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Iplehouse’s new Elder Doll – Akando

November 26, 2008 vegahighwell Leave a comment

God. I hyperventilated at the sight of him. No, it happened when Iplehouse launched their Christmas promotion by giving away free dreaming heads of their dolls to buyers.

Iplehouses Xmas promotion - dreaming heads of dolls

Iplehouse's Xmas promotion - dreaming heads of dolls

Look at the far right! The EID at the far right! HOMG!! HOT DESU~!!!

dreaming akando (side view)

dreaming boys (why no soori?!)

dreaming girls

dreaming girls

Harin doesn’t look half bad in dreaming head either. However, the main guy in today’s spotlight is Akando! Back to the topic!

He’s really mature! Really like what Iplehouse promised to be the Elder Iplehouse Doll. Up to 70cm high, he’s Iplehouse’s biggest doll yet. And looking good too~ Now, see his pretty face and hyperventilate/nose bleed/faint/fangirl/scream!

Front view

Front view

HOMG SO HOT!!! *Hyperventilates again*

HOMG SO HOT!!! *Hyperventilates again*

full view with basic clothing

full view with basic clothing

Omg! He’s tempting! Just that he costs USD$650 for one, and that’s without make up and clothes and without changing the thigh joint. Sigh~ Another dream he’s going to be~

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Anime Festival Asia 2008 – Reflections

November 24, 2008 vegahighwell 1 comment

AFA was fun.

Truth to be told, I think I wasted my $5 entering the convention hall when all I did there was just be at this corner behind the halls and eat the cookies kai and shiki (plus someone else) baked while handing out mine to all the people of SRF. And I was quite worrisome that the cookies and brownies won’t be finished and then I will have to bring them home again… but hey, the brownies were just the right amount to bring and the cookies were good, according to all I’ve shared them to.

Kai’s and Shiki’s were nice, too. I admire the wrapping of Kai’s cookies, and to the mentioned guy, thank you for them. I could not guess that you will prepare one for me, having heard you say that they’re for the October and November babies of SRF. To Shiki, your heart-shaped cookies taste great, good job on baking them!

After this cookie fest at AFA, I’m now quite sick of the taste of cookies at the moment. I guess it must be eating too much and not having enough water…

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I finally managed to do what I’ve always wanted to do at events: draw on the graffiti wall. Thanks to Xin for lending me his pencils, otherwise I wouldn’t have gotten the chance to do so yesterday. I tried to draw Granado Espada’s female musketeer in Justocorps on the wall, but I couldn’t remember the deisgn of the coat, so I left the picture pathetically plain. Then something came into me to draw Tsukiumi again, just for the heck of it. I nearly forgot how to draw her omg! Almost got the fringe wrong hahaha… but gradually everything came back. She doesn’t look very good, probably due to the vertical surface I was drawing on. I swear that drawing on vertical surfaces are tiring to your arms, plus if you’re drawing on a piece of paper already covered with pictures, it is very sure that you will smudge either the bottom left or right side, depending on which hand you are holding your pencil with.

Ah yes! Tsukiumi left a message yesterday on the graffiti wall: “月海爱你喔~” Though I have a feeling now that she has been forgotten…

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For pictures, I have none of AFA, but I do have a few shots from GE. Please don’t mind me spamming here, even though I said that everything related to GE will be posted on my GE blog, but still…

Guess who’s this!

Someone I know, in-game version

Someone I know, in-game version

Hehe, this is so easy to guess… Only just got him to the appropriate level for wigs today afternoon, so I had a little photoshoot with him! This will be how he looks like in-game, but what if I add sunglasses?

