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I Spent Some Yen at AmiAmi

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1 year ago
by Tany in , , , , , ,

I decided to suck it up, stop bitching like a failed pirate and bought the damn ‘Love Plus+‘ game yesterday from AmiAmi.

If you read my long review on Love Plus+, I mentioned about the ultimate anti-piracy that Konami implemented. Unfortunately even with patching, the game still have an issue if you’re using AceKard 2i running on Akaio 1.7.1. Also unfortunately, I’m aware that Akaio team is working on version 1.8, but their last update was in July… and I don’t think anyone is aware about the Love Plus+ problem in real time mode or care about it so I decided to buy the damn game.

Play-Asia is still having the ‘back ordered‘ status and I have no idea when they’re gonna restock so what the hell, not gonna wait for P-A to restock. I actually prefer buying from P-A because I’ve bought Guitar Hero DS game from them before and DSi Hori protective screen filter using the free shipping and they arrived in great condition in only 2 weeks. If I wasn’t desperate for the game, I’d take advantage of free shipping…however P-A also ships using FedEx and it only cost USD$10 (around RM30 which is acceptable). It’s cheaper & faster than EMS Speedpost. FedEx takes about 1-3 days, and EMS takes 2-4 days but cost like USD$15 and it’s local hong kong express post.. not sure why it’s more expensive? Plus when it reaches Malaysia it’ll be handled by our local post office which is another thing.

I had my first parcel from EMS all torn, squished, scrunched up and just plain bad. I don’t know whether it was EMS fault or our local post office.. but then again, I received my other stuff perfectly at the local post office so I don’t know who was being careless…

So, disappointed, I tried searching for other place but I can’t find a place that sells the game :( Someone suggested ‘AmiAmi‘, which is a hobby & character shop in Japan. It’s great that their price is almost the same as P-A except a buck cheaper (10% off) however they only have EMS post for faster shipment! Kinda skeptical to use EMS now since first impression wasn’t good… Their normal post would probably take a month to reach here, wtf. Since I couldn’t find any other place… and amazon JP is all in Japanese :( and amazon US sells the game DOUBLE the price.. so I decided to order from AmiAmi and not care about EMS shipment. And guess what!

They have this casing in stock!

I need a new casing for my Nintendo DSi since the silicone skin is falling apart. It’s so annoying to play a game with the silicone skin hanging because it won’t fit the DSi anymore (all stretched up). At first I wanted a new pink silicone skin so it’ll match my Dsi but then I saw the Rinko casing at P-A and guess what? It’s friggin out of stock/sold out! GAH!

Fortunately!

AmiAmi is having a friggin 60% off on the Rinko’s case! Wtf! Perfect timing! So now it only cost 850 yen (USD$10) instead of retail price of around 2,480 yen(USD$30)! There was only 4 left in stock. You know, for most online sellers in the US, they’re selling it double the price wtf. The highest I’ve seen so far is at the ridiculous price of USD$70! Are you crazy? USD$70 for a simple transparent casing with 13 papers that have Rinko image on it?? Are you kidding me?? That’s around RM217 after converting to Malaysian ringgit… omg.. normal casings here are usually around RM10 to RM30 bucks depending on quality. Really, wtf! If I add about RM200 more I could buy a new DS Lite console… crazy.

So I decided I’d buy the game and the casing. Now, here’s another story. This is my first time placing an order from AmiAmi, and from Japan so I don’t know how they do things. After placing an order, I have to wait for them to quote the shipping price. I’m glad that the next day they told me the cost of shipping is only 1000 yen (USD$12 or RM37). It makes the total cost 5900 yen (USD$72) or around RM225. The price is ok considering I’m buying original DS game plus a cheap discounted casing with express shipping. The cost of a DS game sold in Malaysia is really expensive to us…which explains why I had to resort to piracy. I only buy original stuff if I extremely like the product. There’s no way I’m ever gonna spend so much on shovelwares (crap DS games).

Usually when I buy stuff, they’d have the online payment system which is easy but for AmiAmi, you have to pay by paypal according to their instruction. First time paying for goods using paypal so I didn’t know you can’t use any balance in your paypal account but need credit/debit card instead. Gah. Only card in my paypal account is my debit card, which has no savings account.. so only way to put money in, is to go to the bank and fill up the deposit slip. It was already late so only choice was mom’s debit card.

I tried transferring my money to my mom’s account (3rd party account) for the first time. Epic fail.

