenshots soon......

Internet Blues

Now, i would like to complain about the Internet Service in Brisbane. Firstly let me introduce the various ISPs.....Telstra Bigpond (im using this currently), Optus (Singtel bought over liaoz), and TPG. The internet has a quota system in that every mth, the ISP gives u a certain limit, say 12GB....if u upload and download 12gb of data, it will charge u extra or they slow ur internet down to a measly 64kbps....The advantages and disadvantages between these ISPs are:


Bigpond => Very expensive, 12GB for $69.90, 25GB for $99.90, as my homestay ppl is using it for telephone line as well, the price is cut by 50%, so 25Gb for $50 is reasonable for me....haha...somemore no contract....

http://www.bigpond.com


Optus => Should be ok ba....but 20GB for $69.90 is too steep for me ler...need 24 mth contract somemore....

http://www.optus.com


TPG => New kid on the block.....offering 150GB (40GB peak, 110GB offpeak!!!) for $69.90....need 18 mth contract...when i move i will subscribe to this.....

http://www.tpg.com.au/


I recently upgraded from 12GB to 25GB, as i often exceed my quota (download too many animes and journals)....this means that my torrent speed fall to 0.5kbps instead of the usual 50kbps....and my tvants cant stream too....this means no EPL for me to watch....so hopefully my life would be better after this.....

Brisbane City

As u all know....im currently homestaying at a suburb in North Brisbane called Gordon Park....where everyone doesnt know where it is...its a very quiet place, the good thing is that there is a soccer field nearby and the bus stop is right at my doorstep, but the nearest basketball court is out of sights...this suxs... soccer is not really popular here...every1 plays footy here (which is sort of soccer and rugby combined..but it looks cool as i watch AFL [Australian Football League] live on TV). Due to the long travelling time, i am seriously thinking of moving closer to St Lucia (where my campus is located) during the semester break....

Everyday, i have to pass the city (CBD area) in order to go to uni....so i pretty much know everything there....including where to take the bus to uni and the queensland transport centre where i registered for my driving theory test....(thankfully i passed...but i need 100 hrs of driving and have to wait 1 yr to take practical test....which sux...) Sorry to digress....but disappointingly, the city area looks small in comparison to Singapore's CBD area....other than Queen Street, where it is some sort of Bugis Junction, with shops to the left and right and some shopping centres....i seriously have to take a picture there someday...

Life in UQ.....

So after bidding to my sec 4 classmates, niaoz and gang at Changi, i arrived at Brisbane with my parents and the weather is so ccoollldd at that time. As university hostels are very expensive, and i do not know any people here, i decided to homestay at my mum's friend's friend house for a while.... This place is not bad...except that the journey to my uni is 1 hr!!!!!....it almost seems the same as my poly days....but oh well get used to it i suppose...

After that i went to take a look at the uni...and the campus is really big...almost like singapore poly...but the shocking thing is that there are no fast food outlets!!!....ahhhhhh....and the food is so expensive...have to resort to packing lunch at home... i was so looking forward to taking a look at the great court...but disappointingly the grass and trees are all botak...oh well...this proves that the pictures that the IDP show at the pre-departure seminar are all fake!!!...or maybe they were taken during summer...damn....

ahh anyway my parents and i went to all the possible orientation sessions there are in the whole week (talk about kiasuism at its peak....) and surprisingly i saw the same people attending all the sessions too....haha guess other students are kiasu too....

After some choosing and chopping, i manage to decide on these 4 courses that im taking for the semester:

BIOC3002 DNA & Protein Technology

(Vector NTI stuff, PCR, Blotting......i hate it but no choice its recommended...good thing is exam is just 50%....)

BIOC3003 Human Molecular Genetics and Diseases

(Interesting, but the exam weightage is too high, and its recommended...so no choice either)

BIOC3004 Structural Biology

(One of the course that i am interested in, as my FYP and ITP are all in this area. But a lot of chemistry stuff until i blur....)

BIOL3010 Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics

(Good thing is that there is no exam for this course, bad thing is super blur....)

Well thats the 4 courses im taking right now...and i met quite a number of friends here, joined the CCM (Campus Christian Movement, for fun....won a Logitech Speaker in a lucky draw...heheh) and the UQ Symphonic Band (a lot of pros...most studying UQ Music Degree....no clarinet so have to borrow from music school....pathetic...).....guess uni life is not so bad after all....or is it????

Summary of my Life for last 2 yrs

Yup...i have finally updated my blog after slogging for 2 yrs in National Service. Let me summarize my life in NS in four paragraphs.....

Ok...i entered BMT Tekong Sch 2 on 10 June 2005 and got into Pegasus Coy Platoon 3 Section 4 Bed 6. In that batch, my company is the only one who have intake for girls. So BMT is generally ok for me...other than the dreaded Tekong Cough that everyone seem to have by drinking Tekong water.. but anyway... i met my poly buddy class classmate Nicholas who is in the same section as me...my buddy Jallen is really good...he takes care of me and since i dun wanna enter OCS...i juz voted for him during peer appraisal. Yup somehow i managed to pass IPPT at the last attempt and i completed BMT...yeah...

Then i got posted as a signal operator IC2...and the life there is heaven...juz basically studying all the way and somehow Nicholas end up there too....Nothing happens much there...and after the course, me and 2 others got posted to 3SIR....

Yup i can summarise 3SIR in 1 word............HELL............. I dun wanna discuss the situation or i will get sued..... just that there are good and bad things happening there...i met some really good people and really bad people who backstab all the time...and thankfully the sergeants are really friendly....Thanks Edwin!!!

Finally, I ORDed on 9th June 2007 and i flew to Brisbane on 10th July 2007. Presently im studying Bachelor of Science (Genetics, Biochemistry???), final yr at University of Queensland. So i will be discussing life in Brisbane from now on...