Satio is my new OKITA~~

omaigod....after 6 gruelling years, i finally got myself a new phone..!!
(yes, the last phone i chose myself was a Nokia 7250i, and that time, that was one of the bestest best phone already.....that crap costed me RM1200...)

anyway, i've been scouting on phones since last month, but since my old phone could last, i thought, oh well.....save up the cash la...

mana tau, slowly the stupid battery was acting up, and it was on the verge of exploding...(WTF?!)
i went to this shop and asked whether they have any battery for my phone model, and they quoted me a hefty RM100++ price..
i was like...WTF?!?!

and then i asked if they had any 'made in china aka imitation' ones....
that costed about RM25...wheewewww......
so i just asked them the condition of my current battery that time,
i quote that guy (he said it in canto, but i translate here la.)

me: will this battery like...explode?
guy: nope, this battery will not 'like' explode, it WILL DEFINITELY explode...
me: WTF?!?!?!?!??

yeah....so that's that...the battery incident..
blablabal.....later, i'm still facing problems with my phone because after all it is a imitation battery......pfft...
then i got into a heated arguement with my mom because she tried calling me on my phone, but then my old phone died-ed.....
she was like ' GO GET A NEW PHONE, YOUR PHONE SHOULD BE DISPOSED OF...blablabal)

so yeah, after that arguement, i immediately went scouting frantically for new phones..
i told myself to COMPLETELY IGNORE THE LIKES OF NOKIA...because yeah, for all my life, i've been using nokia and there wasn't any good experience from it..
so i thought of switching to Sony Ericsson...iPhone is out of the question because i would have to commit myself to the local telco for 2 years. (paying a stupid sum of RM60 or RM100 everymonth, when i in fact, do not use that much..=_=)

SO, it was the battle between Vivaz, Aino and Satio...
originally i picked Aino, because it was a media phone.....i needed musics for my gym and runs, so i thought that'd be a good pick. Who knows, it has so much flaws that i switched to Vivaz...i was this close to buying Vivaz when i found out about the lousy speaker it had. After much research online, i found out that even with the Equalizer, it didn't do much difference. So finally, I picked Satio. Since i've played around with Satio before, i thought, oh well..it's worth the money...^^
since it's only RM120++ more than Vivaz, i figure BAH...just get Satio la..

So i went to that shop, and that lady there was so friendly and her service was so good..!! i'd defintely recommend to get from her. She even installed Garmin GPS for me FOC...
And she said i could go back to her for the map updates.
definitely one of the best phone salesperson i've ever met. (and she was soooooooooooooooooo friendly!!!)
OHHH...and she gave me a new phone number FOC also..!! finally i have a 017 number..XD XD

all in all, i love my new phone SO VERY MUCH..!!! the camera functionality is uber awesome..!!!
Oh, apparently a friend of mine said that if you named your phone after someone you like/love, you'll cherish it even more..
so yeah...
my SE Satio now is my OKITA..........

Listening to : XXX holic - 19sai
Mood : WEEEEEEEeee...OKITA~~~~

GAR GARRRRR...!! dream cosplays?

well, i feel somewhat obliged to have this entry..hahaha...
*punches riko and tsu*

ANYWAY...
my dream cosplay....nope....no wings, no armory, no awesome HOLYSHITWHATISTHATWEAPONIT'SAWESOMESHIT prop....

my dream cosplay is just a simple mortal...no powers, no special ability, no nothing..
in fact, compared to the rest of the party, he is the normal-est of them all...
but he has been my number 1 favourite character ever since i set eyes on him back in 2000.
Who?well....it's obvious..
it's a badass monk with a badass attitude. His choice of weapon is just a normal Smith and Wesson revolver gun. Occasionally, he uses his Matenkyo as well as Harisen on his enemies..(ok, the latter weapon couldn't do much against the enemies, only works on his 'slaves')
Blonde hair and mezmerising violet eyes, he is non other than....

