Cospprogess 3: Dye or Wig?

ARGH! I don't kn0w what to do with my hair now, so I need some opinions on whether I should buy a white wig or equivalent or dye my hair white (but dirty white) and get a hair cut...

And if you people choose the second option, I might be able to cosplay again as Godot from the Phoenix Wright series (if you have no idea who the f**k is Godot, I suggest you go to a certain Phoenix Wright fansite and click on the Characters section (btw, look for the bloke with white hair and that cool visor he's wearing. No, I'm not kidding).

Must stop blogging, got essay to finish now...

Quote of the Moment - "Have you won the lottery recently?" - My mum aasking me if I ever took part on getting my chances on winning the lottery. Sadly, the odds are waaaaaaaaay against me..

Cospprogress 3: Starting the costume and finding the fabrics

Just done clothes shopping yesterday and started modifying the bag, as well as the gloves (only done one of them so far).

And then recently today, one of my halls mate asked me about my weekend and it was just a typical clothes shopping that's 'girly' and then I told her about the cosplay I'm doing and asking her where to find a good fabric shop and then she told me there's a place in the outskrits of the Potteries car park in Hanley that sells fabrics, so it will be aworthwhile if I'm going there next Saturday. But for now, have to modify gloves and get some sleep or something...

Quote of the Moment - "Nurse Mariho and Shishio Takiko...I'm sorry. It's not the characters going out of control. It's me." - The manga-ka Nobuhiro Watsuki (bloke that gave you Rurouni Kenshin) talking about his creation of his latest manga Busou Renkin.

Cospprogess 2.1: Measuring the Sword and Height

Done measuring the sword and done what my height is, so that means I can now scale how long the sword's going be and...now, I'm going to buy some clothes to make the costume (though the coat is going to be a tough one as it's impossible to buy a coat that has the same colour as Felts design, as well as finding one that isn't so sporty or something). However, I can get the boots and some other stuff that I customise.

So for now, I need some sleep...

Quote of the Moment - "All Your Bomb Are Belong To Us" - Master Chief in Return to Sender (part of There's Something About Halo collection) from the Halo series. Oh how I laughed at this Flash animation.

Cospprogess 2: Measuring the Sword

So how am I doing?

Well, after planning on what materials I needed or something, this morning I planned out the measurements for the sword and eurgh...this took me around 3 hours to take some measurements on the height and width of the sword, as well as doing the 'subsections of the sword piece by piece, though I haven't figure out on how tall I am and then scale it. -_-;

Thank goodness I've got mathematic skills from my father and now all I need is some materials to make the sword, though the only problem is...I have no idea which ones are better at moulding the weapon: should I use sturdy foam or cardboard (btw, I'm going to leave the weapon making bit until I'm staying at Manchester for Xmas, where my lil sis is going to help me, while doing revisions for her Jan exams)?

If anyone would like to suggest, then you're free to do so. Right now, I'm going to buy some cheap clothes to get it started, prefably if it's Primark or something equivalent.

Quote of the Moment - "Ace-Ace-Ace-A Star!" - Mr Moore from that Mr Moore Song (btw, Mr Moore is my cousin's ex-GCSE maths teacher. Too bad the song is now a cult hit among my school's post 6th Form Students)

Cospprogess 1: Making Felt

After so many months being a lazy ass doing some costumes and then fail to finish it with full force, I finally decided to get my arse off and do something worthwhile for this: My Felt cosplay!

Yes, I know my brain's going to forget about this, but if I can make it in time for either Collectormania Gmex or MCM London Expo May 2007 in time, then I'm going to be famous on the Internet on being the only crossplayer (i.e. crossdresser as Felt is a bloke) who has ever crossplay (gender-bending costume play) as a bloke from other than Final Fantasy series. So, in order to make the costume and the sword, as well as balance uni stuff that I need to finish, I'll be putting the progress on how far I did on doing the cosplay as well as posting some ordinary out-of-the-wall stuff that I find interesting.

And if I tend to forget to make the costume, then remind me! Otherwise, you won't be seeing me cross-dressing as Felt!

