Saku’s AFK Corner

Another Otaku’s blog about Anime, Figures, Games and Various Events

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Figures

Sakura Matou 1/6 by Griffon Enterprise
After my previous double date Asa-senpai at harbour front couple weeks ago, Sakura had demanded me to take her out for a date and as a sign of jealousy, she wouldn't let me to take her pictures until I do so. Not only that, since she is competing... (Read more)
Shigure Asa 1/8 by Alter
It was a long weekend in Toronto since we had a Good Friday so it's a day off for majority of people. Not only that, it happened to be having nice and sunny weather in Toronto. It's little bit windy though but there is no need for multi layers of c... (Read more)
Caren Hortensia 1/8 by Alter
As I promised from my last preview post. my next photo shoot would be the lovely Caren Hortensia by Alter. Hearing the name Alter, we usually have our expectation set to high whether it would be the paint job, sculpt or the overal figure. So far, A... (Read more)
Signum 1/7 by Alter
My backlog figures stack are getting higher, although, it may not be as high as Rin's. Alter Signum is my first Magical Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS figure and the only one that really captivated my eyes. It's no secret that I love anime characters with... (Read more)
Ryogi Shiki 1/7 by Good Smile Company
A beautiful and elegant figure of Ryogi Shiki from Kara no Kyoukai series is presented by Good Smile Company. Once again , they never fail to impress me. The first time,  I saw this figure at Dannychoo , was a love at the first sight. The details ... (Read more)
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Anime

K-ON! Azusa Nakano Gallery
Azunyan Nakano gallery sums up my K-ON! gallery series. I don't think the other K-ON! girls are worthy enough to have their own galleries unless someone manages to convince me otherwise ^^. Azunyan may not have as many fans as Yuri or Mio but con... (Read more)
K-ON! Ritsu Tainaka Gallery
Without even realizing it, it becomes a ritual/habit for me to post a gallery on every Monday to start my week and hopefully, it will keep going as long as I can ^^.  Following up from my K-ON girls gallery , we start another great week with some ... (Read more)
K-ON! Tsumugi Kotobuki Gallery
Lurking around the Internet in search for Tsumugi Kotobuki large resolution images is not as challenging as I thought it would be. It's only fair to post some images of other K-ON members aside from Mio and Yui and maybe with this post, Tsumugi can... (Read more)
K-ON! Yui Hirasawa Gallery
Image via Gelbooru Laid back Yui is looking to gain more supports for her fan club to compete with Mio's and she is trying to show the world that she can be as cute as Mio ^^. If you are viewing this at work, be warned that some images may be in a... (Read more)
K-ON! Mio Akiyama Gallery
Image via Gelbooru K-ON! easily raised its popularity since the start of the show and it's all due to one of the character, Mio Akiyama. She is shy-type who everyone loves and not that I am trying to put down other characters. This post is dedicat... (Read more)
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Events

AX2009 Japanese Guest of Honours
As you all probably already know, I am planning to go to Anime Expo 2009 this year on July 2 to 5. I got my hotel booked from July 1 to 5 so I took 2 days of from work (July 2nd and 3rd) for AX09. Honestly, I am really excited as it is happening ... (Read more)
Anime North 2009
My apology for the late post coverage for Anime North 2009 as I was tired after I got back from Anime North 2009 on Sunday and it took me sometimes to organize photos and upload them. Another year with another great convention here at Anime North 2... (Read more)
Anime Bash @ North York Public Library
For this month of April, to promote reading and celebrate City of Toronto's 175th Anniversary , City of Toronto and Toronto Public Library are collaborating a showcase called Keep Toronto Reading 2009. Many free events, performances and discussions... (Read more)
March Toronto Anime Con 2009
Another small anime convention here in Toronto to warm us up before the big Anime North on May. The event is similar to DTAC (December Toronto Anime Con) that I attended back on December last year. More pictures below ^^. Some pictures tha... (Read more)
Anime Expo 2009 Online Pre-Registration ...
Anime Expo finally has its online pre-registration available at their website. You can read more about it here. Through their online pre-registration , you can buy 4-day ticket for $50 and get a free main event ticket on which I chose the Morning M... (Read more)
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Otaku

AX2009 Pre-Loot
Image via Gelbooru In preparation for Anime Expo 2009 and its overloaded Japanese guest of honours, I bought some merchandise specifically for signing purpose so I guess you can call this as AX2009 pre-loot ^^. The Japanese guest of honours that... (Read more)
Figure Bargain at Hobby Search Part 2
Quite a few figures on sale at hobby search and some are from GSC and one from Alter. Impulse buying ftw and don't blame it on me ^^;; Nendoroid Takra Miyuki Normal Ver. by Chara-Ani Regular Price: 3,334 yen Sales Price: 2,333 yen ... (Read more)
Recent Loot
My recent loot from March and April is Yami from To Love Ru and Holo from Spice Wolf both by Good Smile Company. Yami costs me 5,881 Yen + 3,200 Yen for shipping. On the other hand, I got Holo for 6,785 Yen + 2,400 shipping. For some reasons, t... (Read more)
Photoshoot Preview
I went to Harbour Front in downtown Toronto for my next photoshoot preview on Friday morning. We had a Good Friday holiday here in Canada and the weather was quite nice ( around 10 C degrees and sunny ) so I decided to do outdoor photo shoot which ... (Read more)
Figure Bargain at Hobby Search
Just want to let you guys know that Hobby Search is having a figure sale and some of them are quite nice this time (it usually sucks). I am sure that some of them might interest you and any sale is good especially during this recession ^^. Read m... (Read more)
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Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category

