mahou shoujo madoka - otona anime vol.20

Look what came via courier yesterday? :)  I used Kinokuniya's bookweb service for the first time yesterday.  It's a no frills online book order system  where you order books using their online catalogue and they send you an email informing you that they received your order.  Then you simply wait.  There is no online record of your order, except for that email.  And even after they confirm that they will send out the order, there is no way to track the package which is quite simply packed in a kino plastic bag taped shut by the delivery order sticker.

It's not bad though, if you order more than SGD50 worth of books, they will waver the shipping charge of SGD5.  I am thinking of ordering manga and japanese books via this method in the future cuz looking for them in the Japanese section of Kino can be quite time consuming.

This volume of otona anime features Mahou Shoujo Madoka.  Lots of pages on the anime and also a one page on Kajiura Yuki and Kalafina.  Lots of stuff on Mahou Shoujo animes in general too.  I tried to read it.  I think I can manage it somewhat but lots and lots of Kanji and no furigana.  :(  I guess it'll be something I can only get to properly in the future.

May shoot photos or scan it later today. Depends.  I'm on my way to work now and will be playing table tennis then doing more studying tonight. So, pretty busy today.

That's all for now. :)

P.s. am glad the singapore general elections are over.  This was one of the most mean spirited elections in singapore's history in my opinion.  Lots of cyberbullying ... and ironically most of it not from the incumbent government.  But I don't want to say more... cuz those bullies will jump on anything and I am very busy and not interested in spending my day deleting nasty comments.  

Mahou Shoujo Madoka - Risuani Vol.5 pix

Hi hi.  After a good night's sleep, I feel a lot more rested then before.  This morning, before I left for work, I decided to take some photos of the Madoka related material.  It would have been better to scan them but I didn't feel like taking the time to do it and also, I didn't really want to flatten my magazine.

I have been having problems posting photos using Blogger-droid after the update, so let's hope it works. If not, i'll either fix it during lunch at work or tonight at home.

Oh, oh... before I post the photos, I wanted to say I am really excited to find out that Kajiura Yuki is going to score the upcoming Fate/Zero anime.  I had a couple issues with the Fate/Stay Night anime but will definitely watch it cuz she is writing the score.  Am hoping Kalafina will sing the themes cuz then I think we will get a third album and another concert and give me another reason to go to Japan.  If the announce it early enough, I think I will be able to lock in my leave. :)

Anyway, here are photos of the pages in the mag.  There is a nice long interview with Kajiura.  I only just started trying to read it... going to take me a while. :)

Mahou Shoujo Madoka - Risuani Vol.5

First, let me apologise for my extreme grumpiness and negativity in my previous post.  People have been spamming my facebook with a deludge of election related nastiness that I had to remove a lot of my friends from my news feed.  I'm mostly a moderate and am open to voting for the opposition candidate if I think he is better than the PAP candidate.  But lately, I just feel like voting for the PAP, no matter who the person is, just to piss off those annoying people who think they can make me do what they want me to do. The decision is mine and mine alone... so back off.  Grrrrr....

Ok... off my chest... let's not revisit that grumpiness. :)  Look at what I got in the mail today. :) There is an interview with Kajiura Yuki and a very short report on the Kalafina "Magia" concert mixed in with the Mahou Shoujo Madoka related stuff.  Cool.  Still can't read about 3/4 of the articles but someday I'll get there. :)  Not sure if i'll make small scans or shoot some pix of it or do nothing.  Depends on how much time and energy I have.  This week is actually a very busy week... so we'll see.

K. Going to bed. Very tired. Good night. :) 

Mahou Shoujo Madoka Bluray Vol.1

Yay!!! My Mahou Shoujo Madoka Vol.1 bluray arrived today. :)  It's a day earlier than the release date because DHL from Japan was very efficient and delivered it earlier by one day.  Happiness. :)

I took some photos of the unboxing.  I haven't watched it yet or listened to the drama cd.  I just may watch it later just to see the quality of the bluray.  I've been too busy to even watch ep11.  I hope to do that within the next two days.

That's it from me today.  I need to go shower and after that, I just want to relax and do nothing for a bit before bed. :)

There is a warning on the drama cd.  If I read it correctly, I think the story that is dramatized in the drama cd has something to do with the events after Vol3 of this dvd set and I think the warning was to tell those who haven't been following the anime on tv, that it is best no to listen to the cd till after they have watched the episodes in Vol. 3.  At least, I think that is what the warning said.

It's not an ultra beautiful release with high quality glossy paper etc.  I think it would have been nice if the booklet that was included with the release has higher quality glossy paper.  But I think the main attraction here is the drama cd and the audio commentary.  Of course they quite possibly will release a super duper compilation release with all the episodes and extra spiffy stuff once the anime finishes or when they finish with the single volume limited edition release.  If that set is really nice, then i think that's when boyfriend's are useful.  Hahahaha... kidding.  Unless it's super duper nice with something I really, really, really want.  I'm quite happy with my current decision to purchase the limited edition blurays as they are released.

Now I just can't wait for Vol.2 of the blurays to be release because that will be packed with vol.1 of Kajiura Yuki's OST for the anime. :)

Getting this in the mail today makes working all that overtime worth it.  Totally made my day. :)

I have several Mahou Shoujo, Kalafina, Kajiura Yuki, FJ and photos posts I would like to post.  But that really depends on whether I can free up enough time to do it.  Sadly, as is always the case with me... my work has this tendency to consume my life and time.  It's a good thing I actually like my work. :)  K... off to shower and rest... and if it's not too late and I'm not too tired, maybe I'll start with some basic tutorials for Nuke too.

Have a good week everyone. :)

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Wow... that was wierd...  I haven't been by for a little bit cuz I have been super busy at work.  Long days and working on the weekend too... when I came back today and tried to check the blog,  I found out that I couldn't see my blog online at all.  The search engine kept saying that they url doesn't exist.

For awhile this test post didn't show up either... it was somewhat worrying.  Lucky it's back cuz if all of it was gone... I would be most upset.

Whew. :)

Long week

As you can probably tell from my inactivity on the blog, that i have been very busy. It's crunch time at work and i have also been adviced to take time out to study nuke. I haven't even had too much time to study nuke, though i did a stab at it earlier in the week. Yesterday, i put in an extra day of work at the office. But after work, i did do something fun. I had signed up to go attend a live photo workshop at marina bay sands. A photo expert would be there to guide us as we shot photos. It was quite fun and i learnt a few things. It was also just fun to be out and about shooting on full manual mode again. The above shot was not shot on the dslr. It was shot on the decent but not great SE phone camera. Maybe when i have more time i'll put up a few photos from the shoot last night. K, gotta go. :)

Hong Kong's celebrities sing to raise funds for Japan's disaster

Been horribly busy, tired and frustrated by some stuff... hence, not blogging lately cuz I just don't have the energy.

But I really want to post this youtube video up.  The Japanese accent is of course off, but you can't take away the sincerity. :)  Two thumbs up from me. :)

Hope you guys enjoy the song.  :)

Oh and here is the link to the article.

I need to go now... lots of stuff to do.  Have a good week guys. :)

cheers

p.s. Here is the Mandarin version and Cantonese version.  :)  Not surprisingly, the Cantonese version sounds the nicest but unfortunately, I don't really have time to find the full Cantonese version.  When I have time, I'll see if I can find it and post it. up.  K... really got to go. :)