With sunglasses on

With sunglasses on

Hurhur…

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That’s all I can say for now. I sure hope everyone who ate my goodies are happy with them.

the GazettE – Leech, Distorted Daytime, Hole

November 22, 2008 vegahighwell 2 comments

The new single of the GazettE, officially released on November. The 3 songs in the single are Leech, Distorted Daytime and Hole. The PV of Leech is below for you to enjoy~

I recommend playing this in high quality by the way. Also, Ruki doesn’t look that nice in this PV, with that hairstyle… without the english translation lyrics I can’t really do much about deciphering the meaning of this PV (which, as of now, seems of a very artsy theme to me).

Click here to download the songs. Please have patience to the download site. I reccommend Mozilla Firefox in the process of downloading the songs.

Alternate link for LEECH, Distorted Daytime.

Leech Lyrics (Romanji, Kanji and English Translations)
Distorted Daytime Lyrics
Hole Lyrics (Romanji)

Just some stuff

November 20, 2008 vegahighwell Leave a comment

Really, just some simple updates about myself here and there. Besides, this blog is starting to get cold and neglected ever since I started my new GE blog (which still needs some care) and I restarted playing GE on an almost-daily routine.

Anime Festival Asia 2008, Singapore’s first Anime convention is almost here. Anyone and everyone who knows AniManGames should really take the coming weekend off and attend this event. Of course, we cosplayers will be there as well for the occasion. It just makes me happy to know that I shall be seeing all my good friends again on this coming weekend! I shall be baking~ cookies and brownies~ wee~

Anime Festival Asia 2008 (AFA)
22nd November(Saturday) and 23rd November(Sunday)
Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Center, Halls 403 – 404
10.00am – 9.00pm
Entrance is by ticket, $5 for one-day tickets, $8 for two-day tickets

On to the topic about baking. It’s fun, seriously. Plus there’s a sense of great (if not little) accomplishment when you finish a batch of cookies, brownies, muffins, bread or cakes. The unforgettable waft of your goodies baking in the oven, biting down on what has just cooled down on the cooling rack… the goodness of baking is just indescribable. Oh, and also, there’s an additional plus point if you’re baking for people close to you.

Categories: Life events

Outing Specifics: the results and updates to next SRF outing

November 16, 2008 vegahighwell Leave a comment

It’s cold in here. Brr. *starts the cheer that begins with “I say, Brr!”*

Ok, so I’ve gotten 2 votes on eating out, 2 for a movie, 1 for others and another 1 didn’t specify what he/she wanted. Ok. How hard to decide without any specifics. What irony to the name of the previous post.

I’ll just tell you guys what’s coming up for the next SRF outing here then. More details will come after 24th, when I have discussed with the main organiser of the outings.

We are to eat out, again. And in consideration of Kai as a Muslim, we will be heading to a Halal-certified eatery. Also, in consideration to the entire SRF spread across the whole of Singapore, the location is decided to be in Central, Singapore. So expect some outing to areas like Orchard Road or City Hall.

Locations in mind include Sakura International Buffet at Orchard.

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Now for some other locations which do not and will not apply to this upcoming outing. I have been looking around and came across these potential places for food outings. As SD likes to say, “Outings are my de-stressing sessions and the time which I can indulge in good food.”

They’re all buffet, by the way. Big crowds are best satisfied with buffets, not restaurant fare.

  1. Tea Lounge
  2. Chin Huat Live Seafood (Thomson) 镇发火锅活海鲜
  3. Rose Veranda
  4. Mingles (@ Velocity)
  5. Ellenborough Market Cafe

That’s all I can add here for now. Courtesy to the Channel 8 variety show Buffet Buffet for the reviews. Note, the site is in Chinese.

Categories: Life events

Outing specifics

November 12, 2008 vegahighwell Leave a comment

I assume that the main organiser of the up-coming SRF outing is piled under homework, since he’s at his 3rd year of poly now… Hence, I shall attempt to take things into my own hands and try to finalise the outing soon…

I need public opinions first, so please do this poll for me, thanks!

Comments are gladly welcome. If you want to multiple stuff, just say so too.

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On the other hand, AFA’s coming! Still, I’m thinking whether I should redo Hibari or not… trying to weigh the pros and cons for it is hard.

