Anime Now & Dali Sculptures (17.09.06)

Pray tell, am I an exciting arts person or a boring arts person?

I think I am a boring arts person since I dragged a couple of people to a dull Anime art exhibition. Lucky for some others, they managed to escape this fate due to oversleeping, homework and other commitments I don't know and don't want to know.

Anime Now is an anime exhibition showing drafts,cels, posters and merchadise. There's a great video on Cel animation that is likely comes bundle with the Jin Roh DVD but WTH since I am there might as well watched it. There's also one with a stakeout on pirated anime goods in HK sometime back 2002. Video on Akiharaba the Holy City of The Otaku (not exactly...haha). Co-Co did an awareness drive in a corner with a scrath built Destroy Gundam. Then there's screening of videos of the various studios. Anime is hardwork. I wonder if Singaporean can take upon this kind of task.

After Retsu came we went to that prata shop with the "BEST SERVICE" in Middle Road.
As usual, prata is served but not without issue. Of course. Not at the best speed. Beats the other time round however.

Crossing the junction to meet Chrno_jing and her group. LoL. But before that Retsu met a gal from NP or NYP. That joker only got $5 note and he donate it!!!!(He actually want to ask if we want to contribute together???). End up tsukikage and me chip in more to get a magnet photoframe (Enquire for it!!!!!Write in!!!SMS!!!!Only 1 and laying around at home!!!!)

Went to UOB Building at Shenton way.

Other than the Tribute to Newton, there are 4 more sculptures to view over there. That's the 1st stop. Here's the photographs, taken with my helpless little Panasonic VS2 camera.

Tribute to Newton

Surrealist Piano

Unicorn

It's kinda funny when you see a kid sitting on the "virgin" and stepping her all over.
It's US$480,000 for goodness sake!!!!!

Horse Saddled with Time

Space Elephant

Due to limited access to the side entrances, I am unable to view Woman Aflame upclose.

Next we took a hike to Capital Tower.

Dance of Time II

St.George And The Dragon

oh and the security was about to come over...

The fountain art work in front of Capital Tower (Not Dali)

Finally we are suppose to end the day with dinner but in the end kind of zombie and end up at Chinatown and parted there (w/o dinner).


I still left the 3 other sculptures at Orchard Road yet to view. Ah well, I am going to move into CTP anyway, I think I will take a look at them during break.


For the Salvador Dali Sculptors, they will be on display till Oct 14. View it since it might be long before you can view them over here in Singapore.

Salvador Dali in Wiki

(Note: Blog is drafted on 17th Sept)

The most delicious latte is served in this.....

...shop...

WTF!!!!WAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING TO MY LATTE!!!!!

I WANT TO SPEAK TO THE.....WTF!!!!!

d4thday is bored. So he bitches about the silly happenings in Sgcafe

Sgcafe is a gate of order and chaos.
Really.
Sometimes it's orderly chaos (like those silly flames of bad blood, vengence and plain annoyance) or chaotic order (the usual strings of posts in TCSS).

d4 had nothing much to blog. His hobby is mundane and everyone wrote the same old thing, offering nothing new.

d4 isn't a creative force. He is an end user. Thus he has nothing blog about his works.

d4 had done nothing to make his parents proud and done nothing to make anyone worried.

So dollar contribution today is about the forum. God. d4thday wrote enough garbage in there to fill up this blog and the next one.

But today d4thday decide to write about someone else's idea but he is too shy to write to that person in his face because d4's guts is yellow and he is definately with the hamtaro (I am his cousin hamchi).

There's this silly thread in the cosplay thread that want iamcow to be banned. Oh wow. Must be one of his seriously left-overed rivals when he was with his alleged "Cheating" girlfriend episode. However given his serious attitude to win in arguement online, I reckon it can be anyone. Except me. I am one of the ELDER ONES (translated in Cthulu Mythos reads: Mad Fucking Left-over that just don't die).

Anyway there's improvement to STAC on the dicussion with photographers thanks to i*mcow but ya there's the real stale shit restirred for the nth time and amidst all these his agenda eventually changed to the obvious (Exclusive exception to your frigging rules STAC). Read thread 1430520 post number 176. If his camera requires to be viewed, HE DOESN'T WANT TO BE CHECKED. WELL THANKS ALOT wiseguy. We will be seeing some photographers be sent out this EOY because he is a mule trying to emulate a cow.

Oh and there's the COSPLAY THIS CAN? topic. Some idiot wants to cosplay an online buzz (read HOT this month, next month forgotten) who sent his video to youtube playing canon with his guitar. Sure it owns you but it's silly. You are just another guy with guitar. You think a cosplay event is a jamming session. Come on. Those cosplayers will just ignore you and play around as usual (other than posing for the camera). He and his bro try to act cool and chummy. Self praise with mock taunts. KKP as usual, acts as the Mose's Stone of Cosplay goes around with his tagging gun and tag those guys. I thot it's interesting to set a thread to ask if it's ok to cosplay Neil Gaimen or Alan Moore but it might end up maybe I might be caught in a promise that must be fulfiled. So nah. Play on the Pun.