GENJO SANZO..
(GAR ENOUGH!??!?! XD)
yeah.....not some epic dude eh?
but yeah...he is my dream cosplay character.....and well, i'm one step closer to fulfilling my dreams. why? because........


YESSS..!! i've cosplayed him already...well, not exactly his default reload outfit, but his artwork version..
At least it's 1 step eh?
So yeah..........at least i'm working on my dream cosplay...

nope, not Gar, but then...it's personally fulfilling for me as a cosplayer...^^ (and i'm proud of it)

Listening to : Gensomaden Saiyuki - Tightrope (Medieval Version)
Mood : ok...going to zzzzzzz now...XD

hilarious chat session with parents...

Lately, i've been having shitty problems with my phone. Cases like when my parents call in, the phone would just go into Hang mode, or the entire phone would just shut off (even when the batteries are indicated as full).

so the other day, i told my parents i wanted to get a new phone...and i was singing 'i'm getting a new phone~ i'm getting a new phone~' over and over again..

ok, this is where it gets cute...LOL..

Dad : you need a new phone la.....
me : i'm already eyeing on 1 liao. But need to wait till my credit card statement date pass first la.
Dad : what model you getting? nokia a?
me: no...condemning nokia for good liao..
Dad : you get that...iMAC la...
me: er..no..that's a computer. I'll be getting that next month hopefully.
Dad : you get that...ipod la...
me: no...that's not a phone either...that's something you listen music with....=_=
dad: then...that one call what?
me : you mean the iphone?
dad: yaya.....that one....

(SO SUSAH TO SAY iPHONE..LOL!!!)

another incident just happened less than an hour ago...
me and my mom was walking around in Bukit Tinggi Jusco......and i walked into Sony Center to show her the phone i was eyeing on....
she said not bad..blablabla.....

THEN, we happened to walk by a phone shop selling iphones.

mom : *points at phones being displayed* you dun wanna see phones ka?
me : *sees an array of iphones, htc, blackberry* nah.....dun wan these. canot afford la....iphones and blackberry all..
mom : WHAT is an iphone a?
me : *points at banner* That square thing there? with smaller squares in it? THAT's an iphone.
mom : ehh...get that one la..that one nice leh
me : dun wan....need to pay RM60 digi monthly, and RM2000++ for phone...you sponsor?
mom : ok....buy back your viva...
me : no..that's a car...=_=
mom: aiya...that phone just now wan la.....
me: .......you...sponsor?
mom: *walks away*

LOL...both my parents need to turn so many 'roundabouts' to find out what an iphone is...
somehow i find this really really hilarious...hahahah...

but yeah, i'm changing my phone REALLY soon....most prolly the next time you see me, i'll get my new phone already.
i'm boycotting Nokia for good. (no offense nokia lovers)
It's time to turn to SONY........^^

Listening to : Yuna Ito - Precious
Mood : sleeeepppyyyy...

you laugh can, we laugh canot la!?

First of all...
WHICH FUCKTARD USED THE COWGLUE IN THE OFFICE AND DIDN'T CLOSE BACK!?
NOW THE ENTIRE BOTTLE SPILLED AND IT'S GIVING THE GLUE STENCH IN THE DEPARTMENT....
fucktard with no fucking brains....isn't it common sense that you use something, after using it you close it?!
fucking useless fucktard...

2ndly...
well, this is on a fellow lan si asshole.
TC oh TC.....you finally earned yourself a place in my blog with your name.
Why must you be so lan si?
there were so many incidents whereby you pissed our department....but we just let it by.
We closed one eye when you come into our department and sneeze, spread your disgusting germs and walk away...
we close the other eye when you walked into our department screaming like a banshee.....
We even tried to lose consciousness when you came into our department and started talking on the phone like this was a huge phone booth for you.

When you guys were laughing like a crazy bunch of clowns outside, we didn't call up and complained...
OH, when we were shocked or when we had our happy times, you'll call in and complain. Frankly speaking, you and your neighbour have something in common. Both you like to call up and shut down our happy sessions.
and by saying 'I'm not calling to complain, but you guys are kinda loud...can you shut it a bit?' It is actually CALLING TO COMPLAIN...GET IT?! DUMBASS!!!!!

