Quiz 2

2nd quiz, this time from sawa’s blog. I wasn’t on her list of 10 people she chose to do the quiz, but I’ll do it for the heck of it. I’m bored anyway, and being so caused me to blog about something totally irrelevant. Hell, here’s the quiz!

Pass this quiz back to 10 people:

1. Sasuke-Dragon
2. Kaen
3. Kai Hiwatari
4. Rundaria Latiette
5. jkkh
6. stjh
7. WinterSakura (you have no blog yet i do want to put you here cos you’re my friend. <3 u)
8. karei.seikumi
9. ah poke
10. MOSTER! (how can i forget gary…)

Who is no. 6 having a relationship with?

Reize.

Is no. 9 a male or female?

Male.

If no. 7 and 10 are together, will it be a good thing?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I’ll be laughing my ass off first… but… maybe? (DON’T KILL ME WINTER! AND MOSTER IF YOU SEE THIS! D8)

How about no. 8 and 5?

Highly unlikely… i shall not be able to believe my own eyes if i do see it happen

What is no. 2 studying about?

No idea, but i do know she’s in a JC and taking her A’s this year. Do your best! OwO

When was the last time you had a chat with no. 3?

As of this moment of writing, the chat window between us is on the bottom of my com screen.

What kind of music does no. 8 like?

No idea…

Does no. 1 have any siblings?

Yea, me and a lil bro. Used to have a big bro but they broke ties already.

Will you woo no. 3?

OMG. *stares at screen* THIS IS BLATANT COINCIDENCE! No, i won’t woo him, lest to even try.

How about no. 7?

No yuri please.

Is no. 4 single?

No idea. maybe she is…

The surname of no. 5?

Koh, from sawa’s blog. I heard him mention it once, but i think i forgot.

What’s the name of no. 10?

Gary! He shares a name with another cosplayer, but that’s extra info.

What’s the hobby of no. 4?

hmm… she has a thing about blogs (i find her posts extremely entertaining), cosplaying perhaps?

Does 5 and 9 get along well?

Have they met? hmm…

Where is no. 2 studying at?

A Junior College in Singapore. I am not sure of the name of the institution though.

Say something about no. 1.

She bothers me around cos she’s my big sis and sometimes tells me to STFU and GTFO, but apart from that she cares for me as an elder sibling. i <3 her. i sometimes </3 her though, cos of her hurtful words.

Have you tried developing feelings for no. 8?

Holy- Whatever became of the sentence “No yuri please”? I am an aquintance of hers…

Does no. 7 like 2?

hmm. maybe as a friend. i read on no. 2’s blog that she was greatly amused by no. 7’s randomness. the other way round… most probably, but to the extent of a FRIEND.

Does no. 1 have any pets?

Her PSP, her Patapons, her lappie, her doujins, her fanfics etc.

Am bored…

Upcoming event: Cosplay Matsuri

who’ll know, i’m actually looking forward to something very bad on that day: cries of “HB IS HERE!” and stuff like that. a complete fiasco she has blown up from her comments and photos on her flickr account.

It’s not about what she wears, really. It’s more like what she did and her attitude to our comments. There are 2 incidents with her as the culprit, namely the ‘lolita’ affair and the ‘photo caption’ affair.

For the ‘lolita’ affair, it will be very bad for your eyes to see her photos, thus I’m not posting them here. I’ll be fouling my own blog anyway… Here’s what she did (in point form, so you don’t have to read through one after another wall of text):

1. She wears an outfit that is very far from the tarditional lolita fashion we see on the net. (For reference, please search for “Lolita fashion”.)
2. Proceeding to a local forum’s sub culture section for lolita-lovers, she posts the pictures of her.
3. As it did not come to meet the criteria for a Lolita, she was politely told to review on her clothes then post the pictures.
4. She rebuts by saying that it’s the lolita-lovers who’ve gotten the facts wrong, saying that what she wore was the correct thing to wear to fit the name “Lolita”. (For this case, search “Lolita book”.)
5. The community corrects her by saying that they are following the fashion, not the book under the same name. The lolita fashion is derived from the Victorian Age of Europe, thus the poofy skirts and elegant feel of lolitas.
6. Final rebut from her is that she calls us freaks as lovers of a fashion that will never be deemed ok by the public and that we’ve seriously misinterpreted the meaning of ‘lolita’, when both are completely different, just that they share the same name.

