The store is actually based in Hongkong (assuming there is an actual/physical store) and what’s even more awesome is that I didn’t get charged by custom for GST/PST ^^. If the website looks sketchy and you don’t trust them with your credit card, look at the bottom right of the home page, you should see VeriSign secure site, thus, you can rest assure that the company is legit.

Speaking of price, $10 is really cheap for a customized item if you compare it to other online retailers, for example, Zazzle.com. if you know a great place to customize item similar to Arts Cow, please share ^^. I am looking for a site to customize a PSP case.

The back of the case is black and you slide in your netbook. The size should fit 10/11 inch netbook perfectly as you can see the picture below.

For something worth $10, the quality of paint is more than amazing. More closeup pictures below.

Image via AnimePaper.

Sorry for the lack update on my blog for the past month. I have a lot of things to write but can’t get my self to actually write it. Lack of motivation I guess and it also does not help when work and school consume my time. My fellow friends managed to convince to play World of Warcraft again since bunch of us already plays so there goes my spare time. Currently, lvl 35 priest at Crushridge Realm so if you play on the same server, let me know ^^. Do you ever want to have more than 24 hours per day ? I personally want to have 48 hours / day. 8-9 for work and the rest is for something else ^^;;.

Anyways, enough with my rambling and here comes my latest loot.

Saber Lily 1/7 by GSC finally arrived after  some delays in the past months, although, the delay was actually good for me since I had a lot expenses when I moved to a new place.

The box has interesting corners and I don’t see the point of making them flattened.

Front View

Right View

Back View

Left View

Top angle view

Checked my hobby search preorder and of course Fate got delayed…..again. I was expecting Nanoha would be delayed but I guess there are too many Fate fans out there so Alter can’t keep up with the pre-order.

The shipping cost for this Saber Lily is a friggin 5,400 yen. I realized it’s 1/7 but the shipping charge is unreasonable and I don’t see why Hobby Search felt the need put int a big box -_-;;. Gosh $50 just for the shipping alone and it’s more than half the price of Saber Lily. If you guys ordered from Hobby Search, please let me know what the shipping cost was >.> especially if you live in Canada.

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 will be my main target for signatures are Yosuke Kuroda, Daisuki Ishiwatari and Morning Musume.

S-Cry-Ed complete DVD set, Guilty Gear Isuka and Morning Musume latest CD, Syou ga Nai Yume Oibito

Yosuke Kuroda is one of the original creator of S-Cry-Ed manga and I still can recall how much I love the series when it just came out 8 years ago. Check out the first episode below. I am feeling nostalgic listening to the OP song.

Meanwhile, Daisuki Ishiwatari is the original creator of Guilty Gear fighting games on Playstation One. He is also the voice actor for Sol Badguy. Does anyone play this game ? I used to play Guilty Gear Reload a lot back then.

Last but not least, Morning Musume is the most succesful (arguably) all girls group in Japan and well-known for changing their members around. Their latest CD/single is Syou ga Nai Yume Oibito and  3,2,1 Breakin Out! , AX2009 official theme song, is also included in the CD.

Morning Musume Latest Single

Aren't they all cute ? ^^

Listen to their 3,2,1 Breakin Out! freshly ripped from my CD ^^ below
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In addition to above guests, there are many other well-known Japanese guest of honours so check out my previous post about AX2009 Japanese guest of honours

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, the shipping is cheaper and it may have something do with the shipping revision that Hobby Search did. Yep, that’s right, 1 figure per month and I have nothing coming this month, although, I will have 2 figures in August, Fate and Black Rock Shooter where both cost me arms and legs. Ugh so not looking forward to

I am trying really hard to save $$$ to get my own place (still living on someone’s basement currently ^^;; and planning to move out) but impulse buying always gets the best of me every time. Maybe I should bring lunch to work save $$$ even more ^^;;. Hopefully I can control myself during Anime North convention this month.

The meet up that we had on Friday was fun and awesome. I got to meet up GNDynames (finally XD) and some new otaku. It would be nice if ETERNAL was there too but that’s ok, we just need to find a way to drag ETERNAL out of his room next time ^^

Despite the success of the meet-up , I was little bit ticked off with the lack of attendance even though there were 41 confirmed guests on the facebook event page. I will start my ranting with a quote what RSVP means:

R.S.V.P. stands for a French phrase, “répondez, s’il vous plaît,” which means “please reply.”

Thus, there were 41 people that replied to the invitation but only 10 people were at the meet-up so it’s barely 1/4 of the total guests. Granted this was not a formal invitation like a wedding but when you selected ‘Attending’ on the facebook page, you were expected to be there.

Please be considerate to the organizer (Rin) and to the restaurant itself because he had to reserve for 41 people and after one hour from the designated time, he had to tell the restaurant that we didn’t need the rest of 30 seats.

Quoted from someone on facebook who made a good point:

At least be like me and cancel a few days in advance! The restaurants will be expecting the confirmed amount and will turn away potential customers so you all can have a seat.

Not having a full reservation is not only is embarrassing for people explaining it to the staff (see Justin and Ron’s comments below) but also a big hit to those working in the restaurant’s income.

Please, have some consideration and honour your word.. Now, with that rant out of the way.. How did it actually go? I wish I could have made it.

Anyways, please forgive me for ranting a little bit. Even though it’s only 10 people, I think whoever was there still got to enjoy this event especially when we all got a prize (courtesy of ACG NA) due to lack of attendance.

The best price was Kagami neno WonFes edition and the lucky person who got it was Litokid. The one that I really wanted was a mug with 2 girls which Trixoptics got it. Lucky him >.>. I am so using this to work if I got the coffee mug.

As for myself, I got a tottee bag with anime characters from multiple series ^^

As usual on every meet-up, we went up for some bowling which I didn’t go so I wonder who won this time. I bet Trixoptics kicked everyone butts in bowling ^^.

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