Categories: Life events

A new blog!

November 7, 2008 vegahighwell Leave a comment

For the GE buffs, now you don’t have to tolerate with the endless silly posts that are not related to the game, with the appearance of my own GE blog. It is an idea much shared by GE bloggers to dedicate one entire blog to everything happening in or around the game. So that’s the reason for the birth of this new blog.

Visit the site here at the link below~

http://gethallmann.wordpress.com

Hence, with the removal of GE as a topic of blogging in here, the topics remaining are:

  • Cosplay
  • Anime
  • Manga
  • Songs
  • Ball-jointed Dolls
  • Recounts of happenings in real life
  • My (crap) drawings
  • My own little comic creations at http://www.comiqs.com
  • And other random stuff…

Hope the change won’t affect you readers!

All old posts on Granado Espada in this blog won’t be removed, so as not to affect any links to any of the posts on other websites.

Categories: Uncategorized

Some comics created half a year ago

November 3, 2008 vegahighwell Leave a comment

Ok, a little about the history behind these comics. They all have something to do with GE, due to my fangirlism for the game of course! All frames come from in-game screenshots, either solo photoshoots or with WinterSakura, LeAzure in sGE (Rembrandt). These first appeared in my first blog on Blogger, but now Im unearthing them to share again. Or else, I would’ve long forgotten about these sudden creations.

Kindly click on the links to view the comiqs, thanks!

Cake? :D

First comiq, a one frame work. It isn’t much really, more like just some addition of captions to a screenshot. I was testing out the capabilities of comiq?

Rat Year in GE

Well, sGE had a Chinese New Year event to mark the coming of the Year of Rat, with the addition of Traditional Korean Clothing for the male Fighters and Scouts, which I didn’t manage to exchange for. The hat is another, smaller gift that you can exchange for using the Lucky Symbols that the rats drop upon killing them. I plonked one on my male Scout, Reever (check out his pic at this page) and at the end of training my female Elementalist and male Musketeer, wah lah! the comic template came into mind and off we go to comiqs!

Small Joke 1

Did this while using my sister’s old family in sGE. Just something I came up with after seeing the two screenshots while sifting through all of them at the end of the day.

Love’s misunderstandings

The pictures were taken a very long time ago. I simply went back to my Photobucket account to find any pictures I can use for another comiq, when I saw this, then decided to make use of them. It was meant as a joke at that time of photoshoot, but now… maybe it still is!

That’s all for sharing~

Credits to http://www.comiqs.com for allowing the creation of the above comiqs.

Granado Espada page updated with info on GE’s features, level of family members updated, added family potraits courtesy of Another Lonely Soul.

Continuing Bernelli’s Quest At Prison de Joaquin

November 2, 2008 vegahighwell Leave a comment

I pushed the instance fight part till I reached level 84, which I did and ended off today’s training with a spectacular 2 level increase! Talk about grinding! Anyway, if you’re currently at this quest, I’ll do a little write-up from the beginning of this quest that Grace Bernelli gave.

After completing the initial quests that include running about Tetra Catacombs (and getting her character card as well), the second part begins right after you’ve stopped. Even though the recommended level to do this quest is from level 72 onwards… You begin the quest by her request to you to investigate Prison de Joaquin, the level 72 – 84 dungeon in the North. You collect some stuff for her at the Mohrgus, then head to Eusebio at Reboldoeux to polish them, bringing you to other level 7X places like El Canon de Diabolica. After that, you are required to head back to Prison de Joaquin, the Mohrgus again at D7. The secret portal is quite near the entrance, so run around there, from one side to the other if you want to. From here on, is where the fun begins.

