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Somebody is going to get a-hurt real bad!

31 July 2006 at 9:49 pm » Comments (0)

Russell Peters is coming to Australia the second time in December and his stageshow in Melbourne is totally exhausted as of now. ToT



Killer Lolis

31 July 2006 at 4:49 pm » Comments (0)

What the…
When I was watching the first episode, I would have thought Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (The Moment the Cicadas Cry) was just a simple standard out-of-the-box koibito-drama hit. Apparently I was wrong. It turned out to be a disturbing and graphical anime with murderous lolis roaming around in a small rural community.
New Twist
The [...]



8 Gigabytes of Data!

16 July 2006 at 6:21 pm » Comments (0)

Argghhh! I’ve received a compressed 800Mb (8Gb uncompressed, that is) zip file worth a decade, maybe more of financial transactions from a prominent company. FTP-ing it to my machine took me 20 minutes.
My job will be:

Analyse the transactions and figure out the closing balances of each item
Convert the existing DBase2 database into MSSQL database. Holly [...]



Coyote Ragtime Show

12 July 2006 at 5:38 pm » Comments (0)

From the studio ufotable who created the successful Futakoi Alternative and 2X2=Shinobuden, they have branched out with this : space opera + Cowboy Bebop + Loli Goth + Western Spaghetti anime. Okay, gotta admit this; the loli goth part drew my attention to it first.
The plot is basic. "The story about a master criminal, Mister, [...]



World Cup 2006

11 July 2006 at 4:18 pm » Comments (0)

Ok, the Italians won the finals and the French went home with a future Mortal Kombat champion. I am no soccer fan but you got to enjoy some of these greatest moments.



Hellsing OVA 2nd Episode

10 July 2006 at 10:30 pm » Comments (0)

I’ve been waiting for the second episode of the OVA for months. And now it’s going to air on the 25th August 2006. w00t!
[Hellsing Website]



Manifest 2006 Here I Come!

5 July 2006 at 5:31 pm » Comments (4)

Another Manifest is on its way. Time to lock, cock and ready to rock my digiCam.
It’ll be on in the late September but I’m already two months ahead getting myself registered and secured a tix for the weekend. Up till now, this is my third visit and it’s getting bigger and better every year. Looking [...]



Moving Office…again

4 July 2006 at 5:02 pm » Comments (0)

More Update (11th July): Apparently, the office management has offered to provide us daily (yeah right!) coffee, tea, sugar, biscuits and milk. So this morning they brought up a few containers with the "offerings" above and would replenish them upon request (there!). Yum, free biscuits.
Update (10th July): I’ve moved and settled down. With the new [...]



A Night in Fantasia 2006

2 July 2006 at 5:49 pm » Comments (0)

The Eminence orchestra group is performing masterpieces of Joe Hisaishi, composer for Hayao Miyazaki’s anime (Studio Ghibli) and Nubou Uematsu, composer for the Final Fantasy series. [More info]

I bought the tickets for the 3pm performance a month ahead, talk about ‘kiasu-ness’. On Sunday (2nd July) when Oliver and I reached the Townhall, the line [...]



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