What would you do with $17,100 USD? No, your eyes are not deceiving you, a PS3 sold for $17,100 on eBay recently. Its a custom MGS4 mod complete with a custom controller, Kojima’s autograph, its own foxhound carrying case and tonnes of other MGS4 collectibles!

I don’t know what has me more speechless; the awesome modding job or the price it sold for.
(More photos at the auction)

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was sittting here writing my Shikabane post for Yukan with the TV on (I was listeneing to the news)… when all of a suddnen I hear…

“RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW, WAH! … we are FIGHTING DREAMERS”

Other than the english lines, the rest of the song is in cantonese… *mindblown* Although I do recall hearing the FMA’s OP,  Melissa in Cantonese before (and sung by the famous canto-pop star Eason)

For those who have watched canto-dub anime, have ou noticed that they ALWAYS re-use the same VAs??? -_-;

And Asuma is on TV ;_; wah… (yes, I still watch Shitppuden… no, I don’t read the manga… bugger off)

- And Danny Choo on CNN… O_o;

edit : wow this is pretty close to my all time favourite Naruto episode, the Naruto vs Saske fight!! :D (I think…)

[17:48] <@Alkenshel> COKE IS A LAZY ASS!
[17:48] <+Cokematic> true that
[17:48] <@Alkenshel> indeed

#dasaku@irc.rizon.net – where intelligent conversations take place … sometimes.

So I will be away from work for 5 days in a row (although 4 days have already passed)… without taking a vacation! partially thanks to typhoon tropical cyclone Nuri which is a cooler name than Fay, but that’s not really the point of this post. I spent most of the past 4 days doing nothing except chatting on IRC, playing some GTA4, and watching AIRA The Animation.

First off, many thanks to pantherRH for bringing this to my attention in the dasaku IRC channel:

First thought that came to mind was “DO WANT!!!” … I’m particularly interested in the “Day of Saggitarius” getup. The other one is… if-SOS-dan-forms-a-band getup? Its also quite cute, except Kyon and Istuki look totally gay.

Honestly, I’m not too into figures. I’ve never owned a figure that cost more more than $15 USD (it was a red Canti figure .. unfortunately.. his head snapped off a few years back T_T). Also, the last time I bought these Nendoroid petits, I was going for Kagamin. Unfortunately, I got a Konata, Miyuki and even Tsukasa! And when I went back to the store… they were sold out T_T.

Anyways, according to Jop, if I buy a case of 12, I should at least expect getting the set of 10 (and maybe the secret figure if I’m lucky). However, he was refering to the Negima set he bough .. which is not a Nendoroid petit set from Good Smile Company, so it may not apply here. If I can find someone to buy the doubles off me.. then I won’t mind buying two crates of them (amounting to 24 .. which should definately get me the set… unless I’m super unlucky… which might actually happen). If anyone out there has bought a case of Nendoroid petite, please let me know if I can get the whole set (not including the secret figure) in a case of 12!!

Also, Nendoroid Shana and Hatsune Miku are on my watchlist (pre-order of Miku is already closed at HobbySearch, but Play-Asia still has some, albeit slightly more expensive).

And ohbytheway, Nendoroid.org is a great site with all the GSC Nendoroid released so far. I’m still waiting for the day when a Gurren Lagann Nendoroid set comes out.

Secondly, some funny developments fansub dorama (so what’s new?) over at Chihiro subs. The article itself is short and can be summed up in one line “someone deleted out tracker stuff and we lost all our subs… halp plz!”. Now, I don’t watch their stuff:

Chihiro’s current/active projects

1. Penguin Musume <- kinda interhingested, but probably won’t watch.
2. To Love RU <- lol no.
3. Sekirei <- no
4. Ikkitousen <- no
5. World Destruction <-no
6. School Rumble San Gakki <- watching Wannabe’s version

but its kind of hard to imagine that between all their staff, they don’t have a copy of their own work. The only explanation I can think of is: “not even chihiro would archive chihiro’s releases.”

Anyways, there are many nuggets of gold amongst all the flames and blind faith, out there like this one:
“@koda: if u think ur better than Chihiro, try to sub faster than them”
So now speed => better?

and then you get stuff from the freaks of the interweb:

Lucy Says:
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:45 am

Hi, I am Lucy from Elfen Lied. I know why everybody, the leader of GG, Jaka, the sicko that impersonated Kristen , and people from deculture and other fansub groups, and a whole entire moron convention, are ganging up on Chihiro. It’s because, like I said in the end of episode 8 of Elfin Lied, “when you’re miserable, you need something that’s even more miserable than yourself.” And since you can’t find anything more miserable, you decide to make some one else miserable. It’s why and how bullying exists. When people are miserable, they seek to make someone else more miserable to make themselves feel better and superior. I was bullied when I was young, so I know. Those faggots killed my dog. T.T

and oh, btw, I think I might start by ripping off a couple limps… =)

I literally facepalmed.

Moving on then.  Thanks to Hemi, I’ve discovered the greatness of xkcd.

One of my favourite comics
Hey I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this somewhere (4-chan maybe?)

And last, but not least a LOL JAPAN video (someone’s got alot of talent and even more free time)

Taking a break from studying:

• I took the time today to finally look up what tl;dr actually meant. Am I behind? Probably.

• I checked-in with Author over at ani-nouto (which, although I have never mentioned before, has a “no comments” policy. Instead, Author uses blog posts to reply to subjects and expect others to do the same. It has generated some hate, but I actually think this is how the blog-o-sphere should work… IMO, comments are generally for those with one-line replies and flames, but I digress) only to find a link to some blog I never heard of named chizumatic. Under normal circumstances, I probably would not of stuck around for long over there, hell, I’m not even sure I would of been bored enough to even click on the link. However, the name chizumatic seems almost inspired by Mahoromatic and even though not every name with the “-matic” suffix is necessary related to Mahoro, the fact that it makes reference to Chizuko pretty much seals the deal (this would be confirmed later on somewhere, probably on the FAQ page). Anyways… uhh yeah. I guess its just nice to see some Mahoromatic inspired names once in a while…. its like we are NAME BROTHERS.

I wish I still had my Mahoromatic Art book and DVDs on me :( I miss that show, it’s got Meido, Mecha and Gainax! What more could I possibly ask for?

Stolen from the, now defunct, weasl.net. I wonder where he disappeared to…

As usual there was absolutely no point to this post.