Because little did I know, for my bank, if you transfer funds online before 12 noon, the money will be processed the next day. GAH. No wonder the money wasn’t appearing in my mom’s account. So I went shopping, then at night went to my mom’s bank to deposit more cash to my mom’s account. Fuck. Epic fail again. There were 3 machines, and 2 couldn’t process my mom’s card somehow, and I wasted like an hour queuing up! Thankfully, one machine worked but it could only accept RM200 instead of Rm250..wtf. I need to pay Rm225 damnit! But at least later, paying AmiAmi went smoothly.

They shipped it today! Got the email from them in the morning confirming my payment and by evening they confirmed the shipping. So I hope to get my stuff by Monday or Tuesday. I just hope it won’t get squished or broken :(

So that was my lame story of spending my ‘first yen’ at a Japanese online shop. But screw it, I haven’t bought anything for myself in like 2 years.. so what the hell.

Date Status Details Office Prefecture
ZIP code
Oct 8
17:26		 Posting/Collection
MACHIDANISHI Branch
 Tokyo metropolis
194-0299
Oct 8
22:17		 Arrival at outward office of exchange
TOKYO INTERNATIONAL Branch
 Tokyo metropolis
138-8799

My stuff is in Tokyo right now :D Oh how I miss blogging about my excitement of getting a parcel like how I used to. If you knew me, you’d know I’m the kind of person who gets extremely excited when a parcel of stuff arrives :( Pathetic right? Speaking of parcels, I haven’t bought any TV Series boxset DVD from Amazon in a looooong time. Last time time I ordered was around Christmas in 2006. Wow, so long ago. But then again, back then I had my ex to pay it for me (as xmas gift) so nevermind. I’m thinking this year I want to get one or two boxsets from Amazon, but we’ll see how my budget goes.. I’m thinking of buying a Mac as Christmas gift for myself, so have to save up. I need a mac to do editing. I’m considering it an investment for a small business opportunity (aka freelance editing job). I might need it if I get a job next year too. But I want more Home Improvement & Golden Girls DVD!

Anyways, Claudia left yesterday and is in London now. Jealous. :( Now she can ogle at cute British guys and I’m still stuck here. In Jan, another friend of mine is leaving to UK too.. Oh well.

On another different note, ADAM LAMBERT WILL BE IN MALAYSIA IN A FEW DAYS!!! If I had money, I would’ve bought his most expensive ticket and go crazy like a mad psycho fan! I would try to win tickets hoping to be lucky like I was with Good Charlotte’s concert in Singapore in 2005.. but I don’t want to drive back to KL and enjoy the concert alone….

I’m thinking of switching layout! Kinda sick of this layout now…. layout hunting has started…

PS: These charms are soooooo cute aren’t they??? To be released late November. Since I’m a sucker for cute things, I want them.. it’s very cheap currently at AmiAmi (USD$14) compared to YesAsia (USD$27). To get them or not… hmmm.

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I Want To Rape Ashley Banjo

6
1 year ago
by Tany in , ,

Ashley is fucking sexy, ok.

I was watching ‘Got To Dance’ tonight on TV, first episode to night and I didn’t know that Ashley, from the group Diversity was one of the judges. The other two being Kimberly Wyatt from Pussycat Dolls and Adam Garcia (another sexy being!)

Then I remembered Diversity.

I was so obsessed with them for the last 2 months. I still can’t believe how a hot guy like Ashley could choreograph such amazing and uber creative dance moves? They’re brilliant! Their dance is just absolutely flawless.. and the video above is one of their performances in ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ which they won, and they wowed Simon and you know how hard it is to please Simon.

Can’t believe Ashley is much younger than I am :(

I also finally received my refund money today after a lot of bitching. And also Friday should be payday so I can get a new Nintendo DSi casing and my Love Plus+ game..yay :D Hopefully it’s not sold out.

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Virtual Love: 「ラブプラス＋」(Love Plus+) Extensive Review

4
1 year ago
by Tany in , , , ,

Have you heard about 「ラブプラス＋」 (Love Plus)? I’m sure lonely Japanese men (and women) have heard of it. If they haven’t, then there’s a possibility that they were in a coma.