Someone asked. WTF is with me and Inova starting on harems like as if we are opening Katong Laksa. But that's the point of it. You don't go around opening up a harem and treating it seriously. Calling people in the middle of the night to boot someone off his virtual harem is a joke. A complete sense of disregard to his image considering he wants to be a celebrity. Then again maybe he wants to portray a bad boy image. Haha. Go get caught by your wife with a small gal in compromising position. Now that's news and instant CRY: BAD BOY!!!!

Cl#ud_Tidus always starts with some weird threads and post some humour that flats out pretty quick with his occasional WRONG spelling @ the RIGHT places (and obvious he didn't do it intentionally.). And he created an ANTI-Inuyasha Fan club. WTF. However he really got cheesed off when I open a fake Gundam Hate Club. LoL. They say mockery could be a most sincere form of flattery. LoL. And here's what he post in my ANTI GUNDAM thread:

"I pity D4thday for opening a h8 club a hours later after I opened my anti-inuyasha club."

I laughed. WTF are you pitying me for???? Following you????Anyway you lose. No one is active and everyone posts because they love the anime despite lamenting it's "watever that irritates them". Over at my thread, we had a discussion on values and cliche backstories. BEAT that. My thread serves it's purpose while yours went to waste.

There's more people but I need to work on the Sat outing post.

The Host and The Devil (and she wears Prada)

The Host

With trailers running on the TVmobile about people running and running from a monster, it bound to be a great creature feature. Just that maybe no one noticed Song Kang-ho.

Yup. Song Kang-ho. A master of the stoner look in South Korean Cinema. A versatile actor of both comedy and drama.

Most people I went to watch with didn't know what to expect from other than Yuki but that's because she read FIRST (althought I also read it too). So therefore I got very confused feedback because of that. Attribute to the fact the lack of promotional materials (the poster I saw depict the scene where the girl and the boy was trapped in the sewers with the creature) and a rather misleading trailer.

Is it a comedy?Yes. A dyfunctional family always bring the giggles.
Is it a creature feature?Yes. In fact the creature had a personality.
Is it a family drama?of course. A dysfunctionate family always had issues.
Is it a socio-political satire?Of course. Most creature features had such elements.

Bundle it up and really....

It is unlike any Monster film you seen before.

So do watch it.


The Devil wears Prada

Ah yes. The Devil Wears Prada.

Thanks to some joker saying he wants to watch Monster House otherwise I wouldn't be able to watch this. He only say last minute he cannot make it and since me and yuki are already in the cinema and MONSTER HOUSE is specially reserved for HIM, there's no point for us to watch it now. At first we intend to go since we thought there's nothing we can watch and down the escalator, Yuki just mention her friend might had come if it's TDWP.

!!!!

I asked push this movie back for like the 3rd time already. Might as well watch it since it's only 10mins after the screening starts. It's not a big deal as this is not an action movie. Missing 1 or 2 mins wouldn't kill anyone.

True enough we got in to see that movie title. That means we skip hell lot of fantastic trailers. Haha. And that Open Season Cellphone reminder. And Richard Gere and his birds.

Anyway TDWP begins with Andrea getting a dream job that everyone wants but she isn't too overly keen on. It's funny but somehow a dozen of us all had that same mentality. Working on a job that you aren't too keen in.

The only problem with Andrea getting into Runway is that she doesn't fit in. It's like dorky me wotking in Towers or some place that demand you to be a metrosexual.
Picture that.
ok. Don't picture that.

Andrea start out being the second assistant to Miranda, chief editor of Runway, the headmaster of fashion. Brenda is crude, mean and stern making her a devil to everyone's eye. Oh and the second assistant had to respond the name Emily. Lol.

You don't have to be fashionable to watch TDWP. The language is simple while names were littered and some faces pop out (fashion gurus playing themselves.) Underneath it's a movie that question:

"Do you have a choice?"

SD G-Gen Portable (PSP...duH)

http://www.ggenep.com/pc/

I been watching my brother playing for like quite some time (since the 1st PS G-Gen. He is currently playing G-Gen F. Which is why the PS is still plugged in). Since I am still the PSP hogger I might as well test trial his latest purchase (but damn! GUndam Battle Royale is slated for next month's release!!! Seems my whole life is run by Gundam).

Overall the animation loads faster than the good old PS version (PS2's edition aren't that FAST too!!!) and if you select the option, you still can switch it off by pressing the START button. FMV is loaded quickly and pretty nice but if you had been playing G-Gen all these years...you get wat I mean.

I just started on the MSG scenario so it pretty much not pushed to the limits yet. All the commands are there. However for the Team Formation in Battle Options (pre battle preps), the production and assignment of MS comes across as pretty much "hidden". It took me 3 days to figure out how to call out and assign a pilot to a MS in the Captured Storage. Gone is the days where you need to move your captured units to your MS Storage before you can assign a pilot. Steps were skipped to make the game flow faster.

In addition, you no longer need to train scenario units to unlock them for the factory. Once you clear the scenario, you will get the units ready for manufacturing.
However the game will cap your progress thru capital issues but that can solved thru multiple replays of a stage and of course planning to get a Higher Haro Score (score is indicated and translated into $. Haro is to indicate Score Rank: Normal, Bronze, Silver and Gold).