I may forgive, but i never forget..
I didn't forget how you demanded me, when i was ever so busy.....to stick your pathethic looking poster in the sales department.
I didn't forget how you demanded me, when i was instructed by kenix to NOT take the photos that day, and you insisted you wanted it taken that day.
I didn't forget how you answered in a LAN SI tone, when i told you it was very troublesome to set up and it was already 5 pm. (eh, you dun wanna go home, i wanna go home ok?!)

so yeah.....this isn't directed at the company nor department. It's directed to that 1 person.........
A selfish and thickskinned 1 person.
Well, the whole company knows that not many people adore this guy, but they abhore him.....

Listening to : Vanessa Carlton - A thousand miles
Mood : Cranky

tired.....i think i'm old..=_=

after the recent 12.3km run....my body is really battered...

My knee joint has been having this aching pain, it's not muscle, it's not 'fung sap'...it's the bones with are hurting....i think i'll need glucosamine already...

But somehow, i find that i perform better during night runs. I finished 12.3km in 1hour 25mins...well, around that time la..
I remembered for my Standard Chartered run, i finished 10 km in 1hour 20 mins....that was as major dissapointment for me...really..

my last run to wrap up this year would be the ADIDAS KOTR challenge. i really hope it'd be at night, but well.....i can only pray...^^;;;

Listening to : KATTUN - Never Again
Mood : TIREd..MUCH!

Title of a True Cosplayer, which are you?

Before i start, i would like to make some claims.
* This blog entry is only but my mere opinion.
* It is in no way directed at anyone, anywhere, any society, any government, any whatever.
* Not an entry to flame, not an entry to troll, but an entry to be pondered upon.
* It is an entry made for the love of cosplay and also to argue back on my own thoughts.
* It is my blog, you abhor what i say, you leave. As simple as that ^_^
* I welcome comments and constructive debates. Trolls can just GTFO ^^
* This will be one heck of a long entry.

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 hmm.....i've been pondering on this once again and everytime i see this crap pops up, i'll be thinking ' AW MAN, not another one of this..?!?!'

but then this time, it has indirectly been directed at not only me, but most of the other cosplayers out there.
heck cares if you cosplay, cosmodel,cosmanequin, cosfuck, coswhatever.........
it's a hobby to be shared by all. Our community is already a minority and if we divide ourselves even more by categorizing, wouldn't that make matters worse?

What happened to ' We should stick together, we should enjoy this together, sportsmanship in competitions '.....where are those values now?
5 years ago, although the cosplay community was small, it was one of the best i would say. Although not many knew about cosplaying, it was, in my opinion, at it's prime.
We'd see a whole lot of variety in cosplay....from old schools to newly released series. Now? well....it is always that ' IF-IT-IS-NOT-POPULAR-I-M-NOT-COSPLAYING' mentality...or 'IF-IT-IS-NOT-EPIC-ENOUGH-I-M-NOT-COSPLAYING' mentality.

I thought cosplaying is about the love for the series and character? correct me if i'm wrong, but all i see now is kiasu-ism....
i have to be more AWESOME than you, my costume has to be more poofy...blablabla...
and now, well...there's a certain arguement that popped out in a certain social networking system.

let me quote and summarize

a cosplayer who only does photoshoots = CosMODELLER
a cosplayer who does photoshoots + joins competition = TRUE COSPLAYER
a cosplayer who buys everything and nothing DIY-ed = CosMannequin

hmm.......what do you think?
if i were to categorize myself in this context, i'd be a cosmodeller (WOOT! I AM A MODEL!!!! XD)
yeah, i only do photoshoots and NEVER had i joined any competitions on my own name. I did help out for friend's performance but that's it. Does that make me a fake cosplayer?
however, think about this...