Warning: Super long blog and picture heavy

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An Eye Exam, Shrek 4-D, Moving Balls Toy

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1 year ago
by Tany in , , , , , , , ,

MY EYE EXAM

Last Wednesday, I had an eye exam at the college’s new faculty in the morning. I’ve been having bad allergic reactions since I’ve been in KL since 2006. So i’ve been doing a lot of rubbing on my eye. So I got worried and since the new Faculty of Optometry & Vision Sciences is opened and they offer free full eye exam at the moment, so I said why not, right? I mean it’s free. So I went to set up an appointment.

The eye exam took like an hour because it was a thorough eye exam. So you know the usual stuff – they used the machines to check the eyes, the vision, then the blurriness, check for color blind etc.. it did take like an hour-ish for it to finish. So the verdict? I’m short sighted. Which I already know.. and told him my glasses have been crooked for like ages, so I’d need a new one, but their place to sell it haven’t opened yet so he’ll give me a call when it does. Other than that, nothing wrong, which is quite a surprise to me since I’ve been having a lot of allergies. He did say I have like tiny bumps on the lid or something, which means I do have allergies so better to go to clinic to get it checked. They can only give artificial tear drop but it would be just a temporary relief.

Finished at 12 pm. Then I called my friend and we went to Ikea for lunch and had hotdog. Their hotdog and curry puffs are ‘the awesomeness’. The only cheap alternatives when you’re so damn broke haha.

SHREK 4 THE FINAL CHAPTER 3D

I was supposed to pick mom up to send to the clinic after lunch hour, but after countless tries phoning her and she didn’t pick up, I decided to watch a movie with Claudia. She wanted to watch Kick-Ass while I want to watch Shrek in 3D. You see, I’ve been a fan of Shrek movies, and since Hollywood now are so crazy with the 3D trend, I thought hey, why not watch Shrek in 3D. Besides, I want to watch it in 3D before I go back to my hometown next week because the cinema at my hometown is sooooooo lame that they don’t have 3D. Kick-Ass movie is no longer showing so it was either Shrek or A Nightmare on Elm Street. Oh I so wanna watch Nightmare on Elm Street because I wanna see how they remake the classic – even though it won’t be the same as original as Freddy isn’t played by Robert Englund (he’s the only best Freddy!) and no hot young Johnny Depp :P But Claudia didn’t want to watch scary movie so I had to force her to watch Shrek in 3D :P After all the forcing and pleading she gave in hehehehe.

I don’t want to give extensive review on the movie because I have another website for my movie reviews. The movie is good! It’s soooo hilarious. I actually love this better than the 3rd one. On the 3D review, I love watching movies in 3D. Some says 3D sucks because you don’t get like stuff coming towards you and make you go WHOOOAAA, but it’s not all about that. 3D gives you the depth also.. makes the surrounding and characters come to life as if you’re there instead of flat 2D. There are some scenes where you feel the elements go ‘out of the screen’ like smoke, those magic particles.. and like stuff almost coming to you. Overall, 3D Shrek is better than 3D Alice in Wonderland. I’ve also watched Nightmare before Christmas 3D before and it was awesome because you see the snow falls right in front of you.. the verdict? Watch in 3D if it’s ANIMATION MOVIE, but don’t watch 3D if it’s just a normal movie unless you don’t care about the effect, and just want the depth.

I wonder how they’re gonna make the last Harry Potter’s movie in 3D? They better make it good!

My favorite part of Shrek 4 is when Puss in Boots give the sad puppy dog eyes to Donkey 3 times! OMG I couldn’t stop laughing at that! OMG thinking of it now makes me laugh. That’s the funniest part ever because when my Ipoh friend and I watched the first Shrek movie, we couldn’t stop talking about how Puss in Boots did the sad eyes in the first movie.. now they made it longer so it’s even more hilarious.

Go watch Shrek 4! It’s t3h-awesomeness!

Oh yeah, while waiting for Shrek 4, we spent a long time at Daiso and discovered a new toy that is so addictive.

MOVE A BALL: BRAIN TRAINING
ムービングボール脳を活性化！

We spent a long time playing this at Daiso until after the movie, I decided to get this!

This is Claudia (her hand actually) playing with it after I bought it. When we played with it in Daiso, everybody was looking at how crazy we were with a baby rattle looking thing in our hands. So what the hell is this? It’s actually a brain training game!

How do you play this? If you can’t read the Japanese, I’ll roughly translate it for you. Basically it says the aim of the game is to have one color separated at each sides. So you have to start with all the balls mixed up at one side, then shake/roll/swing whatever you like to move one color to the other side. I find it easier to play once you have the toy out of the packaging and I find it easier to roll instead of shaking the thing. For example, you want to have blue colored balls at the right side and orange colored ball at the left side. When it’s done, it looks like this!

