Monthly Archives: June 2010

Windows Live Messenger for iPhone

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Yep, Windows Live Messenger is now available on Apple iPhone. Launched a week ago, it took only 5 days to reach 1 million of downloads. As an ardent user of both iPhone and Messenger, I am delighted with this announcement and immediately downloaded and tried it. This is an engineered plan behind Hotmail, Messenger and Windows Live called Messenger Connect (Beta). Like any usual marketing hype, Messenger Connect is being told to us that it allows users to communicate, share, and connect with their Messenger friends on other websites with its flexible, yet prescriptive set of APIs to help create intuitive bla bla bla stuffs. Usual stuffs. In short, it’s just another form of Twitter or Facebook being attached along with internet messenger and email functions. With that being said, your statuses on your Messenger is now acting like Twitter statuses that will be updated on your Live page every time you changed it. It has been that way since before Twitter but nobody seemed to care about it until Twitter. To put it simply, Twitter is more accessible on universal browsers rather than limited availability of Windows Live Messenger application  on Windows operating systems. Well, there’s Messenger for Mac but it sucks badly that nobody bothers to use it. Exactly, what makes this Messenger is so awesome?

First page, the Social tab

First page, the Social tab

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Bad Apples @ MAGe 2010

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So, our band went to Nilai University College in Nilai, Negeri Sembilan (hell, nowhere that near to Seremban as they said) for MAGe Festa 2010 on Saturday, June 27. Nothing much that I can say about this event. One could tell that this is somewhat a small event. Few crowds. Well, I can tell NUC isn’t a big college but being an area that situated a little bit far from the town of Nilai, some people might have transportation problem to the place. The student representative dude being funny by saying that if the event was held during weekdays, more students would come. Oh yeah? We are outsiders, duh. No way in the hell we would sacrifice our working days going there and most cosplayers were from other places. Anyway, Bad Apples band was there to perform anime songs. Initially, there were a lot of problems we faced. For instance, our female vocalist, Nacchan, had sore throat and that’s madness. We had to do some quick alterations and we even called some reinforcements. yafex was trying to sing God Knows and Lost My Music medley. For Don’t Say Lazy and Listen!! we’re glad to get help from Yuki (many thanks Yuki). Of all, myclamyra considered the show was better than our last one at GACC. Now, for some pictures of MAGe. Pictures of our band on the stage was courtesy of my friend, WiseFreeman. Thanks, bro!

Poni (Eccen), the lead guitarist

Poni (Eccen), the lead guitarist

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On the Fast Lane with Tenshi

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A good friend of mine said to me that he could help me create a custom Touch ‘n Go card for me. Well, several of my other friends would love to have their own TnG cards as well. So I designed some stuffs that can be applied on both side of the card. And this is the result…

Tenshi!

Tenshi!

Back side

Back side

Anyway, before you guys getting hyper and ask me to find this guy to create one for you, the card above is a dud. Apparently the original card of TnG was polished but we failed to apply the printing on it. My guess is that the surface of the TnG card that have been polished kinda too smooth for printing. The original polished and whitened card of TnG is still usable and my friend used a normal PVC card instead for the show off above. I still can use this along with my TnG card anyway. Tehehe…

Helmet for My Pillow

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It sounds like I’ve been through some hardships in Guadalcanal that I had to eat some bullets for dinner while having a pillow made of steel just like Robert Leckie. Well, fuck no.

Kagamiku

Kagamiku pillow

I went to Kinokuniya along with ultimaweaponx and yafex. It wasn’t planned. As usual, whenever we had some thoughts of going somewhere we just said it and then we go. Of course that I had some stuff to pick up like this month’s seiyuu magazine Pick Up Voice featuring Horie Yui <3~~~. I grabbed a copy of Megami Deluxe as well that has a bunch of K-On characters although the big poster has Saki and Nodoka from that mahjong anime on it. Then I saw Comptiq magazine. Looking on it and took it as I saw the freebies included.

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Facing the Music

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Let's sing together!

Let's sing together!

Years of anime existence came along with its musics. Various kinds of song and genre. Recently, when I started to join a band that mostly playing anime songs and also going to Yumekukan karaoke to sing Japanese songs, I kinda realized that how music changes along with the advancement of anime to this day. If anime and manga started to use additional graphical tools such as 3D software, how about musics? My point here is that, it’s not about technological advance though. Well, let us see briefly about earlier anime songs.

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Drawing Miss Hermes

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Miss Hermes a.k.a. Ice Cream

Miss Hermes a.k.a. Ice Cream

Took me several weeks on completing this. Well, most of the time because I was busy. Uhm, kinda busy right now too. Not really that great. I need to work more on improving the drawing of the hair. Oh well, for the time being, I do have plan to draw more. Not gonna tell who (‘cos I am afraid to make promises). You can find my other portrait drawings here. Do visit Miss Hermes’s blog and became her fan at Facebook. ‘Til then, see ya later.

Shah’s Vipper Challenge

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The original image

The original image

Initially, I was at myclamyra’s house on Sunday where my band-mates and I were practicing for the upcoming audition for band performance this Saturday. Earlier that morning, it was supposed to be the so-called sports day for Anime Shrine (but no one was coming because it was raining *yaominglaughingsequence.jpg*). I got fever on the day before that so I woke up late and straightaway went for practicing at noon. During practice intervals, I browsed the forum a little bit and I saw shah_ho_nam posting a picture of him trying to do a dunk. It gave me some ideas to photoshop it. As I went back home, I edited the pic and created about 9 somewhat funny images out of it. Posted it in the forum and caught some attentions to the forummers there. Thus, people started contributing…

If you don’t know about Vipper Challenge, do click here.

Yui and Mio Photoshoot

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Yui

Yui

This was actually taken several days ago. In all, there are 180 pictures I took with my LX3 (only a third of them being displayed here). I even testing around with my flash gun but turned out that bokeh pictures weren’t that good with the flash. Perhaps I need more practices or there might be settings that I did not know. Like Mio’s photoshoot previously, I was using Aperture Priority mode for this time too (F2.0, ISO 200). I didn’t use RAW by the way since I don’t have Lightroom for easier editing of images. LX3 is using RW2 format for it’s own RAW images that requires either 3rd party image editing software that supports it or it’s own plugins (which the installer doesn’t work on 64bit version of Windows 7 that I am currently using). Anyway, let’s have a look at Alter version of Yui and Mio figya below.

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