I never participated in competitions, but when i cosplay, i immerse my mind, my body and soul into the very character i'm cosplaying. HECK, it was so scary that i even picked up loving desserts and sweet food after cosplaying a certain character.
I try my utmost best to understand that certain character before i actually put on that costume. So, does that still make me a cosmodeller? (if that word even exist..LOL coz i see red lines underlining it..LOL)

I do not sew my own costumes, but i make alterations.....
i researched on the costume, trying my very best to make it as accurate as possible....
I lose weight, i pile muscles, control my diet so that when i cosplay that certain character, i'll be logically be as accurate as possible.
I do not choose famous characters, rather characters that i love and has little screen time (Heine Westenfluss..T^T died in 3 episodes, tell me...how many of you actually remembers him?)

i'm not trying to blow my own horn here (well, even if i am, heck! it's my blog...*sticks tongue out*) it's just that.... i was a little bit insulted and annoyed when i read that sentence.
There are a few reasons as to why i do not participate in competitions....
1. Too hectic
I go to events to have fun, not to compete. BUT i salute you guys out there who joins the competition.
2. Time constraints
I do not wanna be under time constraints when i go to events. I wanna wander everywhere, anytime and at my own pace. I was involved in competitions as a fellow helper once, and for us to hang around the place with schedule being delayed wasn't a very pleasant experience.
3. Same faces
hmm......well, nothing much to be said here except i always see the same faces during competitions. Not that that is bad, because you guys have the fighting spirit to join over and over again.....kudos to you guys, but well.....i'm not that type of a person you see...

ALSO, i do not consider myself a veteran, intermediate, master, pro, whatever......
I'm still a beginner.......we're all still learning and we help each other out during the times we get together.
We make mistakes, we learn from it.
We face problems, we solve it together.
We laugh together, We go through difficulties together.
We share skills, we teach each other what we know individually...

Isn't that all part of cosplaying? isn't that what makes cosplaying a beautiful hobby?
So, ask yourself......are you a :-

1 True cosplayer A
Joins competitions
Does photoshoots
REALLLLYYY popular

or

2 True cosplayer B
Cosplaying for the love of it
Getting together with friend who share the same hobby
Learning as well as teaching others at the same time

What are you.....A or B?

also, i would like to quote from a friend's FB..

You do not claim yourself to be EPIC. Others tell you that you are EPIC

Listening to : Tackey & Tsubasa - Yumemonogatari
Mood : .......lazy....

A day when everything could go wrong, WENT WRONG!

This is an entry i mustn't forget. why? because, everything that i couldn't imagine could happen, happened!!! it's as though we were jynxed..!!!

It all started like this...
Last weekend, we (the team) decided to have a photoshoot (ok, we kinda planned this a WHOOOOLLLEEE LONG TIME AGO)
all of us didn't bother to pack until the very last minute, something which i hardly do because when it comes to packing, i would've finished doing so the week before. But you see, i was so freaking busy this month and almost every weekend, i have something on.

SO, the day came and it was Friday. After work, i went over to pyramid to pick up Riko and Relyss who have been waiting for me since .....i think 3pm? not that sure..LOL.....(oh, and my mom hitched a ride from there too. She miraculously found her way to cheras and all the way back to pyramid with her friend, who is also a master when it comes to being lost.)

After the excruciating ride back from Sunway Pyramid during the rush hour, we finally reached home at about 7.30pm. So, we began out final packing and checking.....we were loading stuffs into the car and i slowly remembered stuffs that i forgot to pack.
i almost left my laptop and speakers. It hit me when i went to the toilet when we were about to leave. Then i walked past my room and saw the speakers and laptop sitting happily on the table.
So, no harm done, i packed those 2 and loaded into the car.

when Tsu arrived, we left for my new house which, coincidentally was also the photoshoot location..LOL.
blablabla, we went there, unloaded the stuffs and head over to bukit tinggi for our late dinner. (nope, not supper yet, it was 8pm-ish)
Ok, this is when everything started.....

The service in the cafe was so freaking slow, i was so hungry i could swallow that waiter whole. And to top things up, that stupid guy had difficulties understanding English...goodness me, i had to speak mandarin with him (which i didn't like much because my mandarin sucks). After waiting for like 30 mins, they finally served me my food.

