Day 2′s focus was on the Hare Hare Yukai Dance competition. This was the very first time this unique event was held. A fair number of group participants joined and most of them did well. The winner was a group from the Deakin University. Below is a newbie group foreign to Hare Hare Yukai Dance.

Highlight of the day: Soundwave from The Transformers. Now we know why he wasn’t in the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons in the movie.

(Soundwave of the Decepticons)

(Misa from Death Note)
 
  
  
 
 
First row images, from left:
1. Captains and Vice Captains from Bleach
2. Captains from Bleach
3. Some band performing J-Pop called 6 pence worth or something
Second row images, [...]

I want her in my Windows XP too

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Goths
Not really against them or anything, but this is Manifest not Goth party! Seems like their numbers are climbing up annually. This year it’s the ratio of 4:1, for every four cosplayers, there’s one goth around. ;D
  
 
Eye Openers and Clichés
   
   
  
   
     
 
First row images, from left:
1. Cerberus from Card Captor Sakura 
2. The captains from Bleach
3. L from Death [...]

Ze Queue 
Woke up about 8am-ish, cleaned up and away we went! Fine was fine and dandy and getting there was easy; we got onto the tram the moment we reached the stop at Flinder Street’s station.
The Wilson Hall was booked as an exam hall, so the Economics / Commerce Building became the registration centre for Manifest. Also, [...]

Another short clip from Studio 4°C

Retro but classic. Found this randomly.

Spending was part of the fun during the Manifest 2007. With so many merchandise items on the shelves and yet my funds do not agree with me, I had to make my choices decisively. You will notice a suspicious guy pondering around, hour after hour trying to decide what is to buy. For starters, I actually wandered [...]

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This morning I received an email from SquareTrade, a third party service that offers mediation on disputes between eBay sellers and buyers. Apparently one of the sellers is not happy with my feedback and wanted me to withdraw it. The item was bought in May (roughly 4 months ago) and obviously I don’t remember sh*t [...]

 
Badge and Ticket. Check.
Camera. Check.
Extra memory card. Check.
Batteries. Check.
Water Bottle. Check.
Extra batteries. Check.
Extra cash for shopping spree. Check (T.T)
Okaaay, everything’s set. The hunt begins.

Two more days to go!
Planning to pick up my personalised badge tomorrow evening, right after work to avoid the unnecessary long queue during the weekend. It’s going to rock this year.

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Here comes Agent 47 stalking the big screen in November this year. Of all the possible stars to cast this hitman but Timothy Olyphant?!

Today marks the day where I’ll be part of the huge cult in Down Under.
For the first time I get to spam with a mobile MSN Messenger;
For the first time I get to use a mobile to surf the Web;
For the first time I get to send MMSes and Emails;
For the first time I actually own a brand new [...]