And here's the picture that I'm going to cosplay (or rather crossplay) as...

Quote of the Moment - "So hats off to our winners, piss off to our losers." - Some bloke from Have I Got News For You

And the Winner for the Most Badly Behaved Person is...

OMG! This is UK politcal correctness gone wrong again!

I was waking up from playing too much Silkroad Online from yesterday and after breakfast and popping down to good ol'student shop when I noticed the headlines from both The Times and The Guardian:

'Teenage see ASBOs as badge of honour"

WTF? I knew it! I knew stomping these riduculous Orders to teenages is a bad idea. I mean, these teenagers are not disciplined enough, so blame the bloody parents who couldn't be bothered on getting these kids straight years ago!

And as for the person who said that the teenagers who think these ASBOs are badge of honour and then he'll smirk off their faces by putting them into custody would only going to get worse. And if it's going to get worse than ever in the next few years, I'm moving to Dublin, Ireland!

Quote of the Moment - "You roll in reams across the street in algebra" - Thom Yorke from the lyric part of Analyse (from the album, The Eraser)

Come back Pho! All is Forgiven!

(N.B. IT'S PRONOUNCED 'FUH', NOT 'FUR'!)

Yes, as the title suggests, I am Vietnamese and I expect to eat some delicious Vietnamese cuisine (okay, only a few selection), but there's one dish that I so missed, since I moved to Stoke-on-Trent from my family's hometown of Manchester:

Phở

There, I said it! I missed eating that wonderful noodle soup bowl that my parents cooked with very great care T_T! I missed eating the beef rare (yeah, it's like having the beef done in English cuisine, but in soup base), while slurping the rice noodles on my mouth and then, if possible that my stomach isn't full yet, swallowed the soup on my mouth. I just missed the warmth in it, especially as it comes to winter this year. T_T Maybe next year, I should take the train to uni; it's only 45 minutes from Manchester to Stoke-on-Trent, PLUS I think the city life in Stoke is pretty boring, despite being the safest city in the UK.

On another note, who never knew the British comedian Jimmy Carr came up using all he magnetic letters on the board in QI (UK Quiz show, where it involves on the basis of quite interesting facts, instead of the obvious)?




Quote of the Moment - 'PUT SMARTIES TUBES ON CATS LEGS MAKE THEM WALK LIKE A ROBOT' - Jimmy Carr, when he combined all the letters on the board and came up with this. Alan Davies was gobsmacked and commented 'Un-f**king-believeble'.

Uninspired Art Idea

Can't take my brain anymore. It's like I've been gone back to bed again in the morning, after doing a sketch and despite that I ate a healthy breakfast to keep my energy up! Though the worse news is...ARTIST'S BLOCK!AAAARRRGGGGHHH!!! Why, on why is it there?! Need, to find inspiration and a copy of The Times' Sudokou book collection now, before my brain has finally lost it on controlling my life.

Anyways, happy 'horrible' birthday, Hanh! You're now officially to drink as many alcohol as you like, BUT not too much!

Quote of the moment -"Keep linin'em up and I'll keep knockin'em down!" - Sakon Shima from Samurai Warriors 2. My God, he's such a charming person, I always play as him and levelling up to the max! Now, if I persuade Koei to make Kojiro Sasaki playable in the next sequel...

My 'Evil' Birthday

You Are 36% Evil

A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well. In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil.

How Evil Are You?

So that's why I'm evil underneath. Anyway, I'm FINALLY 19 today! Woohoo! So how am I going to spend my birthday? Erm, showing my sisters and taking them to a nice Belgian Bar. And even though I should act like an adult now, I'm still a teenager at heart (and probably nearing the end of it). Now, if you excuse me, I've got to watch Watership Down as my treat.

Quote of the moment - "Er, let's just keep going." - Sho from Crimson Sea when Yangqin talks about Sho's romantic issues with women.

Shop Till You Drop and...O_O

Well, today I went with my good ol'friend from uni and we went shopping around in Hanley for clothes shopping, manga shopping, games shopping, anime shopping, DVD shopping (I can't believe Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is now part of 'buy 3 for £20' offer in HMV! XD) and smoothies buying and I laughed my head off when she told this was her first time on tasting an actual smoothie! Glad, I gave her the 'Strawberry Forever' on. And now, my feet are exhausting (Hanley's only a 15 minute walk).