Now, on to the next affair, which infuriates us even more.

1. On her blog, she claims to respect us cosplayers with our costumes and props, thus the coverage of various events over 2 years in the site and her taking photos with us.
2. However, we found out that she placed degrading captions on our faces through a certain function on flickr. Some captions include us seemingly wanting to flip her skirt/rape her/make her our sex slave.
3. Infuriated, we tried to garner a reply from her and at least an explanation in which did she do so.
4. Her explanation: “Light humour”
5. This pissed us even more, so we decided to tell her remove the captions, at the very least in respect for the name of various cosplayers who had posed with her before. For the cosplayers are never these sort of people to do this to anyone.
6. Her spokesperson ‘charged’ us of stealing the photos and adding on the captions ourselves, which is blatantly wrong as they can still be seen on her flickr album. It being her account, unless we hacked into it, it can only mean that she added those captions herself.

If there are any cosplayers reading this post, kindly make your way to this thread and check whether did Heng Bok degrade you on her flickr account or not.

http://sgcafe.com/showthread.php?t=53323

Now, the online war hasn’t ended yet, with talks of meeting up in the real world to settle this once and for all in progress. I do hope that it does end, for the original thread at a forum has reached page 100 with 4993 replies. Goes to show how epic this topic is, for (quote Miavi),

our reputation as a cosplayer is at stake here.

It is also so epic i’m posting it here. Man, i’m running out of topics…

Fusion 3

Yup, it’s the 3rd installment of my fusion series for Granado Espada and Visual Kei clothing. This time, there’s only the male fighter in an outfit and pose resembling Ruki of the GazettE. Do not ask me why, this just comes to my mind whenever I see his face and jacket. Here’s the pic. I suck at poses and yes, still VK clothes.

VK Male Fighter of GE

VK Male Fighter of GE

I like this pic, though for some reasons it somehow accentuates his butt.

Vocalist, male fighter of GE

I fail at drawing fingers too.

Aoi, Guitarist of the GazettE

Aoi paid me a visit! He looks dumb though.

I have lots to learn…

SRF’s outing to ECP

kai, i do have a feeling you’re the only gentleman i ever know. the other guys around me just aren’t as thoughtful. i am not insulting any guy who happened to see my blog. thanks for the comments on the baked goodies, even baking pre-mixed content takes some thought into it. you did really well on your dish too *grins*. and as you’ve said before, cooking for your friends does give a very satisfied feling at the end of day after hearing their positive comments. it’s not your fault that you converted me to instumental music, so dun go on apologising.

Well, we from Spartako Retarda Famaglia had an outing yesterday, to the East Coast Park! SD and i arrived 30 mins early, but we met ah poke just in front of the control station, thus we joined him and waited. Before long, justice, sawa, shiki, moster and javan came along with whatever they were to bring for the trip. All food and drinks, for the cutlery were covered by winter, whom we met up with at ECP along with kaen and kai.

It rained while we were moving to ECP, stranding us at Macdonald’s while waiting for the drizzle to stop and enjoying that bottle of jellybeans sawa brought along. Liqorice appeared to be a well-known flavour amongst us now. However, after moster went out for a little scouting, he reported that it will be inevitable for us to get our bums wet if we were to stay at ECP. Proposing that we move to the bowling alley, we went but the plaque outside bearing the forsaken words “No outside food and drinks allowed” stopped us from entering. It was another 10 mins of discussing with the main organiser and waiting for jerome to finish his business concerning his anus that we led the group to the nearby HDB blocks to finish off the perishable food we had with us.

Thanks to a kind ah ma for bringing us to a void deck that had a nice table for us to sit around, the cake was brought out and we began to light the candles for Lavi’s birthday. (No, i’m not pulling your leg. we did celebrate a animanga character’s birthday.) the cake was divided and the picnic unofficially started. In the first paragraph, there were mentions of kai’s and my cooking. He brought along honey-coated chicken sticks while I blueberry muffins and chocolate chunk cookies (it is chocolate chunk cookies). I figured that the worries of not enough food wasn’t needed, for we brought too much instead. In the middle of it, yumeno came along and joined us for lavi’s birthday ‘feast’.

