[review] Konata vs Konata: A Lucky Star Showdown

Hullo there my freaky darlings! Here’s the first installment of my filler posts! First up, we have a review of the Lucky Star series 2 petit nendoroids for your viewing pleasure!
Now while I enjoy the hot weather and futuristic transportation systems in sunny Japan, you guys can sit in the soothing shade and read this [...]

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Who’s in Japan with me? Pick the posable action figure!

So who’ll go to Japan with me? You don’t exactly get to choose because she/he’s already with me on the plane and flying high in the sky but you can certainly speculate!
All of my posable figures are dying to go with me - so much so that they’ve actually helped me pack for the trip [...]

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Singapore Toy and Comic Convention (STCC) Day Two

Alrighty! Yesterday saw Day Two (and the final day) of the STCC come to a close! I was at Suntec around 10am to queue up for the free Be@rbrick for my brother (he collects ‘em) so yeah. The queue was already LOOOONG when we got there so my brother and I spent most of our [...]

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old school recess

While I’m procrastinating from writing my monolog due for tomorrow’s class, I dug up a couple of photos I took last month.
So anyway, a few of my friends (who are indie arty-farty to the max) and I headed down to Old School a month or two back. After running around the premises for some shots, [...]

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When manufactured Pop Idols don’t live up to their prototype

Disclaimer: I was clearing my files and I found a series of short (100-350 words) expositions on readings I did for my Japanese Studies 101 course - so I thought - why not post them up?
These are topics I’d love to do more research into, and look deeper into. So yup! Here goes!
When manufactured Pop [...]

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The Constantly Changing Japanese Language

Disclaimer: I was clearing my files and I found a series of short (100-350 words) expositions on readings I did for my Japanese Studies 101 course - so I thought - why not post them up?
These are topics I’d love to do more research into, and look deeper into. So yup! Here goes!
The Constantly Changing [...]

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[ゲーム] F.O.Es roam this Labyrinth

While I wait for the weather to clear up, I managed to finally complete Etrian Odyssey. (I have Okami [PS2] to finish by the end of the holidays too, but slowly, slowly.) I usually complete games - or at least, complete them minus hidden stages and unlockable rounds - rather quickly due to my ADD [...]

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Singapore, the West of the East

Disclaimer: I was clearing my files and I found a series of short (100-350 words) expositions on readings I did for my Japanese Studies 101 course - so I thought - why not post them up?
These are topics I’d love to do more research into, and look deeper into. So yup! Here goes!
Singapore, the West [...]

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[review] ALTER’S Ogiue Chika Cosplay ver.

Good things come in small packages, Ohno mused, as Ogiue fidgeted under layers of cloth. The Kujian uniform was a little too big for the petite Ogiue, but like rest of the onlookers (Sasahara kept looking away, trying to avoid the death glares that were being shot everywhere) Ohno thought that the way the sleeves [...]

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v is for vending machines!

NOTE: I just did a cursory look-through and there are tons of typos. I apologize for this oversight! It’s late and I’m tired (had an interview hohoho, driving lessons and creative writing class =A=;;) and very hungry and yes. Typos are not edible.
PingMag (one of my favourite online magazines about Japanese designs and art-culture) did [...]

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