And now this...strange, terribe and yet pretty at the same time...

You can visit their website over here. Now, if you excuse me, I'm going to watch Powerpuff Girls Z (the anime).

Quote of the moment - "I'm not made of potions!"- One famous Cloud from FFVII commenting about the natures of a main lead character o a famous VGCats webcomic. It's hilariously funny for video games and anime/manga fans and you can see the comics over here.

WTF? World Embryo being licenced already?

Yes, you've heard me. I was going to the M7 site to check on the progress and unfortunately, now I'll have to ages for this, as manga publisher, Tokyopop has licenced World Embryo. Dammit! Now, I'm going to cry as I was looking forward on reading chapter 17 and wonder what's going to happen between Riku...T_T...and then there's Takao and the events that is going.

You've heard it from me, now go and blame Tokyopop that the English translation takes a very long time (and also going to ruin the beautiful colour pages). I hope you're listening from me, Tokyopop! I want the colour pages to be left unaltered, so that I can enjoy the pages that Daisuke Moriyama has craftfully made, especially in later volume or I'll going to rant on how much time Tokyopop has ruin the Chrno Crusae creator's great work!

Quote of the moment - 'A Trojan Horse hasn't got wheels!' - A random person from the university I'm attending exclaiming on the art project we're doing as a group.

WTF? Jesus in Japan?

Here's an interesting article about Jesus in Japan

As being a Vietnamese Catholic descendent, I find this article very strange, but I never thought that Jesus would walk nearly 5,000 miles from Calvary to Aomori; he could be dead halfway through the journey. If I shown this to some fundamentalist Christian in America, he or she is going to rip my head off for this.

So anyway, only a few more days, till I'm officially an Uni student! Yay! And now, for some Fai/Fye/Fay lovin' from Tsubasa: Resevoir Chronicle or something (damn CLAMP, damn NHK).

Quote of the moment - "Hyuu~!" - Fay D. Flowright from Tsubasa Chronicle (he has now added to my bishie collection)

How Not to Piss Sting Ray Plus Sister Rant

Poor Steve Irwin...Died by a sting ray aattack, even if the sting ray wasvery docile.

And now this...my stupid lil sis, Hanh thinks that I am a lazy slut bitch who does nothing but going to the Internet all day long. HELLO! It's her who is a bitch that annoys me all along. She needs to stop jumping people's personalities into conclusion! I'm not some selfish bitch that only cares for myself you know. Whenever she says about me and there's some trouble at the shop that my parents work there (as well as living in there) she goes like this...

*In an imitating Hanh's voice* "WHY DON'T YOU HELP IN THE SHOP MORE YOU SELFISH PERSON!?"

F**K HER! I'm not selfish! I care for my parents and my older sis as well as Hanh, but she just doesn't get the idea at all. I just wish that she'll just look into people's impression, including me personally, more than she is. *Sighs* And now, she's into her A2 Levels exam mode and I doubt her immature childish personality would go into adulthood and respect older people, like me. I just hope that she reads this blog entry and make her realize that she rushing and concluding into the people's impressions and would next time, try to think over and stopping bitching me saying I have no feelings for other people's feelings. And this is for Hanh if she's reading this blog:

"Why don't you stop being a bitch, calling me a 'selfish person with no feelings for others' and just slow down and judge the people around you, before you can make your impression. I'm getting sick and tired of this! I have feelings for other people too and it's time that you should grow up and stop saying that 'you're a baby'. You're not! You're turning into an adult soon and it's time you should take responsiblity yourself! You might think you can order me around, just because you want to, but you're still too youn to be the boss! Get some experience and once you're old enough, then you can boss some younger people around!"

There, I said it...I typed it with my feeling that should get Hanh's impact. Now, I'm hoping that she didn't get into a blog entry and start ranting about me.

Quote of the Moment - "Transformers! Robotsin disguise!" - The first verse of the original Transformers intro song. Don't know why I've put it.

