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20th Birthday – Time to go Skating

February 12th, 2013

On the 1st of February at 11:38pm I turned 20. As usual my parents and I went traveling, this time to Melbourne and Fiji, thus I celebrated my birthday in a tropical style on Mana Island Fiji.

That was amazing and I can not thank my parents enough for always giving me these opportunities to see and experience different countries around the world.

But I also wanted to celebrate my birthday with my friends from university. So we went ice skating! Met up at central, went to Macquarie Shopping Center, had lunch there, waited for an hour….. then went onto the rink to skate.

So this years victims… *cough* guests were: Mrs President Alex, SurfingBird David, CrazyCatLady Cindy, Dango Dalyna, Samurai Isaac, Korean-chan Baek, Muscle man Robbie, WaterMAN Sashin, KingPotatoe Seb, and OrangeGuy me.

ジブリがいっぱい Collection

February 8th, 2013

When I was in Japan in July of 2012, my friend Kosuke and I went to Tokyo for a few days (I blogged about it). We also visited the Ghibli museum in Mitaka. It was an awesome experience, but there is one thing I really regret not doing there. In the gift shop there were Soundtrack CDs (OSTs), DVDs and most importantly the new Ghibli collection BluRays! They were 7140円 a piece, which at the time I deemed to be too expensive for a BluRay at the time. But when I came back to Sydney, I realized that I seriously wanted them. Thats how I started my collection. First I got Nausicaa, then my amazing friend Frank gave me Totoro for Christmas and Laputa for my Birthday! It will take me a while to get all of the Ghibli BluRays, but I accomplish this goal I have set for myself. If anyone is interested, I order them from this website: cdjapan.co.jp

Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Review

February 8th, 2013

********* CAUTION SPOILERS***********

When I initially saw the preview for this show (Chu2) I though: “Hmmm Kyoto Animation (KyoAni) is making a action anime with super national battles?! Woah!” And then upon watching the first episode I realized: “nope, no action here, just cute girls doing cute things”. But boooooy was I off the bat with that! Read More ▷

Trip to Melbourne and Fiji – Feb 2013

February 1st, 2013

This year for my birthday my parents took me to Melbourne and then later on to Fiji. It was an amazing trip and I took a lot of gorgeous photos.

DLSR

January 25th, 2013

My dad was teasing me for a few months now, showing off the new telephoto lens he bought for a few thousand 4 months ago. Then at some point I told him that putting that amazing new lens on our 6 year old camera is like installing 64GB of RAM into a machine with pentium 3….
So apparently he listened to what I was saying and got me this baby for my birthday: Canon EOS650D!
All the photos of our trip to Melbourne and Fiji will be take using this new device.
Stay tuned for some amazing photos

LINE, the best messaging app

December 27th, 2012

Ever since the smartphone boom in Japan there was a constant search for the best messaging app. And then there came LINE.

It is not much different from all the other messaging apps, but it has this one killer feature that made it the best: stickers.

These “stickers” are emoji style images that users can send to each other in order to express their emotions.

Unlike normal emoji which get old pretty quickly, these stickers are constantly updated. Like for example the recent addition of the Miku or EVA or Gangnam style stickers.

I use this app a lot and recommend it to all my friends. Here is a promotional video:

I wish I had a cat

December 26th, 2012

Merry Christmas!

December 25th, 2012

I would like to wish all my friends, mates, pals, bros and buddies a very very Merry Christmas!!!

Here is a vid of Miku singing Merry Christmas and thank you.

Anime Sydney Xmas Party Recap

December 24th, 2012

My good friend Tac (@Taccarin) put together a video highlighting the most memorable parts.

All I can say is, this was one of the best nights of 2012!

D.I.Y. Myspam

December 2nd, 2012

So one day I was browsing this bay where all the pirates chill and there was a rather interesting link, so I clicked it and what do I see!

Ever since then, this song has been stuck in my head…