Done!

Haha I love that girl cartoon! That’s how I look like when I play the toy. It makes you frustrated, it makes you cuss, it makes you happy, it makes you giggle.. basically the toy will fuck with your head. Haha. Love it.

Only in Daiso! Geez, the Japanese and their crazy inventions.. even a simple toy that looks like a baby rattle that cost RM 5 (100 yen, or around USD 1+) can make you addicted. But it’s fun, so what the hell. I actually played with this when I went shopping with mom after that and everybody was looking at me.

Oh I also got the book “Pride & Prejudice & Zombies“.. yay! Finally. I love anything with zombies. I’ve read “I am Scrooged: A Zombie Story for Christmas” before and I loved it! I’m the kind of person who hates reading books unless it’s very interesting.. so zombies? Of course it’s interesting :D Since I have not read the original Pride & Prejudice, so this is the time right? With a little bit of zombies to add the spice.

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Windows 7 is t3h s3x

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2 years ago
by Tany in , , , , ,

I INSTALLED WINDOWS 7 O_O

Omg I installed an OS dammit, something I never thought I could do. I was scared shitless that I would screw up everything and thus render my PC unusable but thank God everything worked out fine :D So I decided to install Windows 7 Ultimate because once I saw the GUI in youtube video, and how people keep talking about how good and how fast it is, and much better than Vista that was an epic fail, I decided I’m going to install it. I DESPISE Windows XP. I guess I’ve been using the same ‘windows’ typical look since Windows 95, and that I’m used to Vista and all the glassy aero look.

I can say I ABSOLUTELY LOVE Windows 7 :D It’s much faster and less buggier than Windows Vista, so far. Love the simple clean look, the taskbar where they’re only (grouped) icons, the changing desktop themes.. everything. If you’ve been wondering whether to update to Windows 7 from XP or Vista, I’d say DO IT. Definitely. I did a clean install cuz I don’t want any trace of Windows XP in my HDD. At first I thought I wanted a dual boot, but nah.. Not going back to XP. Plus I have way too many junks, I want to get rid of them and start fresh. I did backup my stuff. Now, thing is.. there are some things that I forgot to backup like my Photoshop & After Effects plugins/brushes, my yahoo chat.. and I was like FUCK. But turns out Windows 7 moved all my old stuff in a new folder, so I didn’t lose anything.. ain’t that great? So happy about that.

Now I have to reinstall all my stuff again.. including some of my games @_@ Which is gonna be a pain in the ass, cuz they take really long to install. And another thing, I partitioned my own drive :D Ahh technology.. before when you need to partition your drive, you have to go to DOS and do it manually, etc and it was very complicated.. now it’s all so easy. I’m actually proud of myself for not screwing up anything this time.

Speaking of screwing up, I screwed up my PR exam yesterday. OMG it was SO HARD. I couldn’t even think properly. Everything that I read, I can’t remember any! So I just wrote whatever shit I can think off, hopefully that, and the multiple choice questions plus assignments would be enough for me to pass.. I can’t hope for an A now, I’m very sad. I would not get over this for a long time.

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I tested Second Life in Windows 7… ahh, I forgot how beautiful and tranquil some places in Second life can be… I haven’t logged on for like a year? Almost? It used to be my getaway place when I need to relax, or just temporary forget my real life problems… I used to love to go to a forest or a park or the beach in there, listen to the soft music, nature sounds.. crackling of camp fire, and just stare at the screen for a while. Believe it or not, it helped me to relax and forget my problems. If not, club hopping and just listen to the good music. And if you meet some good people, you can have a good conversation with them. Plus, it’s good for photography.. I love taking snapshots of beautiful places in SL. In December, I’m gonna make my return in SL. If i can’t get real life vacation after graduation showcase is over, I’m vacationing in SL.

I have more to blog but I’ll do it later today. I’m gonna reinstall some stuff now before I have to go to college. God now my final project is giving me a headache. And I can’t find my Microsoft Office 2007 installation file, so I can’t do my pre production stuff for my final project. This is stressing me out. I’m getting stress zits.. and I can’t stand this bad breakouts. I’ve tried a lot of different acne treatments but at last, I go back to wanting the stupid accutane which screws up the menstrual cycle, my mood.. but hey, I’d have a clean, non-oily, zit-less face!

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