Suddenly Acquired Notebook (SAN)

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As an otaku, our biggest enemy that drills a big hole on our wallet from time to time is impulse buying + countless SAFS (Suddenly Acquired FigureS). I believe it has happened to us all especially during otaku related events, for example, anime conventions, a place where price is no longer an issue as I would call it ^^. We all are drooling over those anime merchandise and figures.

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  • My New Persocom

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    I started this new project to build another PC specifically used for storage/data only (Anime episodes, Mp3s, images, web development , etc) back on last October 2008 when one of my HDDs was crapping out ie dying. Since I have no way to recover my data if the HDDs fail, I went for Hardware RAID solution which is something I have never done before. For those who don’t know, aside from being an otaku, I am pretty much a PC Hardware geek.

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  • Project Aiko : When Science Meets Beauty….

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    Having Chii (Chobits) as your companion/lover may not be too far ahead as one man named Le Trung, a fellow Canadian living in Ontario, tries to fulfill his childhood dream by making a life size gynoid ( robot that looks like a human female). Le was greatly inspired and motivated after watching Chobits so on August 15, 2007, Project Aiko is officially started. Big thanks for my fellow ffxi gamer, Jackie, who told me about this.

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  • Monitor Upgrade

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    My parents got me a new 24″ LCD Monitor for my bday back in October and it’s a BenQ V2400W. The nice thing about this LCD monitor is that it has a HDMI input and 2 DVI inputs which means, I can connect my ps3 to this monitor. My experience so far has been really great and so happy with this monitor ^^. More pictures under the cut ^^.

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  • ARis

    Image via Moe Imouto

    Credit goes to my friend who told me about this cool new toy that ’s just recently available for purchase in Japan. It’s basically a 3d hologram character that you interact and play around with it. ARis is sold for 9,800 Yen and for further info, check out its official website (It’s in Japanese though :S)

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  • Google Chrome First Impression

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    Google Chrome logo image via Google

    A new browser just established itself yesterday and joined the Browser war against other well known browser such as Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera and other browsers. Apparently Google has a lot of confindence in them and launched their own browser called Google Chrome on September 2nd, 2008. It’s still currently in Beta stage so a lot of bugs are to be expected, however, the future looks promising from user feedbacks that I read on various forums.

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  • Iphone 3G is coming to 22 countries on July 11th, 2008

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    Anyone is getting the new 3G iphone ? It’s coming on July 11th in 22 countries where Canada is one of them. Very exciting news for those who live in Canada since we (or I) have been longing for iPhone for so long since the US releases and we have to buy the jailbreak version which was going for $400 to $600

    The new 8G version is only $199 with 2 or 3 years contract which is pretty reasonable / cheap for a new phone. I probably am going to sign up with rogers and ditch my fido >.> if the data plan is really good. Full story can be read at endgadget and check out Rogers’ main page banner for those who live in Canada.

    Is iPhone in your buy list ? it sure is on mine ^^.

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  • Filed under: Tech, Toronto
  • Saku Versus Virus

    Venus Versus Virus

    I had had rough days on the last couple days with my main PC which was infected by some virus and they messed up my internet connection or connection to the internet. I can play online game and download stuff just fine, however, browsing was a different story. It was painfully slow to load a page and sometimes it didn’t even finish loading a page so the page showed up weird.

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  • Filed under: FFXI, Random, Tech
  • Updated to Wordpress 2.5.1

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    I finally updated to to the latest wordpress from 2.3.3 to 2.5.1 .The update went smoothly and I hope nothing weird is going to happen (keeping my finger crossed XD). All my plugins are working just fine and so does my template.

    The whole process took 3-4 hours due to a lot back up that needs to be done before hand and I have a lot of images which I need to copy from the hosting to my local. I followed the upgrade instruction thoroughly from wordpress.org as I don’t want to screw anything up.

    The new interface on the admin section is nice and also the ability to upload multiple images at once, however, when I tried it, it cut some part of image instead of resize so I had to use flexible-upload plugin.

    Song of the day: Being by Kotoko

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  • Rogers Bandwith Cap

    Just a little warning for those who use rogers and like to download a lot with torrents or other p2p, you probably got a letter saying about the new bandwidth overage charge. It says on the letter, $25 is the maximum charge however, I stumbled upon a post in NCIX forum where one of the forumer shows his Rogers bill. Rogers charged $616.50 for over usage >.>. I know in the letter says that $25 is the hard capped and can’t go more so make sure you check your bill right away after you got it so you gets charged more than $25, call them right away and bitch at them >.>

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