See wah then called me saying she was around bukit tinggi area and i thought, why not she met up with us and then go to my house after that....She was around that area looking for bandages for her bindings and we went to watsons, guardian and also tesco....it's either they ran out of bandages, or the bandages costs a bomb. (who the hell would pay RM16++ for bandages?!!?!)

THEN, i noticed my car petrol is running low, so i told see wah to meet me back at the house and i went and pumped petrol for my car. As i approached the petrol station, i finally realized the most important thing.....
THE CAMERA..!! WE LEFT THE CAMERA IN MY OTHER HOME!!!!
HOW THE HELL DO YOU DO A PHOTOSHOOT WITHOUT A CAMERA?!?!?!?!
i got so frustrated, i started cursing in the car.....and then to make matters worse, my bro had already left the house, or i could get him to bring it over.

So, we went back to my new house, and then planned out something. That was when Riko realized that she also forgotten her toiletries and bath towel (also left behind in my old house)....and also See Wah, left her entire luggage bag at home......
thus, we decided that Relyss and Tsu stayed behind in the new house, clear up the room a little and the rest went to retrieve the forgotten items.

See Wah drove, and first stop was her house to get the luggage. It was so hilarious because the luggage was practically staring back at her....She left the luggage at the most prominent place...seriously, i didn't know how she could've forgotten, judging from the spot she left the luggage..LOL!!
anyway, after that, next stop was my old house. When we reached my house, it finally started to pour......it rained so heavy all of a sudden!
I had to shield the camera with my body....=_=
ANYWAY, we went back to the new house.......and well, we started styling the wigs for the photoshoot the next day.....i really went OMG because.... i styled the wigs till it was almost 3am in the morning.....Hakkai's wig was the toughest to style because i didn't know how to spike it up, and given the situation and time, i was much too exhausted.

At that night, omaigod....everyone in the room was practically frozen because of the full blast from the air cond. Tsu and relyss pulled the comforter so much that i only had half of my body covered. and the air cond was directed at me....DIRECTLY!!!!
See Wah and Riko had to pull the mattress AWAY from the aircond..LOL (not that THAT made any difference..LOL!!!)

SO, morning came and well...we wanted to get breakfast from the burger king drive through, but SHITZ, it wasn't a 24 hour outlet and we had to go to McD instead. good thing it wasn't THAT far away.
The shoot was pretty fun (i get to thwack goku..LOL!!!) but we had to cut short the shoot because we started late, and See Wah had her japanese class to attend. (so, it's bye bye gojyo..T^T)
the 3 of us continued on (Sanzo, Goku and Hakkai) for a little while more before we switched to our C2AGE plans.
so it was.....

Sanzo = Tezuka
Goku = Ryoma
Hakkai = Kida
Photog Relyss = Suzaku

nothing much about the event...it was to me...kinda boring but we found a spot on the 2nd floor which was kinda cool for shoots.

After spending some time at the event, we left the venue and went in search of a park. Good thing it was near my old office, so finding it wasn't difficult..we had wanted to go down to look at the place but there weren't any parking space left, so we just went home.

That night, i started packing for my 10km run the next day. Whilst packing, i finally realized...OMFG...i left my hands free kit at home and without the rhythm of the songs, i couldn't run! (well, i could, but i'd suck so bad...)
Also, i also left my gym card at home.......fuck rite?
so we had to wake up extra early the next day (around 4am) and head on back to the old house before i could finally leave for KL for my run.

The bad luck streak lasted almost the entire saturday......and MY GOLLY, was i glad that this all was over.
Yup, it was a long entry but hey........it was a day when everything could go wrong, actually WENT WRONG!!!!!

p.s...ok, no more photoshoot-today-10km-run-the-next-day anymore for me....
p.p.s...ALSO, gonna avoid morning runs now..!!! (goodness, waking up at ungodly hours kills)

Listening to : FullMetal Alchemist - Link
Mood : =_=