You will be teleported to an instance to fight mobs of dead soldiers that someone summoned. Keep moving forward to the end of the map, killing the zombies as you go. You have to mark up 200 kills, so keep at it while moving. When you see the rotating blades, DO NOT attempt to cross it. For the first set of rotating blades that block your way, you have to kill about 100 dead soldiers first before moving quite close to the blades. Grace will then have some sort of message to you and the rotating blades will be removed. Then, finish up the final 100 and when you are near the final room of the instance, there’s another set of rotating blades waiting for you. Once you’ve gotten 200 zombies down, do the same thing as you did for the first set of blades and then…

a mysterious man

a mysterious man

Gasp! Is he who I think he is? Is he… is he… IS HE?!?!?!

*w* ITS GAVIN-SAMA!

*w* IT'S GAVIN-SAMA!

IT’S GAVIN JAMESON!!!!!! KYAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

*ahem* on with the quest… he gets quite angry, because he hates uninvited guests apparently. A confrontation between Grace and him follows, and then you have to fight him! NOOOOO~~~~

*whack whack whack* I didn’t take a shot of his stats, but I do remember that he’s of level 80, AR DR 42 and has 40 fire/ice/lightning/mind resistance.

HOMG!!!

after he 'died'

So you’ve killed the poor bishie and told to speak to him again, like the above screenshot. You’re moved out from the instance after some more conversation with him to the Mohrgus, at where you entered. From here, head off to find Grace.

She tells you to find more clues about this Mysterious Man, and instructs that you head to the cemetery of Thueringenwald. It’s not the place where you see loads of tomb stones, but this lonely tomb below the actual cemetery at G4/H4. You are then transported to a new instance.

Your location in the instance is at where the tomb is, so move up to the cemetery to meet Grace and Gavin again. From here, your job is to get rid of all the dead soldiers that Gavin summons with some unknown skill.

Gavin performing the necromancer skill

Gavin performing the necromancer skill

He’s muttering something while performing the skill by the way, making it even more worth it to see this skill in action. Plus the black glow on his hands as well… Following the killing of all of the summoned dead soldiers, you have to fight him AGAIN. *groans* Gahhh, the poor bishie…
*whack whack whack* same stats I presume, from the previous instance
The fight ends and there’s more talk between him and Grace and you. He gives you a key to a special room in Prison de Joaquin, the Mohrgus at G4. It’s a secret portal so run around that area, to and fro.
Once inside, this is what you see…
all red with lava beneath you...

all red with lava beneath you...

Some monsters spawn here, and the failed subjects a.k.a. the larger monsters with holding FLAMING Muses Bahiaspadas (GIMMEH!) drop puzzle pieces, on a side note. You can kill the random zombies on the way to the end of the area, where you see Dr. Fran. Get close to him and you will initiate the conversation of Dr. Fran, Grace, Montoro, Gavin and you.
Dr. Fran, my 3 peeps, Montoro and Grace in the foreground

Dr. Fran, my 3 peeps, Montoro and Grace in the foreground

Gavin speaks

Gavin speaks

Blah blah blah… after talking Montoro disappears and you have to fight Dr. Fran. He has a very dangerous attack plus the wizard’s Apocalypse skill, so be careful around him. Another way is to just run away and leave him to Grace and Gavin to finish him off. After that, the 2 NPCs acknowledge each other as comrades of the Brestian Army.
She recognises him

She recognises him

Idiot Gavin... stupid response... BE COOLER DAMMIT!

Idiot Gavin... stupid response... BE COOLER DAMMIT!

Here’s Gavin just standing there with my peeps behind him.
His battle stance

His battle stance

A dangerous guy he is, both in looks and skills…
The talk ends between them both. You report back to Grace and wah lah! The quest is done!
On the other hand, updates on my main team! They’re finally level 84! Reached 85 just tonight, not quite long ago from this post. Now we’re at Ustiur, hitting lots of dinos and getting hit back.
TO USTIUR WE GO!!

TO USTIUR WE GO!!

Front view~
My people in their wigs! And the Clara Mago and Elite Laranja E Preto

My people in their wigs! And the Clara Mago and Elite Laranja E Preto

So long for now~