Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Morning walk in Oimachi, Tokyo

1 more day and I have to go back to Singapore already :(
So I woke up quite early and had my breakfast.

I brought Sacchin to the canteen (bought her in Akihabara, my I cant remember how many copies of Sacchin I have now, probably three?) and also my camera. Here is my Sacchin's first photo in Japan! Yay!
Behind was K-On! tea (left) and a glass of orange juice.
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Here she is off-focus standing in front of the flat facing the hotel.
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I stayed at Toyoko Inn in Oimachi, Tokyo.
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Lets walk around the neighborhood. I have walked frequently from hotel to the train station, so I want to see what near the hotel that I have not explored.

First off, here is the public phone. :)
It is still there in Japan. Amazing, considering the high mobile phone penetration there, public phones are still around and they still use coins. In singapore most of them are converted to phone-cards already
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And this is the sign board for the hotel visible from the pedestrian sidewalk.
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Now I am standing in front of the flat which is facing the hotel. At the background is the hotel with minimal parking lots. The green box near the blue car is the public phone, inside a booth.
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Lets take pictures with beautiful flowers planted by the locals.
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It was summer, around 9 am already so the sun is very bright.
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I think this is some kind of fruit or vegetable?
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Isnt this very nice. I think this is the best photo with flowers!
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Near the crossing to the mall, there is a McDonald Outlet. Their menu is different from Singapore's menu. For example, they have hot-dog.
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They have al-fresco dining too, and for some reason Ronald is feeling shy this morning.
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Next to McDonald there is a Ramen Shop. Hmmmm...
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I cannot remember where this place already...
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7-eleven is quite big in Japan. They call these konbini, short form of convenience shop (with Japanese style of English Pronunciation)
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A sign on street lamp-post about a clinic nearby.
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Sake shop! I dont think we can take photo here at night. But dont worry, all the drunk people are gone in the morning.
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Some sign on the road, which I think say uphill climb. Possibly to remind the driver to switch to lower gear.
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And here is the bicycle park at one of the apartment. They have 2 stories, so the bicycles are also kept in multi levels to save space.
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You can find drink vending machines almost everywhere. One word of caution, if you do not like yorghurt, dont buy drink called Calpis. It tastes like extremely diluted yorghurt.
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This is a public car park. You still need to pay though.
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OK that is all. Need to go back to hotel and prepare for today's trip. :)

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Wonderfest 2009 Vance Booth

I was at Wonderfest 2009! WOOHOO!

And guess which booth I visited first?
GSC! LOL. OK the queue were damn long no chance to buy special wonderfest item so I gave up and guess which booth I visited next? Not far from GSC there it was. Vance!

And here is Yoshiko Super Deca Pinky:St
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And of course I have to take photo with her too.
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OK I was not so in shape then, but round is a shape right? LOL.

These are the prototype of series 9 (PK025, PK026, PK027). They are all Yoshiko (face template) with different costumes: School uniform, more formal evening costume (probably going out for a date or meeting with friends) and very casual daytime weekend costume (at the shopping mall).
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Here are custom colours for bitter and sweet Saki. I am not sure where to buy or if we can buy at all anywhere.
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And these are classroom diorama with the Wonderfest 2008 set.
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I will post what I bought there later.

Also will post separately the many photos of custom pinkies found at Wonderfest 2009.

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Wonderfest 2009 Custom Pinkies

Custom Pinky from "Gunslinger girls"
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Custom Pinky from "Little Buster"
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Custom Pinky Light Armoured Vehicle, to complement the official release Tiger Tank
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Pinky:St Biker with helmet
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Custom Pinky from "To Aru Kagaku no Railgun" (top row) and Tsukihime (bottom row)
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Custom Pinky from Fate/Stay Night
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Custom Pinky of Vocaloid Kaito (Sold Out)
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Custom Pinky of Vocaloid Ren & Miku Hatsune (sorry they are off-focus)
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Front row is I believe from Vocaloid or that universe, left rear is custom pinky from "Spice & Wolf", and right rear is another version of Vocaloid Ren.
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Another custom pinky from "Spice & Wolf"
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I bought the g-kit custom legs from this counter. They are very detailed.
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Custom Pinky from "Idolmaster"
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Another Vocaloid Miku Pinky Custom, and I cannot remember from which anime/manga/game the 3 custom on the left are from.
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Pinky custom from "Zero no Tsukaima", and I cannot remember from which anime/manga/game the 2 on the right are from. They are probably from same series as below.
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Another custom Pinky from unknown series to me.
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Custom pinky from "Macross Frontier"
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These are possibly generic custom pinkies
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Custom Pinkies with extremely ellaborate dress
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This is from a booth that has a lot of custom Pinkies all over.
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Did you see 3 of them are sitting down with crossed legs? Custom legs! Not on sale. :(
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Pinky diorama set. This is the one I like most! Summer on the beach!
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Pinky diorama traditional japanese set.
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Clubhouse?
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I dont know from which series these customs are from
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Well that about it until I dig more photos and update this. Thank you for reading. :)