The Next Sequel to Snakes on a Plane

*laughs like a real idiot* I can't believe this was the winner of the Blanks on a Blank competition and it shows. Now, if only there was a Final Fantasy edition to it...hmm, maybe 'Chocobos on an Airship' where Cloud can be the lead charaacter shouting: 'I want these mother-f**king chocobos off the mother-f**king airship!'

Or even better, the Kingdom Hearts version, 'Moogles on a Gummi Ship' where Sora goes out yelling: 'I want these mother-f**king moogles off my mother-f**king Gummi ship!'

Quote of the Moment - 'Eight hours of running after her and we've finally chased her down." - Rosette Christopher from Chrno (Chrono) Crusade, to which it was Daisuke Moriyama's great work. Now can someone please tell every D.M. fan to look at his other great work, World Embryo.

Good Way To Exercise Yourself

Oh cool! I found this over at YouTube and this is the coolest music video I've seen - Dancing on Treadmills! Eat your heart out Snakes On A Plane!



Better go now and do something, before I go to M7 site and shout: "WHEN THE HELL ARE YOU GOING TO RELEASE CHAPTER 15 OF WORLD EMBRYO?! THIS IS WWWWAAAAAAYYYY PAST DUE THE DATE?!"

Quote of the Moment - "Come on and lend me that thing's power." - Takao from World Embryo (my second favourite character, though I wish he didn't go 'catch'em-all' the Jinki Users and chopping their heads off afterwards)

GOING TO UNI!

I've finally got my A-Level results and yes, it is crap (though for some reason I passed AS Product Design with a C), but that doesn't matter cause I'm going to uni to do an art and design degree and no more exams, notes and those long-boring hours of listening to teachers = I can draw whatever I like!

Quote of the moment - "Shit! What have I done!?" - Some bloke from San: Three Kingdoms (the comic)

DAMMIT I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!

WHY M7?! WHY HAVEN'T YOU F**KING RELEASE THE SCANLATED CHAPTER 15 OF WORLD EMBRYO ASAP?! I know that you're scanlating Trigun Maximum, Hellsing, Gintama and Bleach, but haven't those been licensed?! JUST RELEASE WORLD EMBRYO NOW! My paitence has been running so thinly now!

And if you're wondering on why I'm ranting now, just look at the website below and demand Maximum 7 to release the further scanlated chapters of World Embryo ASAP. DO IT NOW!

http://www.maximum7.com

Quote of the moment - 'Stupid bloody cliffhanger!' - Me when every further chapter of Daisuke Moriyama's World Embryo is making me addicted to read again and again and again and...(repeats over a thousand times)

One Big Reunion

Huzzah! My dear old friend from school had answered my email I sent ages ago and she still remembers! And that's all the details I'm giving, because this is really special to me and I don't want to show off everything. Well, ciao!

Quote of the moment - 'JESUS CHRIST IT'S OSAKA GET IN THE CAR' - Saya-Biki from the TRPG forums. God he remembers me!

Long Ago In A Trailer Far Far Away...

I was at YouTube recently, until I found this - Star Wars Banjo! I actually laugh at this when I first watch this. Never knew imagining Darth Vadar taking up a banjo...Well, why don't you see it for yourself!




Well, I'm off to watch that Utada Hikaru's video, so see ya!

Quote of the moment - "I need two emotions" - Utada Hikaru singing Passion, except this one is the reversed version.

Found in Translation - World Embryo

Just a quick drabble to the World Embryo fans. If you're wondering on what the title in chapter 14 says, I recently downloaded mIRC and then spoke to one of the mods asking for the translation and this is what 'he' says:

"From Hand to Hand"

So there you go. Big thanks to -Asakura- from the M7 mIRC channel for answering the question. Now, if you excuse me, I'm 'going to bishie-hunt down' Riku and meddle with his 'ears'. *Turns an evil grin*

Quote of the moment - "We suggest you use an A4 hardbook sketchbook for this project." - That Introductory Studies Course Leader (who will be nameless) from Staffordshire University (Huzzah! They accepted me! ^_^)