It's a good thing to see that GGP is taken account of it being portable especially when it's a packed with multi-media contents. However I believe in terms of challenging the player...maybe it's not there. Simply a good ride entertainment.

That's all for the moment. Maybe I will continue coverage GGP as I progress.

The Generation of Chaos (PSP) review without screenshots or real tips...

http://www.nisamerica.com/goc/index.htm

I dunno how long since I got it but playing 1hr or 2 per day will never get you anywhere. Anyway since G-Gen is coming, I don't think I had any choice but to return the PSP to my brother. So I had been losing some sleep since the begining of last month just to clear the default scenario.

The Gena (Dravania/Main Story) campainge is actually easy (as compare to Zodia's) since the map slowly opens up thru the chapters. As Gena, you are offered to stay or join Valz of the Liberation Army in mid game. It's of course silly and futile that you actually tried building up and then destroying Dravania Empire should you join Valz. However the catch of it is there, making the difficulty up by a bit if you managed to strenghtened the Dravania Army by a considerable amount. Of course you can be an asshole, selling off all the equipments of the army, sacking (if it's possible?I never tried) off all the best generals.

Quick start tips:
- You don't need the weakness and strenght chart of the elements. Really.
- Fortified? For what? You be playing away matches 90% of the time. Just keep rushing and stay at the mid points (stars)
- Marketing is a pain. You can actually obtain better stuff by searching. However do spent your money whenever you can since there's a limit on the money you can hold.
- Your soldiers are worth 1.5 bar of the Super Gauge. If you can't beat the enemy, march them to DEATH and hope for a miracle.
- Morale is the key to all battles. Up yours and down their's.
- Alliance is to useful if you didn't want to fight 9 enemies at once. However don't make alliance with your neighbour. The com will just break alliance the moment they ran out of land to expand.
- Archers and Magic Hunters are your best defence only Pirates and Infantry can beat them.
- Captive Voice (RESTRICT EFFECT) and Lost Cause (Morale Down) are useful against bosses. You can save your 1.5 Super Gauge for mobbing the bosses.

Overall Generation of Chaos is a pretty nice ride by game althought in midst of enemies' turn you cannot save so when it is your station or stop, you cannot just exit the game and switch to music mode (MP3 playing). It does look complex because of lack of information on everything but if you rush by the game (which I believe the previous owner did) maybe it isn't so hard at all. Not a game that make Gaming Widows.

Got time?

But not everyone has. For me that is. Haha

So randomly asking what other people want to do and tag along.
Just nice tsukikage wants to do up his pc.
At least more productive than be at some random kopi thiam and generate noise.

Well. Watching Yuki do the pc isn't really productive for me.

Hell what gives, play K.o.F XI.
Wah still can lose to tsukikage, a self-profess layman. Jesus. I think I should give up playing K.o.F altogether. I had no talent for it.

10gb thru USB 1.0 is godamnit exciting especially you get to count down from 160mins at 5plus which is abt the time to get going and eat dinner.

So practically I spent the whole afternoon playing a game I already had at someone's place with the fan blowing my face. The only plus is that I don't get to be disturbed by my mum or my com. Can't be an afternoon well spent since I spent like 3hrs on the road.

The only plus side is that I finally eat Pizza in Pizza Hut. Althought the pizza isn't what I expect to be. I still like the traditional one with a thicker crust.

I am not that kind of person

"So you think what I suggested is despicable?"

Ouch.
Sensitive bitch.

All I made was a statement about myself. My own lingistic reflex is to allow fairness. I don't force or lie my way to get what I want. That's my nature. That's me. I am not that kind of person. If you eavedrop to hear what I say to my customer and give me suggestion after I said something, it's too late. I am stupid and you are smart. Then be smart and pay attention. Don't let me do all the explanation to people because I will give what I expect from other people.

Honesty.

And if you think what I said was a reflection on yourself then maybe it is. Don't 'play' concern only when you want to lecture people. Don't teach me what to do when you do nothing and claim credit for what you didn't do. If you want to take directions, go ahead, I am always game. However, judging your style, you rather wait for Astroid M to fall down and kill everyone in it than do something.

I wish...

I was a Tentacle Monster that lives by the sea.

meanwhile enjoy Hello Cthulu

The wow-choten Hotel

http://www.uchoten.com/


An entertaining Occupational Romatic-Comedy that revolves events moments before the New Year Celebration Party in a Hotel. Wait. Is it an occupation movie?Hmmm..the main characters are working a hotel. Is it a romance movie???Hmmm...now really?All the romance setup are FAILED Relationships with Near Failures (that's where the romance comes in)?Comedy???It's there alright althought it's not really a GPMG delivery. All the actors are convincing comedy actors of substance.

Didn't see Matsu Takako for like a few years. The last drama I saw her in was HERO. That's how long ago. She is the only actress I recognise by name althought most of the cast looks familar having acting bits parts in dramas I previously watched.

Strongly recommended.