After lunch, a round of ice-breaker game was played ending with moster and javan facing a penalty each. Hearing all the confessions of “I never…” and “I have…” was indeed fun. Packing up of leftovers was really fast, and i am happy at the efficiency of kaen for cleaning up most of the food. thanks! with a slice of cake, 2 cookies (devoured at the end of the day by kai and SD), 6 or 7 muffins, a loaf of bread and lots of snacks, we moved to marina square for the rest of the day’s activities.

Getting off the bus at Suntec City, we moved towards the overhead bridge that led us to our destination. Along the way, we met ayu (one of Team Timcanpy’s Kandas) and 2 other DGM cosplayers (as Lavi and Komui) before continuing on our way. At Marina Square, I admit passing by two furniture shops that have couches and beds similar to the Granado Espada Era. However, the price of them are staggering (5 digits!). What can we expect from gilted, cushioned armchairs that (may) have been coated with gold leaves? Our walk ended at the bowling alley and arcade.

Amidst the rounds of DJ Max Portable 2, I didn’t say goodbye to kaen and shiki who left early! I didn’t greet ayu yesterday too. I am feeling a little bad inside me, for being so ignorant as friends. If any of you guys are reading this, I’ll like to apologise! Then, after a few rounds at the bowling alley, we moved to the arcade for the final segment of the day.

After Para Para 2nd Mix, Drum Mania V, Guitar Freaks V2 and another (i forgot the name of the game), we went out and said our rounds of goodbyes to each other. At then, ideas for the next SRF outing is already starting to form in my mind, but i will have to consider what are we going to do and when are we going to hold this outing. Preferably, it should be a few months away.

As sub-orgamiser of the outing, I am very happy that everyone, more or less, had enjoyed themselves at the outing. I do not have any experience as a organiser for an outing, and for my first to be so successful, I am very satisfied indeed. Thank you to all participants of the outing!

Roar it out! and Connect Singapore

Due to connect singapore, i missed out on this year’s annual ’star search’. drat… and there were 2 of my classmates on stage in a 5-man band! plus according to my class’s councilors, one of them played one hell of a guitar solo! GARRGH.

Connect Sigapore didn’t go as i expected it to be. over at where the president was (yes he attended the event), they started off real well and even recited the pledge holding hands. here, far, far away, we missed out the entire event without knowing it. am pissed. very so.

back on Roar it out! i figured i do want to be on stage. what’s stopping me is just my meager knowledge on the arts of band instruments plus the lack of band members. i could not believe that one of them decided to use a white jacket to cover over the white top of our school uniform and just go on stage like that. the horrors… JRock is affecting my life. it is! i’m only listening to music played by a band! no more synthetic music ever since then. what a change…

are gentlemen extinct? D:

Quiz

I found this while I was riffling through my old blog. It appears, i wrote like a b**ch back then, without much thought of anyone’s feelings. vulgarities basically fill the various posts until i got a big wake up call with the incident involving said blog, said posts, a group of very angry classmates and a slip of paper. i have since refrained from mentioning abything about my class, which explains the majority of the recent posts t be filled with stuff about Granado Espada. now, i have to be careful too. i do not wish to be in those days ever again…

yup, here’s the quiz i found. if you’re bored as well, take your time doing this. it’s really long, seriously.

Start time
8:52pm

Name
Chang Lin

Nickname
Bya[kugan], Vega Highwell

If you were a skittle, what colour you want to be?
blue or purple

Chinese zodiac
the rooster

Hair colour
black, though i can change my hair colour by plopping a wig on

Eye colour
brown, like most asians

Height
173cm

Favourite colour
monotone, royal purple, dark blue

Glasses
yeap, or contacts if i’m cosplaying on that day

Braces
the dentist recommended that to me last year, but i rejected due to the cost.

Piercings/ Tattoos
I had a temporary, drawn-on tattoo in early july 2008, the ANBU seal. it’s washable.

Pet
none.

Cut your own hair?
mostly my mum and the occasional hairdresser cutting my hair for me.

Did you do something in the past month you regret?
erm… maybe? i dunno…

Skipped school?
erm…

Bunjee jumping?
i don’t have the chance to, but i might try.

Jumped off a building?
with the safety harnesses attached to me, yes.

Dumped someone?
i have zilch love experience

Been arrested?
i’m a good citizen for pete’s sake!

Tp’d someone’s home?
[i dunno what Tp'd means, so changing question to...]
Slept over at someone’s home?
no, cos my parents refuse to, as i will be a burden to the 2nd party’s family members.

Won something?
some stuff, my proudest being the Death Note file and handphone strap.

Be rejected?
never confessed to anyone before.

Been to a funeral?
at some point in life, everyone will.

Used a lighter?
eh, no.

Been on stage?
for SYF during my primary school days and for my sec 2 literature stage production.

FAVOURITE

Season
Singapore has no seasons!

Food
red beans (the ones from japan, especially)

Ice cream flavour
no specific favourites

School subject
Social Studies and Biology

Person
Kai and Aoi of the GazettE, Miku of Antic Cafe

Book (s)
Artemis Fowl, Harry Potter, The Necromancer and some others.

Movie (s)
Harry Potter, Death Note, Batman Begins, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

Song (s)
the GazettE’s Filth in the Beauty, Cassis 
Antic Cafe’s Escapism, Bonds ~Kizuna~

Park
Fort Canning Park

State
Singapore has no states, and i dun go overseas so…

Place
Somewhere nice and quiet for me to relax…

Sport to watch
I dun watch sports

Band
The GazettE and Antic Cafe

Letter (s)
A confirmation email from Iplehouse with my order for Gentle Soori clearly stated on it?

Restaurant
Pastamania?

Cartoon character
A certain methuselah from Trinity Blood whom I have hopes to cosplay one day

TV station
none. i just watch what’s available on tv.

Name for a son?
Abel Nightroad

Name for my daugter?
Esther Blanchett

DO YOU PREFER

Chocolate or vanilla
vanilla, cos they dun leave a weird after taste in your mouth hours after eating it.

Long relationship or short
long relationships. trust between 2 people is honed over time and its obstacles…

Dogs or cats
dogs, they’re friendlier to me

Scary movies or comedies
i do not go well with scary movies, so comedies are in.

Short hair or long
i keep my hair short as it doesn’t interfere with me wearing any of my wigs, especially if they are of another colour. plus the heat in Singapore during the period of July - September makes me forgo the long hair.

Croutons or bacon bits
Bacon bits, tasty on potato salads.

Kissing or hugging
hugs~ i can do this with all my friends without feeling quite awkward, as hugs are one of the universal friendly gestures.

FIRST THING THAT COMES INTO YOUR MIND

Mexicans
nachos

School
A and E Maths plus my maths teacher

Grass
football fields, and i mean american football.

Canada
sadly, maplestory

Mouse
the fur and Rina’s late hamster

Hands
biker gloves

THE PAST 48 HOURS, HAVE YOU…

Watch a movie
eh no, though during the past 72 hours i got only as far as halfway through the dark knight before switching it off (was at a friend’s house watching it from the internet)

Talk on a phone
no

Cried
no

Threw up
no

Drank a glass of water
of course, to maintain the appopriate amount of bodily fluids in me at any time, otherwise i shall dehydrate!

Done drugs
definitely no

Read a book or magazine
artemis fowl and the lost colony

Watch TV
the results of the world cosplay summit. brazil won i think, with burst angel cosplay.

Look in a mirror
and did a VK/OK pose *grin*

Taken a shower
to keep myself fresh, so yes!

Taken a picture
of my drawing of reita that i drew on my social studies worksheet.

Listen to music
the GazettE’s Silly God Disco

Kissed someone
no

Told someone you like them
im not in a crush now…

Choose TEN people to do this quiz
SD (my sis), kai, kaen, jkkh, winter, sawa, moster, najmah, parveen and matilda. tho i do not think that most of them are reading my blog.

End Time
9:31pm

To-do list for next year

1. Learn the basics of playing an electric guitar
2. Get the score for Uruha’s part in Silly God Disco
3. Find 4 more members to fill in the places for vocalist, guitarist, bassist and drummer
4. Convince them to like and learn the song
5. Tailor Silly God Disco’s clothes worn by the band members in the PV
6. Put our names down for next year’s talent time
7. Rock down the school hall with Silly God Disco!! 8D

This will be my chance to spread Gaze-rock in my school before I leave the campus. Who will turn down the chance to try pole-dancing with a guitar in front of the whole school cohort? For those who have no idea who “Uruha” is, spot the guy in purple and possesses a pair of sexy legs playing the guitar solo at around 2:00. The other guitarist in black is Aoi, by the way (the 2nd guy of my dreams, 1st being Kai the drummer).

VIDDY!

This is a joke post seriously. I can never do all this.

Roar it out!

*RAWR* im getting biased for this annual event of the year. this is one of my highly dreaded yet highly anticipated program by the student council to show off hidden talents in school. this year’s title: Roar It Out! (In conjunction with national day, I think…)

The same thing goes every year. a rep from the SC comes on stage and announce the start of registration *why the heck is there registration fee for this year?!* and the booth comes on at the canteen. Following that will be the auditions and finally the event itself. yay.

However, a special rule has been added this year, due to the date it’s held (national day i think), everyone has to choose a song sung/composed by a singaporean to perform on that day. Oh, the dread… JJ Lim and Stephanie Sun will soon be blasted, not that I hate them. And then this song came to my mind: Redwan Ali’s Would You Be There, ending song of chinese drama Venus and Mars. It’s a real pretty song!

Redwan Ali - Would You Be There

Lyrics

If I were blue
would you be there for me
And whisper in my ears that’s okay
Would you stand by me
let me hold you tight
And say you love me one more time

If I feel good
would you slow dance with me
And touch my lips with tender love and care
Would you die for me
would you run with me
And never look back

Would you be there to love to be with me
Would you swear that your love is always true
Would you say that you’ll always be the one
to take my breath away…

Would you be there to love to be with me
Would you swear that your love is always true
Would you say that you’ll always be the one
to take my breath away
Would you be there…

if i am away
would you stil think of me
and wish that you could hold me now, (hold me now)
and would you die for me
would you run with me
all the way

Would you be there to love to be with me
Would you swear that your love is always true
Would you say that you’ll always be the one
to take my breath away…

Would you be there to save my soul tonight
Would you swear that your love is always true
Would you say that you’ll always be there
to kiss my pain away
would u be there…

Would you be there to love to be with me
Would you swear that your love is always true
Would you say that you’ll always be the one
to take my breath away…

Would you be there to save my soul tonight
Would you swear that your love is always true
Would you say that you’ll always be there
to kiss my pain away
would u be there..for me?

Back to topic. The different groups allowed on stage are solos, duets and bands of UP TO 3 FREAKIN’ PEOPLE?!?! WTF. what on earth can a 3-man band play? Vocalist, guitarist and keyboards? That is too darn little to play a proper song… Get a full band for goodness sake please.

Anyways, the nightmare of this program is the bands. The hall is definitely NOT a place to have a band play on the stage (Though I still have nice fantasies of Silly God Disco or Taion on-stage, in front of the whole school cohort). The drums are almost always too loud, covering the guitars and sadly, the vocalist too. Plus, isn’t there anyone into Japanese music? Oh, what I will give just to hear a familiar band like UVERworld, L~arc En Ciel or even Antic Cafe and the GazettE playing their famous songs in my pathetic-chinese-english-songs-ridden school to appreciate the fine music of the JRock! GAH.

Rini did go on stage once, when I was still a little sec one and fresh into the s’pore cosplay community for a coupla months only. That was the only time I heard a japanese song played in the school hall, but what did my school give in response? mutters and more mutters cos they cannot understand the lyrics sung so must talk. to hell for them. the only singers my school admit as japanese music must be ayumi hamasaki and *shudder* koda kumi. (darn. befouled my blog with her name.)

never mind all my rants. my school needs more love for JMusic. and with that, another song from the GazettE! Filth in the Beauty, my fav. Anti-Incest FTW.

http://www.imeem.com/krisberniedo/video/3UOc4iOU/the_gazette_filth_in_the_beauty_music_video/

the ah pek in the MV freaks me out. even after watching this for coutless times (being my favourite song), he still does.

I swear I’m seeing orange on the bar at the bottom of the com screen…

Ball-jointed Dreams: The Total Cost

Been browsing through the entire Iplehouse catalogue just to select some items for my not-yet-fulfilled-dream-BJD Gentle Soori. The list includes wigs, eyes, clothes and shoes, not forgetting the doll too (cost is counted in accordance to the list in the shopping cart should I include everything).

Y.I.D (Youth Iple Doll) Gentle Soori - $646 (includes make-up and basic outfit)

Iplehouse's Youth Iple Doll line - Gentle Soori

SD-13 Character T-shirt 02 - $16.50

SD-13 Character T-shirt 02 (The design I want)

SD13 -Cargo knee pants - $38.50

SD13 -Cargo knee pants (white) - My choice of pants

IHS_008 (black) - $33

IHS_008 (black) - My choice of shoes

Mohair -Black white - $20

Mohair -black white - My choice of wigs

16mm Acrylic Eye -Hazel(LD-09) - $10 (Once assembled, it will look like the pic above)

16mm Acrylic Eye -Hazel(LD-09) - My choice of eyes

Shipping Fee - $31.80

Grand Total = $795.80

*dies*

If all the prices stated here are in USD, here’s the amount in SGD: SG$1,082.92

*dies*

Ball-jointed dreams: Gentle Soori

I’m addicted to looking at his photos now… i just can’t seem to get enough! plus with all those wonderful pictures i see in sgcafe’s dollfie gallery, i’m envious of these rich bastards doll owners. now… do i hear people asking what “dolls” i’m speaking of? here’s a small summary of Ball-Jointed Dolls, or easier known as BJD.

Many call them “Dollfies”, but this name is copyright to the 1st generation of BJDs by the company VOLKS in 1999, also known as the “Super Dollfie” line of BJDs. Now, there are many companies making these BJDs, with the best coming from Japan and Korea while China slowly rises to create their own sculpts for the dolls with better quality and longer durability. These dolls range in sizes from as large as 60 cm for the bigger BJDs (1/3), 40cm for mini dolls (1/4) and 10cm for the tiniest ones (1/6). The cost varies from $1000/+ to $100/+, depending on the size and whether these dolls are limited edition or collector dolls. They are customisable to your choice by terms of clothes, wigs, make-up and body parts.

The easiest way to spot these dolls is to see them either nestled in the arms of a (most of the time) girl, wearing lolita or jrock clothing or on a table display, posed on doll furniture that are purchased for the sole purpose of taking photos and showing them off to the public. They can be spotted in cosplay events too.

So now’s the question, why am I introducing these expensive yet beautiful dolls to all of you readers? Mainly due to me having my eyes set on one of the dolls of Iplehouse! Here’re some photos of the doll, named “Gentle Soori” of the Youth Iple Doll (Y.I.D.) line.

Looking at you...

Head bent down...

With glasses on...

Looking sideways...

Doesn’t he just look so gorgeous? >w< *fangirls*

His height being 63cm, he’s one of the larger or 1/3 scale dolls. These dolls don’t cost cheap, so he costs US$550 just for him, a pair of random eyes (yes, you can change the eyeballs too), a random wig, a carrier bag with coverlet, a certificate and a set of basic clothes which includes a simple white button-up tee and blue jeans. After purchasing him I have to start buying his underwear first followed by some simple pieces of clothing. I do see a lot of people with their dolls fashioned after VK and lolita, so I’ve decided to follow the casual line of t-shirts and jeans or cargo pants. Total it up and it’s almost another US$100. Oh… the pain… my pocket…

If any of you are interested to see more BJDs, here’re the sites. They’re not all there are outside, but some which my friend shared with me.

http://www.iplehouse.net

http://www.eluts.com/

http://www.souldoll.com/index.php

http://www.doll-zone.com/index.asp

http://www.dreamofdoll.com/

http://tensiya.com

For more information, head to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball-jointed_doll#Full_size or search on Google for “ball-jointed doll”.